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DIALOGUE 
 
 Betwixt 
 
 RICHARD 
 
 AND 
 
 BAXTER? 
 
 With a 
 
 MODERATOR 
 
 Between Them, 
 
 For QUIET NESSE Sake. 
 
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 By Roger UEftrange. 
 
 The Second Edition. 
 
 LONDON, 
 Printed for H. Bronte at the Signe of the Gun 
 in S. Fah's Chu-xh-Yard. i68q# 
 
THE 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 I t Eft the Title of this *BookJhould betray any man into the 
 Reading of it, upon an Expetlation of Farce, and Fool- 
 ing ; This is ( in Limine ) to give l^otice, that it will 
 — • bejuftfo much Time and <iJMoney caft away, as (hall be 
 laid out upon it, in That (fonfideration. Net but that This Subject 
 nnight do well enough in a Comical Drefle •, but however, out of a 
 Refpetl, partly to the Perfbn, and partly to the Calling of Mr. 
 Baxter, I have overcome the Temptation, of giving either the Rea- 
 der, or my Self that fort ofDiverfion. And to fay the Truth -, It is 
 not a Laughing matter, the fpetlacle of a man Labouring under 
 Contractions, and Inconfiftencies with himfelf. But */ Ri- 
 chard will be Quarrelling with Baxter, and Baxter ft and pointing at 
 Richard -, an dbe ftill giving it out, like Gladiators, in their Prin- 
 ted 'Bills, that uponfucha day, At the Three Cocks at the Weft 
 End of St. Pauls, or at the Princes Arms in Ludgate-ftreet, 
 there will be plaid a Tryall of Skill betwixt Richard and Baxter, 
 atfuch andfuch Queftions, and Weapons *, Who ( I fay ) can help 
 it ? For there is no Enmity, fo Mortall, as when a man faMs out 
 with himfelf. 
 
 But what ? ( Tousle fay ) If a body happens to tread upon his ow* 
 Toes, muft every falfeftep that he makes be prefently expofed to the 
 Tublique ? No, not in any wife, unleffe where the Vindication of the 
 Bubliquefl^ll make it Absolutely Neceffary. zAs for lnftance ; I can 
 hardly call to mind any one piece ofsjllr. Baxters, without fome bit- 
 ter pajfage or other in it, of derifion upon the Government, or the- 
 Rites of the Church. What can be more Reafonable now, then to con- 
 front him with Himfelf: and to oppofe <JMr. Baxter the Divine, t$ 
 Mr. Baxter the Polititian •, the man of "Love, Order, and Truth, 
 to the man of Wrath, Con fufion and Paradox ? When I fee mm 
 fporting himfelf in his Altitudes upon the Text of his Own, and the 
 Presbyterians Loyalty ; with his wonted declamatory Reproacnet 
 
 A 2 HN 
 
upon the Manners, as well as the Services of the Royalj Party. 
 'What can I do better, then to face him with the Acls of the Aflem- 
 bly, and the Proceedings of the Two Houfes, to the Contrary ? 
 And to produce his own t/fcland Deed in evidence again ft his Profef- 
 fion . ? On the One hand, you have Mr. Baxter valuing himfelf upon 
 his Principles of 'Loyalty, and Obedience *, And on the Other hand, 
 you have the very fame Mr. Baxter, (according to the Outward 
 Man ) not only pleading theCd.uk, but 'Celebrating the Juftice, 
 and Canonizing ( as in his Saints Reft, Pa. 10 1 . of the Old Edi- 
 tions) the 'rime Directors W Inftruments of The Late Rebel- 
 lion .* Averting the very Dotlrine of Thofe Foficions, whereupon it 
 ivas founded. When Mr. Baxter Set sup for a Toleration ; what 
 can be fairer then to fiiew him his own Arguments againft it ? Or 
 to atkhim, how HE, (a kjnde of Heteroclite in his opinions,) 
 that has Chalk 'dout fo fingular a Plat- Form ^/Church-Regiment to 
 himfelf, comes now to be a Common Advocate for all the Dif- 
 fenting Parties ? Take him in One Mood y ( as in /?# Five Difputa* 
 tions, and elfewhere ) and he tells ye, that a Diocefan Prelacy is 
 ■plainly Antichriftian, and Intolerable. <*And yet in his Non- 
 Conformifts Plea, and other parts of his Writings, he tells ye again, 
 that the Nonconform ifts would ^^fubmitted to it. Now if the 
 Constitution wasfo Abominable, why jhould they fubmit to it f 
 And if it was not fo, why does Mr. Baxter fay that it was ? &4nd 
 why does he fti/l perfift, in Debauching and Alienating the hearts 
 of the People from their Rulers, in matters which he himfelf acknow- 
 ledges to be Warrantable, and Eftabliftied by Law ? And fo for our 
 Liturgy and Ceremonies, he* sat the fame Variance with himfelf, 
 about the Lawfulneffe, or Vnlawfulneffe of Thofe Points alfi. 
 
 Nowfince Mr. Baxter has been pleafed to take upon himfelf, the 
 Patronage of the Non-Conformifts Caufe, and to put forth his 
 Plea, and his Plea again for That Inter eft ; what can be more Obli- 
 ging then to take him at his word, and confider him under the Publick 
 Character of Their Reprefentative ? At This Rate, M-. Baxters 
 Works will be as good as a Non-conformifls Dictionary to us : and 
 affift the World toward the Vnderftan ding of the Holy Dialed, in 
 a Wonderful manner. For theVuiity of the Gofpell ; the ways of 
 Chrift: the Ordinances of the Lord \the Power of GodlynefTe - 7 
 ^Foundations of Faith -, theHoly Difcipline : A BlefTed Re- 
 formation, &c. The fe are Words, WExpreffions, that fignify 
 quite another thing to Them, then they do to Us. Faithful Paftors j 
 Laborious Minifters j Heavenly Guides 5 Zealous Proteftants -, 
 
 TM 
 
7 be Upright in the Land : Humble Petitioners \ Juft Privi- 
 ledges; Higher Powers; Glorious Kings -, Holy Covenanting 
 unto the Lord, &c. This is not to be taken now, as the Language 
 Cnrrant of the Nation, bat only as a Privy Cypher of Intelligence 
 betwixt Themfelves, and. he Cant, or Jargon of the Party. Nay, 
 they fly from win their Speech, their Manners, their Meaning, as 
 wellasintheirProfeflion. The very Chrift-Crofle in the Horn- 
 Book is as much a Scandals them, as the Croile in Baptifme ; and 
 they makg it a point of Honour to maintain the Free dome of their 
 Own Tongue, in token, that they are not as yet a ConquerM 
 Nation. 
 
 £#* *r* ffc* Non-conformifts agreed upon it, or not -, that Mr. 
 Baxter fiatlbe their Speaker ; and that what he delivers in Their 
 Name, Jliall be taken and deemed as the fenfe of the Party ? If it be 
 fo ; we have no more to do then to Qonfult ^/Mr. Baxter himjelf and 
 from his own Writings, ( which I have here Cited, and Apply'd, . 
 with ex ail Faith, and Juflice ) to take our Meafnres of the Diflen- 
 ting Brethren. 
 
 No man prefes* Obedience to the HIGHER POWERS,- more 
 Impericufiy then He does: But then lie makes Thofe Higher Powers 
 to beftillthe Ufurpers, one after another, as they get into AC Tll- 
 AL POSSESSION. [ Prove {fays he ) in the Preface to hit Holy 
 Common-Wealth) that the KING was the HIGHEST 
 PO WER, in the time of Divifwn,- — and I will offer my Head 
 to Juftice, as a Rebel!. ] His meaning mufi Inevitably be This ; 
 Either that the King had no Right to the Crown before the Di vifi- 
 ons, or that he forfeited his Titfe, by /^Rebellion i xlnch is an 
 Admirable way ofTranfition, f-orn rankTreafo^ to Lawful I x\u- 
 thority. But in all Thefe Cfcs , he has fill ..- Recc;nf 'or a 
 Salvo to his Box of Diftindhons : and tells ye, that they '■• at a* 
 CHARLES STUART w^ Field, for the Hone md 
 Safety of the KING in the Twc Homes. And. then , Good. 
 Lord\ How he runs him f If cut of Breath with DetelKflg, and 
 Renouncing, W Renouncing,^ Detefting KING-KILLING ! 
 And yet upon Occafion when Oliver the King-killer fails in his 
 Way ; How does he lay himfelf out in Euloyges, upon the PIOUS 
 Defunct ! Fraying, ( as the highefi Infiance of the Feneration he had. 
 for That Ufarper ) that the Spirit of the Father might defcend up- 
 on the Son. £ We pray {fays he to Richard ) that you may 7iV- 
 HOiTatendercareof theCaufe ofChrift] Key for Cat ho- 
 licks,Ep. Ded. "Bm then in another Fit, he Jhall advance ye. into, 
 
 his. 
 
his Politicks, with a Troop of Aphorifmes ; Lay Principalities 
 and Powers Levell with the Cjround, a?id tear up the very Ordi- 
 nance it felf of Government by the Roots. [ If Providence (Says 
 he ) STATSDLT, difable him that was the Governour 8cc ] 
 Ho.Com.Thef. 136. 
 
 £ And yet he does not down-Right atvow the Dotlrine of King- 
 Killing •, He does indeed approve of giving Battle to the Kings 
 WILL : but whether to aym at it, in his Maieftys HEAD, or in 
 his HEART, is not, as yet , STATED LT determined. Now f 
 moderate the matter, The Presbyterians only cut off his Majeflys 
 Hands, and Feet, fo that he could neither Help nor Shift for him- 
 lelf, and then gave him ( Sold him IJhouldfay ) to the Independents, 
 Who cut off his Head. If Mr. Baxter fpeakj the Sence of the Non- 
 Con formifts, as he pretends to do y then muft This ferve for an Ex- 
 pofition of their Loyalty :, But if not ; Why dots not the Party either 
 difown or take away his Comrniffion ? 
 
 This is it, which the Reftlefle, and Implacable Adverfaries of 
 our Common Repofe, make fuch anoyfe in the World with, as the 
 work of the fpirit of Perfecution •, the Enflaming of Differences; 
 the Widening of Breaches; and the Violation of the Aft of 
 Oblivion. Whereas, in Truth, there s nothing in it of a Spiteful 
 Inveftive, but on the other fide, it is only a playn, and ^neceflary 
 defence. 
 
 Mr. Baxter, in his Non-Conformifts Pleas, delivers (iyhti 
 way ) a kind of Deduftion of the War. Particularly, under the 
 Head of Q Matters of Faft to be fore-known, to the True Un- 
 derftanding of theCaufefj 2d Part, Pag. 120. In This Chapter, 
 from the Que ft Hon of the Conftitution of Churches •, the Powers of 
 Princes, and Pallors in Eccclefiaftical Matters,^ Cafes of Law- 
 ful Separation ; he makes a Sally, without any manner 0/Connexi- 
 on, or Provocation, into the State and Right of 'the War. Pa. 123. 
 He charges it upon a Fa ft ion among the Bifliops, and the falling in 
 of the Majority of the Parliaments, to the Popular part of them ; in 
 That divifion : which is <* Calumny, as remote from the Subjeft of 
 his Difcourfe as it is from Truth, if it had been as he woud have it ; 
 how comes the whole Order of Bifhops to be Aflaulted? Their Per- 
 fons Affronted. \ and their Votes in Parliament taken away; with- 
 out diftinftion f Was the Feud fb deadly, as to make them deflroy 
 Themfelves •, and %uine the whole Hierarchy in %evevge ? How 
 came it to pafs, that Biflwp Hall,/* V erf on Celebrated even by Mr 
 Baxter himjelffor his Piety and ^Moderation : How came This Re-* 
 
 verend 
 
The Preface. 
 
 verend Fr elate I fay, te befo C our fly handled by the Corporation of the 
 Sme&ymnuans, Marihall, Calamy, Young, Newcomen, and 
 gpurfto W : and Treated by Five of the mofi Eminent men of the Par- 
 ty, with Scurrility fitter for the Priefis of Priapus, then the Mi- 
 nisters of the Gojpell. Pa. 124. He goes on with his Remarks upon 
 BifliopLaud, over and over. The Bookj>f Sports, on the Lords day, 
 the bufinefs of \_ Altars, Rayls, and Bowing towards them. After- 
 noon-Sermons and Lectures put down -, Imprifonments, Stigmati- 
 fings, Removals, &C ] And then Pa. 125. He poceeds to [the 
 new Liturgy Impofed on the Scots, &C. 1 But fays he, ( a little be- 
 low ) we are VnwilUng to be the Mtntioners of any <iJ)dore then 
 Concerneth our Prefent Caufe, and the Things are Qommonly known. ] 
 Which isfuch a way of Mentioning no more, as gives to under fl and 
 without fpeakingy all the III Imaginable that was Left unfaid. 
 
 zJlfethinks Mr. Baxter might have let This mofl Reverend, Pi- 
 ous, Loyal W ANTIPAPAL Arch-*BiJhophave flept quietly in 
 his Grave, and out of pure Gratitude to our Prefent Sovereign^ to 
 whofe Mercy this very Gentleman owes his Life, fetting afide the Ve- 
 neration that belongs to Majefty, and Truth -, Aieth'mks Mr. Bax- 
 ter might havefpared this Libell, ander the Government of the Son, 
 againfl the Adminiflrations of the Father. 'But it is no new thing, 
 for Criminals to Arraign Innocents ; or for Thofe that a^e Ta*- 
 don'dfor Subverting the Government, tojlwct their Arrows ( even 
 bitter Words ) againfl Thofe that have been Perfecuted and Mur~ 
 ther*d for Endeavouring to defend it. 
 
 And now after all Thefe Imputations upon the King, the .Qj^rch, 
 and the Loyall Party, even to the Degree of making them Aifwera- 
 blefor all the Blood that has beenfpilt ; We m&ftnotfo much as pr fume 
 t$f ay that we are Innocent. But every Vindication of the King, the 
 Church, and the Law from the Infults of the Common Enemy, is ex- 
 claimed againfl as an Inrode upon the Aty'of Indemnity. If Mr* 
 Baxter will needs be laying the Rebellion at the wrong door, and Dif- 
 charging the Presbyterians : Why may hot any Hon eft man Hjeply 
 upon him ; and fay, ( in agreement with Mr. Baxter himfelf, Non- 
 Conforruifts Plea, I. Part. Pa. 127. that it w.is the Solemn 
 League and Covenant that did the work : Which Solemn League 
 was not only an Expreffe Oath of Allegiance to Presbytery, but to 
 the miFl Tyrannical ofzW Presbyteries, That of the Scottilh Kirk 
 it felf. But why do I call it an Oath of Allegiance to Presbyte- 
 ry ? When it was in Truth, a diretl Conjuration againfl- the Go- 
 vernment, both Ecclefiaftical, and Civil, for " the Introdu- 
 cing of it ?\ I; 
 
6 The Preface.' 
 
 It would be Tedious, and Superfluous, to Crowd all the Particu- 
 lars of This Pamphlet into a Preface ', fo that Jjhall rather refer the 
 Reader, to r^Book, for the reft ; where he may compare Mr. Bax- 
 ter with himfelf ; for it is, Effectually, but an Abftract out of 
 Mr. Baxter's Writings. By the Paradoxes, Difagreements, and 
 Contrzdi&ions hewillbe able to Judge of the Authour -, and by the 
 Authour, in a great Meafure of the Party. He that would fee them 
 drawn more to the Life, may repair to the Original of our Saviours 
 for f/^Pharifees, in the Gofydl. Examin them ^arrowly and 
 youjhallnot findfo much as the femblance of a Colourable Argument ; 
 but they are ft ill changing their Battery, and f retenfe, according to 
 the various Accidents, and difpofitions of State : and it is but 
 tracing the Hiftory of the Late times to find every Round of the Lad- 
 der, that advanced them from Petitioners to Rulers. They Plead 
 the Caufe of Thonfands in the Land, they tell us, and yet there' } s 
 not a Single man in all Thofe Thoufands, that underftands one bit 
 of the Controverfy. They cry aloud againft Idolatry, Superftiti- 
 on, Abominations, Symbolical Ceremonies, Will-Worfhip, 
 Humane Inventions, and Order their Difciples j;//? as they do their 
 Children : They dreffe up a Terrible thing of Clouts, and call it a 
 Bull-begger, which is no other then a Mormon/ their own Cre- 
 ating. They have a certain Kout'm of Words, and Sayings, that 
 have the tone of Magique in the very Sound of them, andferve only 
 ( without any other Meaning ) like the Drum, and the Trumpet, 
 to roufe up the Multitude to Battle. But the Lords Ordinance, 
 and the Primitive Pattern stand them in Mighty (lead. For though 
 they have been Foyld as often as Encountred upon This Queftion ; 
 yet the very Terms of the Controverfy being as good as Syriack, to 
 th Common people \ there is a Mill caft before their Eyes, and 
 th-y are never info good tune, to fee Vifions^ when thty are ftark^ 
 blind. 
 
 To ff' dude, I have expofed thefe Sheets to theVublick, rather as 
 Mr. testers work, then my own. If it mas heavy, it was none 
 of .ny Fau It t bat my An thoj r would not mend his Pace. Nor have 
 I any mart to fay upon the whole matter, but that I have been as fair 
 r#yVr. Baxter, as Ke hath been to Himfelf. 
 
(I) 
 
 A DIALOGUE, &c. 
 
 7 
 
 Moderator. Richard and Baxter. 
 
 Mode-"^TTEs, yes. I remember the Conference at 
 rator. \f the savoy perfedly well; by This To- 
 *■ ken, that Dr. Gunning and Dr. Vearfon 
 ( the Bifhops of Ely and Chejier ) deliver'd you this 
 very Propofition. 
 
 That Command which Commandeth an Act in Hf elf Law- ™*f^J^ 
 fully and no other ^4cl whereby any unjufi Penalty is enjoy- w> about the" 
 nedj nor any Circumjldnce whence directly, or per acci- command of 
 dens, any Sin is Confequent which the Commander ought to ^ ul Superv 
 provide again jt, hath in it all things requifite to the Lawful- 
 neffe of a Command, and particularly cannot be guilty of 
 commanding an Act per accidens Unlawfully nor of Com- 
 manding an Aft under an Un j uft Penalty. £ B.of Wor- 
 cefters Letter, in his Vindication againfi M.Baxter. P.3 67\ 
 
 Ri . Very (jood j and I gave them under my hand my Opinion to the Richards Re- 
 Contrary. £ Becaufe(/W/) the fir ft Act commanded may be J° Iut i on un * 
 pcr 4cc**fe«j Unlawful, and be Commanded by an Vnjuft Penalty ^ derhishand - 
 tho' no other Adt or Circumltance Commanded be fuch.] 
 Ibid. Pa. $6. 
 
 Ba. Nay ho/djwu Brother^ I'm of another Opinion. C If the Baxter of an- 
 thing Commanded be fuch as is fimply 111, and forbidden us by other opinion, 
 God in all Cafes whatfoever,then no ones Commands can make 
 it Lawful! .-But if it it be a thing that is only Inconvenient, or 
 Unlawful by fomeLe(Ter accident-, then the Command of Au- 
 thority may pre-ponderate, as a more weighty Accident. 2 
 
 B R.Ks. 
 
ft. 
 
 (i) 
 
 Many Com* # #^ chkrch-Divifions, P. 194.. Nay [ Many a Ruler finneth 
 S^hichtbT in llis Comman ^ s ) when ic is no Stt, but a Duty of the Inferior 
 fubjeftou^hc to Obey them. As if a Magiftrate Command Religious-Duties 
 jectoobe/. in nicer Ppjicy : or if he force a Lawful Command with Unlaw- 
 ful Penalties - 7 and Tet it will be the Subjects Duty to Obey.]} 
 No Ruler is /^ £ Nor is any Ruler bound to fufpeft, and prevent fuch 
 ridea^T Unufual Dangers of mens Sin, or Ruipe, as fall out beyond all 
 Events not to Rational Forefight, or Expectation •, of who fe Probable Event 
 feforcfecn. ( or Pofiible at Jeaft), there was no juft Evidence.] R. Bh 
 Non-Coujormifts Judgment. P.60. 
 
 Maeiftracy Mo. Your Argument ( Mr. Richard ) has cut ofFall 
 bio^ at ' Magiftracy at a Blow : For there is not any Command 
 Imaginable that falls not within the Reach of your 
 Exception. And Mr. Baxter is in the Right on't. But 
 what do ye think now ( Gentlemen ) of the Operatic??, 
 or further Extent of fuch a Power ? 
 
 Tto Civil Ri. If you mean as to masters concerning Religion £ Nd man hath 
 
 .power rauft an y ^^ ( h orit y t$ make Lam about Gods Worfhip, but vAat 
 raw^Tbout chri fi hath given htm. ] xVon-Conformifts Plea 2d Part. T. 28. 
 
 GGdiWo.jhi?. 
 
 But Baxter ^ a - % rA $ e kek! me a little Excuid There too \ for [we renounce 
 fays, that the Opinion of them that hold that Qxca Sacra the King hath 
 G'rca Sacra no Power to Command the Ckcumftancesof Worfhip.] Non- 
 temyi • Coiformifts Flea. Part 2d. P.7 3 . 
 
 Richard^ Mo. There is but a Right and a Wrong in the cafe 
 Maxtermv ( m y Matters ) and you have hit them both again, I 
 aaance. nia k e no doubt on't, but your Circa Sacra compre- 
 hends Lit»rgies y CeremonieS)2Ln& other Circumftances 
 of Order y relating to the Churchy pray'e tell me how 
 your Confciencesftand affe&ed that way: Not as to 
 the Merits of the Caufeffor the world is allready 
 ciogg'd with That Controverfy ) but I would willing- 
 ly know what thoughts, You, and the Party' you 
 ple^d for, eatqtain of our fcoclefiaftical matters. 
 
 Ri. 
 
(5) 9' 
 
 Ri. C W/;r« the King calPd us t ofgnify our tie fir a in 1660. the Richard >• he- 
 ft Unifiers of 'London were commonly invited to come to Sion Col- count of ihe 
 ledge, that their Common Confent might be known : And There we ^voy-Con- 
 agreed, to defire or offer nothing for Church-Government butl™^' 
 A.B. Ufhers Aio dell of the Primitive Epifcopal Government. ^ ml ' rimi ' 
 When his tslfajefty would not grant us That Modell, nor the Bijhops " * q^j 
 once Treat About it, he was pie afed in his Gratiom Declaration a- bucrejeftei' 
 bout Ecclefiaftical Affairs to offer and prefcribe the Epifcopacy of 
 England*** it flood, with little alteration, ®c. (A Government 
 ( fays -his Majefly ) Fol. to. Which is eftablifhed by Law, and 
 with i#hich the Monarchy hath flourifhed through fb many 
 Ages,*and which is in truth as ancient in this Ifland as the 
 Chriftian Monarchy thereof. ) £ This Declaration we Joyfully and Th f! ? n 3 ll & 
 thankfully accepted, as a nope full means of a Common Conformity and fju^irecho 
 Concord. 2 Non-Con's Plea, 2d. Part Pref. byRidard&c 
 
 Ba, C TheEnglifli Prelacy (Itellyou) is the product of proud But held An- 
 Ambition and Arrogancy, and contrary to the exprefle Com- tkhriftian 
 mand of Chnft. ] R. S's. Five Ttifputations P. 45. Biihops are and Diaboii- 
 Thorns and Thirties, and the Military Inftruments of the De- calb ^ B0Kitri 
 vil.] R.B's. Concord. P. 122. Hew could you Juflify then a 
 Submiffton to fuck a Prelacy ? 
 
 Mo. If an Angel from Heaven I perceive were em ^^xuf^t 
 ploy'd to bring you two to an Agreement, he fhould to bewcon- 
 lofehis Labour ; For That which is highly acceptable^*: 
 to the One, and the hopefull Foundation of a Common 
 Concord, is Antickriflian, Diabolical, and UnfjferMe 
 to the Other. 
 
 You are up (I find ) at every Turn with the Pri- 
 mates Project, andiniuchamannertoo,asifthemoft 
 reafonable thing in the World had been offerM on the 
 One fide: and refufed on the Other: Whereat That J^ uad 
 Propofition was only accommodated to the hard Cir t^i i>ro- 
 curaftances^f the Kings Affairs, at the time of Fri ^ coii: ' 
 mingit. Now tho' any man, in a cafe of Extremity, ^' 
 would fubmit to the lofTe of an Arm or a Leg, /or the 
 laving of his Life ; it would yet be a very ftrang- re- 
 
 J} a ' queft 
 
» (4) 
 
 queft to ask a man fa a date of Freedcme, and Safety, 
 to part with a Leg or an Arm from his Body : And as 
 wild a thing, on the other fide, to Grant it. But the 
 very offer at it under a pretenfe of Coxfcunce, was 
 highly difingenuous, efpecially when upon the Iffuc 
 the Scruple was remov'd by the Refafal ; and This r a- 
 tisfaftion given to the world, bvyour own Acknow- 
 ledgment, that Conformity and Epifccpacy may {land 
 well enough together, when you plcafe. 
 
 Many would Ri • I cannot deny but that [_ many prof of ed to have yielded to Pre- 
 have yie'ded lacy,Liturgy,W Ceremonies.] Non-Con. Plea, Parti. P. 136. 
 
 to Pre!acj/ 3 8cc 
 
 The Diocefan Ba - Wh ¥ truI y C a Certain Epifcopacy mav be yielded to, 
 Epifcopacy for the Peace ( if not for the Right Order ) of the Church \ ] 
 gratifies the £ But the Diocefan Epifcopacy which was lately in England, and 
 Devil, fays i s now laid by may not be lawfully reafTumed, or readmitted, 
 ***** be re- as a means f° r the Ri § nt Order -or Peace of the Church. ] R.B^s. 
 admht.ed. rC Five Difputation, P. 2. 1659. [A Government which gratify- 
 eth the Devil, and wicked men. ] Ibid. P. 36. 
 
 R,andB..fliii Mo. Still, upon the Contradiction. But if they were 
 0aflimg. £^ we jj jifpos' d to come In, what was it I befeech you 
 that put them off again ? 
 
 The New u- Ri. When they faw the New Aft. for Uniformity, their Delihe- 
 niformity rations were at an End. Ibid. P. 26. 
 fpoil'd all. 
 
 , n Ba. C After proving Prelacy to be againft the Will of Chrift, 
 
 lawfuUnk and the Wellfare of the Churches, Five Difp. Pref 16. -and 
 felf fays Bax- contrary to the word of God, and Apoftolical Inftitution, Ibid. 
 tor. P. 5 1 . what need was there then of any further DifTwafion ? . 
 
 why not Pre- Mo. Pray'e tell me Mr. Rkbard; Was Prelacy Law- 
 
 l lVthXetf Ma Be f ore the AQ: ^ Uniformity, and not After I 
 ashore: ' You are Angry at the One, and therefore you Re- 
 nounce the Other ; for it was no longer Prelacy, Litur- 
 gy, or Ceremonies, it feems that you boggled at, but 
 
 the 
 
to 
 
 the New Act. \$ow£mcs you your felves were con - 
 vine'd, that fuch a Conformity as aforefaid would 
 have been Warrantable, and only transfcr'dyour Ex- 
 ceptions to the NewAtf; how comes it that you go on 
 ftill decrj ing the State, Rites, and Offices of the Church 
 to the Multitude ;and make That a matter of Confer- 
 ence in One breath which you left at Liberty in Another ? 
 The Uniformity does not alter the cafe one jot to thei t f S ^e fame 
 Common People 5 but the Layety may as la wfu 1 ly f hbmit ca ' fe ft M c ( c 
 to Prelacy, Liturgy and Ceremonies, After the Acr, as thcPeo P : < 
 they did before. 
 
 Ri. £ 7/>e P^p/e who now adhere to the Noil- Conformiils, who Har J 
 were at age before the \Mars, hadvery hard thoughts of the Bifhops thoughts of 
 ?erfom', and fome, 0/Epifcopacy itfelf ; becaufe of the Silencing Epifcopacf 
 0/ Minifters, and mining of Hone ft men about ■ Sundays-fports, ™d u^ ***" 
 Readirg That Book, and other fish things, be fide Nonconformity, whacgroufi i- 
 &c. Non-Cofi.Plea. Part I. P. 139. 
 
 Mb. the Bifbops and Epifcopacyit felfyou fay were- 
 thought hardly of ; partly for Silencing your Mhiijlcrs. 
 Which was yet a way of proceeding Conformable to 
 the directions of the Lavo ; and in part, ( among Other 
 Provocations ) for the Book of Sports upon the Lords 
 day. Be it fpoken with Reverence to the Honour and 
 Duty of that Holy Day ; Ifhould have thought that 
 the Rebelts aflaulting of their Sovereign at Ed?e hi/lap- ^ Gr , e ;; er 
 
 rr" 1 • t_ 1 • £ tjr ' 1 r 1 scandall to 
 
 on That day, might have given your Scrupulijts as hard twvtfl upon 
 thoughts of the Faction that did it, and of thofe Sangui- the Lords da^ 
 naryCafmfts that founded the Trumpet to That Bat tie. [^^^ 
 But how came they off! beleech you, from That fro- 
 ward Humour .<* 
 
 Ri. C W/v» the MiniUers that guided them, began tojeem mere- Ricf-arJ Con- 
 reconciled to the Epifcopal Party, and upon the 'Reports and Tromi- *e/Tes tfltt tliC 
 fes which they had heard, that the next Bijliops would wove more mo- , jnitiers § u ,-* 
 derate, pons, ana peaceable then the Former, and would by expert 
 
 cr.cx 
 
;-..». 
 
 1 fa . . 1 y l) i vifions and Perfection ; the faid People began to be i/t- 
 
 tgc Non-con- C \$A to more Reverent an<l l\ivo;ir able Thoughts if the Biihops, and, 
 
 J; 1 "" were upon experience of the lite Corfu fions in a fir fairer way to ~Jni- 
 
 >ok iur 
 
 die next Bi • on and Submijfion to them then bcforc.N on-Con. Plea,Part I. P. 1 39. 
 Ihops g->od 
 
 behaviour. ftf 0% If it be True that the People were induced to 
 
 have a more Charitable Opinion of the Prelates, bt 
 
 the Hopes which their Guides gave them of having 
 
 better Bifhops next bout ; It appears, jlrfi that the 
 
 The Quanci Quarrel was not to the Office, but to the Pcrfons. And 
 
 not to the ot- Secondly, it fhews that the Minifters menazc the Mul- 
 
 £ceot Biihops ■ , V- *•<-**•«»• ^1 in 
 
 but to the titude, tor or J gainst their buptnours^ as They^pleale : 
 ^rfon$. which lays a ftronger Obligation upon the Govern- 
 ment, tofecurea Well-affe&ed Miniftry, when the 
 Publique Peace lyes at the Mercy of the Diflenting 
 Clergy. But what becomes of us next ? 
 
 Ri . When they faw their Teachers taken fr cm them, and fome fuck 
 fet over them againfl their Wills who were better kpovrn to them then to 
 Richai-jsKcZ' ^ Q\ }tru ^ iYS : j^ n ^ when they heard of about 200c, Silenced at once 9 
 Feop'eJeU This fo much Alienated them from the Bi^opi, that it was never fince 
 from t re in Our Power to bring them to fo much Efieem of them, and Reve- 
 Chuich again rarce for them as might have been. Non-Con. Plea, Part I. P. 140* 
 
 TheUnifor_ M6 So that upon the Upfliot, there pafsM an Ad 
 
 -mitv made E- - . c ^ C 7 r „ 
 
 piicopacy and tor Uniformity, &rgo ? £pjcopacy and Common rrayer 
 
 Common- are Vnlawfufl. 
 
 jvayeninlaw- g ee nQW ^j^ ^ j § ^^ y QU ca jj ^l em ' m ^ f f Q ma _ 
 
 Tithe Law ay Minifters. It is no more then a fair Revival of 
 tfSumS? 1 t ' 10 ^ e nece ff ai T Provifions for the Safety of the Go- 
 i3ifnops. vernment, which had been violently overborn and 
 difcontinu'd in our late Troubles : Upon which vio- 
 lation, enfued our Deplorable Confu6ons. And to 
 take the bufinefTe aright, the Law does not filence 
 your Minifters more then it does Ours ; but holds 
 forth one Common Rule indifferently to j4Umcn y with 
 arefped to Politically as well as Ecclefiafthal Concord. 
 
 Every 
 
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 Every man Ices before him the Conditions of his ^^ 
 freedom; and he that either Cannot, or Will not 
 comply with the Terms of a General Rule, ^^^b^'^^ 
 bimfelf And is not the Man neither that is ^fcwwfSejtfclve^ 
 by This Law, but this or that Incongrnous-Praffice or 
 Opinion, If Richard thinks fit to come///, there's no 
 body binders him ; and if "John will not come in, who 
 can help it? In fhort, This w£y of Sitcnting amounts 
 to no more then a very Gentle Expedient for the flop- 
 ping of thofc Mouthes that would be blowing the Coal 
 towards a Rebellion. Wherefore I befeech ye Gentle- 
 men for the A£l of Oblivions fake, which has done a 
 great deal more for you then This comes to, have 
 ibme pitty for the poor A£fc of Uniformity. 
 
 As to your account of about two thoufand SilencM 
 Minifters,amatterof8' or poo. difference fhall break 
 no fquares betwixt yqu and me. But what yet if they cuhrsfufe 
 Were two'thoufand ?muftthe divine Ordinance of then tie o- 
 Government be prophan'd, and the harmony of Or- ^°L^ 
 der DifTolv'd, in favour of that Inconfiderable Party diffofSL 
 of Irregulars; ardtothe fcandalof fix times as many 
 Confciencious and Obedient Subjects of the State both 
 Ecclefajlicaly ana Qvill? 
 
 Ri. For my own part Q I do not know that I differ in any point of 
 Worfhip, Ceremonies, or Difcipline, from the Learned />John #*Wa< 
 Reignolds] R.B's Letter to Mr. Hinckley, P. 89. And myj^L^f^ 
 
 Judgement is, that [_ a Peace with the Divines of the EpHcop'a^ [fo nn \i 
 Judgements much to be de fired, and earneftly endeavour dr\ Five 
 Diip. Pag. 1. 
 
 Mo. If you agree in the Conclufion with that Re* 
 verend Dr. you arefafe} and take This for a Rules 
 Out of the ways of Love and Peace there canbe.no 
 Comfort 
 
 Ri, J&a 
 
•ot otters. 
 
 i"3 ( 8 ) 
 
 Richard R '- ^ las C/f*r*Se&, /w^Sect, W 4 Fadtion, ^ a Fadion, 
 
 pleads altogc- tf/^ *0f this or that Sect or Faction w/w& / blame : /r # Unity, 
 
 thcrtjf Love. Love, ^^ Peace which I am pleading for :, *W^ that is angry with 
 me for coiling men to Love , is angry for calling them to HolynefTe, 
 to God, and Heaven. Holyneile which ps againfi Love, is a Con-* 
 tradition •, it is a deceiptfull name which Satan putttth upon Unho- 
 lyneile. Church DivilTons. Fref. 
 
 fijxienwiy B*- Your Churches bear with Drunkards; Whoremongers, 
 pfcxprcflips- Rollers, OpenScorners at Godlynefle, Five Bifp.P. 37. [The 
 moft ungodly of the Land are the forwardeft for your ways. 
 You may have allmoft all the Drunkards, BJafphemers, and 
 Ignorant Haters of Godlynel^e in the Country to Vote for you. ] 
 Five T>tfp. Pref. Pag. 1 7 . To the Adherers to Prelacy. 
 
 Richard a- Ri*. [_ He is as Mortal an Enemy to Love, who back-biteth, and 
 
 gsunftralh faith he's Profane - 7 Or he is <*// Empty Formalilt, or he is *rluke- 
 ^f-' r i n f warm, Temporizing, Complying Man-Pleafer ; As he that faith 
 he is a peevifh, Factious Hypocrite. 2 To Preach without Love, 
 and to hear without Love, and to pray without Love, and to com- 
 municate without Love to any that differ from your Se-cl, Oh what a 
 loathfome Sacrifice is it to the God of Love!] Church-Divifions. 
 • Preface. Love is the fulfilling of 'all thehaw ; the End of the Gofpel ^ 
 the Nature, WmarKfl/Chrifts Difciples-,^ Divine Nature ; 
 the Sum of Ho!yne(Te to the Lord; the Proper Note by which to 
 know what ist'ie man, and what his State •, and how far any of his 
 Other Acts are acceptable unto God. Ibid. 
 
 Baxter a- #*,. How many years have we beg'd for Peace of thofe that 
 
 gamftforfortf fhould have been the Preachers and wifeft Promoters of Peace *, 
 
 2nd cannot yet obtain it ; nor quiet them that call for fire and 
 
 fword, not knowing what Spirit they are of ? N on-Con. % PU a, Tref. 
 
 £ The Declaration about Ecclejiafiical Affairs telle th us, that the 
 
 King would have given the People 1-cace, but with VnpeaceaWe 
 
 Clergy-men, No Petition could prevail.^ Ibid. [And all This ii 
 
 Mr Bs&tcrs out' of a bitter Erimity.to Gods word and ways \ for they will be 
 
 Chanty co at more pains then This, in any way that is Eviil - or in any 
 
 and^fclpUnc Worfhip of Mans devifing. They are as zealous for (frojfes and 
 
 tfihcQhuich Surplices, Proccffionsj and Perambulations, reading a tjofpe/l at a 
 
 ^ Crojfc-way, the Observation of Holy days, the repeating 6F the 
 
 Litany, or the like Forms in the fimmon Prayer 3 the bowing at 
 
 the 
 
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 the name of the word Jefns, (while they reject his Worjlup} 
 the receiving of the Secrament when they have no Right to it, 
 and that upon their Knees, as if they were more Reverent and 
 Devout then the true Laborious fervants of Chrifi 5 with a Multi- 
 tude of things which are only the Trudimns of their Fathers j 
 I fay they are as zealous for Thefe, as if Eternal Life con- His brotherly 
 lifted in them. Where God forbids them, there they are as Love * 
 forward as if they could never do enough, and where God 
 Commands them, There they are as backward to it ; yea as 
 much <agaiiift it as if they were the Commands of the Devil 
 himfelf. And for the Difcipline ofChrift, thoali parts of Church an* 
 the world have much oppofed it, yet where hath it been fo ^j"*"" 1 
 fiercely and powerfully refilled ? The Lord grant that this aign 
 hardened, willful, malicious Nation fail not under that Heavy- 
 Doom, Luke 19.27. But thofe mine Enemies which would not that 
 JjJwuld reign over them, bring them hither and (lay them before me. 
 R.B J s. Saints Refi, Part. 3. p.91. 
 
 Mo. To fee the difference now Gentlemen, betwixt 
 your two Spirits ! The One, fb meek, and like a Chri- £axuro£ 
 (lian,tho, Other, £0 clamorous, and fo Uncharitable. What two quite dit- 
 hopes of Unity and Peace ; or what Pretence to't ; fo ferent ^ ints * 
 long as thefe dividing and defaming Liberties are kept 
 afoot? Your Friend Richard tells you very well (Mr. 
 Baxter ) that Such Holynefie is a deceiptfull Name that 
 Sat^n puts upon Unholy nefTe, and a loathfom Sacrifice to The perfect 
 the God of Love. You revile the Government, andfc CU a t r o^, cper ' 
 thole that Conform to it, and yet at the lame time 
 y ou- tell the People that you are perfecuted. 
 
 You would be thought kinder to his Majefty how- 
 ever, in devolving the feverity from the King upon 
 theClergy; and yet his Majefty is pleafed to minde 
 you that [Since the Printing this Declaration, fever all 
 Seditions Pamphlets and Quires have been Publifbed, and 
 Scattered abroad, toinfufe diflike and jpealoufiesjnto the 
 hearts of the People , and of the Army, andfome who ought 
 rather to have repented the former mifchief they have 
 wrought, then to have endeavour d to emprove it, have had 
 
 C the 
 

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 llkt.hitdyncfieto fuilifb that the Doilrine of the Churchy 
 ( etgainjl which no man with whom we have conferred h&h 
 excepted ) ought to he reformed as well as the Difcipline. ~] 
 So that all this yielding was too little, it feemstoftop 
 the Mouths of an Inlatiable faction. Eutwhatisit 
 at laft that you would be at I 
 
 Be fare firft Ri. Ibegofthe Qlcrgy that before they any more render Odious 
 
 of what fpii ic Thefe whom they never heard, and Vrge Riders to Execute the Laws 
 
 the Non-Con- a g a x iri ft t h em ^ t k a t is, to confine, Imprifon, £xcommunicate, Silence, 
 
 otmiis aie. an( lij n d tham, they would be fare, what manner of fpirit they 
 
 are of. Non-con. Plea, Part L Epiftle'. 
 
 , r . . r Mo. T Sure of what fpirit yon are "Ido ve fay ' Whv 
 thcNon Con- Certainly your own Conicience tells you that w 7 e are 
 iormitk lure of that, as Hearing, Seeing, Feeling, and Under- 
 flanding can make us. You are by your own Profefli- 
 ons of the Presbyterian Spirit .7 he Spirit that made Per- 
 jury the Condition of Life, Liberty and Eftate, to eve- 
 ry man in the Cafe of your Covenant. The Spirit 
 that Entred upon Sequeftred Livings, and left not the 
 Loyal Clergy the Freedome, lb much as of Teaching 
 a School,to fupply themfelves, and their Miferable Fa- 
 milies with Bread. The Spirit that deny'd the King in 
 his DiftrefTes, the Comfort of Co much as a Common- 
 Prayer Book, or the A fli fiance of his own Chaplains. 
 His late Ma- £ A greater Rigour and Barbarity then is ever u fed 
 ^en*y Ex^e'- ^ ^hyiflians, to the meanefl Prifoners, and Greatejl Ala- 
 jkneeupon it. le factors ; whom though the Jufiice of the Law, deprive of 
 IVorldly Comforts, yet the mercy of Religion allows them 
 the Benefit of their Clergy, as not aymhg at once to defiroy 
 their Bodies, and to damn their /WjyEIK.BAS. 207. [They 
 Ricb ? -T\*!X^ at €nv y m y being aKjng, are loth I ffjouldbe aClmfli- 
 foc ' * an \whih they fee k to deprive me of a 11 things clfc, they are 
 afraid I f/jou/dfav-e my Soul. ibid. 3 Behold here in a 
 few words the Spirit that you plead for. 
 
 Ri. 
 
do J 7 
 
 R\. Aids poor Creatures, [ We would [pnly~\ have a Tolera- 
 tion of all that's Tolerable the thai wM Tokrate All, is Bad ^R*** To^ 
 and he that will Tolerate mxiz that differ, is Madd.^ R.B's. an- lcratl01L 
 ivver to Dr. Stilliagfleet. 1\ 84. 
 
 Mo. If the Church may be "Judge, all that are7fl/*- 
 rablearc T&lerated allready ; If the People muff be the judges, the 
 Judges, the Intolerable muft be Tolerated for Company, ciovemmen:, 
 For ib long as every Party Makes,or Pretends it felf, to or che lco ^ 
 be in the Right, all the DitTenters have one Common 
 Plea. But in cafe of any Indulgence to be allow'd, it 
 is certainly due to thefe in preference, that are quiet- 
 en: without it. I cannot but have great Companion 
 for any Party that labours under a Religious and In- ^^ <j£/' 
 vincible Difagreement, and Modefty applies to Au-fervepity. 
 thority for Relief : Pox fo long as they only tell their 
 own Tale, I cannot but in ebarky believe that they 
 have no other defign then to do their own bufineffe. But 
 when a Confcientious Preten/e comes to be carry'd on 
 by Scandal/, InvecJive, Reproach, and fuch Methods as 
 are direftly Irreligious ; the difpute is no longer matter 
 of Scruple, or Worfhip, but Superiority, and Power. The Difpiue 
 There may be Religion in telling the Government what t,u"power! pl? 
 you defire, but the expofing of your Super iours to the 
 People, is Down-right Sedition. A nd, as you have hand- 
 led the matter, you m'vjht e'en with as good a Grace 
 tell the Rabble in plain Erglifh\ Look ye my Af after *>&*&'&&*& 
 here's a company t/'Anti-Chriftian Swearing,Diinking 
 Fellows, that will not let m have Liberty of Conference ; 
 But I would fain hear you two debate the bufinefs of 
 Toleratonz. little betwixt your f elves. 
 
 Ri. What [^ifyoujhallfnute or cafl cut a fuppofed Schifmatique, 
 and Chriftfhall find an able, holy peace able Minifler, or other Chrifti- ^Cif of a 
 an Wounded, or Mourning out of doors, pet. for Peace. P. 12. Saintaada 
 C Or fee a Schifmatique wounded and a Saint found bleeding, &c. Schifmatii. 
 Saints Reft. P. 15c, 
 
 C 2 S4. 
 
IS (12) 
 
 Baxters Saints Ba ' *S$ n d now you talkyf Saints, Richard [ to think of fh ell a 
 
 Friend dyed at fuch a time, and fucha one at another timc,fuch 
 
 a pretious Chriftian ilain in fuch a Fight, and fuch a one at fuch 
 
 a Fight, (O what a number of them could I name) and that 
 
 Ba ful] all thefe are enter d into 'K^ft ; and we (hall furely go to Them, 
 
 refolv^torgQ but They (hall not return to Us. Safots Reft. P. 100. [ In 
 
 to them that' That State of Reft, Angells as well as Saints will beOurbleifed 
 
 dyM in Rebel- Ailbciates. Ibid. P. 101. [ I think Chriftians, This will be a 
 
 lion. more Honourable Alfembly then you ever here beheld, and a 
 
 He joys to more na PPy Society then you- were ever of before. Surely Pym 
 
 think what and White, &c. are now members of a more Knowing, Vnerring, 
 
 Company le Well-order d, Right-aiming, Self-denying, Vnanimous, Honourable , 
 
 flaJl have. Tryumpham Senate, then I his from whence they were taken, is 
 
 or ever Parliament will be. It is better to be door-keeper to 
 
 That Affembly whither Tmffe c\c. are Tranflated ; then to have 
 
 continu'd here the Moderator of This. Saints Reft. P. 101. 
 
 Bam? fays, £ jsj a y how many Profeflbrs will rafhly rail and lye in their Paf- 
 
 f ha \v^ d; i fio ns ? How few will take well a Reproof, but rather defend 
 
 wllyd®c. ' tne * r ^ m ? ^ ovv man 7 m tlie ^ e r * mes tnat we doubt not to be 
 Godly have been guilty of Difobedieuce to their Guides, and 
 ofSchifm, and doing much more to the hurt of the Church, 
 a very great Sin. Peter, Lot, and 'tis like David did oft com- 
 mit greater Sins. R. Z?'s Five Difdutes. of Right to Sacraments P . 3 2 9 . 
 But that nei- g uta man mu ft be guilty of more fin's then Peter was in deny- 
 drunkenSe in § alK * forbearing Chrift, that is notorioufly ungodly •, yea, 
 Inceft, Con^ then Lot was., who was drunk two nights together, and com- 
 cubines, nor mitted lnce.il: twice with his own Daughters ^ and that after 
 Idols, can tne miraculous deftruction of Sodom, 'of his own wife, and his 
 make them own m i raC ulous Deliverance. Nay, a man that is notorioufly 
 ttnLoX ungodly (in the fenfe in hand ) or Unfanclify'd, muft be a 
 greater finner then Solomon was with his Seven hnndred Wives y 
 three hundred Concubines, aud grojj* Idolatries, P. 326. 327* 
 
 The Saints M *- And are Thefe the Saints ( Gentlemen ) that 
 
 that are caft you are afraid fhould be caft out, for Scbifrnatiques? 
 
 out for here- ^hey muft bcof your own Canonizing then, for I af- 
 
 fure you I finde no fuch Saints in our KjiUndar. But let 
 
 rnehearlbefeechyouwhomwe are to keep out y and 
 
 whom to take in. 
 
d3) *$ 
 
 Ri. Wcmusi cither Tolerate All men to do what they will, which E"h* r Tolc. 
 they will make a matter cf Confcience or Religion j <W *fo» ratc^tfor 
 Jomcmay offer their Children iufacrifice to the Devil , andfome may Q °" ^^alty * 
 f£iti^ r/j^v dfo GW fervice in hilling his Servants, &c. fOr <?//* ^yw 
 w<# Tolerate no ErrouPor fault in Religion ; ^^ then yon muft ad- 
 vife what meafnre of Penalty you will Inflict. Church-Divif. 
 P.565,364. 
 
 Mo The two great Difficulties will be to fay whai 
 Errours are Tolerable, and what not ; and then to 
 bring the Magiftrate and the People to an Agreement 
 upon the matter. 
 
 Ri, \_ If no Err our were to be Tolerated, no men were to be Tole- No men muff 
 rated and the Wife ft in the World mufi be numbred with the Intolera- be Tolerated, 
 lie, as well as tU reft. Church Di vif. P. 348. h no Etrour - 
 
 Ba. [But Tome People make thofe things to be Duties which Bazterfaews 
 are no Duties ? and Sins which are no Sins,calling Evil Good, and the Inconv©; 
 Good Evil-, and having made a Religion of their own, confi- "^^ T ° : 
 dently think: that it is of God, valuing all men that they have ritl * ' 
 to do with according as they are nearer or further of from 
 This,which they account the way of God \ chufing a Church or 
 Party to joyn with, by the Teft of This Religion, which their 
 Pride has Cbofen. Church Divif. P. 11. £Thus they divide Pr ;j c ma i :es 
 the Kingdom and Family of Chrift; deftroying firft the Love one mans Re> 
 of Brethren and Neighbours in themfelves, and then labouring ligion. 
 to deftroy it in all Others •, by fpeaking againft thofe that are Fa( r t , on . %#. 
 not in their-own way with Contempt, and Obloquy, to repre- t | :eTS> 
 ient them as an Unlovely fort of Men •, and if the Inrereft of 
 their Caufe and Party require it, perhaps they will next deftroy which ends 
 their Perfons : And yet all this-is done in zeal of God, and as in blond, 
 an Acceptable fervice to him. Ibid. P. 12. Q And they think AndyetpaiD 
 it a refifting of the Spirit to refift their Judgment. P. 13. [I L°^°^ e 
 have known too many very honeft-hearted Chriftians, eipeci-^nJihemoti- 
 ally Melancholique Perfons and Women who have been in on of the 
 great doubt about the Opinions of the sJMUknaries, the Septra- i>irit. 
 tifts, the Anabapiftsy the Seekers, and fuch like , and after 
 earneft Prayer to God, they have been ftrongly refolved for Emhufiafl 
 the way of £rrour, and Confident by the ftrong Impreflion wa' 
 
 thas 
 
that it was the Spirits Anfwer to their Prayers, and thereupon 
 
 tlieyhavefet themfclves into a Courfe of bin. Ibid. P. 162. 
 
 >3o:agcstal «n And [ In truth it is very Ordinary with poor phancyfull Wo- 
 
 ,;; Kca'.i- men, and Melancholy Perfons to take all their deep Apprehen- 
 
 ions. fion^for Revelations. Hid. P. 161. • 
 
 Mo. Well; but thcie people all this while take 
 themfelves to be in the right. 
 
 Scripairctbe Ba. But as for that which is Contrary to Scripture, lam 
 Ru e - fare it is contrary to the Will of God. Church Divif. I. 166. 
 
 Butwhomuft Mo. Out of all doubt; but what if They expound 
 expound it? t \ lt Scripture One way, and You Another ? 
 
 Or.e uans Ba. £ Why if the.y believe That themfelves which they can 
 
 Faith mail give you no reafon to believe, they fault be content to keep 
 not impofe* 'theii: belief to themfelves j and not for ftiame perfwade any o- 
 tL&u*°' ther t0 lt without proof. If they fay that God hath revealed it 
 to them, tell them that he hath not revealed it to You, and there- 
 fore That's nothing to You, till they prove their Divine Revela- 
 tion. If God reveal it to them, but for the?nfelves they mult 
 keep it to themfelves. Ibid. P. 166. [ If they fay that the fpi- 
 rit hath told Them the meaning of the Scripture, fay as before 
 that it is not told 10 yon which is not proved to you. Ibid 1 67. 
 Mlfhkewill C But if we do through weakneile or perverfnefle take lawful! 
 no: juftifie things to be unlawfully That will not excufe Us in our difobedi- 
 the Errour, ence. Our Errour is our Sin, and one Sin will not excufe ano- 
 nor excufe a t ] ier ^ ^ s f iVe Difput. P. 433. [ He that miftakingly thinks 
 ^ jro ^ il f lce * any thing is good or bad, Duty or Sin which is not fo, will 
 zealousevcn be zealous in perfute of his Miftake if he be ferious for God. 
 inErrour. Cath.Theol. Pref. [ It is an 111 fign when your zeal is beyond 
 More zeal the proportion of your Underftanding : And your Prudence and 
 then under- Experience is much leiTe then other mens, as your zeal is 
 fc^tog* 8 greater. Church Divif. P. 123. [Befide that the more weak 
 Non?fo fierce anc * worthleffe, and Erroneous any ones Judgment is, ufually 
 and bold as the more furious are they in the profecution of it, as if all were 
 thelgnorajir. rnofl: certain Truth which they apprehend. Thefearethebold- 
 elt both in Schifms^ awl perfections. Ibid. 357. 
 
 M*. But 
 
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 Mo. But you will fay, that in cafes where the 
 common people may be impofed upon by Credulity, 
 P banc j, or WtaknefjeythGy may repair to their Teach- 
 ers to let them right. 
 
 Ba Even the molt of Teachers take abundance of things for Eyen Tea c h - 
 true and good that are faife and evil], and for falfcand bad,;^^ k!v ^ 
 which are true and good : Much more are godly vulga j Guiles! 
 
 Ignorant, and confequently errein many things, ( Cheol. M fi * : 
 
 Pref. [ And I my felf was miftaken in my Aph&rifi ' Juftifi- hfmfcl?h« 
 cationand the Covenants, as I have acknowledged in be fame been ruiftak^ 
 Preface. 
 
 Mo. You have had very ill luck, Sir, with ; --» 
 
 jtfborifms. 
 
 Ri. [_I muftconfefs that when God l had firfi brought me ; } 
 
 mengthe more Ignorant fort of people, and when I heard Rtk 
 Perfons pray without Form, and Speaks affectionately ', and ferioufly' 
 of Spiritual and Heavenly things, J thought verily that th?y were all 
 undoubted Saints ', till ere long, ofthofe whom 1 fo much honoured, 
 ©ne/e/Zs/VflSenfiiality, andto Perfecuting Formality ; and ano- . 
 thcrfelltothefoulefv Herefy, and another to difturb the Churches *^' nc ?ff Sr V 
 Peace, by Turbulent Animofitys and Diviilons. Church Di- church." 
 vil. P. 23,24. &c. 
 
 R i. £ /thought once, that all the tal!^ again ft Schifmt and Sells, 
 did but vent their Malice againfi the befl Chriflians, wider thufe r/^.-j, 
 Thames ', Butfwce Then, 1 have fieri what Love-killing-Principles Chriilkns 
 have done. 1 have long flood by while Crjurches have keen divided, foL-nd to i e 
 and Subdivided ; one Congregation of the Diviflyn labouring to make Schiima.ic-s. 
 the other Contemptible, and odious ; and This c ' ailed, the Teaching cf 
 Truth, and the pur er WorjJjipmg of tj^Church-Divifions. Pref. 
 
 *Ba. Q When ib great a man ss Tertulllan was deceived by. Qreat laeii 
 tJMontanus, and his Propheteffe t : When fuch a one as Hacket ™HIed>and 
 could deceive not only fhppingcr, and Arlington, but abnn- p hy , no: Mr * 
 dance more-, when David George in .-/ U >i, John of ILeiden in 
 Mimflcr, &c. could deceive fo man ' Dorians as they did -, when 
 
 %e. 
 
z , ( iO 
 
 the pretended Revelations of the Tranters, First, and the Qnaktrs 
 
 j4fter, could fo marvel loufly tranfport many Thousands of pro- 
 
 Bclievc not feflbrs of Religion in this Land, 1 think we have fair warning to 
 
 every fpilit. take the Counfell of St. John. 'Believe not every Spirit, bat try the 
 
 Spirit whether they be of God. Church Divif. P. 1 64. 
 ^fcaufeTs [Alas? how common was this in the Army, tofetup-and 
 ISl G^ds Pulldown, do an undo, own and difown, as by the Spirit of 
 caufe. Cod! There was Mr. Erfary? Mr. Salt mar ft , Mi. Dell, Mr. 
 
 Ti c;r iV.fe William Sedgwick* who as from God wrote one week to the 
 Prophets. Army, againfl: their putting the King to Death, and the next 
 tohSrefted wec ^ wrote to them quite on the other fide, and that let Lon- 
 bva Kevcla- don by a Prophecy or Vifion on looking for the day of Judge- 
 tion. menr, en a let day. Second. Ad?non. to Bngfhaw. P. 68. Vavafor 
 
 StAgwieks Powell at pi ft on upon 7 hame in Worcefterjlnre, quickly after IVor- 
 day ot Judg- tefler Fight, laid in his Sermon that he would tell them thefe things 
 y Q ^ l r r fow <-vf ( ' 0?n God that they jhculd have no more Kings, nor any more Taxes, 
 eh Prophecy nor pay any more Tithes, Ibid. P.69. 
 of no more 
 
 Kings or 3/^ Pray'e do' but confider now, if your particu- 
 
 lar Pa ftors difagree among themfelves ; if you your 
 felf, Mr. Baxter, have been miftaken in your Judge- 
 ment as well of Truth in Notion^ as of Perfons\> If 
 thofe that you took for Saints, proved Scbifmaticks ; and 
 Persecutors, thofe that you took for ConfcientioMsPro- 
 fijjors, are we not much better in the hand of a 
 Rather the knownand Impartiall Law that cannot deceive us, 
 Law of the then at the Mercy of a wilde Multitude, Unknown and 
 ^Humour PrepoJfejPd, who in all probability will impofe upon 
 
 oft he people. US ? 
 
 A Fear of fin- Ri» zs4 Fear of finning is neceffary in all that mil be Obedient to 
 ning ought to Cod, andwillbefaved: It is that Fear of God which ps the beginning 
 bec'.erifhed, ofWifdom. It is therefore to be loved and chcrifoed, even when 
 even in a nu- Scrnpuloufncfs tniftaketh the matter. Non-Con. Plea. 2d. Part. 
 *** P.163. 
 
 Dangerous 3a. There's no trading to Scruples. [ I have known fome 
 srufting to t h at h ave {[^ ] on g j n douhts and fears of Damnation who 
 fcrupies. j lave turn . ( j yfrabaptifts, and fodainly had Comfort \ and yet in 
 
 a fhort 
 
•a fhort time they fcrfbok that Seel, and turned to another. I 
 
 have known thofe alio that haveliv'd many yea:.> in fitaorouj 
 
 Complaints, and fears of Hell, an 1 they hav j tamed tol le 4»- 
 
 tinomians, and fbdainly been comforted \ and others h I 
 
 Armimans ( which is clear contrary J and bee'n co lforte . nd 
 
 others have but heard of that Doctrine of Perfetiiou 
 
 Life, and fodainly been pa It their fetors, as \fk *ffc 
 
 Etion had made ihemferfeB : And from thence tiifey h • t led 
 
 f/i/»/7//?/,andatlaft fhew'd theft ferfe&ian bfFc ■ v„and 
 
 ^Liccntioiifucffe and mere Ayofkacy ; who yet liv'd verj . [en- 
 
 tioufly and blameleflely, as long as they liv'd in their Fears 
 
 and Troubles, P. i 70. Chuuch Dlvif. 
 
 £ Could I have believed him that would ha*e told me 
 five years ago ( This bearing date Jan. 1 5. 164.9. ) that , Who v ^ ulc * 
 wten the * Scorners of Godlinefle were fubdu'd, and the It 'T 5 
 bitter perfecntors of the Church overthrown } that frch TheE pi f copa i 
 /licnld flicceed them who fuflered with us, who were our clergy! 
 Intimate Friend?, with V/hom we took fweet Counfel,. and swconmA 
 went up together to the Houfe of God? Did I think it had been l&dI. 
 in the hearts of men profefiing fuch zeako Religion, and the 
 ways of Chrift to draw their Swords againlt each other rand 
 tofeek each others Bloud fo fiercely ? Alas/ if the Judg'.fienu 
 be once perverted, and Errour hath pervejted the Supreme 
 Faculty, whether will men go, and what will they doFOivW ^ ^^ 
 afctcnt Jnftritment for Satan is a mifguided Confcience ! It will make *, ra .f. u . , 
 a man kill his deareft Friend, yea Father of Mother* yea f the 
 Holyeft Saint, and think he doth God good fervice by it : And Thcver/'Cafj 
 to facilitate the work,it will firfb blot out the Reputation of.^^" ^ 
 their Holineile, and make them rake a Saint for a Devil, Saints m ' Ultl 
 Reft. P. 1 3 3. C Whence can it be, but for want of felf-denyaW, 
 that Magiitrates profeiTing a zeal for Holynelie regard no more 
 the Intercft of Chrift:, but that the Name (and but the 
 Name ) of Liberty, ( a Liberty that hath neither Moral Good, or ^£,7*™° 
 Evil! in it ) is let'in the ballanceagainil thethings ofeverlafbing moictLn!* 
 Confluence, and thcught fuMrciei. ever weigh them ; And theconfid? a-; 
 that the meer pretenfe of this Ind ertnt Carnal Liberty \\tion6{YLc%-\ 
 thought an Argument of jTufficient Weight for tAe mtioJuclioii venitfct - 
 of a wkkgd, Damning Liberty] even a liberty ro deceive, 2nd 
 deftroy ?s many as they can, and to hinder thole tliac defire 
 mens Salvatioii. R.B^s Seif-dcnyd E&ft. Mo?:itory. V Shall eve- B^terag-x'^ 
 17 man have leave to do evill, that can le Ignorant enough to Libert)'. 
 
 D think 
 
H 
 
 (.8) 
 
 think ( or fay he thinks ) that he doth well ? And mufl: Magi- 
 strates rule as men that are Uncertain whether there be a Chrift, 
 cr aChurch, or Heaven, or Hell ;becanfe fome are found in, 
 their Dominions fo fooliih, or Impious as to be Uncertain of 
 An<* Tolcra- fc?/Jj#. Q Will mercy full Rulers letup a trade for butchering 
 U0IU of Souls, and allow men to fet up a Ihop of poyfon, for all 
 
 men to buy and take that will, yea to proclaim this poyfon for 
 Souls in Streets, and Church j4ffemblies'i &c. Lid, Eut the fame 
 Argument that tempts the fenfuall to Hell ^ dcth tempt fuch 
 Magiftrates to fet up Liberty for drawing men to Hell. 'Ibid. 
 Is Faith and Holynefle propagated by Perfwafion, and not by 
 Force} Surely then Infidelity, Popery and .Ungodly neiTe ilz 
 Propagated by Perflation too , Again I tell you, felf- love doth 
 make fuch Rulers wifer then to grant Commiffion at liberty to 
 sll that will, to tice the Souldiers to Mutinies and Rebellion, 
 liberty the ^ c ' ^^' Liberty, inallmat:ers ofWorlhip, and of Faith, is 
 way to fet up tne °P en and apparent way to fet up Popery in the Land. Nan- 
 Popery,. Con. Plea. Pref. 
 
 M). Well Mr. Richard: After this frank and fenfi- 
 ble Declaration of your felf upon this Chapter, do 
 but teach me which way in the world to reconcile 
 your Practice and your Conference ; for you area Per- 
 son certainly of all men Living, the moft Improper 
 Mk*Rkk*J Advocate for & Toleration ;and the moft unfit Sollici- 
 Advoca'cfor tor of a Popular Petition. Firft, as your Judgement lies 
 .Toleration. direCtly againft the thing you pleade for. Secondly, as 
 you are confeious of the danger, as well as the Injuflice 
 of fuch a Licenje. Thirdly, you have been a very un- 
 happy Infirttment already betwixt his Majefiy and his 
 Subjcfits. And Laflly, In demanding That over again 
 from This King, by which his Father wasdeftroy'd, 
 you make your felf fufpefted to have fome 111 De- 
 figne : For to Triumph and Rejoyce (as you do ) af- 
 ter the Thing is done, is lefle,agreat deal, then to 
 forethink the doing of it. .And it is not only that 
 you are fufficiently convinced of the mifchiefs of a 
 Toleration, but your Onfcience( if I be not much mi- 
 
 ftaken ) 
 
(19) 2S* 
 
 ftaken ) will make as good afhiftas any mans with\ 
 out it. 
 
 Ri. We are againft no Bifhop or Church-Government of Richard is a 
 Gods Appointment. Prof.of Non-conformitts P. 89. \We hold Conformil't. 
 it not unlawful to take Oathes, and makj Covenants, Subfcriptions, 
 or Declarations of things Lawfully when Authority commandeth us \ 
 Ibid. P. 98. We readily Subfcribethe dollrine of the 39. Articles. lb. 
 98. We are far from condemning all Forms of Prayer, andVublick 
 Liturgy, P. 100. We pick no Quarrells about Forms and Words, 
 Church-Div. p. 176. [Tell me if you can, where God forbids j^tf 
 to ufe Good and Law full Words in Prayer, meerly becaufe the Magi" 
 fir ate y or P aft or bids you ufe them. Is this the meaning of all the 
 ^Precepts of Honouring , and Obeying your Super iours I Q Do nothing 
 which they bid you do, though otberw if e Lawful~\ O Strange Expofuion 
 of the 4th Commandement ? p. 178. £/ take the Common Prayer to be 
 Incomparably better then the Prayers or Sermons, of many that I hear , 
 and to be the beft that I expect in many places when I go to Church. 
 R.Bs. Letter to Mr. HinckJy p. 78. [It's like, the Pharifees Long 
 Liturgy, was in many things worfe then Ours, though the Pfalmes 
 were a great part ef it : and yet (fhrifty and his Apo files oft joyned 
 with Them, and never Condemned them. Ch. Div. P. 176. £ He 
 is void of Common fenfe that thwketh that his Extemporary Prayer 
 is not as truly a Form to all //?<? People, as ifithadbeen written in a 
 Book. And every Publick Mini ft er Impofeth a Form of Prayer up- 
 on all the Congregation. Ibid. 179. £ We hold, not all the ufe of 'Ima- 
 ges, even the Images of Holy Perfbns, to be Vnlawfull. Profeflion 
 of Nonconformilts. P. 1 04. {_ We hold not a Gown, or other meer 
 diftintlive Garment for Minifters to be VnlawfuL And fome of us 
 hold a Surplice rather to be ufed, then the Miniftry forfaken. Ibid. 
 \_ Many ofu* hold it Lawfidl to communicate Kneeling Ibid. p. 
 1 05. C We all hold that God muft be Orderly, and Decently Wor- 
 fhipped with the Body, as well as Spiritually, with the minde. And 
 that Reverend Geftwes, and Behaviours are ft, not only to expreffe 
 Mental Reverence to God, but alfo to Excite it, in ourfelves and 
 others. Ibid. 105. We are for the ufe of the Creed, Commandement s, 
 And Lords Prayer, p. 106. 
 
 Ba. Hit is now about Twenty Years fince IPreach'dat a 
 Fa ft to the Parliament for Loyalty -, the King the next morn- 
 
 D z ing 
 
Mf Baxters 
 Sermon that 
 
 brought the 
 
 Presbytery for 
 t£eJ.or<isfal;e 
 
 irm was voted home to his Crown, and Government, 2d part, of Ncn- 
 Con. Tlea. Preface. In This Sermon, I have given the World a 
 Tad of my Affections to the Church. [ Gentlemen, 1 have 
 nothing to ask of you for my felf, nor any of my Brethren, as 
 for Themfefves ', but t\\?it you wilt be Friends to Serious Preaching 
 and Holy Lilting, and will not enfnare oar Confidences with any 
 Vnfi rift urall Inventions cfv.cn. This I would beg of you as on 
 my Knees. I . A$ for the fake of {hrift. 2 . for the fake of Thou- 
 fivias of poor Souls. 5. For the Sake oj Thou finds of the dear Friends 
 of the Lord. 4. For your ownfil^s. 5. For thefiai^e ofijour Po ferity. 
 6. For the Honour of the Nation and your Selves. 7. For the Ho- 
 ■near of Sound doctrine, and Church-Government. C\C. Pa. 45. and 
 46. For if you Frown on Godlyncjfc, under pretenfe of Uniformi- 
 ty in V nneceffary things ; and make things worle then when Li- 
 bertimfim, and Schifme lb prevail'd : the people will lookback 
 with Groans, and fay ) V/hat happy times did we once See] And 
 lb will honour Schifme fiXi& Libirtinifme, and Vfurpatiou, through 
 YourOpprcffion. 8. 1 beg this of you for the Honour of Sove- 
 reignty, and the Nations Peace. Ibid. And then for your [ new- 
 made Religions, and needlefs Scandalous Inventions, and an a^ 
 doring ofyour Titles and Pvobc; of Honour, covering your Ig- 
 norance, Pride, and Senfuality, which Church Tyrantscall ths 
 Or^-rofthe Church. cVc. T Ail the Images of Piety, Govern- 
 ment, Unity, Peace, and Order, which Hypocrites and Pilaris 
 fees fat up, are defpifed Engines to deftroy the Life and Seiir 
 ous Practice of the things Themfelves, and are fet up in Enmi- 
 ty againil Spirituality, andHolynefs, that there might be no 
 other Piety, Government, Unity, Peace, or Order in the 
 Church, but Thefe Livelefs Images. Ck. Div. Pa. 105. & 
 106. 
 
 lb hard not ^ h \_Thonghwe arrc 'not fatisfied of the Uwfullncfs of ufing t\je 
 abfolutely a- Tranfient Image of the Crofife, as a dedicating Sign, and Symbol 
 gainjtthe of Chriftianity, fo much Sacramental ( much leffe to refufc from 
 Crof$, , B apt if me, and Chriftcndome, all Chriftian Infants^, unleffe they will 
 
 have them foQroffed, no more then if a Qrucifx were fo Jmpofcd, and 
 ufed^) yet do we not Condemn all ule of cither Crofife, or Crucifix. 
 Nor do we prcfume C onfcicntionfly to Reproach, and diflianour the An- 
 tient Chriftians,^^ living among Pagans that derided Chnfi Cru- 
 cify d, did ftjcw them, by oft ufing this- fign, that they wrre not afua- 
 tmdofthc Crofife. And though we find, that they nfedmore Ritej, 
 
 tad. 
 
 O'ltfte happy 
 times when 
 PresbvLerians 
 ruIM.' 
 
 Hive.ac.Tcoi 
 
 fcandaloii 5 
 
 Inventions. 
 
 The Ignorant 
 
 Chmch-Ty- 
 
 ranji. 
 
and fgnifications, dcvijed Siqns, and Ceremonies, then We thinly 
 theyjhould have done, yet wejudg it our Duty to love and honour 
 their Memorial ; Nor do we take all Rites to be Sinfull that are fig- 
 nificant. Non-conformiftsProfeffion Pa. 103. 104. 
 
 Ba. You are not fatisfy'd of the Lawfulnefe, &c.jy<wfay. p **ter< a 
 But are you convine'd of the VnUwfulnejfe ? For Qvvc mult obey L °y alliit - 
 Magistrates though we know not that their Commands are 
 Lawful, fo long as they are fo Indeed, and we have no fuffici- 
 ent reaibn to believe them Unlawful). Holy Cm. Thefts. 323. 
 For [It is not our Erroneous Conceits, that a Lawfull Com r Erro " r j sna 
 mand is Unlawful!, that will excufe any man from the Guilt o^ifobedknee 
 Difobedience. Ibid. 357. C But if a thing feem to you very 
 ncedfull to a Good End, ^ndfCbth&wordbe^amfl it, avoid it : jhePretecce 
 &c. [And if you think that the Scripture commanded! you of Nature, and 
 This or That Pofitive means, if Nature and True Reafon allure true Reafon 
 you that it is againft the End, and is like to do much rnore avoit ^ULaw 
 harm, then good, be allured that you miftake That Scripture. 
 Ch.Divif. fa. 205. 
 
 Mo. It is a flrange thiu^ Mt Richard, that your 
 Confcience fhouldbe fo eafy to y out f elf, and yet lb 
 Trodlefome to the Government. But your Referve of A p ®P ll - r -* 
 leaving every Pivate man to judge, Firft, of the a ^ 
 Condition of the Law, by the Word ; and Then, of 
 his Judgment of That Scripture^ whether it be Right* 
 or Wrong, by Nature and Right Reafon : This Reierve 
 Ifay undoes all again: For every man that does lit, 
 with a Good Intention, reckons that he has Nature 
 and Right Retfon on his fide. 
 
 Now for You Mr. Baxter- you tell us over and over 
 fo often of your Fafl-Sermon to the Hcufe of Com- 
 mons, and the Kings being called in the next day* 
 as if That very Sermon had wrought his Majeftiss Re* 
 figuration, But I find upon Peruiall of it that you arc 
 juft as kind to the Church in this Piece of 1660. as. 
 you were a litle before, to his Majefty in your Holy 
 Common Wexltkol 16^9. That is to fay 3 you are beg- 
 
 g in g 
 
bringing in 
 the King. 
 
 ging, arguing, and Cafing of i t all ttat is in you, to 
 ThaPresbyte- keep them both out ; and truly Tins B^nii C e 
 
 rianway of of yours makes almoit asboid with the Kinv him(ci : as 
 with the Epifcopal Clergy : as you fhall hear by and by. 
 Was it not enough for you to Adjure the Commons into 
 an Oppofition of ThatCWrr in the Church, which fas 
 he tells you; is as Antient as the Monarchy of This 
 JJlxnM An Order, that you and your Confederates moft 
 Undutifully dejlrofdl But could you now have the 
 Confidence to demand the fpoyls again, which you 
 firit ravifh'd from the Church, and the Independents 
 afterward took from you&s the Reward of your Sedi- 
 tion, an<i Schifm? And could you yet have the grea- 
 ter Confidence, in cafe of a Difappointment, to break 
 out into this moftllnchrijlian Exclamation, on the be- 
 half of the People ? Oh : £ What happy times did we once 
 feel That is to fay; when the Kingdome was Laid in 
 Bloody and ^[fjes; all that was Sacred, trampled under 
 Foot, And all this Confufion, only to heave the Pres- 
 byter into the Saddle, 
 
 Richards 
 4%llcn§e, 
 
 JnjufKEcati- 
 on of theNon- 
 Conformifts. 
 
 The Non- 
 conform ifts 
 charge. 
 
 Ri. / have defcribed the Judgment of fueh Non-conformifb as 
 J have Converged with, ( not undertaking for every odd perfon whom 
 I know not ) / do defire thofe thatfeek our Bloud, and Ruing, by the 
 falfe Accufation of Rebellious Principles) to tell me if they can^ f what 
 Bodies, or Party of men on Earth have more found and Loyall 
 Principles 0/ Government,^ Obedience. 2d. Part. Non-Con. 
 Plea. Pref. [ Our Accufations are. 1 . That we are Presbyterians, 
 and Phanatiques. 2. That we began the War in 1 641 . and 1 642 . 
 5. That we deftroy^d the King. 4. That our Principles are Difloy- 
 al. 5. That we are Plotting a Rebellion. Ibid. But what is z Pres- 
 byterian ? 
 
 Apresbyterian Mo. A Presbyterian is a Member of a State FaQion, 
 
 dcfinU under a Religious denomination. For by that Name 
 
 we do not underftand fuch as are really of That Clajfi- 
 
 cal and IVhymfical Profeffion ; but a fort of People that 
 
 drive 
 
drive on a Political defign, under the Colour of an Ec- 
 clefaflical Scruple of psrfvafwn. And in as cxtenfivc a Pre ,byter!ans 
 Latitude do you take the Word, your fel ves. For al I fwaliow a P all 
 the Seels are Presbyterians ( or Differing Proteftants, as *£*' Se ^ s , at 
 you call them ) when you have need of them in Con- fp^J ta" 
 federacy againft the Government 3 though the Presby- a s*in. 
 ttrawlpewsall the reft up again, (as they did in 1647. 
 when they had done their work ; ) But pray what fay 
 ye to the Beginning of the War ? 
 
 Ri. £ In 1642. *fo Lamentable Civil War broke out; At Richard Cays 
 which time as far as ever we could learn by Acquaintance withfome that the Epi£ 
 of them, and Report of others, excepting an Inconfiderable number, Co P , men ^ e ' 
 theHoufes of Lords and Commons confined ofThofe that had ftill It- ^^w^ou* 
 vedin Conformity to the Church of England, and the Lpifcopall ^ Si Lovd Lieu- 
 Government, &c, 1 Part. Non-Conform. Plea. p. 126. [ l^e tenants,Offi- 
 Lord Lieutenants whom the Parliament chofe, were almofl all Epifco •• cers ^ ivil anc * 
 pal Conformifts, Ibid. [ The far Greater Part of the Generall j^y ar ^ ££ 
 Officers, Colonells, JJeutenant-Colonells, and Majors of the E3rlof v ] nes ' a i mo fl. 
 Eilex &w Army ; ^^ 0/ritf Sea-Captains, and of the Major ~(fene- all EpifcopaL 
 rals of Brigades, and Counties about the Land, ibid |~ Tfo Af- men, 
 fembiy of Divines ^ Weftminlter *//£, were men that had lived 
 in Conformity, except about 8. or y.andthe Scots, p. 127. 
 
 Mo. You do well Richard to fay that they HAD 
 Lived in Conformity, for the Complying humour was 
 now going offapace ; Infbmuch that a profeft oppofi- 
 tionto the Orders of the Church became quickly a ^ . 
 
 diftinguifhing mark of the difloyal Party: And all ga £diSroS 
 thole Parliament men^ Officers, and Affembly-Divinesy ^crcsiWdh- 
 Contributed Unanimoufly in their ieveral Stations fenters * 
 toward the Common Ruine. On £ Frydiy Dec. 1 1 . * . 
 1 640. A Petition was brought into the Houfe by All- j^k a^L- 
 dermm Pennington from the Citizens of London, in the forwhcWaaa. 
 name of 1 5000. Complaining of the Churcb-Difciplixe y 
 in having Arch-Bifhops y Btfhops, &c. Ufing the CVtfjffe 
 inBaptifme; Kjieeling at the Communion -7 *£/<?, asui> 
 
 lawfull 
 
kwfull- in ihoProteftant Church. Diurnal Occurrence*. 
 Pa. 12. Jan 13. Petition againft the Government of 
 Bifliops from Several Counties, f. 16. jPatr. 13. The 
 Remonftrance with 700. hands again ft the Bifliops 
 and their Prelacy was read, P. 33. March 7. A Bill 
 againft Epifcopacy read in the Houfe of Commons, 
 &c. Pa. 47. Mar. 10. 1640. Bifliops Votes in Par- 
 liament taken away, Pa.^g.'m A T ovem. i64i.feveral 
 Tumults againft Biihops, and Dec. n, iq. Eifliops 
 accufed of High-Treafon. The Bifliops in the mean 
 time Petitioning his Majefty, and entring a Proteft of 
 their Priviledges, and againft Tumults, slpr.z. 1642. 
 A due and neceffary Reformation of the Govern- 
 ment and Liturgy of the Church pretended. Ex. 
 Col.P.i^. 
 
 It is to be hoped, that all Thefe violences upon the 
 Ecclefiaftical State , and the Persons of the Bifhops, 
 were notafted by Conformifts. And it will not be 
 ■deny'd, I fuppofethat after the Poftiflg andProfcri- 
 bingofthe Greater part of the Clergies Friends,^ as 
 well as the Kings ) The Schifmati^al fntereft was 
 carry'd on by the Major vote of the Remaining Frag- 
 ment ; and all This was before the Eruption of the 
 War ; the Earl of Effex not receiving his Commiffion, 
 till July 1 2 . 1 642 . Unlefs you'le fay that Epifcopal men 
 themfelves, were for the Extirpation of Bijbcps. 
 
 The Parlia- Ri. [_ When the Parliaments Armys were worfled and weakned 
 
 mem broughj: byjhe King, and they found themfdves in dang- of being Overcome ^ 
 
 in tl:e Scots, they intrcatcd belpfrdm tki Scots ( 'lis true ) who taking advantage 
 
 of . igbtsjbrought in f/^ Covenant, as the Condition of their 
 
 help. Non-Conf. 1 part. p. 27. Aid for the Aflcrably 1 [ / thinh 
 
 orthic Ih ave not read of many h$&rn\ "es ?/Wortbier men Jiffcctbt A- 
 
 iSmblics i r pOftles days. ft. tol . illingfleet. p 84. The Covenant 
 
 face the Apo- cv;d Vow, was taken by the Parliament, and by their Garifbns, and 
 
 ft^idafs. Soldiers that would voluntarily take it as a Tcft whom they might 
 
 Trrjr 
 
(m) 
 
 Truft Non-Conf. Plea. p. 128. [ the Aflembly never endea- rich good 
 vouredto turn the Independents out of the Parifh-Churches, Wnamctowan 
 Benefices, nor to Silence them ; forbidding them Publicly Preaching, ihclndccen- 
 as you do us> &c. Anfvv. to Dr. StiHingf. p. 14. They Impofcd »<j ttc:lts - 
 Liturgy, no one Ceremony; w Practice on them, contrary to their 
 Confcicnce, p. 85. The Presby tery being only a Tolerated, or 
 Intended thing, without any Irnpoiition that ever we knew of 
 
 Mo. It is very well known what pains your Cele- TheGuTd 
 brated Aflembly took to make the City bleed for That Hafth * ra ! 
 ^m/^expidition, and we have the Guild haB Hdranft^ou^hiikil 
 gues on That Occafion, ftill upon Record. But I fhall Scots « 
 rather mind you of fome Proceedings which you 
 would be thought to have forgotten ; to the Immortal 
 Honour of your Confederates. Only half a dozen 
 Words in the way to it- 
 It is no wonder for men that have fo low an Efteem 
 for Generall Coun fells ', as both Ton Sir, and Mr. Baxter 
 profeifeto have, in feveralof your Writings, to en- 
 tertain yet very Reverend Thoughts of the Pybald^f 
 fembly. His Late Majefty had quite another Opinion 
 of them. See his Vroclamation, Inhibiting the Affembly 
 of Divines ,ant% others Summoned to Weftminller, by an 
 Ordinance of Both Houfcs of Parliament, Bibliotheca 
 Regia. P. 328. fun. 22.1643. 
 
 Whereas there hath been a Itng time, a defperate and Se- His Ma jellies 
 ditious defign amongji divcrfe Factious perfons, to alter the Proclamation 
 whole Frame* Qonftitution, and Government of this ^^bl^of 
 Church ; fo long and Jo happily Efablif/jed within this Kjng- Divines. 7 C 
 dome 5 in furf nance whereof they have difcountenanceed, 1^22.164$. 
 and in a manner fufpre fed the Booh^ of Common Prayer, 
 Jettled by Law ; driven away, Imprisoned, Removed, ve- 
 rymany Learned, Orthodox, Godly Divines , and Mt- 
 nifiers from their 'Cures, for discharging their duty and 
 Confcience in Preaching : and in their p laces ', without the 
 leaf colour or fhadow of Law full Authority, have Inftitn- 
 
 E ted, 
 
Painful \b\ c, ted, or Deputed mean Facfiotu Perfons Unqualify d tvkh 
 M b luerT Learning or Virtue ; to corrupt and poyfon the minds of our 
 Good Subje&s, with Principles of re aj on and Rebellion , and 
 TleLoyall have fcized the Rents and Revenues of our Bifljops, Deans , 
 Presbyterians. ^ chapters, for their ovn private Lucre , or Benefit^ 
 The Refor- and for the Maintenance of the slrmy m Rebellion a- 
 nation ljeguci gdnftus. 
 
 Pray Obferve my Friends, that this was before, the 
 Scots were cail'd in ; and the work of men too in Op- 
 pofition to the Church; I come now to your Jpoftoli- 
 cal Afembly. 
 
 Since 7 befe bloudy diflempers, and xvhenfo many Armies 
 
 are on Foot in fever al parts of the Kingdom, a Bill hath 
 
 beenprefented torn for the Calling of an Affembly, of fuch 
 
 Divines y as are mentioned in the f aid Bill, the far greater 
 
 part whereof are men of no Refutation or Learning ; and 
 
 eminently difaffetted to the Government of the Church of 
 
 England: and very many of them are perfons who have 
 
 openly preached Rebellion, and incited the People to take up 
 
 Slrmes againfl w% and fo are not like to be proper Inflru- 
 
 ments of Peace, in Churchy or State 5 which Bill having 
 
 many Claufes in it very derogatory to our Honour, and jfujl 
 
 „ Rights, and very Scandalous to the Reformed Proteftant 
 
 Religion : notfo much as any part being left tolls, either in 
 
 the Choice of the Perfons, or in Adjonrning or DiJ&lving 
 
 the affembly. Bib. Regia. Pa.^ig. 
 
 What do you think now of the /Vorthy Affembly? 
 your Q Men of founds and Loyall Principles of Govern- 
 ment, and Obedience. Thefe are the Men that you de- 
 clare your felves Refolved to ft and or fall 'by ; fand out 
 of your own mouths a Man may warrant This Afler- 
 tion ; that you are no better Friends to This King, then 
 that Parliament and that dfiembly foere to the Loft. 
 Methinks This Teftimony of his Late Majefty againft 
 your defignes, aad Proceedings , fhould move your 
 
 Con- 
 
 Kings Procla- 
 mation. 
 
 A Dutiful 
 Proportion. 
 
 The Worthy 
 Membly. 
 
 The Kings 
 Authority ex- 
 cluded. 
 
(.2 7) 3^ 
 
 Consciences and dare you in the Faces, as if it were 
 hisGhoft. 
 
 You would have the world believe that the Cove- 
 totitfwas never Impofed, but that people might take 
 it, or let it alone, as they pleafed ; That the Afembly 
 filenced no body ; forced nothing ; and that Presby- 
 tery was only as a Tolerated, or Intended thing, &c. 
 Now how great an Abufe this is upon That part AnAbuftput 
 of the Nation that does not know the ftory, will ap- u P on thc Na "< 
 pear out of the Memorials of Thefe Times, under the " 
 Authority of the Faftionitfelf. 
 
 The Lords and Commons took the Vow and Cove- An Extras of 
 mxftjun. 6.1643. Husbands Collections. Fol. 203,^1^^^^ 
 thought fit to have it taken by the Armies, and. King- 1643. 
 dome. Ibid. ArchBifhop of Canterburies Temporal 
 Livings, Dignities, and Ecclefiaftical Promotions 
 Sequeftered, June 10. 1143. Fol. 207. an Ordinance 
 for calling an Aflembly of Learned Divines ( Thirty 
 of the Layety, intheCommiffion. )June 24. 208. An Or- 
 der for Minifters upon the Faft-day to pray for a blef 
 fing on this Aflembly. jPune 27. 43. The Aflembly 
 " Petitions Both Houfes for a Faft, and the removing 
 of Blind Guides, and Scandalous Minifters; deftroy- 
 ing Monuments of Idolatry, &c. July 10. 1943. F<?/. The Affembiy 
 240. [An Order for Divines that attend the Affcm- ft ^ u ^ c fc 
 bly, to go into the Country toftir up the people to peop c 
 rile for their Defenfe. ^/*g. 10. 1643. F0/. 285. [An 
 Ordinance for taking away of Superftitious Monu- 
 ments. Aug. 28. 1643. Fol. 307. An Ordinance to 
 examine Witnefles againft Scandalous Minifters, 6e/>. 
 6. 1643. Fol. 311. Souldiers to take the Covenant, 
 Octob. 1 o. Fol. 3 5 9. An Order for die Aflembly of Di- 
 vines, to treat of a Difcipline and Government, the 
 prefenttobe abolifhed, and to prepare a Direftory. 
 Oclo. 12. 1643. Fol. 362. An Order for returning the 
 
 E 2 Names 
 
Names of fuchastakenot the Covenant to the Houfe 
 ofCommons, Nov. 30. 1643. Fol. 390. An Order 
 fordiverfeperfons to take the Covenant at Margarets 
 Weftminfttr. Dec* 12,1643, Fol.^yg. An Ordinance 
 difabling any perfbn within the City of London, from 
 any place of fruft, that fhall not take the Covenant. 
 Dec. 20. 1643. Fo/.ao^.. An exhortation for taking 
 theCovenant, &c. Feb. 9. 164^. FoL 422. An Order 
 for taking it throughout the Kingdomes of England,, 
 and Scotland, with Inflrucl ions* Feb. 9.1 64.4.. Fol.4.20. 
 A -Second Order for demolifhing Superfluous Monu- 
 ments. May 9. 1644. Ftf/. 4S7. An Order for none to 
 Preach, but Ordained Minifters, except allowed by 
 Both Houfes of Parliament, May (5. 1645. Fol. 646. 
 An Order for putting the Directory in Execution. 
 Aug. ii. 1645./^/. 71 5. Severall Votes for choice of 
 Eiders throughout all England, and Wales. Feb. 20. 
 1646. Fol. 809. An Order for taking the Negative 
 Oath, and National Covenant. Jun.2. 164.6. Fol.8 89. 
 An Order for putting the Orders of Church-Govern- 
 ment in execution. Jun. 9. 1646. Fol. 889. An Order 
 for dividing the County of Zancafhire, into 9. Claf- 
 fes, Offob.2. 1646, Fol. 919. An Order for Abolifliing 
 Arch-Biflhops, andBifhops, and fettling their Lands 
 upon Truftees for the ule of the Common- Wealth. 
 Offob.9. 1646. FoL 992. An Order for the fpeedy di- 
 viding and fettling of feveral Counties of This 
 Kingdome, into diftin£t ClaJJical Presbyteries, and 
 Congregational Elderships. Jan. 19. 1647. Swbells Afts, 
 139. The Form of Church-Government to be ufed in 
 the Church of Englan d, and Ireland, agreed upon by 
 the Lords and Commons, aflembled in Parliament, 
 after Advice had with the AfTembly of Divines. 
 dag* 29. 1648./W. 165. 
 
 By 
 
By thistimel hope you are fatisfy'd thatit was>a rWdtohc 
 Presbyterian War according to the very Letter, O r ^^)^^ 
 if the Nonconformifts did not begin the War, pray'e 
 who bid? 
 
 R.i. Our Calamities began in Differences about Religion, and Richard fays, 
 
 (lill Thais the wound that mo ft needs Clofmg^ &c R. B's. . Fait Ser- the War bc £ ar * 
 
 z^ r^ a T about ReU- 
 
 mon. 1660. p. 41. Bioni 
 
 Ba. Do not you know, that write about the Caufe, that the Baxter fays,ft 
 War was not founded in Theologicall differences, but in Law began abouc 
 differences I R.B's. Letter toMt . Hvsckly . p. 25. u^ 
 
 Ri, The firft open beginning was ^Militia, Non. Conf. Plea. Richard &y$, 
 
 V) 126. 'twas about 
 
 "" " the Militia. 
 
 Ba. I know how unfatisfy'd many are concerning the Law- Baxter fay?, 
 fullnefTe of the War ; I cannot yet perceive by any thing which the War was 
 they object, but that we undertook our Defence uponwarran- made toi- Re- 
 table Grounds. The extirpation of Piety was the then great tormati0n - 
 Defigne, which had fo far fucceeded, that very many of the 
 mofl: able Minifters were filenced , Lecturers, and Evening-Ser- 
 mons on the Lords Day fupprefTed •, Chriftians imprifoned, di£ 
 membred, and Banifhed \ the Lords Day reproached, and de- 
 voted to Pafti me s \ that it was as much as a mans Eftate (at 
 lead ) was worth,to hear a Sermon abroad, when he had none ? 
 or worfe at home \ To meet for Prayer, or any Godly Exercife \ Alewdfcan- 
 and that it was a matter of Credit,and a way to Perferment to dal upon the 
 revile at,..and be enemies againft thofe that were mofl: Confci- l^eKin-suo-, 
 entious^ And every where fafer to be a drunkard, or an Adul- vernmen 
 terer, then a painfull Chriftian : And that multitudes of Hu- 
 mane Ceremonies took place, when the worfhip of Chrifts 
 Institution was call out, befides the flavery that Invaded us in- . 
 CivilRefpects-.SoamI MOST CERTAIN! that this was the 
 work which We toof^up Arms to re ft ft : And thefe were the Offen- 
 ders whom we endeavoured to Offend. And many of thofe that r 
 fcruple the Lawfulnefs of our War, did never Scruple the La w- 
 Fullnefs of deftroying us ; nor of that dolefull havock, and Sub- 
 verfion that was made in the Church of Cbrift amongft -us. . 
 
 The. : 
 
%<* 
 
 The fault was, that we would not more willingly change the 
 Gofpei for Ignorance, and our Religion for a Fardel of Cere- 
 monies. R. B's. Saints Reft. p. 257. 258. 
 
 war ;ot 
 gicn. 
 
 Ri. [But the Kings Subjects may not enter into Leagues, C 
 Richard will yi ants -and Arms againft him, without his conftent, and Laws, meer- 
 M p °V ^ t0 P ro P t1 g ate Religion a 'id Reformation in the Kingdom. Non-conf. 
 Plea, id.part, pa.77. [_ If Governors command m to fin againft God, 
 Subjects mnft not obey ^but yet not 'R^efift ', Much lefts take up Arms to 
 Reform Others, or even tc bring in 4 True Religion by Vnauthortfed 
 Violence, ibid. p. 56; 
 
 ijfor Ba ' Itisbuta delufory courfeof fome in Theft Times that 
 
 a iteTAous wr * te man y Volumns, to prove, that Subjects may not bear 
 
 Wer. ^ Arms againft their Princes for Religion. Ho. Common-wealth, p. 
 
 They arc fools 44-1. £ It is either Confufion and Ignorance of the State of the 
 
 thatjthuik Queftion, or palpable errour in them that maintain, thatit is 
 
 other .\ife. nnlawfull to fight for Religion. It is one thing to light to make 
 
 others Religious, and another thing to fight to preferve our 
 
 own Religion, and to preferve the means of Religion, to Us, 
 
 and the Nation, and our Pofterity, Ibid. Perfecutors will 
 
 Incafeofper* take away Qur Lives or Liberties, if we worfhipGod according 
 
 fecutionwe to his Will, and ufe the neceflary means of Salvation. In 
 
 fight tor our fighting againft this Perfecution, we fight principally, and ul- 
 
 own, and our timately, for our Own, and Pofterities Salvation, andnext, 
 
 poiteritic. f or t he Neceflary means thereto, and Proximately for our 
 
 Lives and Liberties. Ibid. 
 
 • 
 
 Mo. The Rancour, and Inhumanity of This Scan- 
 dal makes me take the LeiTe notice ofyourfhiftsand 
 contradictions, fo that I fhall wave the Courfc of 
 your Reafoning, and fpeak a Word to your Con- 
 fcience. 
 TheiateKings Pray'e caft a back Thought upon the Piety, the 
 faffering* for- Moderation, the Unexampled fufferings and Con- 
 ^ r a ^ e ns ftancy of That Incomparable Prince, whofe Govern- 
 vances. & ment, and Adminiftration is here fo Diabolically 
 Traduc'd. It is a wonderfull thing to me, that the 
 Legal Jufticethat was executed upon two or three 
 
 Contu- 
 
( > r) 57 
 
 Contumacious Schifmatiqucs , fhould be fo frefli in / 
 
 your Memory, and yet the Tragedy of that Royal,and ftjnj&m, 
 Proteftant Martyr that fell a Sacrifice to the Idol of sn&Ba/iwick 
 your Enthufiaftical Reformation fhould be fo utterly ^"o^ul 
 forgotten. How can you fo call to mind the filenoing the Royal 
 of a Stubborn Cabal of Lawlefs Mutineers ; And the Man / r - 
 Bloudof Canterbury, your Sacrilegious Robbing, and 
 Taking PoiTeflion, not fly in the Faces of your Com- 
 plices? Efpecially confidering how much you your 
 felves have contributed to the commoa Fate. 
 
 Ri. £ How far -the Parliament was from being Presbyterians,, 
 may befeen in the Proportions fentfrom them by the Earl of Eflex, 
 to the King at Notingham, and partly their defeating all the de- 
 fires and endeavours ofThofe that would have Presbytery fettled 
 thorow the Land. We know of no places, but London and Lan- Presbytery 
 cafhire,wkr? it was commonly taken up,andfome little of it at Coven- 5? fetl j J /ay$ 
 try, andfomefewfuchplaces,Non-Conf. Plea, lit. part, 128. 
 
 Ba. [It is not known that the Presbyterian Government B aite> . con . 
 hath been exercifed in London, in Lancaflrire, and in many Qmn- trac iia 3 him, 
 f*>Jthefe many years ? $.Difp. Pref. 28.29. QLook into this And comforts 
 County where I live, and you fhall finde a faithful, humble, himfeli with 
 laborious Miniftry, AfTociated, and walking in as great Uni- cofflP a «^ fce£ 
 ty as ever I read of fince the Apoftles Days : No Difference, c fardPiot& 
 no Quarrels, but fweet and amicable Correfpondency, andaorwich 
 Communion, that I hear of. Was there fuch a Miniftry, or Chart* I. 
 juch Love and Concord, or fuch a Godly People under them 
 m *he Prelates Reign ? There was not ; Where we had Ten Ten fchiimL 
 drunken Readers Then, we have not One now •, and where tical Hypo— 
 we had One Able, Godly Preacher Then, we have many Now : critesNow for 
 and This is our Lofs and mifery in thefe. times, which you fo ° ne foriT1 ^ I 7 
 much lament. Ibid. 
 
 Mo. This laft paffage 1 finde in a Preface Entitled 
 I* To thofe of the Nobility, Gentry, and Commons of This ?f If^T 
 
 r 11 u -mi t% 1 t-rr 1 - t J ple.nent so the. 
 
 Land that adhere to Prelacy : Jrukl/jbea in the year 1659. Sons or ~ the 
 and ufher'd in, by an Epiftle Dedicatory, [^ 'to hit High- ChurcM*** 
 nefs Richard Lord Protector of the Common Wealth of 
 
 England 
 
3j# (*v) 
 
 England, Scotland, W Ireland: with this expreffi- 
 R^^Jfc;' on in the laft Page. [ Your zeal for God will kindle 
 wiis faitbfuU in your SUBJECTS a zeal for You : and for a Farewell, 
 Sitycfe. QA:,BaitirfiilI Subjects your Highnefs, as you are 
 
 an Officer of the Univerfal King. 
 
 Richard Baxter. 
 
 It is worthy of a Note Mr. Baxter, that your Fen 
 cuts more ft ill "in 1 659. then it did in feven years be- 
 fore, and that your Humour runs much, ( about 
 That lea (on ) upon Cafuiftical Points, and the Colla- 
 tion of Affairs, and Times. Now all the Reafbn I 
 can difcern for your change ofTopiqtteftill upon That 
 Crijis, is This. The Wheel was almoft come round 
 again, and Rebellion upon the very point of finishing 
 its Courfe. For they had run the Monorchy down, 
 into an Ar'ifiocracy ; That, into a Democracy', Cromwell 
 took up the Government next, in a Single Per/on. But 
 all thefe SuccefTive Ufurpations were fo Grievous, and 
 Infupportable to the people, that neceflarily the next 
 Remove muft be the Reftoring of the KJng, to perfect 
 the Revolution. Now fo foon as ever you difoover'd the 
 hk.Baxtcn, dawning but of the leaft hope for his Majefties Reftau- 
 p ^ h ^ al es A " ration, what Mifts did you prefently caft before the 
 •compofedex* Peoples Eyes in your Political slphorifmes, upon^tbe 
 prefl/tokcep Queftfon of Authority, and Obedience ? What pains 
 out the Kmg. j id you ta k e t0 poffeffe the Nation with an Opinion 
 of the bleffed differences betwixt the State of Matters 
 uoder Richard the Ufurper, and Charts the Martyr ? 
 and to hammer into the heads of the Multitude, the 
 danger of Re-admitting their Lawfull Sovereign? Pray'e 
 tell me Sir, was Mr. Dancers Stqucfired Living, and 
 your Little Worcejlerfhtre y^jjociation fo Ineftimable a 
 Prize, that you could part with the Blond of a moft 
 
 Religious 
 
Religious fritfce\ the Livesyf at lea ft Four/core Thou - 
 land Qhriflians', the Order of the Government, both /# 
 Church and Stite? your. Lives, Liberties, and'Efiatcs ; 
 the Peace, Honour, and -Well b-eiAgoilhree Kingdoms, 
 and all This, in Exchange for lnfa?ny x Begg.erj, and 
 Bondage, and yet reckon your i|f| a Gainer by the 
 Bargain ? % 
 
 Ri. 7%f Commonwealths-men perfecuted me- knd Others x fo far p O01 - Rjcbarj 
 as to make Orders to Sequefter iu r for not taking the Engagement ; like tojhave 
 and for not keeping their Falls and Thankfgivings /tfr the Wars SVfequeftred 
 rturf Scotland. R. B's. 2d. Admonition to Bagfliaw. p. 90. &r «y>t failing 
 
 «* , -and praying 
 
 againil the 
 
 ' tf*. [ It is a dreadfull Obfervation to lee fo much of the Spi- Scots. 
 ritof Af^w'y poill'fTing thofe that once faid they fought a- 
 gam&tJMalignants -,and that the Minifters and Servants of the Sv^H^ 
 Lord, arerayledatbymany of Them, as formerly they we^ ta ^S^* 
 by the word: of Thofe that Their hands deftroyedj and with- f the Army. ' 
 this dreadfull Aggravation, that Then it was but Some that " 
 were Reviled, and now, with many, it is All. Then, it was ThcPrcsb yte . 
 but under the Name of iV/taffj, and Round-heads -, andJYpw it tians p e riecu~ • 
 is openly, & Minifters, under the Name of Pricfis, and Blacked. 
 Coats, and Presbyters and Pulpiteers. St If -deny al, fp. Monitory. 
 
 Mo. This is to Intimate that the Presbyterians were The presbyte- 
 iHictera Pepfecuftoh, Who were the Verfecutors, 1 be- rian? J ourr ' e /' 
 leech ye ? Even 77wr <w>» journey men ; who when my^e^uplk 
 they had wrought Sedition long enough under you, themftives. 
 took the Trade into their Own hands, and let up for 
 Themfelves. And that you may not value your lelves 
 upon the Merits of your f ufFerings ; Pray'e what was 
 it that you (uffer'd for? Presbytery is too Tyrannical 
 for thefpirit of 'an Independent to bear. TheStomack Somewhat of 
 of That Party would not brook it, and fo they caft it an accomoda- 
 up again: For there is, though a ^'^»^^>^t,{ptp^;f 3< ^^ 
 what of a Practical, and dccomodxble Generosity in that pendens. 
 Party. But are not you aware, Gentlemen, that the 
 
 F worfe 
 
i 
 
 worfeyou fpeak of tliefe people, the greater is your 
 Condemnation ; for making the Eyifcopal Party ftill, 
 more Infupport able then 77*/e,atthe very IVorfil 
 
 Ri. [ Wa j/ wr Perfecution, i*i«i awry Anabaptifts *»*£ Se- 
 prcsbyc°c?hns paratifts made fitch workjn England, Scotland, W Ireland, i* 
 pcrfecuted by Cromwells time , and after, as they did} when fo ?nany were turned 
 the Army, for out of the Univeriities for «or Engaging, md fo many out of the 
 notjoyning Magiftracy, WCorporation-Priviledgc?? jfa/ when an Ordi- 
 againft the ^^ vr^ made to caft oat all' Alimftcrs who would not pray for the 
 fuccefs of the Wars againft Scotland, or that would not give God 
 thanks for their Vittories. When I have heard them profefs, thai 
 there were many Thoufand Godly men y that were kill d at Dunbar ( to 
 inftance in no other ) andyet WE were all by their Ordinance to be 
 cafloHt, that would not give God thanks for This. Clu Div. Pa. 
 256. 1668. What more harfh krnde of P erf e cm ion could there be then 
 OH the perfe- to force men to go Hypocritically to God againft their Qonfciences, and 
 cation of for- ta fy on them to beg for the Succefs of a War which they Judged Vn- 
 cingmena- i aw f H u, a nd to return him a Publk\Counterfeit Thanks for Blood- 
 Co^cicntes. fhed;yca, for the blond of Thwfands ? &c. Ibid. 
 
 But fo long as &- Ctaty See taThis Brethren, that none of you fufferas an 
 th«y do not evill-doer ; as a bufy-Body in other mens Matters ; as a Refifter 
 fufferastyil- f the Commands of Lawfull Authority •, as Ungratefull to 
 *°**> Thofe that have been InJtruments ofour Good ; as evill-Speak- 
 
 ers againft Dignities; as Oppofers of the Difcipline, and Or- 
 dinances of Chrift *, as Scornfull Revilers of your Chriftian Bre- 
 thren ; as Reproachers rf a Laborious, Judicious, Confcien- 
 tious Miniltry^ &c. Saints Reft. Pa-. 151. 
 
 Mo. You do not fpeak I fuppofe of the Seven or 
 35R5J Eight and Twenty Catlxdralls that were Defaced ; The 
 prcfle the 115. Mi nift en- forced out of their Livings within the 
 
 churchand Bills of Mortality : nor of the Hiftory of Querela Can- 
 all that love it. , . . r . ~, J , . „ r - 1 r 
 
 ubttgienfts. You accounted it no Perjecutwn the for- 
 cing of men to Pray for the Succefle of a Rebellion 
 againft their Sovereign ; and to give God thanks for 
 the Victories over the King* and the Loyal Aflertors 
 of his Majefties, and the Churches Rights and Go- 
 vernment. As 
 
(35) f* 
 
 As for you, Mr. Btxtcr, yonr *Coun(ell is very Mr. £*<*»• 
 good, if it were not that in the D^w/iw, and Lawful! £[o"n th u c pon 
 Pavers you have plac'd the Crown upon the mrwz* A<W : the wron* 
 anddireSedan Obedience to the FacJton, in iteadof Hcid * 
 the King : after your ufual Method of Crufbing the One, 
 to Advance the GrAer . But it will be a hard matter I The King de- 
 believe to convince you that the Presbyterians de- p£ $ £ d t ^ an£ 
 ftroy'd the King, and that they did it as Presbyte- tsVclbytSI- 
 rians too, though I reckon it to be very eafily Proba- ans » 
 ble both from their Praftifes, and P^/mr. And TTiis 
 I ftiould not at This time have made the Queftion, 
 but that your felf Mr. Baxter, have been plealed to 
 bring it upon the Carpet. 
 
 'Ba. £ The Generality of the Orthodox, Sober Minifiers, and The Loyalty . 
 Godly people of This Nation, did never confent to King-Kil- * ?**?*' , 
 ting, zndReMtingSovereign Power, nor to the Change of the ^^fiS 
 jintient Government of this Land. But they have been True to 
 their Allegiance, and Detefters of llnfaithfullneft and Ambi- 
 tion in Subjects *, and Refiftcrs of Herefy and Schifme in the 
 Church, and of Anarchy, and Democraticall Confufions in 
 the Common- wealth. R.B. Sermon before the Commons, Anno. 
 jo. 1660. P4.44. 
 
 Ri. his mofi certain Brother, that we did never direSfly Con-fovj^jfaj,. 
 fent, ( a/you fay ) But Vnhappily there hath been a difference among jeft to the 
 us which is the higher Power, when Tbofe that have their Share in Higher powr- 
 the Sovereignty, are divided; But whether we fljould be Sabjetl f*?^".' 11 ?. 1 !*" 1 
 the higher Power, is no qiteJUwwithw. ibid. 45. £|£ W 1C 
 
 Mo. If by your Orthodox, Sober Minifiers yoxi mean, 
 the Efifcofal Divines, your Aflertion holds good, or 
 'wizUttcrallConflruclion either ; but if you intend the 
 Non-Conformifis, under thele Two Efithets of Ortho- 
 dox, an&Sober ; What do ye think of Mr, Manton, AnEvenfcorc 
 Qalamjj Cafe, Douglas, Burton, Herle, Goodwyn, ft be £ h ° dox 
 mocUotk, Brooks, Bridges, Marshall, Cocky*, Fair- rL,mne ^ 
 
 F 2 fatty 
 
clatby Saltmarjb, Sterry, Stricilnnd, Newcomen? And 
 for Brevity fake, .j*\ 0. Z/ 7 ". ?. and #£& fhall make 
 them up an even lcore. Icvuld fhew ye how thefc 
 Reverend Authors have traced the Kjng killing Catsfe,. 
 from the very Egg to the Appik ; ( as; they fay)Preach , d 
 the ]Za}vf?fffyefi.ol the W^r..; the People. ^into a Rebtlli- 
 on^ the AT^j /■/«# to the L7^/; • and then Jufti- 
 fy'd all when they had done. And yet who but 
 thefe men of Bloud, to Quarrel! wi'th the Govern- 
 ment, becaufe they cannot get themfelves Privi- 
 ledg'd above the Peaceable and Obedient: Sons of the 
 Church? 
 
 The lift What c '° > e thInk of tllC Author M QZLEUSMA ; 
 
 KingiblouJ that told the Commons in a Sermon >S>/tf."2 5. 1656. 
 
 notVaiu'd at £ Ti iat t } le Remove of Prelatical Innovations' Coun- 
 
 a Ceremony, j^^ f or the Bloud and trcafiire (Led and Ipent in 
 the Late Diftra&ions : 2 & oot this perfon now with 
 his Clamor ad Ccelam^ a very hop full Solicitor for a Se- 
 cond Reformation ? He that has Solemnly declared, that 
 
 [ 3f tljeaae^mpofing of Ceremonies; 
 cottinijatoe -b^a-s'tjt ti)e fLateBtng to 
 %ift again, i)e»)oulDneDer Ijabe yteii 
 
 BeD tOtt*~] At the Rate of Computation, why 
 fliall not a Ceremony at this day? out- weigh the Life of 
 the Sony as Formerly it did That of the father ? 
 But what needs more proof then the very Order 
 ^ I of Aug. 10. 1543. F° f l ' je AlTembly^Divines to Ji imp 
 the People to rife for their Defence I 
 
 There is another perfon alfo who is engaged itf 
 Thisprefent Controverly, to whom I would gladly 
 Recommend a due Consideration of this following 
 Extrad. . 
 
 [When 
 
[When Kings Command Unrighteous things, T hc Kings 
 and people fuit them with willing Commplyance, MunhejufU- 
 none doubts but the definition of them both, is Juft^rft w 
 and Righteous ] s/Fa(l Sermon to the Honfe of Commons % committed. 
 fan. 31. 1648. ft*. 5. 
 
 He that is Entrufted with the Sword, and' dares 
 notdo Julfice, on every one that dares do Jnjufticc, 
 is affraid of the Creature, but makes very bold with-- 
 the Creator. Pa. 15. 
 
 [Tfie/C'^ofthe Earth have given their Power An cftrfH** 
 to AntiChr/fl. How have they earnd their Titles ^KingsAW- 
 EldeftSonoftheChuach; The Catholiek, and moft C^i- Chrillianiz>dt 
 ft tan Kjng ; Defender of the Faith ; and the Like. Hath 
 it not been by theBloud of Saints ? is there not ine- 
 very corner of Thefe Kingdomes, the Slain and the. 
 Panifn'dones of Chrifl: to Anfwer for? J Eift Ser- 
 mon of Apr. 19 > 1649. Pa. 22. Do not the Kings of all car 
 thefe iVaticns (land up in the Room of their Progeni- 
 tors ; with the fame Implacable Emnhytp the Poiver. 
 oftheGofpelf'PvL. 22. 
 
 'There are Great and Mighty Works in hand, F£f AXdfcaidii 
 this Nation. Tyrants are punifh'd ; the Jaws of Op, 4 ^^ r ^ 
 preflbrs are broken; bloudy Revengefull people i^'Dcfetit " 
 Wars, difappointed, A ' ihtnkf giving Sermon for the ]Xo <* c P cr * - 
 Scots defeat at Worceffer, Gcfo y 24. 165 1. P. 2. 
 
 [ What is This Prelacy ? A mcer Antichriftian En- ^^ i;rU 
 croachment upon the Inheritance of Chrifl:, P.:. 5. 
 
 [_ A Monarchy of fome hundred years continuance, APe ,v it 
 allways affecting, and at length wholly degenerated umpfcingovai • 
 into Tyranny h dpftrov'd, pull'd down. SwalWd up a %H sthcJ *: 
 a great mighty Potentate tnat had cauied terrour hfcit 
 in the Land of the Living, and laid his Sword under 
 his -head, brought to Punimment for Blood, P, 6. 
 
'aU calling C If any perfons in the World had caufe to fing 
 theKingTy- t he Song oi Mofes, and the Lamb, We have this day. 
 The Bondage prepared for us was both in Spirituals, 
 and Temporalis, about a Tyrant full of Revenge^ and a 
 Difcipline full of Perfection, hath been our Conteft : 
 whethfer the Yoke of the One and the Other, fhould 
 by the Sword and Violence, be put upon our Necks, 
 and Confciences, is our Controverfy, Pa. 7. 
 
 AreTicfcFic Is it not a Prodigious boldnefs for fuch Spirits as 
 
 um^/nd Thefe, to obtrude themfelves, either upon the Go- 
 
 Pw«* vernment, or the People, as men of Scruple, and the 
 
 moft competent Agents for the Promoting oiVnitj, 
 
 and Peace? And you your felf Mr B*xter,ha.V€ not 
 
 been out neither at this great work of Reforming 
 
 Confufion, as your own Confeflions in fbme meafure, 
 
 but your Converfation and Writings do Abundant* 
 
 ly bear Witnefs. 
 
 Kicbavd True Mr. Richard here I muft confefs, furnifhes you 
 
 buthcmSfjok y %t h a &&0*hat IgMtiow Loyola himfelf would have 
 
 uheKins. blufh'd at. You were ever True to the King, you fay, 
 
 but you did not know IVkowas KJ n g- Some would 
 
 have him to be where he was NaT, and Others would 
 
 net allow him to be where he WAS. Sir, This do- 
 
 ftrine might have done well enough in a Pulpit at 
 
 Coventry, when you were helping the Lord againfl the 
 
 Mighty ; but from fuch a Rejlauration-Sermon, the Lord 
 
 deliver us \ There is firjl not one word ofRcJloring the 
 
 Kingxvit, though it was a Fajt that had a Particular 
 
 Regardto That Debate, 2. It AfTerts the Loyalty of the 
 
 £ni*Sixbicet, Presbyterians, and yet at the fame time, fuppofes the 
 
 and wor fc ' SuprensePotver in the Two Houses, which, in few words 
 
 Pieibytcry, makes the Late King both a Subject, and ( with Reve- 
 
 withouta rence )a Rebell. 3. The Setling of the Presbytery, for 
 
 ^ d the f ^r that's allways the Engiilh of their SOUND DO- 
 
 CTKIN£ 
 
 Baxters Re. 
 
 flau ration 
 Sermon. 
 Afferts the 
 Presbyterian 
 Loyalty. 
 Makes the 
 
 ring the King. 
 
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 CTRINE, andCHURCHGOrERATAfENT^ Pa. 46.) 
 is violently preftasthe firft thing to be done. Give 
 FIRsTto God, the Things that are Gods. 43. with 
 a Pharifaicat Often tation of the ConfcionaUe, Prudent, 
 Godly, People of the Land, Pa. 46. in oppofition to 
 the Prophane. You could not do any thing in the 
 world more to*obftru£t his Nlajeftys Return, and yet 
 youarepleafed to make this Sermon an Inftance of 
 your Zeal to advance it. 
 
 * Ri* [The Parliament did not ralfe War againfi the Perfon or TheWar rai* ^ 
 Authority of the King, nor did I ever ferve them on any fitch Jc-forKing and 
 count: but to defend thcwfelv'es againfi the Kings Mif-guided will. Par' ia rent. 
 Holy Common- Wealth. Pa. 476. Their Commiffons, (all that 
 ever 1 J aw) were for King and Parliament. We had Two Pro- 
 teftati©ns> and a Solemn League and Covenant Imposed upon 
 the Nation, to be for King and Parliament, And if Declarations, •fljfir Oaths 
 Profejfions, Coitmiffions, and National Oaths and Covenants will & Covenant* 
 not tell us, what the caufe of the War was, thin there u no Difco- J V€1 J faft , and 
 very. Ibid. Pa. 477. fure> ' 
 
 Mo. Thefe Commtffions, Oatbes and Covenants tell Tke pre:e« 
 you the Pretext of the War, but you muft go to their ^^™*!\ ha 
 Proceedings \ and Practices to find the Caufe of it. The cauie,Ambi- 
 Two Houfes Seize the Kings Towns, Magazins, Forts, tfon - 
 and Shipping. They violently take the Militia, into Th* Loyal 
 their own hands; Vote an Ordinance of Both Houfes p ^ csb y, cetiiE *- 
 as binding as an Act of Parliament. Declare his Ma- " c £ ap^i.. 
 jeftys Commiflions Voyd, Iflue out Orders for Se- 
 curing the Kingdome : Vote the Maintaining of a 
 War, and the Seizing of his Majeftys Magazins;Se* 
 quefter the Church and Crown Revenues : and jufti- 
 fy all thefe Injuries, as done in pursuance of their 
 Protejlations,znd Covenants, and This is your way nowr 
 of being FOR the King. Suppofethat any man had 
 beaten you, and Plundredye, andlmprifon'd ye, and 
 atbus'd youx Friends for your fake, and a body fhould 
 
 te;B 
 
4<r u°") 
 
 ' tell you all this while that this man was TM Mr; 
 
 The Two Baxter. If you were ra//y for the Kjng\ why would 
 
 ScKtagln" not For the ^~ m & accor dingto the Oath of Megtance 
 
 :U Covenant, do the bufinefle as welfas /*ar the King according to 
 
 the Covenant? Or how came you to Alienate y our 
 
 felf from his Majcjiies yfurifdiciino^ and to turh Subject, 
 
 to the TwoHonjes ? Who Abfolvd you from the Ctee 
 
 Hi oftbcCo- 0at/j y° v w h° Author is'dyow in the O/jSw ? or when you 
 
 vaunt King found that the Av^inthe Covenant clash'd with the 
 
 & the Ugal. /£/*£ in the O4/A QtAlfegeanee, \\ hy did you not rather 
 
 comply with the Law, then with the Ufnrpatwn ? For 
 
 it is Impofjtble to be TV//*? to ^?/£ latere (Is y under fb ma- 
 
 nifeft an Oppofition. You fee thi Colour of the War, and 
 
 I ihall not need to tell you that the Caufe of it was 
 
 Ambit/on, of Dominion, which was exerciied to the 
 
 iiigheft degree of Tyranny. 
 
 Richard holds R j t jf a People that by Oath and Duty are obliged to a Sovereign, 
 O.uhs to ny n.jf n Hy Jjfp ff : fs him. and contrary to their Covenants- chufe 
 Princes to be J .■> J J Jr . JJ , J , / , i i f j i i ■ t J. 
 
 Difpcnfable an< ^ Covenant with dAnotver ; they may be obliged by their Latter Co- 
 
 venants, mt\vithftandin<? the Former. Holy-Common- Wealth. 
 Pag. 1S8. 
 
 Bax/ej* holds Ba. That cannot be, my Friend - ? for we hold it [Impious 
 Oaths of Al- and Papal to pretend to abiblve Subjects from their Oaths to 
 legiance :o be tbeir Sovereign. Holy Com. Pa. 3 59. [ It is not in Subjects Pow- 
 irvJ.ifpenfable. er ^ ^ \; ows towith-draw themfelves from Obedience to Au- 
 thority. Nofi-Confor. Flea. P. 213. 
 
 Mo. But why can ye not now difpenfe with your 
 Covenants, as well as you did formerly with the 
 Oath of Allegeance I 
 
 ^tetheCo- Ri * ^^ of This Covenant is [againft Popery, Superfticion, 
 venantbind- arj d Profanenefs ,and all that is againft Sound Dotlrine and Gcd- 
 ing as it is a linejje^ &X. which the N on-Con f of mifls take to be Lawful and 2\£*- 
 Vow. cejfary things. Non-Coilf. Plea. lit. Part. P. 142. But the Con- 
 
 trover fy 
 
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 troverfy is not This, and That, but whether as a Vow made to 
 God, it binde to things Necejfary. P. 143. 
 
 Ba. Soft a little. This that you fpeak of is the League the League 
 and five?iam f not the ^iw, 2Xid Covenant . The Lrfttfr Was on-,and Covenant 
 ly aiJ^of Confederacy to ^i^tht parliaments Forces againft *?<* Vow an <* 
 tfae King ; and taken by the Lords ane Commons Jan. 6. 1673. cnanc - 
 and then Ordred Jan. 27. to be taken all over the Kingdome. 
 But the Other was Compofed afterwards and upon doling with 
 the Scots accomodated to the Scottijh Model, and Order'd, 
 Feb.2. 1643. to be taken throughout England and Wales, and J^" 6 "' : 
 Entitled, For Reformation, and Defence of Religion ; the Honour i^po^J 
 and Happinejs of the KING, &c. Q By this Covenant, you are 
 bound, not only to an Extirpation otBijhops, but to endeavour Bax *H r ' lsh j* 
 the Introducing of a Scottijh Presbytery. How can you then o ^° f ^ 0C 
 difpence with an Admittance of the Primates Epifcopacy, as h^if, ' ' 
 you propounded, in Contradiction to the Terms of that En- 
 gagement ? 
 
 Mo. Favour me with a word I pray'e. Did ye not Cove- 
 nant C to preferve and defend the Kings Majeftys Perfon, and Au- 
 thority ? ~\ 
 
 Ri. res, C in the Prefervation and Defence of the True The Cove 
 Religion. nam for the 
 
 King, quali^ 
 
 Sa. But in cafe of the Kings Oppofing it, we are ftill Ob- |^ or Rch ' 
 Jiged £ to continue therein, again ft all Oppofition, and to promote if the King be 
 the fame, according to oxr Power, againft all Lets, and Impediments againft Reii- 
 whatfoever. See the Covenant. gion the Co- 
 
 venant is a- 
 
 Mo. Let it fuffice Gentlemen that your Party deftroy'd the gainit him * 
 King*, it is no great matter How. 
 
 m 
 
 Ri. £ *As to the Death of the King, I have in the times of Vfur~ 
 pation, proved that the Presbyterians detefted it. That it was a Je Death of 
 Proud Conquering Army, by the Contrivance of Ol.Cromwell, W the King to 
 the applaufe of 4 Few Phanatiques that did it by the confent of a Oliver. 
 fmall care of the Old Parliament, called the Rump, that durft not 
 truftthe King in Power. Non-Conf. Plea. part. 2. Preface. 
 
 G <Ba. 
 
1 
 
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 *** ^dS 1 " ^' Prcthcc ^'^ s P cak tru th and fhame the Devil. What 
 
 ihe King. ' ^ we raire Armyes for ? And Attaque the King himfelf in the 
 
 Head of his Troops? Wee" 1 maintain TW, by our Principles, 
 
 and oy^pborifms. {_ War is not an Act of Government, but 
 
 Hoftility. Men are not in Reafon to be fuppofed to Intend 
 
 A d thev t ^ c * r k aemies G ooc ^ if they fight we are to b:lieve, they would 
 
 fougtut6kin»'JM : and Nature believeth not Killing to be an k&otFriend- 
 
 fljip. Holy Common-Wealth. Pa. 422. 
 Baxters Un- 1 do Urcfeignedly Repent that I did no more for Peace in my 
 feigned Re- Place then I did-, and that I did not pray more hearaiy againft 
 pentance. Contention, and War, before it came: and fpake no'more 
 againft it then I did ^ and that I fpake fo much to blow the 
 Coals. For This I dayly beg forgiveneife of the Lord, through 
 thePretious bloud of the Great Reconciler, The hatred of 
 ftrife, and War, and Love of Peace, ana Obfervaticn of the 
 Mi. Baxter Lamentable Mifcariages fince-havc caiPd me often to fearch my 
 confuted the heart, and try my ways by the word of God \ whether I did 
 *L°u d t Q, G o d Lawfully engage in That War, or not : ( which I was confi- 
 fagdicKin*. dent then, was the Greateft outward fervice that ever I per- 
 ' formed to God. And whether I Lawfully encouraged fo many 
 Thou lands to it. Holy Common-Wealth. Pa. 485 . 486* 
 Mr Baxter C But Y ct I cannot fee that I was miftaken in the main Cauie^ 
 would be the nor dare I repent of it, nor forbear tbe fame, if it were to do 
 famemanif again, in the fame-State of Things. I ihould do all I could to 
 anodei King p reven t fuch a War, but if it could not be prevented, Imuft 
 posM and *' ta ^ e the ^ ame ^ e as tnej ? * did. And my Judgment tells me, 
 Murthered that if I ihould do otherwife, I ihould be Guilty of Treafon or 
 Mr. Baxter difloyalty againft the SOVEREIGN POWER of the Land* 
 very cautious anc j f Perfidioufnefle to the Common- Wealth, and of prefer- 
 . r re f ona 'ring Offending Subjects, before the Laws, and Juftice •, and 
 Houfe! L ° the Will of the King above the fafety of the Common-wealth, 
 Baxter folk* and confequently above his own Wellfare. Ibid, And then for 
 
 fou\ upon BJ- you fo Impudently and Impertinently 
 
 chard. • 
 
 Tfae-Modera- Mo. Nay, let's haye none of this r Gentlemen I befeech 
 tor intcrpofes ye, why You Two are Old Acquaintances , Fellow-Labourers, 
 Fellow-Sufferers, and One Womans Children as we fay. — 
 
 Ba. I ffiall not eat my words I affure ye •, I may forget my 
 Baxter vindP felf perhaps, but I am not a man for Recantations. I fay again, 
 «ajtes Oliver. " that it was Impudently and Impcrtine* t'y done to reflect upon 
 
 Oliver. 
 
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 Oliver Cromwell^ as if he had done an III thing. M7 Holy Com- 
 mon-wealth Q was written while the Lord Protector ( Prudently, . , ; 
 Pioufly, Faithfully, to his Immortal Horrour, how ill foever ^f^^ 
 you have u(ed him ) did Exercife the Government. Holy tu i prince. 
 Commonwealth, preface to the Army. L And I have for born to 
 change any One Word of it all, that you may fee the worlt of my 
 lutendments. And that True Principles mil ft and in all Times, and 
 Changes, though to the fhame of thofe Changes that make bad 
 Times. Ibid. Thefe are my own words, and do you think that 
 I would ever have bellowed upon a deteftable wretch, the Epi- 
 thetes of PRUDENT, PIOUS and FAITHFUL? And again-, 
 IfO//wrhadnot been a Religious, and Gratious Prince, can Baxter pr^s 
 you Imagine that I fhould ever have treated his Son ^chard^J^^ 
 with this Complement? [We pray that you may INHERIT 1^1^™** 
 a Tender care of the Caufe of Chrift. Key for Catholiques, Ep. tie.y of his 
 Ded. which fhews both that Oliver had a Tendernefft for Chrifts Father. 
 Caufe', andneceflarily Implys that the G*#/Hie ^Managed was 
 the Caufe of Chrifl. 
 
 And then you muffle it again upon the Phanatiques, and the Thc p resb te _ 
 Eumpy that durft not trull the King with Power. Why prethee nans du- 
 what Power did we allow him . ? We took away his Arms and arm'd the 
 his Men, and his Money, andhisCredit, and his Towns, and ^ in S 5 and the 
 his Ships, and his Laws, and his Liberty, and all the Enfignes j^i^m."" 
 of Royalty : and the Maxims whereupon we fupported our Pro- 
 ceedings, did his befinefle. TheTwoHoufes and the Army 
 were no more then the Gun and the Ball ; The one gave fire 
 and the other kilPdhim. 
 
 Mo. Ut. Baxter; I fas you fay J you do Vnfeignedly Repent, Baxter x^ 
 that youjpakefo much Formerly to blow the (foals. Why are ye pents, and 
 blowing of them again ? Youcarry'd Thoufandsyou fay, into then repents 
 the War, and Engaged in it your felf, and would do the fame ° nb Repen- 
 thing over again upon the like Occafion : And your Judgment tance * 
 tells you that it were Treafon again ft the Sovereign Power of the 
 Land to do other wife. According to This -Doctrine, a Remnant 
 of the Lords and Commons may do as much to This King as 
 they did to his Father, and the Presbyterians Pulpks fhall ju- 
 ftifythe Prooceeding. You do Generoufly however to own 
 yourPolitions. But yet methinks you fhould have fbme re- 
 gard to the difmal Confequences that have enfu'd upon this 
 ►Controverfy. 
 
 G 2 Ba. I It 
 
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 Bauer thanks Ba. [ It were too great Folly, by Following ^Accidents, that 
 God for his were then unknown, for me to Judge of the Former Caufe. 
 Bi«flTings upon y| iat which Is Calamitous in the Event, is not all ways finfull in 
 ^^^"theEnterprize. Should the Change of Times make me forget 
 oTthc Rebel- tne State that we were formerly in, and Change my Judgment, 
 lion by lofing the fenfe of what then conduced to it's Enformation 
 
 This Folly and forgetfuUneffc would be the way to a finfull, and 
 not an Obedient Repentance. Nor can I be lb Unthankful as to 
 fay, for all the fins and Mifcarriages of Men fince, that we 
 have not received much mercy from the Lord : Holy Common- 
 wealth. Pa. 487. 
 TheBlcfled When GodlynefTe was the Common Scorn, the Prejudice, 
 Difference be- and fhame molt lamentably prevail'd to keep men from it, 
 twixt the Go- a nd fo encouraged them in WickednelTe : But through the great 
 vcrnment ot raerC y f God, many Thoufands have been converted to a Ho- 
 tlfcrmwf^ ll P ri g ht Life ^ proportionably more then were before, 
 fince the Reproach did ceafe, and the Prejudice was removed, 
 and Faithful! Preachers took the Place of Scandalous ones, or 
 Ignorant Readers. When I look upon the Place where I live, 
 and fee that the Families of the Ungodly are here one, and 
 there one in a ftreet, as the Families of the Godly were hereto- 
 fore ( though my own Endeavours have been too weak and 
 cold ) it forceth me to fet up the ftone of Remembrance, and 
 to fay C HITHERTO HATH THE LORD HELPED US. 
 Ibid. [_ Oh the fad, and Heart-piercing Spectacles that mine 
 Eyes have feen in four years fpace. [This was Jan. 15. 1649.3 
 \_ In this Fight, a dear Friend falls down by me : From ano- 
 ther, a Pretious Chriftian brought home wounded, or dead: 
 Scarce a month, fcarceaweek, without the fight or Noife of 
 Bloud. Saints Reft, P. 139. 
 
 VaxtersCcm- Mo. Here's firft a molt Eva ngelicall accompt of the blefled 
 fortableEffeas Effects of a Civill War : [The Propagation of Holynefe. And 
 of a Civill Then, a moft Remarkable Calculation of the date of your Ca- 
 w* r - lamities, which commences precifely from the Armies get- 
 
 Times h d ting the Afcendent of the Two Houfes, without any rcipecT: to 
 nil the Army ^ Outrages both upon the Church and State, while the Pref- 
 gotthe better, byterians Governed. 
 
 of the Two 
 
 Houfes Ri. Prafe will ye £ patiently read over the Reprefentation, or 
 
 Letter of the London Minifters to the Lord Generally Jan. 1 8. 1 648. 
 
 <lMq. Very 
 
z> •* 
 
 Mo. Very well, and fince you arc pleas'd to cafl: the Caufe, 
 and the Integrity of your Party upon That I flue, wee'l fee what 
 they fay. 
 
 Q c It is allready fufficiently known(befides all former Mifcar- London-Mmi- 
 < riages)what Attempts of late have been put in Practice agaiuft ^yS&S. 
 Lawfull Authority : Letter P. 3 . [ < This Lawfull Authority was a ncra i j an x { 9 
 L Fatlion <?/^TwoHoufes] Efpeciaily by the Late Remon-1648. 
 1 ftrance,and Declaration, publifhed in Oppofition to the Pro- The Armies 
 feedings in Parliament. £ Herfs the Crimen Ufa Majeftatis. ] CrilTie was ^ he 
 ' 1 As alfo by feizing, and Imprifoning the Kings Perfon with- t ° h p c P p^f ia . 
 < out the Knowledge, and Confent of Parliament. Ibid. ment,andlai- 
 
 £ Here's only a plain Seizure of the Kings Perfon, without the prjkiingthe 
 Parliaments Privity or Leave ; No Condemnation of the Thing it Kin Z without 
 felf, further then as it was done without his Mefters Confent. Nor^ e ' . 
 was the King more a Pr if oner in the hands of the Army, then he had J^J *^ ^ 
 been at Newcaftle, in the hands of the Presbyterians. ] Kings Perfon: 
 
 1 But now they come to Q That late Vnparall'd violence offer'd to But an Vnpa* 
 'the Members of it-, forcibly hindring above one hundred ofvalleVd Pi Qr 
 i them ( if we miftake not the Number ) from fitting in •NdSa^JJ^ffJ^f 
 c ment: Imprifoning many of their Perfons •, though many of ^^Hoiife! 
 1 them are known to us to be men of Eminent worth, and Inte- Being men of 
 ' grity *, and who have given molt Ample Teftimony of their Eminent 
 c Real Affection to the good of the Kingdome. Ibid. W(mh andIn " 
 
 ° tegnty. 
 
 Pray'e take notice, that it was upon the Members, an Un- 
 parallel'd violence ; upon the King, no more then a Simple Sei- 
 zure *, and methinks they might have beftowed fome kind Epi- 
 thete upoa his Majefty, as well as upon the Eminent and Worthy 
 Members. But 'tis only the bare King •, and That's AIL 
 
 E c And befides Ail This, £ There is an Intent of Framingand 
 1 contriving a New Model, as well of the Laws, and Govern- 
 1 ment of the Kingdom, as of the Conftitution of a new kind of a Famous 
 * Reprefentative. All which Practices we cannot but Judge, to Remnant, the 
 4 be manifeftly oppoftte to the Lawfull Authority of thofe Maje- Magiftrates 
 «• Urates which God hath fet over us \ and to the Duty and Obe~ JJ-Jjj^^J* 
 dience, which by the Laws of God and man, and by our mani- 
 1 fold Oaths, and Covenants, we ftand obliged to render to 
 'them. Ibid. 
 
 You 
 
 er 
 
 as. 
 

 f-2_ (4 6 ) 
 
 - *thcLonJon> You are not aware, Mr. Richard, that to Jufttfy the Do- 
 
 d^o^ittk' ^ rine of thefe Letters falis ver Y little ftort of Juitifying down- 
 leffeThen" 6 right Treafon; unlefle you can (hew a Law that places the Su- 
 Treafon. preme Power in the Two Houfes. 
 
 GodsOrdi- ['The Fear of God therefore, (whofe Ordinance is violated, 
 nance violated c wnen \jsgjftracy is oppofed ) makes us affraid of medling with 
 ftrcvifo?- ■' Tnoie wno without an y Colour of Legal Authority, meerly 
 pos\i c l1 P on tne Prcfumption of ftrength, (hall attempt fuch Changes 
 
 < as thefe are. And we cannot but be deeply Afle&ed with 
 The divines c Grief and Aftonilhment,to fee that an Army raifed by Autho- 
 kf^Godw C rity of Par ^ amcnt > for tne Preservation of the Priviledges 
 an Ordinance" ' tliereo ^ and of our Religion, Laws,and Liberties, (hould con- 
 ofthe Two i trary to their Trait, and many engagements, do That which 
 Houfes. c tends to the Manifeit fubverfion of them All. P. 4. 
 
 None of Pray'e where was the Fear of Cod, when the King was op- 
 
 thefefcruples p fed ? what Legal Authority had. the Two Houfes over his 
 IhcKng. Majefty, mor: tiun the Army had over the Two Houfes ! Or 
 by what Law did That Parliament raife That Army . ? 
 
 Thepresbyte- C We have not forgotten thofe Declared Grounds and Prin- 
 rians True to cipies, upon which the Parliament firft took up Arms : 3ndup- 
 theFidion n which we were induced tojoyn with them : ( from which wp 
 tromthebe- } iaV e not ^/Vkrta declared, and we truft through Gods Grace, 
 ginn ns> we NEVER SHALL. ) P*. 5. 
 
 The Standard We have here in kw words, the Judgment, and the Re r oIu- 
 
 t f iesl l y " tlon or * tne Presbyterian Divines, aud the ftandard of their 
 
 whyaotYs a 'Loyalty, from the Lips of the very Oracle of the Party. I 
 
 tender of a wonld fain know now which was the fouler breach of Truft, 
 
 breach of That of the Two Houfes toward his Majefty, to whom both by 
 
 Truft, accor- Law and Conference they w 7 ere obliged, ( befldes fo many Gra- 
 
 a C °Jr Wj ' tious Conceffions ) or that of the Army, to the Two Houfes J 
 
 sagai it?, The one beinglikethe Robbing of an Honeft man, and the o- 
 
 ther, the Pillaging of That Thief: Over and above that the 
 
 Army was Trayn'd up in the Trade of turning out their 
 
 Matters. 
 There was no 
 
 ^heKing I ' And mo^over ; although the PARL1 AMENT thus took 
 of his Legal ( up Arms for the defence of their Perfons & Priviledges^and the 
 ~Rigbu Prefervation 
 
o 5 
 
 (47) 
 
 'Prefervation of Religion, Laws, and Liberties \ yet was it not 
 • 4 their Intention, thereby to do violence to the Perfon of the 
 4 ic"ing,or divelt him of his Regal Authority, and what of'Hjght 
 belongeth to him. Pa. 7. 
 
 Do but mew me now any one EfTential of Sovereignty which But he hzA 
 riiofe people left him, if they could take it away, and I will be a R^h "> 
 aniwerable to forfeit my head for't. But ftill it is but wkzt n f ozhin Z zhcn > 
 I 'f^kk 1 belongeth to him j and That's* Salvo for all the a°Uway. 
 Violences Imaginable. 
 
 [< Wedifclam, deteft, and abhor the Wicked, and bloiidy The Prcsby- 
 ^Teuents, and Practices of Jefuks ( the whrft of Papifts ) Con- t « flanf tel1 U5 
 'cerningtheoppofing of Magiftrates, by Private perfons,and | e ^ i a / en ° 
 « the Murthering of Kings by any, though under the niofr ipeci- ' U1 " 
 c ous, and Colourable Pretenfes. Pa. 11. 
 
 . This is All, which upon that defperate CW/'w of State was , 
 
 faid for that Pious and unfortunate Prince.- the faving of the ^^^^ 
 King, being (if any) Incomparably the leaft part of .the Mi-. t he whole 
 nifters bufmefs. Befide that the dethroning of him vvas more Letter, 
 Criminal then the beheading of him. And in fuch a cafe, it 
 would have been no longer a Murther, when they ihould once 
 havevotedtheFa&tobe aaExecutionof Juftice* 
 
 £ c We defire (Say they) that you would not be too Confident The Ann/ 
 4 on former fuccelTes. If God have made you profper while in Gods way 
 < yon were in his way, this can be no Warrant for you to walk w::il f, thc L 
 4 in ways of your Own. P. 1 2. Q So that the Old Qaufe is GodsfitH^ {he^relbyle- 
 4 to this very day. J r f ans .- 
 
 * And befides ; Q you have engaged your felves by an Oath to Sworn to pre- 
 4 preferve his Majeftys Perfon, and the Priviledges of Parlia- fc j7 e hi ^ ^ a ~ 
 4 ment •, and This is molt clear, that no Neceflity can jultify ^d FriWied^ 
 1 Perjury, or difpenfe with Lawfull Oaths. Pa. 15. geVofParli- 
 
 amenr. 
 
 I mould be glad to know now, how you came to be abfolv'd Wfco abfolv'd 
 of the Oath of Allegiance, or how you can honeftly pretend tke Presb £ te ~ 
 to Stand up for any Interejc, fthat renders the King Accounta- fo ^^5 
 ble to his Subjects* 
 
 *Ba. C Yet ifl-had taken up Anns againlt the Parliament f erv ^ :he ! dns 
 
 in 
 
r^f 
 
 (48) 
 
 he had been a in That War, my Confcience tells me 1 had been a Traytor, 
 Traytor. and Guilty of Refifting the Htghefi Powers. Holy Com. Pa. 43 3* 
 
 Mo. At This Rate, the King was a Traytor on the other 
 fide. 
 
 Baxters Holy Ba. Why do yon cite the Holy Common Wealthy fo often f for 
 
 Com. wealth, \ have defired that the Book be taken as non Scripts. Non-Con. 
 
 to te taken H pUa 2 . p j 
 
 Xson-ScYtftus. r J 
 
 A Hrft, not a Mo. And would not any Malefactor that were deprehend- 
 Recantadon. ed in the manner, fay as much as this amounts to ; and wifh that 
 
 the thing might be taken as Non Fattum? This is rather a Shifty 
 
 then a Retractation. 
 FortheApho- And then again-, it is a wonderfull thing that you fhoukl 
 rifmswer* overlhootyonr felf fo much upon a Subject that was exprefly 
 \%ft ainft ^ Sdted t0 the dmar;ds -> and dmhts rfTheJe Times, 3 Holy Com. Pa. 
 the King!" 1 102 - That i s t0 ^ a Y 1 The Reftoring of the King was the 
 
 point then in Agitation, and out comes your Book of Aphorisms 
 
 exprefly to pollefle the People againft it. 
 
 Baxters Kc- Sa ' ^Y ouwou ^ have a Recantation more in Form, Q I do 
 carnation, " ^ ere freely Profefs that I repent of all that ever I thought, Sayd, 
 Wrote, ordid,finceI was Born, againft the Peace of Church 
 or State, Againft the King, his Perfon, or Authority, as Su- 
 preme in himfelf ; or as Derivative in any of his Officers, Ma- 
 giftrats,or any Commiffioned by him. id Admonition to Bag- 
 jhaw. Pa. 52. 
 
 A Repentance Mo. This Mockjkepentaneeisz Trick that will notpafs ei- 
 thatwillpaffe therupon God or Man The Kings Headfman might have 
 
 Q^ r # "^ n Saydas much, and yet account that execrable Office a meri- 
 torious work. You are at your Fafi Sermon again ; Always Obe- 
 dient to the Higheft Powers, but divided fome where about the 
 Receptacle of the Sovereignty. You ask God forgivenefle 'for all 
 that ever you Thought, Sayd, Wrote, or Did, againft the King, 
 and the PMick-Peace. And what fignifies This Repentance, 
 fo long as you perfift in maintaining, that all the violences act- 
 ed upon the Perfon, Crown and Dignity of his Sacred Majefty, 
 in the Name of the King and Parliament, were not AGAINST 
 the King, but FOR him, This is All, but the Hypothecs of a 
 
 Tranfgreflion. 
 
(49) - 
 
 TranfgrefHon. Lord forgive me all that ever I did amifs. That 
 is to fay, if ever I did any thing amifs. But I charge my felf with 
 no Particulars. Why do ye not Touch the The/is that you con- 
 demn j and fay This, That, and tother Aphorifme I Renounce ? Nay, 
 why do ye not Reform and Correct your miftakes, and ftate 
 the matter aright, toward the bringing of Thefe people into 
 their Wits again, that have been Intoxicated by your falfe 
 Doctrine, and PoyfonM from your very Pulpit ? 
 
 Ba. [ If you Quarrell with my Repentance as not In Parti- Bauer Ra- 
 cuUrs enow •> I anfvver you, that as in the Revocation of the Tons why his 
 Book, I thought it bell to Revoke the whole, ( though not as Re- Repentance is 
 trailing all the Doctrine of it ) becaufe if I had named the Par- ^Particular 
 ticular PafTages, fome would have faid I had mentioned too Few y 
 and fome too many, and few would have been fatisfi'd. Admon. 
 to Bagfnaw. Fag. 53. 
 
 Mo. You have MarkM ^Revoke, ] and £ Xetracl"} with an Mr. Baxter* 
 Emphatical Character, to give to Underftand, that you do not ?***«■*• 
 
 Retract, though you do %evoke , and you have put them 
 in ItaUque, to mew that there lies a ftrette upon Thofe two s 
 Words. Ton Revoke the whole [ Book ] you fay, not as Retract- 
 ing all the T> oclrine of it: If by Revoke you mean Call in, or Sup- 
 press •> you might as well call back your Breath again, as the ve- 
 nome that was diffufed by thofe Aphorifms. And then to fay 
 that you do not [ Retratl All the Doctrine of it ] does not ne- A jcfuitifm. 
 ceflarily Imply, that youRetiact any part of it. Or if you do, 
 your Repentance is yet Frivolous, for want of diftinguifhing 
 the Right from the Wrong-, that your Difciples may not take 
 the One from the Other. 
 
 Your Apprehenfioniudeed of faying too much, or too little if For fear of too 
 you ftiould come to Particulars, is very Reafonable : For to M . uch or t0 ° 
 pleafe the Lovers to their Prince, Church, and Countrey, you ^"^ ^ 
 mult not leave one Seditious, or Schifmatical Principle behind fetes juftno- 
 ye. But then on the other fide, if you come to pronounce the thing at all 
 Levying of Arms, the making of a Great Seal, and Exercifing 
 other Acts of Sovereignty, without, anc] againft the Kings 
 Commiflion, to be HighTreafon by the Eftablifhed Law, you 
 are loft to all Intents and Purpofes, with your own Party. So 
 that for fear of difobliging the One fide or the Other, by Con- 
 
 H felling 
 
 $>? 
 
&r 
 
 ( 5° ') 
 
 fefllfig too much, or too little, you have refolved upon the 
 middle way of confeffing juft nothing at all? 
 
 Mr. Baiter Ba. [ I do Repent ( again ) that I no more difcouraged the 
 proceeds in fpirit ol peevifh Quarrelling with Superiours, and Church-Or- 
 lis repentance der$ . an d (though I ever difliked and oppofed it, yet ) that I 
 He fiver oWo- Sometimes did too much Encourage fuch, as were of this Temper, 
 jrtjbwhathe byfpeaking too (harplyagainft Thofe things which I thought 
 fomctimes en- to be Church-Corruptions : and was too loth to difpleafe the Con- 
 cmraged. tentious, for fear of being Uncapable of doing them good, 
 ABi«erjfin. ( k now j n g t he Prophane to be much worfe then They ) and 
 
 meeting with too few Religious perfons, that were not too 
 
 much pleafed with fuch Invectives. Ibid. 
 
 Mo. This Claufe of Repentance, is every jot as much a 
 Riddle to me as the former. You did not fufficiently dtfeourage 
 the fpirit of Quarrelling with Superiours. £ Which fpirit you 
 your felf Raifcd. ] You were a little toofharp upon what you 
 B'svery Re- thought to be Church- Corruptions, [So that here's a Bit, and a 
 pentances are Knock, Yqu were a little toofiarp ; but it was againft Corrupn- 
 QiUimnies. on$ ; n the church ; Your very Repentances are Qalumnies. But you 
 were willing to oblige a Contentious Religious Party that was 
 pleafed with Invectives, you could have done them no good 
 elfe. And what good I befeech ye did you do them by it, but 
 miflead, and confirm them in Principles of Difobedience/ on- 
 ly you confider'd you fay, that the Prophane were much worfe 
 'then the Other. 
 HeRepents What is the reafon that Mr. Baxter will be perpetually thus 
 andRelapfcs Inconfiftent with himfelf \ Firft you Repent for no more Dif- 
 in the fame cow-aging, and then ( by a fide wind ) for Encouraging; and be- 
 mwo.., f ore t j ie Repentance is out of your Mouth, you are at it again, 
 with your CHU^CH-CO^UPTIONS, and your oppofition 
 of the PROPHANE forfooth to the godly, to Enflame the Di- 
 vifion, and to Harden the Non-Con for miffs in their DifTent. 
 Prophannefs Now as t0 y° ur Stigmatizing Character of Prophane, There is 
 mi Habit, zndzPerfonal Prophaneneffe, and there is a ProphanenefTe of^ffbei- 
 w Confpiracy ation, and Confederacy. There are many men I know, that 
 have gotten fo diabolical a Habit of Swearing, Curling and 
 Blafpheming the holy name of God, that they can hardly 
 fpeak Ten words without an Oath, or a Curfe: This is without 
 difpute a moft abominable Sin : 7 But itiswithalifo Difagree- 
 
 able, 
 
( 5 .) *) 
 
 able, and fo offenfive, that it gives a man a Horrour for the 
 Imitation, and Practice., of To Unprofitable, and fo Monftrous a 
 Crime j and though it be a grievous Wkkednefs, it is not of fo 
 dangerous an Example. But what fay you to Sacramental 
 Leagues againft Order, and Law ? To the forcing of a whole 
 Nation either to Swear or ftarve ? to the calling God into a A Covenant 
 Confpiracy againft Government and Religion ? To the Rob- ^^$5** 
 bing of Altars \ demolishing of Temples •, dethroning of Kings \ then a p^ 
 degrading of Bifhops? &c. And all This, in the Name of the ml 
 moft High God, and with hands held up unto the Lord. But go on 
 with your Repentance. 
 
 Ba. Q I do Repent ( alfo ) that I had not more Impartially He repents 
 and dilligently Confulted with the beft Lawyers that were a- that he did 
 gainft the Parliaments Caufe, (for I know of no Controverfy n ° ta(ivife 
 in. Divinity about it, but in Politiques and /,aw and that I w " h Lawyers. 
 did not ufe all poflible means of full Acquaintance with the 
 Cafe. Ibid. 
 
 E And that for a little while the Authority of fuch Writers 
 as Mr. Richard Hooker, Lib. I. Ecclef. Polit. and Bifhof Bilfon, An Invidious 
 and other Epifcopal Divines did too much fway my Judgment ^Awter"'" 
 toward the Principles of Popular Power. 
 
 t And feeing the Parliament Epifcopal, and Eraflian ; and not 
 hearing when the War began, of Two Presbyterians amongit 
 them all, nor among all their Lord Lieutenants, Generalls, 
 Major Gcneralls, or Colonelb, till long after; I was the Eafi- 
 lyer drawn to think, that Hookers Political Principles had been 
 commonly Received by all -, which I difcerned loon after upon 
 ftrite Enquiry, to be Unfound, and have my felf written a 
 Confutation of them. Pa. 53. 
 
 ±Mo. This way of Dodging, in one of the Prophane ( as jcfuftical 
 you ftile us ) would have been Jefuitical. Here's only a bare Dodging^ 
 wifh that you had made a ftri&er Enquiry* into the Caufe, but 
 no Acknowledgment that you were in the Wrong. And again, 
 Ifyouknewofno Controverfy in Divinity about it*, why are 
 all your Writings Huffed with fuch a Huddle of Texts for Obe- 
 dience to the Two Houfes ? What did you fearch the Word of God 
 for, in the Cafe ? Holy Com. Pa. 486. 
 
 If you were milled by Mr. Hookers Firfi Bookjf BcclefiaJHcd 
 Polity in Favour of Popular Power -, why would ye not let him fet noi y Hook€r & 
 
 H 2 the 
 
himRiohtt© tne Ri&h tm your Ecclefiapical Politiques, and in your Duty to 
 
 theChunb,a$ the Authority, and Difciplinecf the Church, to make ye fome 
 
 veil as u rong amends ? the Bialfe which you will have him to take, in fa- 
 
 h th ^ tate - vour °f Popular Power, being not one jot to your purpofe, but 
 
 I j*°*crjpopur regarding only the Specification of Government, and not the 
 
 thine°to C Co°~ Fountain -> an< ^ wno ty Forrein to your Ptianfy of a Coordination : 
 
 ordination. Whereas That Great mans difcourfe in vindication of the £ites 
 
 and Injunctions- of the Church comes directly to your Point : 
 
 and (lands as firm as a Rock againit all the Infults of Calumny, 
 
 and Oppofition ; without anypretenfe to a Reply. But you 
 
 Baxters Wii- ^ er ^ e ^ ir * H°°h r in This, and the King himfclf and the Englifh 
 
 ting? are a &- flwgy in 0t ^ tr Cafes, asyou do the Bifhops in yonr Church- 
 
 reft Sa i yr up- Hftory : you turn over Indexes and Common- Places for matter 
 
 on Govern- f Reproach againft them, and then obtrude upon the World, 
 
 mm% the Frailties of fome, and your own moft Uncharitable mi- 
 
 ftakes of Others, for the Hiftory of the Orders, but net one 
 
 word of Their Virtues. ( It would make a black book, the 
 
 Story o£ the Presbytery drawn up at the fame Rate. ) It is your 
 
 way ftill, under a Pretext of advancing the Miftical Church, to 
 
 deprefs the Vifible^ and to put the people out of Love with 
 
 both Civill and Eccleftaftical Conftimions. 
 
 S'squarrolto &*- C Pr ay' e d° but obferve and fee of what manner ofper- 
 theVifible Ions the Vifible Church hath been Conftituted, in all Ages of 
 Church. the World, till now. In the firft Church, in Adams Family, 
 a Cain, In a Church of Eight perfons^ the Father and Paftor 
 overtaken with Grofle Drunkennefs, and one of his Sons was a 
 Gurfed Cham, In a Church of fixperfons, TwoofthemperinYd 
 ( in Sodom ( in the flames among the Unbelievers, and a Third 
 turn'd into a Pillar of Salt : The Two remaining Daughters, 
 committed Inceft. In Abrahams Family, an IJh mael ; in Ifaacks^ 
 axi Ef an i even Rebecca, and Jacob gnilty of deceitfull Equivo- 
 cation :, an Abraham and Jfaac deny'd their Wives to lave them- 
 feivesin their Unbelief. In Jacobs Family a Simeon and Levi % 
 that fold their, brother Jofeph. Of the Church of the Jfralites 
 in the Wildernefs but Two permitted to enter into the Land 
 ofPromife, &c. [The Ten Tribes were drawn by Jeroboam 
 to Sin, by fetting up Calves at Dan in Bethel, and making 
 Trie ft s of the Vile ft of the People ', and forfaking the Temple, and 
 the Trite Worjhip of God and the Lawfull Priefts. And thefe 
 LmfdlPriefts at fcrnf*lcm were Ravening Wolves and Greedy 
 
 Dogs* 
 
(53) 
 
 Dbgs, and carelefs, andcruell Shepherds. The falfc Prophets 
 who deceived the People were molt Accepted.] Ch Div. Pa. 35. 
 S6. 37. And ifyou runthrongh the Churches of Rome, Corinth, 
 Galatia, CAoffc, Ephefus, Pergamm, Thy aura, Sardps, Laodicea. : \ 
 Pa. 39. 40. 41 . yoiilefnde it to be the fame cafe. 
 
 Mo. But what's your end in all This > 
 
 *Pa. C Not to make Sin Iefs Odious, nor the Church or God- Thc Rea f on ^ 
 ly lefs Eiteemed: but to fhew you the Frame of the FifMe Church, ofB'sUnkind^ 
 in all Generations, and how it differeth from the Jemfh-, left nerstotheVi- 
 you mould take on you to be wifer then God, and to build his fibIe Chuxcfc 
 houfe after abetter Rule then his Gofpel and the Primitive 
 Pattern. Ibid. Pa. 36, 
 
 Mo. This is by Interpretation, The N on-Con for mi ft s aretfemakesDiP 
 tiie Invifible Church •, and the Epifcopall (flergy are the ^i/*»- renters the In- 
 ing Wolves, and the Greedy Dogs, and ali the Sons of the Church vifible Church 
 of England, are the Church Vifible, According to your molt ob- m i Co f%* 
 liging way of Allufion. But there's one thing 1 forgot. ^ " 
 
 You fay, the Presbyterians did not begin the War; which 
 with your Favour is a great miftake, and yet not a pin matter 
 to the cafe in Queftion ; whether they did or not. ©id not the 
 Kirkjead the Dance, and the Republican F aft ion m Englandipay p . t - .. 
 them their wages, and call them their Dear Brethren for their bcS/theWa^ 
 pains ? And then the Presbyterian war was denounc'd in the 
 Pulpit, and in the -Par liament-houfe too, long before the Repub- 
 lican broke out openly in the Field. What if the firffi Publick 
 Sticklers, were not at that time Declared Presbyterians f They 
 were yet in the Conspiracy againft Bifiops, though under another 
 Notion^ and quickly after they Lilted themfelves under That 
 very Profeflion, as the belt cover in nature for their purpofe -, 
 for That Schifme was never without a State-faclion in the Belly 
 on't. But nothing is more Notorious, then the Intelligence 
 that was held, from the Beginning, betwixt the Republican Ca+ 
 ball, and the Presby terian 'Divines ! The one drew the Bellowes, 
 and the Other Play 'd the Tune. And take notice Iikewife,That a Stare FaS]-. 
 Presbyterian wa&a mark of the Fattion rather then a note on as well as z, 
 af the Religion, and ufed in fintradiftinflion to Royallift. But Sch ^ me * 
 Pray'efinilh your Repentance. . 
 
 / Ba. For* 
 
fVsTmpha e Ba. For [ All the reft of my Sins in this buflnefs, which I 
 Repcmaacc. know not of Particularly, 1 do Implicitly and generally Repent 
 
 of, and ask of God to yve me a particular Converllon, &c. 1 
 
 Ibid 53. 
 
 B'i account Mo. If you have told all the Particulars you know of, your 
 fooncaftup. Account, Mr. "Baxter, is foon call; up. 
 
 You begin with aGenerall Suppofuion. All that everlThonvht, 
 Said, 6cc. Without any One Jnftance; or Acknowledgement*, if 
 you hadiayd, I have committed many Sins of This kind:, and of 
 That, it had been fbmething. 
 
 Your Second Branch of Repentance, is for no more difecur aging 
 
 fftvifiaiejft toward Superiors ; and Then fometimes too much 
 
 Encouraging it by being too Sharp your felf againft what you 
 
 ■A General took to be Church Corruptions. Why Sorry for no MORE dif- 
 
 Particular ^ couraging, when you were fo far from difcour aging at all, that 
 
 Repentance: on the Contrary, you Repent in the fame Period, for too much 
 
 Encouraging? This is, at the belt} but a Lame and zGenerall 
 
 PwWilmdP? PartlCHl * r Repentance. That which you make no more of then 
 
 the Spirit of Peeviflj Quarrelling ( as if the people had only pift 
 
 upon a Nettle ) you fhould have fpoken out, and cali'd it the 
 
 Spirit of Contumacy, and Rebellion. And what is it that you 
 
 charge upon your felf here, more then that you were a little 
 
 W-t!o mca t0 ° Mealy-mouth'd? But wher's your Vindication of the Church- 
 
 Jy-momh'd. Orders you mention? where's your Determination which are 
 
 the Right Superiors. Why do ye not tell 'the People that you 
 
 were miftaken in the Opinion of our Church-Corruptions \ and 
 
 Inftruft them in their Duties of Obedience to God, aud the King ? 
 
 Without fo doing, That which you call Repentance, is only 
 
 a Snare to the Multitude, and a Scandal to the Government. 
 
 Your next Pang of Repentance, is for not Confulting the 
 beft Lawyers that were againft the Parliament, more Imparti- 
 ally anddilligently then you did. 
 A Repentance Is This the Repentance, Mr. Baxter, of a Confeffbrl A Re- 
 without a pentose, without a Confeffion : an arrant peice of Artifice, and 
 fonftflion. Defign^ to put on the Difguife of a Recantation, and without 
 any charge ordifcharge ofConfcience, to keep in with Both 
 Parties. The Sin does not Ly in your not v4dvifing with Law- 
 yers concerning the State of the Controverfy, but in Plunging 
 your felf and Others into Blond, hand over head, contrary to 
 the Laws of God and man, without fomuch as confulting the 
 
 grounds 
 
(55) ^ l 
 
 grounds of the Quarrell. To theRoyallifts it looks like an excule 
 ofyourDifloyaltytotheKingi as who mould fay ^ T« true, I 
 ■was to blame: It was aVoyntof Law, and IjhotiU have taken better Aml »« abufe 
 Mvife upont. And if the Other Side accufe you as a defertor p^ t " cs ° 
 of the Caufe, you can acquit your felf There too, that you 
 have not Repented of any one Poynt to their Prejudice. If it 
 be not as I fay, and that you mean Good Faith, do but pub- 
 Jifhyour Loyalty to the World, in the manner,, or to theeflecT: 
 Following, and I'le ask your Pardon. 
 
 3 Do Declare, tijat tf)e %m$ ano Mr BWi 
 Commons SuTembleo in parliament, ™ 
 areftllltljeBtnsssubjeas, ano tljat it 
 is not Haltof nil f 01 tljem to eretcif e an? 
 
 #Ct Of Sovereign Power, 1fl)itlJ0ttt 0£ %t. 
 gainil t\yt Kings Command, Q% Confenr* 
 
 3 tio lineifoiTe oeclare tijat tl)e aaar, 
 &aifeo by tl)e pjetenoeo ^ntljojitv of 
 tf)e Hojos ano Commons in « 6 4 i 4 xuitl) 
 all t\)ti% £)joers, Romances, ano 
 Umpoutions in putCnance thereof, 
 ibere alfo unlaM ull . Sino tipat 2111 
 3tcts of $o&ili t? none bpXljem 01 ttjeir 
 ®lMt y againfttljeBing, 01 tl)e$ar= 
 tV Commffioneo ty l)im, outing tl)e 
 Commano of tUe €arl of Effex, were 
 SUts of tnuopaitp, ano ftebeiiion 
 
 If you be really the man that you would be thought to be, 
 you'le never Boggle at This Teft : But if This will not down 
 with ye, ( let me tell you Sir, that to my knowledge worle then 
 this, has ) you will make me think of the Lady in the Proverbs, 
 that C Eateth, and m^eth her Month^ and faith J have done no 
 Wickednejfe, 
 
 2fci.-You i 
 
6 
 
 
 *) 
 
 Mr Batter's 
 Challenge. 
 
 "Richard takes 
 him up and 
 proves him 
 guilty as to 
 the Kings 
 Perfon. 
 
 An Oppofer 
 of the Kings 
 Power. 
 
 And the Fun* 
 
 damental 
 
 Conftitution, 
 
 He acknow - 
 ledgeth the 
 Protestors 
 Sovcraignty. 
 Aadblcfferfi 
 the Providen- 
 ces that 
 brought R»- 
 chard to the 
 Government* 
 
 (*0 
 
 £<*. You Refleft in Thefe Reproaches either upon my -Parti- 
 cular Principles, or upon the Principles of the Party, or upon 
 Both. As to my felf^C If any man can prove, that I was Guilty 
 of, hurt to the Perfon, or deftruftion of the Power of the Kin?, 
 or of Changing the Fundament al Conftitution of the Common- 
 wealth 3 &c. Holy Com. Pa. 489. 490. Q I will never gain-fay 
 him if he call me a mod perfidious Rebell ; and tell me that I 
 am Guilty of far greater Sin, then Murther, Whoredome, 
 Drunkeneile, orfuchlike. Ibid. 
 
 Or if they can folidly Confute my Grounds, I will thank 
 them, and Confeilemy Sin to all the World. Ibid, 
 
 Ri. Nay "Brother Baxter, you muft give Me leave to put in a 
 Word now -, and fir ft to your Practice, then to your Grounds. T)id 
 not y on animate the Tarty that wot in Arms again ft the King- y as 
 much as any man, and was That no hurt to his Perfon f Q Remember 
 ( fay you to the Army ) how far I have gone with you in the Warr 
 
 -Andjhalll be affraid of my Old mo ft Intimate Friends ? &X. 
 
 Holy Com. Pref. Will you have it now /WThis Army, your Old, 
 and intimate Friends, did no Hurt to his Majefties Perfon . ? And 
 now bethinkyour felf, of your Challenge in the Preface to your Holy 
 Common wealth. £ Prove that the King was the Highelt Tower, 
 in the time of Divifions, and that he had Power to make that 
 War, which he made, and I will offer my Head to Juftice as a Re- 
 bell. 2 Is not This Deftrutlive of the Kings Power ? And is not This 
 a Change of the Fundamental Conftitution of the Common-wealth, to 
 fay that Q the Members of Parliament confidered disjunctly, may be 
 Subjects, but that Conjunctly, as a Houfe or Body, they have 
 the Sovereignty. 3 Holy Com . Pa. 43 3. And again, pa. 462. £ That 
 the Parliament hath a part of the Legiftative Power, ( even of 
 ET^ACTIT^G, and not only of Propofing ) is undoubted. 
 
 *Ba. Nay if you go to That Richard, I fhall call You to Ac- 
 compt for your Pratlifes and Propofuions too. Do not you re- 
 member a certain dedicatory Epiftle, to Richard Proteclor, in 
 your Key for Catholiyues, where you have thefe words ? [Give 
 not leave to every feducer to do his worft to damn mens Souls, 
 when you will not Tolerate every Tray tor to draw your Armies 
 or PEOPLE into Rebellion. ] And again, [ This is one that 
 rejoyceth in the prefent happinefs of England, and honoureth 
 all the Providences of God, by which we have been brought to 
 whatwe are. ] Do not you here acknowledge Richard the Pro- 
 
 tellers 
 
f"57) 
 
 tetlors Sovereignty ? and blcfTe all the Providences th^t have 
 brought matters fo Comfortably about? 
 
 O.T, 
 
 Ri. Ay, Ay, Baxter*, Tbats a Doctrine yon taught me in) our Richard had 
 ComillOU wealth. [_ I am bound ts fibmit to the Prefent Government, Ms Principles 
 asfet over us by (fed, and to Obey for finfcience-Jlikr, and to behave * rom B a * tei - 
 my f elf as a Loyal Subject towards Them. For a Full and Free 'Baxter makes 
 Parliament hath own' } d it, and fo there is notoriously the Confentof ttePrw&ort 
 the People, which is the Evidence that former Princes hadtojuftify ^tho^uit. 
 their Befi Titles. Pa. 484. Whereas in Truth neither was This a Free 
 Parliament, nor any Parliament at all *, neither was yow fubmiffion 
 to the prefent Power, an Atl of Confcience^ for the lame Confer- 
 ence would have obliged you as well to the King,* Hfan the fame 
 Grounds. 
 
 Ba. In goo.dtime <>JMr. %ichard\ And who taught ye, I 
 wonder your Complements to Prince Richard in the Five difpu- 
 tatimsl Where you Addreffe your felf [To His Highnejfe, Ri- Baxters lid- 
 chard, Lord Protetlour of the Common-Wealth of England, Scot- drefiestoRf-. 1 
 land, and Ireland, ] Ep. Ded. And further [ c Your Zeal for God chord Proce/ 
 L will kindle in your SUBJECTS , a zeal for you. The more a ° r - 
 1 your Life & Government is Divine, the more Divine will you 
 c appear •, and therefore, the more Amiable,and Honourable to 
 c the Good, and Reverend to the Evill. Parliaments will Love 
 c and honour you, and abhor the Motions that tend to a Divifl- 
 1 on, or your Juft Difyleafure. Minifters will heartily pray for 
 1 you, and prayfe the Lord for his Mercies by you, and Teach 
 
 < all the People to Love, Honour and Obey you. The People 
 
 < will Rejoyce in you ; and you will belov'd or FearM of All. 
 i Such Happineffe attendeth Serious P^r_y,when Impiety, felfilh- 
 c nefle,and Neglect of Chrift, is the fname and Ruine of Prince 
 
 < and People. I crave your Highnefle Pardon for this Boldnels, 
 Sand your Favourable Acceptance of the Tendered Service of, 
 
 c A Faithfull Subject to your Highnef^as yoa 
 J are an Officer of the Univerfal King, 
 
 Richard Baxter. 
 Ri. 
 
tiitKine. be fome other Special Obligation upm them, be fids their Ailegeance. "J 
 Thef. 145. And moreover [ If the Perfon difpofjeft, though it were 
 ZJ.ijnft'y, do afterward become "Uncapable of Government, It is not 
 the Subjects duty to jeekjois Rcftit^tion. ] Thef 146. Andy ft again 
 £ Whcfeevtr expells the Sovereign, though Pif/.riiify, andrefclves tc 
 ■revive the Common-Wealth father then he jha!l be rcjiored : and if the 
 Common-Wealth may profper without his Reftauration, It is the Duty 
 effuch an Injur* d Prince, for the Common Good to refign his Govern- 
 ment \ and if he will not, the People ought to Judge him as m-ide In- 
 cable by Providence, and not tofcek^his Reftituticnto the apparent. 
 Rttineofthe Common-Wealth,^ Thef. 147; 
 
 Mo. Praye let me put in a Word betwixt ye. What do yo« 
 call Incapacity s ? 
 
 J&x*rr/Tnea* BlU C When Providence depriveth a man of his V?{J)ER- 
 
 , pacHesfor STANDING, He IS. Materia Indifpofita, and Vncapable of Go- 
 
 l !Governmcn:. vernment , though not of the ?{ame. ] Thef. 135. Q If God per- 
 
 ... mits Princes to turn fo WICKED, as to be Uncapable ofGo- 
 
 fbundedb 18 vermn o> So as is confiftent with the Ends of Government, he 
 
 Grace. permits them to depofe Themfelves. ] Thef. 1 36. as/gain jflf 
 
 Want of pow- Providence Statedly difable him that was the Sovereign, from 
 
 crdepofesa the executing of Laws, Protecting the Juft, and other Ends 
 
 Pfincc. of Government, it maketh him an Uncapable Subject of the 
 
 Power and fo depofeth him. ] For a Government fo Impotent, 
 
 is None. A capacity for the Work and Ends is neceflary in the 
 
 Perfon; and when That ceafeth, the Power ceafeth.] Ho.. 
 
 (fomm. Pag. 137. 138. 
 
 Ri. And then y oh fay farther, Thef 153. That £ A% &*ng &** 
 is afuffcient Sign of the Will of God, that This is the Perfon, by whom 
 we fhould be Governed, is enough ( as Joynedto Gods Laws} to ob- 
 lige nstoConfent, and Obey him, as our Govern oar. ) Vpon which 
 Ground, youyour felf do Juft if y all that I have cither f aid, or done, 
 infubmijfionto Richard. And fo you do likewife in your Thefis 149. 
 Ar ,. .0 \flf the Right full Govemour be fo long difpofjeft, that the Comr.on- 
 h\s MajeiKes Wealth can be no longer be without government, but to the apparent 
 &&mu<&< hazard of it's forine, we ought to Jndge that Providence hasdifpof 
 
 M 
 
(59) ^ 
 
 fcft the Former, and prefently confent to another. ] We mufl 
 
 not fay y that \J.ecaufewe cannot have fitch a man, wee'* I have none, 
 
 but be Vngovemcd ; This is to breakan Exprefs Commandement, and 
 
 to cafi off the Order and Ordinance of God, for a Perfons fake. ] 
 
 P. 162. Andthen there' } s another thing ; You put all the Cafes that 
 
 ever yon could muftes up, againft the Kings Return. S^lfa King Caf - cs ^ ^~ 
 
 (yon fay ') d/fll Ives the Government he can be no Gcvernour. If an f e i CVirc , 
 
 Enemy, no King. Adeftroyer cannot be A Ruler , and Defender *, He 
 
 proclaimeth Hoflility, and is Therefore not to be Trttfted. ] Pa. 5 39. 
 
 Ba. Well; well ? Richard. If you had plea fed, you might have 
 found out lome other Aphorifmes, where I have done as much 
 Right I'm fure to Sovereign Power as any man living. Do Baxter afferts 
 not I fay Thef 326. That [It is the Sub-efts Duty to de- Obedience ac 
 fend their Prince, with their Strength, and hazzard of their ^ hazards. 
 Lives, againft all Forreign and Domeftique Enemies, that 
 feek his Life, or Ruine ?] 
 
 Ri. If you fpeakThis to the Caufe in Question \ how will yon come Baxter againfl; 
 off 'where you jay [_lf I had known that the Parliament had been the ^ KlI JS . 
 Beginners;, and in moft fault, yet the Ruine ofonrTiuikees, ^^ Parliament 
 Reprefentivcs, and Jo of all the Security of the Nation, is a Pu- had been in 
 nifhment greater then any fault of theirs againfl a King, can from the wrong. 
 him deferve : and That Their faults cannot dif oblige me from defend- 
 ing the Common-Wealth. J Owned not all that ever they did '.but I 
 tcokjt to be my Duty to hc\ to the mayn End. And I knew that 
 the King had all his Tower for the Common Cj 00 d, and therefore had 
 none againft it ; and Therefore that no Caufe can Warrant him, to 
 make the Common-Wealth the Party, which he pall exercife Hoftility 
 againfl. 2 Ho. Com, Pa. 48c. Q All 'this ft erne -d plain to me 3 And 
 |[ When I found fo mary things Conjunct ,as Two of the Three Eftates 
 againfl the Will of the King Alone, the Kingdoms T^eprefentatives 
 and Truftees affrAied in the Guarding of our Liberties, and the 
 Highefl (fourt defending them againfl offending Subjects, andfeekz B * (Iossnot 
 ingto bring them to a Lead Iryal 5 and the Kingdoms Safety, and l %™™ 
 the Common Good, involved in their Caufe ( which may he more 0i ° ' 
 fuHy manifefted, but that I would not ttrr too much in the E- jJ^J *%£, 
 Vils of times paft -, ) aAll thefe, and many mere concurring^ ferfwa- ^ery to ferve 
 d&ime, thatitw.uS'mfuW to be Neutrals, and Treacherous to t hq Kin^. 
 
 be againft the Parliament in that Caufe. ] [ It were a wonder 
 
 iffo many himble, hone fl Christians ^ fearful o/finning, and Praying 
 
 I 2 for 
 
Tl-«fr.v ing f or Dirciftion, (Imld be all miftakin in fo weighty a, Cafe, and % 
 t^e LoyJu «W Dammc's all m the Right. ] pa. 4 3 1 . 
 
 DamnKi. 
 
 *B*. Very Learnedly apply'd. But do not 1 fay Pa. 43-. 
 Ajuftwjy of That [if a Parliament would wrong a King, and depofe him 
 Dcpofing a^ Unjuftly, and change the Government:, for which they have no 
 v— S hnplyU p ow er, the Body of the Nation may refule to ferve them in it, 
 
 yea, may forcibly reftrayn them ? If they Notoriously betray 
 A Parliament t lcir Truft, not m ^ omc Tolerable matters, but in the Funda- 
 maybetray mcntalls, or Points that the Common Good dependeth on, and 
 ttoTruftJ engage in.aCaufe that would deicroy the Happyneile of the 
 km* Common-wealth ^ It is then the Peoples duty to forfake them, 
 
 cmd cleave to the King againft them, if they be Enemies to 
 
 the Common-wealth. ] Pag. 4.384 
 
 Tho a Prince . Ri. Now I bcf.cchye Mr. Baxter bepkaftdto Compare pa. 437. 
 be tnjurMj die lV/ y; ; £ a< ^24. where you lay down This Thefts [ Though fome injury 
 people may tot fj e ^ing be the Occajionofthe War, it is the Duty of 'all tee Peo- 
 ^neniks. ' fie to defend the Common-wealth againft him', Tit fo, as that they 
 
 proteft againft That Injury. ] 
 
 KT Ba. But what fay ye all this while to the Cafe of making Court 
 
 ^to°^U- e toanUfurper? [When it is Notorious (_% /) that where a man 
 farper, ^ as no Right to Govern, People are not bound to Obey him, 
 
 unlefle by Accident.] Thefts 339. 
 
 „ - a Ri. YWcJ.etefi their Ooinion, who thinljhat a (Iron? and profpe- 
 
 beoppos'd rousVfurpcr, may be defended, againft the King, or that the King 
 
 is not to be defended againft him, to the hazjL&rd of our Eftates, and 
 They have no Lives.'JNon-Conf. 2d. part. Pa. -^.\_Meer Conqueft without 
 am power. Confent, is no Jnlt Title. T] Ibid. P. 108. And, again, [V],. 
 
 haveno 7 rue Power, nor do their Commands bind anh one in Confci- 
 Who are U- ence to formal Obedience : nor may they befet up and defended againft 
 furpers.-. t \j e J^^rfull Governour.~]Va. 55. \_AndThofe are Vfurpers who 
 
 by Force or Fraud depofe the Lawfull G over no'nr and take his pUce. 
 Thepeop!ctolbid. [If Vfurpers claim the Crown, the Su'.jccl 77111ft Judge which 
 be Judge;. is their. King and mi: ft defend his Right. ~] Non-Con. Plea .70. 
 
 The people Ba. But what if the People '(hall Mifs- Judge ? £ All things 
 maymif- arenotdeftruccive to the Common-wealth, that are Judg'dfo 
 Jtujgc, " by Diflenting Subjects. ] Holy Com. Prcf. [Nor are Subjects 
 
 allow u 
 
(61) «y 
 
 aUbw'd to Refill, whenever they are confident that Rulers Ba*t.temcn& I 
 would deftroy the Common-wealth.]- Ibid. [Oh how happy ^^^ 
 would the belt of Nations under Heaven be, If they had thej l e . e s / 
 Rulers that our Ingratitude hath call: off. 2 C Our old Condi- Swbrn, and 
 tution, was King, Lords, and Commons,, which we were fWn,to King 
 iwornand fworn, and fworn again to be faithfull to, and to LorcIwncl 
 Defend. The King with-drawing, the Lords a*nd Commons ^cT^s^ 
 Ruled alone, though they Attempted not the Change of the commons 
 Species of Government. Next This, we had the Major part of rul e alone ,and 
 the Houfe of Commons in the Exercife of Sovereign Power, die Govern- 
 the Corrupt Majority, fas the Army callM them) being call '^j 1 ^ 
 OUt; ] Ibid. &C. y TU no matter for the Following Revolnti- C ian ° e • 
 ons -, [ To refill, or depofe the Be ft Govzrnours in all the world, 
 that have the Supremacy, is forbidden to Subje&s on point of 
 Damnation. Ibid. 
 
 Ri. Traye hold your hand a little Mr. Baxter. If the Govern- Baxter chargVl 
 ■merit was in King, Lords, and Commons, how came the Two Houfe s yj£v concra ~ ' 
 to Rule Alone, with an Vfurpation ? And without . changing the l 
 Species of the Government ? or how came we, that you fay were 
 fworn over and over to all Three, to depofe the Hedd y and Submit to 
 the other Two ; and to let the Government fink from a Monarchy ± intb 
 an Ariftocracy ? and why might not the Commons, caft out the 
 Lords, and the Army the Commons, as well as the Two Houfes 
 caft off the King ? Efpecially lyycur own Comment upon^ f Let every 
 Soul be Subject to the Higher Powers.] Ho. Com. 3 To Where The Higher 
 yon expound the Higher Power, to be Intended of the Govcmours in Powers are 
 Actual Poiieilion. What hindred this Awtmcnt from* holding when ; e H ? ™ 
 ri*King was in Actual Pofffion ? - mpoffelfion 
 
 nOfS 
 
 Ba. C A people may give an Honours ry Title to the Prince, 'Tisnot the » 
 arrd not give the fame to Others, that have part in the Sove- M.mc that: 
 reignty. ] [ So that frames are not the only Motes of Sovereign- makes the 
 ty. Wherefore one mull not Judge of the Power of Princes by Kin o* 
 their Titles, or Names. ] Ho. Com. Pa. 432. [ The Law faith Thepeop'e 
 the King, (hall have the Power of the Militia, fuppqfing it to Judges ofthe -. 
 be againft Enemies, and not againft the Common-wealth, nor Kir ^ ■ ncJ ° r 
 them that have part of the Sovereignty with him. To Refill rhe 
 him here is not to Refill Power, but Ufurpat ion, and Private 
 Will. InfuchaCate, the Parliament is no more to be Refilled 
 then he, becaufe they ace alio the Higher Power.} Ho. Ocm, 
 
 Fa.^i, 
 
&%> 
 
 (6i) 
 
 Selatte Pa.^u And there's more in t yet. [If a Prince be ftatedly 
 Kings Reve* made a Begger, orforfaken, or Ejefted by a Conqueror, andfo 
 mie, ™ d l eis Uncapable of Governing, if it be but pro Tempore, the Subjects 
 no bngcr a f or y^ t j me ^ ^ t j lat ^^ nQ pp 0rt unity to Reftore him ) are 
 
 clifbbliged from his Actual Government. [Pa. i 39. 
 
 Ri. So that the Seizing of a Prince s Revenue, depefes him from hit 
 
 Sovereignty, and defebarges his Subjects of their Obedience. Tint I 
 
 ., M took C Inferior aJMagiftrates to be Subjcfts of the King as well as the 
 
 till rues ftill meafte ft men ? and to have no more Power to Dcpofe, or take up Arms 
 
 again ft him, then other Subjetls. ] Non-Con. Plea, 2d. part p. 57. 
 
 irfxd £ fa <& the tmes of V fur fat ion, and fine e, I faid, and wrote, 
 
 that the Kings Pcrfon is Inviolable, and to be Judgd by none, either 
 
 Peer, or Parliament, and that it is none bat Subjects, that they may 
 
 call to Account, Judge, and Punifli.'} Pref. 
 
 Subjects. 
 
 RicfarJ ever 
 True to the 
 
 Crown. 
 
 The Law of Ba. I fhall leave [Others to Judge, in what Cafes Subjects 
 ? a ^f\ a " may Refift Kings by Arms * 7 We fliall only Conclude, that no 
 rftaLul" Humane Power can Abrogate the Law of Nature, Non-Con. 
 Plea. id. Part Pa. 57. 
 
 Medell Sub- 
 jects ftudy 
 their own 
 Duty not 
 the Kings. • 
 
 Ri. And may not the Two Houfes be Refift ed by the Law of Na- 
 ture as well as they oppofed the King f \_ Mode ft Subjects jhould rather 
 ftudy what Laws God hath made for Themfelves, then what Laws 
 be hath made for Kims-, and what is their Own duty then what is 
 
 ' the Kings: [^jOUgf) Of %ty& ttytf Ut HOt 
 
 bourn* to fee 3gnorant*] •&•*■«. *K*f 
 
 Part. Pa. 48. 
 
 Ta. Nay I am as. little for Retraining of Sovereign Power 
 as any flefh breathing. [ It is not fafe or Lawfull for the Peo- 
 ple to Limit, or Reftrain the Sovereign Power, from difpofing 
 fo far of the Eflates of All, as is neccflary to the fafety of All, 
 which is the End of Government. ] Thefts 115. May [ A Go- 
 vernour cannot Lawfully be Reftrayned by the People from 
 prcfervingthem.] Thef 120. [For the Multitude are Cove- 
 iuaenojudacstous, Tenacious, Injudicious, and Incompetent Judges of the 
 of Govern- Neceilities, or Commodity of the Common-wealth. ] Pa.ii$. 
 ment. 
 
 Ri. Tut what was it y oh were faying e en now of the Eeft Gover- 
 nors in the World ? 
 
 Pa. 
 
 Power not to 
 bereilrair.ed 
 by ti:e people 
 
 The Mult I 
 
Ba. I was faying, that [ the Belt Governonrs in all the 
 World that have the Supremacy have been Refitted or depofed 
 in England. I mean i . Them that the Army called the Corrupt 
 Majority : or an Hundred Forty and Three Imprifon'd, and 
 Secluded Members of the Long Parliament, who, as the Ma- 
 jority > had, you know what power. .2 . The Powers that were The Seclude! 
 Jaitlayd by. I mould with great Rejoycing give a Thoufand ! ^ m&crs and 
 Thanks to That man, that will acquaint me of One Nation up- JJSJ'ttebd? 
 on all the Earth, that hath better Governonrs in Sovereign Governors* 
 Power fas to VVifdome and Holynefs Conjunct; then thofe 
 that have been Refilled, or depofed in England. Ho. Com. 
 JPref. 
 
 Ri. Totf Speak,of the Secluded Members, and the TwoCrom- rebellion to 
 wells. 'But they all came in by Violence ; And Q / know none of the oppofc the 
 Non-Cc;:fyr >,ifts that take it not for Rebellion, to pill down or ft /.of'P rernC W 
 forcibly by the Sword, any thing againffi the Supreme R : .der % or With- ers ' 
 out /:;'/» 3 R. Bs. Letter to Mr. Hinckly. Pa, 33. 
 
 <Ba. [The Parliament did Remonftrate to the Kingdom, the 
 danger of the Subverfion of Religion, and Liberties, and of TfiePar]h ' 
 the Common Good and Intereft of the People whofe Truftees ^^£- 
 they were ]Ho. Com. Pa. 471. And [If a Nation Regularly 01 ' 
 chufe a Reprefentative Body, of the molt Noble, Prudent, Ih- 
 tercfted Members, todifcern their dangers and the Remedies, 
 and preferve their Liberties and Safety, the People themfelves 
 are to difcern Thefe Dangen,tmd Remedies by THEIR eyes. ] - 
 Thcf 35 6. And I think [ it was time for us to believe a Parlia- bound fo^ 
 ment concerning our Danger, and Theirs, when we heard ib w i:h Tkdi; 
 many Impious perfons rage againft them] Pa. 472. [ the Iriih Eyes, 
 profeflmg to raife Arms for the King, to defend his Prerogative 
 and their own Religion againft the Parliament. 1 fay, in fuch 
 a time as This, we had Reafcn 10 believe our errtrufted Watch- 
 men, that told us of the danger, and no Reafonto fufferour 
 Lives and Libertyes to be taken out of their Truft, and whoi- jfaexrn?. hi n - 
 ly put into the hands of the King. We had rather of the two, feif 
 be put upon the Inconvenience of Jnftifyirig our Defence, the^n 
 tohavebeenButcher'dbyThoufands, and fall into frieh hands !e: ° - 
 as IreUnddid.iPa.wz. But [all the Wars that have been fince i*®% i: * 
 the Oppoliticn to che Parliament, and Violence done' to the 
 i?.erfon of the King : were far from being own'd by the Com- 
 
 JBOH 
 
7 
 
 nion Sort of the Ttyrv Tfyti-Conformifts, &c» 3 Tfyn-Ccnf. Tic a. 
 Pa. 138. 
 
 Ri. Tost were faying awhile ago e as I remember, that a ' Parlia- 
 ment that deflroys Fundamentals, is an Enemy to the Common- 
 Wealth, and the People ought Jp oppofe them. Pray*e Say : Is 
 A Funcbtmen not the Freedoms and Right »[ the Electors, as much a Fundamen- 
 tal deitroyd. tal, as the Priviledge, and Truft of the Elected ? How comes it 
 then that yon propound the Reducing of Elections to the Faithful), 
 honeft Upright men, ] &c. Pref. to the Ho. Com. 
 
 JBfcxttrde-j B*i. Let me fpeak afterwards of the T^ecejfity, and of the 
 
 fends it. Vtility of This Caufe. 
 
 Parliaments u [ i t j s \^ ^ Nn t ] iat Parliaments qua Tales, are not Divine, 
 
 my cor- R e iigi 0USi r rotc ft antj rjuft. The Six Articles by which the 
 Martyrs were burnt, were made b J a Parliament, All the 
 Laws for the Papal Interests in the days of Popery, have been 
 made by them, They have often Followed the Wilis of Princes 
 toandfro, and therefore they are rot Indefectible, nor Im- 
 mutable, as fnch. Ho, Com. Pa. 24$. 
 
 Mo. Very right -,and all the late Orders and Ordinances for 
 
 'p^rT^nL- Sequeftring Crown and Church-Revenues, Commitments, 
 
 r/co™ 6 ^' Pliers, Decimations and the like, were made by that which 
 
 xions. ** you calla Parliament. But fee now in what a Condition That 
 
 people mull be, that fees with the Parliaments Eyes, in cafe 
 
 of fuch Parliaments, as you fuppofe: and the Remedy you pre- 
 
 fcribe, is worfe then the difeafe ^ for take away the Freedome 
 
 of Choyce, and the Perfons Chofen are a Faction rather then a 
 
 Parliament. 
 
 _ - *Ba. 2. C It is known that there are Mambers of Various 
 
 crrrkdTy Fa- minds in tliem a ^> anc * ^ om£timc 7 tne mifcarrying Party is fo 
 &k>n. ftrong, that by a few more voices they might brsng Mifery on 
 
 the Common-wealth. ] Ibid. 
 
 As appears to j[{ 0t This we have found in feverall cafes upon Experiment - 7 
 our coft. t0 thc r u j ne f t h r ce Kingdomes. 
 
 ?I he major 
 
 Sorsw^ Sa ' 3 * ^ It: * s we ^ known t ^ iat ' m nl0 ^ P arts i tne Major- 
 ca 1 * 1 Vote of the Vulgar that are Chufers are Ignorant, felfifh, of 
 
 Private 
 
(<*5) 
 
 7 l 
 
 Private Spirits, rnlcd by mony, and therefore by their Land- 
 lords, and other Great and Powerful men, and withall, they 
 are bitterly diftafted againft the Serious, diligent Practice of 
 Religion, according to the Rules of Chrift.] Ibid. 
 
 4. [ it is therefore apparent, that if they had their Liberty, Arvd mflctalfc 
 They would chufe fuch as are of their minds •, and it was by Pro- others !lKe 
 VkUnce, >nd Accident that heretofore they did not fo. ] Ibid. thcnaf « iYC * 
 
 Mo. Here's a Compendious Model Mr. Barter of yowv Baxter>s m * 2 , 
 Project [for the due Regulation of the Ele&ours-, and Eie&i- i*]*™^** 
 ons of Parliament 3 Thef. 21 1. Firft, you propound to take a- ^ai on s, 
 way from the People of England, their Ancient, and Undoubt- The People 
 ed Right ofChufing their own Reprefentatives. 2. to Unqua- Right «i Ele- 
 lify all the Nobility, Gentry, and Commonalty of the Land aiuntake VT 
 that are Well Affected to the Government of Church and State. 3fSns 
 And 3ly. To Pack a Faction under the name of a Parliament a Fadioa 
 of your own Leaven. Or if that will not doe, 'tis but employ- pack under 
 ing the Rabble again to give the Houie a fwinging .Purge, and h< ? nameot a 
 you are at yonr Journeys End. Proceed. Parliament, 
 
 Ba. 5. [It is certain, that the Wars, the Change of Church- The People 
 Government, and Forms of Worihip, the Differences of Reli- aredifoWig'd, 
 giousmen, and the many Seds that have lately rifen up arncmg ^^Vhu- 
 us, and the ft rift Laws of Parliament about the Lords day,ehr. £j ng their own 
 and Specially their Taxes, have deeply difcontented them, Reprex r enca- 
 and exafperatcd them againft fuch as they think have caufed tive, 
 thefe, fo that many would now purpofely defign Their Ruine.} 
 Ibid. In fine) [Without Regulating Elections, what Probabi- 
 lity is there, but the next that is chofen by a Majority of Votes* 
 with abfolute Freedom, will undoe all that bath been done j 
 and be revenged to the full on all that were fo odious to them, 
 and Settle our Calamity by a Law ? 
 
 Mo. This is a more Candid Account Mr. Baxter, then you The people 
 Intended it. For the People may well beallowd to have Cur- fck of their 
 fed the Authours of thoie bloudy Broyles^The Prophaningof ^ e e P refcma " 
 our Temples •, The fuppreffing of our Church-Government, v ve 
 end Liturgy, the Propagating of ■ fo many Sects and Schifinsj 
 and bringing the Nation to Grone under Their Taxes, like 
 the Afle under the Burthen. But how is That the Peoples Re- 
 preientacive,thac Shuts the people out of the Election, and acts 
 
 £ both 
 
J^ ( 66 ) 
 
 ' "both Without, and Againft their Conicnt ? The Tenth part 
 
 of this encroachment upon the Common Liberty, from the 
 King, would have been Cry\l out againft, as Arbitrary And 
 Tyrannicall. But what way would you direct for the Limiting 
 of the Qualifications ? 
 
 7he Tailors %*'- L Let all Pallors 'wtEngland, that are Approved, have 
 to approve of an Inftrument. of Approbation, and ail that are Tolerated,. 
 the Elector?. an Inilrumcnt of Toleration •, and let no man be achufer or a 
 Ruler thathoideth not Communion with an Approved or To- 
 lerated Church, and is not fignify'd under the Pallors hand, 
 to be a Member thereof. ] 77;:/. 2 1 9. 
 
 XfeEmpiieof kJ&** A mod excellent Invention to advance the Empire of 
 Prcsbyteiy, Presbytery, and enflave all other degrees and Perfwafions of 
 menwhatfoever. 
 
 flePeltioii Ba. L The Humble Petition and Advice determineth, that 
 
 and Advice under the Penalty of a Thoufand pounds, and Imprifonmen'j 
 
 concerning j-jj] \ t be paid, no perfon be Ele&ed and fit in Parliament bnt ~] 
 
 elections. j- Sffchasare perfons of known Integrity, fear God, and of Good £on- 
 
 Baxters ad' v erf at ion. They are frvorn alfb for Fidelity to the Protector, &c. ~] 
 
 mirable Hxpc- a more excellent Act hath not been made, for the happyneile 
 
 ^ lti of England, concerning Parliaments, at leail, fincetheRefor- 
 
 c5* mation. 2 H°- Com - 2 57- 2 5%- 
 
 His quaiifica- ^io. But what is it that you mean by this Kmm Integrity ? 
 dons accepted, orwho are tobeihe Judges ofit ? I take That man than Pub- 
 lickly Sacrifices his Life, his Fortune, his Family, and his Free- 
 % dome to the fervice of his Prince and Countrey, according to 
 
 the Law, to be a man of Known Integrity : and him that: Acfls 
 ThePharifee * n opposition to the Law, and to his duty, to be clearly the con- 
 andthePub- trary. I take the Publican, that fmites his bread, and crys, 
 Hear.. Lord be merciful unto me a finner ; to have more of the Fear of 
 
 6Winbim, then the Pharifee, that/Vviyjinthe Market Place, 
 and thanks God that he is not as Other men an m e : And I take him to 
 be of as GoodaConvcrfation, that fubmitsquietly to the Rules of 
 the Government j Reverences Authority, and contents him- 
 felf with his Lawful Lot, As he is that values himfelf upon Out- 
 braving Publique Order, Reviling his Betters ; Living upon 
 the fpoiL and devouring the Bread of the Opprcflcd. 
 
 [What 
 
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 What would you fey now to the turning of the Tables, 
 and letting up of your Qualifications on the other fide ? and to the , . ., j. 
 Kings excluding of the Non-Conformifts by an Oath of Fideli- Kin^ihouid 
 ty to himfelf, as your Richard £ excluded, delinquents in the late E- take\rpon 
 tclions7\ Ho. Com. P. 244. [_So that the People durfinotgo according him fo } 
 their Inclinations. ~\ Ibid. But why do I argue from your Pra- ' 
 tlifes, when your Pofuions do naturally leade to the fame m 'duty- 
 full Ends? 
 
 Ba. C My dull Brain could never find out any one point of^ x ^^ es 
 difference in Theology, about the Power of Kings, and the Duty p r esbyterhn 
 of Obedience mthz People, between the Divines called Presbyte- and Epifcopal 
 rians, and Epifcopal. . If you know any, na me them me, and tell Loyalty the 
 me your Proofs. R-B's. Letter to Mr. Hinckly,~\ Pu. 26. fame ' 
 
 Ri. ^Tis a Confounding of your Metaphyficks methinks with your gj XterCQn z 
 Politiques, to talk^of Toints of Theology, iu matters of Ci- founds hisMe- 
 vil Power and Obedience -, without diflinguifliing between our taphfiycks 
 Credenda and Agenda, Notion and Practice-, Supernaturall with his Po. 
 Truths and Moral Duties. And why [The Divines CAL- lmcks - 
 LED Presbyterians ] and not rather the Presbyterian Divines . ? 
 For they are not ALL, Presbyterians, that are fo CALLED ^ 
 and therms a great deal of difference betwixt the Principles of 
 Presbyterian Divines *, as Presbyterian , and the Principles of 
 thofe very Presbyterians, as they [are ranged under the 'Banner of 
 a Civil Interefb. But over and above all Thus, you have carry d it 
 a great deal too far , to fay that the Epifcopal, and the Presbyteri- 
 an Divines hold the fame Principles in the Point <?/King and Sub- 
 ject. Tou JJjould rather have acknowledged ^the dif agreements, and 
 maintained the Principle. 
 
 We hold, 1 . Q That the Parliament by the Conflitution, have part Presbyterhn 
 of the Sovereignty. ] Ho. Com. Pa. 457. C 2. That the Sovereign- Poficions ^ 
 ty is joyntly in King, Lords and Commons , as Three Eftates.'] 465. 
 L 3. The Parliament have a Power of Enabling Laws as well a* of 
 Propofingthem.2 Pa. 462. Whereas The Epifcopal Party pronounce .. 
 the Sovereignty to be only in the King ; 2. They affert the Kings fole Ep il " C0 P al ?<* 
 Supremacy in all Caufes, and over all Perfons, whatfoever as well _ 
 Ecclefiaftical, as Civill, and 3. That the two Houfes have no flare at 
 all in the SanBion. We hold Ukewife that It was Treafon to refift the 
 Parliament, as the Enemy did, apparently in Order to their Subver- 
 fwn. 2 Ho. Com. 478. IThatthe Parliament was the highefi hi- F"*y'.*°Gi. 
 
 K 2 termer 
 
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 (68) 
 
 H>ii'c. Pofit. 
 
 bloud 
 Andftir up 
 ♦he people, 
 
 terpretcr $f Laws that was thw Exigent, in the Divifion.] Ibid. 
 jindfo we fad that every ficp of the Parliamentary War was Juftify'd 
 by the Affcmbly^ and the whole Current of the Presbyterian Di- 
 vines : The Epifcoptl Clergy VnanimoHJly declaring themselves to the 
 contrary. Who but the siffcmbly July 19. 43. in the Thames of 
 The Aflembly Themft Ives and Others, to call for the Execution of Juflice, on Ail 
 ays out fcj- delinquents f Husband 2d. Vol. of Golle&ions, 241 . Atid who a- 
 gain, Aug. 10. 1643. but The 'Divines of the A ffembly that are Re- 
 funts of the Ajfociated Counties, and now Attending the Affembly, 
 Ore de fired to go down into their fevc? -al Counties, tofiirup the people 
 inThofe fever all Counties , to rife for th&r Defence.^ Ibid. 285. 
 So that in the Main, we differ upon the very Constitution of the Go- 
 vernment •, the Power of the Prince, the Duty of the Subject, and 
 Hpon every point of the Parliamentary War : And we are no leffe 
 divided upon the Scheme of Forms, and Ceremonies. 
 
 Mr.Prfxwne* B*. [_ Prove that I or any of my Acquaintance ever pra&ifed 
 ver wrong'd Ejecting, Silencing, ruining men for things UnnecefTary ; yea 
 any mar.. ©r for Greater things. Whom did we ever forbid to Preach 
 the Truth ? Whom did we caft out of all Church-Mainte- 
 nance ? Whom did we Imprifon ! ] R. £'s. Anfw. to Dr. 
 Stillrngfiee;. Pa. 97. 
 
 Richard re- 
 frelhes h*s 
 memory. 
 
 Mr. Titers 
 
 (Governours. 
 
 Ri. Tou forget your J 'elf Brother : and I am for f peaking the Truth, 
 though Ijljame the Devill. Pray lookjnto Mecurius Rufticus his Ac* 
 compi. of the London Clergy that were Ejected, Silenced, and 
 Ruin'd by Order of Parliament : See his Querela Cantabrigieiitis, 
 for the Heads, Fellows, and Students, of Colledges, that were 
 There Ejected, Plundered, Imprifon'd, or BanifliM for their Af- 
 fections to the King, and the EftablinVd Religion. ConfLderthat 
 T ouy our f elf tockjhe liberty to Cjraz*e uyon another mans Pafinre: 
 Jbid all thefe Violence were tarry don by your Encoisragoment , In- 
 fluenced by your Approbation ', and the Principal directors of them , 
 extoldto th* Styes, as the Q Belt Governours for Wifdome and 
 HoJyneiTe, ] Ho. Com* Pref. under the Cope of Heaven. 
 
 APlotupon Ba. But however, £ Either they mult prove that we hold 
 thePrcsbyte- Rebellious Principles, or they ftewthat they eki but in Plot 
 fe 3 -^ . accuie us. 3 
 k 
 
 I know 
 
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 r 
 
 I know very well that [ The Tranfprofer Rehearfed, P^.48. faith 
 Mr. Baxter in Ipis Holy Common-wealth may nt dint eth that he (the 
 King ) maybe called t§ Recount by any Single Peer. T. £ Muft we ^ bloudy 
 fay nothing to fuch bloudly (landers ? Never fuch a Thought lan - 
 was in my mind, nor word fpokeu or Written by me. But all 
 is a meer Falfe-Fiction : Nay in all the times of Usurpation, and 
 Since, I faidand Wrote, that the Kings Perfin is Inviolable, 
 and to be Judg'd by none, either iter, or Parliament , and that 
 it is none but Subjects that they may call to accompt, and 
 Judge,andPuni(h;and that neither the King may deltroy or 
 hurt the Kingdome, nor the Kingdome the King, ( much leffe 
 ' a Teer) but their Union is the Kingdomes Life. And fhe very 
 Book cAccufed, goeth on fuch Principles, and hath not a word Alas ! the Ho. 
 meet to tempt a man in his Witts to This Accufation. Judge Cow - a moft 
 now bythisonelnftance, and by the Cry of the Plotters now j£ n< ? cenc 
 againft Us, {_ fotilina fcthegum, ]■ feeking our deftruction, and ° * 
 the Parliaments, as fuppofed to favour us (which for ought I 
 know never did any thing for our Relief, or Eafe ) whether it 
 be meet, that I fhould dye in filence under fuch horrid Accufa- 
 tions : Againft which I appeal to the Great and Righteous ^ r -%***& 
 Judge, before whom 1 am fhortly to appear, begging his Par- j^l] ^ cu ^ 
 don and Reforming Conviction whereever I Erre.] Apr.i6.fmon^, Ji 
 1680. Non-Con. Plea, id Tart . Preface . la ft Page . 
 
 Afo. Be not fo Tranfported Mr Baxter at the bloudy Slander, 
 as you call it: for the very excufing of your felf after This Man- ^ n f^T ' 
 ner, falls heavier upon you, then the Accufation it felf. There a P oriet ' 
 was a Gentleman of a Good Family, that had StoVn a Silver- 
 Syoon; anditwaslayd home to him, as a mighty Aggravati- 
 on of the Crime, tbat a man of his Quality could let him-* 
 felf fo low, as to pilfer for fuchaTW/fc. AySir, Says he, you 
 fay very Right, if That had been All-, But in good Faith Sir, 
 my Aym was at the great Tankard, If it had been a Single Peer, 
 it had been indeed a bloudy Slander -, But your Ayme was the 
 calling of the King to an Account, by the Authority of the 
 Two Hvufes. And then you are pleafed to U)lefle God for the 
 next Change that call'd Them to Account too .-for, you give Any Govern- 
 the TwoVfurpers much better Words, then any you could af- mentbuc the 
 ford to the Lords Annoynted. You call Them the Higher Powers^ Rl 5 ht « 
 and enjoyn Obedience to Them upofi the pain of Damnation ; 
 which is a Favour you would never allow to his Late Majeftyi. 
 
 Any 
 
 
7 
 
 *T (70) 
 
 Any Government but the Right will down with ye, andScili 
 That which was a Rebellion in the Enterprise , proves to be a 
 Providence in the Execution. 
 
 But do you fay Mt Baxter, that you have allways aflerted 
 the Kings Perfon to be Inviolable, &c. and that the 'very 'Book^ 
 accufed goeth onfuch Pronciplest Why then it is no hurt to the 
 7w>;^ tob? AJJaulted, dejpcyPd of his Regality s ; Depofed, bn~ 
 pnfoned, Try d, Condemn d and Executed. For the King you lay 
 A Kin* is i is but a Title oi Refpecl, not a Char abler of Power: a Nominal, 
 nameofRef- Empty bufineffe. A kinde of Dignity, Party -per pale, Half -Prince, 
 peft not half-Subjetl ; and 'cis but taking him on the Popular iide,and you 
 Power. w ,zydo what you will with him. This is the fhimeraof a 
 
 Prince, according to your Aphorifmes: A kind of Mocl^Majcfty 
 fet up, for every Seditious Libertine to throw a Cudgell at. You 
 make his Authority to be fo Conditional, and Precarious, that 
 The Kings he is upon his good behaviour for his Crown. If his t±Admi- 
 uthoncy ^ n ifl rdtton be not anfwerable to the Ends of Government : If he 
 ous. wants either Power, or Money, or Grace, or Vnderftanding-,ot 
 
 And under ( which is vvorft of All ) If the Licentious Rabble will but fay, 
 feveralinca- that he wants This, or That, hee'sgone, and Depofed, Ipfo 
 pacitics. fatto, as an Unqualili'd Perfon. For according to your The/is, 
 The Multitude are to be the Judges of Thefe Incapacities. It 
 is a hardy Adventure, M. c Baxter{ unlefs you can make Alma- 
 nacks ) to fet up fuch Pofitions as Thefe, at This time of day, 
 'Tis True, They were printed in Fifty-nine, But they are now 
 Refumd, and Avowed in Eighty. But your Patience yet a little 
 further Sir. 
 B t H * s * C ^ UC ^ a ^ 0YYl ^ -deenfation, to fay that Mr Baxter Main- 
 
 lidAccufa. tains the King, ?naybe call d to Account by a Single Peer? Cona- 
 tion, der firft, that it is a Church-man charges it upon you, and you 
 are before-hand with him: for you have over and over, let 
 HisCharaaer forth Thofe of the Church-way ( without exception either of 
 of QuxCkurck- K™g-> Lords, or Commons ) to be a Crew of Superftitiow, Formal y 
 men. Prophane Wretches that out of a meer Enmity to Godlynejje, fet 
 thernfelves in Oppofition to the ways of Chrifi. Take notice 
 again, if you have not deliver'd the Do&rine aforefaid in ex- 
 prefle Termes, It is already made appear that you have feid 
 as much as That amounts to. And over and above the Whymfos 
 of 'your Aphorifmes ^your Thirteenth Chapter, of the Late Wars is 
 one oftheRudeft and the falfeft pieces of Calumny againftthe 
 Late King, that I know anywhere Extant. 
 
 Your 
 
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 Your Appeal upon Wis One ft/fiance ( as yon call it ) for £- 
 quity of Judgement , and Liberty of Speech, would move the 
 very Stones in the Walls, to give you a Hearing. And yet if, 
 I had been of your Conn fell Mr. Baxter , you fhould have be- 
 thought your felf, before you Exclaim d, whether the En- 
 quiry into the Subject- matter of your Complaint , might 
 not poffibly lay open fbmething that was worfe, As un- 
 doubtedly it has i for This Holy Commonwealth of yours, is a 
 kind of (fend me well deliver'd of the Word J a kind oiThsologi- Baxter fom- 
 co-Tolitical Whole-Sale Shop-, and furnifhed with Cafef, of all nabfe Cafes of 
 Sorts and Sizes, for the Consciences of the Weak, and the Pre- Confcience.- 
 tentionsoHhz MalitioH*. In One Cafe, the King is Difpojfift 
 by Providence', In another, he is deposed for Incapacity, ]n a 
 Third, he mull: not fo much as dare to Return, even ifthe 
 Door wer fet open to him : In Such or fuch a cafe, the People 'are 
 bound not to Re-admit him ; and in fuch another , they * 
 
 may if they pleafe, but they are not oblig'd to't.- and every 
 one of Thefe Cafes, Calculated for this very Poyrit, which 
 was at That Time in Agitation. Infomuch, that the appli- 
 cation of your Arguments was yet more Criminal then the 
 Errour of theiv . 
 
 But what do ye mean, I befeech .ye, by the fry of the "Plot- Bm% ^ rciTTir 
 ters againfiyel As if they knew their Friends no better then of a Plot up^ 
 So. Their builnefs is the Suhtreffah of the Government, and en him. 
 of the Protectant Religion, that falls with it. What mould 
 they cry out for again ft the Separates, that are all this while, 
 doing the Papifis bufinefs to their hands ? The Kings WittileiTes 
 Speak no fuch matter; but on the Contrary ; that the Priefts 
 and JeP.i its make ufe of the Schjfitfatiqfies toward our Com- 
 mon Ruine. So that by Plotters in This place Mr. Baxter, . 
 it is Intended ( i prefume, ) according to your Wonted Be- 
 nignity) not the Popijh Plotters, but the Epifcopal Plotters a- 
 gainft ye-, which (as you would gladly .have the World to 
 believe ) Seekyour DeflruElion, and the Parliaments, as fuppofed to 
 Favour ye txc. Now to my thinking, the Parliaments Tteftrutli- 
 on, and Ours , would have run every jot as well, as Our Be- 
 ftruclicn and the Parliaments. Befide that it is not yet come 
 to That Pafsl ho^ r thzt Parliaments, and Schifmatiq^es, mull lheCan ^- 
 Stand or fall together. Neither xan I Imagine why This Par- {or£lhe H •• 
 liamen t. mould be fuppos'd more Inclinable to favour ye, then 
 
 former 
 
7 
 
 9 <72) 
 
 former Parliaments have been. The Reafons for Uniformity 
 are the fame now that ever they were ; and' the fame, Here % 
 as in other It * laces. And then the bold^eife, and Importunity 
 of the Dividers encreafe the neceflky of the Injundtion. If 
 you have forgotten the Commons Votes, find zAddrejfe oiFeb 
 25. 1662. upon This Subjedt, Pray let me remember you of 
 them. 
 
 Refolved, &c. Nemine Con'tradkente. 
 - c 11. That the humble Thanks of This Honfe, be returned to his Ma- 
 hiformity. j e fty> f or ^i* Resolution to maintain , the Ab~l of Uniformity, 
 
 Refolved, 8cc. 
 
 That it be prefented to the Kings Afajcfty 9 as the humble *Ad- 
 vifecf the Houje, that no Indulgence be granted to the dtJJ enters 
 from the All of Uniformity. 
 
 For thefe Reafons. 
 
 Reafons 
 
 j-a ;ionf * 1 . It will eft ab I if) Schifme, by a Law, amd make the whole 
 
 Government of the Church Precarious, and the Cenfures of it, of 
 no moment or Confederation at all. 
 
 2. It will no way become the gravity or Wifdcme of a Parlia- 
 ment to paffe a Law at One Seffion for Uniformity , and at 
 the next Seffion, ( the Reafons of Uniformity continuing ftill the 
 Same, ) to fajfe Another Law to fruftrate, or Weaken the Ex- 
 ecution of it, 
 
 3. It will expofe your Majefty to the Reft left e Importunity of 
 every Sell or Opinion, and of every Jingle perfon aljo, who ftiall 
 pre fame to Diffentfrom the Church of England. 
 
 4. It will be a caufe of encreafing Seels, and SeclarUs, whofe 
 Nnmbers will weak-n the true P rote ft ant Religion fo far, that it 
 will at leaft be difficult for it, to defend it felf againft them. 
 Arid which is yet further Confiderable, thofe Numbers which by 
 bejng TroubLfome to the Government, find they can arrive to an 
 Indulgence, will as their Numbers encreafe, be yet more Trouble- 
 Jo me, that Jo at length they may arrive ton General Toleration ; which 
 your cj'yfajefiy hath declar'd againft ; and in time, fomc preva- 
 lent Set: . will at Lift contend for an Eftabliftunent, which for ought 
 can be fre-fcen, may end in Popery. 
 
1$ 
 
 173 ) 
 
 . 5- It is a thing altogether without Precedent, and will take aw Ay 
 nil means of Convicting T{ec;tfants, and be inconfiftent with the Me- 
 thod, and Proceedings of the Laws of England. 
 
 La fly, It is humbly conceived, that the Indulgence Propofed 
 will be fo far from tending to the Peace of the Kingdome, that 
 it is rather likely to Occafion great Diflurbance. An don the Con- 
 trary ; that the A fating of the Law*, and the Religion Efla- 
 blifiied, according to the Aft of Uniformity, is the mofl probable 
 means to produce a fettled Peace, and Obedience throughout your 
 Kingdome : Becanfe the Variety of Profejfions in Religion, when 
 openly divulged, doth direftly diftinguifl) men into Parties, and 
 Withall gives them opportunity to count Their Numbers ; which 
 conddering the Animofities that out of a Religious Pride will be 
 kept on foot, fry the fever all Factions, doll? tend diretlly, and In- 
 evitably to open difturbance. 
 
 Nor can your Majefty have any fecurity, that the Doctrine or 
 \V or flip of the fever all Factions, which are all govern d by a 
 fever all Rule, floall be (onfifent with the Peace of your Kingdome. 
 
 And if any Perfons (hall pre fume to difturb the Peace of the 
 Kingdome, We do in all Humility declare, that we will for ever 
 and in all Occafions^ be ready with our utmofl Endeavours, and 
 Jlffiftance, to. adhere to, and ferve your Majsfiy, according to our *^$ 
 bounden Duty, and Allegiance, 
 
 Only one Word more : and That mull: be to tax you Mr Baxters" 
 with Infinite Ingratitude •, in faying, that [ Parliaments, for ingratitude. 
 ought you know, never did any thing for your Relief or Eafe ] 
 what do ye think of the Aft of Indemnity, I befeech ye ? 
 Was it Nothing ? to give you your Lives, Liberties, and E- 
 ftateszg&m, when all was Forfeited ? Nay and it is come to 
 that Point now too ', that thofe very Inftruments that were 
 forgiven by the King, for the Ruin of the Church and Three 
 Kingdoms, will not at this day forgive his Majefiy, for En- ,^ 
 
 deavouring according to the Advice of his Parliament, to \fo- 
 eftablijhand Prcferve them. 
 
 Ri. If you would under f and m aright, you mufi repair to our Howtoun- 
 C Declarations, Profeflions, Com millions, National Oaths and derftandthe 
 Covenants,] and the Like. Ho, Com. Pag. 47;. And pray Pi«bytcriani. 
 Qbfirve the Tenor of our Stile, Addreife. ProtefcatioLS, ando* 
 ther Proceedings. 
 
 L \fCo'nt 
 
Words. 
 Praaifcs. 
 
 Words, 
 
 Words. 
 
 ?raai:cs. 
 
 Words. 
 
 ^aftifo. 
 
 (74) 
 
 [Tour M ajc flies mo fl Humble, and Loyd Subjects, the Lords 
 and Commons, Dec. 14. 164.1. [Moft Humble and Fatthfull 
 Subjects,"] Dec. 15. [ Mo ft Humble aud Obedient Subjects, ~\ 
 Exaft Collections. Fa. 2. 
 
 Mo. And now put That Libellous Remonftrance of Dec. 
 1%. in the Scale againft Three or Four, Words of Courfe, 
 of the lame date. 
 
 Ri. The Knights, Citizens, and Burgcjfes of the HoufeofCom- 
 morn, your Faithful and, toy all Subjects, &c. Ibid. Pa. 44, 
 Dec. 31. 1 64 1. 
 
 Mo. This was a Meflage to his Majefty for a Guard, which 
 the King moft gracioufjy offer'd them, but One of his Chufing 
 it feems would not do the Bufinefle. 
 
 Ri. [Tour moft faithful and Obedient Subjects, the Lords and 
 Commons in this Prefcnt Parliament. ] #*• Ibid-.Pa. 65. Jan. 29. 
 
 Mo. They Petition'd to have the Tower of London, and all 
 ceher Forts, andthexchole Militia of the Kingdom to be FORTH- 
 WITH put into the hands of f neb Per fans, as both Houfcs Jlwuld 
 Recommend, &c, Ex. Coll. Jan. 29. 1641* And what did his 
 Majefty now get by the Complement ? 
 
 Ri. [Your Humble and Loyal Subjects, the Lords and £omr>ons^\ 
 &c. Ibid. Feb. 22. 1641. Pa. 8©* 
 
 Mo .His Majefties Humble and Loyal Subjects ,are pleas'd to de- 
 dare in this Petition *, that if the King does not Inftantly grant 
 them their Petition abont the Militia, they are bound by the 
 Laws of God and man to take the MHitia'ui to their own hands. 
 
 Ri. Tour Majefties moft Loyal, and Obedient Subjects, the Lords 
 and Commons','] &c. lb. Mar. 1. 1641. Pa. 92. 
 
 tfflo. In this Petition they threaten todifpofe of the Militia 
 by the Authority of the Two Houfes. They Order his Majefty 
 •whereto difpofeofhis P erf on : and abfblutely deny the Kings Power 
 of she Militia^//; by Authority andconfent of Parliament. 
 
 RL 
 
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 Ri. Tour moftButyful and Loyal SubjeEls, the Lords and Com- Words. 
 tnons,^ <Scc. lb. 138. Apr. ^642. Tour Majefties moft Loyal and 
 Faithful SubjeEls, the Lords and Commons, &c. "| lb. Apr. 8. 
 4642. Pa. 141. 
 
 %JMo. Very Good ! And the Former of Thefe was for Leave p ria r fcs 
 to remove the Magazin at //«//, to the Tower of London : And 
 the Other was to divert the King from going into Ireland to 
 fupptefle the Irijl} Rebellion : ( which had certainly been done ) 
 and to tell him, that if he went contrary to the Advice of his 
 Parliament, They wsre refolved, in his Abfence, not to fub- 
 mittoanyCommiflloners he fhould appoint : but to preferve, 
 -and Govern the Kingdome by theCounfell and Advice of Par- 
 liament. ] &c. 
 
 Ri. Tour Majefties Loyal SubjeBs the Lords and Commons in Wor<k 
 his Parliament.'} Ibid. 258. May 1642. 
 
 Mo. Here His Majefties Loyal Subjeds prefle the King to Pra&ir*. 
 disband his Troops at Tork, or otherwife they'le take the Quiet 
 of the Kingdome into their own Care. And paiTe Thefe fol- 
 lowing Votes. 
 
 Refolved upon the Queftion. 
 
 1. That h appears thatrthe King {fednced by wicked Counfells ) TheWir 
 intends to make War again ft the Parliament. &C. o charg'd upon 
 
 2 . That whensoever the King maketh War upon the Parliament, it thc Kin 5' 
 is a Breach oftheTrusl repofedin him by his People, Contrary to his 
 
 Oath, and tending to the Diffolution of This (jovernment. 
 
 3. That whofo ever JJi all ferve, or Affifl him in fuch Wars, are Treafonto 
 Tray tors by the Fundamental Laws of this Kingdome, and have been ferve the King.' 
 foAdjudgdby Two Atts of Parliaments, and ought to fuffer as 
 Traytors. ] &C, 
 
 Ri. Tour Majefties mo ft humble and Faithful Subjects, the Lords Words. 
 and Commons in Parliament. ] &c. Jb. Jun. 2. 1642. Pa. 307. 
 
 sJWo. This was the Petition that Accompanied the Nineteen Pro- The 10. De- 
 pofitions: demanding from the King £ the difcharge of all his P°. fin S ?ro P°^ 
 Minifters ^"mballadors, and none to be tak^n into their Places inons * 
 but what the Parliament fn all approve. That all matters of State maybe 
 tranfatted only in Parliament ; the Privy Qounfell to be by Them appro- 
 ved from time to time and fupplyd. All Great Officers to be Chofen by 
 
 L 2 thm 
 
 . 
 
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 Words 
 
 fratfifes. 
 
 (76) 
 
 their Approb.itidn : They to have the Education of the Kittys Children, 
 and 1 he Choyce of their Servants. ?{o Ma ch to be treated of without 
 them. A Ri -formation of Church-Government and Liturgy to be 
 contrived by their Advice : The Militia to be fettled in them till fettled 
 by a Bill *, and all I reclamations against it to be recalled. New 
 Oaths I "or 'Privy Councillors, and Judges. All Judges and Officers 
 to hold their Places, Quamdiu fe bene Gellerint : Parliament-Ju- 
 fiice upon all Delinquents. An Amnefl;y with fich exceptions as the 
 Parliament {hill aiufe . All Ports and Caflles under Goncmoirrs ad- 
 proved by Parliament. All Forces to be Difbanded ', and a Prohi* 
 binonof any Peer s here after to be made, from Sitting or footing- in 
 Parliament, without the Confent of Both Houfes. ] Are not thefe 
 the Proportions think ye, of Moft Humble and Faithful Subjelh ? 
 
 Ri. Yv ur Majcfties Loyal Subjects, the Lords and Commons in 
 Parliament, Ibid. Sept. 24. 1642. Pa. 61 7. 
 
 Mo. His Majefties Loyal Subjecls had now fent the Earl of 
 EJfexto fall upon the Kings Army, and defired his Majefty to 
 leave them and come to his Parliament : And they Petitioned 
 his Majefty to the fame Purpofe again. Pa. 630. And fo as the 
 Humour took them, to the very Treaty at the lfle of Wight 1 
 But whether Thefe were the Actions of Rebells, or Loyall Sub- 
 jects, be you your felf the Judge, 
 
 o 
 
 Ri. Well, But what fay ye to the Stile of Q We your Humble an A 
 Loyal Subjecls of both Kingdoms. ] Appendix to Husbands Ex. 
 Coll. id. Part. Fol. .22. Jan. 13. 1645. 
 
 Mo.^ Thefe were the Humble, and Loyal Subjecls, that, in the. 
 fame Paper, Refufed his Majeftys Proffer of a Perfonal Treaty 
 with Them at Weflminfter. [_ Tour Majefty ( fay they ) defer es the 
 Engagement, not only of the Parliament, but of the Lord Mayor, Al- 
 dermen, Co mm on- Co unci II and Militia of the City 0/London ', the 
 Chief Commanders of Sir. Tho. Fairfaxes zArmy \and Tho/eofthc 
 Scots. Army ; which is againft the Privileges and Honour of the Par- 
 liament, thofe being JoyrPd with them, who are Sub jell and Sabordi^ 
 nateto their Authority. 
 Their profef- •^ t c ^ e ^ me rate z ^ Proceeded iu Their Profeffions ; [ They 
 (iop"$. ' defer e only to Lay a Foundation of Honour, Safety, and Happinefs to 
 
 the Kings Perfoa and Throne. 2 &*• OIL dec, 14. 1641. [_The 
 
 Greatneffe 
 
 Woidr, 
 
 PTtftiftsy 
 
(77) ^ 
 
 tlrttttnefle and Frofpcrity of his Majefty, and his r R^oyal Pofterity7\ 
 lb. Dec. I 5 . Pa. 2. [ His Majeftysgreatnejfe and Honour ] lb. Mar. 
 1. 41. Pa. 94. [ Honour and greatncfjc] Mar. 2. P. 102. [honour. 
 Safety , and Profperity of your Majefty ] Mar. 1 6. P. 1 1 8.' C We feek. 
 ndth'm? but your Ma jefties Honour] Mar. 15. P. 123. [The Safety of 
 his Majefties Perfon Y and his Royal Pofterity ] May 5. 42. Pa. 173. 
 £ Oar mo ft Duty full care for the Safety of your Royal Per fon ] May 9 . 
 P. 1 80. [ For the Preferring and ^Mayntaining the Royal Honour, 
 Greatnefs, and Safety of your Majefty, and Pofterity ] Jan. 2.42. P, 
 310. And then fee their Remarkable P rote ft ation of Otloh. 22. 
 1 642. [ We the Lords and Commons in this pre fent Parliament Affem- fa the pre* 
 bkd,do in the Pre fence of Almighty (fod,for the Satisfaction of our fer.cz oWl.c 
 Confoiences , and the T)ifcharge of That Great Truft which lyes Almighty. 
 upon us, make this Proteftation and Declaration to The Kingdome 
 and Nation, and to the whole World ; That no Private Paffton or Rc- 
 I pett, no Evil I Intention to his Majeflys Per fon, no defign to the Tre- 
 iudice of his J uft Honour and (^Authority , Engaged us to rayfe Forces, 
 and take up Arms again ft the Aut hours of This War ) wherewith the 
 Kingdome is now En flamed J Ibid. Pa. 663. [Without any Intention a Rebellion 
 or defire, ( as we do hereprofffe before the Ever-living God ) to hurt, - m t { e Nune o£ 
 or Injure his Majefty, Either in his P erf on, or Iuft Power.] b.P.666. the everla- 
 I could give you Inftances of this kind, without End, and as ftingGod. 
 many, of the grofs and Unquestionable violations of Thefe Pro- 
 feffions -,For every Order they paft, and every Tiftol that they 
 Fired, was a poynt-blankContradiclion, to their Pretenfions. Befide 
 that in the fame Breath, they Ulurped all the %egaiities of the 
 Crow, and yet Wrote Themfelves, His Majefties m&ft Obedient 
 SUBJECTS . So that This Stile of Loyalty was at the fame time Covenant* 
 a Blind to the Well-meaning Multitude, and a Note of Confederacy Lojzlty* 
 jmong Themfelves : a Loyal Subject, according to the Covenant, 
 Importing.in plain Terms, a Traytor, in the eye of the Law. And 
 yet the Caufe, and the Obligation of this Covenant, and the Pro- 
 ceedings upon it, are openly Afferted at This very day. 
 
 Ba. Yes, yes •, There's The (fount er miner, the Popifh Dialogue, Slandcnup^ 
 and many others, that continue lowdiy to Accufe us, and rtTake £ e haim . ef; 
 men believe that we are Plotting^ new War,and that cur Prin- Fl€sh y tQinn ^ 
 uples are Rebellious &C. ] Nonfinf. Flea. 2d Part. Pref 
 
 Mo. What do ye think of maintaining, that [ Whatfoever the Piesbyte \ a» 
 Two Houfes declare for Law, muft pafs for LstW) wnhfiut (fontroul, Ptfrions. 
 
 both 
 
J2» ( 7 B) 
 
 both upon King and People ] £.*•. Co//. 297. [_ That they may do whit- 
 ever they pie afe ] Ibid. Q TW ^ ^^/or /Vr of Both Houfes are the 
 abfolute Mafters «f the Lives and Liberties of the Subject f ] Ibid. 
 [_ That no member of the Houfe ofCommws be medled with fur Trea- 
 fon, Felony &C. Without Leave of the Houfe. ] Ibid. £ That the Sove- 
 reignty re fides in the wo Houfes, and that the King has no Negative 
 Voice~\ Ibid. That there lyes no Treafon again fi the Perfon of the King. 
 Ibid. Q That the Two Houfes may Depofe the King and not be blamed 
 for fo doing. Ibid. 
 Mr Baxt.v* " Now m camn & Thofe people that did all This, [TheEe& 
 bdl Gover- ' Governors in the World ~] as in the Preface to your Holy Common- 
 norsinthe Wealth'. And in Vindicating That Book, from any Principles of 
 world. Diiloyalty toward the Perfon of the King, as you do, toward the 
 
 ciofe of your Preface as to the 2d. Part of the Non-conformifts Plea 
 Apri. 16. 1680. What is This, but the Affertwg of Rebellions 
 Principles} And the Preaching of the oldDottrinc to the people 
 over'again, What Is it but the Preface to another War ? 
 
 The Innocent Ba ' C What have we done thefe Twenty years againlt the 
 Non-Confor- King or State * Unlefs it be our Crime to live under Reproach, 
 aiiib. and Scorn, and Poverty, andlometime Imprifonments ; and ne- 
 
 ver once fo much as Petition a Parliament, either to Piny us,or 
 to Hear us once Speakjor our Selves &c. ~] Ibid. If any Odd per- 
 fons, or whofbever have faid or done any thing againlt the King 
 or Kingdome, or their Neighbours Right or Peace,or have been 
 Guilty of any Fraud, Drunkennefle, Perjury or Immorality be- 
 fides their ^Unavoidable T^on-conformity, let them be punifht as 
 the Law requires , but let not the Innocent, yea Thoufands be 
 Slandered, and Defigned to VeftruBion for Them.] Ibid. 
 
 Th princi- Mo. Ifyou Speak of the Nonconformifls, they have juftifTd, 
 pies of the fr° m S* xt y t0 Eighty, all the Indignities that were put upon the 
 Late RcbclU' Government, from Forty, to Sixty : and there is not any one Se- 
 on revived. ditions, or Schifmatical Principle of the Old Stamp, which they 
 have not afrefh, Revivd, and Recommended to the People. And 
 for the Moderation you boaft of, I dare be anfwerable to pro- 
 duce almoft. as many Hundreds of Clamorous Libels againft Au- 
 thority from the Diffenting Party, as you reckon Tears of 5/- 
 Mr. Baxters lence, and Forbearance. But thefe are ODD Perfons you fay ; and 
 Odd perfons f is every DifTenter in the Kingdom : for Ten Millions of men, 
 are but as fb many Individuals, when difencorporate, and Loppd 
 offfromthe Body. If i durft be fo bold Sir, I mould venture to 
 
 fay 
 
AythatMr. Baxter himfelfisoheof the ODDEST perfons that HcHimfelf 
 1 know in the whole Party. You have Firft, a Perfwafion, to One. " 
 your felf\ for you are neither a Presbyterian, nor an Independent, 
 nor zuAnahaptift, nor of any Trihe of the T>ivifion than ever 
 yet had a Name to be known by \ but a pure Original, and a 
 Cbriftian of your own making : You have Secondly, as Peculiar a 
 (fonfeience too; that had rather leap a Precipice, then keep the 
 itagj high-way. It r//b and jfo//i like a Weather-Glaffe, upon 
 Change of ^y^ : and makes St. iW blow //<?r or Cold at />/c*- 
 fare :^ Let every foul be SubjeEi to the Higher Powers ] requires 
 Obedience to Dick Cromwell, upon pain of Damnation, and 
 Difobedience to Charles the Fir ft, Upon the fame penalty, (as we 
 have had it already.) And then you have this further Ad vantage, m,.. Bauer 
 Sir, that you are your own King, and your own Pope ; you Pre- his o<n King 
 fcribe your own Laws,, and Grant your ot*vz Pardons* and Popo. 
 
 2U. You may prate as long as you will. [ / am againft the Im- Baxters A- 
 pofing of Myftical Ceremonies^ Croffing,or Surplice ] &c. Five gumen'r a- 
 Difp.Pa. 467. Q For to Impofe new Symbolicall Rites upon the gainftCe-.e*-- 
 Church, which Chrift hath not Impofe d, doth feemto me an Vficrpa- nK)n ies. 
 t ion of his Sovereign Power. J Ibid. Q And to accufe Chrift of Igno- 
 rance, or Negligence , in that he himfeif hath not Impofed them. ] 
 Andfo doth it Imply an Accnfation of his Laws, and of the Holy 
 Scriptures, as if they were Inefficient, "] Ibid. 46 8. "Q And The fe Im- 
 pofitions feem to be plain Violations sfThefe Prohibitions of God , pi 
 w/7^ we are forbidden to Add to his W or flip, or diminiftj 
 FROM IT.] 469. And moreover ; [_Cjod hath allready given hs 
 fo per fell a Directory for his Wbrfhip, that. there is nothing msre that < 
 we can reafonably defire. ] lb. 48 1. 
 
 Ri. Now for my part, I am for the Amiable way, £ (fhriftians T j ;C c ^ e m # j 
 Jhfiuld not be Over-bufy in Prying into the work^of their Govemoiirs •, R C r ived, 
 nor too forward to ftfpecl their determinations. J {_ The Duty #f O- 
 bzyxugthem being Certain, and the SinfulneiTe of the thing Com- 
 manded, being Uncertain, and Unknown, and only Sufpected 5 
 we miift go onthe fur er fide.] Ibid. 484. \_ In dif obeying the Law- 
 full Commands of our Supericurs, we difobey Chrift. ~] Ibid. 485. Be- 
 fide that £ Difobedience in matters of Circum [lance, will exclude > , 
 and Overthrow.thc Sub ft&UQZ of thi Worftripit fclf. Pa. 486. 
 
 Foftfcript 
 
n ' (80) % 
 
 TOSTSCHITT, To the Reader. 
 
 MR. Baxter has certainly given, inthis£.w™<:7, the grea- 
 teft blow to the Non-conformifts that ever they Received : 
 For there are no Arguments again ft That Part) like their own Ar- 
 guments againft Themfehes. To the cleared: Evidences of Autho- 
 rity, and Reafon, they'le oppofe Clamour, and PaJJion ; and 
 makeamift to wriggle thcmfelvcs Of and On, with Wire- 
 drawn Texts and Riddling diJHn&ions. But when the very OraclM 
 of That Intereft comes to play Fafl and Loofe, and fhifthjf 
 Ccnfcience with the Seafon, the Ma] que is then taken off ; for as 
 there can be no Denyalohhe Fall, lo there can be no Excufe for 
 the Hypocrify. How comes Toleration to be a Sin, under the 
 Presbyterians,. and a D^o under the Bifljops ? How comes it to 
 be Damnation, in the cafe of the Late King, and Richard Crom- 
 well, to Obey the Former, and deflroy the Latter ? Even accor- 
 ding to Mr. "Baxters own Expofition, which is, that by St. /Wj 
 Higher Powers, is In tended 77;o/e in Atlnal Pejfejfwn ? How come 
 Bijhops to he Antichriflian, at one time, and Warrantable at ^0- 
 *kr? Or the GV*7 Magiflrate to have more power in Ecclefiafti- 
 cal matters, under an Vfurper, then under a Lawful Prince f 
 How comes an SpifcopalVniformity to be more a Persecution then 
 a Presbyterian ? Ota Common Trayer-Book more Intolerable then* 
 a Direttvry? What can more expofe the GW/> of the Dijfenters^ 
 then this double-dealing in the Foreman of the /Wy . ? to fee 
 Mr. "Baxter Lye down in Cto* Opinion, and #/!?, in Another ; ftill 
 Accomodating his Scruples to every £>*/*/ of Sfctf* ? And to 
 Confummate the Iniquity ofthe Pretenfe ; He has no fooner In- 
 veigled the People into a Schifme, but he prefently follows it 
 with a Plat-form of Sedition : and having wrought a defection 
 from the Ecclefiaftical, he falls to work, in his Cafes and ^p/w- 
 r///^ upon the Foundations ofthe Gw# Government. 
 
 The End. 
 
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p 
 
 ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 ttDtaO^OftlKPiOt: Or, A Brief fnd Hiftorical 
 Account of the Charge and Defence of 'Edward Coleman ,Efq« 
 William Ireland Thomas Pickering, John Grove: Robert 
 Green, Henry Berry, Laurence Hill : Tho.Whitehread, Wil- 
 liam Har court, John Fenwick^, John Gavan, Anthony Turner , 
 Jefuites : Richard Lavghorn, Efq^ : Sir George Wakeman, 
 Baronet, William Marjhal, WiUiamRumly, James Corker, Re- 
 nediftine Monks. Not omitting any one Material Paffage 
 in the whole proceeding. By Authority. Printed for 
 Richard Tonfon withm Grayes-Inn-Gate next Crayes-Inn 
 Lane. 1679. 
 
1 
 
 THE 
 
 CATHOLIQUE^ 
 
 O R, T H E 
 
 True Proteftant. 
 
 M A T T H. Z4. 16. 
 
 There Jhall arife False Christs and False. 
 
 PROPHETSe 
 
 eft Se conn coition Co#efffti. 
 
 IONJ)ON, 
 
 Krinted for Hewrj/ Brome, at the G«« in St. Pauls 
 Church-yard, at the Weft End, 1679. 
 
v ;y* 
 
THE 
 
 S&efojmeD Catijolipe : 
 
 o R, 
 
 The True Proteftant. 
 
 His Paper fhould have come into the 
 World under the Form of a Letter (as 
 mod Pamphlets of quality do oflate) if 
 the Author had not made a Confcience 
 of covering- the Simplicity of his pur- 
 pofe under any fort of Difguife - fo that 
 "' without fo much as a fingle How do ye, 
 to ufheritin, he comes point blank to .the Bufinefs in the 
 very Title. It may be looked upon, I know, as a thing of 
 III Omen, to begin with an Alias : But there is neither Priefi 
 nor Highway-man in our Cafe 5 and yet there may be caufe 
 enough perhaps for a kind of Hue and Cry too 5 for it is a 
 matter of great moment that every man fhould both go, and 
 hzkpown by his right Name ^ and (peradventurej never 
 more neceflary than in this jun&ure, and in this particular : 
 And fo to my Text. 
 
 A Reformed Catholique (^properly fo called) is an Apo- 
 ftolicalChriflian, or a Son of the Church of England : A true 
 
 B Pro- 
 
100 
 
 2 ! The Reformed Catholique : Or, 
 
 Protejlant maybe fo too 5 nay, and many times he *rfb* 
 and many a Loyal, Orthodox, Reformed Catholique calls him- 
 felffo$ and (^according to the fhle of the Age) he may be 
 well enough J^ and accounted fo to be. But all this is only 
 by Adoption, and without any colour for it in the Original 
 of his Denomination. Now a Pr defiant , in ftri&nefs of 
 fpeaking, is a Lutheran, which this Church does not in all 
 points pretend to be, and then the Chara&eriflical Note of a 
 Chrijiian is Catholique 5 (b that the Appellation is too narrow 
 for the Principle , and draws on the very fame Implication 
 in a Protejlant Catholique, which we make (port with in a 
 Roman-Catholique, that is to fay, the Solceciim of a Particular 
 TJniverfality. 
 
 Here is enough already (I fuppofcj tofurnjfh an Extract 
 of as much Popery out of it, as may recommend fome hun- 
 gry Informer to a Mornings-draught 5 for we have a fort 
 of people now-a-days, that will read a mans Heart through 
 his Ribs, though they can hardly fee his Nofe on his Face 3 
 and that give more Credit to their Ears than to their Eyes. 
 Now to eafe the Reader in two or three peevifh points, if 
 he fhould chance to be Over-critical and Imperious , I will 
 tell him before-hand , in a few words , what he is to 
 truft to. 
 
 To the firjl gueftion or Obje&ion fairly fuppofed; the 
 Author is no Dijgmfed or Concealed Papiji, but of the Com- 
 munion of the Church of Bag/detrained up in the ftri&eft 
 way of it, and (landing firm to it againft all forts of Provo- 
 cation, Difcouragement, Temptation, and Argument 5 and 
 without warping to thejefoites, either on the right hand 
 or on the left. 
 
 To the Second : He is not fet on to write this Difcourfe, 
 either dire&ly or indireftly, by any Hint, Defire, or Ap- 
 pointment whatfoever 5 nor by any other Motive than the 
 fenfe of what he owes to the Publique, and to his Con- 
 Iciencc, and the ConQderation of fome fmall Prefent from 
 
 the 
 
The True Troteftant. 3 
 
 the Book-feller, if there be any thing got by it. (A piece of 
 Good Husbandry that he hath learnt of his Superiors. ) He 
 hath no defign upon any Place at Court in it, nor upon any 
 Church Legfe 3 no not fo much as a Revcrfion : And all this 
 is True, by the Faith of a poor Gentleman, that hath worn 
 his Doublet out at the Elbows in his Majefties Service. It 
 might be added, that he is grown Old and Carelefs, and 
 that even Malice it felf were loft upon him. Now under 
 thefe Circumftances , I hope he may fecurely advance to 
 tell you a little more of his mind. 
 
 Sofaras Catholique and Protectant ferve only as two [eve- 
 ralNames, intending the felf fame thing, (though the one by 
 Propriety, and the other but by Translation) it is all one to 
 me whether of the two any man calls me 5 all the danger is, 
 thecountenancirg of an 111 Thing under a Good Name. 
 
 The word Protejiancy falls under a double acceptation 3 
 the one, as it denotes the Reformed Religion 3 the other, as 
 it is taken for the Genus Generaliffimum of all Dijjcnters 
 from the Church 0/ JBLOtttt* The former I do heartily embrace, 
 as tranfmitted to us from our Fore-fathers, and Signed by 
 the Blood of Martyrs 3 Authorized by the Holy Gofptl, 
 and by the Law of the Land 3 the common Bond of our 
 Civil Peace, and (by Gods Bleffing J the Hopes and Means 
 of our Eternal Salvation. 
 
 Now to the latter Acceptation, I am not at all (atisfied with 
 it, and I have both Reafon and Experience to warrant me 
 in that diflike. As to my Reafon 3 Firft, It is an Agreement 
 upon an Oppofiion 3 and next, it is an Agreement of fever al 
 Parties difagreeing among themfelves, which carries the Face 
 rather of a Confederacy, than a Religion : For it is not the 
 Oppofing of Error, but the aflerting of a Truth, that mud 
 do the work. One Error may be oppofed by another, even 
 in a Single Perfon 3 as one man Robs his Neighbour, and a 
 third Robs him. Here is one Injuflice oppofed by another : So 
 
 B 2 that 
 
^ v : 4 The Reformed Cathblique : Or, 
 
 that as it is an Agreement in Oppoftion, it is a hundred to one 
 there will be Error in it : But the Oppojcrs themfel ves being 
 fubdivided,\\s impoffible it fhould be Right 5 for the very 
 Ejfence and Soul of Religion are here wanting 5 that is to fay, 
 C/^r/ry and Unity. And for the proof of this, wyon I all 
 Contradiction 5 let but any man look back into the late 
 Troubles,and fee, when the Faftions had deftroyed the King 
 and the Church, (which they called the Common Enemy) 
 how they fell prefently to the Worrying of one anoth er$ 
 when the Presbyterians, Independents, Anabaptijls, Sha- 
 kers, Seekers, Ranters, Antinomians, and twenty other wild 
 forts of Sectaries, under the title of Protejiants , and un- 
 der the pretence of oppofing Popery, deftroyed the very 
 Caufe the Covenanted to ailert 3 a Protefiant -Church , a 
 Proteflant-Prince, and a Protectant- People , filled the Land 
 with Confufion, Sacrilege, and Herefie 3 made the Englijh Na- 
 tion a Reproach and a Scandal to the Chr/Jiian World: And 
 fo foon as they had pofTeffed themfelves of the Power and 
 Revenue of the Kingdom, every mans hand was againfthis 
 Brother for the Booty. 
 
 To proceed now to the matter of Experience: I would 
 fain fee any one Inftance from the very Reformation it felfc 
 to this day, whenever there was a Clamour advanced up- 
 on this point, of a Conjunct Oppoftion of Popery, that the 
 Church of England was not Itruck at in the Confederacy^ 
 and that too, not by blind Inferences and tacit Prefumption, 
 but by Ouver t aft s , and a Notoriety of Prallice : That is 
 to fay, the Men that ftickled under this Notion, did pofi- 
 tively declare the Government by Bifops to be Antichri- 
 ftian 5 and the Difiipline and Common Prayers of the Churchy 
 to be Popery and Superflition ; yes, and the Civil Admini- 
 jlraticn it felfalfo to be down-right Tyranny. They did 
 juft like the Fellows in Hatton-Garden, that Stole Money 
 and Plate, under the pretence of Searching for Priejis$ 
 and for the Credit of the Exploit, they Robbed in Red 
 
 Coats 
 
The True Troteftant. j 
 
 Coats too, that th^y might the better pafs for fomeofhis 
 Majcjiics Guards. The Similitude runs upon, all Four, for 
 it was the very cafe of our pretended Protejiaxts 3 under 
 colour of hunting for Priejis^they feized Money and Plate, 
 and committed Robberies in the 'very Livery of the Go- 
 vernment. 
 
 This they did in Scotland, under the Queen Regent,, and 
 King James 3 and in England, under Queen Elizabeth 3 and 
 twice in Scotland again, under the late King $ and after 
 that, in England : Two a&ual Rebellions more in Scotland, 
 under this prefent King, and now Go.d blefs us from ano- 
 ther at Horne^ and all this from that fort of people that 
 ftiled themfelves Protectants. The Principles, the Methods, 
 and the Pretences the very fame, from one end to the 
 other. 
 
 The Story ofthefe PhanaticalConfyiracies is almoft asNau- 
 feous as the thing it felf is Deteftable 3 only this laft in Scot- 
 land methinks feems to Crown the Infamy of all the reft : 
 For a Party that calls it felf Protectants a Party in full Cry 
 upon the [cent of Popery 3 a Popifi Plot upon Oath too, at 
 the fame time upon the Life of the King, upon our Reli- 
 gion zndGovernment -•> and that Plot, at thatinftant, under 
 a ftri& Examination 3 the fame Party at the fame time alfo 
 preffing for Juftice upon the Confpirators, nay, and com- 
 plaining of the remifsnefs of the Profecution, notwith- 
 ftanding the mod exemplary Rigor in the Cafe that ever 
 was known in this Nation : For this Party, (I fay J under 
 •thefe Circumftances, to flie in the Face of the Government, 
 let the World judge if ever there was a more Confummated 
 piece of Wickednefs. They raift a Rebellion, and make 
 Religion the Ground of it 3 they declare a f^ragainft the 
 King, and the Church, and yet write themfelves Loyal Sub* 
 je&s and Protejiants. They cry out of the Danger of Po- 
 pery, and yet in the fame breath, draw their Swords upon 
 their Prince, in the very attempt ofCrufhing it 3 and all thefe 
 
 Aggra- 
 
 >*3 
 
'6 Tl?e fy formed Qatfolique : Or, 
 
 Aggravations complicated into one Aft. Is it not high time 
 then, after an Impofture that hath coftthis Nation fo dear, 
 to learn at Lift to diftinguifh betwixt a Religion and a Fa- 
 ction ? Betwixt what men are , and what they cal/ thcm- 
 felves ? Is a Renegado ever thelefs a T#r^for putting out 
 Englijlo Colours ? Are the BleJJed Spirits ever the lets Pure , 
 for the Devils transforming himfelf- into an Angel of Light ? 
 Is the Kings Broad Seal one jot thelefs Valuable for being 
 Counterfeited? So neither is our Profejfion. And he that 
 difhonours Religion, or invades Authority under the Name 
 of a Protejiant, is no more to any fober man, than a Goth 
 or zVandal. Judas his Betraying of his Matter was amoft 
 ungrateful and abominable Sin, but the doing of it with a, 
 JCffi made it by many degrees more execrable : And it 
 was the height of the Prophet Davids Affii&ion, the Cir- 
 cumftance of a Familiar Friend. Where is the harm now 
 of faying, Have a cave of $&\it PjOtettatttg t The aUt^D? 
 and the ifini(l)(C of our Faith, is (I hope) of Authority fuffi- 
 cient to juftifiethat Caution. Doth not our Saviour himfelf 
 tell us that there Jhallarife jfalft C^?ift0 andFaKe Prophets? 
 and why not Jfalfe P?OtfflantS i And doth he not bid us 
 take heed that no man deceive us 3 for many (fays he) f/jdU 
 come in my Name, faying lam Chrift, and foall deceive many £ 
 Doth he not bid us beware of Wolves in Sheeps Cloathing ? 
 And inhisdefcription of the Scribes and Pharifees, he gives 
 us the very Pifture of our Impofiors. 
 
 We have it upon the credit ofDr.Tong, and Dr. Oats, 
 that the Sedition of 164 1. was totally contrived and carried 
 on by Popijh Counfels 5 and that not onely the Conventicles in 
 that Bloody Revolution, but all our Separate Meetings to 
 this day , and particularly the Scottijh Commotions were and 
 are Influenced by Priefis and Jefuites, under the Mafqueof 
 Profeflors of thofe feveral Perfuafions. Have we not rea- 
 fon then to ufe all poffible Circumfpeftion, that we may 
 not beimpofeduponby fuch as thefe for Protejlants? No 
 
 man 
 
The True Troteftant, y 
 
 man hath a greater Veneration forthememorv ofthofePro- 
 teftantsthat fufFered Martyrdom for their Faiths no man a 
 greater Honour fox the IriJI\ the Par/ftan, and fcvera! other 
 MaJJacres^ no man a higher Efteem , or a more Ardent 
 affecYion for Protefiancy it (elf, (fo far as the Profeflion of 
 the Church of England is intended by it) than I have. But 
 for thofe Turbulent Spirits that lay about them as if Hea- 
 ven were to be taken by aSual Violence, whole Zeal out- 
 ftrips Chriftianity it felf, impofing upon the World their 
 own corrupt and impetuous paffions,in (lead of the Healing 
 and Pacifique Motions of the Holy Ghoft. Thefe arc a 
 dangerous fort ofpeople , and their ways are not onely a 
 Contradiction to the undeniable Principles of our Injiitu- 
 tion, but to the common Intereft of Mankind, as well In- 
 dividyals as Communities, For if it be true, that Charity is 
 the great LelTon of the Gofpel : If it be true, that Unity m 
 Faith, and Unanimity in the things of Civil Government, 
 would make up the moft perfected Bleffing that reafbnable 
 Nature is capable of in this Tabernacle of Flefh 5 then muft 
 it neceffarily follow, that the nearer we approach to that 
 Agreement, the better Chrifiians we are, 'and the happier Men$ 
 and the further we depart from it, the more Wicked and the 
 more Miserable we are. This is either true or falfe : If the 
 former, there is no Treafon in it } if the latter, we may burn 
 our Bibles. 
 
 Before I wade any farther into this Controverfie, it may 
 do well,I think,to give fome Reafon,why upon this SubjeB, 
 and at thisTime 5 that the World may not take that for the 
 Leaven of an Unquiet Humour, which in great Truth, is 
 onely an aft of Confidence in the difcharge of a fober and a 
 feafonable duty to my Prince and Country. 
 
 To the undertaking of this Office , I have been in- 
 duced, by the Audacious Liberties of the Prefs, in 
 
 the 
 
8 % The %eformed Catholujue : Or, 
 
 the matter of Religion and Government, endeavouring to 
 pofTeft the Multitude with Falfe and Pernicious Principles 
 and Opinions, and by Artificial Hints and Scandals to di£ 
 pofe them (now toward the meeting of this next Parlia- 
 ment) to a Partial and a Fa&ious Choice: So that my Rufi- 
 nefs is oncly to encounter and lay open the Vanity and 
 Weaknefs of thofe Libels, and without confining my felf to 
 any one in particular, to (urn up the Malice of them all, for 
 fo much as concerns our prefent purpofe , and to fubmit my 
 felf to the Reader in a fair and fhort Reply. 
 
 It is a Note worthy of Confideration, that all the Pa- 
 pers here in queftion, (even to a fingle Sheet) are the Work 
 of Men exceedingly Byaffed againft the EJiabliJ/ed Govern- 
 mentis Republicans, Anabaptijis, and other forts of Dijjen- 
 ters from theChurch^ for the Publifhers of thefe Papers are 
 known every one of them, and moft of the Authors. Now 
 what advice toward the Honour and Safety oi the Govern- 
 ment, thefe People are likely to give, who are United in 
 common Principles of Defaming, Difcompofing, and even of 
 Dijfolving it, let Heaven and Earth be the Judges : And 
 what work fuch a Houfe of Commons would make, as thefe 
 forward Undertakers would have, iftheywere todireft 
 and influence theEle&ion. 
 
 Now if thefe be the Counfellors, let us fee next if the Mat- 
 ter of their Writings be not anfwerable to the Ckara&er of 
 the Men? and if it be not mod evident that it is their ve- 
 ry fcope and defign (To f ar from endeavouring the Peace 
 and Settlement of the Nation) to poifon the People with 
 Seditious Maxims 5 to create Jealosies betwixt the King 
 and his Subje&s, and to Undermine the very Foundation of 
 the Government. 
 
 They fupport themfelves with the Multitude, upon two 
 General and Popular Pretentions, Religion, and Liberty : 
 What Religion , or what Liberty, they do not fay 5 but only~ 
 fill the Peoples heads with a confufed Notion of things, 
 
 and 
 
The True Troteftant. p £r 
 
 and wild apprehenfions of Popery and Tyranny : And then 
 their next work is under colour of ftating the Privileges of 
 King and People 3 ro Eredt Seditious Positions 5 and after 
 all, to prefcribe Remedies infinitely worfe then the Difeafe. 
 We fhall now make it appear that the Religion they talk 
 of, leads to all forts of Impiety^ and that their pre- 
 tended Liberty is the ready way to Slavery. Firft^ of Re- 
 ligion. 
 
 As to what concerns Religion, they do all of them fing 
 the fame Song in their Hu&ries and Proposals to the Free- 
 holders and EleSors of England, and unanimoufly agree in 
 the fame method of Advice to the People, how they are to 
 govern themfelves in their next Choice. 
 
 Their firft Caution is , To purfue the Difcovery and Pu- 
 nifliment of the Plot , (the Trojan Horfe with an Army in the 
 Belly of it.) To fecure us from Popery 5 and that no Papift 
 may be allowed to dwell in the hand 5 Nor any man chofen into 
 the Houft ,thatfhaU dare to open his month for <a Popifh Succef- 
 for : And all this attended with a Dreadful Enumeration 
 of the Maffacres, Fires ,Treafons, and Devajiat/ons that have 
 been wrought by the Popift Party. 
 
 To this firft Point,the Replicant moft willingly fubfcribes, 
 fb far as ftands with Chrijiian Charity , and the Law of the 
 Land: But then he cannot forget on the other hand, that 
 the Counterfeit Protejiant Horfe of 1641. had an Army in the 
 Belly of him, as well as the Trojan 3 and he that would be 
 fafe, muft look both ways at once. 
 
 Another Caution is, not to choofe any man that is Po- 
 pi/hly ajfetred 5 or (*as another hath it) lU affztted. But a 
 third proceeds a little more warily, and recommends the 
 chufing onely of Sincere Protejtants, and not Difgnifid Pa- 
 pifis, who are ready to pull off their Mafque^ when time ferves, 
 and may be known by their Laughing at the Plot', Difgracing 
 the Evidence, Admiring the Traitors Conftancy, &c. 
 
 C This 
 
i o The fyfornied Catholipe : Or, 
 
 This fame PopiJIAy and Ill-affctted, lies open to feveral 
 Exceptions^ for one Man is made Judge of the Thoughts 
 of another, which isonely the Prerogative of Almighty 
 God. I have heard of a man that was Indi&ed for 
 Whirling 3 but never till now, of any Man that was Inca- 
 pacitated to ferve in the Houfeof Commons, for Thinking. 
 Befide the unreafbnable Latitude, and the Horrible Iniqui- 
 ty of the Judgment 5 for if this be admitted, no man living 
 canbefecure: It involves the Innocent with the Guilty, 
 and put s a man out of all poffibility to acquit himfelf. And 
 then foi ward 3 It is but turning the Tables, and the Blot: is 
 hit on the other fide: For why fhould not I be as well al- 
 lowed to pronounce another man a JDiCQUifftl P?0fC ft&ttt, 
 as he to judg we a jDifgtUftf) Jj9apift> afi d the fame Liberty 
 of Marking him too } You (hall know him by his Shiboleth ; 
 for the Old Covenant fticks in his Teeth ftill, and the whole 
 my fiery of his Prcfeffion is wrapt up in that Oracle of the 
 Privileges of Parliament 5 the Kings 3|llQ Power and Great- 
 nefi'^ the Protejiant Religion againjl ^OPtt^j and }£)Qpjfl) 
 3llin0tiati0nj3 b the firft point being wholly Incomprehensi- 
 ble , and the other two, like Jugglers Knots y faft or loofe at 
 pleafure. 
 
 This equal Freedom being granted on all fides, takes a- 
 way all Faith, Confidence, and Correfpondence in Humane 
 Society. I know no difference in the World betwixt one 
 wans Infallibility and another s $ nor any fbut in Terms*) be- 
 twixt a Private mans Infallible Light, and the Popes Infalli- 
 ble Sentence : Nor is there any onellfurpationin Popery^ 
 that is either Grievous to the Confcience, or Dangerous to the 
 Government 3 but a man may {hew very near an Equivalent 
 of it mSchifm. 
 
 As to the Marks of diftin&ion betwixt a Sincere Pro* 
 Uftant and a Difgyifed Papiji 5 the Immorality of Laughing 
 at the Plot^ favours more in my opinion, of an Unmannerly 
 i*W, thanof a D/Jgmfed Pap?(l 3 thoughformy own part, I 
 
 am 
 
Tl?e True Trotejlant. 1 1 
 
 am To far from Laughing at it,that it wounds my foul,the ve- 
 ry thought on't. Dijyracingof the Evidence were fbme- 
 thing indeed 5 but to make a man a Papiji for admiring the 
 Traitors Conjiancy, that, methinks is very hard 3 and not an- 
 fwerableto what one would expeft from an Advocate for 
 Liberty of Confcience. It is much eafier to relinquifh an 
 O/>/»/0#» then for a man to deveft himfelf of Natural Affe- 
 ttions*-) and more unreafonable to claim a freedom in the 
 one, then to refufe it in the other. I muft confefs, I do ad- 
 mire that Conjtancy, and if I were to die for fo doing, I could 
 not but admire it ftill : And theft Impreffions are Humane, 
 and not to be refifted. 
 
 We fall now into the Old Track of the whole Party : 
 They call for Toleration 5 complain of Persecution 3 caft all 
 their Sufferings upon their Worflripping according to their 
 Consciences 5 and then this Lamentable Condition of theirs 
 muft be Remonjirated to the whole Nation. Of thefe Four 
 Points in order. 
 
 In the handling of their Plea for Protectant Dijfenters , 
 there are many things to be taken into Confideration. 
 Firft, Is it in matters of Confcience , or onely of Phanfie , 
 wherein they defire to be Indulged ? If the Latter, the up- 
 holding of a Lavo is certainly of much greater concern, than 
 the gratifying of a Caprice. Now on the other fide, if they 
 demand it upon an Exigent ofConfeience : Firft, Why Pin- 
 rally, for Dijfenters .<? When one man cannot honeftly un- 
 dertake for another mans Conscience : Befides that (Secondly J 
 They ask an Indulgence for feveral Parties, of divided Con- 
 fciences and Opinions : And in fhort, they would have the 
 Magiftrate favour <*Z? the Confciences, that will not endure 
 one anothers. Again $ They fhould do well to explain 
 what they mean by Proteftant Dijjenters, upon points of 
 Confcience 3 whether all in general, or only juch anrffucb 
 Parties : If all \n general, Heathens muft be Tolera^d as 
 well as Christians , for thejhuve Confciences as well as we: 
 
 C 2 Or 
 
 16 
 
1 i The Reformed Catholique : Or, 
 
 Or if it be reftrained to Chrijiianity, it opens a door to He- 
 resies, more deteftable than Paganifm it felf. So that an 
 ZJniverfal Toleration is utterly Unlawful 3 and a Partial 
 Toleration on the other hand, is zslnefjeclual^ fof upon a 
 Plea of Conscience they may all claim alike : So that it is an 
 AS ofUniformity (till, to thofe that are Excluded^ and it is 
 not fair, in the Government, to favour one halj ? , and exafbe- 
 rate another ■, where all may as well be taken in, as any. Be- 
 fide, upon the (uppofal of a Limited Toleration, who (hall 
 judge which are fit to be admitted, and which not? If the 
 People, every man juftifies himfelf, and then we are upon 
 an OmverfalToleration again. They tell us ftories of found 
 Faith, good Life, and of diftinguifhing betwixt Fundamen- 
 tals and not Fundamentals 3 which is onely treading of 
 the fame Rjngftill 3 for it may be every bodies Plea as well 
 as any mans: That which the Magijlrate judges one way, 
 the People fhall determine another : and one mans Funda- 
 mental Truth (hall be another s Fundamental Error , which 
 will introduce as many Religions as Phanfies 3 bring Factions 
 into Families as well as into Governments, and make the 
 People both Parties and Judges : And it is not to fay that 
 the Word ofGodJhall be the Judge, for that is only a Rule by 
 which we are to judge} and by Erroneous judgments it is 
 made the Foundation of all Herefies 3 For when every man 
 may mak§ his own Creed, there is nothing fo Impious, but he 
 will flew you dText for it. Moreover, the very pretence of 
 Liberty ofConfcience is frivolous 3 for Confcienceis out of the 
 reach of Humane Power 5 and the freedom of Thought, no Law 
 can either pumfh or takeaway. 
 
 But it is the Liberty of Ailing, as well as of Thinking, that 
 they infift upon, which upon the whole matter, is neither 
 more nor left then a Licenfe to do what they pleafe. The League 
 in Flanders, under Maximilian 3 the Holy League under 
 Henry the 3d. of France^ Muncers Outrages in Germany $ 
 the Murtherers of Henry the 4th. and the P, of Orange 3 and 
 
 all 
 
The True Troteftant. \ 3 
 
 all the Villaniesof the late Times here at home, werea&ed 
 under the Mafque cf Religion. It is not for the retraining 
 of Opinions that Laws avz provided} but for the preventing 
 oWuvert Deeds ofViolence, and they are punifhed for ASion, 
 not for Conscience. Neither have we any means of diftin- 
 guiftring betwixt Fatiion and Religion, if every mans word 
 (hall be taken for hk own Confidence 5 and then it is a dan- 
 gerous way of dividing a Kingdom againft it felf. 
 
 Take notice all this while, that they urge a Toleration 
 nobody knows for whom, or for what. Where are their 
 Articles ? where is the Model of their Accommodation? or 
 how is it pojjible to contrive any common Expedient to gra- 
 tifie them ? For nothing lefs than a total Liberty of doing 
 what they lift, will pleafe them, which muft inevitably pro- 
 duce the Diffolution of the Government. If they would 
 have the wilder and more extravagant Se&s excluded, why 
 do they plead for All in general, and not rather particula- 
 rize the Opinions and Parties that they Would have Indulged? 
 But they dare not do this, for fear of difobliging the reft, 
 their bufinefs being to Unite all Factions in the ghtarrel $ 
 when yet you may as foon bring Heaven and Hell together , 
 as reconcile them in Religion 5 fo that either they ask an 
 Impious thing, in the allowance of all, or an ImpraUicable 
 thing in propounding any Limitation, upon a Plea of Con- 
 science. But the truth is no more than this : They ask a 
 thing which can neither be granted, nor fo much as under- 
 floods and the People are tranfported with the found of 
 Loyalty and Religion, tothedefire of things wholly Inconfi- 
 Jient with either Piety or Government. 
 
 Wefhould do well to take notice, that againft thn Plea 
 for Liberty, there is on the one fide, the Authority of a Law, 
 and thefolemn judgment of the Church for the Equity of it 5 
 and on the other, the Rings Perfonal and Political Confid- 
 ence for the Execution of it. There is alio the Duty of a 
 Subject for the Obeying of it} and the fame reafon that Au- 
 thorizes 
 
 l^ 
 
It 
 
 1 4 The Reformed Qdthon^m : Or, 
 
 \\\onz?.$Mhvau,n ohhk Law, may as well Invalidate all 
 the reft. Now the Counterpoize to all this weight, i> Cat 
 btftj ontly the naked Conscience of fome private Perjpns. 
 The Peoples Consciences call for Liberty-^ and .he Governors 
 Conference requires Order : Their Confciences will not down 
 with this Law, nor this Law Vf'xthfuch Confcunces : Which 
 of the two now thai] yield to the other ? 
 
 But what benefit might we now expeft from thisTW///- 
 gence here, if it were granted £ Or rather, in the fir& place, 
 what colour of Confaence, or of Reajon is there in the very 
 demand it felf(d\\ the afbrefaid exceptions over and above?} 
 Is it, firft, Reasonable for them to ash^ what f/jy/ themfelves 
 think ttnreafonable to grant ? Or to claim (uch an allowance 
 to themfelves, as a point of Confcience, which they themfelves, 
 upon a point oiConfcience, refufe to others <? For there is not 
 any one Party in the whole mafs of DiJJenters, that does not 
 deny the fame freedom to flfforj which they do jointly c^/- 
 fagt to themfelves : Nay, in their very Proportions to his 
 Majefty in the Ifle of Wight, Mar.\6^j. they "Excepted the 
 Ufeofthe Common-Prayer, when they gave Liberty to all 
 ether forts ofWorfljip. (To which Concejjion they were then 
 Compelled by the Circumftances ofthatJm:clfure.) Thdr 
 Refufal muft proceed either upon the ifcg/tfofthe thing, 
 or upon Reafon of State. If f Aej> did not like <?#r #<y, nei- 
 ther do we approve of theirs : Or if they excluded us out of 
 a refpeftto the Publique Peace, the Government hath ftill 
 the fame reafon agamtt them. 
 
 But we fhall better underftand the Party, from their 
 own words, wherein we fhall Firft, take a fhort view of their 
 Opinions in matter of Faith, and Religion. Secondly, How 
 they ftand affc&ed , one Party to another : And Thirdly, 
 Their Pofitions and PraUices, with Relation to the firntf 
 Government. 
 
 As 
 
• The True Troteftant. 15 w $ 
 
 As to their Opinions, firfi fee lome Extravagances of the 
 Sectaries, Cited by a Presbyterian^ out oi their own Writings^ 
 in Edwards's Gangrtvna, from P. 18, to 27. 
 
 They fay that the Scriptures are Infufficicnt and Uncertain. God 
 the Author of Sin, even of the Sinfulnefs it felf. That the Magiftrate 
 ought not fipunilh any man for denying of a God, if bti Confcience befo 
 Kerf udded. That every Creature U God, an Efflux only from God, and 
 (hall return to him: That there is but One Perfon in the Divine Nature. 
 That the lealt Truth is of more worth than Jefus Chrift himfelf. That 
 the Dodtrine of Repentance is a Soul-deftroying Dodrrine. That 'tis 
 as pofiblefor Ghriit himfelf to Sin, as for a Child of God t-o Sin. That 
 the Moral Law ix 0/no ufe at all to Believers. That Peters lrouble y after 
 the denial of his Matter, iffued only from the weaknefs of his Faith. That 
 Infants rife not again . Nay, he (peaks of a Sectary pleading for a Tole- 
 ration 0/ Witches, with feveral abominable Inftances. And he charges 
 the Nurfery and Increafe of them upon the Presbyterians i and that it was 
 their Indulgence, not Epifcopal Connivence that wrought our Mifchiefin 
 that kjnd. They agree (fays he) with Julian the Apoftate, Libertines, A- 
 theifts, Unclean, Inceftuous, Drunkards, Sabbath-breakers, Liers, Jug- 
 glers, Slanderers, Proud and Boafting, Infolent, Outragious, Hypocriti- 
 cal, Falfe. 
 
 The Sectaries on the other hand, call the AfTembly, Antichriitian, 
 Romifh, Bloody, Plagues, and Pefts of the Kingdom, Baals Priefts, South- 
 fay ers : The Presbyterian Government a Limb of Antichrift, Tyranni- 
 cal, Lordly, an Egyptian Bondage. An Anabaptifc faid , He hoped to 
 fee Heaven and Earth on fre, before Presbytery fhould be fetled ■» and to 
 feeittroden underfoot, as the Biilaops. Sterry himfelf fays, The Seed of 
 God bath two Capital Enemies, Romifh Papacy and the ^Scotch Presby- 
 tery. See what the Presby terians fay now to a Toleration. 
 
 Wt is much (fays the London Minifters Letter to the AfTembly,) Jan. 1. 
 45. that our Brethren fhould fepante from the Church, but that they fhould 
 endeavour to get a Warrant to Autnorize their Separation from it 5 and to 
 have Liberty (by drawing Members oat of it) to weaken and diminijh it, till 
 (fofar as lies in them) they have brought it to nothing : 'This we think^ t9 be 
 
 platnlp flHnla-.f tub 
 
 And then the Harmony of the Lancashire Minitlers, p. 12. Toleration 
 would be the putting t'<e Sword in a Mad Mans bandy a ProclaimingLibet-. 
 ty to the Wolves, to come into Chrifts Flock to prey upon his Lambs. 
 
 Toleration makes the Scripture a Note oflVax; a Rule of Faith to all 
 Religions. And this is the great Rabby of the Farty. Rutherfords Free 
 Difp. p.^60. Liber- - 
 
Lt "'i \6 Tl?e %e formed Catbolique : Or, 
 
 Liberty <?/Confcience, W Toleration of all, <?r any Religion, is fi 
 Vrod'ioiHis an Impiety, that ibis "Religvus Parliament cannot but abhor the 
 very naming of it. Bailies DifTwaiive Epiit. Ded. 1645. 
 
 It is unreafonable fays the Defender of the London Minifters Letter to 
 the Aflembly, Anti-Toleration, p. 16.) that Independents^///^/ defire 
 that Toleration of Presbyters, which they would not give ta Presbyters. 
 
 Let it be obferved from hence, that thefe people do firft 
 demand of the Government that Liberty which they deny to 
 one another. And Secondly : That they pretend to do it 
 upon Confience, and yet hold the thing it ielfto be abfo- 
 lutely Unlawful 5 fo that they jujlifie the Conference of our de- 
 nying it to them, by the Conference of their refufing it to others. 
 And the onely way to evade this, is to difcover all 3 by con- 
 feffing, that though they now beg a Toleration from the Go- 
 vernment^ yet if they get power in their hands, they will 
 make a Confcience again (as they did before) of allowing 
 any freedom to the Government. 
 
 It is a clear cafe, that their demands are Unwarrantable, 
 ImpraUieable, Unreafonable, and not grounded upon Con- 
 fcience, but dire&ly in Oppofttion to it 5 as we have it under 
 their own hands. 
 
 Let us try now if we' can difcover what the defign is, 
 fince it appears manifeftly what it is not 3 and that, not on- 
 ly from the Reafon of the thing, but from their own deeds 
 and writings $ and thofe matters alfb, and Pofitions, ex- 
 pounded by PraBice. # 
 
 One thing remarkable is this \ That they have been ftill 
 Fifhing in Troubled Waters, and taking advantage of all Di- 
 ftrefles, and neceffities of the Government. Did not 
 Cartwright, Coppinger, Arthington, and Hacket, take their 
 time for that Execrable Confpiracy againft Queen Elizabeth, 
 when fhe was juft upon the very point of (ecuring the Re- 
 formed Religion againft the Power and Church of Rome? 
 Did not the Sectaries in 1641. take the fame advantage a- 
 gainftthe late King , when his thoughts were wholly ta- 
 ken 
 
The True Troteftant. 17 W£ 
 
 ken up about fuppreffing the Irijh Rebellion ? And did not 
 the latter Scotch Tumults t.ike the Tame advantage of his Ma- 
 jefties being under many troublcfom Circumftances about 
 the P lot ^ and when the Peoples minds were prepared to 
 take 111 Irppreffions in the matter of Government? Sothat 
 the very Timing of this Revived Clamour for Liberty of Con- 
 feience, looks iufpicioufly 5 and the more, becaufe their 
 Meetings here have of late been very little interrupted. 
 
 To run thorough thofe peftilent Principles , which the 
 Heads- of the Se&aries have publifhed in their own Names, 
 were endlefs. Wherefore I (hall concent my felf with fome 
 of their General Portions, and refer the Header to Husbands 
 Collections, or the Authors themfelvesior the reft 3 as Milton, 
 Goodwin, Rutherford, and a hundred more. 
 
 They make the Lords and Commons the Supream Power 5 
 nay, the People themfelves, in fame Cafes 3 Princes they fay 
 may be depofed and put to death : They diftinguifh betwixt 
 the Kings Perjon.zqd h\$ Authority, the Letter of the Law y 
 and the Equity of it 3 and appeal from the Written Law to 
 the Law of Nature - and according to thefe Maxims they 
 govern their Proceedings. 
 
 But will you fee now the price of all our Blond and Con- 
 fusion .<? 
 
 'Upon their Petition to" his Majefty for a Reformation of 
 the Liturgy, the King moft gi acioufly iffued out a Gewwijfim 
 for a Review of the Book of Common Prayer : An equal 
 number of Learned Divines, both Epifcopal and Presby- 
 terian were appointed to meet about it, ani to agee upon 
 fitch alteration a [ftfould be thought moft jQeteffarp, His 
 Majefty earneftly defiring that the Minifters would not 
 totally \fty afiCf the Book^ of Common Prayer, but read 
 thofe parts agairji which there could be no CfCfptlOn* Now 
 in (lead of moft nttrfTatp StttCtatiOttS; and thole to be a- 
 greed upon by UOtl) i5*attifS5 ? they publifhed a New Li- 
 turgy of their own^ under the Title of The %t fOJlttatlOtt 
 
 D of 
 
 o 
 
Vw 1 8 The Reformed Catbolique : Or, 
 
 vf the Liturgy, (which was indeed tht SlbolitiOtt '> r it. J 
 1 will eive you onely a Tafte offomeof theii I /? port a?7tf tri- 
 ples that are call into the Ballance, againfl; the TJnity of the 
 Churchy and the Place of tiktTLitigdom : They turn Ulcll= 
 tieO Wife into ^arttfD t £>0ft tljOU Believe into l)Q POU 
 Believe 5 and *# f/fe J ©tf tlfafti? BcUeve, into */,*■ /ftp 
 
 anftigneDlv B^e*. 
 
 Let us now fuppofe thefe People had their Askings : Let 
 any man but (hew me from the Minority of King James, to 
 this hour, where they were not the more violent and im- 
 portune uponfyielding ("even to the hazard of a downright 
 Rebellion) and the Author (hall give any man his Head, 
 for the Prefident: Did not the AJJembly in 1578. impofe 
 upon the Parliament in Scotland, fall foul upon the Arch- 
 bifhop of GUfeorv^md the whole Order ? pafs a Decree againfl: 
 their Votes in Parliament^ command them to renounce 
 their Temporal Titles, and Civil Jurifdiclion, and fet their 
 Sjh/arriers at work for the demolifhing of Glafgorv Cathe- 
 dral? (which had been done too, \f the Tradefmen had not 
 by force prevented it.^ And did they not grow bolder 
 and bolder upon the Kings Lenity 5 and Command the 
 BiJIwps, upon pain of Excommunication , not to Officiate as 
 Pafiors, without Licence from the General AJJembly 5 and 
 likewife order the Patrimony of the Church to be difpotfed 
 of as they fhould fee meet ? And did they not after that, 
 make a Violent and Treafonous Seizure of the King at 
 Ruthven, and juftifie it when they had done? And fo on 
 by degrees 5 tillhis Majefty was forced, by a Tumult at Edcn- 
 bourgh, in 1596. and the Mimjiers Bond of Confederacy im- 
 mediately uporr it, to a RefoJution of Rigour and Severity 3 
 which (as Spotjwoodobfervet) gave him more quiet and fe- 
 curity for the future. 
 
 His Majefty was no fooner entered upon the Govern- 
 ment of England, but he was Affaulted in 1604.. with ths 
 fame fort of people 5 and at a Conference at Hampton Courts 
 
 this 
 
The True Troteftant. i <? 
 
 this Queftion was put, How far an Ordinance of the Church 
 was Binding, without offence to Ctelflian libettg? 
 Whereupon the King gave this fhort Anfwer, Let tts have no 
 more ofihcfe ghtcjlious, but Conform at ) our peril. So that 
 they gave him no further trouble upon that fubjeft. And 
 this was Queen Elizabeths Cafe too, to the hazard both of 
 her Life and Government 5 till by that fevere Ac? againft 
 them, of the 3 5 of her Reign, (he gave her felf eafe for the 
 remainder of her Life. 
 
 What did the Late King gain by his Indulgence to the 
 Scots in 1637. but farther Indignities and Contempt .<? Firji, 
 the Service-Book^&nd Canons were their Grievance 5 then 
 the Five Articles of Perth, though eftablifhed both by the 
 General Affembly and Parliament 5 The High-Commiffion 
 next, and then the Bijhops Sejfion in Civil judicatories. His 
 Majefty gratifies them in every point : Inlomuch, that they 
 had nothing further to complain of, but that the King 
 would not Abolijh Epifcopacy, and admit the Authority of 
 their Lay-Elders 3 upon which point they brake out into 
 anOpen Rebellion. After this, upon the Interview of the 
 two Armies at Berwick, ("when the King had them abfolute- 
 ly at his Mercy) upon their Supplication for a Treaty, he 
 Trufted them again, and concluded uipon & Pacification $ 
 of which the Covenanters did not keep fo much as one Ar- 
 ticle. 
 
 Upon his Majefties Return to London, he partes the 
 Triennial BjII^ Abolifhes the Star Chamber and High- 
 Commijjion Court 5 Paffes an AM for the Continuance of the 
 Parliament^ and in fine, denies them nothing but his 
 Crown and his Bloody and then by Virtue of what he had 
 given them already , they took away the reft, and ftript 
 him of his Friends, his Authority, his Revenue, and his 
 Life. 
 
 They minifter great caufe of fufpicion in their very Jiile 
 and fcruples : Why do they run fo much upon Ambiguities ? 
 
 D2 As 
 
jn 
 
 20 The Reformed Catholique : Or, 
 
 As the fetlfUg of Religion in us T}\\t Latitude $ a $Uf and 
 
 nccf!I'c;cp n.t ojmatiom fount) QBrtief-, l^2inctples 
 Cougcuoug ^^Bational dettlenum * the Kings aug 
 Rights 5 3lmpo?taitce^3nterfft0s states £)?Be r /* *Ae 
 
 Church, &c. What is all this, but a jumbling together of 
 fo many Araufements, to pafs a Colourable Pretence upon 
 the People ? And it fignifies juft nothing, but what Con- 
 ftru&ion they (ball think fit to allow: it. If they would 
 offer any Pertinent , IhteUigible, and Practicable Proportion 5 
 and fay, what i*/j» tfions they would have abated 5" what 
 Parties they would recommend for thefe qualifications} 
 n?£ire to find them, and 22^0 (hall judge, of them. If they 
 would State their Demands y and fay, 77 ! *r zr <*# n?e ash^ 
 and then reft there : If, as they plead for all Dijjenters, 
 they would produce fome Common Infirument, or Commifi 
 (ion, to (hew that they are Authorized by all to Solicite in 
 their Names, and to treat uponyicA ox fuch Points^ and to 
 £0 no further, thebufinefs might be brought yet to fome ra- 
 tional I flue. 
 
 As their Stile is exceeding JDar^and Myjierious , fo are 
 their Scruples of an Extraordinary Quality too? They can- 
 not kneel aX the Sacrament, but they can hold up their hands 
 at the Covenant 3 they can difyenfe with the Oath of ^4Zfc- 
 giance, and yet make a fcruple of difclaiming the - Solemn 
 League : They can fwallovo a Schijm (or worfe) and yet a 
 Ceremony choaks them. Add to all this, many of thofe 
 very perfbns that promoted our former Troubles, this very 
 way, are now at work again upon the fame Pretenfion 5 and 
 may, without breach of Charity, be fufpe&ed to have the 
 fame defign, and to remain in a ftate of Impenitency, if they 
 have not macifefted their Repentance by fome Open Recan- 
 tation : For (according to the Cafuijls) Publique Sins require 
 Publique Confejjiws. 
 
 It is an 111 fign too, for a man to leap upon the fudder, 
 from matter of Conscience to Reafon of State 3 and in the 
 
 lame 
 
u$ 
 
 T\:e True Troteftant. 2 1 
 
 famebreath of a Petitioner to become ^Reformer. It would 
 fcem a ftrange thing, for a man to requeft a fpecial favour 
 from theMafter of a Family, and at the fame time to put 
 affronts upon his Domefticks, and to tell him that his Ser- 
 vants were all of them a pack of Rafcals 5 which is not 
 much from the point now in hand. 
 
 We have had abundance of Advice to the Free-holders of 
 England, toward the choice of this next Parliament 5 as 
 Sober and Seafionable ghueries, England s Great Inter eft $ the 
 Free-holders Choice, and twenty more 3 and all of them agree- 
 ing in the general Heads one with another : They tell us 
 who are fit to be chofen , and who not. 
 
 The former, finch as will 'remove and bring to Juftice Evil 
 Counfellors} Corrupt and Arbitrary Minifters of State} 
 Detect and Punifi the Penfioners of the former Parliament in 
 the face of the Kingdom, and they muft chufie finch asxciU fieenre 
 us from Slavery. 
 
 ThePeopleare dire&edonthe other fide , not to chufie a 
 man that hath been reputed a Penfioner, no Court- Officer, or 
 vphofie Imployment is durante bene*placito 5 no Ambitious 
 men, or Non-refidents, that live here inTown, and fit k Ho- 
 nours and Prefi r mints above. 
 
 This is the Counfel of Englands Grand Intereft : And 
 methinks, in thefe Qualifications, there is both too mnch^ 
 and too little. As to the point of EvilCounfellors, Corrupt 
 Minifters and Penfioners, he fhould have done well to have 
 adviled them all manner of Caution and CircumfpeUion, for 
 fear of miftaking their Men. This was the way that 
 brought the Earl of Strafford, and the Archbifhcp of Can- 
 terbury to their Ends, under the Notion of Evil CounfeUors 
 too, though perhaps, themoft neceffiary Inftruments that ever 
 this Nation enjoyed, jar the Common good both of King and 
 People. So that as it a great Service to bring Corrupt 
 Minifters to Publique Juftice , it is yet a lewd Method to 
 make the Rabble the Executioners, andtopunifh M«le-Ad- 
 
 miniftration 
 
12a 
 
 22 The Reformed Catholique r Or, 
 
 numeration by Sedition : For in this Cafe the Good and 
 the Bad fall indifferently 'without diftin&ion^ andinftead 
 of drawing here and therea piece of RvttenTimber toward 
 a Reparation, they fall foul upon the main Pillars and Sup* 
 porters of the Houfe^ fo that all fills into Ruins. And 
 then the mnrk of a i&fputfD Pensioner goes a little too far 5 
 for it lies in the power of two or three Malevolent Tongues 
 to make any man fo. They that made the lafi King a Re- 
 puted Papiji, (hall much more eafily make any of his Maje- 
 fties Subjefts pafs for Reputed Pensioners. 
 
 The total Exclufion of all Court Officers, or Bcne-placito 
 men, is yet worfe : For this fets up a direct Oppofition be- 
 twixt the King and his People 5 as who fhould fay, Truji 
 nobody that wears any token of the Kings favour. And the 
 fame reafon difabks him as well to any other Tnfi what- 
 foever : So that the Kings Countenance is a kind of Incapa- 
 city. And it is the lame thing with thofe he calls Amhitibus 
 Men^ as if any Application to his Majefty made a Man 
 unfit for the Service of his Country. He fhould have done 
 well to have warned them againfi: the Known Enemies 
 of the Government^ rather than the S#$e£fo/ Servants of the 
 King. 
 
 The Free-holders Choice is a vet y Martin Mar-Prelate. His 
 Language againft the Clergy is too coarfe for an Honeft 
 man to repeat after him, but he has ranged them in good 
 Company 3 for he fays that they lay out themfelves , to ac- 
 commodate their Majlers, with the verieji Villains that can be 
 pickid up in all the Country } that Jo we may fall into the hands 
 again of as CttaCljttQUS an d If fcOt) a Parliament as the 
 Wifdom of God, and Folly ofMan hath moji miraculoufly feed 
 its from. Methinks fome of the Members of that Parliament 
 fhould concern themfelves to call for Juftice upon fo foul a 
 Scandal. 
 
 The Author of the Seafonable Queries ', does not onely re- 
 commend the fame Cautions with the reft, but calls his 
 
 Ma- 
 
IZ~t 
 
 The True Troteftant. 23 
 
 Majcfty himfelf to Shrift, and puts the gh/ejiion, whether 
 Prorogation andDifiolution of Parliaments , titjkch a time 
 as this, does not fill the hearts 0/Proteftant Subject ivith evi- 
 dent fears of deftruBion? 
 
 And Secondly (fays he) Whether it he not high time for all 
 the Proteftants in England, to Refolve as one man, that 
 they will ft and by . and maintain the Power and Privileges 
 ^/Parliament, together with the Pow^r and 3fu(J Rights of 
 the King, according to the Laws of the Kingdom Jo as the ©HE 
 may not intrench upon the ©tl^- 
 
 The former Expoflnlation upon theReafon of the Kings 
 Proceedings, would have been more taken notice of per- 
 haps, if it had not been followed with one of the mofl Au- 
 dacious Challenges that this Licentious feafon hath produ- 
 ced 5 for the meaning of it is, to encourage a t&\tt&Riftig£i 
 if the King and the Parliament were going together by the 
 Ears, (forgive theExprcffion)lnd the People to interpofe,to 
 fee Fair Play. 
 
 This is the very Trace of the Old Covenant : They muft 
 refolve to maintain no body knows what on the one fide} 
 (for the Privileges of Parliament are pad finding out: J 
 But then they are to frand by the King, on the other fide, 
 with a Limitation^ only in his 2Uft Rights, and of thole 
 Bounds, they themfelves are to be the Judges. This Epi- 
 thet e was applied to thelate Kings Cafe, by thofe very men 
 that cut offhis Head. 
 
 The Author of Engtands Great Ir.terefl , having directed 
 the Good People what perfons to chodfe for the enfuing 
 Parliament,and what not, His next work is to inftruft them 
 in the Knowledge of their Pcwers, which he divides into 
 tlr-e Rights or Fundamentals. The Firff is j3j0pC£tV 5 that 
 is % a Right and Title to their own Lives, Liberties', and 
 Inflates. For the Law (he fays) arQlUpift between King-, 
 Lords, and Commons 5 and the Right and Property is one 
 m \\X(§,thro;!gh all Degrees <W Qualities in the Kingdom. 
 
 gsarfc tljat* why 
 
Z4 TI?eQ\efomedCathUque* Or, 
 
 Why does he not fay that the King is Umpire betwixt 
 King, Lords, and Con/wots, ?s well as that the Law is Co} 
 For the Law is only the Kings Pleafure made known 5 and 
 the whole Force and Authority of it, is but an Emanation 
 from Sovcraign Powe>\ And then for his Three Fundamen- 
 tals: As I am ^Commoner of England my (elf, I fhould be 
 loth to lofeany Right of an -Englijh man 5 and yet as lam 
 a Loyal Subject a!fo, J fhould be as unwilling to encroach 
 upon the Privileges of theCrown. I do not know what he 
 means by -his one ?# feint); with the Ensphafis of S^af&tfyat 
 upon it. If it b j , thai the People have a"s much 2&fg£f to 
 their Lives, Liberties, and Efiates, as the JG#g himfelf hath 5 
 though it be tme'mfome fenfe, it will not hold yet, as he 
 would have it underwood. For the People may forfeit their 
 Lives, Liberties, and Efiates, but J/6e i&//g cannot forfeit his : 
 Wherefore S^atK tfylt f<w- 
 
 jF&f Second Fundamental is Legiflation : Or, the Power 
 of making Laws, 5 for no haw can be made <?r Abrogated 
 (he fays) w England fcOittyOUt them. 
 
 It is not Candidly done,to call that the very aS of Legifla- 
 tion, which is only ConfAtive and Preparative towards it. 
 The making of Laws, is a Peculiar and Ln communicable Pre- 
 rogative of Soveraignty^ fo that to place the Legiflative 
 Power in the Commons, is to make them Sup^am? and to 
 fet a King of England once more at the Commons Bar. Be- 
 fide that, his Lnference is as Inconfequent, as his Affertion is 
 Dangerous. As if a Law muft neceflarily be made ^p 
 them, becaufe it cannot be Made or Abrogated I2Jit!)QUt 
 them- Does he that furnifhes the Ingredients^ therefore 
 make the Medicine , becaufe the Medicine cannot be made 
 without the Ingredients .<? What fignifies the For?// of an In- 
 ftrument to the paffino; of an Authority or Obligation, with- 
 out Signing and Sealing? Yer the one cannot be done 
 without the other. Does the Councel that draws the Con- 
 veyance 
 
The True Troteftanf. i j 
 
 veyance, pafs away the EJiate } becaufe the Aft could not 
 have been good without him? And again, the Law in this 
 Cafe, is no other then a Promife under the Kings Hand, 
 paft to the People, and partakes of the Nature of other 
 Promifes. It was made by the Promifer, and cannot be dift 
 charged without the Confent of thofe to whom it was pro- 
 mifed. 
 
 His Third Fundamental ^Executive, and holds Propor- 
 tion with the other two, in order to compleat both their Free- 
 dom and Security } and that is their JI? are (as he Jay j") in the 
 Judicatory Power 3 in the Execution and Application of 
 thofe Laws that they 9gtf t to be made. 
 
 A Judicatory Power without Authority to minifter an 
 Oath, is tome, I muft confefs, a new thing : And now 
 for the word 3gtCC 3 though it may be pertinent enough 
 to his purpofe ("for there needs no more to the Undoing of 
 the mod Regular Government upon the Face of the Earth, 
 then Fir ft to turn the Peoples hearts againft it, and then 
 to poffels them that they have a Legal Remedy in their Own 
 hands.) Yet that word (I fay) in this place, is very impro- 
 per 5 for it is but a Requeft prefented to his Majefty for his 
 approbation. The Requeft or Bill, is no doubt aQtCfl) up- 
 on 5 but it were an Uncouth kind of Expreffion for a Peti- 
 tioner to (ay that he does 3gtf t that his Petition (hall be 
 Granted. 
 
 The Bufinefs is fairly pufti'd already : But the Publither 
 of a Pretended Speech lately printed , carries it a ftep 
 further. 
 
 If a Prince (fays he} be Born to <* Kingdom, who is either 
 Lunatique, or otherwife di fabled to do the Kingdom any good \ 
 flail not the Subjects, in this Cafe, proceed to chufe another, 
 who may preferve the Kingdom, when otherwife it muft ofne- 
 ceffity perijh ? As lately in the C*fe ^/Portugal, they chofe ano- 
 ther to Succeed^ becaufe of the Difability of the former. 
 
 E This 
 
 ^ 
 
^f 26 The Reformed Catholicjue : Or, 
 
 This is, in plain terms, a Depofing Principle: For if a 
 %ing may be Removed, in fuch Cafe of Difability, the 
 People being made Judges of the Cafe, ft *rfotf their faying 
 that he k not fit to Govern, and the voorkjk done. 
 
 There is a Sheet printed under the Title of APlea,8cc. 
 that hath more Brains and Art in it then ordinary. He fays 
 thataKmg knot for hk Own, but hk Subjects fake onely^ 
 and thatWi: have, in truth, rather Title,fkc. to Him, then 
 He tolls. Adding, That when Kings themfelves be 3M 
 JDtUjS) God not onely approves of their Removal, but even 
 himlelf does It : This he fupports upon Texts extreamly 
 mifapplied. 
 
 Let it be agreed now that a Prince is rather Constituted 
 for the good of the People, then the People for the advan- 
 tage of the Prince. But let it be granted alfo on the other 
 fide, that Providence hath made Order fo necejfary to the 
 well-being of Mankind, that Tyranny it (elf is yet more To- 
 lerable then either Anarchy or Sedition : So that in the mat- 
 ter of Obedience to Superiours, we find our Convenience ,even 
 in our Duty. He plainly infers, that becaufe God himfelf 
 does many times remove ill Kings, xhzt therefore he approves 
 of our doing fo too. But Firji, we are not to draw Gods Ex- 
 traordinary ways into Precedent. By the fame Rule, Plunder 
 was formerly juftified upon a Scriptural Commijfwn for the 
 fpoiling of the ^Egyptians. Secondly : The very admittance, 
 that an III King may be Removed, makes way to the deftru- 
 Uion of a Good one 5 for 'tis but faying he k fo, to mak§ him 
 fo, and it leaves him barely at the mercy ofthe People : And 
 this is not all neither, for it turns up the very Root of Go- 
 vernment, and cafts Humane Affairs into a Circulation of Con- 
 fufion. TheTwo Houjes Depofed the King 5 the Commons 
 the Lords 5 the Multitude they Depofed the Commons 5 and 
 all upon the fame Charge ofMifdemeanor. So that the Trujiee 
 being ftillaccomptable to thofe that Entrujled him, the Or- 
 der of Government is Inverted^ and the laji Appeal lodged in 
 theRabble, It 
 
Tlie True Troteftanf. 27 
 
 Itisaftrangething that our Proteftant Diffenters fhould 
 fo Unanimously agree in rheir Methods of Oppofing Authori- 
 ty^ and yet keep at fo great a diftance in all things elfe 5 for 
 how fcrupulous foever they may feem be in Set Forms of De- 
 votion, they are the ftri&eft people of the World, in theob- 
 fervance of a Set Form of Wrangling with the Government : 
 For an Out-cry of Perfection does as naturally follow a Plea 
 for Liberty ^ as one Foot follows another. 
 
 Doth not fuch a day as this (Jays our Quxrift) loudly call for 
 Repentance, that Proteftants have been Perfecting each others 
 and for Unity in affe&ion among all Proteftant Sub je&s, whe- 
 ther Conforming or Diffenting in fome lejjer Points } and that 
 as Brethren, they Unite in fuch a Combination ofConjunUion^ 
 as was in ^Elizabeths time^ with good Succefs to defend the 
 Crown, Religion, and Kingdom^ againfl the Common Enemy of 
 Mankind? 
 
 Since the Perfection of this Age lies fo heavy upon him, 
 and that nothing will ferve his turn, but the Uniting of 
 Prtcfiants in fuch a Combination as was in the days of 
 QEhzabeth, it will not be amifs to look a little into the 
 Behaviour of the Proteftant DiJJenters in thofe days, and 
 the Indulgence which they received from that Gracious 
 Princefs. 
 
 The Non-Conformijls that Fled, in Queen Maries time to 
 Franckfort, and went off from the Englifh Reformed Catho- 
 liques there, to the Proteftant DiJJenters at Geneva., thefe 
 Non-Conformifls Clfay) returned for England upon CXE/z- 
 zabeths coming to the Crown 5 and for the firft ten years 
 of her Reign, plied her lb hard with Libels, Clamour s^ and 
 Seditious Consultations^ that betwixt the Papijis on the one 
 hand) and the Proteftant DiJJenters on the other ', (he had 
 much ado to fecurethe Peace of her Government: And 
 not being in Condition to venture upon any courfe of 
 Rigor or Severity ,the Proteftant DiJJenters in the fourteenth 
 year of her Reign, Erefted a Model of their own 3 called it 
 
 E 2 the 
 
£^28 The Reformed Catholique : Or, 
 
 th> Church, Libell'd the Queen, Parliament, and Lords, and 
 afterward entered into a Formal Confyiracy againfl: her Ma- 
 jefiy and Council $ which being dete&ed, fomewere Exe- 
 cuted, and others Imprifoned : So that at laft, by one fe- 
 vereLawofthe^th. of her Reign, (he put an end to that 
 Confederacy. 
 
 Here was the Unity of the Combination our Pamphlcter 
 fpeaksof, and we'J give you now the Provifion it (elf that 
 did the bufinefs, with the Prescribed form of their Submijfwn. 
 
 2Cbe Penalties foere Imprifonment, bottbout Bail o? Main-prize , ftj£ 
 being prefent at Unlawful Conventicles, Cbe flUrlcnoer to be fcif- 
 cbarg'O, if toitbin tb?ee mombs be triage bis Open Submiflion an& 
 acKnotole&gment, in tbe Perm bp tbe fain Stature appotnteo. But 
 in cafe of Recufancy, to Conform toit&m tf^at time, be tooc re- 
 quird to Abjure tbe Iffealm ) and in cafe of refuftng to Abjure, e? of 
 not departing toitbin allimitefc time, o? of Returning totrbout Hi* 
 cence> to be p^ocee&eO againft as a Felon, without Benefit of Clergy, 
 
 Here follows the Form ^/Submiffion. 
 
 3 A. B. &o bumblp cenfefs anD acbnetoJe&ge tbat 31 babe grie- 
 bouflp cffenDeu (Eo&, in Contemning ber t$ajeffies ILatoful ©o- 
 berntnent and 2utbo?ttp, bp abfenttng mp felf from Cburcb, an& 
 from bearing SDtbine ^erbice, contrarp to tbe dEtofcl? ILatrjs an& 
 statutes oftbifi Realms and in ufinganD frequenting Orfoz&er'o 
 an& uniatoful Conbenticies and SEfiembltes, un&er tbe pzerence 
 anb colour of dEjerdfe of Religion ; 3n& 3! am beartilp fo?rp fos 
 tbe fame, &c 
 
 You fee here what Quarter was both given and taken 
 under Q. Elizabeth, which (hews that the Qutriji was little 
 read in Hiftory, to appeal to the Pra&ices of thofe Times, 
 either for the Innocence of the Party, or the forbearance 
 of them. But hear what Englands Intereji fays to this 
 matter. 
 
 Oh! Lay to heart (hy she) the Grievous Spoils andRmnes 
 that have been laid upon your harmlef Neighbours for near 
 thefe twenty years. Sixty pounds difirained for Twelve. 
 
 Two 
 
The True Trotepnt: z 9 l2s l 
 
 Two Hundred /or Sixty •• The Flocks taken out of the Fold 5 
 theHerd from the Stall: Not a Cow left 'to give Milk to the 
 Orphans, novated for the Widow to lie on; Whole Barns 
 of Coin fwept away, and not a Penny returned. And all this, 
 
 for a&ojGnpping of <$oU accosting to tljeit Conscience. 
 
 If you (fays he to the Free-holders; will either Compel or 
 Pevfecuteyourfelves, or chookfttch asdo,you hate the Papifts, 
 hut not Popery. 
 
 This is fo Errant a Cant of Begging, as if the Proteflant- 
 Dijfenters had ferved their Trade in Moor-fields 5 and it 
 runs too in the very Tone and Stile of their Petitions and 
 Admonitions to Q. Elizabeth^ and fo down by a clear Suc- 
 ceffion to this Inftant There were Citations, Degradings, 
 and Deprivations 3 fome in the Marfhalfeas , fome in the 
 White Lion, fome in the Gatehoufe at Weftminfter, others 
 in the Counter, or in the Clink, or in Bridewel, or ^New- 
 gate. How many good Mens deaths have the Bijhops been 
 the Caufe of? How many have they driven to leave their 
 Minijiry , and live by Phyfick^? Men have been mifer ably 
 handled with Revilings, Imprifonments, Banifhments, &c. 
 If this Perfecution be not provided for, a great trouble will come 
 
 Under K. James, no man f they faid ) could be ajfured of his 
 Lands or Life. And under the Late King, how were thefe 
 poor people Oppreffed by Fines, Imprifonments, Stigmati- 
 zings, Deprivations, Sufpenfions, Excommunicated, Out-law d, 
 Beggered , Proceeded againft with punifliments Pecuniary 
 and Corporal 5 my, Death it (elf: And now they are at the 
 fame lock again. 
 
 But what are thefe People (for the Love of God J that 
 are thus miferably ufed all this while? Why truly (if we 
 may take their own words for it) under Q. Elizabeth they 
 were Loyal Subje ft s, and Gods faithful Servants 5 mod: Wor- 
 thy > Faithful, and Painful Minifiersi Learned and Godly, 
 ZJnreproveable before ailment the Strength of the Land y 
 
 and 
 
jo Tl?e Reformed QxtUtyue : Or, 
 
 and the Sinew of her Ma jellies Government. Under King 
 James ,they were men ofC<?tfj27me,Preferversofthe Churches 
 Rights and Aflerters of the Holy Discipline. Under the Late 
 King) they took up theTitles of Men of Tender Consciences, 
 Well-affeBed $ Men that had the Power ofGodlinefs^ Painful, 
 Laborious Preachers of the Word 5 Faithful in their Genera- 
 tion, and men Zealous in the defence of the Protejiant Reli- 
 gion, the Privileges of Parliament, and of his Majcity in his 
 Illft &i(jl}t0. And in our days, they call themfelves Lo- 
 vers oi Gods Ordinances, and Enemies of all Humane Inven- 
 tions 5 a People Zealous of Religion -• found in the Faith, 
 Intelligent, Sober, Numerous, Peaceable^ Orthodox : TheCe- 
 remonies they look upon as an Excefs 5 they diflcnt from 
 the outward Order of Worfhip, ( for the Confciencj will in- 
 terpofe in the Diftates and Injunctions of men, in Divine 
 Wor/hip.') All thefe People agreeing in this common 
 Complaint, that they are Persecuted for Worfipping accor- 
 ding to Conference. Whether they do well or ill 5 whether 
 they fpeak true or falfe 5 whether they have Reafon on 
 their fide, or not, in thefe Remonflrances let the Reader 
 judge. 
 
 Let it be firft obferved, that the Author dates this Per- 
 fection from his Majeftiesiietar//} near thefe twenty years 
 Che (ays) as if there had never been any fuch thing before 5 
 whereas from the time of C^ Elizabeths Aft above-mentio- 
 ned, to the very Aft for Uniformity, ( the late Times excep- 
 ted^ the Church was never without a Legal Provifi 'on for 
 the preventing and (uppreffing of Conventicles 5 and the 
 Law much more Rigoroufly put in Execution. Befide that, 
 as they were more or lefs Indulged, the Nation was ftill 
 more or lefs at quiet. 
 
 Oblerve again, that there is no notice taken of the Li- 
 berty of the Late Times, or the deplorable EffcUs of that 
 Licence, though the Presbyterians little Finger was heavier 
 then the Loins of the BiJIwps, in the point of Reftraint, 
 
 as 
 
The True (proteftmt. 3 1 
 
 as we have (hewed already, from the mouths of the other 
 Sectaries. But they are too prudent to fall foul one upon 
 another , when their bufinefs is to join in a Confederate 
 Party againft the Government : So that they are now One 
 and AH, and every feparate Opinion (tickles for all the 
 reft : And then comes on the Cry of the Orphans and 
 Widows againft the Cruelty of the OppreJJor : Sixty Pounds 
 Dijlrained for Twelve 5 Two hundred for Sixty, Sec. Me- 
 thinks the Plaintiff fhould have been fo ingenuous, as to 
 have refle&ed upon the Perfecutions that other men fuf- 
 fered even from thefe people that now complain of a Per- 
 fection 5 and that they fuffered for Worshipping according to 
 their Conferences too, and they had not only Religion on their 
 fide, but Law al(b} whereas the other founded ^.Rebellion 
 upon a pretended fcruple of Religion, and oppofed the 
 Rules of Chrijiianity and Civil Authority , both in one: 
 But it is a Perfecution to them , to be kept from Perfe- 
 cting. 
 
 Neither does this Clamour keep it felf within the 
 bounds of Spiritual matters, but breaks in upon the Civil 
 Adminifiration, and alarms the Multitude with the terrible 
 apprehenfionslikewife of Tyranny and Slavery. Wherefore 
 we are enforced to oppofe the fenfible Experiment of an 
 aUualTyvanny and Slavery to the artificial and imaginary fears 
 of it 3 to leave all Mortals without excufe, that (hall read 
 thefe plain and well-meaning Papers, if ever they (hould 
 fall into the fame miftakes again. 
 
 The takingaway of mens Goods and Liberties, the forcing 
 of their Conferences, and tying them up to an Implicit Obe- 
 dience to the Decrees of Government, are terrifcrle things, I 
 muftconfefs: But yet much worfefure, where they run di- 
 re&ly againft the Stream of a Received Authority and TJfage, 
 then where the fo doing is Warranted by kpown Laws and 
 uninterrupted Practice, 
 
 There 
 
 A2J5 
 
«A 
 
 32 TliefyformedCatholique: Or, 
 
 There are fcveral forts of Persecution : A Perfecution in 
 matter of COttfCientC ©000 JSatTlt , P?0p?ietp of Goods 
 and Eft ate 5 Freedom ofPerfon, and that is the m oft odious 
 Aggravation of Perfection, when it is fet up in defiance of 
 a Pablique Law, and Introduced under a colour offyndnej? 
 to all theft Interefts. We will be as (hort in thefe Particu- 
 lars as wecan, and leave the Reader to fay where the Odium 
 of the Perfecutionlics. 
 
 Fir/i, to the point of Conference. It was the judgment 
 of the LateRoyalifts, that they were obliged in Cenfcience 
 and Duty, to pay Obedience to the Laws, both Civil and 
 Ecclefiaftical- and with the hazard of their Lives and For- 
 tunes, to endeavour the prefervation both of the Church and 
 State. The Proteftant Dijfenters pretended the fame refpeft 
 for the King and Church, with the Royal I J arty : And when 
 by popular Pretexts they had ingratiated themfelves with 
 the Multitude, they plaid their Game the contrary way, 
 and took up Arms againft the Government , which they 
 Swore to Defend. Now fee at what a rate they treated, 
 not onely the Friends of the Government, but the Govern- 
 ment itfelf 
 
 There were a hundred and fifteen Minifters Ejefted,with- 
 in the Bills of Mortality , befide Pauls and U eftminfter 5 
 and in proportion, all the Nation over, for refufing to 
 comply with the Schifm^ and they were not (b much as 
 fufFered to take the Employment of either a Schoolmafter, 
 or a Chaplain, but under heavy penalties. Several of our 
 Divines were choaked up and poifoned in Peter-Houfe, 
 and other Goals, either for Wor/hipping according to their 
 Consciences, or Refufing to aU againft them. No Man ad- 
 mitted to Compound, or fo much as Live in the Parlia- 
 ments Quarters, without Swearing. Men were Scqueftered 
 for not joining in the Rebellion 5 for aflifting the King 
 according to the Law, and for not Covenanting , though 
 in exprefs Contradi&ion to the Oath of Allcgeance. Upon 
 
 the 
 
Tl?e True Proteftant, 3 3 
 
 the Abolition of the Common Prayer, fevere Penalties im- 
 pofed upon any man that {hould ufe it } and their own 
 Dire&cry impofed upon a Forfeiture too 5 qay, they 
 would not allow the King himfelf, in his DiftrefTes, the 
 Comfort of any of his own Chaplains, norfo much as the 
 benefit of a Common Prayer-Booh^: And at Fife in Scot- 
 land , there was an Oath given at the Communion , not 
 to take the Kings Oath, nor any other then their 
 Own.* -Was all this an Invafionof tht Liberty of Con- 
 ference, or not ? 
 
 Touching a Perfection now, upon the point of Good 
 Name ; Though the whole courfe of the Hiltory is full of 
 Virulent and Unchriftian Refle&ions, I will only refer my 
 (elf to that Diabolical Libel of Whites Centuries of Scanda- 
 lous Mmifiers : wherein without any regard to Truth or 
 Modefiy^ they have expofed fo many Reverend Names to 
 Infamy and Dijlwnour. In one word > After they had re- 
 prefented the King himfelf for a Tyrant, and an Idolater, it 
 was but Confonant that they (hould caft Reproaches upon 
 his Party. 
 
 Touching the Freedom of our Perfons and EJiates, the 
 whole courfe of the late War , was but one continued 
 Ufurpation upon our Rights to both: Noble mens Houfes 
 turned to Prifons, and People Committed, without know- 
 ing either their Accufers, or their Offence: Some clapped 
 on Shipboard to be Tranfported, no body knew whither 5 
 and others fold into Plantations for Slaves. To fay no- 
 thing of thofe that fell by the Sword , in the Defence 
 of their Countrey 5 or otherwife paft the hand of the 
 Executioner , in Juftification of their Religion and Al- 
 legcance. There was no taking 0/Threefcore pounds for 
 Twelve , in thofe days \> nor of Two hundred for Sixty. 
 But they took All for nothing 5 and there was no Living 
 amongft them for any Honeft man, that would not pro- 
 ftitute his Confidence, And who are they now, but 
 
 F either 
 
Jv$r2 34 The Reformed Catbolque : Or, 
 
 either the very perfons, or men however of theft very 
 principles, that a&ed theleOutrages upon Us, and yet now 
 complain of being perfecuted themfelves? When theyftar- 
 tie the Common People with the Notions of Cruelty and 
 Slavery, as a matter now in profpeft 5 methinksthey (hould 
 Blufh at the Memory, and upon the Guilt of thofe Real 
 Calamities which we have both (een and felt, wherein our 
 blefied Soveraign had yet a greater (hare then any of his 
 Subje&s. 
 
 They Abolijhcd Kingly Government 3 Sold the Crown- 
 Lands j Imprifoned and Murthered the King 5 made it 
 Treafon to deny the Supremacy of the Commons 5 turned 
 our Churches into Stables 3 Burnt our Communion Tables, 
 and profaned the very AJhcs of the Dead. Let but any man 
 read Scobels Acts, and fay, if the Englijh were not in thofe 
 Times, and under thefe Protefiant Diffenters , the mod 
 Defpicable Slaves in Nature. See their Tax upon the 
 Fifth and Twentieth part, their Excifes upon Excife^ their 
 Ajfefiments for the Maintenance of the Army, and their 
 Monthly Taxes for the fame end. Ninety thoufand founds t, 
 Six [core thoufand pounds, Stxty thoufand pounds, Sequefira- 
 tions, Seizing of peoples Rents and Debts, Appropriating to 
 themfelves the profits of Tonnage and Poundage, and Com- 
 pofitions for Wards. Authorizing the breaking open of 
 Lcckj, and Examining upon Oath for difcovery of Del/n- 
 quents Money and Efiates. All this is as well known, as the 
 very fa ft of the War it felf 5 and if we have a mind to lie 
 down under the fame Bondage again, let us believe the Sto- 
 ries of Arbitrary Government and Superfiition, that thefe peo- 
 ple tell us of, and they (hall juft (b help us out of them again, 
 as they did before. 
 
 There (ho .id be fomething further faid ta their pretence 
 of being Pcrfewtedfor Religion 3 but I find little to be ad- 
 ded to what is already delivered. The Law fiands flill : 
 They prefs upon the Law, and yet cry out, that the Law 
 
 perfe- 
 
Tl?e True Trofefiant. 35 ^3 
 
 perfecutes them. We may lay down this, I think , for a 
 Maxim } That whofoever tells us that he makes a Conscience of 
 Complying with the Difciphne of the Churchy audyet manifejlly e 
 
 makes none at all^ of underminings nay and of blowing up the 
 whole fame of the Government , that man is mo jl undoubtedly an 
 Hypocrite. 
 
 To Conclude : What's the meaning of this Rcmonfirating 
 to the People ? They are no Judges of the Contr over fie : But 
 they do well however, in a Cauie, where Force does a great 
 deal more then Argument^ to make their Application to the 
 Multitude, with whom Clamour and Pretence are of more 
 Value then Modejiy and Reafon. It is amoft Ridiculous 
 Contradiction to Common Senfe, to believe thefe men to 
 beinearneft$ for if they were, they would never Defame 
 the Government, at the fame time that they beg aDiJpenfa- 
 Hon from it. 
 
 Their Demand is unreafonable^ the thing it felf only No- 
 tional and ImpraUicable. By Liberty ofConfcience, they mean 
 a Freedom of doing what they pleafe^ which neceflarily implies 
 a total DiJJolution of the Laws. They offer it only as a Decoy 
 to the People-^ and when they have gained Compaffion to 
 themfelves (like Beggers that move pity by (hewing Ulcers 
 of their own making^ their next bufinefsis to draw Con- 
 tempts upon the Government ', and after that, to enter with- 
 out more ado, upon the Great Work of Reformation. Let 
 me do this Right however to the Independents : I do not find 
 that Party to have given the Government any trouble Jince his 
 Majejlies Return •-> but that they have kept themfelves clear of 
 aU thefe late Broils : And if Authority had the famefenfe of 
 them^with the Author of this Pamphlet , they would be found 
 both in their Principles andin their Manners, to have the moft 
 reafonable Claim of all forts of Dijjenters^ to a favourable al- 
 lowance from the Government. God in his Mercy open our 
 Eyes, that we may know our Friends from our Enemies*. 
 
 THE END. 
 
^H 
 
A 
 
 OFTHE 
 
 PLOT: 
 
 Dedicated to 
 
 Dr. TITVS OATES, 
 
 B Y 
 Roger L' Estrange, 
 
 The Third Edition. 
 
 LONDON, 
 
 Printed for Henry Bronte at the Gun in S. Fault 
 Church-yard. 16*80. 
 
19^ 
 
 
CO 
 
 A Further Difcovery, &c. 
 
 YOu have been told (you fay) that 
 V Eft range is a Papifi , and reports 
 You for a Fanatique: And thefe two 
 Calumnies have been lately im- 
 proved into a Couple of Nonfenjical and Sedition 
 Libels. They do really (6 much partake of Both, 
 that Ignorance, and nothing elfe excufes the jiu* 
 thors from a Pillory. The One is entituled , The 
 Anfwer to the Appeal, Expounded ; where (under the 
 Rofe ) he makes a Jefuite , a Papiji, a Plotter , a 
 Clod-Pate , a Fid/er of me . and almoft as many 
 Q(afcals as ever Pryn and /; # Difciples called our ZV0- 
 teftantMartyr, LAUD, the Archbifliop of Can- 
 terbury , of Glorious Memory. The Other bears 
 the Title of The Hi/lory of the Damnable Popifh plot ; 
 where he takes U Eftrange to task in the Preface , 
 and the tQng and Council, the Duke of York , the 
 Court of Icings-Bench, and the Government it ielf, 
 in the Book. The Writer (they fay) is a Small 
 Tlwed-bare Solicitor in the OldJBaily j one that va- 
 lues himfelf upon his Faculty in Drawing up Ar- 
 ticles, Impeachments, Narratives - y and upon his In- 
 tereft in Clubs and Coffee.boufes, &cc. I tell you this, 
 
 A 2 the 
 
TT5* O) 
 
 the rather, Do&or, becaufe this man hathyour name 
 often in his mouth • and (in truth) makes bolder 
 with it then ftands with the Dignity of your Figure 
 in the Government. 
 
 This is the very truth of the Cafe, Sir, and it is 
 not for any man to hear himfelf Reviled at this 
 rate, and ftand with his Finger in his Mouth. A 
 tpapift ! A Leffener of the Plot ! A Dijparager of the 
 Kings Evidence ! A body had better be half-hang'd 
 then barely to be reputed fb. Wherefore I muft 
 either frankly acquit my (elf, or Jink under the 
 Jccufation. 
 
 Now to difcharge my Soul to you, Do&or, as 
 in Confeflion : I am (by my hopes of Heaven) a 
 True Son of the Church of England • but not without 
 Bowels of Humanity yet to men of other Terfuafions. 
 And to tell you as a Friend, I have more Charity 
 for one Moral Tagan, then for twenty Hypocritical 
 Chriftians. I have naturally a Veneration for the 
 Government , and all that love it : For the Kings 
 Loyal Witneffes, and the Prefervers of his Sacred 
 Life, in the firft place . with an equal Honour and 
 Deteflation for all his Enemies, under what Mafcjue 
 or Form foever. I believe the °Plot ; and as much 
 of it as every good Subject ought to believe, or as any 
 man in his right Wits can believe: Nay, Ldofb 
 absolutely believe it, that, in my Confcience, you your 
 /elf Dottor, do not believe more of it then I do. But 
 yet the whole Earth can never bring me to Be- 
 
 lieVe 
 
(?) 
 
 lieve , or to fay that I Believe , that which I nei- 
 ther do , nor can Believe : as the bufinels of 
 Bedingfields being alive again • or, in a word , 
 that Imyfelf am in the Conspiracy. And in fome 
 Cafes, I would wait a little for Confirmation, 
 without fwallowing every thing whole as it comes. 
 Suppofe my Boy fhould come in and tell me that 
 it rains Butter d Turnips , I fhould go near to open 
 the Window to fee whether it be fo or no : and 
 you would not blame me for Doubting neither. 
 For That is the firmeji Faith that is introducedby 
 $(eafon , and eflablifhed by Experience. It is the 
 bufinefs of fome People to impofe upon Others . and 
 the misfortune of Other Teople to be impofed upon ; 
 which is unhappy and dangerous both ways ; 
 But Truth (as in Mythology) is the Daughter oiTtme. 
 I will not deny, but a man that believes Lightly , 
 may be in the ( BJght too- but 'tis by chance then. 
 One man is both Hone ft and Wife 5 Another may be 
 Honejl too, and yet perhaps but Simple : and lb 
 we have our Crafty I^naVes and our Foolifli. Some 
 have the Will without the Faculty ^ and Others are in- 
 dued with Both. Now in this Mixture of Hu- 
 mane Abilities and Inclinations , a man can hardly be 
 too Cautious : Be it always underftood, that where 
 ^VlfyQlity hath pajfed a Sentence ^ there is no longer 
 any place for Htfxtation or Demurre. 
 
 Before I enter any further into my Vindication, 
 it would become me to fay lomething that may 
 
 be 
 
 *■ 
 
be civil to your (elf: But it was never my Hu* 
 mour, (as a French Droll has it) to commend an 
 Orator for an Excellent Head of Hair ; or a man of 
 State and Bufinefs , for the Government of his 
 fieard- or to fpend three or four Pages upon fiich 
 an Occafion as this, in Flattery, and Panegyrich I 
 have (in few words) as great a Value for your 
 FunSiion, your Imployment, and your CharaEUr, as 
 I ought to have : I am a Friend to Down-right , 
 0/>e?i Dealing, to Liberty of Speech, and to the Free- 
 doms of an Eafie G/<*/}, and Companion, as much as 
 any man. I never took Religion toconfift in a 
 Set Form of Caps, Broad {Dangling Hats, or a Sowre 
 Look, enough to turn the very Stream of Humane 
 Comforts into Vinegar. And yet, I know, after all, 
 this, that you have called me Twenty %ogues , for 
 which I heartily thank you, and forgi ve you. Nay, 
 you had been little lefs then One your felf , if you 
 had fpared me under fuch a Notion as you might 
 poffibly understand me. But Time, I hope, may 
 bring us to be better acquainted. 
 
 In the mean while, let me aflure you, Sir, that 
 there is no Defign in This Paper to belpeak your 
 Favour in cafe of any Imputation upon me y either 
 for my Words, Actions, or Writings : For I defie Ma- 
 lice it felf to charge me with any fort of JMaleVo- 
 lence toward The Church or State, which even a 
 Tacktjury would dare to give Credit to. This De- 
 fiance would be extremely impertinent, if I were 
 
 not 
 

 CO 
 
 not privy to the Train of a Pack of little Curs 
 that are hunting for fome luch advantage. The 
 pitiful Qaufe -Jobber that I told you of in the Old- 
 Baily, did not ftick a little while ago, to Declare 
 as much, onely he was refblved to have a Touch 
 at his <I(pyal Highnefs firft, and then to file his Arti- 
 cles againft my Lord Chief Juflice , and after that, 
 U Eftrange was to go to Pot, upon the Meeting of 
 the Parliament at furtheft. And rather then fail, 
 he would be the man himfelf flhould bring in the 
 Articles. In purfiiance of this Doughty Refolu- 
 tion, he published the Libel above-mentioned, 
 where he hath a fling at the JQng and Council 
 (about Sir Robert Teiton, ^.381.) over [and above. 
 And this came out Piping Hot upon the precife 
 z6 of January, when the Parliament was to have 
 met • under a Dedication to the Lords and Commons 
 too; which Prefumption made it a worfe Libel 
 upon Tioat Augufi AJfembly, then any of the reft, by 
 entituling Them to the ^ProteBion of fuch a Hotch. 
 Potch of Calumny and Sedition. If you will fee 
 my Crime at length, you will find it in his Preface. 
 But the fhort of it is this : 
 
 He charges my Hifiory of the Plot with terrible 
 Shuffles and Omifions} as in Mr. !Bedloes Evidence 
 againft Sir G.Wakeman (P. 46. of the Trial) and 
 in Pag. 77. and elfewhere : whereas in my Ab- 
 ftraEi,pag.y^^%o. there's every Particular of that 
 EYidence, and not the One Half of it in his Damna- 
 ble 
 
-1 
 
 CO 
 
 He H'tftory^ag.iyj. And then for his Cavil againft 
 p<*g-77* the very words of my Abridgment are thefe, 
 pag.%%. [The Lord Chief Juftice, after fome fhort%e- 
 tnarques upon the Romifh Principles, fummed up the 
 Evidence y and gave directions to the Jury /] And this 
 was, efFe&ually, the whole bufinefs of that Page. 
 He Ipends the Remainder of his Difpleafiire upon 
 my Epiftle, ioi Vrowningthe Popifh plot, with iug- 
 geltions of an Imaginary one of the Proteftants . fay- 
 ing that the amujing People with fuch Stories is Noto- 
 rioufly a part of the Grand Popifh Defign . and then 
 he reflects upon me for laying, that there were 
 many Grofs Incoherences , and very Material Miftakes 
 in the printed Trials ; enough to difcredit the Plot 
 to Poflerity. I fiiall leave the Epifile tojuftifie it 
 lelf, and onely inform you as to the reft, that the 
 Judicial Proceedings are fully and particularly Reported 
 zndjufiified all along, and onely SEVERAL 
 Errours of the Prefs pointed at ,. not MANY 
 as he hath falsified it : nor any Diminution to the 
 Proofs, as he would (eem to Imply. Now I con- 
 ceive this x to be a Material Miflah, to Expofe a 
 Trote/lant Gentleman for zPapifl, nine times in two 
 pages. And there is another yet more Material, 
 pdg.45. of IrelandyTrial, which I have marked in 
 ' Mine, pag. 1 8 . to fay nothing of the reft. You may 
 find this matter fbmewhat more particularly 
 handled in a late Dialogue , Entituled, Citt and 
 Bumpkin ; from pag. jo. to 34. with the Preface 
 
 to 
 
Hi 
 (7) 
 
 tow? Hiflorical AbftraB at length 5 which I fliall 
 rather give you in this place over again, then (end 
 you out of your way to look it. 
 
 To the READER. 
 
 THere has not been any To'mt, perhaps, in the 
 wboleTrattof Englifli Story , either fo dan- 
 gerout to be miflaken, or fo difficult , and yet fo necejfary 
 to be underftood, as the CMyftery of this deteftable Plot 
 now in Agitation, (yfjudgmentfor our Sins, augmented 
 by our Follies ! ) *But the World is fo miferably divi- 
 ded betwixt fome that will believe every thing , and 
 others ?iothing , that not onely Truth, but Chiftianity 
 itfelfisalmofi loft between them*, and no place left for 
 Sobriety and Moderation. We are come to govern our 
 felves by Dreams and Imaginations • We make every 
 Coffee-houfe Tale an Article of our Faith • and from 
 Incredible Fables we raife Invincible Arguments. A 
 man muft be fierce and violent , to get the Reputation of 
 being Well- Affe&ed • as if the calling of one another 
 Damned Heretique, and Popifli Do^were the whole 
 Sum of the QontroVerfie. And what is all this, but the 
 effeEl of a Popular Licenfe and Appeal | When every 
 Mercenary Scribler fhatl take upon him to handle matters 
 of Faith, and State, give Laws to Trinces ; and every 
 Mechanique (it Judge upon the Government. Were not 
 thefe the Very Circumftances of the late Times ? When 
 the %eligious Jugglers from all Quarters fell in with the 
 
 8 fl^J- 
 
gabble , &i# managed them, us it ^ere, by a certain 
 fleigktofhand: The Rods were turned into Serpents 
 on both fides , and the multitude not able to fay , which 
 wm Aaron, and which the Enchanter., Let us have 
 a Care of the fame Incantation oyer again. Are we not 
 under the protection of a Lawful Authority? Nor was 
 there tVer any thing more narrowly Sifted, or more vigo- 
 roufly Difceuraged, than this Confpiracy. Reforma- 
 tion is the proper bnfinefs o/Government and Coun- 
 cil j but when it comes to "Work once at the wrong End, 
 there is nothing to be expeBed from it, but Tumult and 
 ConVulfion. A Legal and Effectual provifion againfi 
 the 'Danger o/Romifli Practices #&/ Errours," will 
 never ferVe their turn , whofe Quarrel is barely to the 
 Name of Popery, without underflandingthe Thing it 
 felf. J.nd if there were not a Roman Catholick/e/r 
 in the three Kingdoms, they would be never the better fa- 
 tisfied, for wloere they cannot find Popery, they will make 
 it : yuy, and be troubled too that thy could not find it. 
 It is no new thing for a Popular Out-cry, in the matter of 
 Religion, to have a State-Fa&ion in the belly of it. 
 The frft late Clamour wm againfi Downright Pope* 
 ry • and then came on Popiflhly Affe&ed: (That 
 fweeps all) The Order of Bifhops, and the Dilcipline 
 of the Church took their Turns next • and the next 
 blow iv as at the Crown it felf : when every manwM 
 made a Papift that would not play the KyaVe and the 
 Fool, for Company, with the Common People. 
 
 Thefe things duly weighed^and confidering the Ground 
 
Iff 
 
 (?) 
 
 of our prefentViflempers ^ the Compiler of this Abridg 
 tncnt reckoned that he could not do his Countrymen a bet- 
 ter Office , then (by laying before them the naked fate of 
 things) to give them at one View, a ^roffeft, both of 
 thefubjeB matter of their Apprehensions, and of the Vigi- 
 lance, Zeal, and needful JeVerity of the government on 
 their behalf To which end, he hath here dralpn up an 
 Hiftorical Abftraft of the whole matter of FaFi con- 
 cerning thofe (Perfons who have been hitherto Tried for 
 their Lives, either upm the Plot it felf or in Relation 
 to it : oppofing jfutbetrtick Records to wandring <l{ti~ 
 mours • and delivering the Truth in all Simplicity. He 
 hath not omitted any one material Toint : There is not 
 fo much as one Partial Stroke in it j not aflouri(h y nor 
 anything but a bare and plain Collection, without any 
 Tincture either of Credulity, or Tafion. jind it is 
 brought into Jo narrow a compajs too, that it will eaje the 
 Readers head, as well as his purfe •, by clearing him of 
 the puzzle of Forms, and \ztter\ocntoncs, that ferVe 
 onely to amufe and miflead a man, by breaking the Order, 
 and confounding the Relative parts of the Procee- 
 ding. 
 
 Having this in Contemplation, and being at the fame 
 time pofjeji ofamofl exatt Summary of all p off ages 
 here m Quejiion : This Reporter was onely to cajl an 
 ExtraH of thefe Notes into a ^Method : especially find* 
 ing, that upon comparing thefubftance of his own Papers, 
 with the moft warrantable Prints that have beenpublijbed- 
 his own Abftraft pro Ved to be not onely every jot as Cor* 
 
 B z reft, 
 
(10) 
 
 re#, hut much more Intelligible, which being {hort and 
 full, he thought might be ujeful, and find Credit in the 
 World upon its cw?n account, without need of a Vou- 
 cher. 
 
 Having engaged your Patience thus far, to- 
 ward a Right underftanding in the Cafe . I muft 
 take a little more pains yet to expound my (elfin 
 another Point, that I may ftand fair in your Opi- 
 nion. You may imagine, perhaps, that my reft- 
 lefs Courfe of Writing fi 'ill on and on, proceeds pure- 
 ly out of an Implacable §all y and Itch of Scribling. 
 But let me aflure you, Do&or, that I am as fick of 
 it my felfj as any body elle can be ; onely where- 
 fbever my Genius tells me that my Pen may be 
 any way ufeful to the Tublique, I can no longer for- 
 bear : (and in This You will the rather excufe 
 and credit me, from the Effects, and as it were, the 
 Incontinence of a Publique Spirit, which you find 
 inyourfelf.) Befide that 1 have not, as yet, fet 
 Pen to Paper, but upon the Defenfive ; and with- 
 out receiving any other Reply, then the General 
 Reproach of Topijltly Affe&ed, or a Vilifier of the 
 Rings Evidence. Nay, it was averred the other 
 day (as I am very well aflured) in a publique Coffee- 
 boufe, that upon VEJlrange his declaring himfelf 
 to be no Tapift, a Lady told him point blank, that 
 foe could prove him one. Thefe malicious Rumors 
 put me upon bethinking my felf which way I 
 
 might 
 

 
 might kill two Birds with one Stone, by proving 
 Dr. Oates and UEjirange to be neither Fanatical nor 
 (popijJ? : but both of them perfe&ly wellajfetted to 
 the Religion of the Church of England, as it is efta- 
 bliflhed by Law. 
 
 With thefe Confederations about me, I took all 
 your Works to pieces, Examining, and Comparing 
 them One by One : Your Narrative and Depofitions, 
 your ExaB DifcoVery • your Topes Ware-houfe • your 
 Witch ofEndor ; your ExaB and Faithful Narrative : 
 and furnifhed my felf out of your own Writings 
 with Materials for your Defence. And now, 
 thought I, if I canbut fignalize my Zeal toward 
 the Supprefling of Topery, by the opening of fome 
 Extraordinary way for the gaining of That End, 
 my Work is done. 
 
 Upon the Putting of thcfe Thoughts together, 
 by the afliftance of your Que, I entered into the 
 almoft inextricable Labyrinth of the Tlot . and 
 traced the Myftery of it thorough all its Turnings 
 and Windings, till at laft I came. to Difcover the 
 Triejls you pointed at, lurking like Foxes in their 
 Holes. And this I prefently madeknow r n to the 
 Nation, in a Pamphlet, under the Title of J Fur- 
 ther DifcoVery of the Plot. In this Pamphlet, I fee 
 forth the matter as I found it : with the Safe and 
 Certain way of Retrieving and Unkennelling thefe 
 Creatures : , and in all this I fupported my felf up- 
 on Dr. Oates his Credit, as will appear in the Se~ 
 
 cond 
 
 HJ 
 
l-^i 
 
 cond Imprefsion of that Further DifcoVery, here at the 
 end of this tedious Letter. 
 
 But what Innocence can warrant any man a- 
 gainfl: EnVy y or what Authority prot eft him? when 
 £J Eft range comes to be arraigned as a Tapft, for 
 fhewingthe moft likely way in the World for the 
 Extirpation of Topery : and when the Name of 
 Dr. Oates is not fufficient to proteEl him, in (6 pro- 
 fitable and necejfary a Veftgn ? Nay, and it is well, 
 Dod:or, if you can uphold your felf either, if this 
 goes on : For no man can fall foul upon That 
 lOijcoVery^ without wounding^owr Evidence. 
 
 The Fanatical Tarty, in fhort, will have it to be 
 zjefuitical Pamphlet ; (b that of a Fanatique on the 
 One hand, you are now become a Tapift on the 
 Other. For there is not One Syllable in the Foun- 
 dation of that Difcourfe, but I have your Word and 
 Oath for it. You fwear pofitiVely that the Triefts 
 and J efuites Herd themlelves among the Non-Con- 
 formifts • and Tliey, on the Other fide, as pofitively 
 Deny it. But yet they prove it too, with the very 
 Breath that denies it . and betray themlelves alfo 
 to be in the (P/ctf, over and above. For it is the 
 jfyioum Marque and Deftgn of the JefuitedTarty y to 
 difcredit the K^ngs Evidence, which thefe People 
 endeavour totally to overthrow. If the Tapifts do 
 not (belter themfelves in the Conventicles , and 
 Field-Meetings y to ftir up Broils in the Government, 
 what becomes of your Teftimony ? And admit- 
 ting 
 
03) 
 
 ting them to be there, none but a Tapift furewill 
 oppoie the Ferreting them out. Let them be once 
 allowed this SanEluary, and a Trieft has no more to 
 do, then to put on the Cloak of a Dijfenting Tro- 
 tejiant : and under. that Difguife to execute his De- 
 fign upon our Prince, our Government , and our 3(e- 
 ligion. 
 
 What can be clearer then, according to the fir ft 
 Article of your Depofitions, that Matthew Wright, 
 William Morgan , and Mr. Ireland, Voere Ordered 
 to go and preach under the Notion o/Presbyterians,^ 
 give the difaffeited Scots a True Under/landing of 
 their State and Condition, in which they were , by reafon 
 of the Epifcopal Tyranny, exercifed over them ; and 
 withall, to tell them they had now a fair opportunity to 
 Vindicate their Liberty, and Religion , and that it 
 could be done no other way, but by the S^ord. And 
 fo, Article 2 1. how they endeavoured by Them- 
 J elves, their Agents, and their Turfes, to provoke the 
 Scots againfi the Englifli. In your 34. Article, we 
 find them tampering with the Fifth-Monarchy -Men. 
 And yet all this will not ferveto convince fbme 
 People of the Triefts mingling with the Fa?iatiques, 
 till the Pilgrims and the Forty Thoufand Slack Bills 
 fliall come to open their Eyes in the Conclufion. 
 Ifthefe Infidels have any Privilege (or the Defaming 
 ofTubliqueJuftice, and blajiing the Kjngs IVitneffes, 
 above other People, they fhould do well to pro- 
 duce it. 
 
 And 
 
am' , ; 
 
 And I am not Co Sangum neicher,as to take up my 
 Creed upon the High-way, and venture an Affidavit 
 upon every Phantbme in the Domejlique. But, Sir, 
 I have %ead you , I have Confiderd you , and 
 made you no little part of my Study. You have 
 Lightedmt into the Vault, where all our Mi/chief 
 is a Brewing. You have fhewed me not onely the 
 Train, but Faux him/e If alio, (the Mafter-Engineer) 
 Creeping with his 1WA. Lanthom to give F/>e to it. 
 and to my Eyes, things are as plain, as the SW at 
 Noon-day. To fay nothing of the Offices you have 
 already rendered to the Publique, with the Expo- 
 fure of your felf, almoji all manner of ways : I do 
 look upon you at this Inftant, with a refped: to 
 the Future, to be a Perfbn at leaft as Capable of 
 Contributing to the Peace and Happinels of this 
 diftradted Nation , as any Subject of the three 
 Kingdoms. I am not infenfible of the %oundnefs 
 of your Periods, the Luxuriancy of your Invention, 
 (where there is any Scope for it) the Franknefs of 
 your Stile, and the Harmony of all your Conce- 
 ptions. But thefe are Stories for thofe People on- 
 ly that have nothing elfe to do, but to Clalo one 
 another. 
 
 This Over-grown Epiflle would have been Mon* 
 Jirous in any other Age 5 and the Quality of it no lefs 
 Extraordinary : but Cujlom authorizes all things, 
 whether Good or Evil. There are certain Modes of 
 Sttle, Figure, Addrefs, Motion, garments, nay, and of 
 
 Morals. 
 
00 
 
 Morals too, that have their proper and peculiar Sea- 
 fons. Impudence prevails in One Age, Modejly in Ano- 
 ther • Publique Juftice and Oppreffeon take their turns-, 
 J^navery and Hypocrijie were in fafTiion Thirty or 
 Forty year ago i and we are Noa?, for Honejly, and 
 Plain-dealing. The f re/ent Humour of Fmzce runs 
 much upon Poyfoning $ the Romans, for One bout, 
 made a great Trade of Suborning and Trepanning ; 
 and the Enemies o£ this Government, are at this day 
 altogether upon the Vein of Plotting. But I was 
 about to fpeak to the Licenfe of Epijioli^ing, which 
 is wok? in Vogue , in excufe of the Freedom I am to 
 make ufe of in ffctf Letter. That is to (ay , It was 
 the Old, dull my, to tell & Friend his Fa«/fr in his 
 Ear j and give him Goo^ Counfel in a Corner : But 
 it has been found out in Our Times, to be more for 
 the Dignity of the Advifer, to doit in a Printed Let- 
 ter, that the whole World may bear witnefs to 
 the Frank Difcharge of a mans Duty. 
 
 After the acquittal of my felftobeno Papift, 
 give me leave to fay fomething, Sir, to the Point 
 charged upon me, both by your Self, and your 
 Father, of Reporting You for a Fanatique. I never 
 faid that you were a Fanatique, in my Life • nor 
 did I ever prefume lb much as to Guefs at your Re- 
 ligion, any otherwife, then Negatively, that you are 
 no Presbyterian : "which I inferred from the So- 
 lemnity of your frequent Proteftations that you 
 could not in Conscience Communicate with men of 
 
 C that 
 
 ifl 
 
that Trofefion. But to treat you with the Liberty 
 of an Epifloli^er , I muft confefs, that the words, 
 which you reminded me of upon that Occafion, and 
 told meJJhouldfeefQda'mly in print, did,me thought, 
 Teem to incline a little that way. And then your 
 Natural Meeknefs, and ^Affability toward all men, and 
 as well Fanaticks as Others, (to deal plainly with 
 you) opened the Mouths of fome Ignorant People 
 to that Effed: : Together with that Exhortation of 
 yours, in the Pojl-fcript to your Popes Ware-boufe y 
 pag.67. [To th e Encouragement of all forts ofPwte- 
 ftants wbatfoever, that Fear God ,. Honour the King $ 
 and are willing to he Subject to the Civil Magiftrate, 
 though Diffenting from the reft of Ckriftians , in 
 fame/mall matters, and Indifferent Things.^ Now 
 though I am too much a Servant toUnity, to en- 
 courage Separations , and Divifions I cannot yet 
 but highly efteem the Humane Tendernefs of Ea- 
 fing particular Perfons, in the matter of Involuntary, 
 and Invincible Vijfent : (that is to fay, Co far as 
 ftands with Publique Order.) And yet you muft ex- 
 cufe me, Do&or, if I tell you, that your foftnefs of 
 Difpofition may endanger the carrying of you too 
 far too. For though a Difcreet and Practicable In- 
 dulgence may da well ; there may be fuch a fy- 
 mifsnefs yet, as by Loofening the Sinew of the Go- 
 'vernment, may bring the Body of the Community into 
 a Habit ofWeaknefs, and Trepidation. But there is a 
 Perfecting Spirit, on the other hand, that cannot 
 
 certainly 
 
07) 
 
 certainly but be Odious both to God and Man : A 
 Spirit, that wreaks its Fury upon Widows and Or* 
 fhans y without ekherViftinftion, or %emorfe • that 
 hunts ©/(Wmeerly for the Bloudfake 7 and makes 
 men worfe then Wohes : for Jheypurfue,3indfei^e 
 their Pry, only to fatisfie their Hunger. 
 
 By this time , Sir, you fee what a Chnnh-of- 
 England.man is to Truft to ; when the One fide 
 makes him a Fanatique, and the Ot/itfr a P^i/?. But 
 with what face fliall any man dare to Charge Him 
 for a Papift , that has done fo much for the Prote- 
 ftant Religion : or for a Fanatique, that has done lo 
 much, That way again, for the Church of Eng- 
 land i 
 
 The Plot, by the Unanimous Vogue of all the 
 Kings WitneiTes, is a Tripartite Plot. Firft, upon 
 the Life of his Sacred JMajefty. 1. The Snhver* 
 fion of the Government. 3 . The Extirpation of the 
 Proteftant Religion. So that the (I^pofwg out of the 
 Protectant Religion, is Ow Cdjpita/ Pom* of the Con(j>i- 
 racy. But what it is that is intended by the Pro- 
 teftant Religion , comes now to be Expounded } 
 and the Clearing of 1 hat Difficulty fets All fyght. 
 
 Under the Word Government is Comprehended 
 the Regiment both Ecclefiaftiatl and Civil : and In- 
 clufivdy, the Order of fBtftops, with the Eftablifli'd 
 DoHr'me and Difciplme of the Church. So that T/w, 
 and no 0£/?er, is the Proteftant Religion Defign'd 
 upon in the Plot. Secondly, It would not have 
 
 C 2 been 
 
 i*3 
 
it A 
 
 (18) 
 
 been ffielfgtOtt, but meltftfonS^for their Name 
 is Legion) it the Blow had been Leveird at thefd- 
 natiques. Thirdly, there is no finding, no fixing oi 
 them : . 'Tis almoft as hard to fay Where they are 
 as What : for they are a kind oi Chri/iian jiraVs 
 and Wanderers in their Stations, as well as in their 
 Opinions. Fourthly, It does not ftand with Common 
 Senfe, for the papijls to plot the %uine of their Own 
 Auxiliaries', nor with the Reafon of your own 
 Vepofitions that they fhould contrive the DeftruEiion 
 oi the Fanatiques, at That Very Time when they are 
 making u(e of Them to deftroy Us. And it is all 
 one tome, whether you call them Fanatiques, or 
 Separatifts, or TSlon-Qonformifts, or Viffenters ; for 
 you may as well bring Heaven and Hell together, 
 as reconcile thole People to any terms of Piety, 
 or Civil Order, that corruptly ftile themlelves Pro* 
 teftants, under any of thefe General Denominations. 
 This Schifm is the very Lake of Locufts-, Adamites 
 Familifis, Socinians,Arrians, with Swarms oi Impious, 
 Beaftly Herefies, not fo much as to be Thought of 
 without Shame, nor Mentioned but with Trembling 
 and Horrour. 
 
 Now if the Eftablifted Religion aim'd at in the 
 <Plot, be the EftablijJ/d ^ligion of the Church of 
 England-, you cannot be a Friend to the State , 
 without being one to the Church too : For They 
 are in (lich a manner Incorporate, that they muft 
 either ft and or fall together, by a neceffary Confent . 
 
 So 
 
09) 
 
 So that whofoever Phanfies you, Do&or, to be 
 other then Canonical and Orthodox, implies a Lewd 
 and a Dangerous Suppofition . which is, that 
 what you Build with One hand, you pluck Down 
 with the Other. 
 
 Or put the Cafe that the Defign ftrikes at All 
 that call themfelves Protectants, in General, as Well 
 Non-Conformijls as Church-men : The Diffenters muft 
 yet range themfelves under the Government to Op* 
 pofe it • and without intermeddling any Ocher 
 way too, then by their Trayers, and Good Wifbes, 
 upon pain of Sedition : For they do not a<5l in this 
 Inftance, as men of fuch otfuch a Religion $ but as 
 Subjetts, under the Bond of Civil Obedience. So that 
 we are ftill but where we were before, and as fure 
 otYouTliis loay, as the Other : For they are no lon- 
 ger Dijfenters, when they Comply with Authority, 
 and we do onely Clofe with them in their Agree- 
 ments, not in their Dijfents. 
 
 But pray'e Sir, Let me ConfiHt you as a Cafuifl : 
 Whether or no, and how far may Proteftants Unite, 
 and pin together, to keep out and defend themfelves 
 againft Popery ? ,, ;As in the Caie of the prefent plot. 
 This Queftion is the very Hinge of the Contro- 
 verfie. The Solution feems to me, as follows : 
 and I befeech you fet me Right, if I miftake it. I 
 am of Opinion for the Affirmative, and that Prote- 
 ftants may join (ut fupra: ) that is to fay, in their 
 Hearts and AffeEtions, but no farther, without the 
 
 War- 
 
ifr-t 
 
 (10) 
 
 Warrant of Authority. And it muft be the Supreme 
 Authority too : For in refpedt of the Supreme , all 
 Subordinate Magiftrates are but as Private Perfons. 
 In this Point, the Law is a fure Guide, which ex- 
 prefly forbids fuch and fuch Meetings and AJfem- 
 blies, under the Name of Riots, and Rebellions 
 without any Exceptions whatfbever. Now if all 
 Leagues and AJJociations whatfoever, of Publique In- 
 tendment , and without Authority, be no other then 
 Unlawful Confederacies • Such a Conjunction in the 
 matter of Religion, were a great Folly added to 
 the Iniquity. For Religion is a Spiritual Notion, out 
 of the Reach of Violence, and neither to be Invaded, 
 nor to be kept out by force. It may be (Brought in, 
 'tis true, by Conferences • and we are allowed the 
 ufe of all Lawful means to TreVent it, by Confequen- 
 ces too ; as if the Tope himfelf fliould Invade us . 
 though we cannot but apprehend what may fol- 
 low upon't, we do not encounter his Religion yet, 
 but his Arms. Nbr is it fo properly a War of Con- 
 fcience, as of Civil Defence and Dominion : Our <Pro~ 
 fefiion was never Founded in 'Sloud. In one word, 
 Sir, It is the Government that is at Stake, and he 
 that is not With it, is Againjl it. The SUBVER- 
 SION of the Government is the Bufinefs • as I find 
 it in the Harmony of all the Evidences : By which 
 word SUBVERSION, is intended ( I fup- 
 pole ) not the Extin&ion of the Form, either of 
 Monarchy, or Epifcopacy ,• but rather the Tran- 
 
 flation 
 
(2i) l/ 7 
 
 flation of the Power Ecclefiaftical and Civil, into Other 
 Hands. 
 
 They are WonderfulThwgs , Dofror, which you have 
 done already g and I am perfuaded that you are yet re- 
 ferved for wore wonderful Things to come : which muft be 
 the Work of Time to Difclofe$ when Truth fhall deliver 
 her felf from the Rubbifh oWpprejJion and Slander 5 and 
 in defpite of Envy and Impofiure render your Name as Fa- 
 mous to Pojierity, as your Virtue has made it to the prefent 
 Generation. And This I write with little lefs then the 
 Genius of a Prophet. Blefs me ! That any man in his 
 Wits (hould take you (upon Second Thoughts) to be no 
 Friend to the Church of England $ after fo many Oaths, 
 and Proofs to the Contrary : So many Proofs (I fay J not 
 onely of Deposition, and Argument 5 but of Adventure al- 
 (b, even to the hazard of your Life$ for ought I know, 
 as much from the Fanatiques, as the Papijis ! Who was 
 it but You, that fo effectually laid open the Intrigues of 
 the Priejis, and Jefuites, with the Schifmatiques, in the 
 Late Rebellion t That (hewed his Majefty fo plainly, who 
 they were that Dethrond and Murtherd his Father : and 
 painted the whole Confpiracy fo to the Life, that a Body 
 might vpink^ and fee thorough it? Who but Ton, Sir, to 
 Trace them down to this very Inftant, through all their 
 Difguifes, and Cabals } fomenting a Rebellion in Scotland 
 with the Presbyterians 5 Incendiaries in London, with the 
 Millenaries 5 and up and down tampering with the whole 
 Crew of SeSaries : In which Difcoveries you have gi- 
 ven the greateft Blow to the Schifm, that ever it recei- 
 ved fince the Reformation : For you have left them no- 
 thing to fay for themfelves, why they (hould not be lif- 
 ted, and purg'd with all exa&nefs imaginable ? Who was it 
 but Tou, that firft found out the Confiiracy it felf and then 
 thzConfpirators .<? Who but Tou, the Eminent Inftrument 
 in the Opening of the Combination? To pafs over your 
 Indefatigable btdujlry in the finding and making of all out, 
 
 to 
 
f*f$ 
 
 OO 
 
 to the extreme hazards both of your. Health, and Perjbn. 
 And now at laft , after the Gleaning up of a matter of 
 Five and Thirty Priejis, in the whole, out ofa great ma- 
 ny Hundreds up and down 3 Who was it butTJw, that 
 informed the Government, where (in (lead of pickng up 
 one or two Priejis in a Month ) they might find them in 
 Shoals? Alas 1 We proceed as if a Jefuite had not the 
 Wit of a Hunted Hare, that, to puzzle the Hounds, and 
 confound the Sent, will thruft it felf into a Flock of 
 Sheep 3 or of an Embofsd Deer, that (hikes into the Herd. 
 Is it not true, Sir, that they have their Haunts among the 
 Schifmatiques? Is it not frae, that the Plot goes on ftiU? 
 Is it not true that we are all ZJndone, if it be not ^[ap- 
 pointed. And is it not then a matter of Abfolute NeceJJitj 
 to fetch thefe Plotters out of their Holds $ And, in fine, 
 Is it not as true, that whoever doubts, either of the Truth 
 of this matter ofFaS, or of the NeceJ/ity of This way of 
 Proceeding, is undeniably a Blajier of the Kings Evidence, 
 and a Favourer of the Confpiracy ? Lay all this to Heart, 
 I befeech you, and caft your Eye upon what follows. May 
 Heaven and Earth reward you , for the Care you have 
 taken of the Poor Protejiants, and be as happy as I wifh 
 you. 
 
 Sir, 
 I am 
 
 Tour Humble Servant, 
 
 Roger L/Estrange, 
 
A Further Difcovery of the PLOT, 
 
 Drawn from the NARRATIVE 
 
 and DEPOSITIONS of 
 
 Dv.TITVS OATSS^c. 
 
 AS it cannot be deny'd, but that the Kings Witnef- 
 fes have ventur'd as far, and done as much as men 
 could do, ( under their Circumftances ) to make 
 out the Truth of a Damnable, and Hellijh Popi[h Plot upon 
 the Life of his Sacred Majejly^ our Religion and Civil Go- 
 vernment :Sq neither mult it be deny'd, on the other 
 hand, but that the Juftice and Wifdom of this Nation 
 have emprov'd all Difcoveries, by the ftricteft Inquifiti- 
 on, and fcrutiny imaginable ; and done all that waspof- 
 fible alio toward the fupprefling of the Confpiracy, by 
 the higheft Inftances of Political zeal and Rigour. In- 
 fomuch, that after fo many Priefts and Jefuits, and o- 
 ther Leading men of that Party removed by the ftroke of 
 Publique<fuftice ; fo many of them under Confinement ; fb 
 many more reduced to fhift for themfelves beyond the 
 seas, befide the fevere Penalties of the Law w^on the reft, 
 with all forts of Encouragement, both for their dete&ion 
 and punifhment: After all this care taken (I fay ) to tear 
 up the ace urfed Plot by the Root, We are yet allured, that 
 ( all this notwithftanding ) the Plot is ftill carried on 
 with Confidence-, and Vigour. And this we have, even from 
 thofe very Perfons themfelves that formerly wrought 
 in the fame Mine with the Confpirators ; till through 
 the Grace of a better Light they came to govern them- 
 felves by other Meafures. Thiols a truth no more to be 
 
 D doubted, 
 
 9 
 
 ' 
 
ib'tecl, then that of the Plot it /?//* 5 which has flood 
 t he Try all of fo many Solemn and publique Tejis : Befide 
 that we have the fame Authority for the One as for the 
 Other ; only the Circumftances not being brought into 
 Proof, the matter of Fafr lies a little more in the Dark. 
 
 Whether or no the Plot goes On fill, after all this Ha- 
 vockmadeofthe/^/?//?^ is the Common fubject of e- 
 very Coffee boufe Difcourfc. They that muft be prefum'd 
 to know beft, are of opinion that it does ; and thofe 
 that are upon the Negative, reafon the point after this 
 manner. PVhatl ("fay they ) Is it a Plot that will work 
 mithout hands f Where are the Papifts, the Inftruments that 
 (hoidd drive it on ? Are they in the Aire or under Ground ; 
 or are they Invifible? For as they are now difpers'd, and 
 broken, ( he fide the Terrour that overawes them ) there are 
 at leajl three Thoufand Proteftants, in fight, to one Papift. 
 Eut do they ask where they are y becaufe we cannot^ 
 them ? Why do they not rather ask where they are 
 Not ? becaufe they may be any where 5 and we not know 
 them : For, ^s I have been told by perfons of Great Qua- 
 lity, they'lindurealiy^^x, and Exercile all Profejfions. 
 They fpeak of one ficfuit that cry 'd workfor a Cooper ; ano- 
 ther that wrought upon the Trade of a shoo maker ; 
 Priefis in Red coats Innumerable *. And it is obferv'd that 
 upon the bringing. of the Late Plot to Light, all the lit- 
 tle Frenchmen with their Marionets or Puppet-fhows va- 
 mfh'd in a trice .-which gave a fufpition that they were 
 only a kind of Itinerant Agents for the Faction : To fay 
 nothing of their skill and Induftry, in the managing of 
 all ourDivifions, and difcontents, to the advantage of 
 their own Party. Thefeare ftories ( I know ) that are 
 much more eafily Contradicted, then Provd: and there 
 fore without laying any ftreife at all upon Common Fame, 
 or Hearfay, I fhall now apply my felf to that farther D\f- 
 zavcry of the Plot, which I have promised in my Title 6 and 
 
 fupport 
 
Support my undertaking, upon the Authority of Dr. 
 0^/himfelf ^witharefpeGtboth to the Validity of his 
 Tefiimony , and to the weight of his Obfervations ; being a 
 Perfon that hath dived deeper into the Afyftery of this 
 Iniquity ( with favour of the reft ) then any other man. 
 
 As to the Hellifh Defignupon the Life of our Graci- 
 ous Sovereign, by Piftol, Sword, ov Poyfon, we hope that 
 the Neck ot that particular Plot is broken, to -all Intents 
 and purpofes : But we are beholden alfo to Dr. Oates 
 for the Difcovery of Other and of Farther Plots that are 
 ftillcarry'donby the fame reftleffe Party ; tending to 
 the defaming of his Majefties Terfon, and Government ; the 
 Subverfwnoi our Eftablijh'd Religion, and the Difturbance 
 of the Publick Peace. So that unlefs the remaining, and 
 the ftill growing Difficulties, and Hazzards be encoun- 
 tered with Timely and Effectual Remedies, the work of our 
 Deliverance is but half done, and we fhall yet run a 
 rifque of being ruin'd at laft even in the very Port. 
 
 Dr. Oates tells us in his Narr&tive, Printed by Authority 
 of Parliament, that the Pope, Society of Jefus, and their 
 Confederates inthis Plot, have a Defign to reduce Eng- 
 land, Scotland^ and Ireland, to the Romi(h Religion and 
 Obedience, by the Sword : Pag. 63. which they hope to 
 accomplifh, among Other means, by difaffecthg the Kings 
 befl Friends at home and abroad, and Subjects, again ft his 
 Perfon and' Government ; charging him with Tyranny, and 
 Defigns ofOppreffing, Governing by the Srvord^ and without 
 Parliaments, Fa. 67. 
 
 By ^fperfng, Deriding, Exposing, and declaiming againfl 
 his Perfon, Councils, and Actions in Parliaments, and elfe- 
 rvhere 5 by Mif reporting, and raifing Falfe News of his Affairs; 
 by difaffetting his Majefties Allyes y Holland, <5pain, the 
 ^German Emperor, » and Princes by Falfe Intelligence. By 
 Seditious Preachers, and Catechifts, fet up, fent out 9 
 
 D 2 Maintained, 
 
 i6\ 
 
jntained, and directed what to Preach in their Own, or 
 other Private, or Publick Conventicle s, and Field Meetings. 
 By felting up falfe pretended Titles to the Succefjion of the 
 Crown ; and Animating Different Parties, one agxinfl another, 
 on this orfnch like Falfe pretences, to Arm and put the People 
 in blood, upon the Kings Death. 
 
 We have found Dr. Oates\ Obfervations ( as to thefe 
 particulars, ) fo punctually true, that every fyllable of 
 what he has here deliver'd, is from point to point, the 
 very matter now in Agitation. For there's not a day 
 pafles without a Libell upon his Majefties Authority, sfd- 
 tnlriiftratioft, Defignes, and folemn Refolutions of State ^ 
 andCouncil; belying the Condition of his Affairs, and 
 endeavouring to create Difirufis , and jfeloufics among 
 Forreign Princes, and States, by Falfe Intelligence ; ani- 
 mating, and Fxcitingoi Turbulent Factions, and anticipa- 
 ting oiConfeieracies ', to involve us all in Blood; upon a 
 Remote and Undutifull SUPPOSITION of the 
 KINGS DEATH. And finally, we have Sedition 
 rreacl/das well as written, and our Conventicles both in- 
 ftructed themfelves, and inftrufting Others, in the Me- 
 thods and Principles of Rebellion, this may fuffice for 
 the DoSors Judgment upon the prefent Jtate of things, 
 which in truth looks liker a Revelation, then a Con- 
 jecture. 
 
 As to his Reflexions upon the Intereft which the Fa- 
 ffs hadin our Pad troubles ; thefe are his words in his 
 Preface to the aforefaid Narrative. 
 
 Who be fide thefe were the Firft Aut hours and Contrivers of 
 chelate Unnatural fVar, by their Known Diabolical Art of 
 enflaming Parties \ and Paffions agamft each other ? And ^ad- 
 dreffing to the King ) of your Royal Father slinfpeakable 
 fufferings, and Barbarous Ufage ? It was thefe that brought 
 him to his End , and flour i fly d swords, and Trumpets over 
 bis de.id Body, whom they dur/f uot approach when Ijving. 
 The Putney ProjeQours ( fays he) wereinmefl, ifnotaU 
 
 the 
 
(*7) 
 
 the Councils , that contrived his Ruine. What broke theULx- 
 bridge Treaty, but the Romiih Intereft, and Policy? 
 JVho continud to baffle alldefigns of Peace, and Settlement 
 to this Nation, and Profperity to his Majeflies family, but 
 thofe Incendiaries, Milton was a known frequenter of a 
 PopifhClub; who more forward to fet up Cromwell, and 
 to put the Crown of our Kings upon his Head, then Papifts? 
 And his new f angled Government was contrivd by a Popifh 
 Prieft; and Lambert a Papift, for above thefe Thirty 
 years. 
 
 I have inferted thefe PafTages as a Curiofity in the Hi- 
 ftory of thofe times; which may perhaps have efcap'd 
 other men as well as my felf. For though I never made 
 any Queftion, but that the Church of England, as it ftands 
 Eftablifhed by Law, in the Purity of Dofftine, and the 
 Venerable Sobriety of Difcipline, was ever an Eye (ore to 
 the Church of Rome; yet 1 was of Opinion too, that a 
 Licentious Vein ofsfmbition and Schifm among our fel ves, 
 hadcarry'dagreatftroke alfo in that Fatal Revolution-; 
 But however*, this is a point wherein a man may without 
 lofs of Honour, or Credit, admit the poffibility of his 
 being in a Miftake. Wherefore we fhall now ( wich the 
 BoBors Leave) advance to plain matter of PaS\ where- 
 upon we have his Depofition ; the only Cafe tv herein 
 a man may, without Vanity pronounce himfelf within 
 a degree of Infallible, 
 
 We finde Pag. 8. that Richard Nicholas Blunde.U had 
 every day in the PPeek his feveral places in the City 0/ Lon- 
 don, where he taught the Touth Treafonable, and Maliciom 
 Doclrine, againfl the Inter efl, and Perfon of his Sacred Ma- 
 
 Alfo ( Pag. 25 . .) that Richard Afhby; had a) Conference 
 for the fending of New Mefiewgers Into Scotland, to pro- 
 mote the Commotions there 5 and to inform the People, of 
 the great Tyranny they did ly under, by reafon of their being 
 denyd the Liberty of their Confcience , and that not being 
 
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to be procured but by the /word, they mufl take that Courfe to 
 pur chafe their Liberty : By which means Q'ayd the Fathers vhws 
 Jffembled ) we (hall weaken both the Presbyterian, And the 
 Epifcopal /'afrion. At which Conference, the D E P O- 
 NENT was P RES E NT, and heard the Words. 
 
 And agnin, Two Alcffengers ?r eye fent into Scotland, One 
 by the Nam ^Father Moore yind the Other by the Name of 
 . father launders alias Brown, with Jnflr net ions to carry 
 themf elves like NO N CO N E R M I ST MINI* 
 STERS; and to Preach to the Difaffefted Scots, the 
 Neceffty of taking up the Sword for the Defence of Liberty 
 of Confcience. TfceTe the dEPON ENT fiw Dii : 
 patch'd, &c. 
 
 Take notice, in the Fir ft place, that here's a Defigne 
 carry'donfor the Destruction of the King, and the Em- 
 broyling of 'the Government. Secondly, the pretence of the 
 Quarrel is to be matter of Z/^rry and Confcience. Third- 
 ly, it is to be promoted by Vopiflj Emiffaries^ in the Coun- 
 cils, and Conventicles of the Non-Conformifls. Fourthly^ 
 the means by which the Papifls propound to compafs 
 their Ends, are by making Inter efts with the Separatifts, 
 under the Difguife of Minifters, and Teachers, refpe- 
 ftively of the feveral Parties they have to do withal!. 
 And Fifthly, Let me recommend this Particular to your 
 Special Remark, that Dr. Oates, throughout the whole 
 Courfe of his Depositions, charges no part of the Popifb 
 Defignupon any Intelligence, or Communication with the 
 Church of England ; but makes it only to be a praftice 
 upon the Dijjenters from the Englifo Communion, to trans- 
 port them into Tumults, and Diflempers againft both 
 Church and State. 
 
 We have here iH few words, a Scheme of the whole 
 bufinefs ; Here's the Defigne, the Pretext, the Inflruments 
 and the Methods', and upon the whole matter, here is 
 the Church of England acquitted, as to any point of un- 
 warrantable affinity with the Principles or Pra&ifes of 
 
 the 
 
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 the Church of Rome ; however that Tefiy frenchman is 
 pleas'd to fpeculate in his Fanatical Reveryes upon our 
 approaches to That Communion : Wherein it may be a 
 Queftion, whether he is more out in his Hiftory, or in his 
 Morals. We are, in fhoit, very much obliged to the 
 Doftor, for clearing our Church to allGainfayers,from 
 thofe obloquies which by both the Extremes are indiffe- 
 rently caft upon us. 
 
 It muft not be any longer a fuppofition, that which 
 TDr.Oates has given us his Oath for ; fo that taking it for 
 granted, that there is fuch a ProjeQ: on foot, that the 
 Fapifts are in the bottom of it, and that it is promoted 
 by the Seflaries, only as Paffive Agents that are blindly 
 bringing about the others ends : the Queftion is now how 
 the Government may fairly difcriminate the Proteftants 
 from the Vapifts ; being fo blended in their Inter eft ^ as 
 well.as in their Councils ; and mask'd under fuch Re- 
 femblances, the One, of the Other, that they are not eailly 
 to be diftinguifhed. It cannot be expefted that a pre- 
 tending Prot eft ant {hall own himfelf to be a Papift ; fb 
 that there's no believing any man in the Cafe. And 
 then the Epithete of a Reputed fo or fo, is fo flender an Evi- 
 dence, that many a Reputed Vapifi is found to be a True 
 Vroteftant, and many a Reputed P rote frant as true a Vapift. 
 The known and Legall Expedient which has been hi- 
 therto found Competent enough toanfwerthe Reafon 
 and Intent of State, is the Teft of the Two Oaths of Al- 
 legiance and Supremacy, and yet this very provifion will 
 not reach all cafes : For there are many Vapifts that will 
 Take them without any difficulty ; and there are feverall 
 that call themfelve^ Proteftants, that will as obftinateiy 
 refufe them. Now though i\\t Latter (Primo £liz. ) was 
 aProvifion fir the abolifbin^ of Foreign Tower, and the For- 
 mer ( Tertiofac.) an Act for the difcovering and reprcf- 
 fing ofFopif/j Recufants ; the Scope and Equity yet of Both 
 thefe Provifions. has a regard to the (ecuring of the Go^ 
 
 vern tnent 
 
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 vernmentagainftany fort of people, and againft aa> 
 Pretenfions whatfoever: So that whoever Refufes, up< 
 on a Lawfull Tender, to take theie Cathes, he's a Vapifl in 
 the eye of the Law, let his Perfwafion be what it will : 
 For it is the only Priviledgeof Omnifcienceto reade the 
 Heart: or if( for difcourfe fake ) we fhould fuppofe 
 . him to be no Papift, he is yet in the profpe£t of Common 
 Reafon, liable to that Impofition, becauie it is exacted as 
 aProofofhis^//^//^, not of his Faith ; and men of 
 Different judgements in Religion may yet agree in Common 
 Principles of Dijloyahy. 
 
 And then again, there's no appealing in this Cafe 
 from theVrt/clence and Caution of the Law ( \\ hich is all- 
 ways prefum'd to intend the Common Good ) to the Tefti- 
 mony of a Friend ox Neighbour in favour of a Recufation. 
 For the Law is a General Rule, that takes no notice of any 
 Exceptions to it. The Law requires me to Take Tbefe Oaths 
 in proof of my Allegiance to the Government ; and my 
 anfwer is, that lam a very Hone jl man, but I cannot take 
 them. What is this to the Law, that takes no Cognizance 
 of my Honejiy, but of my Obedience ? And this Rule 
 holds in Common, as well to the Fapifi as to the Prote- 
 ctant Recuf ant ; They both vouch for their own Loyalty } 
 and at the fame time they do both of them Refufe to 
 comply with the Law. The Common way of Reply 
 in this Cafe, is to caft it in a mans Teeth • But what ? 
 will yon make no difference betwixt a Pa pill that refufes and a 
 Proteftant? Yes, I would, if you would but fhew me 
 how I may certainly know the One from the Other. 
 Who knows not that Intereft governs the World ? and 
 that for Reafons beft known to them felves, he that is a 
 Vrotejlant in his heart maybe induced rather to appear 
 a Papiji ; and the Other, though a Papifl in his heart, may 
 find it his Intereft yet to feem a Proteftant? But we'l yield 
 that Point too; and put the Cafe, that the Law fhould 
 be relax'd, on the behalf of any man living, Does not 
 
 This 
 

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 This open a Gap (let him be never fo Honeft ) to the 
 admittance often Thoufand men that may plead Honefty 
 too, and yet betray their Duties ? And is it not better 
 then-, that lome few particulars fhould fuffer by keep- 
 ing firm to the Law, then that -the whole fhould be en- 
 danger'd by Remitting it ? fo that there is neither Reafon 
 nor Safety, nor Equity, in fuch a Relaxation, nor any re- 
 gard of Common fuftice and Duty in demanding it. 
 ' But what if it be faid, that it is not the Thing Sworn, 
 but thzOathitfelf, that is Scrupled ? and that there are 
 feveral forts of Perfwafions that will not bear any fwear- 
 ing at all ? This I muft confefs, is a Cafe fomewhat 
 nice, and unhappy^ Jto thole people that are fo ftraight- 
 lzc'dinthztVarticular: But then, on the Other fide, it 
 is to the Government the moft dangerous of all Vretenfwnsr 
 and lets in all the Priefts- and fefuits in Nature, unde, 
 That Colour. So that now take it both ways ; If the 
 Law be partially Executed, the fefuits and briefs will 
 fhelter themfelvesunderT^^/W^^^/Or, if the Law 
 fhould be fu(pended, out of a refpeft to thofe that would 
 be thought to make a Confcience of anOatb, the Vriejls 
 would all flow into ThofeVarties that fhould be exempted 
 from this Tejl, and carry on their Deftgnes without either 
 Triall or danger. 
 
 Now to wind up this Difcourfe, in a plain and clear 
 Dilemma. It muft be granted, either that the Vapifls have 
 aDefign upon the King, Religion, and Government, and 
 that they advance it by afting the Parts of Quakers, Ana- 
 haptijls, Presbyterians, zndOther Sectaries. y or not. No man, 
 Iprefume will dare to Qyeftion the Truth of the Do- 
 £k>rs Depofition ; for in fo doing he would imply a 
 ftrange abufeimpos'd upon the Nation. But on the o- 
 ther fide, admitting it to be true ; there can be no fe- 
 curity to this Government, without eithei diffelving all 
 Jepar ate Meetings, or bringing ail Difj enters to this Legal 
 Tg?;forotherwife, the Papifis have all forts of iJherty, 
 
 E and 
 
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 and Security in herding themfelves among the Conventi- 
 cLs ; where upon the beating of a Bufh, it will be an even 
 wager whether ypuftart TLfcfntt, or a Fanatick. And in. 
 effect, in this cale, there is not much difference betwixt 
 them, where x\\zfc[uit plays the Fanatick, and the Fa- 
 natick the fefuit. 
 
 If the main aflcrtion be true, there's no way of finding 
 out the Vapijlsy but by this Tejl : and the Dijfenters them- 
 felves, if they would have Popery ferretted out in good 
 Earneft, cannot chufe but encourage the Proportion. 
 Either they have Vriefis among them or they have not : If 
 ihcy'have, whydothey not do the beftthey can to find 
 them out ? if they have #0/, why do they fay they have ? 
 And again, either the Non-Con for mifis are influene'd by 
 the fejuits or they are not : If they be, why do they not do 
 all that is poffible toward th^V urging of their Congregati- 
 ons? If they be not Co Influene'd, why do they pretend 
 that they are 7 and fbfet the Saddle upon the wrong Horfe ? 
 And yet again ; either it xspojjible to clear their Conventi- 
 cles of this dangerous Mixture, or it is not : If it be Poffibte, 
 why do they ftill complain of it, and do nothing int ? If it be 
 Impojfible^ there is no w r ay of Extirpating Popery, but by 
 rooting out Fanaticifm. 
 
 Let the World judge now, with what injuftice, the Or- 
 der, and the Ritualls of the Church of England ere charg'd 
 withaTin&ure of Superjlition, and Popery, when upon 
 Manifeft proof, the Calumniators them/elves of our Eccle- 
 j^/?/W#^are>throughoutthe whole Body of them, tain- 
 ted with this Leaven. We are now come to the Bottom of 
 the PopijhPlot. This Liberty of wandering from the Rule, is the 
 Trojan Horfe, which under a Religious colour, we have 
 entertained within our Walls.; with Difcord, and Deftru- 
 6Hon in the Kelly of him. 
 
 An 
 
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 An ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 W'Hereas the Subjects Right of Petitioning has been of Late in 
 fueh manner Afferted, as if his Majefty had no Right of Re- 
 futing, this is to Advmife, that from the %d of Ed. 3. to Hen. 8. 
 {as appears upon the Parliament Rolls ) it was conftantly the Firfi 
 thing done, upon the opening of all Parliaments*, after the Caufe of Sum- 
 mons declar'd, to appoint out of the Lords Spiritual, and Temporal, 
 certain Receivers, WTryers of Petitions ; andftillas they found any 
 Petition not fit to be admitted, it was Rejected with a Non eft Petitio 
 Parliament^ ( as we find it endorfed upon the Rolls ) and there was 
 an end orft. Note, that all Petitions were Dedicated to his Majefty, 
 and that in many Cafes, when the Parliament had not time to go thorough 
 With them all, the King referred diver fe 'cf 'them to the Chancery. 
 
 Now why the King may not as well Reject a Petition Out of Parli- 
 ament, as In Parliament, and why he may not as well Reject it ^An- 
 ticipation and Prevention in a Previous WExprefs Prohibition 
 and Exceptions the Matter of it, as afterward, is a point worthy of 
 a%efohtion\ and when J?^ Majefty ever loft the One Right, or the: 
 Subject gain'd the Other : This Poftfcript is wholly Forrcign to thd 
 Sfsbjecl of this Pamphlet^ but more accommodate to the Seafon, 
 
 The End* 
 
Henry Sromes Advertifement, \6%ol 
 
 "T 1T~\ XHereas there are feveral Dffcour- 
 \/ y ks and Pamphlets abroad in the 
 World, that paffe for the Writings of Mr. 
 Roger UEjirange ; wherein he never had any 
 hand at all } This is to Advertifc the Reader, 
 that he hath lately Publifh'd thefe following 
 Pieces, and no other. 
 
 The Reformed Catholique. 
 
 The Hiflory of the Plot. 
 
 The Free-born Subject. 
 
 The Cafe Put for the Duke o/Yorle 
 
 An Anfwer to the Appeal. 
 
 Twenty SeleSi Colloquies of Erafmus, in 
 Englijh. 
 
 The Parallel^ or, The Growth of Knavery* 
 
 A Dialogue betwixt a Citizen and Bumphjn. 
 
 A Seafonable Memoriall. 
 
 A Further Difcovery of the Plot ', with a 
 Letter to Dr. Titus Oates. 
 
 Tully's Offices in Englijh. 
 
 Tyranny and Popery hording it over the Con- 
 fciences^ and Lives of the King and People. 
 
 Toleration Difcufs'd^ in a Dialogue betwixt 
 a Conformiji and a Non-Conformift, and betwixt 
 a Presbyterian and an Independent. 
 
 Seneca's Morals AbjiraSled. 
 
 The Guide to Eternity. 
 
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 THE 
 FREE-BORN SUBJECT; 
 
 OR, 
 %$t Cnglitymans Bttti)tigi)t : 
 
 Aflerted againft all Tyrannical Ufurpations, either in 
 (^ELIGIO^l or STATE. 
 
 Ow to take my Text to pieces 3 By a jftCE=bO?n 
 ©llbjf ft, is meant a pcrlbn that is born under the 
 Protection of the Law 3 and thereby entitled to 
 certain kuown Immunities and Priviledges^ as his 
 Birthright, But then he is likewife tied up, by 
 the fame Law, to certain Rules and Meafures of Obedience to 
 Government. So that he feems to be Free in one refped 5 and 
 SubjeS'm another. Now how far he is Enfranchised by this L/- 
 bertj, and how far Limited by that Subje&ion^ will be the 
 Queftion. 
 
 You (hall feldom or never find this expreffion ufed, but as a 
 kind of Popular Challenge \ and ftill in favour of the JFtCC-bO^n^ 
 without any regard at all to the g>ubjf 5- Whereas we fhould 
 as well confider the Authority of an ImperiaPPrince on the one 
 hand 3 as the Priviledges of a Free-born People on the other. 
 And not fo far miftake, either the Force or the Intent of 
 Magna Chart a^ and the Petition of Riaht 5 f-by which we 
 claim to thefe Liberties) as if by being difcharged of our 
 VaJJalage^ we were alfo difcharged of our J/Iegience. 
 
 The CngUfl)mattj3 Xirtbrigbt founds much to the fame 
 purpofe too, wkhthe JFtf£-bO?n@Ub}f9o Only .there lies a 
 ftronger Emphafis (in Common Speech^ upon the word Eng- 
 hfiman. As when we fpeak of a Brave Man, that (lands up for 
 
 B 2 the 
 
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 2r ; The Free-born Subjett - y or, 
 
 the Honour and Defence of his Country 5 fuchaone, we cry 
 is a Right Englijhman^ a True Engliflm/an. 
 
 Now to the end that wc may not be mifledby the Sound 
 and Jingle of Words $ into a Falfe, and dangerous Notion of 
 Things 5 let us repair to the Law, which is the Known, and 
 Common Standard &f out Civil AtJions : that we may not either 
 give up our Own juft Flights on the One hand, or encroach 
 upon his Majdlies,ofi the Other. For it is the Law that marks 
 out the Mies and Bounds both of King and People : that 
 (hews how far we are to Go, and where to Stop 5 and teaches 
 us to diftinguifh betwixt Liberty and Sedition, Betwixt a 3>//e, 
 Right Old Englifiman, and fvjj ing, double-hearted Modern 
 Impojior. 
 
 As wehaveour / egal Rights, fo welie under Legal Reflri- 
 Uions too : And the King like wife hath his Legal Prerogatives^ 
 which are alfo accompanyed with certain Legal Limitations. 
 From whence it appears, that the Law ferves as a Common Rule 
 and lies as ^Common Obligation both upon Prince and Subjtff. 
 
 And yet though there be a Duty Incumbent on both (ides, 
 thereis a great difference even in point of Law it {elf, betwixt 
 th s e Kings violation of the Law, and the Peoples. The King 
 breaks h\sWord, the People forfeit their Bond. They are Both 
 of them Bound alike in Conscience; but the People are over and 
 above engaged upon a Penalty. It makes a Huge noife in the 
 World, that Kings are bound by the Laws a* well at the People. 
 And fo they are,tn Honour and Confcience,b\it no further: And 
 this arifes from the very Nature of Government it felf: For 
 wherefoever the Laji Appeal Iks, there refts the Government. 
 And there can be no Government at all, without the Eftablifh- 
 ment of 'a Final Refult, for other wife the King (hall Judge the 
 People and the People Rejudge the King 5 and fo the Contro- 
 vert fhall run round world without end. Take notice now 
 that all Appeal r move from a Lower Court, or Sentence, to a 
 Superivur 5 and confider then how ridiculous it were to Appeal 
 Downward 5 or from Sovereign Princes^ to any other Power, 
 then t o the King of Kings, who alone is above them. 
 
 But let us put the Cafe now,that a Prince mif-governs: How 
 
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 Tl?e EngUJhmans Birthrights &cc. 3 
 
 frail he be tryed? It muft be either By the Law or Without it. If 
 the Former, where is the Lav that (ays, The People may call 
 their Soveraign to accompt, m cafe he does not Govern according 
 to Law ? Or if they cannot produce fuch a Law, the AJfertion 
 is Treasonous. If the Latter, we are wt our Old Sains Pafnli a- 
 gain : Which,in one word,is no other then a direct Di flotation 
 of the Law. and a Proftitution of Authority to the Will ofthe 
 Multitude. 
 
 Having already ftated the Conditions, and Advantages ofa 
 Free-born Svbjetf, and of our Englifj Birthrights: we (hall now 
 proceed to the aliening of theft our Priviledges, agaitift all 
 CgramiiCfll GfurpatlOnS, either mm^cv ot Religion or 
 
 State. And firft a word of cvrannkal afutpattons. 
 
 Under this Head may be comprifed all forts ofPloince and 
 Opprejfion^ (by what means, or Instruments ifoever exerciled ) 
 contrary, to Law and Jujhce. Bv Tyranny, we do underftand 
 An ZJnjuJi Domination ; or an A'onfeofa Lawful Power, to the 
 injury oj the People: as if a Prince fhould turn a Legal Govern- 
 ment'mxo an Arbitrary. Now we commonly reckon That for an 
 Usurpation, when One man takes upon him the Right of another, 
 without any Title to it at all : As our Lire Oliver wns called Z)~ 
 furpcr. And there are alio Mixt Cafes ; ^as was That before 
 mentioned) where Tyranny anctZJ urpation meet Both in Qae. 
 
 According to This Divifion we maybe opprefjed three ;eze~ 
 ral way /-either Immediately bv the Prince himfdt ; or Mediately 
 by his M'mifters, as bv fp-cial Direction and Command 5 Or o- 
 therwife we may be (imply oppreffed, one SubjeS by another. 
 But (till thefe Opprejfwns are Illegal every way 5 and theQue- 
 ftion is Now, what Legal Relief \n the Cafe ? For as the Law 
 entitles us to the Priviledges we claim, and to the enjoyment 
 of them .* fo does the Z-^n? likewife appoint, and chalk us out 
 the Methods of Ajjerting and Maintaining owe Rights, in cafe 
 they be invaded. So that we muff onely Oppofe Legal Reme- 
 dies ^o Illegal Wrongs --y and not think to deliver out felves from 
 one Violence by another. For Popular Commotions axe the molt 
 Criminal and Dangerous of all forts of Cpprclfwns. Other Op- 
 
 preffions 
 
4 Tl?e Free-born SubjeEl . or*, 
 
 prcjfions may lie Heavy upon particular Perfons ; but This is an 
 Opprejjion oi Law and Government it (elf. And it is as FooliJI? as 
 it ib Impious 5 For while wePhanfieall things to be Lawful for 
 us, becauie we differ many things againft Law, we incur a 
 Legal Forfeiture of all our Privilcdgcs, by the unlawful manner 
 of endeavouring to preserve them. 
 
 It is a Maximo in L«zzt>, but not in Morals, that f Ae K*#g can 
 do no wrong \ for he may filed Innocent Blood with his own 
 hand, which is the Grcatejl ok Wrongs :> but it is not looked 
 upon however as a Wrong in Law, becaufe there is no Law to 
 queftion him for it. The Ordinary fhift upon this Point is, That 
 the King may befued, and that confequently hejiands anfwerablo 
 to the Law. To which I fay, with a Diftinclion, that the King 
 hath a Twofold Right, a Right of Dominion, and a Right of 
 Propriety. In the Former (which is the point in Queftion)there 
 lies no Aft ion of Law : In the other there may, for otherwife 
 he might take away any mans Free-hold at pleafure. And were 
 it not a wild thing to imagine otherwife, when accordingto 
 the very Stile ofthe Law, all Writs, Trials, and Forms ofjujticc 
 run in the KingsName ? So that admitting their Supposition, 
 the King fits Judge upon himfelf 
 
 When the late Underminers ofthe Government found that 
 they could not fhake the Royal Authority This way, (for it 
 was attempted J they had recourfe afterward to the Phanfie of 
 a Coordinate Government 5 making the King, Lords, and Com- 
 mons, to be theThree Efiates 5 in ftead of the Lords Spiritual 
 andTewporal 3 and the Commons reprefented in Parliament. 
 Which mi (take being fwallowed by the Undifcerning Multi- 
 tude, proved the Foundation of our Common Ruine. This 
 Whimfie being now fet on foot again, I (hall beftow a Word 
 or two upon the Unmasking of that pernicious and (en(lef3 
 Pretence, and make it appear, that the Pofition is Deftruftive, 
 not onely of theThree Ejiates, (as fome account themj but of 
 the very Being of Parliaments. 
 Suppofing the Government to be Coordinate,^ thefe People 
 
 will have it) any Two Parts of the Three may Out the Third. 
 The King lies at the Mercy ofthe Lords and Commons % the 
 
 Commons 
 
T/;e Englifbmans Birthright, Sec. y 
 
 Common /at the Mercy of the King and the Lords 5 and the 
 Lords as much at the Mercy of the King and Commons. So that 
 at this rate nobody knows today, what Government we (hall 
 have to morrow. This is the Juft Ratio of a Coordinate State 5 
 and then to colour the Invention, they tell us that the King is 
 Singulis Major, %)mvcr(is Minor 3 Greater then the Difjufive 
 Body of the People, but Inferior to the Collective. Which ttrikes 
 at the very Root of Parliaments 5 for if it be True, that a 
 Prince by calling ofa Parliament dethrones himfelf what Prince 
 would ever call a Parliament ? 
 
 As it is clear that Sovereign Power is Sacred, and not to be 
 Touched 5 it is no left Clear on the other fidc,that all the Exe- 
 cut or s ol : Illegal Powers and Violences may be queftioned 5 for 
 that the Law puts no difference betwixt one Subject and ano- 
 ther, but provides for Common Jufiice betwixt man and man, 
 without any differenceofregard to Dignities or Perfons. And 
 as it appoints us fuch a Relief in fuch and fuch Cafes 3 fo does 
 itlikewife ordain and direct fuch and fuch Pun? foments in other 
 Cafes, according as the wifdome of the Law- makers hath 
 found convenient. So that he is upon his Good behaviour, 
 either for Redrefs, or Puni foment. 
 
 But I hear many people fay, that 'tis True, the Law provides 
 well enough for us •■) but what ifjujiice be overawed and objirucled} 
 My anfweris, that we are to help our felves by Law,\t we can 5 
 but if the Law will not relieve us, we mull: be Patient , efpeci- 
 ally in a Cafe, where 'tis impoffible to find a Remedy that is 
 not worfe then the Difeafe. Let us but look a little into the 
 Confequences of paffing That Line, and taking upon us to be 
 our Own Carvers, Firji^ by TranfgreflingtheBtf/Wj-ofthe 
 Law, we caft our felves out of the Protection of it. Secondly, 
 by declining the Common Equity of it,we run into Partialities 
 and Fa&ions, and every man makes himfelfboth jWgeand 
 Party. Thirdly, from ^Certain and Infallible Provifion for the 
 Stating and Determining of all Controversies } we tranf port our 
 felves into an Abfolute Impojfbility ofevev Reconcilingthzm, I 
 might have faid, ofUnderjiandingxhtm : For Fourthly 5 from 
 matter otFatf, we betake our felves to Queftions and Pro- 
 
6 The Free-bom SubjeFl ; or, 
 
 portions of Notion } as the Law of Nature, SelfprefervaUon, 8<c. 
 which fignifie nothing more, then topuzzlc the Multitude, and 
 confound the Order of Civil Admmiflration. For there can be 
 no Pra^made of a Thought 5 but under Countenance of Thefe 
 Binds >the Ambit ieus, the Revengeful, the Necejfitous, the FacJi~ 
 ous, the Covetous, the Malicious, and the like, Stalky to their 
 Unrighteous and Self Ends. And what's the Iffue of all This, 
 but that, when by Covetingmore thendid belong to us,we have 
 /tf/2 what we /W : when by forfaking the Known, and the &i/e 
 ways ofPe^eand Jujiice, we have wandered out our Lives in 
 Pathlefs, Dangerous, and Uncomfortable Errors 3 without either 
 L/g/tf or G///r7e tofet us right again . When we have been 
 Jed by a F*//e Shew of Liberty, as by an Ignis Fatuus, through 
 Boggs and Ditches^ and all in purftiit of a Sluttifij Vapour : When 
 by breaking the Bond of Humane Society, we have turned a 
 Community into a Defert 5 and like JF//d Beajis, torn one ano- 
 ther to pieces. What is the fruit at laft of all our Wild Adven- 
 tures ? but Bondage, Beggery, Shame, and Ltffe Repentance} So 
 that our fie/f and 5W/2 J^ry will be, for every man to look to 
 his Own Province, without intermedling in the Jurifdiction of 
 Another. 
 
 Having fufficiently difcourfed upon the Quality of Cytatt- 
 
 nical (afutpatious, we come now to Ecligion and g>tate, 
 
 as the Subjett Matter they ^are to worh^ upon : Wherein we 
 (hall Diftinguifh betwixt CptatttlP, as an Aft of the $0- 
 fotrnmmt* and SJfUtpation, as a claim of the people- 
 Touching the Power of Kings, and the Voffibility of Tyranny, 
 in the matter of Religion -•> the Queftion falls into a very nar- 
 row Compafivfor Conscience lies out of the Reach of Law^ And 
 the Powers of Government are onely exercifed upon Quvert, 
 and Senfible Afts. But the point in hand however is This: Firrt, 
 What is' intended by the C^tattn? herefpokenof? Secondly, How 
 are we to behave ourfclves, in Cafe of fitch tJDptarM]? • 
 
 There may be Tyranny, either in forcing a man, (upo-, a 
 
 Penalty^ to Renounce the Right Religion, or to Embrace a Falfe 
 
 One: Or in Prohibiting to any man, the Freedome of 'Worjlip- 
 
 >ft£^^)wn way. And all thefe Cafes vary according to the 
 
The Engltflhmans (Birthright, &c. 7 
 
 Cor. flitutron o£the Government, and the Conference of the Go- 
 vern our. For the fame thing may be Lawful in One place, and 
 not in Another ^ and to 0//e Perfon too, and not to Another : 
 And it may be w<?re or /e/x Excufable alfo, according to 77>c/e 
 Cir cum fiances. In (hort 5 It is a CpjatMJJj to prefs a man to a 
 Falfe Worfiip 5 A C^atM? to p»»//& him for adhering to a 
 Tr//e 07/e:, A 'C^atttt? to hinder any man from Worjlipping God 
 as he Oag/'-f: And the Tyranny it fe If is yet farther agravated, 
 if it be doneinO^/F^^totheL^^oftheL^W^ And to the 
 Conference of the Ruler, as well as to Common Equity. But ftill 
 when I have loft Liberty, EJiatc, nay and Lifeitfelf, by rcafon 
 of Religion ? my Religion it fe If is prcferved Inviolate, even 
 when my ZWjy lies in i4/7;e/. The Prince that AS* all thefe Ty- 
 ranniesjwth undoubtedly a great deal toanfwer for to Almigh- 
 ty God: But what Remedy is there for the Subject that Suffers 
 them? And letThathethe next Point. 
 
 In Cafe of fuch Perfecutions as aforefaid, Iknownomojre 
 then thefe Four ways of Application, for Reliefs Either by 
 Prayer to Almighty God 5 By Recourfe to the Law, for Prote- 
 ction 5 By Petition to the Government, for Indulgence, and Ctf^z- 
 paffion 5 Or elfe, to trie if we can deliver our felves by DireU 
 Force. 
 
 ThejFir/?, is afure Expedient in all Cafes: for where we 
 are not Delivered from our Affi&ions, Our Afflictions are yet, 
 by Gods Providence,turned into Comfort s.\n the Second place, 
 we may make the beft of the Lrfzz>, provided that we do not 
 make the Law Feb defe, and raife Inferences of Equitable Sup- 
 pofition, in ContradiQion to the Naked and Exprefs Letter of it. 
 As for Example 5 BytheL^a?, wehaveaL/*B?/z//i?7£^tolucli 
 and fuch Liberties 5 and herein we have the Law to Friend. 
 Butifwe make any attempt to compafs thefe Lawful Ends by 
 Unlawful Means, the Law is point blank againji us. 
 
 Our Next Refbrt is, by Petit ron to the Government 5 which 
 is a Courfe, Laudable and Fair^ provided we keep clear of 
 Rancour and Clamour 5 and addrefs to the Magifirate not to the 
 Multitude: For it is not the End of thofe Popular Papers to 
 Sollecite Relief, but to Provoke Tumults? and under the Coun- 
 
 B tenance 
 
8 The Free-bom Subject - y or, 
 
 tenanceof begging Compaffion toward the People, to ftir up 
 Sedition againft the Government. For Lewd C ha rafters of Men 
 breed 111 Thoughts of them 3 and EvilThoughts break out into 
 Wicked Actions 5 and the readied: way in the World to a Rebel- 
 lion is, to ftartle the Vulgar with an Apprehenfion oiTyranny. 
 Ifall this will not do, there remains nothing more, but either 
 Patience or Force. The Former was of the Primitive , and the 
 Latter hath been the praftice of our Modem Chrifiiansj but 
 whether they do Well or /// in it, fhall be now examined. 
 
 It hath done a great deal of Mifchiefin the Worlds the Mif- 
 conftru&ion of That Text that bids us Obey (J50t) rather than 
 • 99fttt- For the People are not well aware, that, Sirfi, in CD- 
 bey ing of MagifiratesmdM Warrantable Cafes, they Obey God 
 alfo, in That Civil Obedience. Secondly, Suppofing the Command 
 of the Supreme Magistrate to bedire&ly Oppofite to theExprefs 
 Will of God: I will not Obey him in That Cafe, but I am not 
 yet difcharged of my Duty to him in Other Cafes : for he is ne- 
 ver the lefs a Lawful Magi fir ate , (even for not being a Chri- 
 fiian) and I will not Re(tfi him in Any : Thirdly, the Lrffl? of 
 jT/>/j Nation makes all Motions and Infurrections whatsoever, 
 without Legal Authority, to be Riotous, Seditious, or Treafon- 
 ous Affemblies. Fourthly, Allowing this Latitude to the People, 
 that they may Confederate, and Rife, for the Defence o£ Reli- 
 gion^ they may as well rife for tht Subverfwn of it : for we 
 have but their bare Words, either for the One, ox for the CMer. 
 Fifthly, It Authorizes every man to fet up a Church by himfelf, 
 in his Own Phanfte-, and in ftead of carrying bisiWy to the 
 DoUor for a Fit of the Spleen, he brings his Confchncefoxfaoxh^ 
 to the Government, to be cured of a Revelation, And this Li- 
 cenfe,in one word, fets up the Crotchet of every Sickly Brain, 
 in Competion with Chrijiianity it fclf, and the Politique peace. 
 
 What If I fhould fay now, that there was never any War in 
 the World undertaken purely upon the Accompt of Religion, 
 that was not utterly Unlawful, unlefs in Cafes ofGods Extra- 
 ordinary and Peculiar Dijpenfations. For, Firfi, What are the 
 Certain and Necejjary EffeBs oiWar, but Blood, Rapine, Op- 
 frtjfion 5 the Multiplying of (b many Widows and Orphans 3 
 
 Do 
 
The Englijhmans (Birthright, &c. p 
 
 Depopulating of Countries , and Kingdoms - and the Violation ' 
 of all Rights, Sacred and prophage , Are Thefe now the Works 
 of the (jofiel ? And what is Religion the better for all this ? 
 77'e/e are Sacrifices for Moloch 5 and This'xs a Religion, and an 
 Oblation, fitter for an Infenfibk and Implacable Idol, then for 
 the God of Love andpeace. 
 
 Let us but confider now, what a Deluge of 3Httpift{? flows 
 in upon Humane Nature with Tl&ff Opinion. The F^/?7/? falls 
 foul upon the Protejiant 5 the Protejiant upon theP^j/^ the 
 Chrijiian upon the Mahumetan, the Mahumetan upon the 
 Chrifiian : It (ets all people, and all parties together by the Ears, 
 onely for Diversity of Thoughts. It makes Authority Rediculous, 
 it fruftrates the very L^mr of Nations, and lays the World 
 again in Common. Now if This be fo Peftilent a Doftrine, 
 taken onely at L^rge } How much more Diabolical is it, for 
 Subje&s, upon This IJngodly Pretext, to go about xoEmbroyl 
 a Well Regulated State 5 and to charge their Souls with Perjury, 
 Schifm, and Rebellion, over and above the Common Crimes 
 that accompany Hojiilelnvajions. 
 
 As the jLstp hath been hitherto, fo itmuft be henceforward 
 ihc Rule and Meafure of all our Proceedings. In the Seftion 
 of Tyranny, the Queftion was 3 How the Subje&Jbould demean 
 himjelf toward the Prince, in the Cafe offuch andfuch Oppreffions 
 in matter of Religion. But now, in Cafe of an TJfurpation, the 
 Queftion is, How far the Government flould comply with a 
 Popular Importunity 5 $r how far the People fiould gr at ifie one 
 another. Of which we have fpoken fo much at large elfe- 
 where, that the lefs will ferve in this place. 
 
 The Word Ufurpation, implies the AffeSing or Invading of 
 Another s Rights which, in the point of Religion, muft needs 
 be very Dangerous 5 becaufe the People are fo eafily difpofed 
 tofwallow Thai Deadly Pill. I do not reckon a bare and fimple 
 Diffent from the EJiabliJhed DoBrine and Difcipline of the 
 Church, to be an Ufurpation : For poffibly there may be a 
 Real Scruple, or want of due Information in the Cafe. But 
 when That Diffent comes to be Practical, when it comes to 
 make Parties to Divide into Seffs, to Plead and to Challenge 
 
 B 2 the 
 
*6 
 
 10 The Free-born Subject . or, 
 
 'the Law? it is no longer a Plea of Con fcience, but a direft 
 Confpiracy againft the Government. It is a Nurfery of Herefos, 
 over and above 3 And a Liberty, utterly Inconliftent with the 
 Meafures of political Juftice and prudence. For Fir ft 5 They 
 Agree among themfclvesin the fingle point onely of Departing 
 from Us 5 And they are not, in Conjunction, more dilTatisfied 
 with our Ecilcddjijcal Lairs and Decrees fhen they arefevcral/y, 
 among themfelvcs, one Sect with another, So that it is, in this 
 refpeft, impoffible to pleafe them. And Secondly, It is no lefs 
 dangerous to offer at it, in other Confederations. For Firft, up- 
 on the Current of Long and Conjiant Experience, they have 
 been always found Infatiable: Never efteeming what they 
 had, to be Enough, till they had gotten All. The late King 
 gave them ftill more and more 3 and the more he Gaze the 
 more they Craved - and tutnedhis Bounty, at laft, to his Z)> 
 ftruction. He did effeftually, in favour of their Importunities 
 Strip himfelf, to his Revenue, his Crown, and his Life 5 and all 
 That, They took,. Another danger is 3 that the very men that 
 asl^a Toleration, are Principled again ji it. And I fee not the leaf} 
 fl:adowofa Reafun, why they that will notToler ate Others, f/jould 
 be Tolerated Themfelves. And truely as little Ground for the 
 Asking of it, as for the Granting of it. For F/rJi, Why fhould 
 the Unity of the Church be broken, and thence of it difiurbed, 
 in favour of the Enemies of it 5 and to the Difcouragement of 
 the Churches Friends? Secondly, As the Aft of Uniformity 
 hath the Full and Solemn Complement of a Binding Law 5 
 why may they not as well demand a Difpenfation lor Rebellion, 
 as for Schi.m} And quarrel any other Law, nav, one after 
 another, the whole Body of the Law, as well as That } The Law 
 is thzEjiablifiedRulc ofour Actions 3 and they will have every 
 wandering phanfie to be a Rule to the Law. They themfelves 
 fly from the Law, and their Complaint is, that the Law doth 
 not follow them. This Method fruftrates the very Order of 
 Providence, and makes all Provifions of Government to bcVain 
 zndUfeleJs. They cannot pretend to Charge this Law with 
 any Defect , in regard either of the Civil, or the Ecclefiajiical 
 Authority of it. Here is, Firfl, The Judgment of the Church duly 
 
 Convene}, 
 
The Engliflmans %rth-right y Sec. i i 
 
 Convend, Touching the Meetnefs and Covenience of the Rites and 
 Forms therein Contained, Secondly, There is the Royal Sanction, 
 Approving, and Authorising thofe Rites and Forms 5 and requir- 
 ing our Exact Obedience to them. Thirdly , The Matter oft he 
 Law here inqtiejlion, k our own AU 5 for that we our f elves are 
 Concluded in the Vote of our Reprefent.atives, Againft Thefe 
 TJfurpations we have Law enough ; And fo we havelikewife 
 againft thofe that follow in Matter of State : which may be 
 reduced to TJfurpations upon us, in Matter of Life, Liberty, or 
 EJiate, 
 
 There is an Ufurpation upon the Magifirate 5 and there is 
 an Ufurpation upon the Subject : Upon the Former in refpeft 
 either of Title,ov of power? both which Cafes are Determinable, 
 and Relievable by the Law : And foalfo is any Oppreffion upoR 
 the Subject: That is to fay, where One Subject opprelies Ano- 
 ther. When I fay Determinable and Relievable by Law, my 
 meaning is, that the Law hath competently provided lor the 
 Freedom and Security both of King and People : And the Re- 
 medy feldom fails, where it is Seafonably applyed, andV/gorouJly 
 purfued. 
 
 But when the Dignity of Government may be vilified 
 Gratis, the Kings Minijiers and Friends befpittered with 
 Billing [gate Libels, and his pr fcjjirl En e mi es ftp ported md en- 
 couraged : when his Majefties Tile as well as his Prerogative 
 2nd Reputation, (hall come to be the fubjeel: of every Bawling 
 Pamphlet 3 and the Bounds of Sovereign pQwer to be debated by 
 Porters and Carmen, over Pots of Ale : when not onely the Re- 
 verend and Lawful/ Minijiers , and the Apojiolical Order of the 
 Church, fhall be Derided and Dejpifed 5 but Religion itfilfpall 
 onely for a Sham, a piece of Prieji Craft, and be publifhed in 
 Print, for no more in effed): then a politieal Art of getting a 
 Hank upon the people : When fuch Outrages, I fay, as Thefe 
 come to be daily committed over and over, in the very face 
 of the Sun, and the Laws fuftered to Sleep, that (hould reprefs, 
 and punijh them : what can be the Event of This Inhumane Li- 
 cenfe^ but Confufion, and Rume} And if it comes to Thatonce, 
 it was our Own fault, for &b o^.:iugaTimely znda Legal Stop 
 to Thefe Audacious TJjurputions The 
 
i z The Free-bom SubjeH ; or, 
 
 The pojttrons and the Methods that brought on our late 
 Troubles, are now Revived and Pra&ifed every day afrefh : 
 We have ouv <g>u£r?es, our Remonjirances, and all things, to 
 the Old Tune ot Curfcye Meroz, and To your Tents , O Ifrael: 
 mo ft rnanifeftly tending to the Unhinging of the Government $ 
 and as certainly defigning the Subversion of the Church and of 
 the State, The Boldneft and the Impunity ofthefe Libels, would 
 be an Equal Wonder to me, if I were not fatisfied, that the 
 One is clearly the EffeS of the Other : For their efcapingpun- 
 ifhment, looks as ifthe Government were afraid of the Rabble } 
 and then their paffing without Anfwer, gives a kindofCredit 
 to their Do&rine. 
 
 It is not a Work for a Gentleman to Rake a Dunghil, and to 
 gather upthe Peoples Vomit : But yet out of a Foohfh Zealand 
 Tendernefs for a Duty that hath onely given me Mifery in This 
 Worlds and the hope of Xomfcrt in a Better 3 I cannot but en- 
 deavour to poiTefs others with the fame fenfe of thefe Indigni- 
 ties which I have my felf 5 aud to lay open this Spirit of Ca- 
 lumny and Slander : Thefe Uncoverers of their Fathers Nafyd- 
 nefs, and Dejilers of the Honour of our Common Mother. 
 
 My Onely Encouragement to This Undertaking^ the Title 
 I have to be believed in it, For I am fo far from being Bribed 
 into this Office, either by the Tie ofpaji Obligations, or by the 
 profpect of Benefits to come, That fwitb Infinite Acknowledg- 
 ments of his Majefties Grace and Goodnefs tome) I defie any 
 man to produce another Gentleman in the Kings Dominions, 
 under my Circumftances, that hath fuffcred fo many Illegal, 
 Arbitrary, and Mean lnjujiices, from any of the Abufers oft he 
 Kings Bounty, as I have done. Infomuch that after a Sentence 
 of Death, for his Majefty 5 betwixt Three and Four years in 
 Newgate 5 and a matter of Seven and Thirty Tears faithful Ser- 
 vice to the Crown 3 the Bread hath been taken out of my 
 Mouth, and in a large proportion, fhared amongft fome of 
 thofe very People that purfued the late King to the Block: 
 Nor do I look for any more Advantage for the Future. This 
 Refection (by the way) doth not concern any man that is now in 
 Office at Court 3 and I hope there is enough faid already, to 
 
 acquit 
 
The Enghfhmans Birthright, Sec. 13 
 
 acquit me of any likelihood to be Partial in This matter, I 
 muft not flip This Occafion of bringing in a Cafe of late date } 
 a Cafe } wherein all men of Letters are concerned, and not im- 
 'pertinent in This place, and That being done I will proceed. 
 
 Teing defirous to Inform myfelfvery particularly concerning this late Devil- 
 lifh Plot, Igot the beji Intelligence I could, as well by Short Nofes upon the 
 Trials in Court, as by Word of Mouth from Credible perfons that were there 
 prefint, AfteMhis upon pcrufal of the P iinted Trials, I found fever al Grofs 
 Incoherences ;{efpecially in the Latter of them) and very Material Mi flakes. 
 As in that of Mr. Langhorn, Fol. 39. and 40. Mr, Lydcats nime is ufed no 
 Icfstben Nine times as one of the St, Omers YJitnciTes^injieadof Mr. Hall, 
 to bis vc\ y great prejudice, 
 
 Refl cling upon Thefe Errors, together with the almoft Inextricable Dif- 
 ficulty of ' Retrivinz the Truth, out of fitch a Confufion o/Tautologies, and 
 Forms* the Collection being fo Bulky too, andtbe Particulars lying fo (cac- 
 tercd, that it was next to the Wor\of ' a Re fur reel ion to fit every part in its 
 right place, Ibetool^my felf to my Friends, my Thoughts,aitdmy Papers^ and 
 digefled the whole Tranfatlion into an Hiltorical Narrative. And not in Dia- 
 logue neither* nor in the words, either of the Bench, the WitncRcS, or the 
 Piifoners •, but in my Own Stile and Way, and jufl in the fame fafbion as 
 I would till the Story. Ibis BooJ^I entitled, The Hifloiy ot the Plot, &c. 
 made a Legal Aflignmeut of my Right to a Book feller. I Authorifed him to 
 Print it, and he Imprinted it by the Authority of the Author ; Some of the 
 Pretenders ro the Formal Trials, Arre(t my Bookfeller, as an Invader of 
 their Propriety, and threaten him moft wonderfully into the Bargain. He puts 
 in Bail to the Adion. and there the Squabble rejis. They do not complain of 
 any Imitation of their Copy, but takg upon them, as if no man elfe were to 
 write upon That Subje A . At this rate, we (hali have all Sermons forfeited to 
 the Kings Printers, for Vefcanting upon Their Bibles ; and all Books 
 whatfoever, to the Company of Stationer?, becaufi they are made out of the 
 Four and Twenty Letters ; and the A B C is Their Copy. What a Scan- 
 dal it this to the Commonwealth of Letters > What a Cramp to Learning 
 and Indujiry ? That if I have a mind to Compile a Hiftory, I muft go to 
 Forty little Fellows for leave, forfooth, to write the Narrative of the 
 Proceedings upon oar BltiTed King and Martyr, the brave Earl of Straf- 
 ford, A rchbi(hop of Canterbury'*, with a hundred more Inftances of the 
 like nature, becaufe tome or other of them bx lurched perhaps, a Copy 
 of Their Trials. 
 
 What if a man fhould write the Battel of Worcefter, and the Kings mi- 
 raculous Efcape,after the Defeat ; n/iu't he not mention the 7 boitfidd pound 
 
 that 
 
!90 
 1 4 The Free-horn SubjeSl • or, 
 
 trut was (;t upon his Ma jetties Head, without leave of the jointer that 
 had the]3 t -cp$Utp of the p^oclanmtfcn that offered it > Or if a body 
 vvuuUl draw up a Syjiem ct'Treafon and Sedition i mull he go to the J^uti- • 
 MR crof BSaconjB GFcbirnmcw, fora Liana ? 
 
 I am the larger, bec.mfc it is a Publick Cafe. Andtakg notice, r irft, that 
 the whole Story is drjrvn into lefs than a Sixth part of Their Volume. Se- 
 condly, That there is not fomuch at One Material Claufe omitted in it. 
 Thirdly* that it is incomparably Plainer , and more Intelligible than the others 
 befide the many Corrections in it. Fourthly, that it is Eleven Shillings la- 
 ved i Thiirs being rated at Thirteen and Six pence, at the loweft Penny, and 
 This only at Half a Crown. Andfo much for this* 
 
 I come now to an Examination of Two Libels 3 the moft 
 Audacious and Virulent that have yet pad the Prefs. The One 
 of them entituled Omnia Comefta aBello 5 Or, Bel hath devoured 
 all. The Other is called, My Lord Lucas's Speech. But take 
 notice, that my Exception lies to the Supplement or Appendix-^ 
 not concerning my felf at all with the Speech. 
 
 The Former of thefe Papers is an Allufion to the Story of 
 Bel and the Dragon $ where the Pri efts and their Wives came 
 in at a back-door, and confurae what was offered to the Idol. 
 It is Printed BE LLOinftead of BELO? and the Miftakg 
 is a great deal righter than the Meaning : For it was,in Truth, 
 the WAR that Devoured all : and the Good Old Caxje (which 
 was the Foundation of That War) was, in effeft, no better than 
 a CHRISTIAN IDOL. It comes forth, as an Anfwer 
 to the Firjt of Five Pretended ghteftions $ which he fets down 
 at Length : and we will (peak ot them in Order, as far as 
 (hall be needful. 
 
 Query 1. Whether the great caufe of Impoverishing the Nation, 
 Ruin of Trade, and General Confumpticn of Comfort, Settlement 
 and Content, ivhich hath brought the Land to a mcer Anatomy, 
 be not the Pomp, Pride, Luxury, ExacJion and Opprcjjlon of the 
 Prelates? Pag.%. He Concludes in the Affirmiti ndPag.4.. 
 
 The Trading Stocks of the Nation ("he fayaQ ;/ devoured in this 
 PreLtical Gulph. 
 
 But are we fo Mifcrable then ? And is the Hierarchy the 
 Caufe of all our Miferies $ Let us compare the Titms a little, 
 
 when 
 
The Englipmans Birthright, &c. t ? 
 
 when we had Bifhops , and when we had None: For there is 
 no Trial of the Truth and ReafonoF Things, like Experience. 
 From 1558. ("when Qjieen Elizabeth came to the CrwaiJ) 
 to 1641. we had ^Continued Succejfion of a Proteftant ( or ra- 
 ther, a Reformed ) Prelacy. And lb from 1660. to this prcfent 
 1679. which is upward of a hundred Tears. And all this 
 while the Government dood firm upon its Ancient Bafis. The 
 Gofiel flour ifhed, and the Subject enjoyed their Legal Liberties , 
 under a Legal Adm/nijiration, both in Church aud State. From 
 1641, to 1660. Epifcopacy was 0//* of Doors. Do but obierve, 
 now, whatHavock was made in the State, both Ecclefiajlical 
 and Crew/ 5 in matter of our Religion , Liberties, and Properties^ 
 in That Interval, of only Nineteen Tears : When**** Ordinance 
 was of more force than a» J# <?/ Parliament : And our Lives, 
 Freedoms, zx\d EJiates^hy at the Mercy of the Tyrants of Athens^ 
 in a Derhy-houfe Committee. But let us yet come cloier to the 
 Bufinefs. 
 
 I would fain know what thefe men would be at, that are fe 
 defperately unfatisfied with the Condition they are in. Would 
 they be in the days of §ueen Elizabeth again 3 or of King 
 James 5 o? of the Late King ? If nothing of This will content 
 them 5 there is no other Choice left, but That of Rebellion. 
 For whofoever Traces the Hijiory of thefe Male- contents, will 
 find Deadnefs of Trade and Perfecution to have been their Con- 
 jiant Complaint, from the Reformation it felf, to thk Day. 
 
 After the Faffing of a General Sentence upon the Biflwps, as 
 the Authors of all our Calamities, he takes the whole to pieces. 
 Treating Firjl, of the Revenues, Pomp, and State of Prelates. 
 And there he tells us of Two Provincial Archbiflwps, with their 
 Princely Retinue, Domefiique Chaplains, Officers of Temporal 
 Tithes , Spiritual Officers, VicarGeneral,Guardian of the Spiritu- 
 alities, Dean of the Arches, with all their TJndcr-Officers and' At- 
 tendants. 
 
 To be brief as poffible : Firjl, Where is the Crime, or the 
 Iniquity of all This Pomp and State? Or why fhould not an 
 Ecclefiajlical Body have its Dignities and Dependences,^ well as 
 a Civil Community? There is nobody envies my Lord Mayor 
 
 C his 
 
J\G The Free-born SubjeEl ; or, 
 
 his Sword-hearer, his Muce- barer, or any other Servant, or En- 
 Jign of his Preeminence a* .1 Office. For befide that the very 
 Splendor and Magnifier nee, creates and preserves a Reverence for 
 Authority. Th;s Multiplicity and Subordination oj Officers, is of 
 ah joint e Necejjity al o 5 vtfnofcrvicnt to Order, and to the very 
 Difcharge of his Ftttt&ion. The Second ghtejrion'is, Are the fe 
 Ojju crs ejtahUJhed by Law, rr /;<?* £ If by Ld#> 3 T#at clamour k 
 an Arraignment o- Kmg,Lords, and Commons. Thirdly $t is not 
 only £ Legal Ejt<ihlf! went, but an EJiahl/f/ment of many Ages, 
 and continued without Interruption, till both Church and King- 
 clom fell together. And then, in Lieu of Bif/.ops,\ve had a M^/- 
 ly Synod of State- Pen fioncrs^ Hirelings, to poifon the Pulpits 
 and th^ People 5 and to Jeo>j the (illy Multitude out of their 
 Lives, Fortunes, Liberties, Duties, and Religions : Men kept in 
 P<*7,to preach Thanksgiving Sermons,and to help out at a Dead 
 Lift, towards the bringing of their Sovereign to the Scaffold. 
 When they had preached and prayed the Kingdom into Blond 
 and Di [obedience^ and held the Kabble feveral Years rfg%and 
 gaping afrer the Bleiled Reformation lb gracioufly promifed 
 them : Out comes atlaft the F^Z/e Conception of their Directo- 
 ry. ( A kind of Spiritual Moon-Calf.) But by this time, the 
 King wns as good as Loft 5 and fothcy fell prefently tofharing 
 of the Publique Revenues of Church and State. They Difpatch 
 their Prince, enjlave the People, and there is an end of T'/'rff Re- 
 formation : And it is the very Fellow of it, that they would 
 have again. Was it not a Blejjed Exchange now, to be freed 
 from the Prdaticai 'Tyranny, and their Retinue, and to have 
 fuch Gcjpel-Minijicrs $ Generals, Majors, and Lieutenant Gene- 
 rals, Plunderers, Seqiteftrators, Decimators, Regicides, and Sa- 
 crilegious Z) [fur per s fet up in their ftead? This Cucl^oo-Song of 
 Forty Or.c, Forty One, Forty One, over and over 5 were Ill-na- 
 turedznd Ri d 1 at lovf,\£ the other Cuckoo-Song of Popery andTy- 
 ranny, Popery andTyranny, and accompanied with the Former 
 Principles, over and over, had not made it abjolutelyNcceffary. 
 His next Grievance is, The EcclejiafiicalCourts : Court of Fa- 
 culties, Court of Audience, Prerogative Court, Delegates, 24 Bi- 
 fiops Dicce fan, with their Trains, Domejiic/^Servants, Chaplains, 
 
 Officers, 
 
The Englijhtnans Birthright, &cc. i f 
 
 Officers, and Courts 5 Chancellors, Regiflers, Apparators, Pro3ors % 
 Archdeacons, Commiffaries, Officials, Surrogates $ Their Lordly 
 Palaces, Ecclefiaflical Dignities, Baronies,Scc. viis & modi? 
 amounting to at leaji Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds 
 a Tear : Enriching thcmfelves (Mo) by Ordinations, Inftitvtion, 
 and Induction 5 by making Rural Deans, Liccnfes to Curates^ 
 School-mafiers,Parifo-Clerks, Phyficians, Midwives, Marriages, 
 by Absolutions, by Commutation of Penance, Pre bats of V/i/Is, 
 Letters of Adminijlration, Preferments, &c. P^.4,5. 
 
 There is enough faid already to their Dignities and Officers } 
 and fofor their Courts, Fees, and Privileges : They are all of 
 them of Ancient R\ght and Cuftom. If they envy the Biftops 
 their Revenue, the Common People may as well fit up a Level- 
 ling Trade again, and fall upon AH Efiates and Conditions of 
 men that are better to live than themfelves. Why fjculdfuch a 
 Lord, Gentleman, Merchant, &c. have fo many Hundred Thou- 
 fand Pounds a Tear amongfithem 3 and the Pocr ready tofiarve? 
 Is not Money drawnintoa^n? hands here, as well as there yand 
 Their abundance, confequently, the Caule of Our Want ? Nay, 
 the lame Reafon reaches the King, as well as the Church. So 
 that Gods Providence to Some, muft be.rendred an Injujiice to 
 Others. One would think by the Out-Cry that all This went 
 immediately out of the Peoples Pockets : Whereas the Patri- 
 mony of the Church is Setled and Confirmed by the Great Char- 
 ter, ofxheEnglifl) Liberties 5 as firmly as any Freehold we have. 
 There hath been always This ClamoJfr againft their Courts: But 
 how was it with us, when they were put down ? We had our 
 Triers ( in good time ) Our Committees for Seqnejiration, Deci- 
 mation 5 Money upon the Proportions, the Sale ot Irifl? Lands } 
 Our Loans for our Brethren the Scots 5 Our Committees for 
 Crown and Church Lands ■; And a hundred other Inventions 
 for the Beggering and Enflaving of us, contrary to Lam? 5 by way 
 of Commuting for the JurifditJion of thefe Courts, according to 
 Law. Inftead of Licenfes to Preach, or Teach School, we had 
 Sequejtrations and Imprifonments for Preaching or Teaching 5 
 unleisupon the Conditions of Renouncing both the King,and 
 xhtChurch. Inftead of Demanding Lawful Oaths, we were up- 
 
 C 2 on 
 
I 
 
 'v& Tf?e Free-born SnbjeEl • or, 
 
 on pain of Plunder, Confjcation, and Imprisonment, preffed to 
 Unlawful ones 5 as Covenants, Negative Oaths, Oaths of Abjura- 
 tion ; and not only fo, but in dircR ContradicJion to theOaths 
 of Allegiance and Canonical Obedience 5 to Double-hatch the 
 Perjury, in Defiance of both our implicit and Explicit Obliga- 
 tions. Here is the (hort of that Exchange, 
 
 Upon his Computation of the Value and Dependences of 'the 
 Eccleflajiical State, he reckons fome TenThoufand Pcrfons, one 
 way or other,belonging to the Church : And ?.t leaft 45GCOO /. 
 /?rr an??. Firji, In place of the Ten Thoufand Perfons he fpeaks 
 of, ( who in another place ( he fays ) bring nothing to the 
 Stock) what do ye think of an Amy of 40COO men, wholly 
 exempt from the Cizi I Jurifdiffion^ and only Triable by Marti- 
 al Law / HiJlJndep.Pag.6S. Part.i. Or in ftead of the Churches 
 (pending four or five hundredThoufand Pounds a Tear, of their 
 &wn 3 what do ye think of the TJfurpersfpcnding above Forty 
 Millions, in lefsihan feven Tears, ofthe Kingdoms Money, Hi ji. 
 Independ. Pag. 8. But of this hereafter. We had Then no lon- 
 ger the Eye-fore brfore us, of the Prelates Lordly Palmes 5 The 
 Kings Palaces were likewife fcized by the fame hands 3 Our 
 Churches turned into Stables 5 Our very Altars Robbed and 
 Profaned. And, to go through flitch, He whips up the Clergy for 
 their Visitations, their Pafchal Rents and Procurations 5 Nay, 
 their Canons, Vicars, Petty-Canons, Singing-men and Boys, Cho- 
 riflers, Organijts^ Gofpcllers,Epi filers, andVcrgers too : And all 
 this, as idly, as if he talked in his ileep. 
 
 Here he takes Breath,and at the Bottom o£Pag.<$. promifes 
 a Catalogue of more Families Ruined, more Perfons Imprifoned, 
 and an accompt otmore Money fpent, by the Cruelty of the Pre- 
 lates, than by all the Law fuits of England, all Payments and 
 Taxes befide : Except upon the late CfttaO^DinarV ©CCafiOH, 
 This Libel wasPrinted,as I remember,before the Great Plague, 
 and now of late Reprinted over and over, and dated 1 6jy. So 
 that His late €pttaO?t>tViatp SDCCaBOH, is only a Civiller way 
 of Expreffing Our lute etftaOtfmtaty EcbfUlCm, Some- 
 tliing (hall be (aid to This By and By. 
 
 His 
 
The Englijhmans Birth-right, Sec. \<f c 
 
 His 6. Page,, and a good parr of the 7. are aRhapfidy of 
 Grievances. Upon the Kings Rcflauration, the Pur chafers of 
 Church Lands were forced to Refute them, without any Ow- 
 penfation. He makes it to be a hard Cafe, the Rejioring of them 
 to thei?7£/tf Owner, but fays nothing of the Tyranny of Takjng 
 them fiom him. He tells us, that the Rvjly Ecclefiajtiques, that 
 neither ferve oar Lord Jefus Chrifr, #<?r their Country, but their 
 Own Bellies, ( this is the Complement he befrows upon them) 
 herd up the Money that they have extorted from the Subje&s by 
 Fines, and have brought the Nation to a Confumption. I won- 
 der how Church- Leafs, that are commonly the beji Pcnni- 
 wcrths, (hould be a Greater Grievance to the Nation, than 
 Others that are fet at higher Rates,wh\ch we hear no Complaint 
 of at all. And I do not fee how it confilts with his charge of 
 Luxury upon the Prelates, that upon fo great Expence, there 
 (hould be no Circulation of 'the Treafure. I could tell him of 
 the Turkji/I) Slaves Redeemed 5 Their Bounties to Minificrs Wi- 
 dows $ Their Publique Works, as The Oxford Theatre, the Re- 
 paration of LitchficldCathedral, and the Re-edifying of fuch 
 of their Palaces, as the Iniquity of the late Times had demo- 
 li(hed,e£r. To fay nothing of the Common Right they have to 
 difpofe of their Own : Or to the Secret Charities of many of 
 our Eminent Churchmen, who have too much Honour and Piety, 
 to make Proclamation of it in the Market. Place. But now 
 comes a Lamentable Story. 
 
 We have all our Able, Godly, Orthodox Minijlers turned out, 
 ^ Ruined, and Beggered, and no manner of Jupplj provided for the 
 Maintenance of them and their Families : And in their Rooms 
 ( in many places ) a Company of debauched, Illiterate, Super jliti- 
 om, Profane Priejis ^ which Blind Guides mujl needs lead them < 
 that follow them to Hell. Pag. 6. 
 
 Let the Reader obferve the Pharifiical and "Unmannerly 0p~ 
 pofition betwixt his Ejected Mtniftcrs, and thofe that were//;- 
 troduced 5 and then let him confider the Rights and the Condi- 
 tion both ofthe One and of the Other. This was the very Cha- 
 racter the Schifmatiques gave our Learned, Pious, and Canonical 
 Divines when they turned them out of their Livings by Hun- 
 dreds^ 
 
1 *2o The Free-horn SubjeEl^ or, 
 
 dreds, contrary to Law, Honefty, and Humanity it felfr and the 
 fame Character with the Other, did They take upon Them/elves, 
 that turned them out : The Incumbent Legally Invefled in the 
 Benefice^ and the Other, an Opprejfing and Injurious Ufurper. 
 And what came of it ? The Shepherds were deflroyed, and 
 Wolves fet to look to the Floi\: The ZJ/;//; and Simplicity of 
 Evangelical Truth was /<?/? and confounded in a Compound of 
 Carnal 'Policy and Schifm. We had as many Religions as /W- 
 /7/j 3 and the Doclrine of Rebellion Delivered in them, inftead 
 of the Doclrine of Salvation. 
 
 He g >es on, Damning all the Churchwardens for Perfecntors 
 of the Qojpel, if they Prefent according to their Oaths $ and for 
 Perjury, if they do not. If a Minijier Preach without his Cano- 
 nical Garment .* If any one gees from his Own Pari fh Church to 
 hear a Sermon, &c. orworkupon a Romifh Holyday 5 If he does 
 not ftand up at the Creeds nor Bow at the Name of Jefus 5 Or 
 does not keep off his Hat all the while, he is Prefentable. 
 
 Well, and what of all this? There is neither Life nor Limb, 
 in the Cafe,if a man be Prefented. Here is for Decency lake, an 
 Order$ and ThatOro!cr\s fupported by Authority^ and Obedi- 
 ence in Lawful Matters, deriving from a Lawful Authority js an 
 Ejjential Duty both of a SubjecJ, and a Chrijiian. He feems on- 
 ly to have Talked Idle all this while} but now he grows di- 
 reftlvOutragious. 
 
 We have gotten ( faith he ) mofl of the fiber Trading part of 
 the Nation difcouraged by Citations, Excommunications, Writs to 
 take them Excommunicated 5 Imprifonments upon Ecclefiajtical 
 Accompts } By this means Thoufands of Families are already 
 ruined, and many Hundreds are ready to leave the Land, and re- 
 move into fome other Country, where they may have Liberty of Con- 
 science, and Freedom from theft devouring Harpies. And then 
 he tells us of our Surplices, Copes, Tippets, Cringings, out of the 
 Romifh Rituals,W<* Service co!lc3edoutoftheR.om\{h Books, 
 the Mafs Breviary, &c. 
 
 Was not This the very Stile of the Petitions and Admoni- 
 tions to gueen Elizabeth ? And fodown to this Inftant. Pray 
 what did we get by it ; when to be eafed of This infupportable 
 
 Tyranny, 
 
*7f 
 
 Ti:e Engliflimaris (Birthright y &c. if 
 
 Tyranny? the Nation was at the charge of 1 14000/. 4 Month 
 to an Army ? H/(i. Indep. 66. Above One half of the Revenue of 
 the Kingdom under Sequejiration : 300000/. a Year openly di- 
 vided by the Faclion among themfelves 5 befide Private 'jobs, 
 and above 20 Millions that they never accompted for. 1 10000 /. 
 a Tear in Wages to themfelves 5 100000 /. a Tear more in Gra- 
 tuities. Befide Free Quarter at pleafure: Taxes Innumerable 3 
 and all Under -hand Corruptions. Above a Million and a half 
 levied by Compofitions^ and thenfo cheap and dcfpicable Slaves, 
 in our Perfons, that Welfh Prifoners were fold into Plantations 
 at 2 pence a head. For the Truth of all This, I refer my felfto 
 Mr. Walk§ r in his Hifiory of Independency 3 a Knowing and a. 
 Weil-read Perfon inthe whole Tra?;fa3ion,md a man of Credit. 
 As to the Pamphletters Liberty ofConfcicnce : He would 
 have the World believe this Uniformity and Rule ofDifcipline 
 to be New, and Singular, and the Work onely of the Prefent 
 Age,and Bijfjops. Whereas,whofoever will confult the Hiftory 
 of our Government, will find This Law to bea Moderation? 
 which they call a Perfection : Efpecially at a time when the 
 flriUntfs is not executed. Under Edward the VI, the very De- 
 praving of the Common Prayer, or Procuring the Ufe of any other 
 in Open Prayer, was 10/. to his Maj.ejiy for the F/rfi Offence 5 
 20/. for the Second :. And a Forfeiture of all G^i and Chattel >, 
 with Imprisonment during Life for the Third. And in the F/jffrA 
 of the/i#2e i£V»g, there was Authorized an Eccle(iafiicaljurif- 
 diffion in thefe Cafes. gK^Mary repealed this Act: and in the 
 Firfi ofQ.EUzabethQMaries Act was Repealed,md the For- 
 mer Act Confirmed^ which was afterwards in the Five and Thir- 
 tieth of That Queens Reign, Enforced with more Rigour^ to 
 which She was ncceffuated^by the Turbulence of tha tSpirit of 
 ©Ctyifni which [till to This day is a working. King James 
 handed it down to the late King, and he continued it, till by 
 a Torrent of Popular Violence, the king himfelf, and the Go- ' 
 vernment were both Over-born. 
 
 We have gotten (faith hej a Swarm of Ecclefiafiical Officers 
 which tbc Scriptures never \new, nor Reformed Churches ever 
 owned 5 A fort of proud Prelates— And all manner of Mi fry to 
 
 Soul 
 
 M 
 
%i The Free-born Subject ^ or, 
 
 Soul and Body. Plague, Fire, Sword, umverfal Beggery 5 and 
 without Seasonable Mercy, the Total Ruine of the whole Kingdom. 
 I am forry to hear that we have any Officers which the Re- 
 formed Churches never owned: For thefe which we have in This 
 Government atprcjcnt,wc have had for fevtral Ages : and when 
 we had thefe Officers no longer, we had no longer any Go- 
 vernment : And Then it wasthat all his Plagues befel us. We 
 have made but One Trial of another way of Government, and it 
 coft us Dear. 
 
 Upon a fuppofedQueftion over again, concerning the Rife 
 of our Mifenes 5 the Libellers An fiver is, that the manifold Pro- 
 - vokjng Sins of the Land 3 as Adultery, Blajbhemy, Swearing, Ida* 
 latry, perjury, and contempt of God and Godhnefs do pull hard 
 with Heaven to bring down deflating Judgments : But the ncarcjl 
 Caufe of our Impoveriflm:nts , arifcth from the particulars afore 
 mentioned.! He {hould have done well to have put in Rebellion 
 too } which hath all other Sins in the Belly of it. But That is 
 a Thing thefe People do not love to touch upon. To the reft I 
 havHpoken more then enough already, and that which fol- 
 lows, is onely an Impertinent Citation of Reflections upon III 
 Bifops, whence he would draw an Inference that we are to 
 have None at all. 
 
 The Second of the Five §>uceries before mentioned is This, 
 [Whether (ince all other Reformed Churches in Europe did upon 
 the Firfi Reformation and Departure from popery cap cut all Di- 
 ccefan Bi flops, Name and Thing, Root and Branch, as an Office 
 altogether popifl) 5 together with all their Hierarchical Appurten- 
 ances 3 And do this day efieem them no otherwife , why did not, 
 or doth not England alfo do the like.'] So that by Hook or by 
 Crook, it feems, the Bifops muft down, either for Opprejfion, 
 or for Popery 5 after the Example of all other Reformed Churches. 
 We may fee by This, what kind of Reformation we are to 
 expecl from Thofe People that account the Church of Eng. 
 land to be Popifl. We (hould be prefently a tearing down Al- 
 tars again, demolifning of Churches, Rifling of Colleges, and 
 Murthering of Jefus Chrifi over again in Effigie^ which is no 
 way to be effected but by another Rebdlion. The Model of the 
 
 beji 
 
Tlie Englijbmans Birth right , &c. 1 y J 
 
 b'ejl Reformed Churches , was the Juggle of the Cove nant $ and 
 very Condition of the Scots coming in the fecend time, was 
 ouv Owning of their Kir/{ for the be ji Reformed ^ and declaring 
 for a Reformation of the E:- gl'fif) Church , according to the Scot- 
 tijb .Model. The 'Reformation doubtlefs v/as a Glorious Worh^ 
 but there have been very III Things done under that Pretext, 
 and in theory to it : And it is no New Thing for God to be in 
 the End, and the Devil in the Means. Befide that,tlte Doclrine 
 and Dijcipline of the Church of England is fopure, and Apoflo- 
 lical already, that there is no need of Double Refining xu 
 
 H'\sThird £>u£ry is a Frank Propofal, without any more ado, 
 of taking all the Church Lands into the Crown 5 and very Cour- 
 teoufly he offers the Poor Cavaliers a Snip in the Booty. Does 
 he confider, that after This Violence, an Englifkman hath no- 
 thing left him that is jure and facred) i\nd that as much as in 
 him lies,he deftroys us in our Liberties, Confidences, and Eftates, 
 all at a Blow. The Patrimony of the Church is JFVr/r, a G//f to 
 God, and appropriated to his Service 5 and therefore not to be 
 touched : (They have Robbed me, faith G^, in the Prophet Mz- 
 Uchy.)Or if it /^, no man is fure of the Eftate he poflefTes,by 
 the fame Reafon: For there is no better Title in Nature, then 
 a Deed of Gift. Secondly, it is fetled and Confirmed by Magna 
 Charta 5 which fays, that the Church oj England fall be free 5 and 
 fijaU have all her whole Rights and Liberties inviolable, (for ever.) 
 Thirdly, the King binds himfelf by his Coronation Oath, to pre- 
 fierve unto the Bijl.ops, and to fhe Churches committed to their 
 charge, all Canonical Priviledges, and due Law and Jujiice 5 and 
 to protect and defend them, as every good King ought to be a Pro- 
 teUor and Defender of the Bifops and Churches under his Go- 
 vernment. So that here is Sacn ledge, Common Right, and Per- 
 jury in the Cafe. 
 
 His Fourth §>u£ry is, [Whether in thofe Kingdoms and States^ 
 where Prelacy is extirpated, and a Presbytery onely retained,thert 
 be not as Godly, Able, Orthodox Preachers, &c. and as good Sub* 
 
 jeffs, . as where Bijl.ops are retained. His Lafi guary is onely a 
 
 Political Profpeft upon the Power of France, and nothing 
 to the point in Queftion.~| To which I anfwer Firfil, That I 
 
 D know 
 
24 Tlx Free-born SubjeEt - y or, 
 
 know no fuch Kingdoms as he fpeaks of. Secondly, What if 
 under a Presbytcrial Govern/vent, any SubjeS of That State 
 fhould move vice versa, for an EpifcopalTherc as he does Here 
 for a Presbeterial} How would it be taken? If there may be 
 as good Preachers and Subjects on the One fide, as on the Other 5. 
 why (hould we change the Government, to be onely where 
 wc were? Fourthly, If Two Arch-biflwps, and 24 Bijlops Dio- 
 ccfm be fo great an Opprejfton 5 what would become of us in a 
 Presbytery, when we (hould have 9852 Popes,\n ftead of them? 
 (0//e in Every parifi:!) Fif i hly, The Pres by terial principles are 
 purely Jcfuitical 5 and that would be but the fetling of Popery 
 under another Name. Sixthly, we have it upon Experiment^ 
 that the People will never indurethem 5 nor TkeytheGovern- 
 ment. 
 
 To come now to that Libel, which bears the Title of my 
 Lord Lucas's Speech: The Name of that Noble Lord is onely 
 made ufe of for a Cover to thofe Scandals upon the King, 
 which, to have (lived the laft drop of blood in his Veins, he 
 would not have been guilty of. It is true, that OfFence was 
 taken to the Liberty of the Speech it felf, and a Cenfure pafled 
 upon it 5 but it is not prefently for every Mutinous Incendi- 
 ary to Arraign a Proceeding of Parliament, and to call it Bar- 
 barous Z)fage, with other rude, and very unmannerly Expref- 
 fions, in the Preface to the Reader. He fays that God hath ta- 
 ken him from an (Hngratfflll ©fneratlCM' And he fays right 
 in that-, for undoubtedly there never was the fellow of it up-» 
 on the face of the Earth. The Kings Friends (\vho are the 
 onely People Oppreffed) they fit ftill, in Hope and Patience y 
 while his Enemies enjoy both the Advantage of the others 
 Lojjes, and the Reward of their Services 5 Thofe are the People 
 that Complain. This Fafiion to whom the King hath forgiven 
 his Fathers Blood and his Own. (Hrs Own, (I fay) for they 
 that Jlot at him and mift, are as Guilty, as if they had ftruck 
 him to the Hearty and they that advijedh, as thofe that did 
 the Execution:*) Thefe are the People,that in requital for their 
 forfeited Lives, Liberties, and Fortunes^ which his Majefly 
 
 frankly 
 
77;e Englijhnans Birthright, &c. 2^ 
 
 frankly gave then, are now laying the fame Train for Thk 
 Kin& by which They ruined the Lafl. The Bold Indignities 
 of this Pamphlet arcfuch, as a Loyal Subject cannot Honeftly 
 Jo much as recite : It is neither better nor worfe than a For- 
 mal Charge upon the King in Five and Twenty Jr/zV/e/ ,difperfed 
 with all "the Malice, and Induftry imaginable. The Scope of it 
 is to poffefs the People with an Opinion 5 that the King defigns 
 thebringing in of Popery, and an Arbitrary Power? with an 
 Application of feveral particulars, to thofeEnds. Now if 
 thefe Affronts pafs, without either Pnnijfcment, or Reply, who 
 can blame the fimple Multitude,that know nothing more than 
 what they read in a Pamphlet, for giving credit to them } 
 And when they are once tainted with that deadly Jealoufie^ 
 who can blame them again,for doing lUThings,xhaK know no 
 better? The Time is almoft come, when honeft men fhall b,e 
 put to death, and the very Murtherers thinly that they do God 
 good Service. This was the miftaken Zeal of the late Times 5 
 and we are even ready for it once again. The Two Calumnies 
 whereupon thefe People lay the greateft ftrefs, are Firjl, a 
 Pretended Apprehension of an Arbitrary Power ? and Secondly, 
 of an Inclination to favour Popery. 
 
 The Imputation of any Difpofition, or Defign in his Maje- 
 fty that now is, in favour of either Tyranny or Popery, is fo 
 groundlefs and incredible to any man that hath but his Eyes 
 in his head, that it would not be worth a Page of Paper, to 
 fhew the Error of it, were it not that we are delivered up to 
 the Delufion of believing things impojjible, and decerning things 
 Invisible? and yet as Blind as Moles, to matters of clear and 
 evident Demonjiration. 
 
 With what Face can any man pretendan ApprehenfwnoiTy- 
 ranny from Thk Prince, whofe very Mercy and Bounty, by the 
 Extreme abufe of it, hath created his Misfortune. Nay, the 
 mod: fpiteful of his Enemies cannot but acknowledge that 
 there doth not live any man that jhath lefs of Gall and 
 Rancour, in hisNaturev Befides the Experiment his greateft 
 Adversaries have had of his Goodnefi in Common with the reft 
 of his Subjects upon the Crips of his Rejiauraiion. For when 
 
 D 2 he 
 
26 The Free-horn SuhjeSi ; or, 
 
 he might have made himfelf as abfolute as he would ; when he 
 had his Foes under hi* Feet? and fome reafons of State, per- 
 haps, to lay a firmer Foundation of his Future Security 5 his Ten- 
 dernefs of nature did yet fo far prevail upon him, above all" 
 Other Confiderations, that he quitted all thofe Advantages^ 
 heGzz^ 3 and Forgave all that was poflible 5 to (hew how much 
 he prized a Dominion over the Hearts of his People, above 
 That of their Bodies and Ejiates. 
 
 Touching his affection to the Religion of the Church of 
 England i finceit hath pleafedGod in his Infinite Wifdom to 
 permit, that his Majefty {hould be Calumniated upon that 
 point} it is a lingular Providence, that this (hould happen in a 
 Juncture, when the plain matter of Fact, and the Naked Hi- 
 jlory of his Royal Proceedings, may fuffice to the mod prejudi- 
 care, and the moftobftinate of his Enemies, as an Unanfvvera- 
 ble Confutation. It is every day more and more artificially In- 
 (itma ted and Improved 5 efpecially fince the Difcovery of the 
 late horrid Defign, and particularly in the Libel loji mentioned, 
 as if his Majefty were notfo careful and zealous for the Sup- 
 preffing and Preventing of Popery, and for the Punijl?itig of De- 
 linquents, ash needful for thefecurity of his Government. Nay, 
 there are fome fo daring, as to take them in Hint, and Myfiery. 
 to intimate the very Countenancing of the Plot it felf ]f the 
 Proceeding be not altogether fo quicksand fanguinary as fome 
 would have it,we (hall only- fay This} that Thofe of aJJ men, 
 have the leaft Colour to complain of his Ma jefties want of Ri- 
 gour, that ftand indebted already for their Heads, and for their 
 Fortunes,unto his Grace and Mercy. 
 
 As to his Opinion of the Church ofRome,h\s Majefty hath 
 given the World fo many and fo ample Evidences of his dif- 
 like of That Communion} that every mans Confcience as well as 
 Reafon, cannot but difcharge him upon That point. It cannot 
 be imagined, that in his lateTroubles and Exile, he wanted ei- 
 ther Arguments, or Solicitations, either in point of State or of 
 Religion 5 and the mod plaufible too, that could be found out 5 
 to work upon either his Confcience, or his Nccejjities : And yet 
 no Temptations, either on the One hand, or on the Other ^ had 
 
 any 
 
TlieEnglijhmans$lrthight y Sec. 27 
 
 any farther Operation upon his Majefties Judgment, than by 
 caufinga ftrifter Enquiry into the Subjeft in debate, to con- 
 firm him ftill more and more in the Truth of his Profejjion. In 
 fo much, that in the lo weft and moft hopelefs State of his Di- 
 jirefes,he chofe rather to abide all Extremities, than to deparr, 
 in any Tittle, from the Faith of the Reformed Communion. 
 
 Now his Majefty having given this Earnefi of his ftedfajl- 
 nefs to the Religion of the Church of England during his Ba- 
 nifment 5 and (hewing that neither Fear nor Dejpair could 
 (hake him in his Refolutions;^ it were a ftrange thing for him . 
 now to relinquijl) That Caufe in Opposition to his Interejl 3 which 
 when it might have turned to his Temporal Advantage.no Per- 
 fection or Flattery could ever prevail upon him to do. I might 
 add to all This, that he hath fteered the fame Courfe in all his 
 Devotions boxh Publique and Private, and that the Maintain- 
 anceof This Church hath been Undeniably the Scope of all 
 his Deliberations , and Councils , in all our Religious Concern- 
 ments, fince his Blejfed Return. 
 
 But it is not enough, in all Cafes, for a Prince to be Tender 
 and Innocent, in the matter of Religion , Witnefs the late Pi- 
 out, and yet Unfortunate Prince. For wherefoever this Incan- 
 tation takes place, the Sinews of Government -are Loofened, the 
 Sacrednefsoi Order Dijfolved, and all Obligations Cancelled, as 
 well Moral as D/vine t And not only fo$ but. the very Shadow 
 and Imagination of it, frights people into Lah^s and Preci- 
 pices, and tranfports them with Panique Terrors, into the Exe- 
 cution of the very Mifchiefs they fear. So that his Majefty 
 hath two main Difficulties to encounter at once : The One, to 
 MaftertheP/0* it felf, the Other, toTemper and Sweeten the 
 Vajfionsoi men, %ealous in the contrary Extreme 9 . That no In- 
 convenience may arife from Their Mifapprehenfwn of Things 
 another way. 
 
 According to thefe Meafures,his Majefty hath governed his 
 Courfe throughout the whole Traft of This Affair 3 leaving 
 no means unattempted, that might probably give light to the 
 Bottom of This Tragical Dcfign: He hath given all forts of 
 Encouragement to Informations, by Countenance^ ProteUion, and 
 
 Reward : 
 
?8 The Free-born Subject • or,' 
 
 Reward: The Depoktions~hwz been formally taken before his 
 M>t;cJ})>, and his Privy Council 5 and the Evidences firidly weigh- 
 ed and examined 5 and from thence afterwards heartily recom- 
 . wended^ and faithfully Transmitted to the Two Houses of Par- 
 hamnt\ asthemott Rational Method, for the Common Satif- 
 fa cl i on boxh of King and People. 
 
 Neither hath his Majefty been wanting on his Own part in a 
 Vigorous Concurrence with theTivo Houfes, to do all that in him 
 lay, toward the Suppreffwg of Popery, the feizing and fcuring of 
 Popijl) Recufar.ts^ and providing more effe&ually, by the belt 
 means that could be devifed,for the Maintenance and EJiabliJIj- 
 went of our Religion : Having iffued out divers Proclamations, 
 and done feveral other Pubhquc Alls, upon the Motion and 
 Advice of his Two Houfa of Parliament, to the Ends aforefaid 5 
 even to the taking away from the Popijl) Lords their Ancient 
 Right ofSeJJion in the Houfe of Peers 5 and disabling all Pa* 
 pifis whatfoever,to all purpofes whatfbever, from any Advan- 
 tages in the Government. 
 
 And if it be not yet enough, that in this Dangerous Jun- 
 cture, his Majefty hath walked hand in hand, and kept pace 
 with his Tivo Houfes of Parliament 5 it maybe juftly affirmed, 
 that he hath in fome degree even fupererogated in This matter 3 
 and added an Excefs of Affcftion to the Confcientio us Difcharge 
 of his Princely Care and Fun&ion. Of This, we might give 
 feveral Inftances} but onefhall ferve for all, in hisMajeJiies 
 Speech to both Houfes of Parliament, on Saturday, Ncv.S.i6j8. 
 where he quickens the Tivo Houfes themfelves, in thefe words 5 
 I do defireyou ( faith his Majefty ) to thinks on fome ready means 
 for Conviilion of Popifi Recufants, and to expedite your Counfels^ 
 that the World may Jee our TJnanimity 5 and that I may have the 
 Opportunity to let you fee how ready lam to do any thing that may 
 givefatkfaction. 
 
 After this Demonstrative Clearnefs on his Majejiies fide, let 
 
 us caft an Impartial eye the Other way, and fo conclude. Was not 
 
 This the very Charge upon the late King < A ad was there ever 
 
 \ any Prince that lived more faultlefs $ Was not the Care of the 
 
 Pro- 
 
 AL 
 
The Englijhmans Birth-right, Sec. icy 
 
 Protejlant Religion, pretended $ and was not all Religion, in a 
 manner, fubverted I Was not the Kings Honour and Safety, the 
 Pretext of a Solemn Covenant ? And was he not delivered up 
 bytheSame Covenant, to his very Executioners? What a Cla- 
 mour there was about Magna Charta, the EngliJJ) Liberties 3 and 
 a Reformation, only ofTome Excrefcences(a$ they called them) 
 in the Church and 5^/e <? And did not this fpecious Flourifh 
 conclude in a Total Extinction of Law, Freedom, and Govern* 
 ment ? Were not the fame Arguments ufed Then as Nw £ Are 
 not the fame Artifices of Libelling Authority prafrifed AW, 
 which weveThen? And are not the People poifoned the fame 
 vcay tkkYearxhix. they were the La[i ? In (hort } Is not H/g&- 
 £rt/e the way to St. Albans (till ? So certainly are we now run- 
 ning the fame Stage over again. Was there not a Time when 
 St. Pauls was turned into a Garrifon ? When Apprentices Can- 
 celled their own Indentures, and had them renewed again by an 
 Ordinance ?: When for fear of Redcoats'm the Clouds,t\\z Cre- 
 dulous Multitude brought them, like RLgypti an Plague's, into 
 their very Pots and Diftes. Oh ! but do you think, ( they cry ) 
 that Thefe Godly People will ever touch the King ? How many- 
 well-meaning People thought the fame thing before, and yet 
 contributed to the deftroying of their Sovereign 5 not know** 
 ing what they did. ^t tlOt MilDcD. 
 
 Immediately after the fending of what is above-writteiyo 
 the Prels, comes out a Pamphlet, entitled, Englands Safety, Or 
 the Two Unanimous Votes of the laji Good Parliament, concern- 
 ing the D. of York being a Papiji- &c. 
 
 I havefo great a Reverence, as well for the Honour of the ' 
 Conflitution of Parliaments , as ior the Perfonal Loyalty of the 
 Members of our late Great Reprefentative, that I cannot but 
 take notice of the Abufe, which is Firji, put upon That 1Uh~ 
 ftriousConvention it felf- and afterward, upon the People, in 
 This Libel, It makes the Houfe of Commons to be the Parlia* 
 ment: But neither did thofe worthy Gendemen claim to them- 
 felves a Full Parliamentary Power, to the ExcUtfion of any- 
 other Legal and Ejfential Concurrence:. Nor will they take it 
 
 well 
 
 I 
 
 \ 
 
- 3 o Tloe Free-Urn Subjeft ; or, 
 
 well ro be Co much Misrepresented. And then, it is as great ar> 
 Abufe, on the Other hand, to the whole Nation: For if This 
 Opinion be fwaMowed once, the People will be apt to take 
 Ordinances again, for Laws. So that the Tirle is in a great Mi- 
 Jia^eup'onTbat Point: And now that the Reader may notin* 
 curalmoft as Grc<;£ a orie, on the other hand, in another iLet it 
 be obferved, that the Woman in whofe Name this Pamphlet is 
 publifhed, is fo far from being a Well-Wilier to the Kings Pcr- 
 fon or Government, that from the time of his Majefties Reftau- 
 ration, it hath been her Conftant Bulinefs to promote all Spite- 
 ////and Scandalous Books, and Papers, againft both Church and 
 State. 
 
 Tothefe PretendcdVotes, I can fay nothing, whether True, 
 ox Falfe ; but This I am fure of, that Debates of that Solem- 
 nity, and Importance,oughtnot to be made Publiqne 5 that no- 
 thing can be more Derogatory to the Dignity of that Great Bo- 
 cly^ then (as the Fafhion hath been ot late ) for every Pedant, 
 and Mechanique,xo fet up the Trade of Teaching Parliament' 
 men their Lejfons. 
 
 The Subjed of his Royal Highneffe's SucceJJlon to the Crown, 
 is made the Common Theme of the Prefs: And I do not pre- 
 fume to Reafon the matter, either Pro or Con,z% it is a Cafe out 
 of my Province: But (till I am at Liberty toaffert the Duty 
 of a Free-born, and of a Faithful Subject 5 and to affirm, that 
 I have not found any one Argument in any of thefe Libels, 
 which in a Natural Confequence does notlikewife reach the 
 King : Whom God preserve, and in Mercy keep all his Subjects 
 in Due Obedience. 
 
 THE E-KV. 
 
/C|»e We $ut, 
 
 Concerning the 
 
 succession 
 
 OF HIS 
 
 ROYAL HIGHNESS 
 
 THE 
 
 DUKE of TO^i(. 
 
 * WITH 
 
 Some Obfervations upon the ^Political 
 Catechifm, The iJppeal, &c. And 
 Three or Four other Seditious Libels. 
 
 By Roger L'E&range. 
 
 LONDON, 
 
 Printed for H. Bronte at the Signe of the Gun 
 in S. fanls Church-yard. 1680. 
 
2-*& 
 
 
 ^ 
 
L0CT 
 
 ■ « 
 
 Cl)e iCafe ^ut 
 
 Concerning the 
 
 SUCCESSION 
 
 OF HIS 
 
 ROYAL HIGHNESS 
 
 The D U K E of YO <&£, 
 
 HE Cafe of His Royal Highnejfes Succeffionihz 
 (in regSrd of the prefent circumftancesp^. 
 of Plots and Popery ) has been 0f3^,fhcCom- 
 fufficiently agitated, P?7?,and Conh while m mi Sub- 
 the Advocates of Both (ides pretend equal j^f :Le 
 ly to fupport themieives npon Argu- 
 ments drawn from Nature Scripture, 
 Lai»,Hiftory,Cuftom, aud Politic*! Expedience. [^EtPila^, and 
 minantia Pills ~\ Now as it is utterly imDoffible for a Con- Scripture 
 tradiction^o be Both ways in the Right ; fo the Difficulty J£2jK 
 will not be much lefs, for a Common man, in a Propo fides. ' 
 fition of this Nicety, to diftinguifh betwixt the Truth, 
 and the Paradox ;and to determine, upon vvfiidi fide 
 the Reafon lies. Or what if the Contendenc* themfel ves 
 Ihould yet in ibme degree, have left the very Pinch of 
 
 A 2 ' fhn 
 
4 The Cafe Vnt, 
 
 the Point betwixt them ? For it is not fhe bare Citing of 
 Texts, and a piece of Scripture, or a Record, that does the bufinefs 5 
 Pwikknts but the fair Expounding, and applying of it> with a due 
 SuLpW- Regard, to the Context of Tib*/, Perfons, Inter eft s> Oc- 
 ed. cxfwns, and other Circumftances. There is a great diffe- 
 
 rence betwixt the Counsels of Factious Timts } and of Peace- 
 able ; ofVfurpCrs, and of L.twful Princes ; the Conceffions of 
 /C^j in a Moral State of Liberty , and of /C^x under a 
 kind of Dureffe. We fhould,in fine,diftinguifh betwixt 
 the Sacred, and Inviolable Resolutions ', that are founded 
 upon Equity, and the Common Good, and thofe Temporary 
 fbifts, which are only Invented toferve a prefent Turn of 
 Hercfic, ■&•**« Was there ever any Sedition that did not recom- 
 andSediti- mend,and fupport it felf upon fome pretext of Z<m> and 
 icndTett P re fa ent \ Was there ever any Herefie, oxSchifm, that 
 andPrefi did not advance it felf under the Countenance of fome 
 dens. Tbtf? And yet Heaveu forbid, that we fliould think 
 ever the worfe, either of flk nwd of God, or of the Law 
 of the Zabajfor being made uie of as a Cloak to fb much 
 wickednefs. He that has a mind to deftroy the Difii- 
 pline, the Order, or the very Doctrine of the Church of 
 England, fhail Qnote ye tiventyTexts for't ; and as many 
 Prefidents, ( if there (hall be occafion ) for Diverting, 
 or Cutting off the Succcjffion; nay for Depoftng the TO* 
 Himfelf and Changing the very /wt» of the G^^- 
 w*w. This is no more then what has been a&ually done 
 rodents in the Memory of Man. 'Tis a bard matter to imagine 
 to an Pur- a New Cafe ; So that let the Inftance be what it will,it is 
 pores b ut looking baek into Former Ages, to match it with 
 Prefidents, ready made to your hand (like Cloaths in a 
 wholefale Shop ) of all Sizes, and Colours. 
 Have a. Wherefore we fhould haveacare,methinks,ofdeal- 
 Care of ing in ververted Texts, and Presidents. The Devil him- 
 Author' d fe-lffifhes with thefe Baits ; and ( as fome body faysj the 
 ii«! ( babble fwallowthem whole, without either examin. 
 ing,or dreaming of the Dauger,till they feel the Ht)ok 
 in their Guts. Or, if I may change my Metaphor ; the 
 
 Common 
 
The Cafe ?ut. 5 
 
 Common people are caught juft as we catchZarks; 'Tis but 
 fettingupa///<? Thing for a Wonderment , they'le flock 
 to't as far as they can fee it, and never leave Flickering 
 about it, till the Fowler has them in the Net. A Pomp 
 of words, and Colours, to the Multitude ; is but the Cart- 
 ing of the Smh in their Eyes from a LookingGlafs ; the 
 more they look at it,the lefs able they are to d/fcern what 
 the matter is : & the great mifchief is this ; they never 
 take thetnfelves to be fb Clear fighted, as in thofe cafes 
 wherein they are Stark blind. They are akin to what 
 d'ye call him's Monfters ; their Eyes are in their Breaftr, 
 and their Brains in their Bellies : And therefore whofb- 
 ever would make an Intereft with the Vulgar, applies 
 himfelf not to their Vnderfl an dings ,but to their Pailions, 
 and appetites. He comes with Abjolons Exclamation in 
 his mouth, Oh I that I were made a Judg in the Land] 
 which feldom fails of being the Prolouge to fbme ap- 
 proaching Tragedy. But let me try now, If I can find 
 my way back again. 
 
 There is an Affertion laid down, That all the Humane The Dif 
 sf8s,and Powers in the world, cannot hinder the Defeent? m *> p,r0 ' 
 of the Crown upon the Next Heir oj the Blood. This Porti- 
 on, the Affertor undertakes to make Good by Scripture, 
 Law, Hiftory, and Reafon. And his Opponents, on the 
 other fide, undertake, upon the very fame Authorities,. 
 to Overthrow it ; and I find a very Extraordinary Pen 
 engaged in the Controverfie : We fhall enquire, firft, 
 How this ' Que (I ion came at this time, tobefet a Foot ; and 
 then, into the Quallity of the Queftion it j elf 
 
 There was a ^///brought into the Hgufe of Commons, How the 
 in May laft ; ( which was Twice read ) for di fabling His Quertion 
 Royal Htghnefs to Inherit this Imperial Crown, becaufe of j^p™^ 
 his Departure from Vs to the Romifh CommHnion.Tbt mat- 
 ter going no further,and That Parliament being fbfoon 
 after Diffolv'd, there came forth, in Print,.* Pretended 
 Copy ohh&t Bill; which was publifh'd by aPerfonfifa 
 mansAffe&ions may bejudg'sby his Praftices; that 
 
 has 
 
6 The Cafe ?ut. 
 
 has as little kindnefs for his Majefty,as for hlsRoyal Bro- 
 r ; and not one jot more for the Church of England, 
 then for That of Rome : Of both which Averfions, there 
 are In i a nces more than enough: Befide that in the very 
 fame Pamphlet, he carries an Inference, from the Cafe of 
 Tic King Fcrcclcfitg the Duke, to the fame Right of Removing 
 bVconfe 1 *** *&*£ ^ m f^f\ in cafe of difab'dity (as he fays)/0^* 
 oucnee. the Kjngdom any Good. So that inftead ofpurluing the 
 feemir;g ends of the faid Bill ; that is to fay, the Prefer- 
 vation of His Niajefly, and the Proleftant Religion, by 
 This slot of YLxclufion \ he very fairly, and for brevity 
 fake. Sweeps all together. By the Character of the Flrjt 
 tn c °A- C - e PnM'Jber) we may Imagine the Intent of That Publicati- 
 gwffouK. on: And it is further to be noted, that the /Inti-Ducal 
 Party were the Jggreffors ; and it would have lookt like 
 ayieldingofthe Caufe,to have let the SubjeQ: fall with- 
 out a Reply. So that the Blame ( if any fhall arife from 
 this Matter^ 1 muft be laid at his door that mov'd the 
 Qucftion, which Queftion is briefly This. 
 Tic Cafe rVheiher the Parliament of 'England, may by the Laws 
 1 at * of England, "Exclude th£ next Heir of the Blond from Sue- 
 ccfjlon to the Crown. Some are of opinion for it, others 
 again fit; But the Legality, or Illegality offiich an^7, 
 is a Point that I am not willing to meddle with, either 
 one way, or other. For whether the thing may Law- 
 fully be done, or not, there may be Danger yet, and In- 
 convenience, in the putting of the Oueflion, So that, in 
 A rrc;o the Order of Reafoning, it fliould be ririt agreed, that 
 •; cnf this is a//> Qucftion to be put, before we joynlflue up- 
 " ■ on the Merits of the Main Caufe. For my own part, I 
 think it had beea much be f ter let alone; and that out 
 of divers refpeas, in thefr due piajes tobeconfider'd. 
 Rcafons Firft,as to the Oucf/on it [elf \ it is a Ticklifh Point, 
 whythe t0 f a y^ %v ] mt tKjngofGk it "ntxin, with his Two 
 o^itTOt Houfcs of Parliament, either G*;/, or Cannot Lawfhlly dot 
 rohavc when perhaps it would puzzle the ?lr« htnrtofCm 
 lPut ' to A*/?, and Determine the very PrbvilcdgesQi'tb&sb 
 
The Cafe Vut. y 
 
 Houfe of Commons. Secondly, I do not know how far 
 Private men may be allow'd to pronounce upon the 
 Power of that Government, to which they are Born Sub- 
 jeffs. Thirdly^ This Particular Cafe rendersthe Under- 
 taking more Invidious ) and Dangerous : The King, 'tis 
 true, calls the Houfe of Commons toConfuIt,andAd- 
 vifeie ArduisRegni; (Of which Ardua, That now in 
 hand is undoubtedly the Chief) but I cannot yet learn 
 that the Soluta Mult undo were ever joy n'd with their 
 Reprefentatives in the Commiffion. Fourthly) what can 
 be more Hazardous) then the Probable Effects of this 
 Difpute tit Splits the People direftly into Two Parties; 
 One of which is certainly in the wrong: and the Publick 
 Peace endanger'd upon the Divifion. Befide that the 
 People being made judges of a Cafe, that they do not 
 one jot Underftand ; it looks as if they were not call'd pieiS^- 
 upon fo much for their Opinion) as for their Help., The petcnt 
 Publishing Mamfefios of this kind is not fomuch the Jj 1 ^^ 
 Stating of & Cafe, as the Preingaging of an Inter e(l ; for 
 it is not a Ruih matter, to the Multitude, whether the 
 thing be Lawfully or Not, according to the Law of the^ f n j^ w * r- 
 Land: Let but Them be once poffefs'd,thatit is Reafo-luscSl 
 na&k^nd for the Common Good, ( tho' in Truth, never lb fcquence,. 
 Inconvenient) and Unreafonable ) the Old Story of Self- 
 prefervation, and Kings being Conftituted for the Good 
 of the People^ in their miftaken fenfe ) will make it Law- 
 ful. And when it comes to That once, the Government 
 is Loft. A Popular Error, upon the Matter here in De- Great min- 
 bate,muft neceifarily draw after it a train of difmalCon- chkt ' and 
 fequences-.as diflrattion of Thought) in the bus'nefs of 
 Qonfctznce, and £>«/?; an Averfionto their Superiors ; Ir- 
 r ever eme to the Lam, and a Spirit of Opposition to all 
 Publick Aits of Civil Jdminifiration ; if not an V forma- 
 tion- of the Power it felf. And all this is no more, then 
 for them to pafs a Sentence in a Cafe where we our 
 {elves have given 'em the Chair. The very Expofi^ of 
 the Qjeftion, isa kind of Reference j as who fhould lay, 
 
 Gentlemen^ , 
 
 , 
 
<? 
 
 8 The Cafe ?ut. 
 
 Gentlemen, can the Parliament dtfmherit the Duke or not? 
 And This They take for an Authority, to proceed upon 
 
 No benefit to an Arbitration. Now, on the Other fide, I cannot find 
 
 Option. f° mucl1 as one Colourable Pretence of Advantage, by 
 ' the broaching of This Difpute, to Countervail &\l thefe 
 M.fchiefs. 
 
 1 he Dif- ft is a great matter, you '1 fay, the Clearing of a Truth ? 
 
 fcj C J uft N$r#4//7 #/<* Truth/*? neceifary fa be known ? . that the 
 iafecy -i«4 well-being 0/ every Particular man ; the Pre- 
 frvationofour King, Ringdome, and Religion, defends 
 upon the People's under/landing this matter aright. 
 
 TicQue- Firft, as to the clearing ot the Truth; Magnoju- 
 
 Mot- d'eefe quifque tuetnr. 1 he very Quejlion is a Moot-point. 
 
 Point. One Probable is fet up againft Another ; and the Learned 
 ihemf elves are Divided upon 't. There are Presidents pro- 
 duced on Roth fides ; and Objections alfo on Both fides to 
 Thofe Pnfidents. And in fhort; itmuftbethe work of 
 %Cafuift y as well as of a Common Lawyer, to decide tbis 
 Controverfte. How fhall theC#/tff*0* Peopk come to di- 
 Jhngu/fbbctwen the £igStf, and the Wrong; where the 
 Docfors themfdves Differ I Or how is it poflible, to make 
 any thing Clear, to Thofe that want Capacities to Vnder- 
 (I and \t ? How fhall They come tofeparate matter of -Erf?, 
 fromifcrg^? Toknow ivhat Presidents are Warrantable, 
 or ir/u/ Ci/J* Parallel, and mta/ w/ ; without any fort 
 of acquaintance, either with Law, or Hi(lory ; with the 
 Intrigues of Parties and Fa&ions ; or the /*w/ Reforts 
 oi State i Ifitbefaid that 7#<^ Books are written only 
 for fuch as are Competent Judges of the Subject they 
 Treat of; my Anfwer is, that it were well if they could 
 be kept from falling into Other hands. But lying open, 
 indifferently, to All, it is to be fear'd that the Argu- 
 ment does more hurt where it is not throughly under flood ; 
 then Good, where it is. And there is This fun her to be 
 faid ; that in all Cafes ofAppealto the Ptople, whether 
 thzy Under ft and them, or not, they never fail of Tiding 
 with thofe Propofuions, that Promife Liberty, to the 
 r Subject, 
 
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 The Cafe Vnt. p 
 
 Subject, and Fetter the Government. So that their Par- 
 tiality , in One Cafe, is as bad as their Ignorance, in Ano- 
 ther. 
 
 If it be agreed, that a man cannot be the better for any Not one 
 thing that he does not Underfttnd } ( or at leaft, fo far as ^ a ™! u " 
 he does not Underftand it )and that not one man of a derfhnds 
 thoufand understands the *S>;y/} of the Point here in Iffue ; the Point, 
 the pretence of clearing the 7>*/£ falls to the ground: 
 Or however, there is not one nun of a Thoufandthe Bet- 
 ter for* t. 
 
 But now on the Other fide ; let us fuppofe the people Or what if 
 fo wife, that every man that reads the Cafe fees through Jjjjjj ^ r f 
 it. This might ferveto fetfome people Right, andtoftandit. 
 Confirm Others. But Right? In What ? In the Critical 
 Explication of a Riddle of State : which would ferve us 
 juft to as much purpofe,as the Knack of Solving other 
 Common Riddles. It would make us ( as many other 
 Curiofities do ) only a little more Learnedly, and Unpro- 
 fitably Troublefom. It is not the Common peoples Province, 
 to dive into the udrcma Imperii ; and it is as little, either 
 their Duty or their Intertfl, to intermeddle in the My- 
 fteries of 'Government. As the Univerfe it (elf is com- 
 pared into one Body, by the Orderly Difpofition, and Con- 
 tiguity of Parts: So is every Political Society alfo bound 
 up in One Community, by a Regular Diftribution, and 
 Subordination of Degrees, Offices, and Functions. And 
 is not all This, the PVork and Dictate of the fame Al- 
 mighty Providence ? He that made the ^T^/^,appointed 
 the Order of it; and ailigned to every Part, its proper 
 Place, and Station. 
 
 But to proceed now, upon the admittance of a Sup- 
 pofition, that theSubjefl: matter of this Difpute is com- 
 petently Underftood. Tis as Broad as 'tis Long, take it An un- 
 which way ye pieaie ; And the very fame thing, to the profitable 
 People, whether it goes For the Duke, or Agawft him.^^ 
 Ifthey find that a Parliament Cannot Difinherit him, 
 
 B they 
 

 t 
 
 io The Cafe Vnt. 
 
 they arc but where they were before; unlefs they fhould 
 Impofe it upon the Government by Force. And what, 
 on the Other fide, if the Parliament may Legally Doit ; 
 May they nor as Legally yet Reftfe it ; So that the People 
 arc ty'd up This way, as well as the Other ; without any 
 manner of Benefit, beyond the bare knowledge whether 
 the thing may be done, or not. If the Parliament will, 
 they May; and if they will not, they may letit*/W. 
 But it many times falls out, that Overtures of this Na- 
 ture ferve rather as a Temptation to the doing of fome 
 thing at a Venture, then a fimple, and candid Deliberati- 
 on, whether a thing may Lawfully be done, or no. Or 
 what if This thing may Lawfully be done ? we are never 
 the nearer yei : if His Majefty has not as well the Will 
 to do it, as the Power : and it feems more reafonable to 
 believe that he has not,thcn Otherwife 5 having foex- 
 prefly declared his mind to the Two Houfe i oj r Parlia- 
 ment againft it, in His mOft Gracious^peech of May laft, 
 in the words following. 
 
 His Maje- l*m as ready to join with you in all the ways, and means, 
 *j ics * that may £ftabli(h as Firm a fecurity of the Protefiant 
 ^ cec " Religion^ as your own hearts can wifij ; and This not o/rfy 
 during My time, {of which I am fur e you have no fear ) 
 but in all future Ages even to the end of the world : And 
 therefore am come to affureyou, that what Reafonable Bills 
 yon {hall prefent, to be pafs'd into Laws, to make you fafe 
 in the Reign of any Succeffor ( fo as they tend not to Im- 
 peach the Right 0/Succeflion, nor the Defcent of the 
 Crown in the True Line ; andfo as they Refrain not the 
 fuft Right of any Proteftant SuccefTour : ) {hall find 
 from Me a ready Concurrence. And I defire you to think 
 of fome more effectual means for the Conviction of Popifh 
 Recufints, and to expedit your Counfcls as f aft as you can, 
 that the world may feeOurVnanimity ; and that I may have 
 the Opportunity of foe wing you how ready I am to do any 
 thing, that may give Content and S Misf action to fuch Loyal, 
 wd Duty full Subjects. Now 
 
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 Now if fo it be that th« very Queftion it felf, (tho 
 handled with all the simplicity of T hought Imaginable ) 
 carries along with it fo many Difficulties, and Inconveni- 
 ences ; and without any Benefit at all to the Publick ; as 
 is already fet forth : what (hall we fay, if upon a Fair, 
 & Temperate Examination of the Arguments employ'd 
 for the fupport of this Difmheriting Propofition, it flhall it is a 
 appear, upon Evident Reafon, and a Natural Dedu&i-^^°j| 
 on of Confequences, that, whether the Duke Stands, or roi^cSi- 
 f a/Is j the meer Ventilation of the Queftion opens a Gap fequences. 
 to let in all thofe Calamities upon us, by unavoidable 
 Inferences, which we propound to avert by a Prevention 
 nal Exclusion ? To fay nothing either of the Boldnejfe of 
 the Argument, from a Private Pen, or of the Opf option 
 of a Subject to the Solemn, and Declared Will of his £0- 
 vereign : And that Declaration too, recommended to Us 
 by a Previous Grant of the Thing in the whole World 
 which we would be thought to let the higheft value up- 
 on, the Security of the Vroteftant Religion by all ways 
 Imaginable, to This, and to Future Ages. Certainly 
 the Trumping up of thisQyeftion,has an 111 Vifageany 
 way ; but the doing of itdireftly againft His Majefties 
 Will, made known with his own Lips to the Contrary ; 
 This makes it look a great deal more Sufpicious. For to 
 what End is it to put our felves in a Sweat, upon a Que- 
 ftion, whether or no the King may Lawfully do fuch a 
 Particular thing ; when he had told us before-hand,that 
 he fVtUnot do it ; and the thing cannot be done, Without 
 him f And the Other way, it looks Worfe ; and carries 
 fuch an Innuendo along with it,as who fhould fay : Look 
 ye, my Mafters ; Here's a thing the Government May do if 
 they pleafe ; and it is abfolutely necejfary to be done : But if 
 They Will not ; and fo forth. 
 
 There's no managiug of this Difcourfe,without mak- 
 ing frequent mention of his Royal Highnejjes Quality, and 
 
 B 2 Title : 
 
Title ; and yet ( faving my Duty to him in all his Capa- 
 cities ) I fhall keep my felf in thefe Papers, upon a Pun- 
 ctual Neutrality, as to His Pretenfwns \ My bufinels be- 
 ing only to Acquit my felf,in what I ow to my Religion, 
 my Prince, and my Country, where I find any of thefe 
 Sacred Intercfts Concern'd. As for Inftance ; where any 
 The Kin Contemptuous Reflections are pail upon the Perfon of the 
 wounded Duke, His -MajeJty himfelt becomes a fufterer, through 
 'h* 01 ^ r ' le ^dignities that are caft upon his Brother. Or where 
 the Same Argument, that is levell'd at the Duke, ftrikes 
 the Kjng too and the Government. In Thefe Cafes I 
 reckon my felf to be at Liberty, 
 
 TheMo- The Motives, or Inducements to This Project of Exclu- 
 tives to fan, together with the very Form it felf ; are fet forth 
 kttfcj&ff.** 1 c ^ e Pamphlet abovementioned, under the Title of A 
 Copy of the Bill Concerning the Duke of Tor k. viz. 
 
 The Ex- That James Duke of York, Albany, and Ulfter, having 
 eluding departedOpenly from the Church of England, and having 
 Claufeof puyiwkiy profefi, and own y d the Popifh Religion, which 
 tended" hath notoriously given Birth, and Life to the mofi Damna- 
 Bilk lie j and Hcllifh Plot, ( by the mofi Gracious Providence of 
 God lately brought to Light ) fhall be excluded, and difa- 
 bled, and U hereby excluded, and di fabled, for ever, from 
 Pojfeffing, Having, Holding, Inheriting, or Enjoying the 
 Imperial Crowns and Governments of this Realm, and 
 Thefe Kingdoms 5 and of all Territories, Countries, and 
 Dominions, now, or which fhall hereafter be, under His 
 Majeftys Subjection : and of and from all Titles, Rights, 
 Prerogatives, and Revenues with the f aid Crowns, now, or 
 hereafter, to be injofd ; ;4nd that upon the Demife, or Death 
 of His Majefly , without Heirs of his Body ( whom God 
 long preferve ) the Crowns, and Governments of thefe King- 
 doms, and all Teritories, Countries, and Dominions Now, 
 or which fhall Hereafter be y under His Maje flies Subjection, 
 with all the Rights, Prerogatives, and Revenues, therewith 
 
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 of Right enjoyed, and to be enjoyed, [hall devolve. And come 
 upon fuch perfon who /ball be next Lavofull Heir of the 
 fame 5 and who foall have always been truely , and profef 
 fedly, of the Proteftant Religion now Eflablifoed by Law 
 within this Kingdome ; as if the faid Duke of York were 
 actually dead, &c* 
 
 Here is Fir ft, to be confider'd, the Ground of This the 
 Exclufton\ and Then, the Extent of it. The Ground of Ground 
 it is faid to be the Dukes Departure from the Church 0/ *? This™ C 
 England;, to the Komiih Religion ; as that which notori- Exclufion. 
 ouflygave BIRTH, and LIFE to the PLOT. 
 
 Now Dr. Tong, that knows better, tells us, that this is The Duke 
 NoNew Plot - 7 but an Old one^Continu'd ; and Pt.Gto^g^^ 
 moft Exprefly, in theTwenty third Paragraph of his Nar- w Life to 
 rative,informs us,That the Englifh Fathers of St. Omers, thcf7 ^.* 
 writing to Thomas Whitebread, andOther fathers Here ; ^oateJ. 
 prayd them to profecute their Deftgn of taking away the 
 King; and if his Royal Highnefs Thou Id not comply 
 with them, to difpatch Him too : For they did fear, that 
 not any of the Stuarts were men for Effecting Their Pur- 
 pofes. <dnd in this Letter Instructions were given to the 
 Fathers, to feel how his Royal Highnefs flood AffeJed. 
 In the Paragraph following, the faid Fathers render This 
 Account to the aforefaid Letter, That they had found 
 that altho the Duke was a Good Catholick, yet he had a 
 tender AffeCtion to the King ; and would fear cely be en- 
 gaged in That Concern ; and if they (hould once intimate Tie? 
 their Defigns, and Purpofes unto Hun, they might not on- duri * not 
 ly be frujtrated of their Defi^n, but alfo might lofe his Fa- j^e with 
 vour. Which* Letter the Deponent Saw, and Read in the know- 
 the Month ^/February. And Dr. Oates moreover, give * Ie n d v g d ot . 
 This Evidence againft the Confpir^tors,upon the Tryais fi gn .. 
 of Ireland, Pickering, and Grove ; Fol. 22. of the laid 
 Tryal : that They did intend to difpofe of the Duke too, TheDuic 
 in Cafe he did not appear Vigorous in promoting of the Ca to be dip-. 
 tholick Religion, And this is not All neither : For the t p ^ ched 
 
 Dodor 
 
 
1 4 The Cafe Vnt. 
 
 DoCtor aforefaid, in the Appendix to this Narrative,\m- 
 der the Head of The Generall defign of the ifo <^ fa qg 
 
 Sochty of ^^gjflffagS) and their Confederates in J his 
 
 $M0t, Subjoynsthis further Teftimony, Fol. 64. 
 
 T>tOMu That in cafe the Duke of York will not accept theft 
 
 - Clowns, a* for feted by his Brother unto the Pope ; as of 
 
 nvcF £fo Qjp . an £ fetfo fi iC j 7 p re [ ates 9 a nc l Dignitaries in 
 
 the Church, and fuch Officers in Commands , and Places, Ci- 
 vil, Naval, Military, as He hath Commiffwned ;(as A- 
 hove ) Extirpate the Proteftant Religion, and in order 
 thereunto, ex poft fafto, confent to theAjfaffinationofthe 
 l\jng his B. other Afaffacre of his Proteflant Subjects 5 
 Firing of his Towns, &c. by Pardoning the AJfaJJins, Mur- 
 therers, and Incendiaries ; That then, He be alfo Poy- 
 The Duke fon'd, or Deftroy'd, after they have for fome time abufed 
 fonM ? or ^ Name and Title to Strengthen the Plot, &c. Proceed. 
 DeRroyU ing in the fame Page more Particularly, that the Royal Fa- 
 mily of the Stuarts, are condemn *d to be cut off, Root and 
 Branch ; andnxmely the King, Duke of York, and Prince 
 of Aurange; becaufe that family hath not anfverd their 
 Expectations ; nor have they any hopes that any of them will 
 No hopes comply with this their bloudy Defign, when fully difco- 
 ofthe verd to them, AndTol.6*. Jlsto the Duke of York ; 
 Comply- notwithflanding they acknowledg his Sincerity, and Afe- 
 mcc. ciion to Their Religion, and to the Society ; and his De- 
 ?nonsl ration thereof, by his taking Bedingfield ( a Jefuit Jfor 
 his Confeffour ; they Defign to dijpofe of Him as is above- 
 
 fin. 
 
 The Duke How could the Dukes Change of Religion now give 
 clear a by Birth to a Plot that was in Agitation before That Charge f 
 s>v. omcs. ^ nc j f f or 1^5 giving Life to't ; we have Proofs here of 
 the Clear Contrary, uuder the Hand and Oath of the 
 Prime, and Eminent Difcoverer of the Plot itjelf Here 
 are Fir (I, InfrucJions from St. Omers Hither, for the feel- 
 ing of the Dukes Ptlfe; and Secondly j it appears by the 
 
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 Return to Thofe Inftrufftons, that they durft not give his 
 Royal Highnefs the leaft hint of the Defign. Befide, 
 that in deipair of the Dukes Cornpiyance, they had 
 mark'd out his R. H. for Slaughter, as well as his Majefty. 
 Anew and unheard of way, certainly, of giving Life 
 to a Plot, for a Prince to run the rilqueof being Affafji- 
 tf^himfelf, for fear hefhouid difappoint it. This Ca- 
 lumny of State being removed, That of Religion, I Tup- Save on! 
 pofe,will not bear fomuch weigh t,as bordering too near to his Re- 
 upon a DocJrine, which all true Prot eft ants do, with One *#**• 
 voice Condemn. 
 
 As to the Extent of this Imaginary Exclufion, we may The Ex- 
 take a Computation of it : . partly from the Frame of This te "^ of 
 pretended Bil/,and partly from a view of the Confluences c \^ n. 
 that Attend it :For upon the Naked fight of the Bill, 
 one would think that the Dukes Cafe were the ft ngle point 
 in Queftion. But whofoever looks a little further, will 
 find a Snake in the Grafs ; and that more Inconveniences 
 may be grafted upon This Prefident ; then the very Con- 
 trivers of the Proje3: themfelves were aware of, of 
 which, by and by. 
 
 For admitting the difinhenfon contended for, to be Suppofe 
 Lawful^ it mull be either finply fo, upon a kind of 0^-J heI ¥"- 
 nipotent, and Unaccountable Prerogative in Govermmnt ; Lawful!* 
 or Conditionally fo ; which needs no further Explanation ; 
 Then to refer, to its known, Legal, Vifible, and Intelli- 
 gible Limitations. But if it be Lav full the former way; 
 it is La vfd, without any refpect :to Crimes of State ; Opi- 
 nions in Religion ; Perfonal De feels, or Inabilities) Mi- 
 norities ; Families, or the Like. And then the Power 
 may be as well transfer'd from One, to More, as fcom 
 One Another ; for I do not know of any Law, that per- 
 mits the One, and prohibits the Other. So that at this T1 . ed , n , 
 rate ; this Heredetary Government may be turn'd into an ger'of At>- 
 Eletfive, into an Jriftocrafle.SL Democrafie.px into a Medly folute ' and 
 ofal/thefe ? at pleafure. And it is not to fay, what ? Do V o\™' A 
 
 ye 
 
ns 
 
 A Necefli- 
 ty of Some 
 
 known 
 Funda- 
 mentals. 
 
 Aching 
 may be 
 Lawful 
 and y c t 
 Inconve- 
 nient. 
 
 The Cafe Vut. 
 ye think that Kings, or Parliaments will be mad $ Wc 
 have heard of Parliamentum Infanum, and read of Prin- 
 ces that have been next door to it :and though we are 
 iafe enough at Prefent, it is not Impoflible, but Pofte- 
 rity may come to have More of them. Wherefore it 
 fhould be in State y as it is in Play ; there fhould be fbme 
 Common Rules Agreed upon, to keep (huffier s, in Order, 
 as well -as fair Gamejiers. No Government canjland,\vkh- 
 out a Foundation ; and That Foundation muft be known 
 too, and Stable «, without Running to the Cabalijlical No- 
 tions of Salus Populi, and Inflinff. This is it, that pre- 
 ferves a Nation in a due Temperament of Dominion,and 
 Subjection ; where every man knows his Poft in the Go- 
 vernment, and ftands Firm upon his Own bottom. The 
 Foundations of Government fhould be likeThofe of the 
 £arth- 7 nottobemoved\Yov Otherwife, our Lives, Li- 
 berties^ and £ftates, are but Precarious, and at Mercy. In 
 a Popular Parliament, the Crown goes to wrack, in a 
 Prerogative Parliament, the People, We have/ee/z, and 
 felt the One ; and there are thofe yet in Being, that have 
 Heard of the Other. And from the Periods of thefe 
 Diftempers we furnifh our felves with Prejidents,( as 
 we have Occafion ) either for Tyranny, or Sedition : as if 
 the doing of an 111 thing Once, were an' Authority for 
 the Repeating of it. And from what Root is it that all 
 thefe Diforders Spring; but the Spinning of the Thrid 
 too Fine ; and Revolving the Plain and Practical Duties 
 of Government, and Obedience, into Myftery, and Notion ; 
 without fhewing any State, or degree of men, what they 
 are toTrufttof I do not fpeak in this place to the Zr- 
 gality of things, but to the Utility of them ;and to E- 
 vince, that it is poflible for a Thing to be Lawful, and 
 yet Extreamly Inconvenient. Suppole ah sfcf of Parlia- 
 ment, to Prohibit the Making or Importing of any fort of 
 Arms, or Ammunition^ the Authority would not at all 
 Excufe the Confequer.ee. And the Confequencc, in This 
 matter, is the Main Import of the Qjieflwn, what Good 
 
 or 
 
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 The Cafe P/tf. 17 
 
 or what I//, wiiJ probably enfue upon it, either the One 
 way, or the Other. 
 
 But in our way to That Difquifition, We fhould take Four OS- 
 Notice that there are Four Points to beallclear'd, be -^ aclcsto 
 forewecanreafbnably expeft HisMajefty fhould come v^be- 
 to a Refolution : That is to fay ; i /The Larvfulnefs of the fore the 
 Thing. 2. Natural Affettion. j. Matter of Conference. ^ g B ?jf 3 
 And 4. Reafon of State. In the Firjt Cafe of the Four the 
 Learned in the Law may be Coniulted ; but in the Other 
 Three the Kjng himfelf is the only Competent Judg. 
 
 What if we fhould, for Qyiet-fake now, let the Firfi 
 pint pafs for Granted,znd fuppofe his Majefty convine'd 
 of the Legality of the Aft r Theie is yet a Brother ; a 
 Prince : and a Friend in the Cafe : A Perfon that has as 
 frankly ventur'd his Bloud,for his f&ng, and his Country, 
 as the meaneft Subjeft in his Majeftiej Dominions. And 
 there may be certain Stimulations of Honour, as well as 
 Impulfes of Natural Affection. Let but any Generous Sub* 
 jeel make it his Own Cafe,and ask his Own heart,n>/^/- he 
 himfelf would do under thefe Circumjlances ; And who 
 knows further, but a Scruple of Conference may fall in 
 too with this Tendernefs of A 7 ature,upon the thought of 
 depriving a Legal Heir, by fo extraordinary a way of 
 his Undoubted Birth Right 1 1f This fhould be the Rub, 
 ther's no getting Over it. Or if the way were Clear thus 
 far ; yet if His Majefty fhould fee any thing in the Ten- 
 dency of the Propofition, either Inconfiftent with the 
 Dignity of His Office, or with the Peace, and Security of 
 His Government, and People ; fuch Reafon of State would 
 undoubtedly put a Stop to any fuch Bill. How far Thefe 
 Reafons. or any of them, may prevail tow T ard the Pre- 
 venting, or Obftrufting of This Project, we fhall not 
 pre fume to enquire, But as to the Manner of Promoting 
 it, on the Other fide ; the Quality, the Force, and the Con- 
 ferences of their Arguments ; there are many things to 
 be noted in them that feem worthy of Confideration. 
 
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224 
 
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 No No. It is a ftrange thing, in the Menage of This CaufeJ 
 ©Tribe? where the //^ww and Safety of the Ajag appears to be 
 aga/nft the Main Point in Ouefiion : F/>/?, that men fhould be 
 His Majc- lb j£*Jf£- [ighted, as to lee things in their Confluences So 
 HisGo d ^ emoie , an d Y et > at the fame time, So Blind, as not to 
 vem- difcern the Jfj'ronts, and Indignities that are day ly offer'd 
 aent. to pjj s Ma jellies Authority ^nearer hand • and the hazzards 
 that more direflly ftrike at His Sacred Perfon. My Cha- 
 rity perfwades me, that if fome of them had taken notice 
 of thefe dangerous Practices, their Loyalty would have 
 render'd them as Zealous, and Officious the other way : 
 For if a Prince be "deltroy'd ; 'tis the lame Cafe to every 
 good Subjeft, whether it be done by a Phan.it/ck or a Je- 
 Juit. And then the Honour they have for the King,in His 
 Family, as well as in Himfelf would have Interpos'd,in 
 the Vindication of our Sovereigns Brother from the Ma- 
 lice, and Contempt that has been paft by Several Pam- 
 phletteers upon the very Perfon of his Royal Highneffe. 
 D Tis like they would have had the Prudence too, not to 
 have markt out unto the Rabble, all the DiiTenters to 
 this Bill, as Conffiraiors, and the Betrayers of their 
 Country till they fbould have feen the Refaltofthe next 
 Parliament ; for fear they fhould find Kjng, Lords, and 
 Commons under That Character, This is not Reasoning of 
 the Cafe, but down- right Setting the Dogs at a man. 
 A Kg There is no doubt in the world but many an Honcft 
 waning m an, and a wel- wifher to his Prince and Country ftaiuk 
 dangerous 5 well enough Affe8ed to this Bill ; ( as many did in 1 64 1 . 
 as a Mali- to the Pretenfions then a Foot)Eut when they found that 
 «iQus one. Other people made HI Ufe of Their Good meaning, and 
 improv'd the Countenance of Reforming the Govern- 
 ment to a Violent DiJJolutton of it ; How many thoufand 
 Inftancesmighta body produce of an unprofitable, and 
 late Repentance, among thofe Credulous and well-min- 
 ded Gentlemen ? And it is to be conlider'd alfo that 
 Their Miftakes contributed no lefs to the Ruin of the 
 mhy and state^ then the Malice of the moll potent 
 
 Qost- 
 
The Cafe Vat. ip "22-i 
 
 Confpirators : Nay, More perhaps ; for the £rror of an 
 Honeit man mifleads other Honeft men by Example,and 
 gives a kind of Authority to the wickednefs. Now tho 
 this Parallel does not run upon all four \ yet the Cafes 
 jumpexa£Hy in This ; the fame ^ntiMornarchical Prin- The Old 
 ciplcs which were the Ground-work of That Sedition, c *^ Kc ' 
 are now fet a foot again in Concurrence with th& prefent V1 * - 
 Proportion; and fupported alfo by .fome of the Aftive 
 Promoters of it. So that let the Defign be never fo In- 
 nocent, or Lawful in it felf 5 if it be yet made ufe of to 
 Introduce the Old Difloyal, and Republican Leaven ; it 
 is much the Cafe as if a man fhould fet Fire to his Houfe, 
 for fear of Thieves. Now whether the Liberties of the 
 Prefs be fo great, ibfoul, and fo dangerous, or not, as I 
 have reprefented them, it fhall be feen in a few words, 
 and left to the Reader tojudgof the Intention of fuch 
 defperate Pofitions,and what may be the end of fuch Bold 
 Beginnings,if not leafonably Prevented. Upon the Pub- 
 lication of thefe Papers I fhould be glad to find fbme of 
 the Fierce Sticklers for the Kings fafety by the Exclusion 
 of the Duke, as Nimble, on the Other fide, for the Ho- 
 nour, zxi& Safety o*i His Majefty, in Punifhing the Au- 
 thors, and Promoters of thefe libels. 
 
 There are fome Irreverences toward the perfbn of His Scancfe- 
 Royal Highnefs which are not with Decency to be reci- i°^ s Re " 
 ted, and which for other Reafbnslam willing to pafs U pon°Hf9 
 over; contenting my felf only with the modefteft of a*W al 
 great many in the Author of the Plea to the Dukes ^- Hishnefs " 
 fwers: Conflder His Humours, ( fays he ) So Fierce, Re- 
 vengeful, and Refolute : But Pie fay no more: who knives 
 not how Improper it is to make a Woolf 'a Shepherd? Nay 
 he goes further yet .- If the Duke be a Papift. ( as none de- 
 ny him Now ) his an Heretick,asTo, or From Vs : And 
 what fhall we do? Not do by the Papift s, as They would by 
 Us ? But what's That He tells us Three or four lines 
 before; That it is a Maxim among Papijls, not only that 
 the V ope may at hisPleafure Depofe Kjngs^ and difpofe of 
 
 C 2 Crowns; 
 
if 
 
 J ^20 The Cafe Vm. 
 
 Crowns : but further,T/^ the People may ever chufe a Kjn . 
 ScJhiuus when hefhouldelfebean Heretic k, So that after the Popes 
 RpfiUoiis. Example of Deposing P rote flam Kings , PVe may Def-ofe 
 Popif/j. This i$ a Nail Home driven } and yet for fear it 
 fhould not hold, he has heftow'd a Rivet upon it. I hope 
 he will allow a Popfh King to be an ///one ; and for That 
 hetellsyethat when Kjngs t h cm f elves be\\\ ones, God not 
 only approves of their Removal, but even Himfelf does it. 
 Which is a mod Emphatical way of Expounding his 
 Meaning : For not only ILL DUKES but KINGS ( I per- 
 ceive 1 HEMSELVES are as well to be remov'd, if they 
 be ILLons. There's Another Libel that takes the very 
 lame Byafs too ; he begins with the Duke, and Ends with 
 ihzKJng'. Laying it downfbra -Maxim, that the Kjng 
 May be removed for Inhability to Govern : And then for an 
 Vfe of ^Application, he gives us the Late Inftance of Por- 
 tugal (or a Prefident. Nay I have not found any man yet, 
 lb Cautious upon! his Subjeft. but he has let falllbme- 
 thing lantamont; And in truth the Queftion does Na- 
 turally lean That way. Some tell us that the People are 
 the Source of Government ; and that the Lafl Refort in 
 All Cafes of Principal Import muft be to Them. Whereas, 
 Fir ft) there was a Providential Power, before any Subject 
 sdciually in Being, for That Power to exercife it felf Up- 
 on : Secondly ; there is nothing more Common, then for 
 a People to convey away what Right they have, beyond 
 a Vowcr of Revocation. And if a man defires to fee tire 
 Covenants ; the Anfwer is, that the Conditions are either 
 Expreft, or Imply d: Which word IMPLY'D ferves to 
 all Turns and Purpofes Imaginable. By a Power IM- 
 PLY'D, a Proteftant, as well as a Popifl) Succefjour may be 
 Difinherited : A Kjng in Poffeffion, Depofed,\\\\zt\\tr Good) 
 or Bad. For who can fet forth the Terms and Condition 
 of an Unknown, and an Unbounded Power. A Govern- 
 ment, we are told, cannot be fuppos'd Deftitute of a 
 Power to preferve it felf, in Cafes of Manifeft, and Pub- 
 lick Dangers. If we enquire where That Power of pre- 
 
 ferving 
 
The Cafe P*/. 
 
 lerving the Government is plac'd ; the Reply is This: 
 That Governours are fttfet up for the Good of the People ; 
 and when They fall of doing their Duty, the People may 
 provide for themf elves : That is to fay, the People, by their 
 Revrefentatives'm Parliament. But what if That Repre- 
 sentative, fhoukl prove Falfe too? The King was not 
 pleas'd with the Parliament of 1 541 . nor the People with 
 the Late Long Parliament : what's to be done Next ; bat 
 only to go together by the Ears about it, and when they 
 have their Bellies full, only shuffle the Cards and deal a- 
 gain? From thefe dark Referves of Government, the 
 point Rifes by Degrees into Cafes of Inftance, and Illu- 
 ftration. As in the Cafe of Lunacy, or Unfltnejfe to Go- 
 vern; or if a Prince be really bent to Alienate his King- 
 dome. In Thefe Cafes it is taken up for granted, that the 
 people may Depofe and Subftitute Another Sovereign. 
 But who fhall judg now when fuch a Cafe arrives ? If 
 the Peoples they judg for Themfelves ; and only take the 
 Government out of Other hands, to put into their Own : 
 what if#!ey Ihould fay that This is the Cafe where it is 
 not; Or that it is not, where it is ? If the King do but 
 keep a Guard to preferye his Per fan Worn an j4ffaf]i**\ 
 or make a foreign Alliance, upon the Common Terms 
 of Priviiedge that all other Cro^/ned Heads proceed up- 
 on ; he lies at the Mercy of the People, if they fhall 
 think fit to Interpret. This to be a Defign upon an Arbi- 
 trary Poiver, or the Alienation of His Dominions ; and 
 that heisconfequently Deposable. 
 
 It carries a very 111 face with ity that the Two Cafes of The K] ■ 
 Difinheritingtht Duke, and Depofing the Kjng fhould be Cafe, Tifd 
 fo Unluckily Coupled, that you fhall very rarely find the & e . ^Jf s 
 One without the Other : And little more then This Dif \ u< ^ 
 ference betwixt them : that the One IS to be done Forth- Couphd, 
 whb, andtheOj/w MAY be done (when the people 
 pleafe ) at Leifure. If ever this Queftion fhould come to 
 Jbe taken up again, I do verily believe that the Houfe of 
 Commons will not thank the Refiners upon the former 
 
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 B/Hfor charging the Propofition with fo many Sufpiehus 
 Aggravations ; as for ought any body knows, may endan- 
 ger the whole Bus'nefs. For Thefe Venerable Patriots 
 did only, out of an Excefs of Zeal, Intend the bare Ex* 
 clufton of the Duke, without Clogging the Bill with any 
 fubfequent Incumbrances upon the Crown. There are fbme 
 Qualifications, I know, that look as if they would be 
 thought to flick to the fingle Matter of the Bill; and di- 
 ftinguifh betwixt an Heir Prefumtive, and Apparent, & 
 King in Pojfe, and in EJfe ; and lo they fortifie themfelves 
 with Authorities to warrant the Proceeding. The Duke is 
 a Subject, they fay : and not properly an Heir of the 
 Crown ; but only in Pofflbility fo to be. The Unwary Rea- 
 der will Imagine now,that the Duke being a SUBJECT, 
 may be put By ; but that if the KING were of the Romifi 
 Communion* they could not meddle with Him. And yet 
 according to the Proportions above mentioned,His Ma- 
 jefiies Cale would be found no better than His Brothers. 
 The Kmg And not only fo neither, but the very faying that he is 
 T^h' f° 9 m ConftruCtion, makes him fb, even tho he fhould 
 DuL! € give up His Life : as His Father did, for the Reformed 
 Profeffion. 
 
 It is not to fay that This is either Impoffible or Vnlikely : 
 For, Firfty the Thing has been done already. That is 
 to fay, This Popular Power has been already laid down 
 The Dan- as a fundamental Right in the People. Secondly ', That pre- 
 gerous tended Power has been exerted in a Formal Charge, of 
 Confe- Popifhy and Tyrannical Defigns, upon a Prince, the mod 
 piadng° Innocent peradventure, inthofeTwo Particulars, that 
 thePo^ ever Liv'd. And Thirdly, A fentence of Death, paft, and 
 lU n ie hC Executed, upon That Innocent Perfon, in the Name, and 
 by the AfTumed Authority of the Commons of England. 
 So that This Imagination is not a Chimera, but a True, 
 ztiATragical Hiftory of a Prince murtherd, even in Our 
 days, upon This Foundation. And then for the Proba- 
 bility of the fame Thing over again, now in Agitation; 
 we have the Writings of the very Perfons Concern 'd,in 
 
 Evi- 
 
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 The Cafe Put. 2 i 
 
 Evidence againftthem/ornotwithftandingtheirForma- 
 lizing upon the Lawfulnefs of the Thing, in regard That 
 his Royal Highnefs is but a Subject ; they are Now come 
 up roundly to the Point of Oppofmg, and Rejectinghim, 
 even fuppofing that he were their Sovereign : and with- 
 out the Ceremony of an A3 of Parliament m the Cafe. 
 
 The Houfe of Commons paifed a Fate upon May 1 1 .laft ThcC<)ir « 
 paft, that if His Majefy fbould come by any Violent Death mon s 
 ( which God forbid ) they would Revenge it to the Vt mo ft, Vote. 
 on the Papijts: Which Vote they Explain'din their Ad- 
 drefs of the 14. by faying that they would be ready to Re- 
 venge upon the Papifts, any Violence offer d by THEM to 
 His Sacred Majefly : By THEM 'tis faid, becaufe it might 
 be Underftood Otherwife,that an Anabaptijl might com- 
 mit the Crime, and a Papift fuffer for't. This Vote, and 
 jlddrefs, are Printed Both together in the fame Pam- 
 phlet;and with a moft Dangerous profpeS upon His Ma- 
 jefties Perfon : if Malice on either hand fhould take 
 place. For the Edge of the Reafoning is turned againft 
 it felf ; while the One faction is Provoked, and the Other 
 Encouraged to the moft Execrable Villanies Imaginable. 
 The Libel Here Reflected upon, is called Englands 
 Safety : and faid in the Title Page to be Publ/JJjed for In- 
 formation of all True Prot eft ants, that they may not be af 
 fraid y nor ashamed openly in Parliament to Ait, and oppofe 
 any Popifb StlCCESSOUR and his Adherents from In- 
 heriting the Crown of England, in Cafe His Ma jefties Life 
 ( which God forbid ) be taken from him. 
 
 This Preface was worded by fomebody that knew well 
 enongh whatbefaid ; and without Difpute intended to 
 be as good as his word. We fhall not need to look any 
 further for his Meaning than Grammar , and Common 
 Conflruction.Thz Queftion was put,in Cafe of the Prefum- T1 . s0r - 
 tive HEIR, And He has ftrey n 5 d the Point already, and aion 
 remov'd it to the SUCCESSOR and his Adherents ; From <?hanged f 
 the Expectant to the Occupant, from the Duke, to the co °™J^ 
 King ; and fo premeditates, and Encourages a lidbclli- four. 
 
 on. 
 
24 The Cafe Vut. 
 
 on, in the very Body ofhisPropofition : For His Ma- 
 jelly that now is, rnuft be Dead, before the Libellers De- 
 vice againft the Succeffour can take Effect ; and King, 
 andSucceffour, in This Cafe are all one. Now upon This 
 Principle,there needs no more than to fay, that any King 
 A Jefre- " lS a ^ a P 1 ^ t0 Dcpofe him. Nay, admitting This Power to 
 rateCon be in the People ;Acls of parliament are but Matter of 
 iff<j.icn,-e. Courje ; and they may do the thing even as well without 
 giving any Reafon for't ; Upon the Ground of their Un- 
 accountable Prerogative. It would be known too, what 
 his meaning is by the Parliament he (peaks of, that isO- 
 penlyto oppofe the Succeffour. It cannot be underftood of 
 King, Lords \ and Commons 5 for the Kjng is the Party 
 Oppo/ed, and Excluded. And then I would as willingly 
 learn what kind of Oppofiticn it is, that he intends. It 
 mud; be an Oppofnion^ either of Force, and Violence, or an 
 Cppftion in the way of Argument, Connfel, and Debate. 
 It cannot be the Latter fure ; for what could be more 
 ridiculous then to expeft that a Prince fhould pafs a Bill 
 for the Depofal of Himfelf. And if it be the Other, we 
 are e'en Half- Seas-Over already, into a New Rebellion. 
 There i$ not fuch a Monfter in Nature as a Headlefs Par- 
 liament : We have had the Experience of it ; and with- 
 out Rubbing the Old Sore, or Repeating the Calamities 
 it brought upon This Nation ; I fhall only fay This ; I 
 cannot bethink my felf of any fort of Oppreflion, either 
 in Religion, Property, or Freedom ;or of any One Crying 
 fin, in that Impious,and Seditious IntervaLthat fcap'd us. 
 And yet I muft not wholly Quit This SubjeS: without 
 giving further Evidence of a Confederacy againft the 
 KJngxanA Government; like thofc that Rob the Houfe, 
 under colour of Helping to Quench the Fire ;and in the 
 verylnftant of Pretending to fave the Kingdom, they 
 are laying their Heads together how to Deftroy it : 
 Witnefs the mod Audacious Libel ( perhaps ) that ever 
 flew in the Face of any Government. 
 
 In 
 
2'3 1 
 
 T/^ CW/Z' Pjrfft 2 2 
 
 It bears the Title of a POLITICAL CATECHISM, 
 concerning the Power & Prlviledgcs of Parliament faien ti J\ c£ 
 ( as pretended ) out of His Maj files slnfiver to the Nine- techif«; 
 w* Prof options offline 2.164.2. with a Conftruaion 
 and Application much at the rate of the Devils Glofs up- 
 on the Text to our Saviour upon the Pinacle of the 
 Temple. The Compiler of This Libel makes His Ma- 
 jefties Anfiver to be, Effectually, an admittance of the 
 Right and Reafouoithe Proportions: And the Publifher 
 of it recommends the Doctrine of Forty Two, to the 
 Pr alike of Seventy Nine. Wee'l Firjl prefen t you with 
 the Prof options Themfelves ; Secondly, the Icings Senfe 
 upon them. And after That, you fhall fee our Catecbfis 
 New Model of Government. 
 
 The Propojitiens. 
 
 1 . That the Lords and others of Your Majefties Privy Council, 
 and fuch great Officers, and Minifters of State, either at home,or 
 beyond the Seas, may be put from Your Privy Council, and from 
 thofe Offices and employments, excepting fuch as fhall be appro- 
 ved of by both Houfes of Parliament. And that the Perfonsput 
 into the places and employment of thofe that are removed, may 
 be approved of by both Houfes of Parliament. And that Privy 
 Councellors fhall take an Oath for the due execution of their 
 places, in fuch form as mall be agreed upon by both Houfes of 
 Parliament. 
 
 2. That the great Affairs of the Ringdom,may not be conclud- 
 ed or tranfafted by the advice of private men,or by any unknown, 
 or unfwom Conncel!ors,but that fuch matters as concern the pub- 
 lick, and are proper for the High Court of Parliament, which is 
 Your Majefties great and Supreme Council, may be debated, re- 
 lolved and tranfa&ed only in Parliament, and not elfwhere ^and 
 fuch as fhall prefume to do any thing to the contrary, fhall be re- 
 ferved to the cenfure and judgment of Parliament, and fuch other 
 matters of State, as are proper for Your Majefties Privy Council, 
 fhall be debated and concluded by fuch of the Nobility,and others, 
 as fhall from time to time be chofen for that place, by approbati- 
 on of both Houfes of Parliament. And that no publick Acl: con- 
 cerning the Affairs of the Kingdom, which are proper for Your 
 
 D Privy 
 
2*v9 
 
 -_4 77?e C^/e P^. 
 
 Privy Council, may beeftcemed of any Validity, as proceeding 
 from the Royal Authority, unlefsic be done by tie Advice and 
 Confent of the Major part of Your Council, attefted under their 
 hands. And that Your Council may be limited to a certain num- 
 ber, not exceeding twenty five, nor under fifteen ; And if any 
 Councilors place happen to be void in the interval of Parliament, 
 it fhall not be fupplyed without the AiTent of the Major part of 
 trie Council, which choice (hall Ue confirmed at the next fitting 
 of Parliament, orelfe to be void. 
 
 3. That the Lord High Steward of England, Lord High Con- 
 ftable. Lord Chancellor, or Lord-Keeper of the Great Seal, Lord 
 Treaiurer, Lord Privy Seal, Earl Marihal, Lord Admiral, War- 
 den of the Cinque-ports, Chief Governour of /rf/W,Chanccllour 
 of the Exchequer, Mailer of the Wards, Secretaries of State,two 
 Chiefjuftices, and Chief Baron, may always be chofen with the 
 Approbation of both Houfes of Parliament 5 and in the Intervals 
 of Parliaments by AfTent of the major part of the Council, in fuch 
 manner as is before expreft in the choice of Gouncellors. 
 
 4. That he, or they, unto whom the Government, and Educa- 
 tion of the Kings Children, (hall be committed, fhall be approved 
 of by both Houies of Parliament, andinthe Intervals of Parlia- 
 ments, by the AiTent of the Major part of the Council in fuch 
 manner, as is before expreft in the choice of Councilors-, And 
 that all fuch Servants, as are now about them, againit whom 
 both Houfes fhall have any juft exceptions, fhall be removed. 
 
 5. That no Marriage fhall be concluded or treated for any of 
 the Kings Children, with any Foreign Prince a or other perfon 
 whatsoever, abroad or at home, without the confent of Parlia- 
 ment, under the penalty of a Pramnnire unto fuch as fhall be con- 
 cluded, or treat any Marriage, as aforefaid •, And that the faid pe- 
 nalty fhall not be pardoned, or difpenced with, but by the coa- 
 fent of both Houfes of Parliament. 
 
 6. That the Laws ii> force againft Jefuits, Priefts, and Popifh 
 Recufantsbeftridlyput in execution, without any Toleration > 
 orDifpenfation to the contrary, And that fome more effectual 
 courfe may be enadted by Authority of Parliament, to difable 
 them from making any difturbance in the State, or eluding the 
 Law by trufts or otherwife. 
 
 7. Thatthe Votes of Popifh Lords in the Houfe ofPeersmay 
 be taken away, lb long as they continue Papifts ; Aad that Your 
 Majefty will confent to fuch a Bill as fhaU be drawn, for the Edu- 
 cation 
 
The Cafe Vut. ±j 
 
 cation of the children of Papifts by Proteftants in the Proteftant 
 Religion. 
 
 8. That Your Majefty will be pleafed to confent thaf iuch a 
 Reformation be made of the Church Government and Liiurgy as 
 both Houfes of Parliament fhall advife ; wherein they intend to 
 have Confirmations with Divines,as is exprefled in their Declara- 
 tion to that purpofe: And that Your Majefty will contribute Your 
 beft afliftance to them, for the railing of a iufficient maintenance 
 for Preaching Minifters through the Kingdom 5 and that Your 
 Majefty will be pleafed to give Your Confent to Laws for the ta- 
 king away of Innovations and Superftitton, and of Pluralities, 
 andagaiiiftfcarndalous Minifters. 
 
 9.That Your Majefty will be pleafed to reft fatisfied with that 
 Courfe that the Lords and Commons have appointed for order- 
 ing of the Militiauntil the fame fhall be farther fetled by a Bill : 
 And that Your Majefty will recal Your Declarations and Procla- 
 mations againft the Ordinance made by the Lords and Commons 
 concerning it. 
 
 10. That fuch Members of either Houfe of Parliament as have 
 during this prefect Parliament been put out of any Place and 
 Office, may either be reftored to that Place and Office, or other- 
 wife have fatisfa&ion for the fame, upon the Petition of that 
 Houfe whereof he or they are Members. 
 
 1 1 . That all Privy Councellors and Judges may take an Oath, 
 the Form whereof to be agreed on, and fetled 'by Act of Parlia- 
 ment, for the maintaining of the Petition of Right, and of cer- 
 tain Statutes made by this Parliament which fhall be mentioned 
 by both Houfes of Parliament ; and that an inquiry of all the 
 breaches and violations of thofe Laws may be given in charge by 
 the Juftices of the Kings Bench every Term, and by the Judges 
 of Affize in their Circuits, and Juftices of the Peace at the Seffions, 
 to be prefented and punifhed according to Law. 
 
 1 2. That all the Judges, and all the Officers placed by appro- 
 bation of both Houfes of Parliament may hold their places, qmm 
 dm bene fe gefftrint. 
 
 13- That the Juftice of Parliament may pafs upon all Delin- 
 quents, whether they be within the Kingdom, or fled out of it ; 
 And that all perfons cited by either Houfe of Parliament, may 
 appear, and abide the cenfiire of Parliament. 
 
 14. That the general Pardon offered by your Majefty tfray be 
 granted with fuch exceptions as (hall be advifed by both Houfes 
 of Parliament. Dz 15. That 
 
~*%<5 'The Cafe Vnt. 
 
 15. That the Forts and Caftles of this Kingdom may be pat 
 under the command and cuftody of fuch perfons as Your Mejefty 
 ihall appoint, with the approbation of Your Parliament, and in 
 the intervals of Parliament, with approbation of the major pact 
 of the Council, in fuch manner as is before exprciTed in the 
 choice of Councillors. 
 
 16. That the extraordinary Guards and Military Forces, now 
 attending Your Majefty, may be removed and difcharged, and 
 that for the future You willraifeno fuch Guards, or extraordi- 
 nary Forces, but according to the Law, in cafe of acbial Rebel- 
 lion or Invafion. 
 
 17. That Your Majefty will be plcafed to enter into a more 
 Uriel: Alliance with the States of the United Provinces, and o- 
 -ther Neighbour Princes and States of the Proteftant Religion, 
 for the defence and maintenance thereof a^ainilal! Dcfigns and 
 attempts of the Pope and his adherents toTubvert and fupprels 
 it, whereby Your Majefty will obtain a great accefs of ftrength 
 and reputation, and Your Subjefts be much encouraged and - 
 bled ma Parliamentary way for Your ayd and affutance in refb> 
 ring Your Royal Sifter and her Princely liTue to thofc Dignities 
 and Dominions which belong unto them, and relieving the o- 
 ther diftrefledProteftant Princes who have fuffered in, the fame 
 Caufe. 
 
 I--3. That Your Majefty will be pleafed by &€l of Parliament 
 .to-clear the Lord Kimbolton, and the five Members of the Houie 
 #f Commons in fiich manner, that future Parliaments may be fe- 
 cured from the confequence of that evil prefident. 
 
 19.; That Your Majefty will be gracioufly pleafed to pafs -a Bill 
 for reftraining Peers made hereafter from fitting or voting in 
 Parliament, unlefstheybe admitted thereunto with the confent 
 of both Houfes of Parliament. 
 
 We have delivered thefe Proportions at length , to fhew the 
 world what a Skeleton of a Prince thefe People would have made 
 the King of Great r £riitairt, if he had Confcnted to them : Ufur<- 
 .ping-to Themfelves the RoyM Authority, and leaving the King on- 
 ly the bare Name of an Imperial Crown, Out of thefe Tropofcz- 
 vns, our Chymical Catechift hath extracted his Principles , which 
 are now Impofed upon the People, as the Conceflions of his Late 
 Majefty, and Fundamentals of State : And thefe Portions are be- 
 a>rne the Common Arguments of our Clubs, and Cabals. But 
 
 thr 
 
The Cafe Vut. \f &£< 
 
 the Proportions are foGrofs, that there will need no other De- 
 fcant, than only to Cite fome PalFages out of his Late Majefties 
 Anfwer, in Reflection upon them. 
 
 Thefe demands (fays the Late-'King) are of that Nature, thdfiii jj^ an j f 
 ifrant them were in Ejfctt, at Once, to Depofie both Our J 'elf and Our ColleSi- 
 F offer ity. Thefe things being ptft ', we may be waited upon bare-headed ; cms, ?*& 
 We may have Our hand kfft ; tlk Sttie of Majefiy Continued to Vs ; and 3 l6 - 
 t\$ Kwvs Authority declared by Both Houfes of Parliament, may ie 
 frill the Stile of your Commands ', We may have Swords and Maces 
 cany die fore Vs ', and pie afie Our j elf with the jight of a Crown, and 
 Scepter. ( And yet even thefe Twigs would not Long Jhurijh when the 
 Stul^upon which they grew are Dead) But as to frue, and Real 
 ]}ox\ci- -,lVe fhoutt remain but the QutMc ; bm the Picture j but t\k 
 Signe 6/VKing, &c. 
 
 And again, Tho we fhall always weigh the Advices both of Om 
 Great, and Privy-Council, with the Proportionable Confederation due 
 td them: yetwefljallalfo look upon their Advices, as Advices, not as 
 Commands, or Impofitions •, Vpon Them, as Our Councillors, 
 not as Our Tutors, and Guardians *, and upon Our Self as their 
 King, net as their Pupil, or Ward. Pag. 318. And Further 
 Pag. 320. We call God to Witnejp, that as for Our Subjects fa!<$ the j e 
 Rights are vefitedin Vs ; So for Their faltes as well as far Our Own we 
 arc refolved not to quit them \ nor to fubvert ( tho in a Parliamentary 
 way ) the Antient, Equal, Happy, Well-poifed, and never enough 
 Commended Conftitution of This Kingdome ; Nor to make Ourfelf cfu 
 King of England, a Duke of Venice, and This of a Kingdom a Rc- 
 publiek. Moreover Pag. 322. The Common people, when they fifrd 
 that all was done By them, but not For them, will at lafi grew weary of 
 Journey-work, andfetupforthemjl-lves ; call Parity, and Indepen- 
 dence, Liberty ', devouring the Ffiate which had devoured the Reft ; 
 De fi roy all Rights, and Proprieties, all Diftiniiwns of Families, and 
 Merit ' n And by This means the fplendid, and Excellent 7y -diftingiuflM 
 Form of Government, End in a F)arb^ Equal Chaos of (furfiufi n^ 
 and the Long Line of Our many Nobis. Ancejhrs, m a Jack Cade, or 
 <* Wat Tiler, 
 
 After the" Mockery of the Above-men tiorAl Propofitions, and 
 the Kings Tuft and Prophetical Judgment made upon them ; v 
 ihall only Add that the Ruine of the Late King, was as Certa>> 
 the/«f«ttof Thofe VndutyfuL Demands, as k was the £fi*& 1 
 
 t 
 
28 The Cafe Vut. 
 
 them in the Execution of the Powers claim'd Thereby : and we may 
 as reafonably conclude, that the fame Pretentions, now over a- 
 gain, are publifh't with the fame Ends •, and that the Sufferance 
 of This Licence will Naturally run into the fame Confequences. 
 For the whole work of moving a Rebellion is but, Firfl, to pof- 
 fefs the People with III Thoughts of the prefent Adminiftration ; 
 ( which is done Abundantly already in Swarms of Defamatory 
 Libels, which we meet with every day in the Itreet. ) Secondly, 
 to poifefs the People with Falfe Opinions, in the Matter of Go- 
 vernment and Duty *, which is the bufinefs of our Political Cate- 
 cbifm : Thirdly, to Put thole Principles and Thoughts in Executi- 
 on ; which is ExprefsM by the Drift of Another Pamphlet newly 
 come out of the Prefs *, Entitled, An ^Appeal from the (fountrey, 
 to the City, of which we (hall fay fomthing In another place, and 
 proceed to our Catechiftical Positions. 
 
 If the King be Regulated by the Law ( fay they ) then is the King 
 Accountable to the Law, and not to God Only. Pag. i . The Imme- 
 diate Original ef 'the Kings Vow er was from the People ? and if fo ; 
 then in quejlioned Cafes « the King is to produce his Grant, ( for he 
 hath no more then what was Granted) and not the People to fhew a 
 Refervatioa-, For All is prefumed to be Referv'd, which cannot 
 be prov'd to be Granted away. 
 
 Upon the Late Kings faying in his Anfwerto the Nineteen Propositi- 
 ens, Pag. 321. That the Power Legally placed in 'Both Hoptfes is more 
 then faff cient to prevent, andreftrain the Power of Tyranny jour Po- 
 litick Catechizer Infers, the Two Houfes to be the Legal Judges, 
 'when there is danger of Tyranny : And to have Legal Power to Com- 
 mand their Judgment to be Obeyed, for Prevention, as well as Reflraim 
 of Tyranny. And not only when Arms are Affually raised againfi them ; 
 but when they difcern, and accordingly declare a Preparation made To- 
 wards it. And that they have Legal Power in fuch times of Danger, 
 to put i?jto fafe hands, fitch Forts, Ports, Magazines, Ships, and 
 Power of the Militia , as are intended, to Introduce a Tyranny. And 
 a Legal Power alfo to Levy Money, Arms, Horfe, and Ammuniti- 
 ons upon the Sub jells, infuch Cafes of Danger even without, or agtinft 
 the Kings Confent. 
 
 Thefe are his "Pofitions in the very Terms ^and the palling 
 over of fuch Indignities upon His Maje fries Royal Office, and the 
 Honour of the Monarchy tt filf, without either Pumjhment, or 
 
 Rep 
 
 
The Cafe Vut. ip 
 
 Reproof', looks like a TAcite Legitimation of the Htmoft: Violences 
 upon his Sacred TV/*;/. And now Confiderthematchlefs Malice, Amalici- 
 and Abfurdity of his Inference. The King having thus expounded ° e u n s c ^ nte: 
 h i mf e I f i n t h e fame Page \ The Houfe of Commons ( an Excellent Con* 
 fewer of Liberty, but never intended for any fliare in Government, 
 or for the Chufing of them that fliould Govern ) isfolely intrufted 
 with the Firft Proportions of raifing Monies, tkc. And again the 
 Lords bein% tr lifted with a Judicatory Power, arc an Excellent Skrsen, 
 and Banl^ktween the Prince and People. 
 
 After This open and Audacious way of Authorizing a Commo- 
 tion, under a Countenance of the Peoples Right ; the leaft breath 
 of Air to the Coal, fets all in a Flame : The Pulpit fcill feconding, 
 withaT^, thelntereft, or Defign of a Perverted Prefident, or 
 Statute. And there is no Refilling of thofe Outrages that are 
 carried on by the Impulfeofw//?^te Law y and Gojpel. Calumny 
 and Impoftnre have ever been the two main Pillars of their Caufc i 
 arid if they can but wheedle the Vulgar,- on the one hand, ana 
 defame the Friends of the Government, on the other, their bu- 
 iinefle is done. There fcarce pafles a day without a Libel again ft 
 both (fhurch and State ; without either Provocation, or Purajhnent : 
 which both (hews their Malice, and confirms them in their Info- 
 knee. There is nothing fo Odious, and fo Ridiculous together, 
 $A betwixt Droll and Sophifm, thefe People reprefent the Publick 
 Management of Affair. And who can blame the Multitude now, 
 under thefe Circumftances of Licenfe and Delufion, if they either 
 Forget, or Depart from their Duties ? is there not Law^ & Pomr 
 Rifficient for the Preventing, or Supprejftng thefe Indignities ? Or is 
 it a thing not worth the taking Notice of ? For his Majcfty to be 
 told every day, in a Pamphlet at his Palace Gate, that His Mini- 
 ftersare Traytors & Qonfpvrators ; H^sCouniers a Pack of Knaves ', & 
 He himfclf but upon his Good Behaviour to his own Subjects f WILL 
 it end Here ? DID it end Here ? But whence is it that all tWr-Jft* 
 nom and Confidence proceeds ? The Former is only a Fermentation 
 of the Old Leaven ( for we have our Je frits too. ) The Papal Je- 
 fnite is an Enemy to Heretical Kings, and the P rot eft ant Jefrite will 
 have no Kings at all y and then for their Confidence, they have both 
 Impunity , and Encouragement : the former proves it felf ; and I ilrall 
 now conclude with a word or two concerning the other. 
 
 The-bringingofthisDeviilidi Phi upon the Stag:, has ftruck 
 all men of Piety, Loyalty, and Love to their Country, with A- 
 vmjemmt and Honour* The Murthzr of a Prince > the Subvtrfion of 
 
 ^- 
 
i2oK 
 
 30 The Cafe Vnt. 
 
 our Government, and Religion \ What can be more Execrable . ? 
 The thought of fo Diabolical a Practice has juftly tranfported 
 the People to the highefb degree of Rage apainft ir, imaginable : 
 And it is a Meritorious y and a Laudable Zeal too, fo long as it con- 
 tains it felf within the Bounds of Law,a\\d Duty : While the King, 
 Council, and Parliament are, in the mean time, lifting, and Ex- 
 amining the Deiign, and doing Juftice upon the Offenders. 
 
 Now there are a fort of men, that under the Countenance of 
 ^hi/Plot advance another of their ?nw, and it is but the Rubbing 
 of a Libel with a little Anti-Popery,togive it the Popular fmack^ 
 andany thing elfe againfl: the Government goes down Current. 
 If a man Wntes,or Speaks,or deafens againfl: them, he isprefent- 
 ly afwwrerojfthe Papifes, a Lefjener of the Plot, and rundown with 
 2fynfence, and Clamour. A Perfon of Untainted Honour and Inte- 
 grity? puts in for a Parliamentarian; it is but any Little Fellows 
 taking advantage of the Humour of the People, and Billing of 
 him for having fome Papift to his Ktnfman, perhaps, or Vifiting 
 lome Lord in the Tower ; or under the common Scandal of a Cokr- 
 tier,ox:aPentioner, and he is gone to all Intents and Purpofes. 
 This is the Character they give to every man that loves the King % 
 the Church >,or the Lave. They ferve them as T^cro did the Chnjh- 
 aris ; they pnt them into "Bears-skins ; that is to lay, they call them 
 Papifis, Petitioners, Conspirators, and then deliver them up to be 
 worriedby the Rabble. Shall we never diftinguifh between Indubi- 
 table Truths y and Transparent Falfhoods} Betv^ixt Words and Deeds y 
 that ftand in a direcl Oppofuion, the One to the Other ? What Pri- 
 viledge has a Phanatickxo blow up a Government, more than a 
 Jefuite ? It mud be confeft, however, that he is the Braver Enemy 
 of the two, for he fcorns to fneak to the Execution of his Exploit 
 with a Darl^Lanthorn ; and to take advantage of Authority by Sur- 
 prise ; but Arraigns Princes, and puts them to death in the face cf the 
 Sun, and at this Inftant, charges the Church openly with Idolatry, Su- 
 pcrfiition, and Oppreffi^n ; the State with Tyranny ; and the Law it 
 felf, with Error and Infuffciency . His firft work is to Accufe his Su- 
 periows of Mifgovernment : And then he tells the People, next, that 
 in Cafe of Mifgovernment they may refunie their Power. And 
 that's all this to the VhOll 
 
 
 THE END. 
 
CITT 
 
 AND 
 
 BUMPKIN, 
 
 IN A 
 
 DIALOGUE 
 
 Over a TOT of ALE, 
 
 Concerning Matters of 
 
 R E L I g i o N 
 
 AND 
 
 GOVERNMENT. 
 
 The Fourth Edition, 
 
 :^q 
 
 By R. Z. "Hf r . r anJe, 
 
 LONDON", 
 
 Printed for Henry Brome, at the G**inSt\.P*»Ps 
 Church-yard, i68q. 
 
^ 
 
 The < Boo% k fellers Advertifernent , 
 Feb. 27„ id8o 
 
 I A Jj 
 
 T 7"X T^Hcreas there are feveral Difcourles 
 V V and Pamphlets abroad in the World, 
 that pafs for the Writings of Mr. <1(^er UE- 
 flrange, wherein he he* 7 er had any haftd at all ; 
 This is to A^vertife the Reader, that fince Sept. 
 1 67 8 .he hath Publifli d tKefe following Pieces, 
 and no other. 
 
 Tlie Reformed C atholique* 
 
 Tl>e History ej the Plot. 
 
 The Free-born SubjeSi* 
 
 Tl?e Cafe Put. 
 
 An Anjloer to the Appeal 
 
 Twenty Selett Colloquies of Erafmus, in Eng- 
 lifli. 
 
 'The Parallel, ox, The Growth of JfyaVery. 
 
 A Seafonabk Memorial 
 
 A Dialogue. 
 
 A Further Difcovery of the Plot, Tbith a Letter 
 to Dr. Titus Oats. 
 
 Tully's Offices m^E^lifli* 
 
 B. <B. 
 
$4$ 
 
 <o 
 
 C I T T and SVMKI&C, 
 
 In a DIALOGUE, <?c. 
 
 
 Citt.jf^^O that you would know, Fir£j how we managed the 
 Petition ; and Secondly, how it came to mifcarry. 
 Bum. Thofeare the two Points, Citt *, for j?r# tai^ ^ 
 tywr Pot, and then tell your Story : youjball have mine 
 afterward. 
 
 Citt. There was no way, you muft know, to carry the bufl- Committees 
 neis clear, without getting a .Vote of Cotnmon-CoHncil for the to promote 
 Petition • and fo making it an Act of the Cfey : And in order to !*f Petition?. 
 this End, we planted our Committees every where up and down, and foftruftk 
 from Algate to Temple-Bar, at convenient diftances • fome few ons . 
 of them in Taverns, but mo&zt C off ee-houfes ; as lefs liable to 
 fufpition. Now we did not call thefe Meeting-Committees, but 
 Clubs -, and there we had all Freedom both for Privacy and De- 
 bate : while the Borough of Southward Weftminfier and the Sub- 
 urbs, proceeded according toour Method. 
 
 Bum. And what are thefe Committees now to do ? 
 Citt. Their Commiffion was to procure Subfcripions to juftifie 
 the Right of Pethioning,znd to gain Intelligence : And then eve- 
 ry Committee had one man at lead in it that wrote Short-hand. 
 Bum. Well, and aihat was he to do ? 
 Citt. It was his part to go fmoaking up and down from one 
 Company to another, to fee who was for us, and who againfi 
 us; and to take Notes of what People faid of the Plot, or of 
 the Kinfs Witness, or againft this way of Petitioning. 
 
 Bum. But how came thofe Commit ees (as ye call ''urn) b'y their 
 Commifllons ? 
 
 Citt. For that, let me tell you, we had two Grand Committees, Two Granl 
 that adjourn'd from place to place, as they faw occaiion : But Committee* 
 they met moft commonly at -Tnw Coffce-Houfes ; the One near 
 Guild-Hall, the other in the Strand*, for you muft take notice 
 that we went on,hand in hand with our Neighbours in the Main 
 Defign. 
 
 A 2 Bum. 
 
24 2_ 
 
 The Office of 
 the Grand 
 Gemmittees. 
 
 Stories of 
 Prodigies 
 ftartle the 
 Common 
 People. 
 
 The way of 
 getting hands 
 in and about 
 
 Go 
 
 Bum. But you do not tell me yet who fet up the Other Commit- 
 tees. 
 
 Cttt. Thefe two Grand Committees, I tell you , nominated 
 and appointed the Sub-Committees, gaye them their Orders ana 
 received their Report s : It was their Office moreover to digeft 
 Difcoverics and Informations \ to inftruft Articles , improve 
 Accufeti'ons, manage Controversies, defray the charge of Intelli- 
 fencers, and Gatherers of hands, to difpofe of Collections, to in- 
 fluence the Anglicus^s and Domeftieki > and fortifie thofe that 
 were weak in the Faith •, to furnilb matter fometimes for Nar°* 
 ratives. 
 
 Bum. What deft thou mean by Narratives, Citt ? 
 
 Gtt. They are only ft range Stones -, as that of the Dragon in 
 F.ficx j Earth-quakes, Sights in the Air, Prodigies, and the like. 
 
 Bum. One would thinks it Jhould not be worth their while , to bufie 
 their Heads about fecit Fooleries as thefe. 
 
 Citt. Now this is thy fimplicity Bumpkin, for there is not- 
 any thing that moves the hearts of the People fo effedtually to- : 
 ward the Works f the Lord, efpecially when the Narrative car- 
 ries fame Hiftorical Remarque in the Tail of it : As for the pur- 
 ])0{c,this or that happened in fucb a Kings Reign, An d foon after fetch 
 and fech troubles befell the Church and State - 7 flich a Civil War, 
 iiich or fach a Perfection, or Invafion folio vv'd upon it. When 
 the people perceive once that the Lord hath declared himfelf 
 againft the Nation, in thefe Tokens of his Difpleafure, the 
 Multitude feldome fail of helping the Judgment forward. 
 
 h\m* I donlt know what ye call your Committees, but our 
 Gentry had their Meetings too ; and there was a great Lord or two 
 among "*um that (Jjall be Namelefe. 
 
 Citt. We could fliew you otherguefs Lords among Vs, Pie 
 niTure you, than any you have ••, but let that pafs. 
 
 Bum. "foil told me that your Committees were to procure Sub- 
 (captions : we were hard pat t<rt, Pm fere, in the Country to get 
 Hands. 
 
 Citt. And h were we in the City, Bumpkin-, andxif ithad not 
 been to advance the Protectant Intereft, Pde have been torn to 
 pieces by wild Horfes, before Pde have done what I did. But 
 extraordinary Cafes m nft have extraordinary allowances. There 
 washardly a Regifter about the Town that lcap'd us for Nam$n 
 Bedlam, Bridewell, all the Party-book* nay the very Gaols and 
 
 Hofeutalj \ 
 
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 //ofpnals; we had- Olir Agents at all Public^ Meetings, Court, 
 Church, Change, all the Schools up and down •, Maftcrs under- 
 writ for their Children and Children, Women for their Husbands 
 in the Weft-Indies ; nay we prevailed upon fome Parfons^to en- 
 gage for their whole Congregations •, we :ook in Jack^StrawJVat 
 Tyler, and the whole Legend of Poor Robins Stints into gut 
 Lift of Petitioners-, and the fame. Names fervM us in four or 
 five fever al Places. And where's the hurt of all this now ? So 
 long as the Caufe it felf is righteous. 
 
 Bum. Nay, the thing tv as roe A enough Cltt, if we could but have Se feral ways 
 gone through with it : And you fliall fee now that we were put to our of getting 
 Jhfts in the Country^ well as you in the City ; / was employed, you £J anc,s in **■» 
 muftknow, to get Names at four [hillings a Hundred, and 1 had Countrev . 
 all my Real Subicriptions written at fueh a diftance, one from ano- 
 ther, that J could eaftly clap in a Na>ne or two betwixt *tfm\ and then 
 I got as many School' boys as Icould.to underwrite after the fame 
 mariner, and after this, I fill* d up all thofe [paces with Names that I 
 either Remember'd or Invented my felf, or could get cut of two or 
 three Chriftning-books. There are a World {ye know ) of Smithy 
 Browns, Clarks, Walkers, Woods, fi that IfmrniftPd my Cata- 
 logue with a matter of Fifty apiece ofthefe Sir-Names,Wj/f/; iChri- 
 fteivdmyfelf And befides* we had aH the Non-conformift Min> 
 fters in the .Couatry/W-*/, andthey brought in a pjivrr of hands. 
 
 Citt. What do- you talk of your Non-conf wystpf ? They do bat The p roteai 
 work JourntyAVork^to Ours. We have the Heads of all the ??■■;* « a nt Diflent- 
 teftant Bif enters in the A^/^here in this Town 5 why, we have ers : ;:cat Pre- 
 more Relgions Jd^m^a^nthis Citfj/Sm yo**have gcof-Uin you* moters of the. 
 whole Conn trey. Petition.. 
 
 Bum. Ay, ar,d Vw a great Blejfingtoo , that when P rcfeflbrs are 
 at fa mighty l r .vli<;ce among them iei ^es, there jhouid be f ivr«ih~ 
 fklan Agreement in the Common Caufe. 
 
 C.i:t,. And tha^s notably ob(er;M, En n\gk h , for fo we fc&nd 
 it here. The Presbyterian got Hands of Hs Fxrty • the hid, v 
 dent of f-hs, the Ban ft of His, the Fifth- Mc;;xY:hy->nv: of Hk \ 
 2ijd fo throughout ail our Diviibns : and we .h-dftill the moil 
 zealous man in His way, to gather the Stdrfhtefftdns : And when 
 they had compieated theii\fo//, they diJehar^dthemielves as 
 Naturally into tht Grand Committee,^ friers Mo the Sea jaaJ 
 then wc were lure or" ail the Repuoltcans. 
 
 Bum. Ba^ after all this Care aid Iodoflx^ how w.is it fofiiifc 
 for the Bii/ : n^' io Milcarry ? hit, 
 
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 Citt. Why I know 'tis laid in our Difli, that when we had fet 
 the w hole Kingdom agogg upon Petitioning I ufd 
 
 not tervc as to go through ftiteh^ and j.irown 
 
 necks out of. the Collar, and left the Cpuatnte Lurch. 
 
 Bam. Nay thaOs the Truth o?Pt^C\it, We feed aU gaping for 
 London to lead the way. 
 
 Cut. The great work that we lookM upon was the gaining 
 of a wttt affected Common Council • which we fecai'd .Upon the 
 Election, with all the skill and watchful nefs imaginable. 
 
 Bum. And that wa-s a huge Point, Citt ; but how were ye able to 
 compafit? 
 Tricks to de- Gtt. Why we had no more to do, than to mark thofe that 
 feat Elections, we knew were not for our turns, either as Courtiers, or Loofe- 
 livers, or half- F rot eft ants, and their bufinefs was done. 
 
 Bum. We went the fame way to worh^ too in the Country, at all 
 our Elections ; for it is a lawful Policy, yon know, to leffen We Re- 
 putation of an Enemy. 
 
 Citt. Nay we went further Mill, and fet a Report afoot upon 
 the Exchange, &&& all the Coffee-houfes and Publique Houfes there- 
 abouts, which held from Change-time, t\\\ the very Rifing of the 
 Common-Council, when the Petition was laid afide \ that paft fo 
 currant, that no Mortal doubted the Truth on't. 
 
 Bum. But you ha* not told me what that Report wot yet. 
 Citt. It was this ; That the King hadfent a Mejfage to the City 
 to let them underftand that he took notice how much thy flood affe» 
 tied to the Petition ; that he expeUed they would proceed upon it; 
 and that His Afajcfljpwas ready to give them a Gracious Anfwer. 
 Bum. But was this fair dealing Brother? 
 Citt. Did not Abraham fay of Sarah, She's my Sifter ? 
 Bum. Well, thotfrt a heavenly man Citt 1 but come to the Mif- 
 carriage it felf. 
 
 Citt. After as Hopeful a Choice as ever was made, we pro- 
 curd a Common-Council : where the Petition was put to the 
 Vote, and it was carry 'd in the Commons by two Voices, for the 
 prefentingi it and by Fourteen,^ Fifteen Votes in the Court of 
 Aldermen, on the Negative. 
 
 Bum. So that your DamnM Aldermen, and our Damned Ju- 
 stices, have ruindus both in City and Country. 
 
 C7tt.Hattg'urn,they arc molt of them Church -papifts; but we 
 mould have dealt well enough with them, if it had not been for 
 
 that 
 
 'fhePetition 
 
 laid a ^ de in 
 the CmomOH- 
 Council. 
 
 
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 (s) 
 
 that confounded AB for Regulating Corporations. 
 
 Bum. Prctbee 1st me undcrftand that, for Ikriow nothing on^t- 
 Citt. Take notice then, that the Dev ilifh Statute has provi- 
 ded, That//tf /nan fliall fuve as a Ccnimon-Councii-man, but The Ad for 
 ttpon condition of taking three Oaths, and Subfcribing one Decla- Corporations 
 ration therein mentioned, and having taken the Sacramento/ the biai ^ ^f 
 Lord's Supper, according to the Rites of the Church (//England, neck oa u 
 within one year next before his Election. Now it fo fell out, that 
 what with this Atl, and a Conn-Letter for putting is in Execu- 
 tion, a matter of thirty of our Friends were put by, as no-; duly 
 qualifi'd ; and upon this Pinch we loft it. Nay,let me tell ye as 
 a Friend, there were at leaft twenty or thirty of the reft too, 
 that would hardly have pad Mutter. 
 Bum. But ps this certain f 
 
 Cttt. Why I am now in my Element, Bumkin; for thou 
 know'ft my Education has been toward the Law. 
 ! Bum. This was a Plaguie Jobb, Citt j but we mufl laok^ better 
 to our Hits next bom. 
 
 Citt. Nay my Life for thine we'll have another touch for't 
 yet. But tell me in fhortj how came you offwith your Petiti- 
 on in the Coun^rey? 
 
 Bum. It went on for a good while prettily well, at the Quarter- 
 Seilions ; till at loft one crofs-grain'd Curr there upon the Bench 
 clawed us all away to the Devil, and got an Order of Court againfl 
 it , while you would fay what^s this ? 
 Citt. But what did he lay ? 
 
 Bum. Oh there was a great deal of fluff on* t ', the King and the The Petition s 
 Judges (he faid) had declared it to be Seditious, and fo they were baffled in the 
 to take it, That they fate there to keep >Jtf King's Peace^ to conn- Coufttre y> 
 tenance the Breaking of it;and then (fays he) thefe fellows do??t 
 know what they would have. One Petitions for Chalk, and Ano- 
 thtvfor Cheefe 5 the Petition was at firft for the Meeting of the 
 Parliament ; and then they came to Twit the King with his Coro- 
 natic n-Qath, crr/^ Delinquents mufl be brought to Puhifhment*, 
 and then the Parliam. was to Sit as long as they pleas'd j and at 
 laft, every man muft be markt for a Common Enemy that would 
 y-i Sublcribe it. So that firft they would have rk^P^rlikoient Sit ', 
 afAdjhen thty">d cui^um out their wcr^andrnfine. it Was little other 
 .. Petition againfi thofe that would rot Petition, He faid 
 there were ill prances in the getting of hands j andfo they throve out 
 
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 the Petition, and ordered an Enquiry into the Abufes. 
 Citt. Well, -therms no Remedy but Patience. J 
 
 Bum. / had need of Patience Vm fhre ; for they^re Examining 
 the Hands already, as hard as they can drive ^ Ton* I fee me in the 
 Gazette next Thurfday, as fure as a Gun. 
 
 Cur. Why then we miift play the Domeftique againft him, 
 ftext F?\ day. 
 
 Bun\.A'ay 1 pMjl'.rero be trounced for* t to flome tnr.ejf I be taken- 
 Cut. Prethee what art afraid of? There's no Treafon in 
 getting hands to a Petition man. 
 
 Bum. No, that* s true, but I have pht in fuch a Lurry of Dog- 
 Rogut-s ; they cry they're defom'd, with a Pox, they'le have 
 their remedy, and they make fitch a Bawling. 
 
 Citt. Come, come, let thy heart at reft'-, and know that ia 
 tha city th'art in the very Saiivftuary of the IVell-aflecled. But 
 'tis good however to prepare for the worft, and the befi (as thef 
 fay) will help itsfelf. But art thou really afraid of being taken .* 
 Bum. And Jo would you be too, if you were in my condition With- 
 out a penny, or a friend in the -world to help ye. 
 The blefllng Citt. Thou art two great Owls, BuMkin,in a very few words. 
 or having nei- F;V/?,thou hafrgreat friends,and do'ft not know on'tfind Secondly, 
 the: friends t i 10u foift not underftand the Ble fling, of having neither Friends, 
 nor money. l]or Money. In one word, I'll fee thee provided for •, and in the 
 mean time, give me thy anfvvcr to a few queftions. 
 
 I make no doubt but they that put thee into this Trnfi x and 
 
 Employment of helping on the Petition, are men of Eftates, and 
 
 men well-i?:cli/Pd to the Publique Caufe. 
 
 Methods of Bum. 0, their Landlords and Matters are men of huge Eftates : 
 
 Pipufarity. but ^tu the T<:narxs,andthe Stewards that I have to do withal. But 
 
 then (do you ma;\mc?) thofe people are all in all with their Mafters. 
 
 Citt. I fuppofe you may be known to the Landlords and 
 
 Mafters themfehes too. Do they ever take any notice of you ? 
 
 Bum. Testes ; / go often to their Houfes man , and they ffeak, 
 mighty kindly to me ; and there^s nothing but Honeft Obadiah, And 
 Good Obadiah at every turn • and then the Men take me into the 
 Kitchin, or into the Cellar, or fo. And let me tell you Citt, if it 
 had not been for them orxe, I had been plaguily paid off in tht Spi- 
 ritual Comt upon a certain Occajwn. 
 
 Citt. That's a very gocdflgn of AffeRion to the Caufe, as I 
 told thee : and it would be never the vvorfe if they were under a 
 
 clor.d 
 
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 Gloud at CW* •, for ^« #<?#<?/? Revenge, ye know, ^w/ 4 k ^^^t 
 way with a tender Confidence. 
 
 Bum. / have heard fome Inkling that way, but we^Je flatter no 
 Words. 
 
 Cit. They never fpeak any thing to you in Private, do they ? 
 As of Grievances, (I mean ) Religion, the Liberty of the SubjeU , 
 and fuch like ? 
 
 Bum No, no -, but they talmas other People do, of the Plot, and 
 the Jefurs, and Popery, and the French King, and Jo. 
 
 Cit. And what is the Reafon now_, do ye think, that you are 
 not receiv'd irto their Bed-Chambers , their Clofets, into their 
 Arms,znd into their very Hearts^ as well as fbme other People 
 as w«e know ? 
 
 Bum. Alas ! whatjhould they do with me ? Vm not a man ft te 
 keep them Company. 
 
 Cit. Why then Honefl Bumpkin,here' y s a Golden Sentence for A Golden 
 thee ; Be Taken, Sifted, ImprifonU, Piltory">d, and Hand true to Ssntcnce 
 thy Principles, and th'art company for the bell Lord in Chriften- 
 d^.They'l never dare to truft thee till th'art J ay I andjPz//<?ry- 
 proof; and the bringing thee into z Jayl, would be a greater 
 kindnefs, than the fetching of another man Out. 
 
 Bum. Prethee Citt,tellme one thing by t,he?way ; haft thou ever 
 made Trial of this Experiment thy felf 7 
 
 Cit. To tell thee as a FriendT , I have try'd it , and I'm the A Jayl is the 
 bell part of a Thoufand Pound the better for't. 'Tis certain- high- way to 
 ly the High-way to Preferment. Preferment* 
 
 Bum. And yet for all thii Citt, I have no mind in the World to 
 be Taken. 
 
 Cit. And that's becaufe th'art an arrant Burzard ; the Lord 
 deliver me from a Man that has neither Money nor Friends, and 
 yet's afraid to be Taken. Why 'tis the very making of many 
 a^ man's Fortune to be Taken. How many men are there that 
 give Money to be Taken, and make a Trade on't ? Nay happy 
 is the man that can but get any body to Take him ? Why I tell 
 ye, there are people that will quarrel for't, and make Friends 
 to be Taken. 'Tis a common thing in Pans, for a man in One 
 fix Months, to Hart out of a Friendlef and Money left condition, 
 into an Equipage of Lac quays 2.n& Coaches-find all this by nick- 
 ing the bleffed Opportunities of being difcrcetly Taken. 
 Bum./ have heard indeed of a ?nan that fet fire to one old Houfe, 
 
 B and 
 
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 andgst as much Money by a Brief for>t as built him two New ones. 
 Cut. Have not I my felf heard it call in a fellows Teeth / 
 Was the making of you Sirrah, though) 1 are fa high now a body muft 
 not fpeakjoyou : You had never been Taken and Clapt wy, Sirrah 
 but fdr mc. 
 
 Bum. Father , What Simpletons voe Country-folks are to you 
 Citizens ! 
 
 Cut. Now put the Cafe, Bumpkin, that you were Ta\cn,Exa- 
 mirfd and Committed, provided you ft and to your Tackle, y'are a 
 Made man already ; but if you firing in the wetting, y'are loft. 
 
 Bum. Pray*e what do ye mean by (landing to my Tackle ? 
 
 Citt. You muft be Aire to keep your felf upon a Guard^vhen 
 y'are before the Juftiee ; and not to be either wheedled, or 
 frightened into any Difcovery j for they'l be trying a thoufand 
 Tricks with you. 
 
 Bum. But may I deny any thing that"* V charged upon me, point- 
 blank^ tf 1 be guilty of it ? 
 A Salvo for a Citt. Yes in the Cafe of Self -prefervation, you may •, but you 
 Lie ' mull be fure then that no body can difprove you ■, for if it be 
 
 known 7 itis2. Scandal, and no longer Lawful: Your beft way 
 will be not to anfwer any Queftions againft your felf. 
 
 Bum. But now you have brought me into a Goal, you would d* 
 well to tell me how I [ball get out again. 
 The Benefits Citt. Why before you turn your felf thrice in your Ktn- 
 #f a Prifon. n el, (if Bay lable) Y'are out again upon a Habeas Corpus •, But in 
 the mean time, the Town rings of your Commitment, the caufe 
 of it, and how bravely you carry 7 d it upon your Examination ; 
 all which fhall be Reported to your Advantage^ and by this 
 time^'areCelebrated for the Peoples Martyr. And now come in 
 the Bottles, the ColdPies,znd the GuynnPs : But you muft lay 
 your Finger npon your Mouth, and keep alias clofeas if the 
 fairies had brought it. 
 
 Bum. Pre^thee Citt, wen thou ever bound Prentice to a States- 
 man? 
 
 Citt. No, not altogether fo neither - y but I fervM a conveni- 
 ent time in two of his Majefties Houfes -, and there I learnt my 
 Politlques -, that is to fay, in Newgate, and the Gate-houfe ; Two 
 Schools flays one) that fend more wife men into the Worldfhan the 
 four Inns of Court. Now let your fuffering be what it will,the 
 Merit of it will be rated according to the Difficulty zndhaz.- 
 
 xjird 
 
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 zard of the Encounter : For there's a great difference betwixt 
 the Venture of a Pillory, and of a Gibbet . But in what cafe fo- 
 ever ; if you Hand faft, and keep your Tongue in your head, 
 you (hail want neither Money, nor Law -, nor Countenance, nor 
 friends in the Court, nor friends in the Jury. 
 
 Bum. Hold, hold, Citt ; what if all my great friends Jlwttld de- 
 ceive me at Lift ? 
 
 Citt. They'ie never dare to do that, for fear you fhould de- 
 ceive//^. I have found the experiment of it my fe]f,and eve- 
 ry Term yields US frefh Inftances of people that make their for- 
 tunes in a trice, by a generous contempt of Principalities and Powers. 
 
 Bum. Thou*rt a brave fellow, Citt \ but prethee what may thy 
 Employment beat prefent, if a body may asf^thee ? 
 
 Citt. I am at this prefent, Bumpkin, under the Rofe,z Secretary- The Seat. 
 Extraordinary to one of the Grand Committees I told thee of,and q jjw*^ 
 my bufinefs is to draw up Impeachments, Informations, Articles ^ 
 to lick over now and then a Narrative ^ and to deal with the 
 Mercuries to publifh nothing againft the Intereft of that Party : 
 and in fine, there's hardly any thing ftirs, but I have a finger 
 in't. Mine is a bufinefs, I can tell you, that brings in Money. 
 
 Bum. / make no doubt orft, Citt \ But could ye put me in a way 
 to get a little nwney too ? 
 
 Citt. We'll talk of that prefently. You may think perhaps 
 now the City 'Petitions blown off, tkat our Committee will have 
 nothing to do. ButldoafTureyou, bufmefs comes in fofait 
 upon us, that I fhall never be able to go through it without an 
 
 Afffiant -, and if I find you fit for't, you fhall be the man. 
 
 Nay hold, let me ipeakfirft •, do you continue the ufe of your 
 Shorthand t 
 
 Bum. Tes, I do : and I have mended my Baitard-Secretary ve- 
 ry much ftnee you faw it. 
 
 Citt. Will you be Jufi, Diligent, and Secret ? 
 
 Bum. Pie give you what Security you? I ask^ for my Truth and 
 Diligence -, and for my Secrelie, I could almoft forget to fpeak^ 
 
 Citt. That Figure pleafes me ; but I mult flirift you further. 
 How ftands your appetite to Wine and Women ? 
 
 Bum. Why truly as the rate of other flefti and blood. 
 
 Citt. 'Tis not to bar ye neither -, but what Liberties ye 
 tajte, let them be Private, and either to advance the Common 
 Caufc, or at fpare hours. 
 
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 Bum. Ton cannot asJ^nor wijh more than Pie do. 
 Citt. Only a word or two more, and then Pie let you into 
 my affairs. What courfe did you propound to your felf, in cafe 
 your Petition had fucceedcd ? I ask this, becaufc you feem fo 
 much troubl'datthe Difappointment. 
 Other Petiti- Bum. Why? if this Petition had gone on, and the Parliament 
 onsupon the had met, / was promt fed four or five Petitions more \> one againft 
 Danby, and the Lords in the Tower, another for the Sitting of 
 this Parliament, till they had gone through all they had to do • 
 a Third, for taking away the Bifhops Votes, a Fourth, for the 
 Remove of Evil Counfeilours, and a Fifth, for putting the Militia 
 into Safe hands, 
 
 Citt. Thefe points, you muft know, have been a long time 
 upon the Anvil •, and our Friends have I nftr uftions all over the 
 Kingdom,to proceed upon them to fhew the Miraculous Vnion 
 of the Nation. But do you think, becaufe the Firfl Petition has 
 received a cheeky and the Parliament is Prorogued? that there- 
 fore the other Petitions muft fall to the ground ? 
 * Bum. I Cannot well fee how it jhould be otherwife. 
 
 Citt. Why then let me tell you, Bumpkin, Well bring the 
 whole bufinefs about again, and carry it on, in fpite of Fate,for 
 we have better Heads at work perhaps than you are aware of. 
 
 Bum. jiy y but what Hands have we Citt? for it will come t& 
 that at loft. 
 
 Citt. Thofe Heads will find Hands, never trouble your felf, 
 if there fhould be occafion^ but 'tis too early days for that 
 fport yet. 'Twas an unlucky thing however to be fo furpriz'd ^ 
 for our Friends did no more dream of the Sacrament? than of 
 their dying day. 
 
 B\im. Well? there's no recalling of what's paft : But the gue- 
 ftion is, how we Jhall avoid it for the time to come. 
 
 Citt. Nay, Bumpkin? there's a Trick worth two of avoiding 
 it, we'll take it next bout, and then we're fafe ? we'll carry it 
 Pie undertake by fifty Voices. 
 
 Z?um. But cannot the Aldermen hinder you from putting it to 
 
 the Vote * 
 
 SMgn up* citt - 'Tis tn e Cuftom of the City , I muft confefs,for the Lord 
 
 o&theGom- Mayor to Summon and diffolvc Common Councils, and to put all 
 
 mm Council* points to the Qucftion - but we'll find a cure for that too. 5 ^fis 
 
 a thing we've been a good while about already ^ the bringing 
 
 down 
 
down the Authority of the City into the Major fart of the 
 Commons. 
 
 Bum. Now if the Mayor and Aldermen Jhculd be aware of 
 this, they* I never endure it ', but we mufi leave that to time. But 
 hark^ ye Citt, / thought our Friends refiufiing of the Sacrament had 
 been matter of Confidence. 
 
 Ott. Why fo it is, man - but take notice then, that you are Diftinftions 
 to diftinguifh of Confcicnces: There \$firft\ a plain fimpls Con- of Coitfricn 
 ficiencc, and that's a Confcience that will ferve well enough to ces# 
 Keep a man Right, if he meet with nothing clfe to put him out 
 of the way. And then there's a Confcience of State, or Profit ; and 
 that Confidence yields, as a lefi Weight does to a greater -, an 
 Ounce turns the Scale,but a Pound carries the Ounce .^nd no bedy 
 blames the weaker fox being over-powerM by the Jlroxger. There 
 is a Confidence of Profejfion too ; which is a Confidence that does 
 not Co much regard the Reafibn of the things as the being 7>»<? to 
 a P^r/j, when a man has pail his Word : and this is the Confid- 
 ence of a man of Honour, that rights for his Whore. There is like- 
 wife a Confidence of Religion, and that's a gJBtf peaceable Confci- 
 ence, that refls in the AfFeclion of the Heart, in fubmiflion to 
 Lawful Inftitutions ; and in ferving God, and doing gocd to 
 our Neighbour, without Noifie or Ofientation. 
 
 Bum. Well,but I fee agreat many very Confcientieus men that Confidences 
 love to pray andfmg Pfalms next the Street ,that their Neighbours {f State or 
 way ^^r '«w j W c £0 up and down making of their Heads, and In£erefto 
 wringing of their Hands, crying out of the Calves 0/ Bethel, and 
 the High places, Popery^, Prelacy, and the Common Prayer, in 
 fiuch a marmcr, that '/• w ould grieve a bodies heart to fie e y um. 
 
 Citt. Thefe are Ce?ifidentiouj men, Bumpkin-, and this is the 
 Confidence of State or Profit, that 1 told ye of. 
 
 Bum. Ay, but 1 fiave- fieen feme ??ien in Fits of the 'Spirit, jump^ 
 and filing about a 'Pulpit fio defiper at ely, that they fict the children a 
 cryingtoh?.ve 5 umlet.OUt. One while the fd raife themfielves upon 
 their Tip-toes, and rear out upon afiudden^you^d have thought they 
 had been pinch 1 d with Hot Irons \ and then ail in an Tnfitant the\ 7 d 
 Dop down again, that ye could hardly fie e J um -, and fio fall into a 
 faint lamenting Voice, li\<e the Groan of a poor woman three- 
 quarters (petit in Labour. Nay, there was one of ^um that Gap^d 
 a?M held his mouth open Jo long, that the People cry' *d out, The man 
 has a Bone in his Throat. The fie muft needs be very Confcien- 
 tious Men. Gtt, ofi 
 
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 They arc To Wmpkht, but 'els the fume \CtnJcftnee ftjfl 5 
 
 it iyo.rics all .manner of ways. We cook up this Mode, j 
 fuppofe, fi om the Transports and Grimaces of the Taga/i Pncjh 
 in the Ceremony of their Sacrifices, which had a very effectual 
 operation upon the People. 
 
 Bum. Nay Citt, thefe Men have a Holy way of Language too, 
 as well as of Behaviour, for all their Tafk is of Heaven, and 
 Heavenly things, the Saints, and the New Jeru'alem ; they deal 
 mightily in Expofltions«/W7 the Viols, andthe Little Horn : and 
 then they arc bitterly fevere agahift Wicked Magiftrates, and 
 thofe that Lord it over Gods Heritage. They are ) in fine, a very 
 Confcientious fort of People. 
 
 Gtt. Oh beyond queftion fo they are : But this is ftill a 
 Branch of the fame Confidence. I have known indeed fome peo- 
 ple fo Tranfported with this fame Talkative Holinefs, that it 
 has been a kind of Spiritual Salivation to 'urn \ they continue 
 Spitting when they have not one drop of Moifiure left 'nm in 
 their Bodies. 
 
 Bum. Frethee Citt, ull me in honefi Englifh, where Jliall a body 
 
 find the fimple, and the Religious Confciences thoutold^j} me off 
 
 Not many c * n - Why every man living has the former of 'um,b.ut takes 
 
 "Religious no notice on't : But for the latter fort, 'tis very fear ce •, and 
 
 Confciences. you fhall find more of it perhaps in one Jay I, or in one Hofpi- 
 
 tal, then in all the Conns of Cbrifiendom. It is commonly the 
 
 Blejfingof men in years, in ficknefs, or in adverfity. 
 
 Bum. Ah Citt, that I were bat as capable of Learning as thou 
 art of Teaching ! Frethee explain thyfelf a little upon the Con- 
 ference of Profeffion too. 
 A Conference Citt. Obferve me what I fay then, Bumpkin : There is a Pro- 
 of Yiok&on, feffwn. Particular, and General ; Particular, as when One Cava- 
 lier ferves another in a Duel, he's obliged to it by the Profeffion 
 of a Sword-man, without Formalizing upon the Caufe. There's 
 a Confidence of Profeffion even among the Banditi themfelves. 
 What is it but the Profeffion of Presbytery, that makes the whole 
 Party oppofe Epifcopacy •, as the Independents do Presbytery, the 
 Republicans Monarchy 5 and the like. 
 
 Bum. Now I thought that there might have been Confcience of 
 State, as well as of Profeflion in thefe Cafes. 
 
 Cut. Thou fayft very well, Bumf kin, and fo there is, and of 
 profit too -, and it was much the fame Cafe too, throughout 
 
 the 
 
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 the Circle of our Late Revolutions, when wc Swore and Paw d 
 from the Oaths of Allegiance, and Ow wiftf/ Obedience, to the 
 Protefiant, the Solemn League and Covenant, the Engagement, 
 the Negative Oath, the Oath of Abjuration^ and fo till we (wore 
 round, into theCW/? of Allegiance again. 
 
 Bum. J'F/m/' ^ you mean now by your General Profeflion ? 
 
 Citt. I mean the Subordination of a Partial to a General, of a 
 Private Prof ejficn to a Publickj, as thou feeft in the Late Times, 
 Bumpkin, how ftrictly the Divided Reformers kept, themfclves 
 to this Rule, fo long as the Common Enemy was upon his Legs. 
 
 Bum. But what do you mean by the Common Enemy ? 
 
 Citt. I mean the Court, and the Church-Party. So long (I. 
 fay) all our Brethren of the Separation joyn'd as one man, a- 
 gainft that Inordinate Power ; and herein we were Confcientioufly 
 True to our General Profefion ; but fo foon as ever we had iub- 
 du'd that Popijl) and Tyrannical Intereft, through the Confcience 
 of our General Profefion, we then confulted our Particular -, 
 and every man did Confcientioufly labour for the Eftablfhment 
 of his own way. But now we come to thegreat Nicety of all -, 
 that is to fay, the Confcience of making a Confcience of uiing any 
 Confcience at all : There's a Riddle for ye Bumpkin. 
 
 Bum. / mufi confef 1 do not underfland one Bit on y t. 
 
 Citt. Thtt's for want of a Difcerning Spirit, Bumpkin AVhat A Conference 
 does Confcience fignine to the Saints, that are delivered from the °f ■P™8 no 
 Fetters of Moral Obligations, by fo many Extraordinary and a £ ncience . a 
 Overruling Privileges, which are granted in a peculiar manner 
 to the People of the Lord I What's he the better or the worfe for 
 k&ping or for breaking the Ten Commandments, that lies under 
 the Predeftinarian Fate of an Vncangeable tifecejfity and Decree ? 
 What needs he care for any 0/kr Guide, that carries within 
 himfelf an Infallible Light t Or He for any kule at aU that can- 
 not fin i For the fame thing may be a fin in another Man, which 
 in Him is None. 
 
 Bum. ^^//y tfe/j is admirable : So that we that are the Elect, art 
 bound up by no Laws at all, either of God or of Man. 
 
 Citt. Why look you now for that ; we Are, and we are A r ct. 
 If it fo happens that the Inward and Invifible Spirit move us po 
 do the fame things which the Outward and Vifible Law requires 
 of us, in That Cafe we are bound -, but fo, as to the Spirit, not 
 to the £mr;and therefore we arebid to fiandfajf in our ChrijUan 
 Liberty, Bum - 
 
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 Bum. That's extrtamly well faid , for if We ChriftiansjW/^ 
 Lib:: be Shackled with Human L2ws,which can only reach the Outward 
 
 1, thttartthp Heritage Of the Lord, in no better Condition 
 n the Wicked, a [eathen. 
 
 Oh ! th'art infinitely in the Right , for were it not for 
 • ; *n Liberty, we could never have Jnftiffd our Selves 
 
 in ov.L" Ea c T> :s : the DcfignO^ Overturning the Govern- 
 
 ment had been Treafon , taking up Arms againft the Kmg,Rebel- 
 lion\ Dividing from the Communion of the Churchy had been 
 Schhfm , appropriating the 'Church-Plate and Revenues to private 
 Vfcs, had been Sacrilege \ entfing opon Sequcfter^d Livings had 
 been Opprejfion^ taking away mens Eftates had been Robbery, 
 iprifoning cf their Pcrfons had been Tyranny • ufing the Name 
 of GWto all This, would have been Hypocrifie -, forcing of con- 
 if -dditlory 'Oaths ,had been Impiety ; & Shedding the £/tWboth of 
 the King and his People, had been A further: And all This would 
 have appeared fo to be, if the Caufe had come to be 7\yVby the 
 known Laws either of God or Ato. 
 
 Bum. .4/.^ mthanhful now I What a blejfed ft ate are we in; that 
 Walk up to our Calling, in Simplicity and Truth, whofe Yea ti 
 Yea, and whofe Nay zV Nay. "*Tis aftrange way thou haft Citt, of 
 making things out to a man. Thou wert faying but now, that the fame 
 thing may be a Sin *Vz'One man, and not in Another. Pm thr 
 ing now of the JefuitS. 
 
 Citt. Oh That's a fugling, Equivocating, He lift fort of Peo- 
 ple -, jtis a thcufand pities that they're fufferM to live upon the 
 Earth ; they value an Oath, no more than they do a Ruftj. Thoie 
 are the Heads of the Plot now upon the Life of the King, the 
 Trot eft am Religton,znd the Subverfion of the Government. 
 Tcfuits and Bum. Ay, Ay, Citt, they\e a damn'd Generation cf Hell- 
 Phanatiques hounds. But a6 I was thinkjng juft now, we have fo many things a- 
 compar'd. mong Us, like fome things among Them, that I have been run down 
 fomctimcs almoft, asifweoitrfelveswcrc Jefuites \ though 1 know 
 there 1 s as much difference as betwixt Light ^WDarknefs:, and 
 for my part, I defie them as I do the Devil. 
 A vaft difife- "' But Citt, thou haft fo wonderful a way of making Matters plain, 
 rence betwixt Pdegive any thing in the World thou JP ft' but teach me what to fay in 
 them. fome Cafes, when Pme put to^t. One told me t"' other da)', You are rg- 
 
 ther worfe than the Jefuites (fay she) for when They bre^kan 
 CW;,they have fome Mental Refervation or other for a Come-off-. 
 
 But 
 
But You Swallow your Perjuries, juft as Cor worms do Eels \ an 
 Oath's no fooner in at one End, then out at toother, 
 
 Citt. Let your Anfvver be This, Bumpkin, That the X,4»- 
 maker is Af after of his own Laws -, and that the Spirits dictating of 
 a iVteiP Law is, the Superceding of an old one. 
 
 Bum. T'/je/i are hard words, Citt :, to jbtf £<?/*/ me further, don't Their Praftl- 
 Tw* juftifie King-hilling {fays he) as well as the Jefuits .? Only ces compartU 
 They do't with Pi//c/, Dagger and Pcy/^ ; and You come with 
 Your Horfe, Foot, and Cannon : They proceed by Excommunica- 
 ting, and Defofing ; by dijfolving the Character firft, and f/^71 
 destroying the P<rr/0» j and juftfo did r<w. Fir/?, ye Deposed the 
 icVtf^, and 77tf« ye Beheaded Charles Stewart. And then you 
 neccL never go to Rome for a Pardon, when every man among 
 you is b# own Pope. 
 
 Citt. Now your Anfwer muftbe This -, That we had, Firft, The Fanaticks 
 the Warrant for what we did, of an Extraordinary Difpenfation. Cleafd. 
 (as appeared in the providence of ourSuccefTe) Secondly , we 
 had the Laws of Necejfty , and Self -Prefervation to Support us. 
 And Thirdly,t\\eGovernmem being Coordinate ,and the J$*£ only 
 One -of the Three Eftates •, any 7tp<? of the Three might deal 
 with the Third as they thought Fit : Befide the Ultimate Sove- 
 reignty of the People, over and above. And now take notice, 
 that the fame Argumeut holds in the Subverfwn of the Govern* 
 ?ncnt. 
 
 Bum. Now you have Arm' d me thus far, pray'e help me on, one 
 Step farther ;for I was hard put to't not longfmce about the bufmefs 
 of the Proteftant Religion. What is that I pray'cjhat ye call the 
 Proteftant Religion? 
 
 Citt. You are to underfland,that by the Proteflant Religion is Qfpiflenting 
 meant the Religion of the Diffcnters in EngUndfcom the Church Prpteftaats. 
 of England; As the Firft Prot eft ants in Germany 1529. ( from 
 whom we denominate our Selves ) were Diflemcrs from the 
 Church of Rome : and fo Called from the famous Proteftation 
 they enter'd againrl the Drcr^ of the AJfcmbly at 5^V^,againit 
 Anabaptifts. 
 
 Bum. £0 rk I perceive We Set up fk> Proteftant Religion- we 
 did not deftroy it : But they preft it then, that the Church of 
 England was a Protectant Church, and that the Jefuits had only 
 defign'd the Dell ruction of it,whereas we did actually Exe- 
 cute it. 
 
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 C6t. Your Anfwcr muft be, that the Church of England, 
 though it be a little Proteftantifrjt is not yet direftly Prcteftant: 
 As on the other fide, it is not altogether the Whore of Babylon, 
 though a good deal Whorifh 7 and therefore the Reply to that 
 mud be,that we did not deft roy, hut only Reform it. 
 
 Bum. Why I have anfwer'd People out of my own Mother- Wit, 
 that we didbut Reform it. And they told me again \the cutting of it 
 ojf Root and Branch, was a very extraordinary way of Reform- 
 ing- 
 tf Rort and Citt ' The A ? fwcr t0 that is obvious, that the Catting off 
 Branch. ^ 00t anc ^ B ranc hjs only a Thorow, or a Higher Degree of Reform- 
 
 7/7£.But upon the whole matter, it was with Vs and the Jefuits, 
 as it was with Aaron and the Magicians ; we did both of us make 
 Frogs, but we alone had the power to quicken the Daft of the 
 Land, and turn it into Lice. 
 
 Thou art by this time,Iprefiime,fufnciently inftructed in the 
 Methods and Fundamentals of the HolyCaufe. I (hall now give 
 you fome neceflary Hints, to fit, and qualifie you for the Pro- 
 vince that I intend you. But be fure you mind your Lejfon. 
 
 Bum. As I would do my Prayers, Citt, or I were ungrateful, 
 for you have made me for ever. 
 
 Citt. Come we'l take t'other Sup fiift,and'then to work. Who 
 waits there without ? Two Pots more, and Jim the door after Te. 
 
 A great part of your bufinefs , Bumpkin, will lie among 
 
 Parliament-Rolls, and Records - 7 for it mull; be our Poft to fur- 
 
 nifh Materials to a Cabal only of Three Perfons, that be ready 
 
 upon occafion, to be made ufe. of by the Grand Committee* 
 
 Rolls and Re- Bum. My old Mafter wouldfay,that 1 had as good a guefs at a 
 
 cords hunted Mufty Record, as any man ; and 'twas my whole Employment al- 
 
 forPrefcdents. m ^ fQ hmt ^ p re fidents. Nay the People would Tru(t me with 
 
 Great Bags home to my Lodging ; and leave me alone fometimes in 
 
 the Offices for four and twenty hours together . 
 
 Citt. But what kind of Preftdems were they that Ye lookt 
 for f 
 
 Bum. Concerning the Kings Prerogative, Bifhops Votes, the 
 Liberty and Property of the Subject , and the like : andfuch as 
 They wantedl writ out. 
 
 Citt. But did you Recite them whole ? or what did you Take, 
 a»d what did you Leave ? 
 
 Bum. 
 
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 Bum. We tookjvhat fervid our Turn, and left out the Reft ', and 
 fomcttmes we were /-^#;/Tripping , andfometimes we Scap'd : But 
 we never falfify^d any Thing. There were fome dogged Pajfages, in- 
 deed we durft not meddle with at all ; but I can turn ye to any thing 
 yon have occafionfor, with a wet finger. 
 
 Citt. So that here's one great point quickly over ; in thy be- Leflbnsof Be- 
 
 inz Train'd to my band :a man mieht lay thee down inftructi- !? vl0Ur n° r a- 
 
 c ^ nr j t i , , ■ /-. a the well-anc« 
 
 OUS, now, tor thy very Words, Looks, Motions, Geftures ; nay ^ Q ^ 
 
 thy very Garments ; but wel leave thofe matters to Time, and 
 
 Study. It is a ftrange thing how Nature puts her felf forth, in 
 
 thefe External Circumfiances. Ye fhall know a Sanclifi*d Sifter, or 
 
 a Gifted Brother more by the Me en, Countenance and Tone, than 
 
 by the Tenour of their Lives and Manners. It is a comely thing 
 
 for Perfons of the fame Perfwafion, to agree in thefe outward 
 
 Circumftances, even to the drawing of the fame Tone ,and making 
 
 ofthe fame Face : alvvaies provided, that there may be read in 
 
 our appearances, a Singularity of Zeal, ^Contempt of the World, 
 
 a forbidding of Evils to come ; a diffatisfaUion at the prefent Tvnes^ 
 
 and a Defpair of better. 
 
 Bum. Why this is the very part, that I was made for -, thefe 
 Humors are to be put On and OR,as a man would Jhift his Gloves^ 
 andyoujliallfee ?ne do^t as eafdy too;but the Language mult be got, 
 I Fancy , by canverfing with Modern Authors, and frequenting 
 Religious Exercifes. 
 
 0tt. Yes, yes, and for a help to your memory, I would ad- 
 vile you to difpofe of yourObfervations into thefe Three Heads, 
 Words, Phrafes and Metaphars : Do you conceive me ? 
 
 Bum. There* s not a word you fay falls to the Grcund;j4nd I am The Force of 
 the morefenfible of the force of Words,Looks, Tones, and Meta- Looks and 
 phors ( as ye calPum ) from what I find in my felf. Ours certain- Tones. 
 ly may be well termed a Powerful Miniftry, that makes a man cry 
 like a Child at the very Noyfe of a Torrent of Words that he does 
 not understand one Syllable of. Nayjvhen I havebeen out of reach 
 of hearing the words , the very Tone and Look has melted me. 
 
 Citt. Thou can ft not but have heard of that moving Afeta- A Moving Me- 
 phor ofthe late Reverend Mr. Fowler ^Lord Sowfe m ; (fays he), tapfeor. 
 Lord Dowfe us in the Powdering-Tubb of Aff.ttion *, that we m.iy 
 come forth Tripes worthy of thy Holy Table. Who can refill: the 
 Inundation of this RbttonckJ but let us now pafs from the 6>- 
 neral Ornaments of our Proftjfionjio the particular bvfiirefs ofpm 
 prefent Cafe. C 2 1 need 
 
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 I need not tell you, Bumpkin of the Plot, or that we are all 
 running into Popery \ and that the belt Service an Engliflmwi 
 can do his Countrey,would be the ripping up of this Defign 
 to the Bottom. 
 
 Bum. Iamfo patch of your Opinion, that yon havefpoken my 
 very Thoughts. 
 
 Cut. Bethink your felf , Bumpkin; what Papifts do you 
 know ? 
 
 Bum. Oh hang *Hm all, I never come near any of ^um. 
 
 Ott But yet you may have heard, perhaps, of fbme People 
 that are Popijhly ajfetled. 
 
 Bum. Yes, yes; there are abundance of them. 
 
 Citt. Can you prove that ever they faid or did any thing, 
 in favour of the Papifts ? 
 
 Bum. Nay there y s enough of that 1 believe ; but then there are 
 fuch huge great men among 'urn. 
 
 Citt. Pluck up a good heart Bumpkin \ the Gr eater fhz Better; 
 We fear 'urn not. Rub up your memory, and call to mind 
 what you can fay upon your own Knowledge and what you have 
 heard ; either about Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey, The Plot, The 
 Traytors that fufrer'd, or the Kings' Evidence. 
 
 Bum. I have fc en People ftrrugfometimes, and lift up therr Hands 
 and Eyes, and pake their Heads, and then they would clutch their 
 Fifts, look four, make Mouths, and bite their Nails, and fo : and 
 I dare fwear I know what they thought, 
 
 Citt. Ah Bumpkin, if they had but fo muchas mutter 1 d,they , d- 
 
 been our own. 
 
 Signsin Eri- Bum. Weil,but harkjye Citt.I hear People [wear, or in WORDS 
 
 deuce, to this effect , why may not a man as wellfwear, m S I G N S to 
 
 this Effect ? and that they lifted up their Eyes and hands, bent their 
 
 Fifts, knit their Brows, W made Mouths, to this or that Effect ? 
 
 Citt. No, that will never do Bumpkin, but if thou couldft but 
 phanfie that thou heardft them/peri^ 
 
 Bum . Why truly I never thought orftjout If aw a Parfo n once the 
 Tears floods in his Eyes, as one ofum went by to Execution. But your 
 Surcingle-men, ( as our Doctor told us I aft Lords, day') are all of 
 y um Papifts in their Hearts. 
 
 Citt. Why what's the Cowmen-Prayer Boe\Bumpkin„ but a 
 Mefs of ParboyPd Popery f 
 
 Bum. Vm a dog,%four Minifter does net pray for the Queen ./?/&' 
 
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 to* 
 
 Citt. Nay, we are e'en at a fine pafs, when the Pulpit prays SudTimcs. 
 for the Queen,z\\(\ the Bench Drinks the Duke o£ Tories Health. 
 But to thepoint, bethink your ielf well \ a man may forget a 
 thing to day,and recoiled it to morrow. Take notice however 7 . 
 that it is another main point of your .Inftruftions to procure///- 
 formations of this quality. 
 
 Bum. Pie ft you to a hair for that matter : but then 1 muff he 
 rnnni-ng up and down ye know into Taverns and CofFee-houfes,W 
 thrufing my f elf into Meetings and Clubs. That lickj money. 
 
 Citt. Never trouble your felf for that, you mail be well 
 paid and your expences born : Befide fo much a head from the 
 State , for every Prieft that you difcover. 
 
 Bum. Well ! thefe Priefts and Jefuits are damn* d fellows. 
 
 Cm. And yet let me tell you Bumpkin, a bare fac^d Papifi is 
 not half fo bad as a Papifi in Mafquerade. 
 
 Bum. Why what are thofe I prethee ? 
 
 Citt. They are your Will-worf rip-men, your Prelates Brats : 
 Take the wholeLitter of 'um,and you^l find never a Barrel bet- 
 ter Herring. Let me tell thee in Love Bumpkin, thefe Currs are 
 forty times worfe to Vs then the Jefuits themfelves -, for the one n r^' m ?£& 
 is an open Enemy, the other lies gcawing. like, a Canker in our fenters^han" 
 bowel j. And then being train'd up to Latin and Greeks there's no jefuits. 
 Oppofing of t\x Power of Godlinefs to the Sophiftry of Humane 
 Reafon : Befide that, the Law is for us in the one Cafe , and. 
 againft us in the ether. 
 
 Bum. Which way fi all we go to workjhen, to deal with this Ge~ 
 titration of Aden ? 
 
 Cit. We ffiuft ;oyn theWifdtm of the Serpent to thelnnocence 
 of the Dove ; and endeavour to compafs that by ftratagem 
 which we cannot gain be Argument. But now am I going to o- 
 pen a Myflery to thee that's worth — 
 
 Bum. Prethee the Worth on't Citt ; For talk is but talkj, the 
 Worth is the main point. 
 
 Citt. Why then let me tell thee Bumpkin, the. Afyfiery that 1 
 am about to difclofe to thee, was worth to our Predeceilbrs not 
 long fince no iefs than Three Kingdoms ,and a better penny. Buc 
 Pie feal your Lips up,before I ftir one ftep further. 
 
 Bum. Why look^ye Citt, may this-Drink never go thorough 
 mc\ if I ever bk£> one Syllable of any thing thou telPft me as a 
 Secret.. 
 
 Citt, 
 
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 Cut. Hold, hold, Bumpkin, znd w -ay it newer come up twain if 
 thou do*ft \ for vve'l have no ihifcing. 
 
 Bum. And may it never come up again neither if I do. 
 
 Tl e 'hanjea* cut. Well, Pm fetisfy?d, and now give attention ; thou fceft 
 
 l r i' , •" ci,t c hew unanimomily fierce all the icveralParriesof the Protejlant 
 Dlj] enters are againit the Papijh. Whence comes this Conjuncti- 
 on, I pre'ehec, of lb many fepar ate Congregations^ that are many 
 of them worie than Papifts one to another? There mull be in 
 it, either Confcience or Intereft ; If it were Confidence, VfQ fhould 
 fjlifoul one upon another,and ft r matter of Intereft -, when the 
 Papifts are defitroy^d, we are but Hill where we were. 
 
 Bum. This ts a Crochet , Cil'C, th.u did not fall under my Night- 
 Cap. 
 TheTcope of Citt. Be enlightned then. It is not the Deltrudion of thole 
 that Agree- that are Really Papifts, that will do our work \ for there's no- 
 ment. thing to be got by'c. But it mufl be our bufinefs to make thofe 
 
 People pafs for Papifts, that are not fo, but only have Places to 
 Lofe: iuchas vveourfelves, by the removal of them, may be 
 the better.for j and Thit\ Bumpkin muil be our Mafter -piece. 
 
 Bum. / hadthbs very fancy my [elf, Citt ; but it ftuckbetwixt 
 tny Teeth, and would not out. 
 
 Citt. You haer now in General what is to be done , You 
 muftbenext inftrucled in the Acts of Raifing, Chenj])ing,znd 
 Fomenting fuch Opinions • in what Cafes to Improve them, and 
 where to apply them. 
 Who are Po- Bum. Pm perfiwaded my Mafter s Brother had this very thing in 
 ) ,ilhlv ?^3ed fa jj ea d, though he never made words orft to me, He had got a Lift 
 '"ace °f* 11 thc cori f lderMe °$ ces and Employments in the Kingdom : And 
 
 I remember he was itfdtofiay, that moft of the refipeclive Officers 
 were either CorruptyrPopilhly affected. If they were Publick Mi- 
 nifters - 9 either the Kings Councels were Betray'd, or they put him 
 upon Governing in an Arbitrary way, and without Parliaments : 
 As for the Judges there was cither Bribery, Abiblute Power, or 
 Oppreffion laid to their Charge ; andfo all the reft were branded for 
 Frauds, Imbczlements , and the like, according to the Quality of 
 their buftnefs : All the Governours of Towns, Catties and Forts, 
 were Popilhly Inclined •, and net to be Trufted. And then all Eccle- 
 iiaflical Officers, whatsoever, within } "cur or five, were half way 
 
 at Rome already. 
 
 Cut. 
 
(21; 
 
 Citt. This is well remembred, Bumpf^n. Now 'tis "worth a 
 bodies while to make the fc Blades pafs for Papifts, and 7Vv*y- 
 Mtvj that leave £<W Q^cw behind 'urn. Nay, we muft not Puf- 
 fer fo much as any man, either of Brains, or Fortune (that 
 does not joyn with 1;jJ to pafs untainted. 
 
 Bum. Thou fay' ft right, Citt j jV whofotver is not With ^r, /j 
 Againft w. 
 
 OVf. Thou haft; fpoken pat to this point, Bumpkin-, but yet 
 thou beginn'ft at the wrong End ; For you mult firft get the 
 skill of Kaifing,and Improving a Report, before ye come to the 
 Fixing of it : For that's a Nicety not to be medled with, till 
 we come to the taking out of- the very Pins,and the Unhinging 
 of the Government:, fo that the firft Clamour mult be Levell'd 
 point-blank at fome Known, and Eminent Papifts. 
 
 Bum. Well, but what fihall we Charge 'urn with ? 
 
 Citt. Why, if we w r ere once at the bottom- of this plot 
 (which, upon my Soul, Bumpkin, is a molt hideous one) and % 
 
 wanted matter for another, I would charge them with a Defign 
 of betraying us to a Forreign Enemy. 
 
 Bum. As how a Forreign Enemy, prethee ? 
 
 Citt. As thus : I would charge 'urn with holding an Intelli- A Heavy 
 gence wirh the Emperor of Morocco, for the Landing of five Charge. 
 and. thirty thousand Light-horfe men upon Salisbury Plain. 
 
 Bum. Prethee, Citt^ don't Romance. 
 
 Citt. Prethee do not Baldemo,yt Ihould fay ; fpeak Statuta- 
 ble Englifij, ye Fool you. Thou think'ft perhaps that the peo- 
 ple will not believe it : Obferve but what I fay to thee •, let it 
 but be put into the Proteftant Domeftique, that his Imperial Ma- 
 jefty/is to hold up his Hand at the Kings Bench-bar for't, and 
 let me be Dogs-meat iftheydonot Iwallow that too. Why 
 prethee, Bumpkin, we muft make 'urn. believe ftranger things Nothing ln-r 
 than this, or we fhall never do our buflnefs. They muft be credible* 
 made to believe, that the King intends to play the Tyrant ; 
 that all his Counfellors are Penfioners to the French King; that 
 all his Enemies are turn'd his Friends o'th' fudden, and all his 
 Friends his Enemies, that prelacy is j£nti-Chriftian , all our 
 Clergy-men Papifts, the Liturgy the Mafs-Beoh^, and that the 
 Ten Commaudments are to be read backward.- 
 
 Bum. B lefts me, Citt ; what do I hear ? 
 
 Cm. Come, come, Sirrah , y'are under an Oatif-, and tbis 
 
 13 
 
^opifhMini- is the plainTruth on't. What is it to Thee and Me, I pre'thec, 
 
 -' ers may have whether: the Great Mjmfim be True or Falfe j Or what £«%«*« 
 
 lodoxOf- thc ctergy are of, lb long as their Livings ) c Rogue, are Onfe?. 
 
 " ^.v, and their Offices wcll-affic tied. 
 
 Bum, 7»M <&« qualifie, 1 muft confefs. But yon were faying^ 
 that the fir ft Clamour fliculd be UvclPdat fome known and eminent 
 Papifts : Now what comes after that, J befcech you ? 
 
 Cut. You mayfafely Mark all theirFriends then for Popfr.ly- 
 
 affethd :, and fo coniequently on to all that love them, and 
 
 all that they love. When this Opinion is once ftarted, 'tis 
 
 an cafie matter by the help of Invention and Story to improve 
 
 it •, and by this means we mall come, in a fhort time to iecure 
 
 all the Council* of the Nation to cur Party , that are chofen by 
 
 Suffrage. If you were read in Hiftory you would find, that ftill 
 
 as the Papifc/ti the Houfe on fire, the Non-Conformiits tookjhe 
 
 Opportunity of rofiing their own Eggs. 
 
 Who are Po- Bum, Tes^yes^ J under ftandyc. As for example now, One goes 
 
 pifhly aft'eft- to the Lords in the Tower:, Another ( as you were faying ) drinks 
 
 eJ. the Dukes Healthy Third prays for the Queen : a Fourth Fan- 
 
 fics Two Plots :, a Fifth refujes the Petition, *i Sixth fpeaks well of 
 
 my Lord Chief Juftice, or calls the ProteftantDomeltick a Libel. 
 
 All thefe now are Popiihly-AfFecled. 
 
 Cut. Save your breath Bumpkin, and take all in one word : 
 whofoever will not do as we would have him, ihall be made fo. 
 But now to thc matter of Inventicn^nd Story •, I hate the o- 
 ver-hearingof Diicourfes in blind Allyes, and fuch ordina- 
 ry Shams : I'm rather for coming downright to theA/^,and to 
 the Point ; after the way of the Proteftant Domeftick. 
 Matt rsofMo- Bum * ^ ^ : Therms your iree Speaker. tf7//Citt,thc King 
 ment^ 3 l ' wants ^ ucn men about him. But pre 1 thee hear me \ Is it certain his 
 Ma'jcftyhas Lent the King of Fiance Thiee Millions ? 
 Citt. No, no •, fome Two and a half orthere about s. 
 Bum. Why, if the King would but make a League now with the 
 Swifs, to keep the Turk off That way j and another with the Prote- 
 ftant s in Hungary, to keep off the French, the whole world could 
 never hurt iu. 
 
 Citt. Nay that's true enough, but then tie Pole lies lo dam- 
 uably betwixt Vs and the Baltick. 
 
 Bum. Pde not value that a half -penny ^fo long as we have the 
 Waldenfes to Friend. 
 
 Citt. 
 
<n) 
 
 Vitt. And then New England lies fo conveniently for Provifi- 
 ons, But what do you think of drawing Nova Scotia, and Geneva 
 into the Alliance ? 
 
 Burn. Ay, but there* s no hope of that: ft long a* the King fol- 
 lows thefe Counfels. 
 
 Citt. Thou art a great Read man I perceive in the Jnterefts of 
 States. 
 
 Bum. I have always had aphanfy to Stows Survey if London, 
 and thofe kind of Books. 
 
 Citt. But good Bumpkin, what's thy Opinion of the Bijhops 
 Votes, in Cafe of Life and Death f 
 
 Bum. Ay, or in Cafes of Heaven and Hell either. Why at true 
 as thou art a man Citt, We have hat Three ProtefUnt Bifhops in 
 the Nation \ and I am told they are Warping too. 
 
 Citt. Prcthec why fhould we look for any Trot eft ant Bijhops 
 in the Kingdom, when there's no Troteftant Epifcopacy in the 
 World? but for all this, we may yet live to fee the Rufling of 
 their Lawn fteeves. 
 
 Bum. Oh 3 now I think^on't ; did ft thou ever read the Story of 
 Moks and the Ten Tables/ 
 Cat. The Two Tables in the Mount thou mean'ft. 
 Bum. Gad / thin\ HU the Two Tables. / read it in Print Pother 
 day, in a very good Boo^ that as fur e as thou art alive now, the Bi- 
 fhops in Harry the %th. made thcT<p» Commandments. 
 
 Citt. Why that was the reafon , Bumpkin, when the Lords and 
 Commons put down Bijhops, they put down the Ten Commandments 
 too ; and made New ones of their Own. And doft not thou take 
 notice that they put down the Lords 'Prayer too, becaufc 'twas 
 akinn to the Poptjh Pater-Nofter f and then for the Creed \ they 
 caft it quite out of the Directory. 
 
 Bum. Now as thou lay* ft it down tome, the C*fe is as clear as 
 Chriftal. And yet when Pm by my felf fometime, Pmfo afraid me- 
 thinks of being Damn'd. 
 Citt. What for, ye Fop you/* 
 
 Bum. Why for Swearing, Lying, Diflcmbling, Cheating, Be- 
 traying, Defaming, and the like. 
 
 Citt. Put it at worft, do not you know that every man muft The Brethren 
 have his Dos of Iniquity} And that what you take out in One areonlyfor 
 way you abate for in another, as in Profaning \ V^horing^DrirJ^ Profitable 
 f«f, and fo forth. Suppofe you (hould fee POYSON fet in Capi- ms# 
 
 D tal 
 
2 £ | 
 
 dV 
 
 tal Letters, upon feaven Vials in a Laboratory *, 'twere a mad- 
 nefslknow, for any man to venture his Life upon 'um, witli- 
 out aTafter. But having before your eyes lb many In(tanccs,of 
 men, that by drinking of thefc Poyfonous Liquors, out of a Con- 
 fumptive, ha f jiarv'd, and Heart-broken Condition, grow Merry, 
 Fat, and Lufty, would not you venture too ? Imagine Thefc Stvtn 
 Waters 10 be the Seaven Deadly Sifts, and then make your Appli- 
 cattui. 
 
 Bam. Nay the Cafe is plain enough, and J cannot fee why that 
 fr.opildbea Poyfonf* me, that's a Prefcrvative to Another: Only 
 ear A'lvcr fines twit hs with Objections cf 'Law fa -footh y & Religion . 
 
 Cut. Wherefore the Difcipline of the Late Times fav'd a great 
 deal of puzzle. Mr. P,ynnicnt His dents to Mr. Cafe for Religi- 
 on; and Mr. Cfe in requita', fent His to Mr. frynn for Law -^ 
 which kept up a concord among the Well -af died. But your. Lef- 
 fon in both rhefe Cafes, falls into a very Narrow compais. 
 
 Bum. Praye let it be Plain th.it J m;.y understand it j and fhort 
 that I may Remember it. 
 ihrec Pofi- Ctt< Kcep cMc on { y t0 tne f e Three Tofitio;is ; Firfl, that the 
 
 King is One of the Three Eflates, Secondly , that the Sovereign 
 Power is in the People j and Thirdly, that it is better to obey GW, 
 thmAfan. Thefc Fundamentals will fcrve to guide yein almoft 
 any difpute upon this Matter, that can occur to you. 
 
 Bum. Bat wha becomes of me, if my Adver fanes Jhonld turn the 
 q /efiion ah 01 her way ? 
 
 Cut. Tie fortific you there too. And let me tell you that he 1 ! 
 have much ado to keep himfelf Clear of one of thefc Two \ocks: 
 Either of Dafhing upon the Plott, or upon the Liberty of the Snb- 
 jclI. As for Example, 
 
 V Eftrenge There's L y E(lrange ; as wary a Dog perhaps as ever pift^and yet 
 
 Confuted, y e (hall fee how we have hamperM Htm. I writ the thing my felf, 
 ye mufl: know, though it comes out in the Name of the Authours 
 of the Weekly Pac que t of Advice from Rome. 'Tis Dedicated to 
 Both Hoifcs of P irhament ; and Defign'd juft for the 26th. of Ja- 
 nuary : So that ifohe Parliament had Set, there would have been 
 1| means us'd to have had him Queftion'd foi °t. 
 
 Bum. 6W, I kyow where y^arc now. ^Tis in the Preface to the 
 Hiftory of the Damnable Popifh Plott. 
 
 G'tf.Ay, that's it. Pie give ye Firft, the Words nh that con- 
 
 ccrn 
 
W) 
 
 cern VEftrange, and you (hall Then fee the Writings of ////that 
 I have refle£ted upon. 
 
 Bum. Oh, c Tisa devillifh witty Thing, Citt ; Ihavefeen it. Me- 
 thinks the Rogue, fiould hang himjelf out of the way. Pie go to 
 Mans Coffc houfe and fee how he looks on c t. 
 
 Ctt. No, no, Pox on him \ he's an Impudent Curr \ nothing 
 lefs than a Pillory will ever put Him out of Countenance. Tnis 
 Toad was in Newgate^ I know not how long ; and yet he'l take 
 no warning: 
 
 Bum. To ft muft confider, Citt, that he writes for Money ; O my 
 Soul, they lay , the BiOiops have given him five hundred Guyn- 
 nycs. But pre'thee Citt; haft not thou feen the Anfwcr to the Ap- 
 peal, Expounded. 
 Cm. Yes, but I ha> not read it. 
 
 Bum. Why then take it from me, Citt, ^tisone ofthefhreudeft 
 Pieces that evir came in Print. L'Eftrange, you muft know % wrote 
 an Anfwerro the Appeal. 
 
 Citt. We've a fweet Government the while, that any man 
 fhould dare to fall foul upon That Appeal. 
 
 Bum. We^ly but fo it is; and Another has written Notes upon 
 Him : Toucanrft imagine Q\K.t,kow he windes him about* s Finger \ 
 And calls him Fiddler, ImpudeBt, Clod-pate ; and proves him to 
 be a Jefuite, and a Papift , as plain as the Nofe of a mans face : he 
 Jhewsye how he accufes the Kings Evidence •, and that he is in Both 
 Plots, in I know not how many places. > 
 
 Cut. I have known the man a great while ; and let me tell ye in citt drawing 
 Private, I am to draw up Articles againft him. But I have been up Articles, 
 fo bufy about my Lord Chief J uft ices Articles, and Other Articles 
 againft a Great Woman , that Jay upon my hand, that I could 
 not get leifure*, and yet I fhould have met with him long e're 
 This too, for all that, but that the Committee Sits fo curfedly 
 Late : And then they have cut me out fuch a deal of work a- 
 Doiu. the Succejfion. Well I heard a great Lord fay, that That 
 Hiftory of his de fervid to be burnt by the hand of the Common Hang- 
 
 Bum. Bravely J aid, Citt, I faith: who knows but we two may 
 cometobe Pillars of the Nation/* Thou Jhalt ftand up for the City, 
 and I for the Countrey. 
 
 D 2 Enter 
 
 I 
 
£*wTrueman out of 4 clofet. 
 
 Enter Cttt. t rcpan'd, by the Lord, in our own way. 
 
 Truman. Trneman. Nay hold, my Matters-, wc'Ihavc no flinching. Sit 
 
 down, yc had heft, without^mtting mc to the Trouble of a Con* 
 ftablc. 
 
 Citt. Why we have faid nothing, Sir, that we care who hears ; 
 but becaufc you fecm to be aCivil-Gentlcman, my Service to 
 you, Sir. 
 
 Bum. Ay, Sir^ and if y oil be pleased t* fit down and Chirp o~ 
 z'tr a Pot of Ale as we do, fre welkome. 
 
 True, Very-good; And Ton arc the Reprefentative ( forfooth ) 
 of the City, and Ton of the Country. Two of the Pi liar j of the 
 Nation , with a Horfe-Pox ; a man would not let down his 
 Breeches in a Houfc of Office that had but Two fuch Supporters. 
 Citfs Faculty Do not I know you, Cut, to be a little Grubftrect-Infett, that 
 and Employ- but t'other day fcribled Handy-dandy for forac Eighteen- pence a 
 aient. j y y p ro an d Con, and glad on't too? And now, as it plcafcs 
 
 the ftars, you are advanced from the Obert, the Mifcarriage, I 
 mean, of a Caufc-fplitter , to a Drawer-up of Articles: and for 
 your skill in Counterfeiting hands r preferred to be a SoUicitor for 
 Fobbed Petitions: You*l do the Bijhops bus^nefs, and You'l do the 
 &Hhes bns^nefs; And who but Ton, to tell the King when he 
 fhall make War, or Peace ; call Parliaments, and whom to Com- 
 mit f and whom to let go : And rfien in your Fuddle , up comes 
 aH; what fuch a Lord told you, and what you told him * and 
 air this Puddcr againft your Conscience too r even by your own 
 Confcflion. 
 Ott. Y'arcvery much Mif- informed of Me, Sir, 
 True. Come, I know ye too well to be miftaken iayou *, and 
 for your part, Bnmpkin y I look upon you only as a fimpk Fellow 
 drawn in. 
 jimp*]** Bum. Not fo Gtnplc neither, it may be, as y 'oh take me for. I was 
 
 account ©t a Jufticcs Clerk in the Countrcy, till the bus^nefs of the Petitions \ 
 &*f«^ and my Mafter was an Honeft Gentleman too, though he"** now put 
 
 cxttfCommiJfion : and tofiewye that I am none of your fimplc Fel- 
 lows ( do ye mark ) if ye have a mind to difpute upon Three Points, 
 Pm 1 for yon. Firft, the King is One of the Three Eftatcs ; Secondly, 
 
 tb& 
 
 { 
 
 
(2?) ^7 
 
 the Sovereign Power is in the People. And Thirdly> ^Tis better 
 to Obey /God than Man. 
 
 Citt. Always provided, Bumpkin , that the Gentleman take 
 no advantage of what's fpoken in Difcourfe. 
 
 True. No, there's my hand I will not ^ and now let's fall to 
 work-. If the King of England be One of the Three Efiates, then 
 the Lords and Commons arc two Thirds of the King of Eng- 
 land. 
 
 Bum. Oh fox, yetPve a mind to put a [ham upon the Plot, I per- B*mj^Vs 
 ceive. wayofArgu- 
 
 True. Nay, if y'arc thereabouts : - 7 If the Soveraignty be ment * 
 
 in the People , why does not the Law run In the Name of our So- 
 vereign Lords the People ? 
 
 Bum. This is a meer Jefuitical Trick, to difparage the Kings 
 WitnefTcs •, for They are part of the People. Now do you take up 
 the Cudgehy Citt, 
 
 True, Do fo,.. and wc'I make it z fhort bufinefs, and let's have 
 no fhifting. 
 
 Now to (hew ye that I gave good heed to your Difcourfe, I'lc 
 run over the Heads of it as you defivcr'd them, Fiift, for Com- 
 mittees, and Grand Committees, what are they compounded of, TheCompo- 
 but Republicans, and Separates, a Medly of People difaffecled fitionofthe 
 Both to Clturcb and State ? This you cannot deny *, and that they Committees, 
 would not fufFcr any man otherwife afrefled, to mingle with 
 them. Now bcfide the fiandal y and /// Example of fuch Irregu- 
 lar Conventions, whoever confiders their Principles, may reafo- 
 nabjy conclude upon their Defigns : For they are wifer, I hope, 
 then to lay their Heads together to deftroy themfelvcs. 
 
 Citt. But it is hard, if Prate ft mts may not meet as weft as Ci- 
 ther People. 
 
 True. Yes , Protectants mav meet, /but not in the quality ®f 
 Confpirators, no more than Cunfpirators, may meet under the 
 C/o*>\y and colour of Proteflants. The intent of the Meeting is mas- 
 ter of State, and you turn it off, to a point of Religion. 
 
 Citt. But it is not matter of Religion to joyn in a Petition for the 
 meeting of a Parliament , to bring Maiefattors to a Tryal y and 
 to extirpate Popery ? 
 
 True. Such a Petition as youlnftance in, is in the appearance WhatPetiti-- 
 of it, not only Lawful, but Commendable \ But then it muft be ens \\arranta~ 
 promoted by Lawful means, and urvder Dtctnt QrcnmJlantss. blQ ™d\\hat 
 
 , Tis not,. 
 
2 s'-g 
 
 No Petition 
 to be prefs'd 
 after Prohi- 
 bition. 
 
 The Nation 
 poyfon'd with 
 1 ife Prin- 
 ciples, 
 
 Thelnjuflice 
 of our Com- 
 nion-vvealths- 
 men. 
 
 (28) 
 
 Tis a good tiling ;o frtkch^i Catechise, but it rs not for a Lay- 
 man prcfemly to pluck the lUrfon out of the Desk^ or Pulpit that 
 he him fe IT may do the Office. It is a Good thing to execute Jh- 
 flice, butyce a private man muft not invade the Judgment-Seat 9 
 though it were to pafle even the moft Righteous Sentence. 
 
 Cut. The King may chute whether he'i Grant or no} So that 
 without invading 11 is Right we only claim the Liberty of Preferr- 
 ing the Re que ft. 
 
 True. That may be well enough at Firft ; but dill, after One 
 Refufal, and That with a Publtck Interdict on the Neck on^t. 
 forbidding the purfuance of it; i'uch a Petition is not by any 
 means to be Repeated. Fir ft, out of Refpeci to Regal Authori- 
 ty: Secondly , as the King is the Sole Judge of the macter: 
 Thirdly, upon the Importunity, it is not (0 properly De firing of 
 a thing, a; Tugging for ic. Fourthly, It tends many ways to the 
 Dimunition of his Ma\c(\.\cs Honour, in cafe it be ObtainM : For 
 it implies, either Levity, or Fear ; or (to make the" bed on't ) 
 the Ktng con c crs the Obligation f and the Heads of the Petition re- 
 ceive the Thar.ks. Now add to all this, the fathoming of Sub- 
 fcriptions, and the L flaming of Pur ties , what can be more Vndu- 
 tifui or D anger om ? 
 
 Cite Bud do not you find many Hone ft and Con fider able men con- 
 cernM in thefe Petitions i 
 
 True. Yes, in ieveral of them I do*, and the main reafon is 
 This. There's no man under Five and Fifty, at Leaft, that is a- 
 ble to give any Account, of the Defign, and Fffetlsot this way of 
 Petitioning in Forty and Forty One, but by Hear-fay : fo that This 
 Nation proceeds rr.oftly upon the Maxims, and Politique*, which 
 That Republican Humour delivered over to us: But yet let the 
 Thing, or the Manner of it be as it will,- Thofe that difarm > d,z?A 
 turrPd backtho. Kentijh Petitioners at London- bridge : Thofe that 
 Wounded, and MurthePd thc$W_y- Petitioners in the Palace Tard, 
 only for defiring a Peace, and in order to the Preservation of his 
 late A'fajcfty : Thofe People methinks, that were fo Outrageous 
 Again ft thofe Petitions (and feveral others of the fame kind ) 
 fhould nor have the Face now to be fo Violent, for This. And 
 whoever examines the pr e fen t Roll, .will find the Old Republicans 
 to be ihe Ring- Leaders. 
 
 Bum. Really, Ctt, the man fpeaks Reafon. 
 
 Tru. Confider then the Mean ways ye have of advancing your 
 
 Pretcn- 
 
• - v ■ a ^9 
 
 (29) 
 
 Pretentions, by Falfoocds, and Scandals, to difappoint Honed The mean 
 men of Elections -, Theuic yc make of the mod Servile Infiru- waysofpro- 
 ments, to promote your Ends*, your fawning Methods of lopu- rooting their 
 Z*n(v toward the Rabble ; your ways of undermining the Cjovem- '° 
 ment of the City, as well as of the Nation ; your woife than Je- 
 fuitical Eva/ions in matter of Confidence *, your Nor: -fen fie al Sal- 
 vors, and Expofitions of Chri ft lan Liberty^ your putting out the 
 Church of En glands Colours, and calling your felvcs Proteflants , 
 when you arc effectually no better than Algerines, and Pyrating 
 even upon Chrifilianity it felf\ your Beating of the wood, in the 
 Hidory of our mod Seditions Times, to ftait Prcfidcnts and &?- 
 corah in favour of your own did jyal Purpofcs. The Tharfiical 
 Didinguifhing of your felves from the Profane (as you arc pleased 
 to diie all others, even in your Drcffie, Tone, Language, &c. 
 Your uncharitable Bitternejfie of Spirit \ your lying in wait for 
 Blood ; and laying of Snares for the 'Vntikry and the Innocent; and 
 dill vouching an Jnfpiration for altyour Wic}ednefs \ your gather- 
 ing of ^// PK/Wj toward the raifing of 2 Storm ; Your T/wVv in 
 Oppofition, and in nothing Elfe : your Clamours, and Inveclives a- 
 gaind Pr lefts, and Jefuits, when it is the Church of England yet, 
 that feels the Z/^z/? <*$*# of your Sacrilegious Rage. 'Tisnotfo 
 much the Officers of the Church,and Statc,that are Popifhly ajfctled, 
 but the 0#aj Themfelves*, and Thofc in the fird place ( as you 
 chufe your Sins too) that are mod Beneficial. To fay nothing of 
 your wild Impoftures upon the multitude.- 
 
 Citt. Now you talk of Impoftures, what do you think of L\E- 
 ftrange^s Hiftory of the PLOT, and his Anfwr to the APPEAL f 
 Whether are Thofe Pamphlets, Impoftures upon the Multitude, 
 or Not '? 
 
 Tru. You were faying e'en now, That The Hiftory of the Dam- 
 nable Popijl) Plot was of yonr Writing*, Anfwer me That Queftion 
 Fird ; Was it lb, or not ? 
 
 Cat. Ne, it was not of my Writing *, it was done by a Prole- 
 ft ant. Club. 
 
 Trx. Why then let me tell ye, if a man may believe the 'Pre- 
 face to That Club-Hijlory, or the Notes upon the Anfwer to the 
 Appeal ( for I have read them all : ) UEgravge'** Pamphlets arc 
 great abufes upon the People : but if you had the Books about ye,. 
 the matter were eafilydcared, by comparing them. 
 
 Citt, 
 
7 o 
 
 Citt. By good luck wc have 'una all about us, that can any 
 way ccnccrn this Queftion. And look yc here now. 
 
 Reflexions up- Firft, He calls his Abridgement of the Tryals, The Hiftory of 
 QiiVEpxnge, the Y*\ot, without mentioning one word of the Original Contrivance , 
 , tfye Preparatives, manner of Difcovery, and other Remarkable* ef- 
 femi.il tea Hiftory. 
 
 2. He omits Sraly's and Reading's Tryal?, which yet fare had 
 Relation to the Plot. 
 
 3. In his Epiftle hejeems to drown thePop'iftl Plot with fuggefti- 
 ens of an Imaginary One ofthe Protcftants. 
 
 4. The amufmg People With fuch Stories , u notorioufly a Tart of 
 the Grant Popifh Defign. 
 
 5. Whereat he tells us, that not one Material Point is omitted ', 
 mo ft Readers cannot find the fubflantial part of Mr. Bcdloes Evi- 
 dence again [I Wakeman , ( P. a6 of the Tryal ) So much as hint* 
 edat : Not to mention the grofs fnuffles, and Omijfions in Pag. 77. 
 and el ft where, 
 
 6 He charges the Printed Tryals ( in his FREEBORN SUB- 
 JECT p. 15. ) with many Grots Incoherences, and very Material 
 miftakesj yet Inflames but One, and corrected too, as an Erratum. 
 7. When Our Pofierity jhaR urge thefe Tryals for proof againft Pa- 
 pi fts, how eafily may the fubtle Villains flop their Mouths , by allcdcr. 
 ing from this Authourthat no heed is to be given to the faid Try- 
 als j (being fo publicity own y d by a Perfon of his Note, and Late 
 Qualification ) to be guilty of Jo many , and fuch very Material Mi- 
 ftakes. 
 "The Forego- True. Obferve here, Firft VEftrange expounds his Hiftory in 
 jngRefledti- the Title Page, by rcftraining it to the Charge and Defence of the 
 onsAnfwer'd. Rerfons there mentioned : Be r ide that he calls it an Hiftorical Ab- 
 ftratl, and a Summary, in his Epiftle. 
 
 2. Staleys Trialhzd no Relation at all to the Pldt, and Reading 
 was not try'd for's Life : and fo not within the Compafs of his 
 Intention expreft in the Preface. 
 
 3, The Epiftle acknowledges a Ddeftable Plot, and aConfpi- 
 racy : but advifes Moderation, and that the R.ibble may not di- 
 ctate Laws to Authority •, for that Licence was the Caufc of the 
 Late Rebellion. 
 
 4. It was mo^c then a Story, the Mnrther of the Late King, 
 and the Subverfton of the Government, and the fuppreffing of theie 
 
 Necejftry 
 
2-7 
 
 til ) 
 
 Nccejfary Hints, and Cautions is notoriously a part of the Gran** 
 Fanatical-Dcfigu. 
 
 5. In L?Ef ranges Hiftory, here Pag, 79 and 80. ther's every 
 particular of Mr. i?^/0f.f Evidence in Sir GeorgelVakemans Tryal y 
 Pag. 46. with many other paflages over and above : whereas 
 your Damnable Hiftbry here Pag, 295, falls fhort at leall by one 
 half. And then for the Shuffles and Omiffiens reflected upon , 
 Pag,~~. tee L^EftrangeslVords, Pag.%% The Lord Chief J uft ice 
 ( faies he) after fome Remarks upon the Romiih Principles, fumn?d 
 up the Evidence, and gave Directions to the Jury : which is the fub- 
 ftance of thePage cited in the Preface .Touching your Elfewhere % 
 it is in plain Englifi no where. 
 
 6. Look ye, here's more Jugling. He faies SE VER A L 
 Grofs Incohrences, and have you made them MANY: and 
 then you have left out the Parenthefis, (jfpecially in the Latter of 
 them. ) which varies the Cafe too. and I remember again, 
 that the Erratum was fupplyM after L^Eftrange had correcled 
 it: Andfureitwas a Grofs one too, to expofe a Proteflant- 
 Gentleman for a Papift, Nine times in two Pages. I cculd fhew 
 ye feveral other Material Miftakes, but one fhall ferve for 
 all. Pag.^%. (as I take it) of lr -elands Tryal; which you will 
 find charg'd upon the Prefs, in L^Ef ranges Hiftory, Pag. 1 $. 
 
 7. Pray'e mark me now : L*Eirange finds Errors of the 
 Prefs in the other Tryal s , and Rectifies them in his own : 
 Now if Poilerity fhall find in the Right, that the Other Ere 
 wrong, they are in no danger of being mijlcd by the One , 
 in what is corrected by the other : and if they do not read 
 the Right Copy at al), there's no harm done to the Other , 
 but they mull take it as they find it. So that this Remarque 
 is fb far^ from Difparaging the Proceedings , that a greater 
 Right can hardly be done to Publickjfuftke by a Pamphlet. But 
 now let the Epifile fpeak for it felf. 
 
 B TO 
 
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2- 
 
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 (3'-) 
 
 Totbe%SA < D E\ 
 
 THere has not been any print, perhaps, in the who T e 
 Trail of Engliflj Story, either io dahgerous to be mi- 
 fUkenin,orfo difficult, and yet fo neceflary tobeun- 
 de: flood, as the Myflery of this deteftab/e Plot new in Agita- 
 tion. ( A Judgment fox OMr Sins, augmented by our Follies, ) 
 But rhc world is lb miferabiy d'v ided betwixt forne that will be- 
 lies every thing^and others no bing that not only Truth, but 
 Ckriftiantty it felf is a 1 moll loft between them \ and no place 
 left for Sobriety and Moderatipn. We are come to govern oar 
 feh.es by Dreams and Imaginations^ We make every Coffee- 
 houfc-Tatean Article of our Faith • and from Incredible Fables 
 we raife Invincible Arguments. A man rauft be fierce and vio- 
 lent to get the Reputation ol being Well effected •, as if the cal- 
 ling of one another Damned tieretick^ and Popijlj Log, were the 
 whole Sum cf the Controverfie. And what's all this,but the ef- 
 fect of a Popular Licenfe and Appeal ? when every Mercenary 
 Scribler fhall take upon him to handle matters cf Faith, and 
 State \ give Laws to Princes , and every Mechanick fit Jud^ze 
 upon the Government ? Were not thefe the very Cicumflan- 
 ces cf the late Times} When the Religious Juglers from all 
 Quarters fell in with the Rabble, and managed them as it 
 were by a certain Height of hand : The Rods were turned into 
 Serf ems on both fides, and the Multitude notable to fay which 
 was Anon , and which the Enchanter. Let us have a Care of 
 the fame Incantation over again. Are we not under the pro- 
 tection of a Lawful Authority ? Nor was there ever any thing 
 more narrowly Sifted, or more vigoroufly difcou raged, 
 than this Conspiracy. Reformation is the proper bufineis of 
 Government and Council ■, but when it comes to work once 
 at the wrong End , there is nothing to be expected from it, 
 but Tamnlt and Cormdfion. A Legal and Effectual Provifion a- 
 gainft the Danger of Romiflj PraEiices and Errors, will never 
 ierve their Turn, whole Quarrel is barely to the Name of 
 Popery, without underflanding tlie thing it felf. And if there 
 were not 2 Roman Catbolickjidt in the Three Kingdoms, they 
 would be never the better fatisficd ; for where they cannot 
 find Popery, they will make it •, nay, and be troubled too that 
 
 they 
 
?-/> 
 
 they could not find it. It is no new thing for a Popular Out- 
 cry, in the matter of Religion, to have a StaUr-F atti'on in the 
 Belly of it. The firli late Clamour was againft Downright: Po- 
 pery , and then came on Popiflily ajjitted; fthatfweeps all. J 
 The Order of Bijhops, and the Discipline of the Church took their 
 Turns next ^ and the next Blow was at the Crown it felf} 
 when every man was made a Papifi that would not play 
 the Knave and the Fool, for Company, with the Common 
 People. 
 
 Thefe things duly weighed, and confidering the Ground 
 of ourprefentDiftempersj the Compiler of this Abridgment 
 reckoned that he could not do hisCountreymen a better Office, 
 than Qby laying before them the naked State of things,) to 
 give them at one view, a Pro fpedt, both of the fubject mat- 
 ter of their Apprehenfions, and of the Vigilance, Zeal, and 
 needful feverity of the Government on their behalf. To which 
 end he hath here drawn up an Hiftorical Abftratt of the whole 
 matter of Fact concerning thofe Perfons who have hitherto 
 been Trycd for their Lives, either upon the Plot it felf, or in 
 Relation to it : oppofing Authentick Records to wandring 
 Rumours • and delivering the Truth in all Simplicity. He 
 hath not omitted any one material Point : There is not fo 
 much as one Partial Stroke in it •, not a flourifh , nor any thing 
 but a bare and plain Collection, without any Tincture, either 
 of Credulity or Paflion. And it is brought into fo narrow 
 a Compafstoo, that it will eafe the Readers head, as well 
 as his purfe; by clearing him of the puzzle of Forms and In- 
 terlocutories , that ferve only to amufe and miflead a man, by 
 breaking the Order and confounding the Relative parts of the 
 Proceeding, 
 
 Having this in Contemplation •, and being at the lame time 
 pofTeft of a moll exact Summary of all perfons here in Quefti- 
 on ; This Reporter was only to call: an Extract of thefe Notes 
 into a Method : efpeciaily finding, that upon comparing the 
 fubftanceof his own papers, with the moft warrantable Prints 
 that have been publifhed j his own Abftratl proved to be not 
 only every jot as Correct, but much moie Intelligible^ which 
 beingjWf and/////, he thought might be uleful, and find Cre- 
 dit in the world upon its own account, without need of a 
 Voucher. 
 
 E 2 True, 
 
**m 
 
 £E prances 
 Narrative ju« 
 
 ami 
 
 His Adverfa- 
 ry detected. 
 
 A bold aud 
 fencelefs Li- 
 bel. 
 
 rEJlrtnge 
 charg'd as a 
 Tapifi, by a 
 certain Le- 
 cturer. 
 
 The Ground 
 of his Accufa- 
 tion. 
 
 (34) 
 
 True. You have now the whole matter before you 5 the £m- 
 (lle, ye fee, jollifies it felf : And then for the Narrative, I dare 
 undertake he fhall yield up the Caufe, if you can but produce 
 any One Material /Wr, which he hath either falpfy'd, palliated, 
 or omitted,in the wholePw ^/V^.But to be plain with you,0>r , 
 One of the Authors of your Preface is ^Common Setter,* Forger of 
 bands,* little Spy upon the Swan in Fijli-ftrcet -, a Hackney- Solici- 
 tor againft both Church & State : You know this to be true,C/>r ; 
 and that I do not fpeak upon guefs : fo that Calumny and Falfe 
 witneffing is the bell part of that Authors trade. And then the 
 pretended Hiftory is a direct Arraignment of the Government. He 
 takes up the King and Council, fag. $8 1 . reflefh upon the Judges 
 in the very Contents,and elfewhere,he defcants upon the Duke 
 of York, in oppofition to the exprefs fenfe & declaration of the 
 Bench, p. 145. and has the confidence yet to Dedicate this Gaily- 
 maufry of audacious Slanders to the Two Houfes of Parliament. 
 There is little more in the whole, than what has been eaten 
 and fpew'd up again Thirty times over : and the entire work 
 is only a Medly of Rags and Soloecifms, pickM up out of Rub- 
 bi(l) 7 and moll futably put together. 
 
 dtt. You may take his part as you pleafe, but there's a Fa- 
 mous Leclurer charg'd himpublickly for Popery, in his Anfwer 
 to the Appeal ; and for falling upon Dr. Lloyd. 
 
 True. He did fo , but at the fame time that Letlurer found no 
 fault with the Appeal it felf -, and the bell on't is, his Tongue's 
 no more a fiander than his Pen : and whoever reads what he has 
 written concerning the Late King, and the Epifcopal Church, 
 will think never the worfe of VFjtrangc for what he fays.Now 
 for the Reverend Dean of Bangor, I dare fay he never fpake, or 
 thought of him, but with Veneration. Let me fee the Book. 
 
 Look ye here, 'tis p. 18. in L'Eft range's Imprcffion, and 'tis 
 p. 1 5. in this ', and here's the Point {their Loyalty and good Ser- 
 vice paid to the King (fays the Appealer, fpeaking of the PapiJi) 
 was meerly in their own defence.'] Now fee l?Eftrange's Reply up- 
 on it -, If it lies ( lays he) as a Reproach upon than that they did 
 not ferve the King cut of 'Loyalty, that which they did,was yet better 
 than not ferving him at all ; and better in a higher degree \!t\\\,than 
 Fighting againft him. And a little after •, It is worth the Ob fervor 
 tion, That not a man drew his Sword in the oppofite Caufe, who im 
 
 not 
 
2syf 
 
 (35) 
 not a Known Separatift \ and that on the other fide, not one SchiC- 
 matick ever frnckjlrokein the Kings Quarrel. 
 
 And now for your Notes upon his Anfwer, they are fo filly, 
 that it were Ridiculous to Reply upon 'urn [who knows (faies he) 
 but the Regicides were Papifts in difguifetf. 1 9 .] And a deal of fuch 
 fenfelefs ftuff-, enough to turn a Bodies Stomach, And if you'd 
 inform your felf of his Malice ^ look ye here pag. 4. p. 9, and 
 p. 3 3 . how he Palliates, if not juftihYs, the late Rebellion, the 
 Murther of the Arch-Bifhop of St. Andrews, and the drawing- 
 of the Sword againft the King. 
 
 Brief! ly, 'tis an Pnfi pi d Bawling piece of Foolery ^ from one- 
 end to the other. And it is not but that I highly approve of your 
 Zeal for the Difcovery of the Plot, and fupprefling of Popery % 
 but we are not yet to Trample upon Laws, and PnblickOrders, 
 for the attaining even of thofe Glorious ends. 
 
 But now I think on't ; deal freely with me ; did you really 
 go to the Regiflers ye fpake of, to furnifh Names for your Sub- 
 fcriptions ? 
 
 Citt. No \ That was but a Flourifi •, but all the Reft we 
 Literally did. 
 
 True.. Are not you Confcious to your felves of your Iniqui- Agrofs Cheat 
 ties ? Who made Ton a Commijfioner for the Town,ov Tom, for the u i )on the Na- 
 Conntreyl But we are like to have a fine Bufineis of it,when the tl0n - 
 Dregs of the People fet up for the Reprefentatives of the Nation-y 
 to the Difhonour of the moft Confderab le,andSobtrt part of the 
 Kingdom. Pre'thee Bumpkin y with thy Poles and Balticki, 
 how fnouldft thou come to underftand the Ballance of Empires ? 
 who are Delinquents, and who not ? the Right of Bijbops l r aes ? 
 Aud Ton (for (ooth) are to Teach the King when to call a Parli- 
 ament, and when to let it alone. And are not you a fine Fool 
 i-the mean time, todrudgfor the Faction that Sets ye on, ta 
 be afterwards made a Have for your pains ? 
 
 And then for you Citt, with your Mouldy R cords, yOwiewd Pratfv- 
 Co-ordinate Eflates, and your Sovereign Fewer of the People. Co ces 1 f the Fa* 
 not I know all your Fallacies, your Shifts, and Hiding Holes ?- &ion. 
 There's not one itep you fet,but I can trace you in't : You have 
 your Spies upon ail Libraries, as well as Convey fit ions ; your A- 
 gents for the procuring of old Mamfcripts, and Records, and for. 
 the Falfifying of Aew Ones, to make them look like Old Ones*. 
 Nay, the Papers of State themfelves had. much 2do to fcape ye. 
 
 Thofe. 
 
2-7 
 
 (36) 
 
 Agalnft Co- 
 
 cid ination. 
 
 It is the Cm- 
 ftion makes 
 the Law, not 
 the Confent. 
 
 Thofc that affert the juft Rights cf the Crtwn.you cither Bury or 
 Conceal ;only Puhlifhing the Precedents of SeditiousJ'imes , in 
 Vindication of inch Principles. 
 
 Or/. I mult confefs I take the Government to be Co-ordinate, 
 rxi 1 the jGȣ tMc of the Three Eft ate?, withYubmiflion to be bet- 
 ter informM. 
 
 7Vw. If it be fo , hew comes it that the Houfe of Commons 
 even in their moil Popular feafbns,have (till own'd the Crown 
 of England to be Imperial ? How comes it that all our Laws are 
 call'd the Kings Laws : all our Courts of ' Jufticc his Majefties 
 Courts, and all PublickJOaufes try'd in the Kings Name, and by 
 the Authority of his Majefty ? 
 
 GVr. But have not the two Houfe s their mare in the Legifla^ 
 the Power ? 
 
 TVra. You mult diftinguifh betwixt the Confent and the San- 
 ction ; the PreparatoryVart is theirs ,the Stamp is the KirPgs : The 
 TwoHoufes confent to a 7?/7/,It is only a£/7/,when it is prefent- 
 fd,and it remains yet a 2?/7/,even when the King has confented to 
 it-,and in this common Confent ,inOrder to a Law,the Two Houfes 
 may be faid to (hare with his Majefty : but then the Fiat, that 
 fnperinduces an Authority, and is only and properly the Act of 
 LegifIation,is] fingly in the £*»£. So that though they JW* in 
 the Confent, they have no pretence at all to the Sanction : which 
 is an Ad of Authority, the other but of Agreement. 
 Thelnconve- And yet again, admitting your Coordination-, Firft, every 
 King runs the hazard of his Crown upon every Parliament he 
 calls : For that third Eft ate lies at the mercy of the other two : 
 And further, 'tis a kind of Ringing the Changes with the Go- 
 vernment, the King and Lords (hall be uppermoft One day, the 
 King and Commons Another, and the Lords and Commons the 
 Third : : For in this Scale of Conftitution, whatfoever the One 
 will not, the other two may. 
 
 Cm. Well} but Ours isaMIXT Government, and we 
 
 are a Ere e People. 
 
 Ot a mixt Go True.lf ours be aAiixt Government, Co as to any Popular Parti- 
 
 vernment and cipation of Power with theAV^then it is nGt zAfonarchy:(wh\ch 
 
 aQualifi'd. [$' the Government only of one) but if you'l call it a Qualified 
 
 Government. fo as to diitinguifh it from znAbfolnte zvAVnlimtted 
 
 Government, VIq agree with you. But let the government be what 
 
 it will, and where it will, let it do Right or Wrong, it is EquaUy 
 
 Vnaccoun- 
 
 Co-ordinati- 
 onfuppofed. 
 
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 Vnaccountable •, for there lies no Appeal but to a Stiperionr, and 
 the Su pi earn has none but God him/elf. 
 
 Cut. But if we be a Free People^ have net We as much Right 
 to Our Liberties, as the King h s to &i* Crmvn ? 
 
 7/ 1*. Yes, we ha\ e, but the King has this ad vantage of us, 
 that we may forfeit oxir Liberties Jout he cannot forfeit WisCrovm. 
 
 Cut. What if zking will Tranfgreis ail the Laws of God 
 and Mm ? may not the People refume their Truft ? 
 
 True. No, not unlcfs you can produce an exprefs ftipulatim 
 to that very purpofe. But let me (hew you, Firft the Errour cf 
 taking that to be a Truft from the People, which in truth, is an Power is 
 Ordinance of Providence, For All Power is from God : Aid Se- fro " God , 
 cond(y,the Abfurdity of the very Sumption, even in the Tale £ otr ™ m ^ he 
 of a Trull ccnferrM by the People: Irene King breaks his T\ uft , e0i? e * 
 the People Refume it : but who are thele People ? If a Rcprefcnta- 
 tive, they are but Truft ees Themfelves, and may incur a Forfei- 
 ture too, by the fame Argument. Where are we next then ? For 
 if it devolves to the Loofe Multitude of Individuals, (which you 
 will have to be the Fountain of Power) you are then in an A- 
 narchy, without any Government at all ; and there you mull 
 either continue in a Diffociated State, or eiie agree upon Vni- 
 ting into fome Form of Regiment or other ♦, and whether it be 
 Monarchy, Ariftocracy or Democracy ; It comes all to a Point. If 
 you make the Government accountable upon every Humour of 
 the People, It lapfes again into a Confufion. To fay nothing of r . 
 the ridiculous Phancy of a Sovereignty in the People upon this of th?pS# 
 Account, that they can never be fo brought together, either to mo n r id,.u- 
 Eftablifh, or to Diffolve a Government,^ to authorize it to be the ious*. 
 Peoples All. For there mud be, Firft an agreement to Meet and 
 Confult. Secondly, an Agreement upon the Rcfult of that De- 
 bate ; and any one Diffenter fpoils all, where every Individual. 
 has an Equal Right: So that unlefs the People be all of the 
 fame mind, this Suppofition will be found whclly Impracti- 
 cable and Idle. 
 
 Citt. But is there no Fence then againft Tyranny > 
 
 True. Only Patience, unlefs you run into Anarchy, and then 
 into that which you call Tyranny again 5 and fo tread Eternally 
 that Circle of Rigour and Confufion. Jnfinejhe Queftion is this, 
 whether People had better run certainly into Confufion to avoid 
 a pojfible Tyranny, or venture a pojjible Tyranny to avoid a c«v 
 tain Confufionl Citt... 
 
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 (38> 
 
 C/W. But where we find Vofnive Laws and Provifions to fail 
 
 us, may we not in thofe Cafes betake our felves to the Laws 
 
 of Nature and Self-Prefervation ? 
 
 Self-prefer- * True. No, ye may not ; for many Reafons. Firft, It makes 
 
 v-tion is no you Judges •, not only when thofe Laws take place, but alio what 
 
 Plea for the they are. Secondly, the Government is diffolv^d, if Subjects may 
 
 Peop e. g ff or on a t pleafure. Thirdly, Self -Pre few at ion is the Plea 
 
 only of Individuals, and there can be no colour for the expofing 
 
 of the Publicum favour of Particulars. Wnat w»ou*d ye think 
 
 of a Common Seaman that in a Storm fhould thro v the Steer fman 
 
 overboard, and fet himfelf at the Helm ? Or of a Souldier that 
 
 fhould refnfe a Dangerous Pofl for fear of being knockM on the 
 
 Head,when the whole Army depends upon the Maintaining of 
 
 That Pap. 
 
 Cut. Pray'etellme what it is that you call Government ,and 
 how far it extends ^ for you were faying even now, that the 
 Rekfcn of all Governments is alike. 
 What- Co True. Government is the Will and Power of a Aiuhitude, uni- 
 
 vernment is. tedin fomc One PerJon,or Aiorc, for the Good and Safety of the 
 Whole. You muft not take it that all Governments are alike ; but 
 the Ratio of all Governments is the fame in fome Cafes. As in 
 thelnftanceof Self -Prefer vat ion ; which is only Pleadable by 
 the Supream Magiftrate, in Bar to all General Exceptions ; for 
 Certain Pri- ^e IS Firft, prefumed in Reafon, to be vefted with all Powers ?ie- 
 vileges elTen- ceffary for the Defence and Protetlionof the Community: with- 
 tiai to Go- out which, his Authority is vain. He is, Secondly, Obliged in 
 vernraent. jj Ht y to exert thofe Powers for the Common Good : And he is, 
 Thirdly,entrufted with the Judgment of all Exigences of State, 
 be they great cr, or lefs, wherein the Publick Good may be con- 
 cerned. Now put the Cafe that the Magiftrate fhould make a 
 wrong Judgment of Matters, and mifemploy thofe Powers, it 
 were an infelicity in the Adminiftration ; but the Sacrednffoi 
 Authority is ftill the fame : And he is a Mad man that plucks 
 down his Hcufe becaufe it rains in at the Window. And in cafe 
 of the Magiftrate , it is not fo much He as They ; for the 
 King is (as I laid before) the Vmted Powe r and Will of -the 
 People . And fo fare ye well. 
 
 The End 
 
J-^7 V 
 
 CITT 
 
 AND 
 
 BUM PKIN, 
 
 ~THlTTeCO?(JD TA%T. 
 
 O R, 
 
 A Learned Difcourfe upon 
 
 SWEARING 
 
 A N D 
 
 LYING 
 
 And other Laudable Qualities tending 
 
 t o A 
 
 Cljoaoto Bcfoiination. 
 
 The Third Edition. h v 
 
 LONDON, 
 
 Printed for Henry Brome, at the Gun in St. Paul's 
 
 Church-yard, i68q. 
 
2$- 
 
2 *>i 
 
 I 
 
 To the READER. 
 
 T is a great deal of 'Time, Pains and Good-Will, that 
 I have employed upon my Duty, in the Vindication 
 of the Church and State , from the Malic* 0/Bold and 
 Petulant Libels : And net one word of Reply, fave on- 
 ly from the pitiful Expounder of my Anfwer to the 
 Appeal (mentioned elfitvhcre) which was, {in truth J 
 fo damoroufly filly, that inflead of an Abufe ^ it pro- 
 ved a Complement. But to fe the Luck ont : <fufi 
 as I was about to take out my Quietus-, the Caufe cold 
 ?th y mouth; and to every Bodies thinking , without eith.r 
 Breath or Pulfe ; Behold Two unanfvverable Confu- 
 tations; the One *# Manulcript, by way of a Familiar 
 Epiftle ; and the Other in Print. The Letter was a 
 Prologue to the Book, as the Book may ( in good time ) 
 be a Prologue to the Pillory ; if making the King One 
 of the Three Eftates , may recommend the Author of it 
 to that Preferment. This Epiftle of his crept in the dark 
 one Night into my Bookfellers Shop; at Naturally as 
 if his Mother had been a Bulker , and yet the Man 1 * 
 no Baftard neither , at It aft by the Mothers fide ; as you 
 ivi/l fnd by his Stile and Logick : which fpeaks him as 
 True a Son of the Ktrk ? tts if the Pa?nphlet had been 
 written with the very Milk of his Dam. It is drawn 
 out into Two Large Folio's ; and truly too much , and 
 too beaftly , to recite at length 5 fo that I f/ja/l only pre- 
 fent ye with here and there a T aft , of his Vein and 
 Humour , and fame jkort Motes upon it , by the By. 
 He b gins , Monfieur CRACK. Mow there may arife 
 fome Controverjie perhaps, among the Criticks , about 
 the fFori Crack , and fo I [hall 'Expound it fo ye : But 
 yotPle fnd the 'Reft to bz exceeding plain, 
 
 A 2 One 
 
The Preface. 
 
 One Griffith wrote a fmxrt Paver of Ferfes upon Drl 
 Wild , wherein he cxIPd him the Presbyterians Jack- 
 Pudding , Thi* \v m an Jlltifion proper enough^ for why 
 jhould not Mountebanks in Religion have their Jack- 
 Puddings as welt as Mountebanks in Phyfick? But 
 however , the Dr. took me to be the Author of the Co- 
 py , And in Revenge > (the News-book being At thAt 
 time in my hand) was pkds^d to Chriften me the Crack- 
 fart of the Nation, ( as it may be mAny An honefl mAns 
 Fortune to hAve a IVAg to his God-father. This Stcret 
 I have told the ReAder in Confidence ; and I hope it 
 (hAllgo no further: and upon thAt AJfurance Vie proceed. 
 
 C'Tis no new thing {fates the ZjMer-Man) for Pimp- 
 ^toraife a Villain to preferment ; and that has been 
 of late your daily Bread : For what is all your Impudent 
 Scribling y but the A£t of Procuring for Popery and Ty- 
 rAnny<\ So thAt writing for the King and the Church it. 
 feems y is writing for Popery and Tyranny. 
 
 And again , Dr. Oates is as much above your Mtli- 
 cious Raikry y as you are below common Honefly ; and 
 even C^ #27, I am confident can beftow time bet- 
 ter, than in minding the Yelps of fuch a Cerberus, 
 fugh a Proftituted Rafcal, a Sycophant to Cromwel, Be- 
 trayer then of Cavaliers^ 
 
 Now if it be Malicious Raillery? to magnifieDr. Oate's 
 Services; to improve his Difcoveries ; to elevate his Abi- 
 lities ; to fet forth his Hazards (on both Sides) as well 
 from the Fanaticks , as the JefiULS ; to maintain him for 
 a Canonical Afftrter of the Church, of England, AgAinJi 
 aBGainfayrs $to EnumerAtethe Good Offices he has ren- 
 dered to the poor Proteftants, And to pray that he may be 
 rewarded according to his Defcrts, for aII the good he hxs 
 donem\ If this, Ifay y be Malicious Raillery, then Ami 
 
 guil ty 
 
J2.fe> 
 
 The Preface. 
 
 guilty of it : But if all this be good, whereas the Malice < 
 Or if it be True, whereas the Raillery * sfnd this is 
 not dl neither ; the purging of my Self : But whofoever calls 
 this Deference and Juftice to the Doctor, by the Name 
 of Raillery, does manifeflly imply the Ground 0/° it to be 
 Faife ; to the wounding of the Dr's. Teftimony, and to the 
 blaflmg of him in the Reputation of his Literature, Probi- 
 ty and Manners. 
 
 TherPs the fame hand again in Tom and Dick • ( for 
 fie publifh his Pamphlet for him) pag. 28. L'Eftauge 
 {he fays ) has Serenaded D. (Dates of late moil nota- 
 bly - ; and carefs'd him* ]uf\zs jfoab did Jbmr. In which 
 Cafe I (hall appeal to Authority /^r "Juftice upon the Defa- 
 mer of the Kings Evidence, and a Loyal Subject both in 
 One. In the fame Page he makes a Proffer at an Argument. 
 He that is not againft us ( htjays) is with us : But L'E- 
 ftrange never wrote again[l Papifts , and therefore he's a 
 Papift: by which Rule , if the Author w.vtr wrote a- 
 gainit Lame Giles in. Holbourn , or a Little Lowfie 
 Monky in the Old-Bayly $ th n the Author is a Lame- 
 Giles .in Holbourn, or a, Little Lowfie Monky in th- Old-, « 
 Bayly. The man Swears ye fee, on thekhdf ofthe D.r. but* 
 wh.nhe comes /chis Friend C JR E> he's ftark mad, (the 
 lord defs us) and falls into Fits ; Cerberus, Raical, Syco- 
 phant, Tray tor \for thzres a wonderful Sympathy } you mufi- 
 know-* bJwixtthe Author and this fame CARE. )But thefe 
 are the Ornaments, and Idioms of his Profeffwn ^ I ntuji- 
 not call'th.mL\Qs,.but Presbyterianifms. 
 
 Ta. again, [^K^\\y Roger , Thy Piddle is as Dam^ 
 riably out of Tune, and Thy Credit as much' out at- 
 Elbows 1 as. when thou didft prsfthut^.. Body and Soul- 
 to /VolPs High Jbfpfe\ and thou wilt look fhortly worie 
 by half than Harris in the Pillory, &c. J 'end yet once 
 
 more, Prethee get S ■ ( that Ouinteifence of Kna^ 
 
 -very) or any of the St, Omer -Rogues , thy Common 
 
 Com pa-. 
 
The Preface. 
 
 Companions ; : J fee thee, and fome /W/J Cut-Throats e- 
 vcry Night with thee , at 4&*W &c. 
 
 Here's Another Flower of his Rhetorick , and the 
 Bhfpheming of a Prateftant Martyr, over and above $ n>//A 
 jfw w thru I^resbyterianifms more into the Bargain. 
 
 Here's Wit at will ye fee, in the Dialed, diretfly of a 
 Weftern Barge : But the. Mans in a Courfe of Phyfick, 
 and therms no more contending with him ^ than with the 
 Governourr/tf Night-Cart? that carries his Arguments 
 whisTubs. It is f aid to be the work of one Harry Langly- 
 Samuel : But whoever it is , by my Troth , I do e'en pity the 
 Wi etch y fcr he's fet on> and only Barks for a Cruft. 
 But upon the whole matter there went more Heads than 
 One , Tie ajfrtre je > to this Learntd Piece ; and (as La- 
 cies Wench (/^Monfieur Ragou) faid of her Baftard, 'tis 
 the Troops Child ^anda very Unmannerly Brat it is y 
 Tie be judge by the Third Merchant e^e. 
 
 Now to conclude in a grave fVord or two, this way of Fool- 
 ing is neither my Talent, nor my Inclination; but I have 
 great Authorities yet, for the taking up of This Humour , in 
 regard not only oftbeS\Ax\zGtybut of the Age we Live in, 
 •which runs fo much upon the Droll, that hardly any thing 
 elfe will down with it. Give me leave to fay further, that in 
 this Drefs of Levity > I have not only avoided the Scurri- 
 lity of dBuffbn, and the Hyperbole*?/ an Extravagant, 
 and Hnnatural Satyr * but I have endeavoured to paint 
 Truth it felr to the Life, without any Prepofleffions of 
 Malevolence against either Parties, or Perfons. The King 
 and the Church have been already d.tfro/d ( tven with- 
 in Our Memories} under the Difguifcs of Loyalty , and 
 Holinefs. A f nd thefe Dialogues are only prefented to the 
 PubJick, as a kind of Hiftorical Map of our Late Mife- 
 iizs^that by laying open the Rocks and Sands that we 
 perijht upon before, the People may be CautionM agar nfl the 
 -Danger, **#©efigm?/ * Second Mifcarriage. 
 
 Cict. 
 

 CITTandZV MT K^l P{. 
 
 The Second Part. 
 
 L 
 
 Citt. ^ Et's e'en jogg on to Hampflead then -, and talk it 
 outy where we may look about us. 
 
 Bum. Trueman's a meddling-Coxcomb, and 
 there's an end on*t. An Eves-dropping-Cur, to holt 
 in upon hs out of a Clofee fo. 
 
 Citt. 'Tis as I told ye, Bumpkin, and ye may lay it down for Swearing and 
 a Maxim ; that SWEARING and LYING Governs the World. L V in § Co- 
 Bum. Why what do ye think, of Canting, Coufening, Plotting, \vor!d 
 Foyfoning, Supplanting, Suborning. 
 
 Citt. 'Tis all from the feme Root, and the Conning of this 
 Lejfon makes ye Mafter of your Trade. 
 Bunir Of what Trade, as thoulovyl me ? 
 
 Citt The Trade of Mankind, Bumpkin ', the X>4*& of Knavery : 
 The Trade of turning Dirt into Gold: The !T>W* of Advancing 
 Rafcals, and Overturning Governments -, The Triitfe of taking the 
 Covenant with 0;?e W^, and Gutting a Throat with the Ofor ^ 
 the 7Vvwfe of the Temple-walks ; The Wf/f Affidavit-Trade. 
 Bum. . i?/tf Ajf th m call this an Honeft Trade, Citt \t 
 Citt. Yes, yes , Bumpkin , it is a very Honeft Trade that a 
 man*s the better for ; and he's a very £&#?/? Man too that lives 
 by his Calling. Why it brings Bower and Reputation aLong with 
 it ; nay, and it brings Money too, that brings every thing. 
 
 Bum. Reputation fa y ft thou ? why they're two of the Damn* deft 
 Qualities in Nature. 
 
 Citt. And yet thefe two Damn d Qualities, as thou cal'il them, 
 got the better of the Late King -, and afterwards of the Commons \ 
 and after that of the Brotetlor -, and to be plain with ye, }fum- 
 k[n, 'tis all that we our felves have to truft to. 
 
 Bum. / cannot imagine what kind of Swearing and Lying it is 
 that ye. fpeakj>f. 
 
 C-tt. 
 
Citt. I donotfpeak of the way of the Bulky s;t\\t Dan- 
 boys, or the Jrijl) Cut -Throats : 1 lute that Confounding , Damning. 
 • feldom Sinkirg, Batting humour of Swearing. 1 am for the Swearing Scl- 
 fcuttoPur- dome.zrri E • . -. ) 'I : That is to factor 1 he Engaging of a Party: 
 l°k* or for the riJ , &t of a Scabbing fevjdcrkfflot \o. 
 
 Bum. 0/; ho, J underfls.nd ye now ; and the Scrupling of a Small 
 Oath, gives a man Credit in a Great One. 
 Relig'ous Cm. There's a great diiierence betwixt Swearing in a R.e- 
 
 |7ofane S,and ^ */*^ay and in a PrVptort ; though the Jubilance cf the Thing 
 Sworn come ail to the fame Pafs : for there's Heaven and Hell in 
 the cde, on both fides. As in the inftance now of the Late 
 Trctcflations , Vows, Oaths and Covenants that were Sworn in 
 thg Pretence of the Almighty and Evcrliving God; and as the 
 Lords and Commons Cncwld^Anfwcr for*t at the I aft day: In afler- 
 tionof their Zeal, and Affettwn- for His Majefties- Honour and 
 Authority; and the Eftablifhment cf our Religion, Lavas and 
 Liberties. "What a Dignity , what a Aiajefty is here in the very 
 £$e and Ku;>.bcr I Though in the Conclnfan let me teli ye, the 
 Project wen: quite to another Tune. 
 
 Bum. ^y, ;zy j the Dam-me 0/ r fo Covenant *» ^ Church /m^ 
 <* ;;;^ iWr/j /Vc/; ^ Reverence methinks, over the Hectors- Scanda- 
 lous Dam-me in a Tavern.' 
 ; . Citt. -Moft acutely. obferv'd : for the Scandal lies in the Condi- 
 
 tion of the Tlacc\ and in triz Sound of the Words, not in the 
 Meaning of them. 
 Confciences Bum. / had terrible Qualms atfirft , Citt, about the Sviallowing 
 harden by de- f Oaths, and other Puntillos'o/ Scruple, but they are nothing 
 grees. y^ Frequent of Late, wbr fo Troubleibme a* they were wont to be. 
 
 Citt. That will All over Bumpkin in time. Where's the Good 
 Fellow that did not Lube upon his Fir ft Debauch I And a Baud is 
 never the lefs Reverend , becaufe (he whimper d perhaps fome 
 five and fifty years ago , for the Lofs of her Maidenhead. Nay, 
 it was a good while before our Hero's Thcmfelves could bring 
 their Oaths cf Allegiance, and tr\z\r Covenants to Conjobble to- 
 gether. 
 .' Bum. Vrily for that matter , Alts but life Citt; All's but life. 
 
 &/>/-. Nothing in the World elfc : And when a man has got 
 the Trick on't, if he has ip.kcnTwenty O.uhs, hce'le fetch ye up 
 any One of them again, that you kcall for, with as much-cafe, 
 2S the Wrtcr' drinker at Bartholomew- Fair does his Several Liquors 
 
 Bum 
 
 i. 
 
O) 7 
 
 Bum. 7f is certain, that an Oath, or the calling of God to Wit*- Tic Tyc of 
 neile, is the mofl Solemn, Wllniverlall Tye in ( I^jtture ) andfo an Oath. 
 Acconpted, among People of all Nations, and Opinions. 
 
 Citt. And there's no doubt, but the Influence that it has up- 
 on mens minds, is the molt Powerfull of all Impreflions ; and 
 of thegreatelt effect, in the Manage of our moll Important af- 
 fairs. So that it is no wonder to fee all matters of the Higheft 
 moment, as well Private, as Publique,^ well Warrantable, as Not, 
 committed,tothis way ofCaution,zndTeft. 
 
 Bum. 'Tis very true, as in the Cafe of Teftimony, Civil Duty, 
 and Canonical Obedience. . 
 
 Cm. Now as the Wit of Man could never invent a more The life and 
 Competent Expedient, thenThefe Oaths,we]l apply'd, for the^? n | cro ^ 
 Afaintainanceof the Government, and the Support of Publick^Ju- 
 flice : So whofbever would Diffolve this Frame, mull finde'a way 
 to introduce O THE R O AT HS in Oppofition to Thefe ; and 
 to turn the Edg of the Law, and of the Cfofpe I, againft itfelf y by 
 drawing the molt Popular Lawyers, and Divines into the Party. 
 This is the Naked Truth of the bufinefs *, and to deal plainly 
 with ye, unlefs you give me your Solemn Oath, that you'l be 
 True to me, and Firm to the Caufe in handy I muft not move one 
 Inch further. i 
 
 Bum. Why then by all that was everfwom by before y I will be Both. 
 Citt. The League is now Itruck, and the foonerwe Unmaique, 
 the better ; for it begets Freedom, and Confidence in each Other. 
 
 Bum. Here are two difficulties in the way, which 1 Would fain have 
 removed ; the One is, how to get the People to takefuch an Oath of 
 Oppofition as is here Imagined., and the Other is how to Counte- 
 nance, and Palliate the keeping of That Oath, when they have Ta- 
 ken it. 
 
 Citt. It wastheMafterpiece of our Late Reformers, to Con- The Proie.^ 
 trive fuch an Oath, as in the Senfe, and Grammer of it carry 'd a " dM ^ c ^ 
 the fa i ce of a Provifion for the Common benefit, 2nd Security, both ° 
 of King and People, upon pretence that the Government Civil, 
 and Ecclefiafiical, and the Protefiant Religion it felf were all in 
 danger. This plaufible Impolture went down with the Common 
 People, without much Examination j efpecially under the Co- 
 lour of a ^Parliamentary Authority to back it : And it was Co far 
 from appearing at firlt Blufh, to thwart the Regular Oaths of the 
 government, that it feem'd to the Multitude, rather to Second 
 
 B and 
 
 nant. 
 
 i 
 
and £tfjW them. But when they came to finde, that they hai- 
 fworn to they knew not what, and that This Covenant^ being 
 Originally defigrPd for an Engine to Vnhinge the Government, the 
 c Takers of it were ty'd up to the fenfe of the Impofers : They had 
 
 but this Choice before 'urn *, either to comply with the Ends of 
 l the Caball that fet it a foot, or to deliver up their Lives, and. 
 
 fortunes at Mercy. 
 
 Bum. So that the Letter of 'the Oath, wot For the Government, 
 I Wffe Intent Againft it, 'But what Arguments did they ufe for the 
 
 - fupporting of it, after the Difcovery of the Fraud . ? 
 
 1 Cut . Only the Common Arguments of Exorbitant Power •, 
 
 Jaylsy Plunders, Confifcations, Axes, Gibbets, &c. for breach of Co- 
 venant. 
 
 Bum. Well, but there was a Train of- Contradi&ory Oaths af- 
 terward, One upon the heel of another, thorough J know not how many 
 Changes of State \ what became of the Covenant in thofe Revoluti- 
 • ons? 
 
 The Cove* Cut The Single Covenant had all thofe Oaths in the Belly of it •, 
 nam had all and as many more, as it is poifible to find Cafes within the 
 ths following Compafle of human Apprehenfion : For it imported an Abfolute 
 Oaths in the an( j j m ^u c i t Refignation to the Will and Pleafure, of whoever was 
 Myoht. <Vpp e rmofi; fothat the Submiffions of thofe times were only 
 look'tiiponasP^™-, and Temporary Tieldings to the Prefent 
 Power T ftill as One Inter eft juftled em another. 
 
 Bum. And there were fome too, it may be, that when they were 
 once Fool'd out of the way, made it a matter of Confcience not to be fet 
 Might again. 
 
 Cut. Oh, there were a great many that thought themfelves 
 boundby the Latter Oath, and Difcharg'd of the Former •, Efpeci- 
 ally, when they had got the better end of the Staff, and All Pow- 
 er is from God, in Their Favour. But to be fhort, whatoutof Fear? 
 Shame j Weaknefs, Obftinacy, and the like ; they ftuck to the Com- 
 bination, and made themfelves Matters of the Government. 
 
 Bum. Yon have here fet forth in this famous In ft ance of the Cove- 
 :iaw, how Eafily and by what Means the Multitude may be inveigled 
 jj#r*- Engagements *, and you have laid open the Confequences offuch 
 Leagues, and the Difficulty o/Rnrivingrfew : TS-Mhow ftiallwc 
 apply This Modell now to our Purpofe ? 
 
 Citi. Why juft as They apply'd the Holy League of France, to 
 Their f i for the Common people have the veiry fame Patfions, the 
 
 fame. 
 
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 fame Wea\neffes> Now, that they hzd then : and if fbme of our 
 Cockzbrayti'd Zelots had not out-run the Conftable, we might have 
 been halfway to our Journeys end by this time. 
 
 Bum. Nay the truth of it is Citt:, the Nation is nothing near fo The Good 
 hott upon the bufineffe now,as they werefome Ten or Twelve months ° 1( f c *" re 
 agoe '.and they grow ftill cooler and cooler methinks, every day more Q ° at - 
 then other. 
 
 Citt. And what's the Reafon of all This, now ? we play our 
 Game too open, and the Plot's Difcover'd. 
 
 Bum. Well well Citt, fome body will fmoak for this One day. 
 
 Citt. If we could have contented our felves with an Orderly 
 EmprovementoftheP^^^^V^cy, and gone thorough the 
 work of Religion, before we meddled with Matter of State ; we 
 had done thefobb, but the Republicans hurry'd us on fo fall : ( Ay 
 and<?r^0//wtoojlfhouidbeloth( as thou fayft ) to be in 
 ibme of their Jackets for't. 
 
 Bum. Nayreallylwasfenfibleofitmyfelf, that they did things 
 hand over head *, and ran on many times without either Fear or Wito 
 But however, I fhouldbe glad to be particularly InftruUed how far they 
 did Well or 111, What^ fhould have done inftead on't, where 
 they did amiis ; and what we our felves are to do, as the Cafe ftands 
 withVsatprefent. 
 
 Citt. This is a Contemplation well digefted, and 1'Ie fpeak 
 by and by to thy four Queftions in courfe as they lye. 
 
 We have been hammering ( thou knoweft ) at Popery, Ceremo- The Fan? 
 nies y Subfcriptions, Oaths, and Tefts, Liberty of Confcience, and ticks gain d 
 now and then a fnap at ^Arbitrary Tower, ever finee the King h'" Ie ground 
 came in, without gaining any ground upon the Government more n11 of latc ' 
 then what we bought with our hard mony ; that is to fay, fo 
 many flowers of the Crown, for fo many Taxes, and Supplies. 
 ( The Nation being divided upon thefe Points, and the Crown 
 and Church-Party ftanding in Oppofition to the Other ). At 
 length broke oat this accurfed Defign upon the Life of our So- 
 vereign, and our Eflab Hjtf "d Religion. Which Providence united 
 'Both Interefls in One Common Caufe, though with differing Ends. 
 
 Bum. This you I fay, was a fair Foundation laid,- as to the Total 
 deftruBionofthe Papifts, but when That's done, Citt, where are we 
 to be Next ? 
 
 Citt. Why that will neverbQ done man ; while there's z\Sur- No End of 
 fUce or a Blew Garter in the Three Kingdoms. For there's your Papifo, 
 
 B 2 Cmrch* 
 
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 Church-Papi^, your Pentiwer-Papifi, your Papijl in Mafqneraie 
 your Concealed Paptft, thefe are all of 'urn forty times worie then 
 your Known, Je fated, and Bart fac d Papifl. And. in One word 
 'tis as eafy a thing to give any man the markjof the Beafi, that 
 ftands in Our way, as for ^Horfe-courfer to make a Star in a 3W«- 
 ferthead. 
 
 Bum. Without all doubt Citt, andwhofoever does not Petition, . 
 Prctefc, A flbctate, Covenant, Ac\ ^.Believe ^.We ^ »/ ^ 
 I 7^^Papift.' 
 
 How to know Citt. Nay, Tic go further with ye Bumkin ; L'le tell ye by a 
 a Papni mans £^&«c*,llis Furniture, his 7 r^i^. his Brains, or his £/kz/r , 
 without ever examining his Faith, whether he be a Proteftant or 
 a ?<*/?//?. i have led ye a little out of your way, to fhew ye this 
 fecret, and aflbre your felf, whenever this Cloakfailsye, fare left 
 Naked. But now to the Queftion of managing 1 his Occafion, 
 How far the ^° ^ ar as t ^ ie ^'^ l ^ e Church^nd the 2?^/? went along with- 
 Faction us o * n tne Opening, the Expofing, the Difcountenancing, and pafc 
 
 Adeci Fru- fing Sentence upon this Hellifj.Plot, .we could not do amifs. And 
 ^kAtly, then it was well follow'd, in getting the Popijh Lords qui of the 
 
 i^* *, In dividing the Order of Bijliops, into Three Proteftants, 
 and the ,fo/?, Papifts ; as it has been_//wf , in feeding the f eoples 
 Jealoupes all over "the Kingdom, with daily Intelligences of New 
 Fires, NewVlots, ( N y ewT>ifcoveries, .to ke^p their Fears Waking. 
 though in molt Cales without any Ground whatfoever. 
 
 Bum. 'Twas a plain thing there, in fome of the Penmen of the Nar- 
 rative to bring the King into the Vlot againfi himfelf, was t net ? 
 
 Citt. Weil, and was it not a notable Pufh,. to charge it 10 
 home upon the Council, that they would clap Vpno body f vr V I 
 
 Bum. And really, to give the Intelligences their due, they ha*, it 
 fpar' } d telling his .Majefty, the Judges, and. the Bifhops, their Own 
 neither. 
 
 Citt: It has been well enough done too, to brand thofe for 
 Vubiick^Enemicsy that would not go along with«s ; and for Po 
 pijluy-Ajfecled, that but fo much as open their Mouths for Mode* 
 ration; to ply his Ma\efy with Petitions, the City and Country, 
 with Speeches, Remwftrances, and Appeals. The Starting the 
 Cafe of the Succejfwn was not amifs neither, nor the Prefident of 
 Queen Elizabeths Ajfociation. 
 
 Bum, But I have heard my Old Maflerfpeakof "that Aflbeiation, 
 jw, aTrickof 'Stale, with a fpect d regard to the Queen, of Scots, and 
 
 thai 
 
 
(7) °** 
 
 that though Cambden makes the Quzenfay that (he had no know- 
 ledge of it before it was prefented, he does not fay fo yet himfelf. < 
 
 Qtt. There have been feveral Deliberations alfo upon En- 
 tring into ublkkSroteflations of Joining as One man again/} Vope- 
 ry, that have been very Favourable to our Purpofe : And it was 
 no III Contrivance, the Burning of the Pope, with that Solemni- 
 ty in Flett-jlr.et. 
 
 bum. And what do ye thinh^ofthe Lid of the Unanimous Club of 
 Voters ? ( That about the Court Pcnfioners / mean \ ) That was a 
 'Rotable device Jet me telly e '.for hardly any of them got into the Houfe 
 after. But ftill if all this has beenfo much to our Advantagc/ww comet- 
 it that we lofe Ground, and that any thing elfe jlwuld take place A- 
 gainfl: us. 
 
 Citt.. We may e'en thank a Company of Hot-headed Fools in The over- 
 our own Varty. For taking ofFthe Mafque too foon ; and for Wri- | sh ^^ he 
 ting and Printing fo unfeafbnably againft the Civil Government 
 whatever came uppermoft : which they have done to that de- 
 gree of Inconfiderate Raflmefs, that the Long Varlianftnt had an 
 Army in the Field, before they ventur'd half fo far. They have 
 already fet the Lords and Commons above the King, plac'd the 
 Government in the Veofle i nay, they have been Nibbling alrea- 
 dy at the Militia, the Pow=r of Life and Death, and-of Calling, 
 and Diffohing "Parliaments : They have Reviv'd the 19 Old 
 Vropofvtions \ tearing his Majefties Servants, and Afiniflers out of 
 the very Arms of their Afafter; and they have as good as told 
 the King in plain terms before-hand, what he is to Trufl. to, 
 I do not fpeak hereof any of our Parliamentary Proceedings ; but 
 of the Licence 01 Private Libertines that write and talkj3X random. 
 
 Bum* N ay* tis but too True, Citt ', Fort has been caft in my 
 Teeth Twenty times : Matters are come to a fine PafTe r they cry^ 
 when the Kings Life is to be preferv'd by thofe that would take 
 the Crown off on's head -, and the Proteflant Religion by the Tro* 
 fefi Enemies of the Church of England. But now ye have told we 
 wherein they didVJeW and l\], let me hear in the Next place what 
 they jhould have done if 'You had been their Ad viler, , 
 
 Cm* They (hould have Perpetuated theApprehenftons of Pope- 
 ryby Good Hufbandry and Manage •, without running the whole 
 Party down at a Heat, till there, was hardly a Papift left in. a 
 Country for a man to throw his Cap at. 
 
 Bum > Why That s the thing, . man \ They have deftrofd the Game 
 
 to- 
 
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2#2- (3) 
 
 u that degree that we are een ready to Eat up one another. 
 Poachers C in * A ^ a ? > So many /Ww, they have fpoylM all : We 
 
 have de- Ihould have kept a ftock of Priefts and Jefuits in Refirvc, and 
 ftroy'd the playd'um offnow and then, one after another at Leifure. This 
 Came. would have entertainMthe ^Multitude well enough •, and kept 
 
 the Humgur ill a Ferment, and Difpofition for greater matters. 
 
 Bum. Fery Right, Citt-, WeJlwuldhaveHangd to day as we 
 may Hang to morrow ; for an Execution u an Execution ; if it be 
 but of 'One, as well as of "Twenty. 
 Much Blood Qtt. Yes, and we fee befides, that much Blond, and Nume- 
 tutfns Rage r ^ Executions turn the/Zo/y £*£* of a People many times into a 
 inco Pitty. p^ifo^ anc i Regenerate Titty, over and above, that at the Other 
 Thrifty rate, we could never have wanted matter to work 
 upon. 
 RafliEnfor- Bum. There 's hardly anything, Citt *, that has done us more 
 mers icanda- Mifchief, then the Accufvng of This Lord, That Commoner ; This 
 lize better Bifhop, That Alderman ; This Citizen, That Country-Gentle- 
 Evidence. man .^ or Popifhly- AfFedted *, when the whole world knows ^um to be 
 Church-of England-Proteftants. One crys ^tis Spite to the Perfon, 
 ^Another will have it to be Malice to the Government ',aThird calls 
 r^Enfbrmers a Company of 'Rogues, that Care not what they fay, 
 and brings a Scandall upon better Evidence, Nay and who knows at 
 lafty but thefe pitty full Fellows may befet on by the Papifts, to difpa- 
 rage the Plot ? 
 
 fitt. Not unlikely Bumpkin-, For there's nothing makes men 
 more Secure, and Careleffe, in the Cafe oi Re all Dangers, then the 
 Frequent Trifling of them with Falfe Alarms. But yet let me 
 tell ye, as to the Other point ; that it is not Simply the Charging 
 of men, ( according to your Inftances) for Popijhly-affetled, but 
 the Charging of them Vnreafonably, that does Us the great Mif- 
 chief For our work will never go on without Popery -, and ra- 
 then Want Papifis y we muft Ov ite them. But This is not a 
 Project to be perfected at a Heat. 
 
 Bum. And we are not in Condition, Citt ; to wait the doing efit 
 by Degrees. What becomes of hs Now Then f 
 
 Citt. Oh, fet your heart at eafe for That, Pumkin. we have 
 Twenty Irons in the Fire -, and if thofefail, we'le have twen- 
 ty Fires more, and Twenty times as many Irons again in every 
 Fire. We fhould have gone on, fair and foftly, in the very 
 fteps of our Tredeceffors : But if men will leave the plain !ty*/, 
 
 and 
 
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 and be trying Experiments, upon their Own Heads, over Hedge More hafte 
 and 'Ditch, to finde out a nearer way to their Journeys End j then fp^ed. 
 who can help it, if they break a Leg or an Arm by the way, 
 and fo fall Ihort at laft t 
 
 Bum. Why then 'tis but fo much time loft, and going back into 
 the Road again. 
 
 On. Juit as if when a man has ihewed himfelf and Frighted 
 up the Fowl-, you Ihould fend him back again to his Stalking- 
 horfe to make his Shoot. But as it is, however, we mull: make 
 the beft of a Bad Game, and take our meafures as we fee Oc- 
 cafion. 
 
 Bum. As how, take our Meafures, Iprethee* 
 
 Cm. As thus Bttmkin. We mult fhape our Courfe, according r u i cs f p , 
 to the Circumftances before us, with a reipeel; to the Power, Hey vary with 
 and Intereft of Parties, Change of Counfels, and to the State , the the matters 
 Humour, and the Inftruments ^Government : So that what's Be- che y arc t0 
 neficial to day, may be Dangerous to morrow, and perhaps JV<^- W upon * 
 taW* again the 2Vm. 
 
 Bum. 2?//* howjhall the Common People judge of thefe Nice- 
 ties ? 
 
 Citt. Why they are not to Judge at all ye Fool ; but to be me- 
 nag'd, with Invifible Wires like Puppets ; and not to know either 
 the Why, or the What, of things, but to do as they are bid. 
 
 Bum. I have been expelling agoodwhile that ye fhould fay fome~ 
 thing concerning Swearing, 
 
 Citt. Why f©I Have, and Co I Will. But Pie firft give ye the 
 whole Scheme of the bufinefs in fhort. The Government can ne- 
 ver be Vndermind, but by a Confederacy, there can be no Con- 
 federacy without an Oath : Nor any thought of a Popular Oath ? 
 without a Colour of ibme Authority to Countenance it ; Nor any 
 Colourable Authority, but in a Well-Ajfebled Houfe of Commons * 9 
 audrfotf Qualification depends wholly upon a Right Choice of 
 the J^wtarj, as that Choice again depends upon the good Incli- 
 nation of thofe that Chufe them , 
 
 Bum. So that the Good- Will of the People is the Key of the < 
 Workj, and we have gain d that point already. 
 
 On. We HAD gain'd it Bumkin, but they fall offmofl con- p ra &]f es io , 
 foundedly. The next ftep, is a Well-principled Houfe offimmms, Ei^ons. 
 ( and the %e(l follows in Courfe, ) How this will prove I know 
 notj bnt the Natiouhas been warn'dfufKciently againftyour 
 
 Ecflefi" 
 
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 Ecclefiafiieal Officers, Prelatkal Men, Courtiers, Tentioners, De- 
 bauchee s,and the like. 
 
 Bum. Nay, we made the verief: Rogues of 'urn, in the Countrys 
 too*. ^jPapiits, Atheifts, and the Devil and all. aAndyet, let me 
 tellye, the Court,^^ Country-Tarty carry* d it in many f laces in 
 fpite of the Hearts of us ; but that's no fault of "Ours, you I fay. Hold 
 a little, Did not you tell me t other day that wejlwuld bring our Petiti- 
 ons about again f 
 
 dtt. Yes, I did, but the Committee has taken up Other Re- 
 fblutions flnce; for it made fuch a Noife ye fee, that people 
 were taken Notice of, and undone by't* This phanfy of Pro- 
 roguing, and Dijfolving, has dafht all. 
 
 Bum. So that Petitioning is quite out ofT>oors then. 
 
 Citt. No, not fo neither, "Bumpkin ; but we muft look here 
 after to the liming and to the Matter of our Petitions. Our Cock 
 brain d Linnen-Drapcr there made a Filthy ftir ; I would his 
 Tongue had been in a Cleft-ftick. 
 
 Bum. Well; but there are Swinging Petitions afoot yet, for all 
 This. 
 
 (fin. Nay we may live to fee fome of the Lords Spirit uall and 
 Temporal! upon their Mary-bones yet , before we have done 
 with 'urn. But not a word of This, till we fee how the Parlia- 
 ment's inTunefor't. 
 
 Bum. AndThafs but Reafon, Citt ; for fear We flwuld be for 
 
 One thing, and They for Another. 
 
 The Wifdotn Citt. Wherefore 'twas wifely done of the Long Parliament, 
 
 of the Long to have a Private C^r/ of their Own : For fo long as they drew the 
 
 Parliament. Petitions Themfelves, the Hcuf , and the Petitioners would be 
 
 fure to agree upon the Mai ter. 
 
 Bum. So much for the Timing, and the Matter of Petitions. But 
 rvhenfiail we come to the point of Swearing, Citt ? 
 
 Citt. Tie lead ye to't in a Trice ; Firft we Petition, for one 
 thing after another, till we come at lafb to be Denyd; The 
 next advance is to Affociate, 2nd Then, to Swear. 
 
 Bum. Well ! but This muft be under the Banner of the Peoples Re- 
 prefentative. 
 
 Citt. No doubt on't; and That's the Eafieft thing in the 
 World to compaife, if we can but, Firft, get a Right Houfe of 
 Commons -, and then, Liberty for them to Sitt till all Grievances 
 be Redrefl : which was the very end of putting in a Claufe for t, 
 in the Late Petition ? Bum. 
 
 - 
 
2q$ 
 Cii) 
 
 BumJfwe could bring it to That oncc,we fltould bejufiin the Old 
 7rack.again. But what kind of Oath mufi it be at Ufl ? 
 
 Cut. It mutt bean Oath made up of Ambiguities, and Holy J™ n ~? ™ P ' 
 Words •, not a halfpenny matter for the Senfie on't *, for ycu rauft p opu i ar 
 know,that though it looks like an Oath of Religion, on the One oath. 
 fide, 'tis an Oath of Allegiance, on the Other - y and a Dificlaimer 
 of the King's, in Submiflion to the Sovereignty of the Commons, 
 
 Bum. There^s no great Quefilion to be made of the Effctt of finch 
 an Oath , and finch a Conjuncture, as is here fuppos'd ; but how JliaS 
 we come at it 1 pre 9 thee . ? 
 
 Citi. Time, and Patience overcome all things, Bumpkin- We 
 have Friends, Brains, Mony, and the grace of making the beft 
 of our Opportunities. One man is wrought upon by Ambition , 
 Another by Avarice *, a Third by Revenge ; and we have our 
 ways of Accefis to all Humours, and Perfions. How many Favou- 
 rites do we read of, that for fear of Impeachments , have Sacri- 
 fie'd their Maflers, to favc their own skins. For Princes themfetves 
 are not without their Tradable, and Eafiie Seafons, of being Pre- 
 vailed upon. 
 
 Bum. From what you have here delivered, I draw this General Change of 
 Conclufion ; that Change of Accidents muftof Necejfity produce ^ce change^ 
 Change of Methods, and Refolutions .* ( Provided always, That fR e folutions 9 
 there be Hill maintained a Tendency , though by Several ways,f<? the 
 Same End) andthat^ inall Cafes, the Oath is the Sanction of the 
 Confederacy. 
 
 •Off. You have it Right thus farr Bumpkin', and you fee 
 what Power an Oath has as well upon the Bodies, as the Minds 
 of men *, even to the, blowing up of the Soundeft Foundations, and 
 to the drawing O^f'afterward out of That Confufiion. You fee, 
 infhort, the -Effetts of it in aTciitical way, and the Ordinary 
 Means of gaining it. You would not think now, what an Ad- 
 vantage He has above Other People, in the Common Affairs 
 and Bus'nefs of the World ( even betwixt Man and Man (that 
 has been trained up in This School of Popular Confederacies, and 
 Contracts. 
 
 Bum. N^v, Practice, and Experience are Mighty Helps^ be- Natural Fa- 
 yond all per adventure: But yet I have fieenjome People go a great way < ^ tsts . ^ 
 in Swearing, by themeerflrength of Nature. staring. 
 
 Citt. Yes, yes ; for a Down-right Dunflable , Through-pac r d 
 way of Swearing *, a Ready Tongue^ with a gaod Memory \ and a 
 
 C Competent 
 
 j 
 

 
 2,5- © 
 
 Competent ftock of Affurance will do very Pretty things. 
 
 Bum. W/y J had a Friend Pother day that was at a lofs for a 
 Releafe, he made no more ado, but aWay into Alfatia, where he 
 told hu Story in the Hearing of two Competent Witneffes :, find whip 
 Sir ]tthtOythey had him in a Twining, andfo brought him off with 
 Honour. 
 
 Citt. This Old FafhiorPd way did well enough in Strafford'* j 
 days and Laud's : But wc arc now infinitely Rcfin'd. And yet I 
 cannot but allow that a Happy Genius may do a great deal that 
 way j but when you come to Cifmflical Points that require Rea- 
 ding, Conference^ and Invention j what will become of your Tho* 
 roHgh'p.ifd Alf.tia- man, do ye think, with his Natural Talent t 
 Why thou art in the Altitudes, Citt ; a Cafuiftical Oath fayft ? 
 What is the knarf^cfThtt fame Cafuiftical Oath, I pre' thee ? 
 A Cafuiftical Cltt ' ^Gafuiftical Oath pumpkin ; is an Oath with a Nicety 
 Oath. in lt '• which Nicety may be folv'd Two ways : either by bringing 
 
 the Oath to the Covfcienc-e, or the Conference to the Oath. As for 
 Example:, The Covenant was a Cafuifical Oath y wherein the 
 Words were Firft brought to the Confidence, and then the Confcierxe 
 to the Intent. 
 Cafes of Ccn- Bum. Let me put fome Cafes to ye; fuppofe a Man fwom out of 
 febhee. his Right by One Falfe Oath ; Whether or no may a Body fwear h.m 
 
 into't again by Another ? 
 
 Citt. Without difputc you may : (See the Holy Commonwealth) 
 For it becomes an Oath of Providence, when it isapply'd to the 
 maintenancc,and fupport of Truth and Juftice. And this holds too 
 in fwcaring againft the Er.emies of the G off el ; when the Excellency 
 of the End atones for the Iniquity of the Means. Or at worft, 
 'tis but venturing to become a Caft-away f after a Serif ture Exam- 
 ple) for a General (food* 
 The Saints Bum. Ay^ that's a fure way Citt, for a man to fhew a Text for 
 
 fhew a Text a Jl \j C d oeSm f$ s yw fhouldtke Saints have warranted their Violence 
 for all they againft the Late King, and his Loyal Nobility ; if it had not been 
 for that Text in their favour , they fhall binds their Kings in 
 Chains, and their Nobles in Links of Iron. 
 
 • Cut. Or let us imagine that a Man has a Wife and Children, and 
 not a bit of bread to put into their Heads : what do you think of a 
 Falfe Oath, in fuch a Cafe for a Livelyhood? 
 
 Bum- Nothing Plainer j for he's worle than an Infidel that docs 
 aot provide for his Family. 
 
 Cite 
 
r is) ~t 
 
 Citt. But then here's Another fubtlety for ye : One man /wears ANicePoia& 
 what he thinks, and it proves Falfe : Another /wears what he does 
 Not thinks, and it proves True. As thus, I fee a pcrfon walking 
 in his Formalities, and fwear, there goes fnch a Dottor; and it 
 proves to be a Baboon \ I fee fomebody in the Chair, and take 
 him for a man of Quality , and he proves to be a Knight of the 
 Pofl. 
 
 Bum. This it only [wearing to the beft of a mans knowledge* 
 
 Citt. But what if I fhould fwear that Gentleman in the Gown, 
 to be a Baboon, and the other referablance of a man of Quality % 
 to be a Kmght of the Pofi : And yet,without my believing either 
 the One or the Other, they prove to be fitch, How goes That 
 point. 
 
 Bum Such an averment (I conceive) is to be taken rather for an 
 Inflation, then an O^th. Swear; 
 
 Citt. Now there's Mother way of /wearing too : And that is, w j t ha Salvo. 
 with a Salvo, or Referve ; which the Doctors of the Separation 
 have in great Perfection (the Je/uits call it a Mental Refervation) 
 as the King's JVST Priviledges : According to the BEST- 
 REFORMED Churches: As far as LAWFVLLT I may — 
 
 and the like. 
 
 Bum. What do ye thinkjof Him that farting from a good Fellow Vulgar fhifts. 
 With a Pot at's Head, made Affidavit in Court (to. excufe his Non- 
 appearing) that he left him in fuch a Condition that he believ'd 
 he could not live a Quarter of an hour in't ? 
 
 Citt. Ay ay , and the guiding of a Dead mans hand to the 
 figning of a Dud, and then fwearing to the Hand, thefe are 
 Vulgar fhifts. 
 
 Bum. But pray* e what's the meaning of that Text that fays, fwear 
 not at all . ? For we muft live up to our Rule, 
 
 Cm, If wchad not Other Texts to Juflifie fweaiing, we muft ^P in . ft ff 
 have underftood it according to the Letter. This is only meant without Pro- 
 of Trofane, Cufiomary^Fain, and I neon fiderate Swearing, without fit. 
 cither Provocation, ox Profit. And it is better certainly , for a 
 man to make his Fortune by One Pertinent Oath, fecuring his Fu- 
 ture State, by a matter of twenty pound a year, to a Ltfhire, 
 when he dyes •, then to go to the Devil, out at the Elbows, for a 
 Million of Idle ones. 
 
 Bum. But what did ye mean, e'en now by Conferences^ Inven- 
 tion about fwearing f 
 
 C z Citf> 
 
Of Confe- 
 rence and In- 
 vention in 
 
 Swearing. 
 
 The advan- 
 tage an old 
 Covenanter 
 IbasofaNo- 
 
 Citt. Conference is nothing in the World but putting of your 
 Fiddle in Tune : And Invention helps every man in the Gracing of 
 his Tart . But then there's the Invention WHAT, and the Inven- 
 tion HOW • the Invention of the Matter, and the Invention of 
 the Manner} ? fis enough, as to the Matter, that it be fitted to 
 theftrefs of the Qucftion : But the Regulating of the Manner re- 
 quires great Skilly Care, and Judgement. There^s nothing that 
 more recommends an Evidence , either to the "Bench, or 7«ry,than 
 Modefiy of behaviour, ( even to the degree of Bajhfulnefs) Mild- 
 nefs of S/tf*^ ^ a feeraing Scruple of being Pofitwe, where the point 
 is nothing to the Purpofe : But a Difcovery of Paffton, Fiercenefs, 
 andPrepojfeffionin a Caufe, fpoils all, and makes the Tefhmony 
 look like Malice,or Revenge. 
 
 Bum. fmlnflruUedthmfar. But whereas the Advantage all this 
 while, that an Old Covenanter has of a Novice, as you were faying 
 e'en now f 
 
 Citt. Oh, they are Many, and Great. Firfl, he has gotten the 
 Command of his Confcience, and brought it to Stop^ And Turn, at 
 pleafure. Secondly , He's true to his Mark , fpring him what 
 Game yc will, he flics it Home 3 Thirdly, He has the Digeflion of 
 znEftrich; for after the Swallowing of the Crown, and the Mi- 
 tre, there's nothing rifes in his Stomach. Fourthly, there's no 
 fear of him, for fnivHing , or repenting, and telling of Tales ; 
 for he's above the Common Fooleries of Counfsl, Argument ,or Re- 
 morfe. 
 
 Bum. Nay, **tis with &ur Confcientes as with our Jades; a 
 Phancy, or a Wind-mill, put them out of their Wits, till thefre 
 n?d to it. And there's no fear of A?i^ Flinching neither, Pie grant 
 ye : For a Confciencc that has good firm under the Ruinc of Three 
 Kingdoms, will never Boggle fure in the Cafe of Single Perfons. 
 And yet I find many of our Old Stagers come about too. How (hall I 
 diftinguifli now which of them are Sound , and which Rotten at 1 
 Heart? 
 
 Citt. There were Some, yc rauft know, that fwore either in- 
 Simplicity, or to favc a Stake : And Others, in Deftgn. Now thofe 
 that were Noos'd Before, may be hampcr'd Again , and thofe 
 ghat complyM for Advantage, Then, will do fo Still. And for 
 the Defigners, they may be known by the favour they (hew to 
 $m\t Old Principles, and Friends * 7 which is m Infallible fign of the 
 ©W Leavtn in them JMl. 
 
 Bum. 
 
?$ 9 
 
 Bum. Tm of thy Opinion. Citr, and that thefldo tu the Sevvic9 
 ftM, of Honourable fpies in an Enemies Quarter. 
 
 Cut. But what do we talk oiTrue, and Falfe*, which, in this -p r , e 3fl .j 
 Fallible world, is little more than Matter of Opinion ? A Tririfalfei only 
 Oath Out-Sworn, paries for a Falfe one •, and a Falfe Oath, not matter of 
 detected, partes for a True one : So that the Scandal of the One % °? imon * 
 and the Reputation of the Or/W is a thing of Meer Chance. Nay , 
 in the practice of the World, tis rather the Folly, than the Crime 
 of the Fatfljood that marks a man for a Rafial : For why fhould 
 Perjury be more Venial in One Cafe, than 'tis in Another ? Dam- 
 me, Sirrah (fays a Huff to his XaOtqnay) if I don't beat your brains 
 out; and yet he docs not fo much as Touch hira. A young Fel- 
 low fays a thoufand times more to his Miftrefs,or to hisCreditour, 
 and make6 not one word of it good. A Bully will do as much to an 
 Unbelieving Taylor for a Suit of Clothes, though he never intends 
 to pay him. And yet here's no Talk of Inditement sfPtllor ies, or 
 Lofs of Luggs in the Cafe. 
 
 Bum. The Reafon htlds, I muftconfefs j though tbe Inftanccs do 
 notperfetlly Agree : For the One is an Oath Originally Falfe in the 
 Matter of it; and the Other is an Oath, made Falfe by ^Subfe- 
 qu.nt breach of it. 
 
 Cist. Well, but all is For-fwearing&\l\. And why a Perjury in 
 Choler, in hove , for a Paultry Sum of Mony, or a pair cf pit- 
 tiful Troxvz.es, fhouldpafs only as words of Courfe, and yet fo 
 much Load he laid upon a flretch for the Relief of a Neceffitou* 
 Family, the gaining of an Eftate, the Preferving of Religion ; and 
 perhaps the Converfionof a Kingdom : This is a thing, I fay, that I 
 do not Comprehend. 
 
 Bum. This is.the Law y the Law, Cttt \ the damned Law / that*: 
 the Ruine of m all. And what is this Law at la ft .<* 
 
 Cat. It is juft throwing up of Crofs or Pile in zVote. We took 
 Crofs, and it happened to be Pile *, and fo we loft it. In fhort, and 
 in carneft, we are guilty of Breach of Faith in the moft folemrt 
 duties of our Chriftian Profeflion. 
 
 Bum. Thou haft fpoken more for the Power, the Myftery, and 
 the Benefits o/Swearing, then the whole AfTembly of Divines, tht 
 blejjed Synod thcmfelves. Jprethee try thy skill now upon the Fa* 
 culryof LYING: which as it Naturally^/ before the Other ^ fof 
 thwk^it flwuldhave preceded too in the Order of place, 
 
 Cttt s So it does, and it (ho.uld have fo preceded ; but that 
 
 jvtearirrg 
 
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 Swearing and Lying comes better off the Tongue, methink?,thaa 
 Lying and Swearing, 
 
 Bum This Lying Is but a Comic word ■ the precife f*l{^ in the 
 C HfHrj vail it Fibbing j but That will not do fo Wellneither\For Fib- 
 bing and Lying, differ j aft ai Tripping, and Stumbling, or in fome 
 fenfc as jeft WEarneft. So that I find it muft be Lying at lafi. 
 
 The Laudable Faculty of IM^g. 
 
 Tack Or' To handle the point Methodically, Bumpkin, there are 
 
 aadExprefs- Lyr;, Tacit ^ni Ex frejs. Tacit, as by Looks, Signs, Anions, Ge- 
 Jtures , Inarticulate Tones : Exprefs, as IP&rij at Length; and 
 tTiofe are L)'^ cither oiCreation,Compofition, S ubfl rati ton, Amplifi- 
 cation\QT Addition : I might carry it fanher to Lyes Ecclefiafiical y 
 and Civil \ but Pm loth to fpin the Thred too Fine. 
 
 Buna. -Tloefe are high points, Gitt \ hew {ball a man tellaLyc I 
 prPthce, without Opening his Mouth ? 
 
 Ott. Why.* did'ft thou never hear of the Language of the 
 Fingers ? But the Queftion is here upon Hinting One thing ? and 
 Meaning Another •, and efpccially in Politicks, and Religion, in 
 A Thorough or< ^ cr t0 a Thorough Reformation. 
 
 Reformation. Bum / 04W heard a world of Talkjof that fame Thorough Re- 
 formation ; rf#<w Meetings ring on*t ; and there y s fuch a deal of 
 Qu:ter about ^Babylonifh Garment j the not leaving of a Hoof 
 behind; Root and Bv&nch^and the Like : But I could never reach the 
 A Partial ^bottom on*t yet. 
 
 a Thorough Citt. Take notice then that there is a Simple , or Partial Refor- 
 Reformation. mation y and there is a Thorough Reformation • the /Vr/? 5 in the 
 Language of the Reformers, is only pruning of feme Exorbitances 
 m Church and State ;As the Regulating of the Kings Court, paring 
 the Nails of the Prerogative^, the Lopping off here and there a 
 Rotten Lord , or a Popijh Bijhop', the Removal of an £wi Counci- 
 lor, the purging of a Dijfajfeiled Hoife of Commons, or f o : The 
 CW?£r leaves #0 Krag,no Lord 5 no Bifljop.no Hoitfe of Commons at aU\ 
 and briefly, it fignifies the turning of a Monarchy into a Commen- 
 
 rheEnd cf we afih. an Epifcopacy into a Presbytery. and our G>f*f Charter into 
 this Refbrma* „ .;. ,V/ V r ^ j • ■ t^ r r <• 
 
 tion our Will and Pleafure. In One word •, it is Demounting ot oura#- 
 
 jfHyfr/^md gettingour (elves into trie Saddle. 
 
 Bum- 
 
Bum. Welly hut This muft be done by degrees. 
 
 Citt. Ay many muft ir, B»mfkin\ and many a good morrow 
 too, before we come to the point. There muft be Petition upon 
 Petition , Remonjlrances, Gri-ev.inccs , T J ^cptry, Tender Cmfciences ', 
 Faftings , Seeing of the Lord, Religion, Liberty, and Prctt 'ft at ions 
 without End. 
 
 Eum. Tes,yes, ye told me fomewhat of this before, but it lies in a 
 little compafs , We muft Get what we can by Begging find then Take 
 the Reft. 
 
 Cm. But now let me fhew ye in General, how this is to be The Uj^ 1 " 1 " 
 clone. Whatfocver lejfsns the Government, and Exalts the £*/- piq UC ™° 
 fenters in the Eyes of the People, we are toconfider as a proper 
 Medium toward a Thorough Reformation • and this muft be done 
 by Hook or by Crook , but provided the thing be done.po matter 
 /?*vv. 
 
 Bum- ^ f however Citt} w<? ib^ tawr ^/oV upon the Square, as 
 far as the Matter will bear it, and make out the Reft ty Fibbing. 
 
 Citt. That's a thing ol courfc B*mkk&*$o uncover the Naked- Their A& and 
 nefs of the Government, and rip up the Erronrs, and Diftempers dlll £ erKe * 
 of Church and Stair*. Why we have a Committee for the Regiftring 
 of Male-Admimfiraticns ; v,e have our Spyes up and down from 
 the Bed-Chamber to the Msa'-tub : There's not a Tennis Court, not 
 a Bawdy- Ho ufe, not an Eatingim Lr inking- Houfe about the Towrc 
 that fcapes iu \ not a GLifs,not a WW, not a Frolick>'\n any Consi- 
 derable Family,but we have it upon Record; and we have thole that 
 wili make it all go&d too upon Oath. 
 
 Bum. And this goes a great way, let me tell ye 3 Citt; for the Peo- 
 ple never confider that Rulers are Flcfh and Blood, as well as Other 
 men : and if amy thing gees amifs, they thinks there'* s no fetttng it 
 Right again ) Without tdk^ngthe whole Frame to Pieces. 
 
 Qtt. True 'Bumpkin , *nd that's rhc thing that muft do our 
 
 Work \ but then if Truth, and nutter of F*# will not hold out, 
 
 we mult have Rccourfe to Invention. And now I come to my 
 
 Tc;<t . You remembc r the two Topiques I gave ye, of leffening the 
 
 &ment y and Advancing our fUves. 
 
 i]\i'n. Tes,y£s, ! >i-t .1 Cjovemment mzy be LcfTen'd feveral ways; $ eve 
 Lt'T-rfd in Authority, Leffcrfd iu Power, LefferPd in Reputation^ of le.'lt 
 th*t is to fiy, m tie Eftcem, and Affections of the People^/'/kr by Authoi 
 Hitrcd^-or Contempt. 
 
 Cut. Very well , and fo have we our feveral ways of making 
 
 oui* 
 
&2. 
 
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 ou r fclvcs Popular : All which mud be done by Eroprovrng Oppor- 
 tunities before us, toward thci'c two Ends, 
 age Bum. But pnthee tell me what advantage can we make of Signs 
 
 • . or how (hall a man tell a Fib, Without a Word fpeaking. 
 f tli At oi ^ 
 
 ;JC t. C* n * Why doft not thou know ( Bumpkin) that the Language 
 
 of Nature is infinitely more Powerful, and Significant, than :hat 
 Dye with- °f c - m p u ^ ? 'Tis impofTiblc to put the force of Looks, Groans, 
 our a word Anions, and Geftures into Words : Is it not a £y* to loo 1^ as if we 
 L ; .king. ^ -^V, and yet Curfe in our Hearts -, Or under Colour of a Cha- 
 rity, to put a frilling into the /?*/£«, and take half a Crown out ? 
 £ord turn the Kings Heart; ( fays the man above ) which draws 
 ioforrowful a Countenance after it, from one end of the Taber 
 r.acle to the Other, that you'd (wear we w T ere either falling into 
 the Eleventh Perfection, or that the Pope were -already on this 
 fide High -gate. 
 
 Bum. ^Tis a fir ange thing Citt y the Agreement that we find in 
 many things^ betwixt Reafonable Creatures, and brute Animals, 
 One Grone runs quite thorough the Meeting, jufl as One Note, fets 
 a whole pack^of beagles a yelling. 
 
 Citt. This way of J uggling^nd Diffembling by Signs is certain- 
 ly very Artificial, and of Incredible Effect: -, but a man may better 
 under ft and ,than exprefs it : And Our People arc the mod dextrous 
 of all men living at that way of Addrefs. 
 Of Fibbing in £um. But what fay you now to the bufinefs of Lying, or Fibbing, 
 words at in words at length . ? Pr ay 1 e take your Heads in Order, and read up- 
 length. on t j Qem . jf n( i [ et mg f ee f om€ Jnfiances how to apply them to the pur- 
 
 pofes of drawing the Affcttions of the People from the Government, to 
 our felves. 
 
 Cm. There is, Fhft, a Lye or (let it be rather J a Figment of 
 Creation, which Imports the raifing of Something out of Nothings 
 and is a Figure not to be employed, but with Infinite Caution. 
 
 i?um. Pretheego on Citt (for my Brain Clarifies firangely Hp> 
 or?t)and make me understand where /may m..ke ufe ofit-,and where 
 not. 
 ALye,orFig- Citt. It may he ufeful, where the prefer* Belief oi a thing 
 raentof Cre- maybe of greater 'Benefit, and Service, than the Future Difcove- 
 ation. r y f j t? can De a Detriment : As the Figment of the Late Kings 
 
 being Confederate with the Injh Rebels, the Cavaliers cruelty at 
 Branford, &c. Now though thefelmpoftures had no Foundati- 
 on at all, they fcrv'd the prefent turn yet, for the moving of 
 
 the 
 
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 the City 3 and the drawing of men together upon that Occafion: 
 and \vj#fl,fhe Truth came afterwards to Light, the Forgery was 
 only taken notice of as a Cheat, and that was all. 
 
 Bum Ay , and I have beared of the Fobbed Letters , and the 
 Plague- p'aifters, and the Tricks they bad in tbcfc days, ft ill as One 
 Plot cooVd, for the bolting of Another. Thcfe Devices flood ''urn in 
 great ftead \ andvpe have feen fomethmg on*t 0/Late, in the Rumours 
 of the Kings raifing an Array to aw the City, and the Parliament ; 
 and the Forty Thoufand French upon the Ijle ofPuibQck.TbeJe Se- 
 ries let me ajfureyou Citt, keep the Humour ft ir ring. 
 
 Citt, But what do you think of the Invention of the Proteftant 
 Martyrs DomeftickJ Where he tells ye of one of his Royal High- 
 neffes Servants at Edinburgh, that was worfe than Malcufs'd./or he 
 had both his Ears cut off; and then of the throwing Stones at the 
 Windows of his Oratory ? 
 
 Bum. PF^Citt, was this a Lye (as thou cat slit) of Creation 
 then ? 
 
 Citt. Without the Ieaft Colour for't in the World. NowTheProte- 
 'ris not the Ftclion, but the Imprudence of it, that Vexes me : ftant Dome. 
 For as to the Former, it is certain that the Duke was treated ftlcks Mi lta ke. 
 both in Himfelf, and in his Train, with the Higheft Inftances of 
 Welcome and Refpeft imaginable: And then for the Other, the 
 Scots were fo far from difcountenar.cing the Office of the Churchy 
 that a great many of the Nobility, and Perfons of Quality have 
 taken up the Vfe of it in their Own Families. Now for him to 
 impoic this Fitlion upon the World, without any preffing Afr- 
 cejfity, and to no pur pofe at all, when he might be fureof a Con- - 
 tradiclion by the next Poft ; This I fay was a great flip of a wife 
 man. 
 
 Bum. Come, come y Citt, The good man is not fo much to be blamed 
 neither ; for his Intention was to render the Duke Low in the Opi- 
 nion of the People, and 1 difcr edit the Common-Prayer. Praye 
 call to mind the account he gave of the famous Motion in the City , 
 for the doubling of their Guards, and then fet the One again ft the 
 Other. 
 
 Citt. No, no, Bumpkin j This is not to reflect upon Him; 
 but only to (hew thee how to apply this Figure. There is ano- 
 ther, and a more Profitable Fittion, in regard that it is hard to IntentionsiU)t 
 be detected, as being grounded upon Thought and Intention •, as liable to 
 the Late Kings Defignof fctting up Arbitrary Tower and Pope- proof. 
 
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 ry ; his purpofe of coming into London one night with his Pa- 
 pifts, and Cavaliers, to burn felled ravifh all before kta. Now 
 This was an Invention oi great Force \ For though in my Con- 
 science his Majcfty never intended it, yet the ftory paft for cur- 
 rent with the Multitude-, only by the Vigilance of forac aclivc 
 and zealous Patriots it was prevented. Thcfe Figments you 
 may apply to the Head of Leffening the Credit of the Govern- 
 ment. 
 
 pum. And in fome degree, I hope, of advancing our ictves fir 
 fuch a deliverance works Both ways. 
 
 Citt. Oh, greatly, Bumpkin, For as the People wercpofTeft 
 One way againfi the King, for Dcfigning upon their Liberties, 
 Properties, and Religion, fo were they as much perfwaded on the 
 Other hand, in favour of thofe that put the mfelvcs in thegap, to 
 to withftand That Oppreflion : whereas by the feque! it appeared, 
 that the Kings Dcfign wa6only to defend the Government, and the 
 Vthers, to Invade it. 
 
 Bum. We have ran much of late upon TL ; s Vein of Intention, 
 
 and it has done notably well with mtoo ; for we have (hook, the very 
 
 Foundation of the Government with it. 
 
 The Force of Ctt. O, Bumpkin, thou doft not know the Charm ef thofe 
 
 the word Af- Four Syllables, Intention; the irrefiftible power and virtue of 
 
 ifM.^ t h a t little word AFFECTED ; Popifhly-Ajfettcd , Tyranically- 
 
 Affecled\ This was it that blew up- Three Kingdoms but the 
 
 Other day ; Faux\ Powder under the Parliament- Houfc was 
 
 nothing to*u We have n^ Windows into our 'Breafts, and there s 
 
 no proving or difproving of a Thought' y on\y to thofe Goblins, Fears, 
 
 and Jealoufies, every thing they look upon appears Double, even to 
 
 the difcovery of things that have no Being. 
 
 Bum. Stay a little : May not a Man fuppofe a Third Contrivance 
 now, as Groundlefs asanyofthereft t ^Tis but laying it remote c- 
 nough, and the thing's Forgotten before ever the Truth can come to 
 he Known, 
 
 Citt. This is very well hinted, Bumpkin, and we have found 
 it a very Commodious Expedient , even in This very Junclure. 
 How many Bruits have been rais'd concerning Leagues , and 
 Intelligences Abroad, Deftgns, and Intrigues at Home, that for a 
 Month or Six weeks it may be, have fct the People a mad- 
 ding from-one end o^th Town to the Other; and at laft not 
 Que fyllable True , but- all pad over as if no fuch thing had 
 
 ever 
 
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 cm) 
 
 ever been. Take mc aright, Bumpkm\ I do not fpeak This as 
 condemning the PraElice, but to fet forth the Effccl of this way of 
 fibbing. 
 
 Bum. That*** under flood Citt ; for "'tis not our fart to Examine No matter by 
 the Means, whether they be Good^rBad •, but to purfue the End, ^ J^gfa 
 and bring That about, by any means whatever. But what do ye fay the End. 
 now to the Lye of Compofition, as you call it f m% 
 
 Citt. It is a Figment, dtt, that's made up of Truth , and Co^Pw"^ 
 Falflwod: but foentcrwoven with Colours, and Difguifes , that 
 'tis hard to fay which is which. 
 
 Bum. As if ye Jkouldpur Rats-bane into a Mefs of Porridge : y tu 
 Porridge fliU. though a v? Poyfon. 
 
 Citt. Very well All jded Bumpkin, and the Truth, orthcTV- 
 ridge, is only ( as the Doctors callit ) the Vehicle to convey the 
 Poyfon. The Art, and Myftery of this Fib lies in gaining credit 
 on the FiEbion, bv acknowledging thofc Notorious Truths that 
 cannot be Concealed. 
 
 Bum. Ay, ay man., for thaOs but telling what every body knows. 
 As for the purpofe. Tht Presbyterians tool^up Arms y tis true, but 
 *las ! They never meant any hurt to his Majcfty .* and yet they too J^ 
 his Royal Authority tt thcmfclves, and feizjd his Shipping, his 
 Forts, and his Revenue. 
 
 Citt. Ay but for that 'Bumpkin, they fay learnedly that the 
 King was in the Two Honfes, when Charles Stuart was in the 
 Hcadofan-^rttry. 
 
 Bum. But they fay again, that they never meant any hurt to ha 
 Pcrfon neither ; and yet they Rcvil'd him, and Shot at him. 
 
 Citt. The Arch- Bijhop of St. Andrews was Killed, but then be 
 was an III, Harjh Man, they fay .• 'twas done in Revenge, and no 
 Aft of the Kirk^Party: We were mightily divided about the 
 Scotch Rifing. At firft, there was no more in'r, than a Tumul- 
 tuary Rabble that were got together to deliver themfclvcs from 
 an Illegal Oppreffwn : And this paft for current* till it was found 
 to be a formed Rebellion, and that the Covenant was the Foundation 
 of it. 
 
 Bum. The Doftrine's this \ Not to own any thing more than needs 
 m»fa TtrteUo-palUare uphat's amifs the be [I we can % Andfo p routed I 
 pro-fete the point of Subftraftion. 
 
 Citt. The Rule of Swearing, Bumpkin, that is to fay, the Truth* a Lye of Sjb r 
 the whole Truth r and nothing but the Truth, does not hold in Ly- ftraftion, 
 
 D 2 ingj 
 
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 &ion. 
 
 r^2) 
 
 **£:, fo that in this Cafe oiSubftraclion,w tell the Truth, but not 
 thcwW? Truth. 
 
 Bum. 0#r Common Intelligences are fmgularly good at this Fi- 
 gure : /or r^j 1 tell ye juftas much of the Story as ferves their turn, 
 and no more. 
 The Artificial' #>f. Thcydofo. Oh they are very well inftrucled: As in the 
 Improvement Story of the Officer that broke a fellows head, as they were going 
 to Br am ford to chuie Parliament Men : He tells ye of the Head- 
 broken^ but not a word of the Provocation ; as the difordcringof 
 his men in the March, and their baulingout, no Courtters^o Pen- 
 fwners, no Whitehall-men. 
 
 Bum. ThaOsa Plaguy way though Cittj an dfo for Satterthw ait, 
 about firing De-Ia-Noys Houfe I He had the clear eft proofs in the 
 World of his Innpcence \ the Acquittal of tbe Court, and the Wench 
 put to death that accufed him. But Hone ft Benjamin waves that 
 Point, and tells ye only that ever fmce the Maids Condemnation fhe 
 continues firm in what fhe firft dfTerted, as to her being hir'd to 
 Commit that horrid Fact. 
 
 Citt. Thefc things are of infinite ufe Bumpkin, and if ye mark 
 it, there pa/Tes not a Week without fcandalous Reflections upon 
 fomc of rhe guards, to make the People Tick of 'urn. And 'tis 
 very good Policy this, for if they were out of the way, our bufi- 
 ncls were done. 
 
 Bum. Thefe Papers are the true Fireballs, Forty times beyond the 
 Compofitions of Powder, and Aquavitse. 
 
 Citt. They arc fo Bumpkin. There's no need of Poking them ia.- 
 to Hay ^ Lofts with Long Poles *, Vntiling of Houfe s. Breaking of 
 Windows^ Creeping into Cellars, &c. 'Tis but one Tugg at the 
 ^Prefs, here in London, and in Eight and Tony hours ye fhall fee 
 thewhole Kingdomina Flame. And let me tell ye, this Fibb of 
 Subftraclion does a great deal towards it. 
 
 Bum. Andfo it does in the Report thefe Pamphlets give ye up: 
 Tryals, where a Popifh Cur has the good 'luci^to come off. D0.V 
 ye fee how they whip the 2?ench, a??dthe]ury about the Pig-Markc? 
 Sir Thomas Gafcoin was returned Not Guilty: but it was by U 
 Jury of his Countrymen. Andfo ye are told the Charge,**///. 
 ry fender, or no Account at alio} the Defence. 
 
 Cut. Why this is by the Virtue of SubftraSiion:. iris a kind 
 of a Negative Lye, the Concealing any Snbftantialpart of the Truth. 
 They talk as if there were a Defign afoot for the Suppn 
 
 of 
 
 Papers th< 
 true Fireballs. 
 
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 of there Intelligence! : and by my Sou!, I believe it would be the 
 Vndoing of the Ciufe. 
 
 Bum. Why they Govern the Landman-, Do they net make and Pamphlets 
 Diflolve what Alliances theypleafe, Arraign Juxgesj Condemn S overn tlie 
 Innocents, P«f out, and pit in ,w hat Privy Counfellors fky rf>M& aa ' * 
 fit , Place, *W Diiplace Secretaries of State, Publifo the Priva- 
 cies of the Cabinet ; And tn all Cafes, tell the People what they are 
 to trnft to ? 
 
 Cat. Right , and all this pafTes for Gofpel in the Country, 
 -though the Devil a word on't that's known at White-HilL But 
 then they have the crucllcft: way of Nicking a man when they 
 have a mind to't. Such a one has got fuch or fuch a Place at 
 Court, though fo and fo : and to'ther muft be Committed Clofe 
 Prifoner, though the Lords in the Tower may have People come 
 to them, and play at Nine A } ins. 
 
 Bum. Ay, Axd then let the Braves! things Imaginable be done by Killing goes 
 One man s either ye have the bare Abftratft in General, of fitch a b Y f avour « 
 thing done, or nothing at all : But if Another man does but let a Fart 
 upon a Fit of 2>elly-ake, there's ^Thanksgiving prefently all over 
 England and Wales, proclaimed /<?r hi* Recovery. 
 
 Citt. Thefeare Great helps Bumpkin, that we can Raife and 
 Deprefs whom we pleafe. 2?efidc that the Multitude from theje 
 Liberties draw this Conclufion, either they would Contradict thefe 
 things, if they could, Ot Hinder thznx if they Durft. We'll go 
 now to the Figment of Addition. 
 
 Bum. A Subftraclion is the Truth,- but not -the Whole .Truth-, 
 fo Addition, / prefume, is fomewhat more than the Truth : But 
 pray'e let me diftinguifi betwixt Compofition and Addition. 
 
 Cut. The Former, is the Blending and Confounding of the T ;^JjS ment 
 Truth with Fitlttwus Matter \ The other is the pif cing out of * 
 aTrutb. with a Falfaaod, when the bare Truth would not do the 
 Work. As thus, It is true,that the Army raised for iome Attempt 
 upon the Netherlands, in 1673. was drawn up on Black^Heath: } 
 fiut all thereat of the Story, for the Advance of the French Go- 
 vernment, the Promoting of the Irifh Religion, and the threatning 
 of a Storm to fall upon London, is an Additional Figment. It is 
 TV/*?, that there were Fire- works found in the Savoy ^ but the Addi- 
 tion is falfe of being ^//£«Vaccording to the Story. 
 
 Bum. What's the difference now betwixt Addition, W Amplifi- 
 cation, 
 
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 Air.plifi.ation. Citt. Addition is a Supplement of new Fact : Amplification is on* 
 ly an Aggravation of the Matter \t\Queflion'. Or in a fhort^thc let- 
 ting a fluurifh or a glais upon the bulmefs. And it holds as well 
 in the making of our Adverf Aries O Houses our fe Ives Confiderabh, 
 
 Bum. J have many times obfervedthat Cjods Judgments & Blef- 
 fmgs have been ft ill either Imputed to the \Vickcdncfs of the Epifco- 
 pa! Party, or afenbedtothe Sanclitya/rfo Non-Conforraifts. 
 
 Cm. But if you will fee a Mafler-ptece y Read the Preamble to 
 the Relation of the Kings Army ztBramford. And take this with 
 you beforehand , that there was no cruelty excrcifed at all, be- 
 yondthe common effects of Hot blood upon toObftinate a difputc. 
 
 
 A wonderful 
 aggravaticr. 
 
 Better at 
 Oaths and 
 Fibbs than 
 Arguments. 
 
 Swearing and 
 lying the 
 belt Argu- 
 ments. 
 
 Vnnamral^ Inhumare, and grange Cruelties, fend forth a Voice, 
 and the Voice which they fend forth is fo loud, that it aWakes even fe- 
 cure and fleepy Mankind y and flirs up their Bowels to an en flamed 
 and united Ir.dignation. The divided pieces of a Woman abufed to 
 death , needed net the ElcqHer.ee or Voice of an Orator :, they fpake 
 themfelves, and they fpake fo loud, that they were heard by a whole 
 Nation, and drew forth this Anjwer, there was no fuch deed done 
 nor feen from the day that the Children of Ifracl came out of Egypt. 
 Neither did they fetch only an Anfwer of Word, but of Deeds: All the 
 Men of 'Ifracl gather ' d together as One Man , again fl the Authours 
 and Abetters of that abominable wickednefs. 
 
 It is a Lamentation , and to be taken up for a Laments ion, that in 
 England fueh horrid Atlsjhouldbe done, that yield forth this high cry- 
 ing & affrighting Voice— No fuch thing hath bten done fince Eng- 
 land came out of the Egypt of Rome, &c. Exatl Cohesions, Pag. 
 758. 
 
 Bum. Why this Exclamation was as much as the whole Canfewas 
 "Worth. Ah', Citt, if we were no better at Oaths and Fibbs, than we 
 are at Arguments, wejhould e'en bring our Hoggs to a fair Market. 
 
 Citt. Alack for thee Bumpkin, thou doft not know an Argument 
 when thou feeft it. Why this knack of Swearing and Lying is 
 our way of Arguing ; and whoever carries the Caufe ( let 
 hira -carry it right or wrong ) is the beft Difputanr. Prcthec 
 tell mc •, what wouldft thou think of any man that fhould go 
 to convert thcChinefes in Welch, or talk Hebrew to a Laplander? 
 •Tis the Tame thing man, to talk Reafon to the Rabble. Tis tit- 
 tle lefs than Popery yc Fool j 'tis fp^aklng in an ukyown Tongue j 
 what were all your Cavalier- Dottors , and Statefmtn the better 
 
 for 
 
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 for their SyUogifms^ their Politick*? and their Cafes of Con fc iei.ee ; 
 when the very noifc of TYRANT, and 10PERT beat 'umall 
 out of the Field t 
 
 l?um. Mjj Jmuslconfefs, Citf, fitaf OurCafe is tobe decided 
 by the Multitude j ardThat way muji needs fucceedbefl^that is mofi 
 accommodate to the Humour and Capacity of the Umpires efthe Con- 
 travcrfie. Hut yet I could wi(h that thou had? ft born up a little toother 
 day, to Trucman, upon the Points of Religion and Government. 
 
 Citt. Why you mud know, Bumpkin that there arc Two ways Two ways of 
 of Reply uponDifputeSof That Quality, the One is by Reafon, RepIy,Reafoir f 
 f which founds the fame thing with the Apoftlcs Vain Philofophy^ ndChmout * 
 and the Other is by Clamour • The former is for your Speculators , 
 or Pedants j and the other is for men of Zeal, and Bufinefs. But 
 there's One has mawl'd him fince, to fomc purpofe i'faith , I be- 
 lieve he'l have little Joy of his Di/putations. 
 
 Bum. Oh, J have heard of two or three that have had a Fling at ^ t]c ?"&* 
 him. There's One of "urn they fay that's a Dcviliifh Witty Litt*c wltt ? ftllow 
 Fellow, but 7 can't far my Blood call his Name to. mind \ but L thinks 
 'twas Pugg} or thereabouts. 
 
 Citt. By my Troth like enough, for one was telling mc to'ther 
 day, that the Driltin Bart Ic-mew Fair, with a Leaguer Pipe in's 
 mouthjwas the very Pitture of him. But didft not thou fee Romes 
 Hunting- match ? 
 
 Bum. Ycs y yes\ 'tis a Broad fide with a Wooden Cutt ; They Another 
 have put him in the Head there of the Popes Beagles, with a Pen vn ^ rewd Head- 
 One Paw,anda Fire-ball in the Other. They call the whole Pack the piece ' 
 Antichriftian Crew : The Fellow has a waundy Head-piece that 
 Contriv'd it. 
 
 Citt. Ay, but the t'other girds him Confoundedly :, and then 
 there's a Letter worfe than7W too. But this is all by way of 
 Anfwer\ If thou could'ft bat Ruite his > Po fit ions now, you and I 
 might bang it out,hand to fift,in Mood, and Figure (as they fay.;> 
 
 /Turn. Nay, let me alone for a Reciter, r/That will do't. Thi 
 Crown of England is allow'd on all hands to be Imperial ; kt»4- 
 That / lay down for my Fir ft Pofition. 
 
 Cat. Why then y'are a Cracl^fart, and -a Penfioner. Now go Puig's to-- 
 on, without any D:mur. g'ck. 
 
 Bum. The King is Vnaccountable^nd not One of the Three Er 
 flutes, as Lame Giles would have him. 
 
 Citt, Y 5 aiea Same -b*x, and iYorktfi- 
 
 Bum* 
 

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 "Bum. I will maintainjtjjpt England is not a A#*f, but only 3 
 Oft f onarchy. 
 
 On. Y'rcan idle fV/W, &>r*$ j and I have fee- '/„^ 
 
 at the 'Vrotefant Cofce-houfe. 
 
 Bum. yyiiv again y t hat there is but the Governing,^ the Gover- 
 bie&ion n^andthat They are no longer the Governed/W Govern, nor the 
 & Dominion. Governing that are Govcme&fjdndin Little fThat Subjection and 
 Dominion are Lnc.$n0entjndne and the fame tim^Wfubjcft. 
 
 Citt. Y're an Idle. Impudent Fellow > and Pie be haftg'd if I 
 don't catch ye in the Sham- Plot. .What do ye think of This now /* 
 And tell me without Complement, v. 1 have not run this Puppy up 
 to the Wall. 
 
 Bum. I cannot for my iJfeQtU under ft and thin way of Anfwcr- 
 ing yet. 
 
 Citr. Why prethee Bumpkin galling of Names , is fpea^ingto the 
 People in a Language that they do both Vnderftarid, and Believe. 
 
 Bum. O^? , there 1 s no Queftionto be made otPt, a man 'had better 
 
 be fufpecledfor aSpmtj thanforaPap'ift.: Nay 9 if it were but Po- 
 
 pifhly-AfFedied^V would go hard with him. But what Will ye fay Citt; 
 
 if I tell ye of a man that faw the deviilifh Letter that ye fpoke off 
 
 Cut. i have heard icmewhat on'tmyfclf. But prethee let's 
 
 A Secret. confer Notes upon't. Is there not foroethingin't, that he would 
 
 have been Fribling with a Printers Wife once ; and that he pro- 
 
 inis'd to bring oft her H 'us band if fhe'd have done him the good 
 
 Office ? I had it from Barefoot^ and yon fame Bacon- of Govern- 
 
 ment-man^ what a Devil do yc call him ? the Cafe-Porter at the 
 
 Swan in Fijh-ftreet ; he that fwell'd fo at the Name of the Duke 
 
 Some body f Torl^: Pox on 7 t> that I (hould forget him now ; Bid ye never 
 
 " ^ ip nie oute hear oj the Thumb i as AHflippm fays.) 
 
 Bum. Why Faith Citt, / have- heard as much : But I have been 
 told too by one of the Journey mzwjhatftc was always a goodGame- 
 fome Wench, and that the Gentleman ( being well bred ) might 
 perhaps offer her the Civility to Obliged. 
 The Lady no citt. I can fay nothing to hei G amefomenefs - y but (he was no 
 blabb. Blab, I can allure ye ; For though fhe was in CWr, when her 
 
 Husband was FitPd and Sentenced upon that Gentlemans r Profecu- 
 tion, fhe made no words on*t. 
 
 Bum. That's well o'vferv^d^ Citt ; For flje JJjould have told the 
 Bench me-thi-nks \ that if (he would have done fo and fo, 'thad 
 never come to This. 
 
 Cut. 
 
Citt. Ay but Yonder's a Broken Thread- merchant , Bumpkin* (and he Have a care of 
 had it from his own Brother ) told a Friend of mine, that Trnemm JJ 1 , 1C Thread- 
 (when Licenftng was in fafhion ) would never ' Liccnfe any thing 1,ierciant * 
 againft the Papifls ; and that he took money for Licenfing { and 
 layd a 7rf.v upon his Majefties Liege-People \ ( as Pugg the Notari- 
 es has it ) without the conient of their Rcprefentatives in Parlia- 
 ment. 
 
 Bum. Thefe are bloody things, Citt:, and they refolve to fcour him a* 
 bright asfilver, before they have done with him. 
 
 Citt. Nay, if we don't make him either a Papift, or Pop iftdy Af- 
 fecledVle dyefor't : Yes, or any man living, that has either a good 
 Eft ate, good Furniture in's houfe, Money in his Pocket, or Brains in 
 his Head. 
 
 Bum. Well, but to my knowledge, Citt, Trueman does not value him- 
 felfupon any of thefe Qualifications. Butprethee lePs leave this Noddy 
 a little, andtalkj)f fomethingelfe -, what do ft thinkjvas the reafon that 
 our Parliaments have been put off fo of Late ? 
 
 Citt. The very Queftion that I put t'other day my felf ; and 'twas Matters cf 
 anfwer'dThus. That the Nation could not be Happy, but in the State. 
 Prefervation of the Government, as it is eftablifht by Law : for the 
 tearing of the Law to pieces, muft needs diftracl: the People, when 
 they have no Rule to walk by : That a great many worthy Perfons 
 were difappointed in the Elections, by being mifreprefented to the 
 People : That by thefe Pra&ifes, diverfe perfons were obtruded 
 upon the Nation, of remarkable Difajfetlions both to Church, and 
 State : And that therefore, I fuppofe, they might be put off, to the 
 end that fome Other Diftempers might be compofed, before their 
 Meeting. 
 
 Bum. Well ! and what Return didft thou make him ? 
 
 Citt. I told him, he Smelt of the Court; and that he had a Pope The old To- 
 in's belly : and fo I would have no more to do with him. pique ' 
 
 Bum. Thefe People are grown Strangely bold of Late. ButVerfeve- 
 rance is a Grace, Citt ; that will carry h$ on, thorough Thick and 
 Thin. 
 
 Cm. Now thou talk'fl of a Grace, Bumpkin ; there is not any Am- Several forts 
 >«, or Profejfion, in Humane Life, without its peculiar Graces. There of S rac «s- 
 ire the Graces of the Tubb, and of the Pulpit ; the Quach^ and the 
 Dottor ; Nay, the Academy, and the Padd, as the Scotch-man laid of 
 Vu-yall, that was Trufs'd up for the Highway. By my Saule Sir, 
 
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 ( Says he ) It would have done your Heart good to have feen That Gentle- 
 man upon Atlion. One man becomes the Bench *, Another the Stage : 
 And ye fhall fee One man Robb a Church with a better Grace than 
 Another Ere&s an HofpitaL 
 
 Bum. ^^ then we call a Well-affe<5ted Brother , a Babe of 
 Grace. 
 
 Citt. That's fomewhat near the matter, Bumpkin-, for the GY^ 
 that we have to do withal, is only a certain Gift of I mpulf e,t\\zt dif- 
 pofes a man to the Exercife of his Trade, and Calling. As for Exam- 
 ple-, What's a Pickpocket the better for his Skill in Diving, if he has 
 not the Grace to keep his hands in lire ? But now for thy Perfeve- 
 ranee thorow Thickjwd Thin , there's more in That, perhaps, than 
 thou art aware of ; for there's a difference betwixt Staring, and. 
 Starkjnad. 
 
 Bum. / prethee be clear , Citt-, that we may underft and one ano- 
 ther. 
 OfPerfeve- Citt. The Butch have a very good Proverb, Heaven help the 
 tance. firongefl -, (they fay) So long as Providence is on Our fide Bump- 
 
 ^,°all's Well-, but I'm not for Running my head againft Stone- 
 Walls. 
 
 Bum. But how far mufl we go then, Citt •, and whither Next ? 
 
 Citt. Take me for thy Guide, Bumpkin, aad my life for thine thou 
 fhalt never Mifcarry. The Game we have to play is a kind of 
 TrickcTrackj- (but what do I talk ofTrickcTracl^ to a Bumpkin) the 
 great Nicety is to know when to go Of. 
 
 Bum. So that in fome Cafes I find we may go off: But why mufl Ifwear 
 fo damnably againft Flinching then . ? 
 
 Citt. Becaufe we are bound in Honour, Bumpkin, not to Flinch. 
 But if the Caufe it J elf Flinches, who can help it ? 
 
 Bum. What do you thinkjhen of the Five Scottifh Martyrs,it^0 main- 
 tained it to the Death that the Killing of the Arch-Bifhop was no Mur- 
 ther ; and the RifingjWflRebellion.vW^ (or I take it) Their Caufe 
 had Flinch'd to fome tune, when the whole Party was either Cut offj 
 Routed, or taken Prifoners. 
 
 Citt. As a friend, Bumpkin, the world is made up of Fools, and 
 Knaves -, Some are to Acl, and Others to Contrive ; the Fools are to 
 keep up the Claim, and the Knaves, when time ferves, are to take 
 Poffeffion. 
 
 Bum* Welt, hnt what mufl become of Us in the Interim then I 
 
 Citt 
 
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 Citt. The Interim, ( as thou calPft it ) 'is a kind of Interregnum'. Abfolution 
 wherein we are Ahfolv'd ( as it were ) by a certain Extraordinary I from Oaths 
 £>iffenfath» r f rom all Bonds, Civil, and Moral , till we can get Up- andI romir ^ 
 permoft 4^4/>;. 
 
 Bum. So rW W<? rfr<? Two Providences, One upon the heel of the 
 Other: The One in turning all our Oaths, and Promifes , in the In- 
 terval, into Nullities:, And the Other vs an allowance of us to make the 
 beft of the Firft Opportunity. 
 
 Citt. That's well Collected : For all Oaths, and Promifes are Void, 
 when the thing promifed ceafes to be In our Own Power : And an 
 Oath that was made in the Fiejli, may be broken in the Spirit. 
 
 Bum. Deliver me ! Here'sTiuemanjuftupon us. If he talks again, 
 fiandtohim, Citt. 
 
 O//-. The Rogue has us in'sEye^ and there's no flipping into 
 the Wood ; but let me alone with him. 
 
 Enter Trueman. 
 
 True. Well met Gentlemen. What? you're for a Mornings 
 Draught at Hamftead (I fuppofe,) Pie e'en back again and keep 
 ye Company. 
 
 Citt. If you pleafe, Sir, 'tis a fine Walk. 
 
 True, So -, and how go Squares fince thecrafh we had yonder at 
 ■ What do ye call the Place ? 
 
 Citt. Oh, very well ♦, there's a Book come out that proves a man Tom and Dick. 
 may talk of Religion, and Government as learnedly over a Dim of 
 
 Coffee, as over a Pot of Ale. There's a Bobb, Bumpkin Joy the way 
 
 of Tom and £>/c£. fafide.) 
 
 True. Look ye, Here's the Book. I ha' juft read it over. 
 
 Bum. Pray let me fee 1 1 a little. Ay, here 'tis: I wonder in my A High-flight 
 
 heart what the man means by putting SMtSttffti M& S>ttaitpl)> ', of Wit. 
 and g)ttaitge and g)ttaitpC again, in the 5 th and 6th Pages 
 here, in the great Black Englifh Letter, fo different from the reft of 
 the Book. 
 
 E 2 True. 
 
 j 
 
sn 
 
 A Learned 
 Piece. 
 
 True. Nothing in the world but a high-flight of Wit ^ as if a man 
 •rhat is in Trouble, fhould cry, O this villanom, RafcaHy (J£atx ! Or 
 cell a UUctring Cur that Faahrs upon yc to your Fate, and Bawls at 
 ye behind you: £*c!^ Oh\ y y are Cllttl'0, Sir. 
 
 Bum. Wcll x but I'm with yon 
 Univ erli.y-Dui-man there, Pa 
 Toung WMo\ 
 Timber* 
 
 What 
 
 &• 
 
 o'tice again, 
 12. vaitb hk, O 
 
 do you thinli^nf 
 
 Lord, maketbefe 
 to grow up to be Oldt>dhf 7 that they may become 
 .j Wan [cote thy Afcw Jcrufdem. 
 True, Upon my Credit,this Dulman was a Presbyterian (For your 
 Divines haye$ here 2nd therein Vnivcrfity-map among them ! And 
 it was another of the Sami fiamfo that told God Almighty in his 
 Prayer; Lord; if thou didfi but know uhat err Friends Stiffier now m 
 Ireland, &c. 
 
 Cut. Pray'c let ml have a word now, How will ye juftifie the fal- 
 ling to mind, relating^ and Printings ( nctwithftandingthe Afh ofObli- 
 '■(on) all the Evils of cur Late. Re be Hun ? as we find it charg'd, 
 
 True. Nay, rather, Citt, how will Ton acquit your felves, either 
 to God, or Man, for doing the fame things over agoing if it be lb 
 heinous for Other people to Remember them ? As if a Pardon for 
 One Rebellion, were an Authority for Another. 
 
 Citt. Pray'e let me read This Paflage to ye Here, Pag. 28. //^ 
 ?W is net again ft *#, is with us. And I never heard he (fpeaking of 
 L'EflrangeJ ever wrote againft Catholiques •, except it were a Prote- 
 ftant Carholique •, (and that (he fays} is a Solcecifm. ) But he has pep- 
 pered the Presbyterians. A Prcteitant ( he fays ) is a Lutheran ; 
 and a Catholique the Chara&eriftical Note of a Chriftian 7 And it 
 feems, he would have the Church of England ftichjip her brijtles, and 
 difown all Fellowflup with Proteftants abroad, and knocks out all Non- 
 conforming brains at Home :, as the only way to prevent Popery: Wl -at 
 do ye think on't ? 
 
 True. Why Pie tell ye Citt -, you never writ againft Pnceft ■, are ye 
 for it therefore? VF.fi Wange never writ againft the Alcoran, is he 
 therefore a Mahumetan ? Neither do I find any thing you have Cited 
 of him, but what is True, and Warrantable. You fay he has pe^per^d 
 the Presbyterians •, and the world knows they have need oiSeafomng. 
 But why the Briftlesoi the Church of E?gUnd? For the Beafts, ye 
 know, are all in the Pur lews. Nor does he fpeak One word of divi- 
 ding from Protefl ants abroad : Only uponDr .Oates 7 sTeftimany, ti 
 
 the 
 
(nil 
 
 the Priefts lye lurking among the No?i~confor?ni(ls^ he very Honeftly 
 advifesthe Ferretting of the Conventicles : And this your Author 
 calls forfooth, The beating out the brains of the N on-con f or mifis. 
 
 Blefs me Gentlemen ! is This the VilUr of your Profcfion? the vugg the 
 Mouth, and Advocate of your Gmfe ? Why there's not one grain of mouth of the 
 Common Swfe, Honcjly, or Good Manners ifl'ti} Not a &*££ that Caufe. 
 would not bring a Scandal upon a Dufi-Cart. 
 
 Cut. You may value't as you pleafe •, but he has done as much in ?W Narra- 
 his Narratives for the Proteftant Reli^ion^i may be, as any man, and tives * 
 with as good applaufe too, though they pais in other, peoples 
 Names. 
 
 Bum. *7?i *& admirable Piece , F&* J^ his about the Fires, and [eve- 
 ral Other things too, really that would make a mans heart ake. 
 
 True. If thou mean'ft by way of ComfunFucn, Pum^krn, I cann't I- 
 magine how One man can recent of Another mans fifes. But I fuppofe 
 thou Speak'ftof Earth- quakes, and 5^«k in the Ayr ; which, are e- 
 nough to make a mans heart Ake indeed. 
 
 On. And then for his Stile, Trueman, He has a G?p^ Verbormn, Pu Z8 s FacuI - 
 for all Sorts and Sfefirj of Matters, and ykte»; as Ifope, Rafial, UQio 
 Knave, Villain, Traytor, TrafI), Trumpery, Trinkets, and fo forth, 
 fill this time Twelve-meneth. V'k undertake he fhall Pelt ye a Ca- 
 thedral-man Four, and Twenty Hours by Shrewsbury Clocks, and not 
 call him Twice by the fame Name. And then on the Other fide, 
 If he has the hap (in the heat of hisCfe-zVr) to {tumble upon a 
 poor Diffenting Brother, he licks his lips upon't, and pours forth 
 nothing but Adilk^znd Honey : Oh the Precious Ones, The Chofen of 
 the Lord, and more Heavenly Efthetes then would lie betwixt This 
 and High-gate. 
 
 True. But has he any Languages too ? 
 
 Citt. If you had him but one half- hour upon the Talking-Pin , 
 you'd fwear that he had fwallow'd C ale fines Dictionary whole, and 
 fpew'd it up again ; And fuch a Memory — 
 
 True .- Thele are wonderful Faculties Gentlemen, to- qualifie a 
 man to be the Advocate of a Party. 
 
 Citt. But what if the Gentleman were as defpicable as you make 
 him ? what's that to our Profeffion ? 
 
 True. Oh very much ; for if he be Tour Reyrefcntative , You Speak 
 
 in Him; and he does bat Blunder, Rail, Faljifie, and Cobble, in your 
 
 Name, and by Your Commiffion : If it be otherwif e, difown him. Bv* 
 
 what is your Profeflion Fir ft ? 
 
 Citt, 
 

 The 
 
 rant 
 tian 
 
 Cove- 
 ingChri 
 
 and Sub- 
 
 GO 
 
 C:// • We do p^/^ cur felves to be Loyal Subjects to his Majefty 
 in h;s 7«/2 Authority \ and ZVrt* Prctefiams, according to the Pat- 
 tern and Practice of the heft Reformed Churches. 
 
 True. That is to fay, in Plait? Etgljh, you are Covenantcers. 
 
 Cut. Well 3 but I hope a man may be both a Good Subject, and a 
 Good Chriflian ; and yet a Covenanter. 
 
 True. Can k be a Good Chnftian that reviles the Mother of our 
 Blejfcd Saviour, that Stabs the /?<*&* in her Arms, in £^_y : that 
 Dccryes the Lords Prayer, as Apocrypha, that ^cta CVAr of his 
 Due, and Confecrates his Prof ejfion, with Violence, and Blood} Or 
 can #£ be a C7<W Subject, that gives L4&uto his Sovereign; Nay, 
 that takes away his Crown, and his Life, and Tramples upon his 
 Fellows as his S/--W.T ? 
 
 CSrti Why what's all this to the Covenant ? 
 
 7n/f. Yes, by That Covenant, all this was done : AndbyTW 
 Covenant, Vnreneunced: All this mult be done again, whenever in 
 your it, or that Power. Nay you are Covenant-Breakers in the Not 
 doing of it , if you were Covenant-keepers in the doing on'c. 
 
 Cm. Well j but the buiinefs of the Covenant was only to deli- 
 ver the King out of the Hands of the Papifts, to demolilh all Mo- 
 numents of Super jlition and Idolatry, and to fettle a Thorow Refor- 
 mation. All the mifchief fell in by the By. 
 
 True. Very good ; and you took him out of the hands of Papifts, 
 to deliver him into the hands of the Executioner; Did ye not ? 
 Truly a high Obligation ! And then for your zeal againfl Idolatry , 
 a Rich Crucifix, that was an Idol in a Papifts hand, became a Move- 
 able in yours ; for commonly what ye Took^, ye Sold: and your 
 Thorow-Re for mation ended in a Sacrilegious Rapine and Confufon. And 
 fo you're welcome to your Journeys End. 
 
 TEE EfrfV. 
 
Henry Br ome*$ Advertifement, 1680. 
 
 WHereas there arc feveral Difcourfes and Pam- 
 phlets abroad in the World, that pafs for the 
 Writing of Mr. Roger VEftrange ; wherein he never had 
 any hand at all; This is to Advertife the Reader, that 
 he hath lately Published thefe following Pieces, and no 
 other. 
 
 Toleration Difcufs y d, in a Dialogue betwixt a Qonformifl 
 And a Non-conformifi y andktwixt a Presbyterian and an In* 
 dependent. 
 
 Seneca's Morals Abftratfed. 
 
 The Guide to Eternity. 
 
 TullyV Offices, in Englijh. 
 
 Twenty Select Colloquies of Erafmus in Englijh. 
 
 Tyranny and Popery Lording it over the Consciences^ and 
 Lives of the King and People* 
 
 The Reformed Catholique. 
 
 The Hijiory of the Plot in Folio.* 
 
 The Free- born Subject* 
 
 The Cafe Put for the Duke of York. 
 
 An Anfwer to the Appeal. 
 
 Seafonable Memorials. 
 
 The Parallel, or, The Growth of Knavery. 
 
 A Dialogue betwixt a Citizen and Bumpkin. 
 
 A Dialogue betwixt a Citizen and Bumpkin, Part the zd» 
 
 A further Difcovery of the Plot, with a Letter to Dr. Ti- 
 tus Oates. 
 
 The Gentleman Apothecary. 
 
 Five Love- Letters Tranjlated. 
 
 Difcovery on Difcovery, inaftcond Letter to Dr. Titus 
 Oates. 
 
 Th? Committee, or, Popery in Mafqtterade 7 cwionfly done 
 in a Copper Plate. 
 
 An Anfwer to a Litter of Libellers* 
 
/ s 
 
 
 
 
AN 
 
 ACCOUNT 
 
 Of the G%0 WTH of 
 
 KNAVERY, 
 
 UNDER THE 
 
 PRETENDED FEARS 
 
 O F 
 
 grintrarp <§otament, 
 
 AN D 
 
 P O P E R Y. 
 
 WITH 
 
 <yf 9 AXALLEL betwixt the 
 
 Reformers of i 677. and rhofe of 1 64 1 . in 
 their Methods, and Vefigns. 
 
 %\)t g?econp c oition. 
 
 By %0 G E?l s L'EST^AKGE. 
 
 In a Letter to a Friend,. 
 
 London , Printed by T. ( B. for Henry Bronte, at 
 the Gun in S. 1Ws Church-Yard. 1681. 
 
 1 
 
52*> 
 
 
 
p 
 
 (rJ 
 
 A N 
 
 ACCOUNT 
 
 Of the G<H.O WTB of 
 
 KNAVERY, 
 
 UNDER THE 
 
 PRETENDED FEARS 
 
 F 
 ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT 
 
 AND 
 
 P P E R Y. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 TO give you my Opinion freely of the two Libels 
 that you fent me , me-thinks the Defign of them 
 lies too open to do much Mifchief ; for I never 
 faw fo bare-fac'd an Arraignment of the Govern- 
 ment, and all the Parts of it : King, Lords, Commons, Judges, 
 Mimfiers of St Me -, they are all of them made Confpirators ; a- 
 gainft the Sovereign Multitude, forfooth ; and when the Zi- 
 
 A 2 btlkr. 
 
!XL 
 
 
 4 Th+. Growth vf Knavery. 
 
 VtUer has done with the Body of the Commons, he gi\ cs you a 
 
 a Defamatory Lid of betwixt two and three hundred of their 
 Members, provoking and abuiing ali Sober Interefts: Info- 
 much, that he has left himfelf nothing to truft to, but the 
 contemplation of a General Tumult, which is the very Point 
 • ives at in his appeal to the Rabble. 
 
 The Man, 1 confeis, is a great Mailer of Words , but then 
 his Talent is that which the Lord St. Albans calls Matter of 
 Woodtrjpvithoit WorcUuefs ; being rather the Supplenefsand 
 AdcTr-efiof a Tumbler, than the Force and Vigor of a Man of 
 Bufinefs. And you cannot but obferve too, that his Excur- 
 iions, many of them, are unmannerly and Vulgar, and fitter 
 for the Stage of a Merry -Andrew, or a Jacl^Pudding, than for 
 a Pa per of State. 
 
 You would have me giefs at the Author ; and y.ou might 
 as well bid me tell you the right Father of a Child by a Com- 
 mon Strumpet : But I think I may call him Legion, for they 
 arc MANT; and there's a Club to his Pen, as well as to 
 h s Pvcl-it. This I dare allure you, that the Author of A Let- 
 ter from a P.i; lament-man to h's Friend, in the Country, concern- 
 
 75. is very 
 
 nmons^ in 
 
 ing the Proceedings of the Houfe of Co; 
 
 particularly acquainted with the Author of An Accompt of 
 the Growth of Popery, and Arbitrary Government, &c. and the 
 Swfoxable Argument, &c. that followM it, in 77. 
 
 The Pretence of the former Pamphlet is exhibited in the 
 Title of it, Viz.. -An Account of tht Growth of Popery, and Ar- 
 bitrary Government in England: and more particularly from 
 November 1675^0 July 1677. Upon thefe Nineteen Months 
 the Compofer has beftow'd precifely Nineteen Sheets of Paper, 
 and laid himfeif out moft wonderfully in his Politicks and 
 Conceits, for the better Grace and Relifli of the Difcourie : 
 But the Malignity of it is fo rank, that there is fcarce a Page 
 where the Poyfon has not eaten quite thorough the Verni/h, 
 and difcover'd the Spring and Malice of the Defign. View it 
 narrowly, and you fhall find the Pique to be as well Perfon- 
 al as Seditious, and the Work only of fome Mercenary Pen 
 to ferve his Principalis Animofity, as well as his Ambition. 
 For a Man may fee with half an Eye, how he aggravates, or 
 extenuates ; difparages , or commends ; reflects upon , or paffes 
 over, as well Atlions , as Men, aceording to the various 
 
 Afpefts 
 
TTte Growth of ICnmcrj. 5 
 
 Afpects of AffctHons or Parties \ and without any cfgard to 
 thePulfeor Truth of publick proceedings. By his Vein cf 
 improving the Imective Humour, it looks in ibme places as if 
 he were Tranjptojwfi the Fir ■I Painter ; only hchaschangM his 
 Battery, which is a Property peculiar to his Party, conftantly 
 to hate thofe that are nppermoft. 
 
 I was once a thinking to write a Juft Reply upon the whole 
 Relation, and to lay open the falfhood of many pafiages in it 
 in matter of Fac"t •, the Partiality of it in others •, how per- 
 verted, and mifapplyMic is throughout:, and to (hew what 
 Gaps and Maims the Compiler cf it has left in the Story, pur- 
 polely to divert the Reader from minding the Coherence of 
 Actions, and the reafonable Congruity of Counfels, and Af- 
 fairs : What uncharitable and illogical Inferences he has 
 drawn from matters as remote as Tenter den Steeple from be- 
 ing the caule of Goodwin Sands. This was the Method I had 
 propounded to my (elf-, but upon fecond thoughts I quitted 
 it, for thefe Reafons. Firft, It would have been too tedious •, 
 for I mult in honefty have printed the Libel as well as the Re- 
 ply, which id proportion would have amounted to near forty 
 fheetsof Paper. Secondly, It would have been fuperfluous j 
 for part of my bufinefs being the Vindication of Truth from 
 Calumny •, I find the thing already done to my hand, in the 
 common Sentence is that pafs'd upon it for a lewd and fhame- 
 lefslmpofture. And Thirdly, The Author himfelf, you fee, 
 has upon better confideration redue'd his Pamphlet of nineteen 
 Sheets, into another of three, as a more Compendious Exposi- 
 tion of his meaning : I fpeak of that Libel which you fent me, 
 under the Name of A Seasonable Argument. to per/wade all the 
 Grand Juries in England to Petition for a New Parliament -, or a 
 Lift of the Principal Labourers in the great Defign of Popery, 
 ana Arbitrary Power, &c. So that my Task is only to make 
 good in my Difcourfe the Parallel that I promisM you in my 
 Title, and then to pafs fome Remarks upon the Scope and 
 Venom of the Pamphlets themfelves. 
 
 Now to the end that you may not take the Libels here in 
 queftion for Originals, let me afiiire you that thefe Notable 
 Pieces are neither better, nor worfe, than the Old Declarations 
 of 40. and 41. only turned, and new trimnPd\ The Cmtri- 
 vtmt, the Pofttions, and the Drift the very fame \ and upon 
 
 the 
 
 Z29 
 
i 
 
 h f y The. Growth of Knavery. 
 
 the whole matter, there is fo near arefemblance between them, 
 that one Egg is not like r another. If yon would have a full 
 Hiltoryof the Faction, yon may read it at large in Bancrofts 
 Dangerous Pefitions , or HcylirPs AERIVS RED1V 7- 
 VV S. But my purpofeis principally to compare the Project 
 of 77. with that of 40. and 41. and by tracing the Footfteps 
 of that Rebellion, from the undeniable fact of things pafs'd, 
 to gather fome probable conjecture at things to come. 
 
 To begin my Parallel with the Alarm of Popery, and Arbi- 
 trary Government in 1677. take notice that it was likewife the 
 Pretext and the very Foundation of the Rebellion in 41. A 
 Malignant and Pernicious Defign (fays the Remonfirance of De- 
 cember 15. 164.1.) of fubverting the Fundamental Laws, and 
 Pri net pies of Government, upon which the Religion and Juftice of 
 this Kingdom is firmly eftabliflPd. Husband's Collections, p. 4. 
 and in the fame Page he tells us of fuch Com fellers and Cour- 
 tiers, as for Private Ends have ingagd themfelves to further the 
 Interest of fome Forreign Princes or States, to the prejudice of his 
 ALajefly and the State at home. Which Comfellers, and Cour- 
 tiers of thofe deys, are now tranflated into French Penfwners 
 and Confpirators in 1677. But if you would fee the Reformers 
 in their Colours, read the Declaration, and Protefiation of the 
 Lords and Commons in Parliament (as they Itile it) to the King- 
 dom, and to the whole World: where, befide the horrid Invoca- 
 tion of Almighty God to countenance the Juggle, the whole 
 ftrefs of the Quarrel is laid upon the Kings being Popijhly in- 
 clined; and the War founded upon that Execrable Cheat. The 
 Kings Conn f els and Refolutions (fay they) are fo inga£d to the 
 PopiJJj Party, for the fupprejfion and extirpation of the true Reli- 
 gion, that all hopes of Peace and Protection are excluded ; and that 
 it is fully intended to give fatisf action to the Papifls, by alteration 
 of Religion, &c. And a little further they fay, that the King 
 endeavoured to keep off all Jealoufies and Sufpit ions, by many fear- 
 ful O iths and Imprecations of m lintaimn? the Protefiant Religion. 
 But what were all their Stories of Popifl) Plots, Intercepted Let- 
 ters, Dark Confpiracics, but only Artifices to gull the Credu- 
 lous and filly Vulgar I For the King was fo far from being Po- 
 p : My afetted, that never any Prince purgMhimfelf of an Im- 
 putation, by Two more Credible and Dreadful Solemnities: 
 The Gift, Publickly upon the Sacrament in Chnft-Church Oxon. 
 
 1645. 
 
 & 
 
y 
 
 Tb Growth of Krtivery. 7 
 
 1645. atjd afterward, at his Death upon the Scaffold, Now 
 fee the Harmony betwixt thof RemonftrMth and our Libeller in 
 his Growth of Popery. There has now for dwers years', fays he, 
 A Dejign bee/: cirri'* d on to change the Law fid Gov eminent &f'Ei\g- 
 ]&n&<inro an aifo lute Tyranny, and to convert 1 he cftaidtflPd Pro- 
 teftant Religion into dtwnWtght Popery. P. 3 . He I begins in the 
 Method of the Remonflraits with a General Charge Upon III Mi- 
 toifttrs, and he (hall Advance with them too, next ftep, to an 
 Attaque upon the King Himfclf. And not a Pin matter what is 
 laid on either fide to the contrary. 
 
 It is true, (fays the Growth of Popery, p. 155.) that by his 
 Majefty and the Churches care, under God^s /fecial Providence, the 
 Conffiracy has received frequent dif appoint merits, C\C. And do 
 not the Remonflrants on the other fide fay as much for the lat e 
 King ? That hi s Majefty indeed had p aft more Bills to the advan- 
 tage of the Subject, than had been in many Ages,^2g. 16. But 
 how comes our LibeRer to be fo kind to the Church all on a 
 Hidden? From whofe Pen there never fell any thing yet but 
 Poyfon upon that Subject. Can any thing 'be kinder than the 
 Remonflrants were to this late fang (pag. 2.) where they pro- 
 mi fed to fupport his Royal Eft ate with Honour , and plenty at 
 home ; with PoweV*And Reputation abroad ; and by their Loyal Af- 
 fections, Obedience, and Service, to lay a fare and lofting Founda- 
 tion of the Greatnefs and Profperity of his Majefty and his Royal 
 Pofterity after him. But what do you think rather of the pre- 
 tended Loyalty of thefe People afterwards, even in the ftate 
 of an Actual Rebellion t p. 663 . We the Lords and Commons in 
 this prefent Parliament ajfembled, do in the pre fence of Almighty 
 God , for the fatis faction of our own Confciences , and the dif- 
 charge of that great Truft which lies upon us, make this Protefta- 
 tion and Declaration to this Kingdom and Nation, and to the 
 whole World, that no private pajfion, or refpecT, no evil intention 
 to his Maje flies Perfon, no deftgn to the -prejudice of his juft Ho- 
 nour, and Authority, ingag^d us to raife Forces, and tal^e up Arms 
 Againft the Authors of this War, wherewith the Kingdom is now 
 inflamed. And does not our Libeller follow the Remonflrants in 
 their Hypocrifie too ? This Bool^, (fays he, p. 156.) though of 
 an extraordinary Nature, as the Cafe required , and however it 
 may be calumniated by interreffed perfons, was written with no 0- 
 ther intent, than of meer Fidelity and Service to his Majefty ; and 
 
 God 
 
3 77;e Growth of Knivery. 
 
 (Jod forbid ib. J it JJjottld have any other effeil than that tki month 
 of all Liicydty, and flatterers may be Jhpt ; and that his Afaje- 
 Jiy having difecrned the Difeafe, may with his healing Touch apply 
 the Remedy : For fo far is the Relator himfelf from any fmifter 
 furmiz^e agdinfi his AfJjefy) or from faggefiing it to others, &c. 
 The Pamphlet, I confefs is, as he calls it, a Boo!^ of an extraor- 
 dinary Nature, But why does he fay, As the Cafe required? 
 Where's the Importance of it? unlets he means, that it was 
 the very Nick of Time for him to imbroil the Nation : And 
 for the interejfed perfons, who (he fays) may calumniate it, they 
 are only the King and his Minlflers, who are all of them the 
 fubject of his Sceptical and Malevolent Satyre. Of his intent, 
 we (hall /peak hereafter. 
 
 This is not the firft time that we have heard of words fmoo- 
 thcr than Oyl, which yet arc very Swords. It is the very Stile that 
 brought the late King to the Block-, and the Saviour of the 
 World was betray M by a Hail Maftcr, and a Kifs. It is the ve- 
 ry Crown of the Parallel betwixt 77. and 41. Now to pro- 
 ceed : What was the Old Remonfir Mice, but a ipitefuland Invi- 
 dious Mifreprefentation of the State of the Kingdom, under 
 the Notion of declaring Common Grievances ? (For his Ma- 
 jefiies Healing Touch too no doubt) and is not that alfo the 
 very aim and profefllon of thefe two Libels ? What is the Pub- 
 lication of this fame Scandalous Lift, but the Old Trick over 
 again, of Tofting thofc Members for Straff or dians, that would 
 not confent to the Death of the Earl of Strafford? And is 
 not their tampering of the Grand Juries to Petition for a New 
 Parliament, the Old Practice revived of drawing and foliiciting 
 Petitions againft Grievances of their own framing ; and ma- 
 naging Affairs of State by Tumults'? Would not our Remap? 
 ftrator 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 Bt- 
 Jhops, No Popijl) Lords, No Evil Counfellours, No Rvtten Mem- 
 vers, No Porters Lodge ; and at laft, No King too, which was 
 the very Fact in Confequence upon this Method. 
 
 So foon as the Re monf rants (thole Sons of Cham) had laid 
 open their Fathers naliednefs, with a malicious aggravation of all 
 Krrours and Misfortunes, fbefide fal/hoods innumerable) to 
 irritate the Multitude again ft their Snperiours :, their next 
 Art was to draw that Party to themfelves, which they had 
 
 now 
 
The Growth of Knavery] 9 
 
 now detached from the Government-, with an Oh\ that w$ 
 were made Judges in Ifrael\ Boafting what wonderful things 
 'they had then upon the Anvil for the Publick Good ^ and not 
 forgetting to arrogate all thofe Ads to themfelves, which his 
 Majtfty had pafs'd of his proper Grace and Bounty. Other 
 things (fay they, p. 15.) of main Importance for the good of this 
 Kingdom, are in Proportion -, as the Eft abiding and Ordering the 
 Kings Revenues, that fo the Abufe of Officers, and fuperfiuity of 
 Expences may be cut off, and the necefary Disburfe merits for his 
 Majefties Honour, the Defence and Government of the Kingdom, 
 may be more certainly provided for : the Regulating of Courts of 
 Juftice, and Abridging both the Delays and Charges of Law -Suits, 
 &c. See now if our Reformer of 77. does not Fifh with the 
 very fame Bait. The Houfe of Commons (fays he, p. 63.) took^ 
 up again fuch Publick^ Bills as they had on foot in their former fit- 
 ting, and others that might either remedy prefent, or prevent fu- 
 ture mifchief: As the Bill for Habeas Corpus ; that againft fend- 
 ing Men Prifoners beyond Seas ; that againft raifing of Monty 
 without the confent of Parliament -, that againft Papifts fitting in 
 either Houfe, &c. The Libels in fine of 77. are fo exact a 
 Counterpart of the others of 41. that two Tallies do not 
 ftrike truer : And undoubtedly fuch a Correfpondence in Me- 
 thod , cannot be without fome Conformity alfo of De- 
 fign. 
 
 There needs no other Argument to prove the late Rebellion 
 to have been originally a C on f piracy againft the Government, 
 than the Proportion that appears betwixt the Means, and the 
 End ^ and the orderly Connexion of proper Caufes and Regu- 
 lar Effects. For it was a perfect Train of Artifice, Hypocri- 
 fie and Impofture, from one end of it to the other. The Con- 
 federacy was formed in a Cabal of Scotch and Englijl) Presbyte- 
 rians as appears not only from their Correfpondent practi- 
 ces iii both Nations-, but from his late Majeihes Charge a- 
 gainft the Five Members -, and likewife from the Care that 
 was taken upon his Majefties Reftaaration to date the Englifh Atl 
 of Indemnity from the beginning of the Scotch Tumults (Jan. I. 
 1637.^) which was three Years before the Meeting of the 
 Long Parliament in November 1640. The two Minifters that 
 ftood in the Gap betwixt the Confpiracy, and the Govern- 
 ment, (and who were only cut off, as appeared bv the Sequel, 
 
 B to 
 
^2^ 
 
 to The Growth of KnAvevj. 
 
 to clear the paflage to the King himfclf) were the Earl of 
 Stanford, and Archbifiop Laud : So that their Firfi Attaque 
 was upon the Earl, and their next upon the Archbifiop, under 
 the Notion of £t/*/ CowftRyrs ; and upon the common charge of 
 Pdfcry , and Arbitrary Proceeding, their Impeachments were 
 carried on by Tumults^ and thefe Brave Men were rather bak- 
 ed to Death by Beafts, than fentene'd with any Colour of Law 
 or Juftice : And as they liv'd, fotheydy'd, th? Re folate A f- 
 fertors of the EngUjli Monarchy and Religion : The Earl of 
 Strafford in May 41. but the Archbijljop was kept languifliing in 
 the Tower, till Jan. 44. And their Crime was not in Truth, 
 their being men of Arbitrary Principles themfelves, but for be- 
 ing the Oppofers of thofe Principles in others. 
 
 As the R:mon(irams in 41. for want of Papifis,m prablice 
 and Profcffwn, directed their fpleen againft the Kings Mimfters, 
 only as perfons Popifily affected, fwhich in time came to be 
 molt injuriouflyapply'd tohisMajefty, and his whole Party J 
 Juftfo does our Libeller in 1677. Were thefe Confpirators ffays 
 hej but avowed Papifts, they were the more Honcfl, the lefs Dan- 
 gerous, and their Religion were anfwerable for the Err ours they 
 might co7rimit in order to pro?note it : Bat thefe are men ( fays he, 
 in the next pag.) obliged by all the moft Sacred Tyes of Malice 
 and Ambition, to advance the ruine of the King and Kingdom ; 
 and qualif? d much better than others, under the Name of Good 
 Proteftants, to effect it. As who mould fay •, Popery is to be 
 brought in by fome that pafs for Good Proteftants. (As Rebellion 
 and Tyranny were brought in by the Remonftrants, under the 
 Profelfion of Loyalty and Duty to their Country. ) A very 
 Compendious way of making every man, thatavill not be a 
 Traytor, a Papifl. For who can f?y what any man is, or what 
 he is not, in his Heart ? 
 
 From his Majefties yielding in the Bufinefs of the Earl of 
 Strafford,, the Faction took their Meafures how to deal with 
 him in other Cafes ; and never left, till by gradual Encroach- 
 ments, and Approaches, they firlt ftript him of his Friends ^ 
 Second!), of his Royal Authority, Thirdly, of his Revenue-, 
 and Laftly, of his Life. Whereas, had but this Pious and Un- 
 fortunate King followed the Advice of his Royal Father to 
 Prince Henry, he might upon cheaper Terms have preferv'd 
 himlelf, and his Three Kingdoms. Take heed, (fays King j4m*i) 
 
 to 
 
The Growth of Knavery'. ii 
 
 to fitch Puritans*, very Pefls in the Church, and Common-weal, 
 whom no Deferts can oblige ; neither Oaths, or Promifes bind. 
 Breathing nothing but Sedition, and Calumnies, and making their 
 own imaginations (without any warrant of the Word) the fquare 
 of thctr Confidence. I proteft before the Great God, (and fmce I 
 am here as upon my Teftament, it is no place for me to lye in) that 
 ye Jhall never find with any Highlands or Boider-Thkves, greater 
 Ingratitude, and more Lyes, and vile Perjuries, than with thefc 
 Phanatick Spirits. K. James his Works, p. 505. and 160. 
 
 Upo:i the ripping up of Publicly Grievances, it was but mat- 
 ter of Courfe to follow their Complaints with Petitions for 
 Rtdrefs -, and the Good King, on the other hand, to heap Coals 
 of lire upon their Heads ', deni'd them nothing: But the two 
 firffi Bills that his Majefly pafsM, were fatal to him : That for 
 the Attainder of the Earl of Strafford, and the other for the 
 continuance of the Parliament. They ComplainM of the Star- 
 Chamber , High- Commijfwn-C our t , Ship- Money s , Forreft-LaVfs, 
 Stannary-Courts, Tonnage, and Poundage, &c. and had every 
 Point for the Asking : Nay, and as an inftance of his good 
 Faith and Meaning, his Majefty took fome of their Principal- 
 even into his very Councel. But fo foon as he had parted with 
 ib much, as almoft put it into their power to take the reft, 
 they began then to think of letting up for themfelves (fee his 
 Ma jetties Declaration of Augufl 12. 1642.) end nothh.g but a 
 thorough Reformation they J aid would ever do the IVorl^ Now fee 
 the Gradation. Firft, The people muft be alarniM with the 
 noife of Tyranny, and Popery ; and the Evil Counfdlors muft 
 be removed, that are fad, not proved, to Hand that way in- 
 clined. His Ala fifty muft be humbly Peiitiotfd by both Houfes to 
 imploy fuch CounfeUors, Ambaffiadours , and other Minifters , in 
 managing his bufinefis at home, and abroad, as the Parliament m^y 
 have coufe to confide in, &c. Nay, It may often fall out, they lay, 
 that the Commons may have juft coufe to take Exceptions at fome 
 men for being Counfellors , and yet not charge thefe men with 
 Crimes ; for there be grounds of Diffidence which lye not in proof-, 
 there are others which though they may be proved, yet are not le- 
 gally Criminal ; to be a known favourer of Papifts, or to have 
 been very forward in defending or countenancing fome great of- 
 fenders queftioned in Parliament, ccc. So that at firft Dalh all 
 the Kings Officers tic but Tenants at the Will of the Faclion. 
 
 Bz The 
 
 ^y 
 
>^5 j 2 Th*. Growth of KrtAveyy] 
 
 The next flep is, to fill the places of thofe whom they Qaffc 
 out, with Minifters and Officers of their own chufing , as well 
 Privy Counfcilcrs, as Ju^es. As in the nineteen Proportions of 
 J^. 2. 42. wherein they demand, The Tranftation of the Power 
 of chufing Great Officers, and Minifters of State, from the King 
 to the Two Houfes. Secondly, All matters of State in the Inter- 
 val of Par laments to be debated, and concluded by a Council fo 
 chofen, and in number not above 25. nor under 15. and no public^ 
 Acl eftecnPd of any validity, a-s proceeding from the Royal Autho- 
 rity, unlefs it be done by the advice and confent of the major fart of 
 that Council, att eft ed under their Hands , and the fe alfo [worn to 
 the Senfe of both Houfes. Thirdly, The Lords and Commons muft 
 be intruftcd with the Milkifi. Fourthly, Hu M/yfty may ap- 
 point, but the two Houfes, 01 the Council (in finch manner as afore- 
 faid) muft approve of all Govern ours of Ports and Caftles. Laft- 
 ly, No Peers hereafter made, muft fit, or vote in Parliament, unlefs 
 admitted then unto by the confent of both Houfes. 
 
 By this time the Plot is ripe for a Rebellion ; they Levy War, 
 Jmpofe Oaths, Seize the Revenues of the Church and Crown ; 
 kill, plunder, and imprifion their Fellow-Subjcfts ; depofe and mur- 
 ther their Sovereign, under a Form of Publickjfuftice ; by thefe 
 means advancing themfeives into that Arbitrary Power which 
 they pretended to fear ; over-turning the Government, under 
 the Colour of a Zeal to fupport it; and inftead of fetting us 
 Right in our Religions and Civil Liberties, they left us neither 
 Church, nor Law, nor King, nor Parliament, nor Properties, 
 nor Freedoms. Behold the blefl'ed Reformation •, and remem- 
 ber that the Outcryes againft Tyranny, Popery, and Evil Coun- 
 fe llors, were the Foundation of it. What was their Covenant, 
 but a Blind to their Defigns ? A Popular Sacrament of Religi- 
 ons Difobedience ; and only a Mark of Difcrimi nation who 
 were againft the King, and who for him f Nay, in the very 
 Contemplation of their purpofe, they knew before-hand, that 
 there was no gaining of their point, but by Rapine, Sacriledge, 
 Perjury, Treafon, and Bloud. 
 
 After thefe Notorious Violations of Faith, Honour, Huma- 
 nity, and Religion ; to the common deftrudtion of Prince, Go- 
 vernment, and People, and all upon the fame Bottom with our 
 late Libels ; what can this Vnderminer of Parliaments, what 
 can our Gcncva-Faux find to fay for himlelf ? Is not Mercury 
 
 as 
 
The Growth of Knxvery. I J 
 
 as good Poyfon in 77. as it was in 41 t Do we not ftrikj Fire 
 the fame way now, tnat we did then ? And may not a Spark, in 
 the Cm-Room do as much mifchief ffcia y&r,, as it did tarty or 
 forty years ago ? Are not the Pf<?p/? as much 7W* mow, as 
 rhey were formerly? and as apt to take ill ImprcfTions I 
 What if the lame Method fhould work the fame Confufion o- 
 ver again ? or in truth, what is there elfe to be expected ? For 
 the fame Caufe , ailing at Liberty , muft e tern ally-pro dace the fame 
 Fffett. There's no Chance-medley or MiJ adventure in the 
 Cafe ; but the thing is manifeftly done with Prepenfe malice, 
 and on Jh purpofe, to embroil 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 thefe two 
 things. Firft, To infinuate that the King is in fome Cafes Ac- 
 compt able to his People, ( of which hereafter J And Secondly, 
 To provoke the People, by fuggefting that their Souls, and 
 their Liberties are at itake, to make ufe of that Power. From 
 the former Propofition he pafles into a Florid and Elaborate 
 Declamation againft Popery -, and when he has wrought up the 
 Figureto a height, to make it Terrible and Odious, his next 
 bufinefs is to tell the People, that this Gobling is coming in 
 among them, and to poflefs the Multitude with the Appre- 
 henfionof a Foim'd Conf piracy againft our Religion and Go- 
 vernment : And this too, under the Countenance of an Hifio- 
 rical DeduSion of Affairs ; but with the Faith of a Jefuitical 
 Legend-, wherein all the Kings Minifers are in general term* 
 branded for Confpirators. 
 
 His hand being now in, he is refolv'd to go thorough- flitch, 
 and nothing fcapes him that falls in his way : He makes the 
 Houfe of Lords (p. 7 2. ) to be Felon of it felf; and (p. 82.) 
 Non Compos -, Arraigning their Proceedings in feveral Cafes 
 with Boldnefs and Contempt. But he makes a great deal 
 bolder yet with the Houfe of Commons-, he divides them into 
 three Parts. It is too notorious to be conceal* d (fay she, p. 73 J 
 that near a third part of the Houfe, have Beneficial Offices under 
 his Majefty in the Privy Council, the Army, the Navy, the Law, 
 the Houfiiold, the Revenue both in England, and Ireland, or in at- 
 tevdmce upon ha Majefiies Terfon. Upon this Exception, he 
 
 expounds 
 
 ;>ra 
 
14, The Growth of Knavery. 
 
 expounds himfelf, that'm to be feared, their Gratitude to their 
 Aiafter, with their own Intereft, may tempt them beyond their Obli- 
 gation to the Publickz What can be more Audacious than this 
 Charge upon King, Lords, and Commons, in the Face of a Sit- 
 ting Parliament ? He fays, that it u too notorious to be conceaPd^ 
 &c. And where's the Crime, or the Shame, I befeech you, for 
 an Officer of the Kings, to be a Member of the Houfe of Com- 
 mons ? As if he that has an Office, and he that has none, had 
 not both of them the fame Matter ; or that a man might not 
 as well be a Knave without an Office, as with it. This was 
 the Complaint alfo of 41. againft Officers, till the Complai- 
 nants had gotten thofe Offices themfelves, and then all was 
 quiet. This is only a flier way of declaring the Kings Ser- 
 vants Enemies to the Kingdom, and Erecting an Oppofition 
 betwixt the Common, and infeparable Interefts of his Maje- 
 fty, and his Subjects. Befide that, the fame Reafon would 
 reach to the Excluding of the Kings Servants from any other 
 Truft in the Government, as well as from that of a Member in 
 the Houfe of Commons;, and his Majefties Favour (hould at 
 that rate incapacitate any man for Publick bufinefs. If the Li- 
 beller had open'd his mouth a little wider, he would have told 
 ns in plain EngUJJ:, that there are three or four of Olivers Old 
 Servants out of Office, and that the King is ftrangely over- 
 feen to beftovvhis Boons upon a Company of Fellows that ne- 
 ver 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 up- 
 on fame terms, that they may be admitted, provided that they 
 do not croud into the Houfe in numbers beyond Aiodefty, ( pag. 74J 
 which may feem to be fome amends for the Rafcalshemade 
 of them the very Page before. SuppofeQzyshe) that the Qiie- 
 ftion concerning this Prorogation, were by the Cnftom of Parlia- 
 ments to be juflifPd^ (which hath not bera donehithrrto) yet w\jo 
 that defres to m iintain the Reputation of an Hone ft M.an, wsuld 
 not have laid hold upon foplaufible an occofon, to let eak^ Company, 
 when it wm grown fo ft and Jo us ? And then he affigns the mat- 
 ter of Scandal. For it is too notorious (fays he) to be concealed, 
 that near a third part of the Houfe have Beneficial Offices under 
 his Majcfty,&c. Here's a great deal of bufinefs done in one 
 Period. Firft, He pronounces this Parliament void, and.con- 
 fcquently all their Proceedings to be Nullities. Secondly, He 
 
 will 
 
$ 
 
 Tht Growth of Kiuvtry . 1 5 
 
 will not allow any man to be honeft> that right or wrong 
 would not improve the opportunity of breaking this Partra- 
 mcnt. Thirdly , He makes the H>ufe of Commons to be fcanda- 
 Upu Company , and fcandalotts for having Beneficial Offices under 
 his Aiajefty. The firft time that ever Theard the Kings Bounty 
 was a Scandal to any man. But to my Point. 
 
 And yet {fo^^ he, p. 77.) Thefc Gentlemen being fully and al- 
 ready in Employment, aw more good natur^d, and I fs dangerous tu 
 the Pubtick^, than thofe that are hungry, and out of office , who may 
 by probable Computation make another third part of this Houfe 
 of Commons. And a while after, They are all of tbe&, he fays, 
 ..to be bought, and fold. And when he goes on ^ fp.78.) theie is 
 a third part ftill remaining , hut as contrary in themfelves, as 
 Light and Darknefs. Thefe are either the worft, or the beft of men-, 
 .The firft are mo ft profligate perfons,&z. Concluding (p. 79.) 
 That itislefs difficult -to conceive how Fire was firft brought to 
 Light in the World, than how any thing good could ever be pro- 
 cMC^dout of a -Houfe of Commons Jo Conflituted. And (p. 149.) 
 he calls them this Houfe, or BARN of Commons ; treating the 
 Members accordingly. They lift themfelves (fays he) into fome 
 Court- Faction, and it is as well known among them to what Lord 
 each of rijem retain, as when formerly they wort Coats and 
 Badges. 
 
 And he has not done with them yet neither ; for nothing 
 •will do his Job, but a Final DifTolution -, Confidering, (fays he, 
 pag.8/.) how doubtful a Foot this long Parliament now flood upon 
 by this long Prorogation, there could not have been a more Legal, or 
 however, no more Wife and Honeft a thing done, than for both the 
 Lords and Commons to have feparated themfelves , &c. I 
 could wifh that he had not appealed from the Legality of the 
 thing, to the Wifdom and Honefty of it : But however Legal, 
 or not Legal, the thing is to be done : for he knows very 
 well, that fo long as this Houfe of Commons continues in be- 
 ing, Rebellion can never turn up Trump again. But it was 0- 
 therwife ordered, he fays, and fo he betakes himfelf to an Expe- 
 riment of Tampering all the Grand Juries in England, to Pe- 
 tition for a New Parliament, upon the Credit of his Story con- 
 cerning the Corruptions of this. Wherein by the foul Re- 
 flections he has paft upon many Perfons of Known and Eminent 
 Example, for Piety 7 Integrity, and Moderation, he has utter- 
 ly 
 

 1 6 The Growth of Knavery. 
 
 ly difappointed the Malice of his Scandal upon the reft. It 
 was well enough faid, methought, by a Worthy Member of 
 the Houfe of Commons ', Do not you fee, fays he 3 bow they ham 
 Libel? d me in that damn* d Lift of the Parliament-men? One 
 told him that he was miftaken, for his Name was not in'c. 
 Why, that's the bufinefs, fays he, for "'tis only a Libel upon thofe 
 that are left out. Nay, rather than fail, he does as good as ad- 
 vife a down-right In fur reel: ion, (in thefe words, p. 155.) It is 
 now come to the fourth Aft ('fays he) and the we xt Scene that cp ns, 
 may be Rome, or Paris, (by the Plot, it fliould be rather Gene- 
 va, or Edinburgh) yet men fit by, like idle Spectators, and ft ill 
 give Money toward their %wn Tragedy, And why does he blame 
 them for Sitting by ? And like Idle S PECT AT OR Si un- 
 lefs he would have them enter into Tumult, and Aftion. A ve- 
 ry fair Encouragement to make men beftir themfelves , and 
 without more Ceremony, lay violent hands upon the Publick. 
 Good God ! That ever fuch a Creature as this fhould pro- 
 pound to himfelf by the dafh of a Pen, to move the Foundati- 
 ons of the Engliftj Government. 
 
 From the Parliament, he defcends to the Judges. Alas \ 
 (fays he) the Wifdom and Probity ef the Law went off for the 
 moft part, with Good Sir Matthew Hales, and Juftice is made a 
 meer Property. And then he raves upon the conftant Irregulari- 
 ties, and Jnjuftice from Term to Term, of thofe that adminifter 
 the Judicature betwixt his Majefty, and his People (p. 154.) This 
 Toyfonous Arrow (meaning the Choice of the JudgesJ ftrikes to 
 the very Heart of Government, and could come from no Quiver, 
 but that of the Confpirators. What French Counfel, 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 compendioujly acled by Twelve 
 % Judges in Scarht (p. 66.) And is not this directly 41 again ? 
 When no Judges would ferve the turn, but thofe that betray'd 
 the People to' Slavery, and his Sacred Majefty to the Scaffold J 
 He has another Fling at the Sheriffs. If a-iy Worthy Pcrfon (fays 
 he, p. 80.) chance to carry the Eletlion, fome Mercenary or Cor- 
 rupt Sheriff makes a double Return ; and lb the Caufe is handed 
 to the Committee of Eleclions, &c. And truly he does not 
 Five either the King, or the Monarchy of England, much bet- 
 ter 
 
py* 
 
 The Growth of ZCmvcry. 17 
 
 ter Quarter than he allows the reft ; as you mall fee by and 
 by : So that nothing lefs than the through Reformation of 41. 
 will do the work of 77. And the whole Frame of the Govern- 
 ment mult be unhingM, to gratific the Caprice of a Pragmati- 
 cal Male-content. 
 
 The Pajfion and Malice of the Libeller is fo evident, that he 
 does half confefs it himfelf, by an Anticipation of the Charge. 
 The Relator (fays he, pag. 155.) foresees that he JJjall on both 
 hands be blamed for fur feting this Method. Some on the one fide 
 mil expel that the very Per fens fljould have been nanPd : whereas 
 he only gives Evidence to the Fall, and leaves the MalcfaElors to 
 thofe that have the Power of Enquiry. If he can but acquit him- 
 felf on the other hand for writing the Libel, as well as on this 
 for not naming the perfons, he will do well enough. For fir ft ; 
 It is not his bufinefs to prove, but to defame. Secondly , The 
 naming of Particulars would have reftrain'd the Calumny : 
 whereas his work is to wound all the Kings Minifters that faith- 
 fully adhere to their Mafter in Jthe generality of the fcandal. 
 Thirdly ; He judges it fafer, and more expedient to amule the 
 multitude with jealoufies that cannot be difprov^d, than point- 
 blank to fatten upon Particulars an Accuiation that cannot be 
 provM. What does he mean by faying that he gives Evidence 
 to the Fail} It is the firft Libel certainly that ever was given 
 in Evidence. But whereas the Relator himfelf all this while, 
 upon whofe bare word Parliaments are to be Diflblv'd ; Mi- 
 nifters of State Arraigned, Judges difplac'd, and the whole 
 Government new McdelPd? What if he mould appear, and 
 be found at laft to have been one of Oliverh Cabal ? Would 
 any man defire a more competent Witnefs for Charles the Se- 
 cond, than the Murtherer of Charles the Firft ? But he has 
 been fo us'd to call the King himfelf Traytor,,thzt he may be 
 allowed to call his Friends Confpirators. 
 
 On the other hand (fays he, pag. 155.) feme will reprefent this 
 Difcourfe {as they do all Bookj that tend to detetl their Confpiracy 
 again ft his Majefty, and Kingdom) as if it Were written again ft 
 the Government. For now of late, as foon as any Man is gotten 
 into Publicly Employment by ill Ails y and by worfe continues it ; 
 he 7 if it pUafe the Fates, is thenceforward the Government, and 
 
 C by 
 
"6 
 
 :o 
 
 \% The Growth of Knavery. 
 
 by being Criminal, pretends to he Sacred. This is only c. 
 Whore firft, to call thofe people Cwffirators, who are likely 
 to cenfure him for a Libeller:, which with his Learned leave, 
 is but a Courfe Figure neither j-md runs much better in the Com- 
 mon Billing fgate of Ten are a Knave your fclf to fay that Pm 
 one. Which in few -words is all that's in't. Fcr he dees net 
 offer foHuachas one fyikbiein his Jultification, but with a- 
 nother Lafli or two at the Kings Minifters, winds up his Pe- 
 riod. Now of late, fays he, (lie means, 1 fuppofe, fi nee Oliver 
 went out of PJay ) as fom as any Man is rotten into Publick. 
 
 \oymem by ill y-'tls,&c. He fhould do well to confide: 
 Governs, before he fays that Villany is the ready way to Pre- 
 ferment \ He, ifitfleafe the Fates, is thenceforward the Co- 
 verr*nHnt, and by being Criminal, pretends to be Si.crcd. I an- 
 fwer, That in the Ca'eof aPublickand Legal Accufation, the 
 Miniileris not the Government ; for the Charge terminates 
 in, and operates no further than his perfon •, but in the Af- 
 front of a ramJefs, and Indefinite Libel, the King himfelf is 
 wounded in a General Reflection upon his Minifters •, for it 
 is his Choice, and Commiflion,not the Officers Miidemeanour, 
 that is there in Queflion : Nor does he pretend to be Sacred 
 becaufe he is Criminal •, but the Libeller (who (till writes after 
 the Remonf ranee) makes every thing Criminal that is Sacred, 
 and gives the Conftruftionof Rebellion to Loyalty, and of Loy- • 
 alty to Rebellion. 
 
 But if there be not Mifchief in the very Project of this Li- 
 bel, there's nothing at ail in't:, for I cannot frame to my felf 
 the leaft colour, or pofTibility of any other End. He fays, It 
 was his Defign indeed to give Information, but not to turn Infor- 
 mer. That is to fay, he would fet the people together by the 
 Ears, and no body mould know who did it. Now fee the End, 
 he propounds. That thofe (fays the Relator) to whom he has 
 only a V ublick^Enmity , no private Animofity, might have the Pri- 
 vilcdge of States-men te repent at the lafl hour, anh by one jingle 
 Action to expiate all their former mifdemeanonrs. Which is e'en 
 as Civil a way as a body would wiih, of recommending a Pub- 
 Jick Minifter to his laft Prayer. It remains now to fpeak a 
 word to the Timing of his Enterprize, which, in a wicked 
 &nfe, is in truth the Glory of it. 
 
 I 
 
33* 
 
 The Growth of Knavery. 19 
 
 I fhall not need to (peculate upon the Power, and Defigns 
 of France, the deplorable State of Flanders, or the Confe- 
 quences that mull: inevitably reflect upon England in the lofs 
 of the Spanijh Netherlands : the matter being agreed upon at 
 all hands, that an Union of Affections, Counfels, and Intc- 
 refts, was never more neceflary to this Nation than at this in- 
 ftantitis:, and that delay is JDeathto us. This being given for 
 granted, it is likewife as certain, that nothing under Heaven, 
 but the Credit. of this Sitting Parliament, and the Blefling of 
 a Fair Underftanding betwixt his Majefty,and his Two Houfes, 
 can pre ferve this Kingdom, (Morally fpeakingj from Irrepa- 
 rable Ruine. And yet this is the Critical Juncture that the Li- 
 beller has made choice of, for the blading both of the Go- 
 vernment, and the Adminiftration of it -, for the violent Dif- 
 folution even of this molt neceflary Parliament •, for the Tow- 
 ing of Jealoufies , and alienating the Peoples Hearts from 
 their Duty to their Sovereign. Let the World now judge be- 
 twixt the Libeller i and the pretended Co n 'far at or s -, who are 
 more probably the Perfumers of France -, thofe that are only 
 Calumniated in the Dark, and without any proof or the lealt 
 colour of it, or the Calumniators them/elves, (I mean, the Li- 
 beller, and his Adherents) who are doing all that is poflible 
 toward the Facilitating of the Work of Frame, and the put- 
 ting of England out of Condition to defend it felf. What is 
 it, I befeech you, that cannowfupport us in this Exigent, but 
 the Wifdom and Reputation of a Parliament ? which they 
 are at this very inftant, labouring to defame and diflblve : di- 
 ffracting and dividing the Nation, at a time when our belt U- 
 nion is little enough to preferve us 5 and oblrructing thofe 
 Parliamentary fupplies, without which we malt unavoidably 
 perifh : For it is to this Seflion, that the Libeller directs the 
 Mock^of Still giving Money toward their own Tragedy. But 
 lure we are not fo mad yer, as to take the Subverters of our 
 Church and State, for the Advocates of our Religion and Free- 
 dom. I would know, in the next place, What any man can 
 fay to excufe his Growth of Popery, from being a daring, and a 
 fateful Libel againft the King, and his Government. And I 
 fnail begin with the Liberties he takes with his Majefty, fome- 
 time in direct Terms, and otherwhile under the Blind of the 
 Confpirators. 
 
 C 2 Speaking 
 
r?s 
 
 2 o Tht Growth of Knavery. 
 
 Speaking of the Shutting up of the Exchequer fpag. 31.) Tt# 
 O0W/2 (fays he J »Wf Pr/^f of the Sub ,ell s and broke all Faith, 
 and Cjnt rati at Home, in order to the breaking of them abroad with 
 mrre advantage. The Copy has in this Point out- done the Origi- 
 nal •> for the Remonflr ..nts WCtC inarms, before rhcy prefum'd to 
 Word it at this audacious height, Talc it in the In blent Re- 
 pretVntation of the Fart ; The malicious Conftr.ction and Pre- 
 emption of the Intent ; and to both thefe, add the fordid man- 
 ner of Rcflerting upon an extraordinary thing done upon an 
 extraordinary occafion:, and wherein the Subject has fince recei- 
 ved ib ample and generous fatisfartionj The Clamour is To foul, 
 as if an Egyptian Plague were broken in upon us, and the Frogs 
 of GtntyAr crept into tlie King"* s Cmmbers. And "*t is mnch at the 
 Lime Rate, that, he Ticats the King abojt his Declaration of In- 
 d '4 lgence 3 ( pag. $ 3 . ) Hereby (t a y s h e J all the Penal Laws again ft 
 Papifts, for which former Parliaments had given fo many Supplies, 
 and again ft N O n-Conf Of mifts, for which tins Parliament had played 
 more largely, were at one in ft ant Sufptnded in order to def rand the 
 Nation of all that Religion, which they hadfo dearly purchafed, Crc . 
 Obferve here how ungratefully he charges the Deftgnoi this De- 
 claration to be the defrauding the Nation of their Religion ; which 
 on the contrary was a manileft Corceffion, only to gratiBc the 
 reftlcfs Importunities of his own Gang. And lee whatfporthc 
 makes, but five or fix Lmes further, with the very Reafonof 
 that Law which he takes here ib hainoufly to be fufpended. It 
 appears (fays he ) ar the ftrft fight, that Men ought to enjoy the fame 
 -.Propriety and Protection in their Confciences, which they have in 
 their Lives, Liberties, and Eftsacs ; But that tot ak$ away thefe 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 
 cf Money, and for want of Religion, that men take thefe defpe- 
 rateCmrfes. Now, by his Favour, there is a great Difparity 
 betwixt a Pretence to Propriety, and Protection in Confciences, and 
 a Pretence to them, in Lives, Liberties, and Eftates ; for the 
 Latter are lyableto Violence, and may be taken away, but the 0- 
 therca.'.not. And now he talks of Padding upon this Road', The 
 Remonftrants fas I remember) were very good at it, 7 hat d-ove 
 away from their Churches, 85 Mmfters efqj, within the Walls of 
 London. We'll agree in the matter with him, that want of Mo* 
 ney, and Want of Religion, will put Men upon difperate Courfes ', for 
 
 my 
 
TIjj Growth of Knavery. a t 
 
 my charity perfwades me. He would never have written thefe Li- 
 bels e'fe. He is a little pofttive, mcrhinks, in Averring that a 
 Great Lord loft his Place for defending the Prottftant Religion, 
 (pag. 44. ) But he has forgotten the Statute of his own Citings 
 (pag. 15.) that makes it Inczfacity, for faying that the the King 
 ts a P-ifft, or an Introducer of Popery •, and that it was the King 
 himfclf that remov'd his Lordfhip. And what do you think ofhis 
 Irony fpag. 43 ) where he lays. That the Parliament by the 
 Confp;rators good Leave^ wot admitted to fit again at the day ap- 
 pointed. He leilfi us of another Affair too, pag. 5 1 ; which being 
 travfrmttedto his Mayfly, was eafily changed into a Court Intrigue } 
 and rpag.63.) That the Con fptracors might fo reprefent things to 
 his Mayfly , as to incenfe again ft the Parliament, and di fir lifting all 
 Parliamentary Advice, to take Coancel from Themfdves, from 
 France, and from Neccflity. 
 
 In this Difloyal and irreverent Liccnc?, he drops yon a word 
 or two now and then, before he is aware, againfl the King him- 
 fclf , and other whiles, difcharges his Malice to the Government, 
 upon the Heads of Publich^Mimflers. The Subject Matter of his 
 Complaint is a Tendency of Couniels and Anions towards 7}- 
 ram.y, and Popery. But the King (Tays he, pag- 4.) can do no 
 wrong \ and fo goes on, nor can he receive wrong. What is this, 
 but a Judication of all the Violences that were acted upon the 
 Luc King; even to the very Murther of him *, under that Mor- 
 tal, and Treaibnous Diftin&ion betwixt his Authority and his 
 Per f on ? And an Allowance, that the fame Courfe may be taken 
 with his Royal SuccetTours ? The King can receive no wrongs (he 
 fays) What does he mean by this ? Is not his Majeftics Breath in 
 bisNoftrils? Is he not Flefh and Bloud f Is not his Body lyable 
 to Wounds, Diftempers, Imprifonment, and Death ? He'll tell 
 you, Tes\ But this is not the K I NG , but the MAN, the 
 PERSON: But the KlNq, all this while, that is to fay, 
 the Authority , is Sacred and Invulnerable. 
 
 Now for Peace, and Brevity fake, Let us fuppofe that this 
 Charge of a Popijh, and Arbitrary Defign, does neither intend 
 nor refleel any imputation upon his Majefty \ (his Religion, and 
 hisTendcrnefs of Nature being unqueftionable) It is yet a worfe 
 Libel another w ay % Worfe (I fay) both as to the Drift, and to 
 
 the 
 
F? 
 
 22 The Growth of Knavery. 
 
 the Scandal of it, by how much Contempt is more dangerous to a 
 Prince, than Hatred: For he employes his utmoft Skill to Repre- 
 sent his Majefty only Tajfive in all his Administrations, and fo to 
 leffon the indubitable Fame of his Royal Prudence, and Courage 
 among his People. 
 
 You fee, Sir, the Freedom he takes with the King and his Mi* 
 nifters ; The nex t Point, will be to enquire, how he (lands affect- 
 ed to the Cjovcrnment it felf. The Shj jells (fays he, pag. 3.) re* 
 tain their proportion in the Legiflaturc. In which faying, he makes 
 them Partners of the Sovereignty •, and turns the Monarchy of 
 England into a Tripartite and Coordinate Coiernment ; which is 
 as well deftruclive of Parliaments, on the One Hand, as of Roy- 
 alty on the Other. Upon the Admittance of this Coordination, 
 any Two of the Three may deftroy the Third: the Two Houfes 
 may deftroy the King y and the King, with Zither of the Houfes, 
 may deftroy the Other. Which if it be fo, what Prince that is 
 Imperial in the Intervals, would ever hazard the Dethroning of 
 himfelf by a Sejjion ? The making of Laws is a peculiar and in- 
 cowmunicable^rivilege of the Supreme Power, and the Office of 
 the Two Houfes in this Cafe is only Confultive, or Preparatory \ 
 but the Charavter of Power refts in the Final Sanction, which is 
 in the King .-And Effectually the Pa (Ting of a Bill, is but the 
 granting of a Requeft : The Two Houfes make the Bill \ 'tis true, 
 but the King makes the Law ; and "'tis the Stamp, not the Matter, 
 that makes it Current : Nor does the Subyeft any othcrwife make 
 Laws, then the Petitioner makes Orders of Council. 
 
 It is aSufpicious, and I II - looking Paffige that he has, pag. 14. 
 As to Matter of Government, fays he -, If to mnrther the King, 
 be (certainly it is) a Fall fo horrid, (he docs not fay how hor- 
 rid) how much more hainoas is it to Affaff.nate the Kingdom f Here 
 is firitinvolv'd in this Clauie, the DepofingPoption of 41, that 
 the King is Singulis ma)or^ IJniverfis minor : For it is clear that 
 the Comparifon was only made to draw on the Preference, and to 
 poffeis 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 Transition ftill of 41 ) And for their further Encou- 
 ragement, he tells them (pag. 4. ) that we have the fame Right 
 (modefily tmderftood)in our Propriety } that the Prkce hath m his 
 
 Regality ; 
 
?b Growth of Kmveyy. 2 J 
 
 Regality ; which carries with it an Innuendo, that the King may 
 as well Forfeit his Crown, as the Snbjccl his Free-hold, It can- 
 not be imagined that all thefe Leading and Defperatc Hints 
 mould fall from a Man of Brains and Senfe by Chance ■, and 
 you fee the whole Trad takes the fame Byafs. 
 
 No Ki?:g of England (fays he, pag. 58.) had ever fo great a 
 Treafure of his peoples affections, except what thofe M men have 
 (as they have done all the refp) confemPd-, whom, but okt of an 
 Exccfs of Love to his perfon, the Kingdom would never (for it ne- 
 ver did formerly) fo long have fnffer^d. Here's ftill the Croco- 
 dile of 41. nothing but Love and Reverence to his late Maje- 
 fty too, till his Head was off. But let us reafon the matter in 
 a wcrd. Thefe ill men have no Names, it fecms ; fo that any 
 Man that's near the King, is by this Libeller fet up for a Mark 
 to the Outrage of the people. And then he fays, The King- 
 dom would never have fvffe'fd them. Who are they, I pray, that 
 he calls the /C/V/^w, but the &*&£/* ftill of 41. the Execrable 
 Jnftruments of that Rebellion, and the Hopes of another ? But if 
 the Kingdom would not fufFer it, what would he have them do 
 to help themfelves ? The Law is open, in Cafe of any Legal 
 Impeachment, and 'tis too early days yet for a Tumult. 
 
 In his Defcant upon the Teft, he is wonderfully free of his 
 Figures. Never (fays he, pag. 59.) was fomuch fenfe contained 
 in fo few words -, no Conveyancer could ever in more Compendious^ 
 or binding Terms, have drawn a Dijfettlement of the whole Birth- 
 right of England. This Teft has made a great noife, and it 
 will be worth the while to examine what is faid againft it. The 
 Form of it is as follows. 
 
 / A. B. do declare that it is not lawful upon any pretence what- 
 foever to take up Arms againft the King ', and that I do abhor that 
 Trayterom Pofnion of taking Arms by his Authority, againft his 
 Perfon, or againft thofe that are Commiffiorfd by him in Purfuance 
 of fuch Commijfion. And I do fwear that J will not at any time 
 endeavour the alteration+of the Government, either in Church or 
 State* So help me God-, * 
 
 He 
 
n- 
 
 24 The Growth of Knxvery. 
 
 He fays, pag. 57. That it rvas thrown out of the Houfein the 
 Tlague-year at Oxford , for fear of a general Infection of the 
 Vitals of this Kingdom \ whereas in truth, it was brought into 
 the Honfe as an Antidote againft that Poyfon which had feizM 
 iheTitals of this Kingdom already -, and amounts to no more 
 than the Vnfwearing of that on the behalf of the Govern- 
 ment, which had been formerly fwornforthe deflrucbion of it. 
 The Author of A Letter from a Perfon of Quality, &c. calls 
 it, p. 1. ST AT E-M AST ER-P IE CE, and detigtfd 
 to thefe Ends. Firft, To make a diftintt Party, from the refi of 
 the Nation, of the High Epifcopal Man, and the Old Cavalier. 
 Now I took it rather to be a Defign of Vniting all Parties, 
 under one Common Bond of Duty, and Obedience to the Go- 
 vernment : And where that could not be obtained, to diftin- 
 guifh who were for the Government, and who againft it -, for 
 the late King was murther'd upon this very Diftinction be- 
 twixt his Authority and his Perfon. Nor is there any Govern- 
 ment upon the Face of the Earth, without fome Obligation up- 
 on the Subject, Equivalent to this Teft. 
 
 Next , lays he, they defign to have the Government of the 
 Church fworn to a* Unalterable, and fo Tacitly owrfd to be of 
 Divine Right. This, under favour , is a Fallacy. The Tell 
 does not concern it felf, whether the Government be Change- 
 able, or not, but only provides that theScate may be ferv'd 
 with Magiftrates and Officers, that ftand well AfFeftedto the 
 Eftablifhment. Thofe that do fo, will never fcruple the Oatli ; 
 and for thofe that do not, it is the very intent of it to difcri- 
 ininate, and to exclude them : And to encounter the Cove- 
 nant, by Virtue of which they diflblv'd the late Government, 
 with an Oath never to endeavour any further Alteration in this. 
 And certainly, a man may better fvvear the Maintaining of a 
 Government according to the Law, than the alteration of it a- 
 gainfi Law. 
 
 Thirdly, fays the Author of the Letter, In Requital tc 
 Crown, they declare the Government Abfolute, and Arbitrary, and 
 allow Monarchy, as well as Epifcopacy, to be Jure Divino, and 
 not to be bounded, or limited by Hum.ine Laws. 
 
 How 
 
 
0*1 5 
 
 The Growth of Kmveyy. 2 $ 
 
 How this Tefi does either declare, or jprcMid ttkc&iverxmene 
 
 to be abfolate 9 and arbitrary, I cannot imagine : Bur on the con- 
 trary, every man is ty'd by it from endeavouring to make it fo, 
 if it be not fo already, in Swearing that he void not any timeendea- 
 v$ur the Alteration of it. And then in his Explication of the 
 meaning of Church, and State in the Tefi, by Monarchy and E- 
 fifcofacy\i\\[\s Reflection upon it *, he has done us a greater kind- 
 uefs than he was aware of ^ for he has wholly difappotntcd the 
 Spight, and the Intent of his next Claufe. And fas he goes 
 on^ tofecurcaMthis, They re fo he to take away the Power and Op- 
 portunity of Parliaments ; to alter any thing in Church or State on- 
 ly leave them as an Inftrument to raife Money, and to pafs fitch 
 Laws, as the Court, andChnreh fiall have a mind to : The Attempt 
 •f any other , how neceffary foever, misj} be no lefs a Crime than 
 Perjury. 
 
 Sec now whether or no this be fair dealing. It is, by his own 
 Confcflion, the Form of Monarchy ', and the Order of Epifcopa- 
 ey ; The Government it felf, and not the Adminifiration of it, that 
 is hereinQucftios. He would have it believed, That by this 
 Tcft, Parliaments are barr'd upon pain of Perjury from attempting 
 any Alteration IN Church OR State-. Whereas they are I eft at 
 Liberty to debate what Alterations they pleafc in the Parts of the 
 Government, provided they do not ftrikc at the Root of the Go- 
 vernment it felf. And the Deliberation and Refuft of the whole 
 vfnattcr, is no more than this. Many of the People (and all the 
 Principles) are yet living, that deftroy'd the King, and the Bi- 
 fhopsin the laft Rebellion : Let us have a Care of the fame Hands 
 again, and truft none of thera in the Government but under an 
 Oath ^ not to endeavour the Alteration of it : That is to fay, of 
 the Monarchy into a Republic^ or of Epifcepacy into Presbytery , 
 as they did before. And this was the clear Scope of theTeft. 
 
 The Author of the Growth of Popery, difcourfing upon this 
 Subject; There u nothing {4ays he, pag. 57^ more Portentous, 
 and of w or fe Omen, than whenjnehan Oath hangs over a Nztiofi 
 like a New Cornet^ foreboding the Alteration if Religioner Go 
 vernment. 
 
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 4fl 
 
'Mi 
 
 26 The Growth of Knavery. 
 
 A Word firft to the OAth, which, for want of an Epithete to 
 •sprefs tbehcinoufnefsofit; The Libeller ib Emphatically calls 
 SVCH an Oath. It is an Oath founded upon the fame confiscati- 
 on with the Oath of Allegiance, and directed to the fame End-,and 
 every jot as ncccfTary under this King, as that was under his 
 Grand-father. The Je fated Papifts had invited the Spaniard to 
 Invade England: The jC fated P rot eft ants in the late Rebellion did 
 in like manner apply themiclvcs to the French. The Former laid 
 a Plot for the blowing up of the Parliament \ The Other execu- 
 ted the Plot of deftroying Parliaments, changing the Government, 
 and murthering the King, The People were milled in thzOne 
 Cafe, upon the Jefatical Principle, that a Prince being. Excom- 
 municate by thcPopc y the Subject is dilcharg'd of his Duty to 
 him*, and they .were feduced in the other y by a Perfuafion that 
 the Sacred Character of a King Refts in the Authority, and is fe- 
 parable from the Perfon : which Authority they lodg'd in the Two 
 Houfes, and fo did their Bufmeis. This Practice of the Je fates 
 occaiionV. the Oath of Allegiance in the Statute ^ojacobi, Entit- 
 led an Acl for the discovering and Rcprejfing of Popifh Recufants. 
 In which Oath you have this Claufe. And 1 do further fwear 
 that J do from my heart dcteft and abjure, as impiom and Heretical, 
 this damnable Doclrine, and Pofition, That Princes which be Ex- 
 communicated, or deprived by the Pope^ may be depofedor Murther^d 
 by their Subjecls y or any other whatfoever. Here was an Ail for 
 the Discovering and Reprejfmg of Pop'tfh Recufants, with an Oath, 
 ■under a Penalty, and a Declaration againft, and an Abhorrence of 
 that impious Pofition, whereupon the Treafons of thofe Times 
 were founded : And why not a Provifion as well againft thofe 
 People that with premeditated Malice, aswcll as Arabition,over- 
 turn'd theJate Government^ and againft that Principle of divi- 
 ding his Majefties Authority from his Perfcn^which was the Coun- 
 tenance and Support of the late Rebellion : Take it in fliort^and 
 the Teft is but a Supplement to the Oath of Allegiance. The 
 Scottijh Faction impos'd upon the People that they might be true 
 to the King, though they Levy'd Arras againft his Perfon : and 
 the end of this Oath is only to expound That Pofition to be Trea- 
 fmom, and to fecure the Government for the future againft men 
 of fuch Principles ; according to equity and conscience, and to 
 the common practice ? s and according to the prudence of all well- 
 order'd States. 
 
 I* 
 
»» 
 
 The Growth of Knavery. 27 
 
 Is this the Oath now that: he calls SVCH an Oath? The 
 Oath, than rrhich there is nothing more PortentC s, and of voorfe 
 Omen to a Nation ? He has forgotten the Fore boqiflg, and Tor- 
 teutons Omens of Forty One, and the Dire E\ eijts rf thofe Pre- 
 fages. What do you think of a deliberate Defign, ro fpoii 
 the Crown, the Church, and the Subject'. And all t is a the 
 Name of God. for the Honour of the King, and the Good of 
 the^p/f? And then the Entitling of Providence to ail the 
 Advantages that the Faclion got by the Ruine of fhret King- 
 doms f Here's the unrepented Guilt of Sacnledge, Treajon, and 
 Bloud, to the Higheft Degree, and fo Tra-lcendent an Ingrati- 
 tude, thatfomeof the very men that were pardon'd for one 
 Rebellion, are now the Advocates for another. If thefe Pra- 
 ctices mould be fuffer'd, there would be no need to confult the 
 Stars for a Prognoftick of Change of Government. 
 
 The Oaths (fays he, pag. 58.) in our late Kings time taught 
 the Phanaticks , becaufe they could not [wear , yet to Covenant. 
 His memory fails him, I perceive, for the Covenant was a-foot 
 in Scotland before any O^k complained of here^ by the To- 
 ken that the Aflembly at GUfeow, in 1638. came to this Refo- 
 lution upon the point. It is lawful for Subjctts to Covenant and 
 Combine, without the King, and enter into a Bond of mutual De- 
 fence a/ainft him. Take notice next, that the Oath complained 
 of, was the Oath ex Officio, which Oath was abolifb'd, before 
 any Covenanting in England : And he is Co much out again, in 
 laying that the Phanaticks Covenanted, &c. becaufe they could not 
 fwear, that in truth they Covenanted, becaufe they card not what 
 they fwore. Witnefs their Covenants, Negative Oaths, and Oath 
 of Abjuration, in Oppofition 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 
 Kings Covenant ; And it was one Condition upon the Treaty at 
 the Ifle of Wight, that his Majcfly himfelf Jlrould give ajfurance 
 by Solemn Oath under his Hand, and Seal, for fettling Religion 
 according to the Covenant : So that they made no Confcience 
 fyou fee) either of Swearing, or Foyfwearing ; either of ta- 
 kingOzt\\sthemfelves, or of forcing them upon others for the 
 advancement of their Defign. 
 
 D 2 He 
 
w 
 
 i% Th*. Growth of Knuvery*. 
 
 He takes Exception (pag. 59.) to them? Declaratory Points 
 of the Tifi. Fir It, Tlfet *> is not lawful upon any pretence what- 
 foever, to take >*? Arms againft the King. And he reafons the 
 matter in the k words : It were difficult toinftance a Law, ei- 
 ther in this, or 61 ;ry> but that a private man, if any King 
 in Chrifiendom ajfault few*, may, having Retreated to the Wall, 
 fiakAwfm his Guard. Th& is to fay, a private man may kill 
 his Prince i-". 1 ; -ice. For he puts this Cafe in oppo- 
 fition to rite £k ion:, only tranilating the taking up of 
 Arms agakifitfot ■■ ■ fg, into a Marts Standing upon hi* Guard. 
 All thi *s I . fc is this, that he refufes to declare that to 
 t& holds to be Urrfu. 
 
 His fecond Scrupic is, The Abhorrence of that Trayterous 
 Tojitim of taking Ar?ns by his Authority, again ft his Peribn, or 
 againft thofe that are Cominiflioned by him, in pur f nance of fuch 
 Commlffion. Here (fays he) is neither Te-ncur, or Rule of any 
 fuch Commiflion fpecifPd, nor the Qualification of thofe whicl* 
 Jhall be Armed with fuch Commiffions, expreffed, or limited. 
 
 The Author of this Frivolous Shift, knows very well, that 
 the Rules and Aieafures of Commifhons vary according to the 
 Circumftances of Time, PUce, Fail, R erf on •, that the Qualifi- 
 cation of the Commiffwner does not at all operate upon the Au- 
 thority of the Commijfwn ; 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 Cavils, and Objections. But in the 
 next Page, he fpeaks his mind a little plainer. 
 
 As to the Commiflion, (fays he) if it be to take away a Mar?s 
 Tfiate, or his Life by force, yet it is the Kings Commifiion: or if 
 the Verfon Commiffionate be under never fo many Difabilities by 
 Afts of Parliament ; yet his taking this Oath, removes all thofe 
 Incapacities, or his Commijfion makes it not difputable. 
 
 This Seditious Hint (for I cannot call it an Argument) lies 
 open fo many ways, that I am only at a lofs whereto begin- 
 with it. Firft, Let the Commijfion, and Commiffumer be what 
 they will, no Man is to be a Judge in his own Caufe ; but the 
 Law mull be the Judge both of the Legality of the one, and 
 
 the 
 
The Growth of Kn^tYy. ^ a * 
 
 the Capacity of the <tf/?fr. Secondly, If upon this ground an 
 irifjtfd Perfon may take Arms, in one C^w; fo may %CUminal y 
 upon the bare pretfttp of it in any otferfr : For 7 ti^ but laying 
 that HKS'Commijfian is unwarrantable, or that * Jta Officer is a Raf- 
 cal, and there's his Juftification. Thirdly, Suppofe a double 
 abufe in Manner, as is here fuggeited - n that abttfe does not yet 
 void the Authority, to which the Law on the one fide rcqnires 
 obedience, or at leaft fubmijfion •, and there is no Law, on the 
 0*6*- jft&, that allows refinance. Fourthly, The End and Pro- 
 fped of all Laws is Publick Convenience, and there was never 
 any Law invented, fo profitable to a Community, but it was in 
 ibme refpect or other, to the detriment of fome particulars : 
 So that the very admittance of his fuppofitions, does ftoe at 
 all affect the Reafon of the TV/?, if the benefit b& general on 
 the one hand, and the Mifchief only particular on the other. 
 How many men are fworn out of their Lives and Fortunes by 
 falfe Witneffesl Shall we therefore quarrel the Me^ho 
 proceeding Secundum Allegata, & Probata ? A man is arre 
 upon a Fobb'd Action, for a fum of Money, knowing fish% 
 that he owes not a Peny : Secondly, that the Confcquence of 
 it will be his Ruine.- Thirdly, that the Action is meerly Ma- 
 licious : And fourthly, (to make it ftrong enough j that the 
 Officer thatferves the Writ is Confederate with his Ad 
 ry, and that they have both complotted his dcftr^&ion : 
 this will not yet Authorize a refinance ; but if an Officer that 
 has the Kings Writ, or any other lawful Warrant, though Er~ 
 roneotis, mall be Main in the Execution of it, this is MV R- 
 T H E R. A word now as to the occafion of it. 
 
 The People of 41. when they had forced his Majcfty from 
 his Palace, by Affronts and Arm'd Tumults, pubiihVd this 
 Doctrine to the Nation, that though his Perfon was gone, his 
 Authority refided in the two fioufes : under which colour they 
 impoied Ordinances upon the people, for Laws, and by De- 
 grees proceeded to an Exercifc of all the Acts of Sovereignty y 
 making War againfl the Pwfmvi the King, and trfofe that 
 were CommtffictPd by him a nder the pretence afore laid : as Re- 
 b(lliouj y Traytors^ a id Cmfpkattrt. Now to prevent the fame 
 M : [chief a,; . J pies, it was thought fit 
 
 & ' .Abhorrence. The Objeclions a- 
 
 gainft 
 
%+*: 
 
 • O The Growth of Knavery. 
 
 gainft if*. are y that rtte King may grant a Commijfion to take away 
 a A'frtrfs Life, or Ejlate, and i/n ploy any man at a venture to exe- 
 it \ which is Firfl, The fuppolai of an mjnjl, and Tyranni- 
 cal Commifion : Second '•/, A Cafe fo rare, that it would be a 
 hard matter to produce a Precedent for it, without a Reference 
 to a Tryal at Law: And Thirdly, What would be the Fruit of 
 facha Refifiams, but the tinning of znOpprejfion on the one 
 fide, into a R -hellion on the other-, and the forfeiting of that 
 £*fr* -and -Eftutt to the L^ip, which was otherwife invaded 
 contrary to the Law ? For 'tis a thoufand to one that the pow- 
 er JHxat iflu'd the Comtniflion, will find Afliftants to Execute it. 
 So that the Refinance pleaded for in this Cafe, is Firft, of a 
 very remote Suppoficion : Secondly, of dangerous Confe- 
 quence to the Refiftent : And Thirdly, of no Avail to him 
 at all. 
 
 If we may not re/jft (fays the FadionJ under thefe Circum- 
 ftances, our Lives, Liberties, and Eftatesare at the Kings Mer- 
 cy ; for that which may be one Mans cafe, may be any mans : 
 And fobecauleof this poffibility of wrong to particulars, we 
 judge it reafonable, that every particular man mould be al- 
 lowed to defend himfelf. See now the Inconvenience, which 
 upon the allowance of this Liberty in favour of Particulars, 
 will redound to the Publick. 
 
 An honed man is charged with Treafon in the Kings Name, 
 and by his Majeities Order to be taken into Cuftody., and by 
 an Officer too, under what difabilities you pleafe. Here's the 
 whole Cafe. An Innocent Perfon -, Life Liberty, and Eflate at 
 flake, and an Vnqttdifi'd Commiffwner. [[one man may refifl, 
 becaufe he is Innocent, another upon the fame pretence may' rc- 
 fifl 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, ether Convicted, or Acquitted. So that the Inno- 
 cent, and the Guilty, are to be try 'd indifferently by the fame 
 Law, and fo are the pretended Errours either in the Commif- 
 (ion, or Com.niffioner. Take matters once out of the Channel 
 of Try d by our Peers, there's an end of Magna Chart a ; and 
 the Government it fclf is become Paffive, and Precarious. 
 Will you have the true Reafon now, why this Abhorrence goes 
 
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The Growth of Knavery. 3 1 
 
 fo much againft the hair with fome People ? The V option is to 
 bzCheriflPd, and kept in Countenance, till iherfime ccmcs 
 for putting it in FraSice. 
 
 No man can be fo blind, as not to difcern by the corre- 
 fpondent Motions of the Conpporians in Scotland, and the 
 Scot tip] Engliji), that they act already by Concert ; and it is as 
 plain by this bold and adventurous way of Libels all on the 
 fudden, that they depend upon France for a Second: Which 
 is no more than was done in the late Rebellion, by the fame 
 Faction, as appeared by a Letter of the Lord Lowdens to the 
 French King, for his Protection and Afliftance, for which he 
 was committed to the Tower -, and it was alfo confirm'd,by the 
 Fourth Article againft the Five Members , accufing them to 
 have Trayteroufly invited and encouraged a Forreign Power to in- 
 vade his Majepies Kingdom of England. Husband's Collecti- 
 ons, p. -j 5. Thefe are the French Penponeis, and the Betrayers 
 of our Religion and Freedom-, under Oaths , and Covenants to pre* 
 ferve them. Were not our Divines PiliagM, Sequeftred, Im- 
 prifon'd, either for praying for his Majefty, or for refufing to 
 Abjure him ? How many Reverend Divines were poyfon'd in 
 Beter-Houfe I I could give you the Hiftory of their Spiriting 
 away feveral Perfons of Honour for Slaves ; their Sale of three 
 or fourfcore Gentlemen to the Barbadoes : Their SequePrations, 
 Decimations, Exchtfion from all Offices, Plunders, Banifhments y 
 Confinements, Prohibition of Correfpondence with the King, upon 
 pain of Death : The Juggles of the Irifli Adventures f Money ^ 
 and Plate upon the Propoptions -, Confifcated Epates ; Twentieth 
 Tarts, Weekly Affieffiments, and a hundred other Pecuniary, and 
 Arbitrary Stratagems, till they finifh'd the mine of the Na- 
 tion, in the Diholution of the Government, and in the Bloud 
 of their Sovereign. 
 
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