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THE
Character
OF
A
PAPIST
in
MASQUERADE
;
Supported
By
Authority
and
Experience
.
In
Answer
to
the
CHARACTER
OF
A
POPISH
SUCCESSOR
.
By
Roger
L'Estrange
.
LONDON
,
Printed
for
H.
Brome
at
the
Signe
of
the
Gun
in
S.
Pauls
Church-yard
.
1681.
The
CHARACTER
of
a
Papist
in
Masquerade
.
THe
Character
of
a
Popish
Successor
were
an
excellent
Piece
in
the
kinde
,
if
it
had
not
too
much
Sublimate
in
it
;
For
I
have
heard
of
some
people
,
that
,
with
only
holding
their
Noses
over
it
,
but
one
quarter
of
an
hour
,
have
run
stark
mad
upon
't
:
And
when
This
Fume
has
once
taken
the
Brain
,
there
's
nothing
in
the
world
,
but
the
Powder
of
Experience
,
(
the
Remembrance
of
things
past
)
to
set
a
man
Right
again
.
The
Truth
of
it
is
,
the
Authour
has
made
the
Figure
of
his
Successour
too
Frightful
,
and
enormous
;
Sawcer-ey'd
and
Cloven
●ooted
;
and
when
he
has
painted
the
Monster
as
black
on
the
One
side
,
as
Ink
and
Words
can
make
him
;
he
finishes
his
Master-Piece
with
a
Paradox
,
on
the
Other
;
(
Fol.
4.
)
by
the
Supposal
of
a
most
Excellent
Person
,
and
yet
making
him
the
greater
Devil
for
his
Virtues
.
His
Fortitude
(
he
says
)
makes
him
only
the
more
Daring
in
the
Cause
of
Rome
;
his
Justice
makes
it
a
Point
of
Conscience
to
deliver
us
up
to
the
Pope
;
his
Temperance
,
in
the
Government
of
his
Passions
,
makes
him
the
more
close
and
steady
;
and
his
Prudence
crowns
the
Work
,
by
the
assistance
it
gives
him
in
the
Menage
of
his
Policies
and
Conduct
:
And
so
he
goes
on
.
Wbat
booss
it
(
says
he
)
in
a
Popish
Heir
,
to
say
,
he
's
the
Truest
Friend
,
the
Greatest
of
Hero
,
s
,
the
best
of
Masters
,
the
Justest
Judge
,
or
the
Honestest
of
Men
?
All
meer
treacherous
Quicksands
for
a
people
to
repose
the
least
glimpse
of
Safety
in
,
or
build
the
least
hopes
upon
.
This
is
fairly
push'd
,
I
must
confess
,
but
't
is
only
a
cast
of
his
Rhetorique
:
For
every
body
knows
,
that
all
Christian
Princes
thus
Qualify'd
,
and
under
Articles
of
Treaty
and
Agreement
,
keep
touch
,
even
with
Infidels
;
nay
,
and
Infidels
with
Christians
.
Before
I
go
any
further
,
let
me
recommend
to
the
Reader
,
one
Remarque
,
as
a
thing
worthy
of
his
Attention
:
He
cuts
all
the
way
upon
the
Successor
,
as
presupposing
him
to
be
a
Papist
,
and
consequently
`
Dangerous
,
and
Insufferable
,
by
reason
of
That
Perswasion
.
And
very
magisterialy
he
gives
us
his
own
bare
word
for
the
dangers
of
that
Perswasion
.
Why
does
he
not
rather
tell
us
in
express
and
particular
Terms
,
These
and
These
are
the
Principles
of
the
Church
of
Rome
?
and
then
make
his
Inference
,
from
those
Principles
to
the
Dangers
that
attend
them
;
and
so
leave
the
unbyass'd
part
of
the
world
to
judge
of
the
Congruity
and
Proportion
betwixt
such
Causes
and
such
Effects
?
For
His
dilating
himself
thus
at
random
upon
his
Character
,
and
striking
so
point-blank
at
the
Rescinding
of
the
Succession
,
makes
men
apt
to
imagine
,
that
his
Pique
may
be
rather
to
the
Person
,
then
the
Religion
.
It
will
behove
me
,
in
this
place
,
to
inform
the
Reader
,
that
I
do
not
charge
him
for
not
producing
the
dangerous
Principles
of
the
Papists
;
as
if
I
thought
there
were
no
Instances
of
that
Quality
to
be
given
:
(
For
I
am
better
acquainted
with
their
Ecclesiastical
Politiques
,
then
so
.
)
But
the
true
Intent
of
my
Quaere
upon
that
Objection
,
was
to
shew
the
Authours
Prudence
in
reserving
himself
upon
those
Particulars
:
For
if
he
had
said
,
Behold
!
Th●se
are
the
Positions
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
and
they
are
not
to
be
endur'd
in
any
Government
;
I
should
have
ask'd
him
presently
,
How
comes
it
then
that
you
your self
,
under
the
Colour
of
Rooting
out
Popery
One
way
,
are
Planting
it
Another
;
and
Erecting
the
very
same
Pestilent
Positions
that
you
condemn
▪
Insomuch
,
that
while
you
would
be
thought
zealous
to
Abolish
the
Name
of
Popery
,
you
are
no
lesse
zealous
▪
to
Establish
the
Doctrine
of
it
;
Whereof
,
at
leisure
.
The
suddain
bolting
out
of
this
Phantôme
from
behinde
the
Hanging
,
may
so
far
serve
a
present
turn
,
as
to
startle
,
and
surprise
the
undiscerning
Vulgar
:
Yet
,
when
,
upon
Second
▪
and
Recollected
thoughts
,
this
Mormo
shall
come
to
be
examin'd
,
and
taken
to
pieces
;
the
very
multitude
themselves
,
that
were
affrighted
at
the
Apparition
,
will
be
asham'd
of
the
Imposture
.
The
thing
that
I
would
say
,
is
this
;
that
the
Truth
is
somewhat
too
much
Hyperboliz'd
,
in
a
Declamatory
Torrent
of
Words
,
and
Exuberance
of
Phansy
,
without
any
one
Concluding
and
Convincing
Period
.
If
Apollo
had
been
of
Counsell
with
the
Authour
,
he
would
have
advis'd
him
to
the
Moderating
of
his
Character
,
as
he
does
Olaus
Magnus
,
in
Boccalini
,
to
moderate
the
Greatness
of
his
Northern
Eagles
,
that
prey'd
upon
Elephants
;
as
being
a
very
Extraordinary
thing
for
a
Bird
to
trusse
an
Elephant
,
and
fly
away
with
him
.
(
which
is
,
perhaps
,
the
more
Venial
Excess
of
the
two
.
)
It
is
one
of
the
greatest
Indignities
that
can
be
put
upon
the
simplicity
of
a
Just
Truth
,
the
dawbing
of
it
with
Embrodery
and
Flourish
,
and
the
over-doing
of
it
.
If
Little
Epictetus
had
been
at
his
Elbow
,
he
would
have
minded
him
,
that
some
things
are
in
our
our
own
Power
,
and
others
are
not
so
;
and
that
the
subject
matter
of
his
Discourse
being
wholly
out
of
His
Cognizance
,
he
might
have
done
well
to
have
left
the
business
of
the
Succession
to
the
Ordering
of
Gods
Providence
.
This
is
a
Subject
(
I
know
)
that
whoever
touches
upon
it
,
treads
upon
Burning
Coals
;
and
there
must
be
great
Caution
,
as
well
as
Innocence
,
to
carry
a
man
through
this
Ordeal
:
For
who
shall
dare
to
Dispute
the
danger
of
a
Popish
Successor
?
But
so
far
am
I
from
undertaking
that
Province
,
that
I
'le
compound
the
matter
with
him
beforehand
;
and
take
all
his
suppositions
of
Difficulties
and
Hazzards
in
the
Case
,
for
Granted
.
But
then
I
must
distinguish
betwixt
the
unhappy
circumstance
of
being
under
the
Allegeance
of
a
Prince
of
that
Perswasion
,
who
is
actually
in
the
Possession
and
Exercise
of
his
Power
,
and
the
remote
Possibility
only
of
that
Danger
;
and
a
Possibility
too
of
such
a
condition
,
as
a
thousand
things
may
intervene
,
to
prevent
it
:
As
the
Contingences
of
Issue
,
Survivorship
,
&c.
and
at
the
Worst
,
this
dismal
apprehension
amounts
,
at
last
,
but
to
the
Contemplation
of
a
Prince
of
That
Communion
,
in
a
Parenthesis
,
betwixt
a
Predecessor
,
and
a
Successor
,
of
the
Reformed
Religion
.
Not
but
that
I
am
as
much
against
the
Principles
,
and
Practises
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
wherein
the
Church
of
England
hath
dep●rted
from
that
Communion
,
as
any
man
living
,
that
keeps
himself
within
the
compass
of
Christian
Charity
,
Humanity
,
and
good
Manners
.
And
so
far
,
I
shall
heartily
joyn
with
the
Compiler
of
the
Character
,
by
a
previous
Concession
of
the
Inconveniences
(
as
I
have
said
already
)
that
may
arrive
,
by
reason
of
that
Religion
.
But
then
I
must
take
this
Consideration
along
with
me
.
That
First
;
there
are
many
Dreadfull
Dangers
,
which
we
cannot
avoid
,
but
by
incurring
Greater
.
As
the
Leaping
of
a
Garret-window
,
when
the
Fire
has
taken
the
Stair-Case
;
which
is
only
a
prudent
Election
(
under
a
Calamitous
Necessity
)
of
the
less
evil
of
the
Two.
Now
the
same
Action
,
which
would
have
been
a
madness
Without
that
necessity
,
becomes
an
Act
of
Prudence
,
With
it
;
the
great
danger
of
the
Leap
being
warranted
by
the
greater
danger
of
the
Fire
:
And
there
must
likewise
precede
a
Deliberation
upon
the
difficulties
Both
ways
,
to
justifie
the
Resolution
:
For
otherwise
at
the
best
,
a
man
does
well
but
by
chance
.
Now
it
would
have
been
fair
play
,
in
the
Character-writer
,
if
he
had
candidly
Ballanc'd
the
matter
,
and
told
us
,
This
is
the
danger
One
way
,
and
That
Another
.
Secondly
,
It
happens
,
many
times
,
that
we
have
no
other
Choice
before
us
,
but
either
to
suffer
the
Highest
Degree
of
Misery
,
that
can
befall
us
in
this
world
;
or
else
,
to
Prostitute
our
Souls
,
for
the
saving
of
our
Skins
,
and
Fortunes
.
Now
under
such
an
Exigent
as
This
,
let
the
Prospect
of
things
be
never
so
Terrible
,
we
are
to
oppose
,
the
Duties
of
Christians
,
of
Subjects
,
and
of
Honest
men
,
to
all
hazzards
whatsoever
;
and
patiently
to
endure
whatever
we
cannot
,
with
Conscience
,
and
Honour
,
either
Resist
,
or
Decline
:
according
to
the
Practise
of
the
Primitive
Martyrs
,
who
witnessed
their
Profession
with
their
Bloud
,
as
Christians
;
and
Submitted
,
as
Loyal
Subjects
,
without
Resistance
.
So
that
we
are
not
to
govern
our selves
by
a
Naked
Speculation
of
the
Perils
that
we
are
to
encounter
,
and
the
Means
of
avoiding
them
;
without
enquiring
into
the
Consistency
of
those
means
with
the
Measures
of
Conscience
and
Duty
.
But
there
is
one
Main
point
yet
behind
;
which
is
in
effect
the
very
Hinge
of
the
Controversie
.
And
this
is
it
.
If
there
shall
be
any
thing
sound
in
this
Character
of
a
Popish
Successour
,
that
shall
either
operate
upon
the
Legal
Constitution
of
the
English
Monarchy
,
or
Reflect
Personally
upon
the
Honour
,
or
Justice
of
his
Majesty
now
in
Being
;
the
Pretext
of
the
Succession
will
be
look't
upon
only
as
a
Stalking-Horse
to
Countenance
an
approach
to
some
further
Design
:
In
which
Case
,
the
Question
will
not
be
any
longer
the
Religion
of
a
Successour
,
but
the
very
Right
it self
of
Kingly-Power
.
And
here
I
must
expound
my self
once
again
;
that
I
Speak
only
to
the
Anonymus
Character
of
a
Popish
Successour
,
without
the
least
Reference
to
any
Publique
,
and
Authoritative
Debates
,
or
Counsels
.
And
so
I
shall
proceed
,
(
in
the
First
place
)
to
the
Character
of
a
Papist
in
Masquerade
.
The
Church
of
England
,
and
the
Members
of
it
,
are
beset
with
two
Sorts
of
Papists
;
the
One
,
bare-Fac'd
,
the
Other
dress'd
up
in
several
shapes
of
Disguise
:
And
we
pass
for
Heretiques
,
on
the
One
hand
;
and
Papists
in
Masquerade
,
on
the
Other
.
By
this
Opposite
Conjunction
of
two
Interests
,
(
which
,
(
however
Divided
in
Name
,
and
Pretense
)
are
yet
United
against
us
in
a
Common
Principle
of
Contradiction
and
Aversion
:
)
The
Church
of
England
is
both
Weaken'd
,
and
Defam'd
;
the
Glory
of
the
Reformation
blasted
;
and
the
great
Support
of
the
truly
Apostolical
Cause
,
Vndermined
.
Betwixt
These
Two
Enemies
,
our
Persecuted
Church
is
crush'd
almost
to
Pieces
;
and
well-nigh
brought
to
the
Agony
of
her
Last
Convulsions
.
And
this
Calamity
is
not
wrought
so
much
by
the
Bare-fac'd
Papists
,
that
march
Publiquely
under
the
Popes
Banner
,
owning
their
Cause
,
and
making
their
Attacks
in
View
;
not
so
much
by
Th●se
,
(
I
say
)
as
by
the
Papists
in
Masquerade
,
that
work
under-ground
,
like
Moles
;
and
,
fall
in
upon
our
Quarters
,
under
the
Semblance
of
Friends
,
with
our
own
Word
and
Colours
.
It
has
been
a
great
part
of
the
businesse
of
the
Presse
,
to
set
forth
the
Bare-fac'd
Papist
to
the
Life
,
and
to
affect
us
with
a
Just
Indignation
for
the
Principles
of
the
Jesuites
:
So
that
I
shall
not
cloy
the
Reader
with
Redun●ances
;
especially
since
the
Composer
of
the
Character
has
been
pleas'd
to
Harangue
so
copiously
upon
that
Subject
:
But
rather
apply
my self
to
the
Counter-Part
of
these
Jesuits
;
and
to
obviate
the
Practises
of
our
False
Friends
,
as
well
as
of
our
Profess'd
Enemies
.
The
Kings
Witnesses
have
abundantly
manifested
to
the
World
,
the
Restless
Endeavours
of
Rome
,
and
its
Emissaryes
,
for
the
Subversion
of
our
Religion
,
and
Government
;
and
how
far
they
contributed
to
the
Rebellion
of
Forty
One
;
and
to
the
carrying
of
it
forward
thorough
all
the
Succeeding
changes
,
and
Revolutions
,
even
to
the
bringing
of
his
Sacred
Majesty
to
the
Scaffold
.
They
have
further
also
Deposed
to
the
Contrivances
of
the
same
Party
,
for
the
prosecuting
of
the
same
Design
upon
the
Person
of
his
Sacred
Majesty
that
now
is
;
and
upon
our
Government
and
Religion
,
as
by
Law
establish'd
:
And
laid
open
to
the
world
,
both
the
Method
of
their
Proceedings
,
by
masquing
themselves
under
the
Appearance
of
Presbyterians
,
Independents
,
Quakers
,
Millenaryes
,
and
the
like
;
as
also
the
very
Names
of
several
of
their
Missionaryes
,
that
have
been
expresly
employ'd
upon
the
disposing
of
the
People
to
Tumult
and
Sedition
.
This
is
so
certain
a
Truth
,
that
it
will
not
bear
a
Dispute
;
beside
that
it
stands
with
Reason
too
;
for
they
do
all
cover
themselves
under
an
Alias
;
and
a
Presbyterian
,
an
Independent
,
&c.
alias
a
Papist
,
Sounds
every
jot
as
well
,
as
Captain
Williams
,
alias
Captain
Bedloe
.
I
am
not
willing
to
charge
my
Paper
,
in
a
Case
so
Clear
,
and
Confess'd
,
with
unnecessary
Instances
:
Wherefore
I
shall
content
my self
with
only
Two
out
of
many
.
(
the
Former
out
of
Ravillac
Redivivus
(
Pag.
41.
)
If
Father
Brown
the
Jesuit
,
(
says
the
Author
)
that
Preach'd
so
many
years
among
the
Field-Conven●iclers
in
Scotland
,
had
Penn'd
Mitchel's
Justification
of
himself
,
upon
his
Execution
,
for
an
Attempt
upon
the
Person
of
the
Arch-Bishop
of
St.
Andrews
,
it
could
not
have
savour'd
stronger
of
the
Society
of
Jesus
,
or
become
such
an
Authour
better
then
it
doth
.
This
same
Brown
●oasted
upon
his
Death-bed
,
at
Ingeston
briggs
,
that
he
had
Preached
as
Downright
Popery
in
the
Field
Conventicles
,
as
ever
he
had
Preach'd
in
Rome
it self
.
The
Other
Instance
is
,
of
one
Faithfull
Commin
,
a
Dominican
Frier
in
the
9th
.
of
Q●een
Elizabeth
;
who
was
a
Person
generally
reputed
a
Zealous
Protestant
,
and
much
admir'd
and
follow'd
by
the
People
,
for
his
seeming
Piety
;
but
more
particularly
,
for
inveighing
in
his
Pulpit
against
Pius
Quintus
Then
Pope
.
He
was
accused
upon
Oath
;
before
the
Queen
and
Councill
for
an
Impostor
,
and
a
Sower
of
Sedition
;
and
Arch
Bishop
Parker
took
his
Examination
,
(
Foxes
and
Fire-brands
,
Pa.
7.
)
Commin
insisting
much
upon
his
Bitterness
exprest
against
the
Pope
,
for
his
Justification
.
He
got
out
of
England
afterwards
by
a
Trick
;
and
,
with
one
Farewell
Sermon
,
130
l.
for
a
Viaticum
.
Not
long
after
,
he
was
clapt
up
at
Rome
for
Reviling
the
Pope
,
and
the
Catholique
Church
.
But
he
Pleaded
for
himself
,
that
he
had
done
his
Holiness
,
and
the
Church
considerable
Service
;
for
,
by
Preaching
against
Set-Forms
of
Prayer
,
and
calling
the
English
Prayers
,
English
Masse
,
he
put
them
upon
the
Humour
of
Extemporary
Prayer
;
which
took
so
much
with
the
People
,
that
they
were
come
to
hate
the
Church
of
England
as
much
as
the
Church
it self
hated
the
Mass.
Whereupon
,
the
Pope
gave
him
a
Reward
of
Two
Thousand
Duccats
for
his
Pains
.
The
matter
of
Fact
is
sufficiently
clear'd
,
and
the
Practise
too
Notorious
to
be
deny'd
;
As
to
the
Influence
that
these
Papists
have
(
under
the
notion
of
Dissenting
Protestants
)
upon
the
Unity
of
the
Church
,
and
the
Peace
of
the
State.
But
the
Craft
(
as
they
say
)
lyes
in
the
Catching
of
them
:
For
the
Test
of
Oaths
will
never
do
the
Business
,
as
we
have
found
by
their
Swearing
to
so
many
Contrary
,
and
Inconsistent
Purposes
,
and
Interests
,
throughout
the
whole
Course
of
our
Late
Troubles
.
So
that
we
have
no
other
way
left
that
I
can
Imagine
,
of
knowing
a
Disguised
Jesuit
from
one
that
calls
himself
a
Dissenting
Protestant
,
but
by
comparing
their
Principles
;
which
would
infinitely
conduce
to
the
Credit
,
and
Advantage
of
the
Conscientious
sort
of
the
Divided
Party
.
And
without
such
a
Test
of
Discrimination
the
Project
of
Uniting
Dissenters
seems
to
be
utterly
Impracticable
;
unless
to
the
Extream
Hazzard
of
Authorizing
the
most
pernicious
sort
of
Popery
,
and
Incorporating
a
Jesuitical
Leaven
into
our
very
Constitution
;
according
to
the
Method
which
Mr.
Coleman
himself
had
projected
,
as
the
most
probable
Expedient
for
the
Introducing
of
Popery
into
this
Kingdom
.
The
Removal
of
this
Difficulty
will
open
a
way
to
a
General
Accomodation
;
to
the
Common
Security
both
of
our
Religion
,
and
Government
.
And
this
is
only
to
be
done
by
applying
the
Maxims
of
those
that
we
suspect
here
for
Jesuits
,
to
the
Standard
of
those
Detestable
Principles
which
we
so
much
abominate
in
the
Church
of
Rome
.
And
where
ever
we
find
any
Party
,
of
what
Denomination
soever
,
that
pretends
either
to
Erect
an
Interest
,
or
to
support
a
Claim
,
upon
the
same
Foundation
;
it
is
but
matter
of
Common
Equity
,
to
presume
,
and
to
conclude
that
Party
to
be
acted
and
directed
by
a
Jesuitical
Spirit
.
These
Positions
I
shall
Confront
with
a
Counter-Part
;
of
which
further
in
its
proper
place
.
But
in
my
way
to
't
,
I
shall
now
pass
to
the
Character
it self
.
The
CHARACTER
,
&c.
IT
has
been
my
Fortune
to
be
a
Subject
and
a
Native
of
that
part
of
the
World
,
where
almost
three
years
last
past
I
have
scarce
heard
any
thing
,
but
the
continual
Noyse
of
Poper●
and
Plots
;
with
all
the
clamorous
Fears
of
a
Jealous
Kingdom
about
my
●ars
:
And
truly
,
I
must
plainly
confess
,
I
am
not
so
Ill
a
Common-Wealths-ma●
▪
but
that
I
am
glad
to
see
my
Country-men
disturb'd
in
a
Cause
,
where
Religion
,
Liberty
,
and
Property
,
are
at
Stake
.
Fol.
1.
Here●s
the
very
Bourdon
already
of
that
Fatal
Remonstrance
of
the
State
of
the
Kingdom
,
Dec.
15.
42.
and
only
a
short
Paraphrase
of
the
Preface
to
it
.
God
blesse
us
from
the
Omen
.
The
malicious
D●signs
of
the
Popish
Party
,
the
hazzard
of
Religion
and
great
prejudice
and
Oppression
of
the
Laws
of
the
Kingdom
,
and
just
Liberty
of
the
People
.
Exact
Collections
Pag.
2.
That
which
follow'd
upon
this
Popular
Introduction
did
sufficiently
evidence
the
Design
.
You
shall
see
now
how
Pat
this
Prologue
runs
Another
way
;
Mutatis
Mutandis
.
It
has
been
my
Fortune
(
let
Me
say
too
)
to
be
a
Subject
,
and
a
Native
where
the
Noise
of
Popery
and
Plots
;
Jealousies
and
Fears
;
and
Affrights
about
Religion
,
Liberty
and
Property
,
as
if
All
lay
at
Stake
;
brought
a
pious
and
a
Protestant
Prince
to
the
Block
;
prostituted
the
Honour
,
Dignity
,
and
Revenue
of
the
Government
,
Ecclesiastical
and
Civil
,
to
a
Band
of
Seditious
and
Sacrilegious
Usurpers
.
Our
Temples
were
Demolish'd
;
our
Al●ars
Profan'd
;
the
Priestly
Office
Invaded
by
Mechaniques
;
Swarms
of
Heresies
,
,
and
a
Scandalous
Schism
,
in
Exchange
for
Purity
and
Unity
of
Religion
.
Of
a
Free-born
People
we
became
worse
then
Turkish
Slaves
;
Our
Common-Wealths-men
were
glad
also
to
see
us
Disturb'd
;
and
who
but
our
Pretended
Advocates
,
and
Patriots
,
to
be
our
Tyrants
,
and
Tormentors
?
Char.
But
if
their
Jealousyes
are
Just
and
their
Fears
Prophetique
,
in
Gods
name
let
them
talk
.
Every
man
ought
to
be
so
far
from
silencing
any
Reasonable
Murmurs
,
that
't
is
rather
his
Duty
to
bear
a
Part
in
a
Choire
so
Vniversal
.
And
if
we
s●e
the
Great
and
Wise-men
of
our
Nation
,
like
True
English
Patriots
,
struggling
,
and
toyling
to
prevent
our
Threatning
Calamities
,
let
us
take
delight
to
behold
them
Restless
,
and
Vneasie
;
Rolling
about
our
Troubled
Sea
like
Porpoises
against
a
Tempest
,
to
forewarn
us
of
an
Approaching
Destruction
.
Ibid.
Let
them
talk
on
;
(
says
he
)
just
to
the
Tune
of
Forty
Two
again
.
God
forbid
(
says
Mr.
Pym
)
that
We
should
dishearten
our
Friends
,
who
come
to
assist
us
.
And
this
was
,
when
Ven
and
Manwaring
forc'd
the
Passing
of
the
Bill
of
Attainder
in
the
Lords
House
,
by
Tumults
,
against
the
Earl
of
Strafford
;
and
his
Sacred
Majesty
little
better
then
Besieg'd
in
his
own
Palace
,
by
the
Rabble
.
What
a
blessed
Harmony
was
there
then
among
the
Porters
,
Car-men
,
and
Well
affected
Brethren
in
the
Lobbyes
,
crying
out
with
one
Voice
,
no
Bishops
;
no
Rotten
Peers
;
no
Common-Prayer
;
while
the
great
and
wise
men
,
in
their
Generation
were
Struggling
,
and
Toyling
,
to
Pack
Parties
,
Contrive
Invectives
against
Authority
;
perplexing
the
Multitude
with
Scruples
,
enflaming
of
Passions
,
and
rolling
about
like
State
Porpoises
,
not
as
a
Forewarning
,
but
the
Foreboding
of
a
Tempest
.
Char.
But
amids
our
Evident
Danger
,
we
see
another
sort
of
People
dayly
flattering
and
deluding
us
into
a
False
and
Fatal
Security
.
And
sure
none
are
so
little
our
Friends
,
or
indeed
so
void
even
of
Humanity
it self
,
as
those
who
would
lull
us
asleep
when
Ruine
is
in
View
.
Ibid.
There
are
some
indeed
,
that
after
Open
Rebellions
in
Scotland
,
horrid
Assassinates
,
Anathema's
Denounc'd
against
his
Majesty
,
Declarations
point
blank
against
his
Person
and
Government
;
with
an
Indissoluble
Confederacy
of
Brotherly
Union
in
our
own
Bowels
too
,
by
virtue
of
that
Magical
Seal
of
Reprobation
,
the
Diabolical
Covenant
;
there
are
some
I
sa●
,
that
after
all
these
Acts
and
Demonstrations
of
Violence
,
and
Conspiracy
,
will
yet
bear
the
World
down
that
the
believing
of
our
eyes
is
the
shamming
of
the
Plot
;
and
that
there
's
no
Fear
at
all
of
a
Storm
from
that
Quarter
.
As
if
a
Jesuitical
Practice
or
Principle
,
were
Consecrated
in
the
Heart
,
or
Shape
of
a
Presbyterian
.
But
(
says
he
)
since
Zeal
and
Hypocrisie
,
Naked
Truth
,
and
Artificial
Falshood
,
have
oftentimes
alike
Faces
;
I
cannot
but
think
it
the
Duty
both
of
a
Christian
,
and
an
English-man
,
to
unravel
the
Treachery
of
those
Arguments
which
they
raise
to
destroy
us
.
But
since
Zeal
,
and
Hypocrisie
,
&c.
are
so
alike
,
that
we
have
seen
Sacriledge
,
and
Heresy
pass
upon
the
People
for
Reformation
;
Rebellion
for
Loyalty
;
Perjury
,
Blasphemy
,
and
Murth●r
,
for
Religion
;
Regicide
for
the
way
to
make
a
Glorious
King
,
Bondage
for
Freedom
,
Rapine
for
●ropriety
;
the
King
's
,
the
Churches
,
and
the
Peoples
Enemies
,
for
their
Friends
:
what
can
a
man
do
better
then
to
Unmask
this
white
Devil
,
and
expose
the
Cloven-Foot
of
this
Angel
of
Light
to
the
View
of
the
Nation
?
Char.
As
First
,
(
Says
my
Authour
)
why
should
we
stand
in
fear
of
Popery
,
when
in
the
present
Temper
of
England
't
is
impossible
for
any
Successour
whatever
to
introduce
it
.
And
First
,
(
say
I
too
)
what
fear
of
Phanaticism
,
and
a
Common-wealth
,
under
the
present
Settlement
of
Episcopacy
and
Kingly
Government
?
Char.
And
next
,
amids
our
groundless
Fears
,
(
says
the
Anthor
of
the
Character
,
by
way
of
supposal
)
let
us
consider
what
that
Prince
is
that
appears
so
dreadful
a
Gorgon
to
England
.
A
Prince
that
upon
all
Accounts
has
so
Signally
ventur'd
his
Life
for
his
King
and
Country
;
a
Heroe
of
that
faithfull
,
and
matchless
Courage
,
and
Loyalty
:
A
Prince
of
that
Vnshaken
Honour
and
Resolution
,
that
his
Word
has
ever
been
known
to
be
his
Oracle
,
and
his
Friendship
a
Bu●wark
whereever
he
vouchsafes
●o
place
it
;
with
such
an
infinite
Mass
of
all
the
Bravery
and
Gallantry
that
can
adorn
a
Prince
.
Why
must
the
Change
of
his
Religion
destroy
his
Humanity
;
or
the
advance
to
a
Crown
,
render
his
Word
or
Honour
lesse
Sacred
;
or
make
him
a
Tyrant
to
that
very
people
whom
he
hath
so
often
,
and
so
chearfully
Defended
?
Why
may
there
not
be
a
Popish
King
with
all
these
Accomplishments
,
that
whatever
his
own
Private
Devotions
shall
be
,
yet
shall
Publiquely
maintain
the
Protestant
Worship
,
with
all
the
Present
Constitution
of
Government
,
Vnalter'd
?
And
next
,
(
say
I
)
let
us
consider
those
Covenanting
,
and
Republican
Spirits
that
appear
so
dreadfull
to
us
;
a
Party
that
so
signally
ventur'd
their
Lives
●or
the
King●
Authority
in
the
Two
Houses
against
his
Person
in
the
Field
;
nay
of
that
matchlesse
Courage
and
Loyalty
,
that
they
hazzarded
their
Souls
,
as
well
as
their
Bodyes
,
to
make
him
a
Glorious
Prince
,
by
sending
him
to
Heaven
before
his
time
:
A
Party
of
that
unshaken
Honour
,
and
Resolution
,
that
their
words
were
Oracles
,
their
Protestations
,
Oaths
,
and
Covenants
ever
bearing
a
double
and
an
equivocal
meaning
;
their
Friendship
a
Bulwark
,
only
the
Guns
were
turn'd
upon
all
that
ever
Trusted
them
:
And
of
so
great
Bravery
,
that
they
charged
thorough
Heaven
and
Hell
▪
without
Fear
either
of
God
or
Devil
;
and
trampled
under
foot
all
Laws
both
Divine
and
Humane
,
for
the
Accomplishing
of
their
Ends.
'T
is
true
,
that
of
Papal
,
they
are
become
Phanatical
Jesuits
,
and
why
should
the
Change
of
their
Profession
,
now
,
destroy
their
Nature
?
Or
their
word
and
Honour
be
lesse
Sacred
,
if
they
get
the
Power
into
their
Hands
once
again
,
then
we
have
formerly
found
it
?
They
eas'd
us
of
our
Laws
,
Lives
,
Liberties
,
and
Estates
;
and
why
should
they
become
Tyrants
Now
,
that
were
so
Mercyfull
to
us
before
?
Why
may
they
not
be
such
Covenanters
and
Common-wealths-men
,
as
,
whatever
they
be
in
Private
,
will
yet
in
Publique
maintain
the
Monarchy
,
and
Episcopacy
,
unalter'd
?
Especially
after
that
famous
Instance
of
their
Indulgence
to
his
Majesty
at
Holdenby
,
when
they
kept
him
a
Prisoner
,
without
Allowing
him
the
Benefit
so
much
as
of
a
Chaplain
or
a
Common-Prayer-Book
.
And
now
he
proceeds
.
Char.
But
alas
!
what
signifie
all
the
great
past
Actions
of
a
Princes
Life
,
when
Popery
has
at
last
got
the
Ascendent
?
All
Virtues
must
truckle
to
Religion
;
and
how
little
an
Impression
will
all
his
Recorded
●lorys
leave
behind
them
,
when
Rome
has
once
Stampt
him
Her
Proselyte
?
But
since
unlikely
things
may
come
to
passe
,
let
us
seriously
examine
how
far
the
Notion
of
such
a
Popish
Successour
consists
with
Reason
.
(
Fol.
2.
)
Alas
,
Alas
!
What
are
the
Good-Old-Cause-men
the
better
for
their
Crown
and
Church-Lands
,
Sequestrations
,
Plunders
,
Decimations
,
Directories
,
Classical
&
Congregational
Presbyterys
,
when
Monarchy
and
Episcopacy
have
at
last
got
the
Ascendent
?
All
Virtues
must
Truckle
to
Religion
;
as
they
did
,
when
Rebellion
,
Sacriledge
,
Oppression
,
and
Murther
,
were
hallow'd
and
Authorized
in
the
Pulpit
,
for
the
Propagation
of
the
Gospel
.
But
since
unlikely
things
may
come
to
pass
,
●●t
us
see
how
far
the
Notion
of
a
Phanatical
Popery
consists
with
the
Discipline
and
Government
by
Law
establish'd
.
Char.
(
Fol.
2.
)
If
to
maintain
,
and
defend
our
Religion
〈◊〉
any
more
then
a
Name
;
it
is
in
possible
for
any
man
to
act
the
true
Defensive
Part
,
without
the
Offensive
too
:
And
he
that
would
effectually
uphold
the
Protestant
Worship
,
Peace
and
Interest
,
is
bound
to
suppress
all
those
potent
and
dangerous
Enemies
that
would
destroy
them
;
for
all
other
Defense
is
but
Disguise
,
and
Counterfeit
.
The
States-men
of
Forty
One
that
defended
the
Protestant
Religion
with
Sword
and
Cannon
;
and
our
Liberties
,
Properties
,
and
Persons
,
at
the
same
rate
;
were
extreamly
well
read
in
this
Offensive
way
of
Defence
.
And
our
Authour
is
much
in
the
Right
,
that
the
way
to
uphold
it
,
is
to
suppress
those
that
would
destroy
it
.
That
is
to
say
,
to
suppresse
those
that
enter
into
Protestations
,
Oaths
,
and
Covenants
,
against
Episcopacy
,
Root
and
Branch
.
All
other
Defence
(
as
he
says
)
is
but
Disguise
and
Counterfeit
.
The
Remonstrants
of
Forty
Two
declar'd
it
to
be
far
from
Their
purpose
to
let
loose
the
golden
Reins
of
Discipline
,
and
Government
in
the
Church
;
which
was
only
a
Political
Cheat
;
(
as
it
is
here
expounded
)
for
our
Churches
were
turn'd
into
Stables
,
our
Clergy
hunted
like
Partridges
in
the
Mountains
,
our
Pulpits
Stuff'd
with
Blasphemy
,
and
Blew
Aprons
;
and
in
the
Conclusion
,
a
hundred
Heresyes
let
loose
among
us
,
for
one
Orthodox
Religion
.
Char.
Fol.
2.
If
then
the
Wisdom
of
several
Successive
Monarchs
,
with
the
whole
Nations
Vnanimous
Prudence
,
and
indefatigable
Care
for
the
Protestant
Preservation
,
has
determin'd
that
those
Papist
Priests
who
have
sworn
Fealty
to
the
See
of
Rome
,
and
taken
Orders
in
Foreign
Seminarys
,
are
the
greatest
Seducers
of
the
Kings
liege
People
,
and
the
most
notorious
.
Incendiaries
,
and
subverters
of
the
Protestant
Christianity
and
Loyalty
;
and
for
that
Cause
their
several
Laws
declare
them
Traytors
;
by
Consequence
,
these
are
the
Potent
and
dangerous
Enemies
,
which
in
defense
of
the
Protestant
Cause
,
this
Popish
King
is
oblig'd
to
suppress
and
Punish
;
and
these
the
very
Laws
he
is
bound
to
Execute
.
Fol.
2.
As
the
Wisdom
of
Successive
Monarchs
has
provided
for
the
Protestant
Preservation
,
by
necessary
Severitys
against
known
Priests
and
Jesuits
,
on
the
One
hand
;
so
have
they
likewise
on
the
Other
hand
,
against
Separatists
of
another
Denomination
,
where
we
find
the
same
Principles
couch'd
under
other
Names
.
And
these
are
a
kind
of
Protestant
Jesuit
.
The
Pope
Deposes
Heretical
Princes
;
the
Fanatique
Deposes
Popish
;
And
as
Ill
manners
produce
Good
Laws
;
the
Lewd
Practises
on
Both
hands
put
the
State
upon
Provisions
that
look
both
Ways
.
The
Schism
here
among
us
brake
loose
but
once
since
the
Reformation
.
And
what
a
Deluge
of
Hypocrisy
,
Bloodshed
,
Oppression
,
Athiesm
,
and
Prophaneness
flow'd
in
upon
it
?
But
that
we
may
not
Cavil
upon
the
Word
Protestant
;
let
the
Law
expound
it
;
which
does
expressly
provide
for
the
securing
of
Conforming
Protestants
against
the
danger
of
Dissenters
.
So
that
we
have
Potent
Enemies
(
it
seems
)
on
both
sides
.
Now
if
a
Phanatique
Interest
should
get
Head
,
it
is
as
improbable
on
this
side
,
as
it
is
on
the
Other
;
that
they
should
agree
to
Suppresse
Phanaticism
,
in
Favour
of
Episcopacy
,
and
put
the
Laws
in
Execution
against
themselves
.
Or
would
they
not
rather
〈◊〉
us
over
again
with
Plunders
,
Imprisonments
,
Vows
,
Negative
Oaths
,
Abjurations
,
as
they
did
before
?
Char.
And
though
perhaps
,
till
the
Discovery
of
the
late
Plot
,
for
several
Ages
,
we
have
not
seen
that
Severity
inflicted
on
Popish
Priests
,
as
the
Laws
against
them
require
:
And
why
?
Because
the
flourishing
Tranquillity
of
the
English
Church
under
this
King
,
and
his
Fathers
Reign
,
render'd
them
so
inconsiderable
an
Adversary
,
that
the
natural
Tenderness
of
the
Protestant
People
of
England
not
delighting
in
Blood
,
did
not
think
it
worth
their
while
,
either
to
detect
,
or
prosecute
them
;
and
therefore
has
not
made
them
the
Common
marque
of
Justice
.
Fol.
2.
'T
is
True
,
that
,
till
the
Discovery
of
the
Late
Plot
,
the
Laws
against
Priests
and
Jesuits
have
not
been
put
in
Execution
to
the
Utmost
Rigour
.
But
he
is
much
mistaken
certainly
in
the
Reasons
he
gives
for
that
Lenity
,
and
Moderation
.
Does
he
call
it
the
Tranquillity
of
the
English
Church
,
&c.
when
for
eighteen
years
together
the
very
Form
,
Discipline
,
and
members
of
it
Suffer'd
a
more
then
Pagan
Persecution
?
And
then
,
does
he
make
the
Popish
Party
so
Inconsiderable
,
that
was
able
to
move
such
Broyls
and
Confusions
;
(
which
the
Kings
Wittnesses
declare
with
one
mouth
to
have
been
the
work
of
the
Jesuits
.
)
and
Finally
,
to
accomplish
their
Devilish
End
in
the
Bloud
of
the
best
of
Kings
,
and
the
most
Faithfull
of
Subjects
;
the
ens●aring
of
the
●reest
and
the
Happyest
of
People
;
and
the
total
Subversion
of
a
most
glorious
Church
and
State
?
And
we
are
now
again
at
this
Instant
upon
the
very
Steps
of
the
Preface
to
our
Late
Troubles
,
and
in
a
fair
way
to
that
blessed
Condition
of
Tranquillity
,
whereupon
the
Penner
of
the
Character
passes
so
notable
a
Remarque
.
This
was
the
Tenderness
;
and
the
Protestant
People
he
speaks
of
,
were
the
Instruments
of
our
Desolation
.
Which
;
(
as
the
Oracles
of
our
Age
,
do
abundantly
enform
us
)
were
only
Jesuits
of
another
Colour
.
It
is
worth
a
note
,
that
still
as
the
bare-fac'd
Papist
has
attaqu'd
us
one
way
,
the
Papist
in
Disguise
falls
to
Sapping
and
undermining
of
us
Another
;
and
both
of
them
equally
contributing
to
our
Destruction
.
Char.
But
under
the
Reign
of
an
English
Papist
,
when
the
Fraternity
of
Religion
shall
encourage
the
Pope
to
make
his
working
Emissaryes
ten
times
more
Numerous
;
when
,
if
not
the
hope
of
publique
Patronage
,
yet
at
least
their
Considence
of
Private
Indulgence
,
Connivence
,
and
Mercy
,
emboldens
the
Missive
Obedience
of
his
Jesuitical
Instruments
,
whilst
the
very
name
of
a
Popish
Monarch
has
the
Influence
of
the
Sun
in
Aegypt
,
and
dayly
warms
our
Mud
into
Monsters
;
till
they
are
become
our
most
threatning
and
most
formidable
Enemyes
.
And
if
ever
the
Protestant
Religion
wanted
a
Defender
,
t
is
then
.
If
the
Word
,
Honour
,
or
Coronation
Oath
of
a
King
be
more
then
a
Name
,
't
is
Then
,
or
never
,
he
is
oblig'd
to
uphold
the
Protestant
Interest
,
and
actually
suppresse
its
most
apparent
and
most
notorious
Enimies
.
Ibid.
I
do
here
make
this
publique
Profession
to
the
world
,
that
I
have
as
little
minde
to
be
under
the
Reign
of
an
English
Papist
,
as
any
mortal
;
and
I
would
do
all
that
I
could
justifie
,
as
a
Christian
,
and
an
Honest
man
,
to
avoid
it
.
But
since
so
it
is
,
that
I
can
no
more
chuse
my
Governour
then
my
Father
,
and
that
I
may
as
well
renounce
the
One
,
upon
the
score
of
Religion
,
as
the
Other
;
I
am
resolved
to
pay
the
Duty
of
a
Subject
to
what
Prince
soever
Almighty
God
,
in
his
Over-ruling
Providence
,
shall
be
pleas'd
to
set
over
me
;
and
,
at
the
worst
,
patiently
to
suffer
,
where
I
cannot
conscienciously
Obey
.
It
is
a
remarkable
Chapter
,
that
of
the
Prophet
Jeremy
,
where
God
doth
not
only
stile
Nebuchadnezzar
(
the
King
of
Babylon
)
his
Servant
,
but
over
and
over
inculcates
Obedience
to
him
.
Hearken
not
you
(
says
the
Text
,
v.
9.
&
10.
)
to
your
Prophets
,
nor
to
your
Diviners
,
nor
to
your
Dreamers
,
nor
to
your
Inchanters
,
nor
to
your
Sorcerers
,
which
speak
unto
you
,
saying
,
you
shall
not
serve
the
King
of
Babylon
;
For
they
Prophesie
a
Lye
unto
you
:
to
remove
you
from
your
Land
,
and
that
I
should
drive
you
out
,
and
you
should
perist
.
And
then
,
v.
15.
I
have
not
sent
them
,
saith
the
Lord
,
yet
they
Prophesie
a
Lye
in
my
Name
,
&c.
Now
to
proceed
.
I
shall
not
dispute
the
Consequences
of
his
Supposition
,
the
One
way
,
if
he
will
but
allow
the
same
Consequences
to
lye
as
fair
for
my
purpose
,
the
Other
.
Will
not
a
Scottish
Fraternity
of
Papists
endanger
England
,
as
well
as
a
Romish
?
Have
they
not
already
given
proof
of
their
Conspiracy
by
their
Actions
?
(
But
I
hope
God
will
preserve
his
Majesty
from
an
Axe
,
on
the
One
hand
,
as
well
as
from
a
Dagger
,
on
the
Other
.
)
And
have
not
the
Kirk-Iesuits
their
Emissaries
,
as
well
as
the
Society
?
See
The
Spirit
of
Popery
(
a
Book
written
with
great
Judgement
,
Sobriety
,
and
Caution
;
and
Addressed
to
the
English
Dissenters
)
Fol.
7.
There
was
a
Project
of
a
Jesuitical
Nature
,
attempted
by
some
of
your
Principals
,
about
four
or
five
years
ago
,
when
some
of
your
Ministers
,
and
Others
,
Caball'd
together
a●out
reducing
the
Presbyterians
(
whether
over
England
only
,
or
over
all
the
Three
Nations
,
I
do
not
well
remember
)
into
the
same
sort
of
Policy
by
which
the
Jesuites
are
governed
over
all
the
World.
The
Nation
was
to
be
Divided
into
Districts
or
Provinces
;
every
District
was
to
have
its
Provincial
;
and
over
all
the
Provinces
was
to
be
appointed
one
General
,
to
reside
constantly
(
as
I
remember
)
in
London
;
and
the
First
who
was
to
have
the
Honour
of
that
Office
(
like
the
Founder
of
the
Jesuites
)
had
been
a
Soldier
,
and
a
great
Malefactor
,
and
is
also
fit
to
be
a
General
of
an
Army
,
and
presided
in
that
Consult
.
He
is
a
Gentleman
whom
you
all
know
,
and
makes
a
great
part
of
a
late
Narrative
,
wherein
the
Impudent
Narrator
Implicitely
calls
you
the
most
sober
and
considerable
Protestants
of
the
Land.
The
Provincials
,
in
their
several
Districts
,
were
to
take
an
account
of
the
Growth
or
Decay
of
the
Party
;
to
note
their
Friends
and
Enemies
;
to
receive
their
Contributions
,
and
give
an
Account
of
all
to
the
General
;
who
was
to
supervise
for
the
good
of
the
whole
.
This
account
,
with
which
I
am
confident
I
do
not
surprize
some
of
you
,
was
told
me
upon
condition
of
Secresie
,
by
a
very
honest
and
peaceable
,
but
rigid
Presbyterian
Minister
,
our
Countryman
,
who
having
got
notice
of
the
Consult
,
brake
it
in
the
beginning
,
by
telling
the
Projectors
how
he
abhorred
it
,
and
threateni●g
to
discover
it
,
if
they
did
not
desist
;
[
observe
here
,
that
this
Presbyterian
Minister
,
though
a
Rigid
one
,
refused
to
joyn
in
so
Jesuitical
a
Project
.
]
He
told
me
also
,
that
he
believed
the
Project
came
first
from
the
Designed
General
,
who
intended
by
that
means
to
raise
his
broken
Fortunes
;
which
,
if
he
had
accomplish'd
▪
he
might
easily
have
done
.
And
to
do
his
Memory
Justice
,
he
told
me
this
Story
with
very
great
In●●ignation
;
the
Substance
of
which
,
as
I
shall
answer
for
it
to
God
at
the
day
of
Judgment
)
I
have
faithfully
related
(
to
the
best
of
my
memory
)
upon
the
Faith
of
a
Christian
man.
Now
to
〈◊〉
his
Point
;
will
not
the
very
Name
of
a
Republican
R●formation
,
which
is
at
Present
become
the
Theme
of
every
Pamphlet
,
warm
Our
Mud
into
Monsters
again
;
and
raise
Coblers
and
Tinkers
to
Colonels
;
Draymen
,
and
Thimble-makers
to
be
Kings
Judges
?
Wherefore
Now
or
Never
is
his
Majesty
oblig'd
,
if
his
Word
,
Honour
,
or
Coronation-Oath
be
more
then
a
Name
,
(
if
I
may
be
pardon'd
for
speaking
my
Authours
words
after
him
)
to
uphold
the
Protestant
Interest
,
which
now
lyes
a
bleeding
in
this
Cause
of
the
Church
;
One
Branch
of
the
Coronation
Oath
being
as
follows
.
I
will
preserve
and
maintain
to
You
(
the
Bishops
)
and
the
Churches
committed
to
your
charge
,
all
Canonical
Priviledges
,
and
due
Law
and
Justice
;
and
I
will
be
your
Protector
and
Defender
,
to
my
Power
,
by
the
Assistance
of
God
,
as
every
good
King
in
his
Kingdom
,
●n
right
ought
to
protect
and
defend
the
Bishops
and
Churches
under
the●r
Government
.
Then
the
King
ariseth
and
is
led
to
the
Communion
Table
,
where
he
makes
a
Solemn
Oath
,
in
sight
of
all
the
People
,
to
observe
the
Premises
;
and
laying
his
hand
upon
the
Book
,
saith
,
The
Oath
.
The
things
which
I
have
before
promised
,
I
shall
perform
and
keep
:
So
help
me
God
,
and
the
Contents
of
this
Book
.
Char.
But
let
us
suppose
we
may
have
such
a
Roman
Catholique
King
,
as
shall
discountenance
Pope
,
and
Popery
;
Cherish
Protestantism
,
and
effectually
deterr
and
punish
all
those
that
shall
endeavour
to
undermine
and
supplant
it
:
And
then
let
us
examine
what
This
King
thus
qualify'd
must
do
.
Fol.
2.
Here
is
a
Supposition
fairly
propounded
,
in
appearance
;
but
yet
,
without
Expounding
himself
upon
the
Wor●d
Protestantism
,
there
's
no
coming
to
an
Issue
upon
't
.
If
he
means
by
Protestantism
the
Opions
of
the
Outlyers
that
have
leapt
the
pale
,
and
which
are
rather
Phansies
,
then
Perswasions
;
the
Law
it self
animadverts
upon
those
people
,
as
the
Underminers
of
our
Ecclesiastical
Establishment
;
And
his
Discountenancing
of
Separatists
will
amount
to
no
more
then
a
Legal
Discharge
of
his
Office.
But
if
by
Protestantism
he
intends
a
practical
Conformity
to
the
Orders
of
the
Church
,
the
Law
provides
as
well
for
the
upholding
of
the
One
,
as
the
suppressing
of
the
Other
.
And
it
would
be
a
strange
Oversight
for
any
Prince
that
should
mount
the
English
Throne
under
the
disadvantages
of
that
Perswasion
,
to
put
his
Perogative
upon
the
stretch
of
Enacting
,
or
Abrogating
Laws
,
without
the
Consent
of
his
Parliament
.
Char.
First
then
,
In
continuing
the
Ecclesiastique
Jurisdiction
,
Honours
and
Preferments
,
in
the
hands
of
the
Protestant
Clergy
;
he
must
confer
his
Favours
and
Smiles
,
on
those
very
men
,
whom
(
by
the
Fundamentals
of
his
own
Vncharitable
Perswasion
,
which
dooms
all
that
dy
out
of
the
Bosom
of
the
Romish
Church
,
to
a
certain
State
of
Damnation
)
he
cordially
believes
,
do
preach
and
teach
,
and
lead
his
Subjects
in
the
direct
way
to
Hell.
And
next
,
at
the
same
time
he
must
not
only
punish
and
persecute
,
but
perhaps
emprison
and
hang
,
those
very
only
Righteous
men
,
whom
from
the
bottom
of
his
Soul
he
believes
can
only
open
them
the
Gates
of
Paradice
:
whilest
in
so
doing
he
cannot
but
accuse
himself
of
coppying
the
Old
Jewish
Cruelty
.
Nay
in
One
respect
,
he
outgoes
their
Crime
;
for
he
acts
that
Knowingly
,
which
they
committed
Ignorantly
.
For
by
the
Dictates
of
Religion
he
must
be
Convinc'd
,
that
in
effect
he
does
little
lesse
then
save
a
Barabbas
,
and
Crucify
a
Jesus
.
Fol.
3.
Here
is
First
,
presented
a
dismal
Prospect
of
a
Popish
Successour
,
in
the
Life
of
a
Protestant
Prince
;
and
the
present
Government
of
that
Protestant
Prince
troubled
and
distracted
with
Clamours
and
Jealousies
,
for
fear
of
a
Popish
one
to
come
.
If
Religion
were
really
the
business
,
they
would
rather
blesse
God
for
the
Peace
and
Happiness
they
enjoy
;
and
wait
his
further
Pleasure
with
Thankfullness
,
and
Resignation
,
then
with
Murmuring
,
and
Distrust
,
to
anticipate
Future
Evills
,
and
Prejudge
Providences
to
come
.
Or
if
Religion
were
All
;
what
's
the
meaning
of
their
hammering
so
much
of
late
upon
the
Subject
of
Arbitrary
Power
,
and
so
many
Models
and
Projects
of
a
Common
Wealth
;
which
were
the
very
Method
of
our
late
Usurpers
?
as
to
matter
of
Arbitrary
Power
;
the
King
has
pass'd
away
so
many
Concessions
already
for
the
gratifying
of
his
Subjects
,
that
if
he
had
it
in
his
Will
,
his
Majesty
has
not
left
it
in
his
Power
to
be
guilty
of
that
which
is
so
ungratefully
Charg'd
upon
him
.
Which
makes
it
look
liker
a
mockery
,
then
an
Accusation
.
And
then
for
the
New-fangled
Device
of
a
Free
Common
Wealth
,
our
Republican
Agitators
should
do
well
to
mind
the
People
of
England
,
of
the
blessed
condition
they
were
in
under
the
pretended
Keepers
of
an
Liberties
.
The
Sound
of
Freedom
,
and
Liberty
brings
the
Multitude
like
Larks
to
the
Glasse
,
but
not
a
word
of
the
Net.
They
say
nothing
of
the
Standing
Army
that
must
be
kept
afoot
to
support
it
;
nor
of
the
bloudy
Taxes
that
must
be
rais'd
to
maintain
those
Troops
,
and
Martial
Law
to
make
good
all
those
Violences
.
Why
do
they
not
tell
them
of
their
Charters
,
Franchises
,
Priviledges
,
and
Tenures
,
which
are
all
swallow'd
up
in
that
Gulph
of
Popular
Tyranny
?
And
so
are
all
other
advantageous
Dependences
upon
the
Crown
.
The
Body
of
the
Law
must
be
new
garbled
,
and
a
Civil
War
,
with
all
the
Miseries
and
Contingences
of
it
,
must
be
the
Prologue
to
the
Opening
of
this
Tragical
Scene
.
And
if
the
Sedition
fails
of
successe
,
they
bring
themselves
into
the
state
again
of
a
Conquer'd
Nation
.
And
upon
these
Terms
it
is
at
best
,
that
they
are
to
exchange
a
Condition
of
Peace
,
Freedom
and
plenty
,
for
●eggery
,
Bondage
,
and
Confusion
.
It
was
very
well
sayd
of
Grotius
upon
the
NetherLanders
delivering
themselves
from
the
〈◊〉
of
Spain
.
We
Fought
(
says
he
)
to
save
the
Tenth
part
of
our
Estates
;
and
now
that
we
have
got
the
day
,
we
have
Compounded
〈◊〉
th'
other
Nine
.
Here
is
a
Criminal
,
and
a
Dangerous
,
but
(
I
hope
)
an
Impracticable
Proposal
set
afoot
;
But
brought
in
,
God
knows
,
by
Head
and
shoulders
,
under
the
Countenance
of
Religion
,
and
Succession
.
It
is
possible
there
may
be
no
more
in
it
then
a
Well-meaning
mistake
.
But
there
must
be
an
Infinite
.
Tenderness
of
Conscience
,
and
a
most
untainted
Loyalty
to
justify
the
Authour
.
But
to
return
to
my
Character
.
As
to
the
Influence
which
a
Popish
Successour
may
have
upon
Ecclesiastical
matters
,
(
as
in
the
Character
)
there
needs
no
more
to
be
sayd
in
't
then
this
;
that
the
King
hath
been
gratiously
pleased
to
offer
the
Passing
of
any
Bill
for
securing
the
Protestant
Religion
▪
without
barring
,
or
diverting
the
Succession
.
And
such
Expedients
have
been
also
fram'd
to
that
effect
,
as
have
been
by
great
Authority
judg'd
Competent
for
the
Obviating
of
that
Difficulty
.
As
to
the
Rest
,
I
will
not
deny
but
that
it
is
a
hard
thing
for
a
Prince
to
●eize
and
persecute
a
People
of
his
own
Religion
,
purely
eo
nomine
for
their
being
so
:
And
it
is
very
Probable
too
that
he
will
connive
at
men
of
that
Perswasion
,
in
many
Cases
,
where
the
Law
directs
a
Punishment
.
And
what
is
there
more
in
this
the●
what
has
been
done
already
more
or
less
from
the
Date
of
the
Statutes
themselves
to
This
very
day
:
and
what
is
done
by
the
Government
it self
toward
the
Non-Conformists
,
at
this
Instant
?
where
is
the
great
hurt
now
(
upon
this
Admittance
)
in
not
punishing
the
Papists
;
so
long
as
the
Protestants
are
not
Persecuted
?
Whereas
the
Fanatical
Papists
did
not
only
in
defiance
both
of
Law
,
and
Gospel
,
engross
all
Offices
,
Benefits
and
Priviledges
to
themselves
,
but
without
Mercy
or
Distinction
destroy'd
the
rest
of
their
Brethren
.
Char.
A
very
pretty
Chimaera
!
Which
is
as
much
as
to
make
this
Popish
King
the
greatest
Barbarian
in
the
Creation
;
a
Barbarian
that
shall
cherish
and
maintain
the
Dissenters
from
Truth
,
and
punish
and
condemn
the
Pillars
of
Christianity
,
and
Proselites
of
Heaven
:
Which
is
no
other
then
to
speak
him
the
basest
of
Men
,
and
little
lesse
then
a
Monster
.
Beside
,
at
the
same
time
that
we
suppose
that
King
,
that
dares
not
uphold
nor
encourage
his
own
Religion
,
we
render
him
the
most
deplorable
of
Cowards
;
a
Coward
so
abject
,
that
he
dares
not
be
a
Champion
even
for
his
God.
And
how
consistent
this
is
with
the
Glory
of
a
Crowned
Head
,
and
what
hope
England
has
of
such
a
Successour
,
I
leave
all
men
of
sense
to
judge
.
Fol.
3.
Behold
here
's
the
upshot
of
this
high-flown
Paragraph
.
[
A
Popish
Prince
that
puts
the
Laws
in
Execution
for
the
punishing
of
Papists
,
and
for
the
protecting
and
countenancing
of
Protestants
,
is
little
less
then
the
basest
of
Monsters
.
]
How
comes
it
then
that
the
Crown
of
France
has
not
treated
the
Protestant
Subjects
there
,
as
this
Picture-drawer
pronounces
,
that
a
Popish
Successour
would
treat
his
Protestant
Subjects
here
?
The
Protestants
have
now
and
then
been
severely
handled
I
know
in
France
;
as
the
Papists
,
upon
some
Junctures
have
been
in
England
;
And
now
of
late
worse
then
usual
.
All
which
has
been
Influenc'd
well
by
Reasons
of
State
,
as
by
Impulse
of
Religion
.
But
shall
we
Pronounce
the
most
Christian
King
the
greater
Monster
,
for
his
better
usage
of
us
?
If
a
potent
Aversion
to
us
in
matter
of
Religion
had
transported
the
French
King
's
into
so
mortal
a
Detestation
of
us
to
all
other
purposes
,
they
would
never
have
committed
so
many
Eminent
Charges
both
in
Councells
and
in
Arms
,
to
the
Honour
and
Trust
of
Protestant
Officers
and
Commanders
.
But
the
Convenience
and
Utility
of
the
State
preponderated
against
Disagreements
in
Religion
.
The
Barbarisms
of
the
Holy
League
were
the
Results
of
a
Sanguinary
Faction
as
well
in
Civil
Government
,
as
Religion
.
And
one
Egg
is
not
Liker
another
then
the
League
of
these
Dissenting
Papists
to
the
Covenant
of
our
Jesuitical
and
Dissenting
Pseudo-Protestants
.
To
come
now
to
the
Reason
and
Conscience
of
this
Elaborate
Padox
.
Taking
His
Position
for
granted
,
that
a
Popish
Prince
is
bound
by
his
Religion
,
contrary
to
Oaths
and
Promises
,
Honour
and
Justice
,
the
Dictates
of
Nature
,
the
Laws
of
Nations
,
and
the
Bonds
of
Humane
Society
;
contrary
to
all
This
(
I
say
)
and
to
his
Interest
also
;
to
break
Faith
with
Protestants
;
and
those
Protestants
,
his
Subjects
too
.
He
must
be
unman'd
,
as
well
as
Unchristian'd
;
an
Excomunicate
to
Humane
Nature
,
and
excluded
from
all
the
Benefits
and
Offices
of
Mankind
.
And
yet
,
we
are
not
without
many
Instances
,
in
the
French
League
,
and
the
Scottish
Covenant
,
of
an
abandon'd
Perfidy
even
to
this
degree
.
It
must
be
a
strange
Digestion
sure
,
that
can
put
over
all
other
Impieties
,
and
turn
the
violation
of
all
that
is
Sacred
in
Nature
into
a
meritorious
Virtue
.
Char.
Besides
what
mismatch'd
incongruous
Ingredients
must
go
to
make
up
this
Composition
a
King
!
His
Hand
and
Heart
must
be
of
no
Kin
to
one
another
:
He
must
be
so
Inhumane
to
those
very
darling
Jesuites
,
that
,
like
Mahomets
Pidgeon
,
infus'd
and
whisper'd
all
his
Heavenly
Dreams
into
his
Ears
,
that
he
must
not
only
clip
their
wings
,
but
fairly
Cage
'em
too
,
even
for
the
Charming
Oracles
they
breath'd
him
:
And
at
the
same
Minute
he
must
leave
the
wide
and
open
Ayr
to
those
very
Ravens
that
daily
croak
Abhorrence
,
and
Confusion
to
them
,
and
all
their
Holy
Dreams
,
and
their
false
Oracles
.
Thus
,
whilest
he
acts
quite
contrary
to
all
his
Inclinations
,
against
the
whole
Bent
of
his
Soul
,
what
does
he
but
publikely
put
in
force
those
Laws
for
the
Protestant
Service
;
till
in
fine
,
for
his
Nations
Peace
he
ruines
his
own
,
and
is
a
whole
Scene
of
War
within
himself
?
Whilst
his
Conscience
accusing
his
sloth
on
one
side
,
the
Pope
on
the
other
,
Rome's
continuall
Bulls
bellowing
against
him
as
an
undutifull
Son
of
Holy
Mother-Church
,
a
Scandal
to
her
Glory
,
a
Traytor
to
her
Interest
;
and
a
Deserter
of
her
Cause
;
one
day
accusing
the
Lukewarmnesse
of
his
Religion
;
another
,
the
Pusillanimity
of
his
Nature
;
all
Roman-Catholick
Princes
deriding
the
Feeblenesse
of
his
Spirit
,
and
the
Tamenesse
of
his
Arm
;
till
,
at
long
run
,
to
spare
a
Fagot
in
Smithfield
,
he
does
little
lesse
then
walk
on
hot
Irons
himself
.
Thus
all
the
pleasure
he
relishes
on
a
Throne
is
but
a
kinde
of
Good-Fryday-Entertainment
:
Instead
of
Royall
Festival
,
his
Rioting
in
all
the
Luxury
of
his
Heart
,
to
see
Rome's
Dagon
worshipp'd
;
Rome's
Altars
smoke
;
Rome's
Standard
set
up
;
Rome's
Enemies
defeated
,
and
his
victorious
Mother-Church
Triumphant
;
his
abject
,
and
poor-spirited
Submission
denyes
himself
the
only
thing
he
thirsts
for
:
and
whilst
the
Principles
he
suck
from
Rome
do
in
effect
,
in
the
Prophets
.
Words
,
bid
him
Rise
,
Slay
,
and
Eat
;
his
fear
,
his
unkingly
,
nay
,
unmanly
fear
makes
him
fast
and
starve
.
Fol.
3.
This
Passage
is
only
the
same
thing
over
again
,
in
a
diversity
of
Words
and
Phrase
.
But
it
is
well
enough
to
answer
the
Ends
it
was
intended
for
;
the
tickling
of
the
Phansy
,
and
the
moving
of
a
Popular
Passion
,
without
one
syllable
of
weight
to
strike
the
Judgement
.
My
Reply
upon
the
Last
Paragraph
shall
serve
for
This
too
;
which
I
have
not
here
Recited
,
as
requiring
any
Answer
;
but
to
shew
what
pains
he
has
taken
with
the
Ornaments
of
his
Rhetorique
,
to
supply
the
Defect
of
Argument
.
I
cannot
liken
it
to
any
thing
better
then
the
Gaudy
Glittering
Vapour
that
Children
are
used
to
Phansy
in
a
Cloud
.
They
'l
Phansy
Lions
,
Peacocks
,
in
it
,
or
what
other
Figures
they
Please
;
but
the
first
Breath
of
Ayre
scatters
the
Phantastique
Images
,
and
resolves
the
whole
into
its
original
Nothing
.
And
just
so
it
is
with
this
Character
.
There
are
many
things
in
it
finely
enough
sayd
,
to
work
upon
a
partial
and
an
Easy
Imagination
;
and
to
mislead
a
body
at
first
fight
into
an
Opinion
that
there
may
be
something
of
weight
and
Substance
in
it
;
but
upon
a
second
Thought
it
seems
to
be
only
a
plausible
Strain
of
Words
,
which
the
Authour
has
as
well
Colour'd
yet
,
as
the
matter
will
bear
.
It
serves
however
in
English
well
enough
for
an
Incentive
and
Appeal
to
the
Multitude
:
But
if
it
should
happen
to
be
turn'd
into
French
or
Latin
,
it
would
become
as
ill
as
Office
to
the
Protestants
abroad
,
as
it
is
here
to
the
Government
.
For
what
could
be
of
a
more
pernicious
Consequence
,
from
an
unknown
and
private
Pen
,
then
for
one
of
the
Reform'd
Communion
to
tell
the
French
King
,
that
if
he
suffers
one
Protestant
Subject
to
live
in
his
Dominions
,
he
is
all
those
Vile
,
Impious
,
and
Abject
things
that
the
Authour
has
here
bundled
up
in
the
Character
of
his
Popish
Successour
.
But
for
this
Popish
Successour
of
his
,
which
is
a
Figure
that
has
no
Being
in
Nature
,
but
in
his
own
Brain
;
what
if
I
should
match
it
now
,
in
Flesh
and
Bloud
?
But
it
must
be
then
among
the
Jesuite●
Successour
of
Knox
,
and
Buchanan
;
and
the
Spawn
of
that
King-killing
Race
.
There
are
mismatch'd
Ingredients
in
abundance
,
Christ
upon
his
Tribunal
,
(
as
they
prophanely
ascribe
to
their
General
Assembly
)
authorizing
Bloudshed
,
Schism
,
and
Disobedience
;
a
Treaty
with
the
King
at
Breda
,
and
the
Murther
of
the
Brave
M●ntrosse
,
both
in
a
breath
.
Were
ever
hand
and
heart
lesse
Akin
,
then
when
they
subscrib'd
Loyalty
and
Obedience
with
the
One
,
and
at
the
same
time
meditated
and
Resolved
Treason
with
the
Other
?
Then
when
they
Extirpated
what
they
Swore
they
would
only
Reform
;
and
utterly
destroy'd
that
Freedom
and
Property
,
which
they
Pretended
to
preserve
?
Then
when
instead
of
advancing
Purtity
of
Doctrine
,
and
the
Kingdom
of
Christ
,
they
fill'd
the
Pulpits
with
Jugglers
,
that
imposed
upon
the
People
the
directions
of
their
Standing
Tables
,
or
the
Close
Committee
,
as
the
Dictates
of
the
Holy
Ghost
;
and
in
place
of
the
Prophets
words
,
Rise
,
Slay
and
Eat
,
cry'd
out
,
Cursed
be
They
that
keep
back
their
Sword
in
this
Cause
.
You
know
the
Story
of
Gods
Message
unto
Ahab
for
letting
Benhadad
go
upon
Composition
,
Stricklands
Thanksgiving
Sermon
.
Nov.
5.
1643.
De
Justice
to
the
Greatest
,
says
Herle
before
the
Commons
,
Nov.
5.
1644.
Sauls
Sons
are
not
spar'd
;
no
nor
may
Agag
,
or
Benhaded
,
though
themselves
Kings
.
Zimri
and
Cozbi
(
through
Princes
of
the
People
,
)
must
be
persu'd
into
their
Tents
.
This
is
the
way
to
Consecrate
your selves
to
God.
And
what
was
the
Ground
of
all
this
Fiercenesse
;
but
a
Popish
King
,
(
though
the
Glory
of
the
Reformation
)
for
want
of
a
Popish
Successour
?
The
Kings
Counsels
and
Resolutions
are
so
engaged
to
the
Popish
Party
(
they
say
)
for
the
Suppression
and
Extirpation
of
the
True
Religion
,
that
all
Hopes
of
Peace
and
Protection
are
Excluded
;
and
it
is
fully
intended
to
give
satisfaction
to
the
Papists
,
by
alteration
of
Religion
;
and
to
the
Cavaliers
and
other
Soldiers
,
by
exposing
the
Wealth
of
the
Good
Subjects
,
especially
of
This
City
of
London
,
to
be
Sack'd
,
Plunder'd
,
and
Spoyl'd
by
them
.
And
then
again
,
His
Majesty
endeavoured
to
keep
off
all
Jealousies
and
Suspicions
,
by
many
fearfull
Oaths
and
Imprecations
,
concerning
his
purpose
of
maintaining
the
Protestant
Religion
,
&c.
Ib.
pa.
665.
This
is
enough
to
convince
the
world
that
the
very
Sound
of
Popery
will
do
the
businesse
,
as
well
Without
a
Ground
,
as
With
it
:
And
whoever
goes
about
to
allarm
the
People
upon
This
Desperate
point
,
had
need
give
very
good
Security
for
his
Allegeance
.
But
if
it
should
prove
to
be
the
work
of
some
Good-Old-Gaus●●●n
,
the
very
fact
it self
is
not
Clearer
then
the
Designe
.
But
however
it
is
,
the
Authour
has
endeavour'd
to
prevent
any
such
Conjeeture
,
by
a
Complement
upon
the
Memory
of
the
Father
,
to
make
the
better
way
to
the
venting
of
his
spleen
against
the
Successor
here
in
question
.
If
there
can
be
a
Son
of
that
Royal
Martyr
Charles
the
First
(
says
he
)
a
Prince
so
truly
pious
,
that
his
very
Enemies
dare
not
asperse
his
Memory
or
Life
,
with
the
least
Blemish
of
Irreligion
;
A
Prince
that
Seal'd
the
Protestant
Faith
with
his
Bloud
;
who
in
his
deplorable
Fate
,
and
Ignominious
Death
,
bore
so
near
a
resemblance
to
That
of
the
Saviours
of
the
world
,
that
his
Sufferings
can
do
no
lesse
then
Seat
him
at
the
Right
hand
of
Heaven
.
If
(
I
say
)
there
can
be
a
Son
of
that
Royall
Protestant
of
that
Vncharitable
Faith
,
who
by
the
very
Tenets
of
his
Religion
dooms
(
for
deems
I
suppose
)
all
that
die
without
the
Bosome
of
their
Church
irreparably
damned
:
Then
Consequently
he
must
barbarously
tear
up
his
Fathers
Sacred
Monument
,
brand
his
Blessed
Memory
with
the
Name
of
Heretique
;
and
to
compleat
the
horrid
Anathema
,
he
most
impiously
execrates
the
very
Majesty
that
gave
him
Being
.
Fol.
11.
The
Authour
has
wrought
up
This
Phansy
to
a
high
Pitch
,
as
well
in
respect
of
the
Father
,
as
of
the
Son
;
and
he
has
shew'd
his
skill
in
't
too
,
for
the
more
he
advances
the
Reputation
of
the
One
,
the
more
scope
he
has
,
upon
the
Opposition
,
to
depresse
the
Esteem
of
the
Other
.
I
would
charitably
believe
that
he
means
good
Faith
in
the
Honourable
Mention
he
makes
of
that
Venerable
Martyr
:
But
yet
there
are
some
passages
in
this
Discourse
that
would
make
a
man
half
suspect
This
Flourish
upon
the
Last
King
to
be
intended
as
a
Blind
,
to
give
him
Opportunity
of
getting
a
fairer
Marque
at
This.
For
he●s
here
upon
a
subject
where
't
is
a
Common
thing
to
have
the
Heart
and
the
Hand
as
far
as
Heaven
and
Earth
asunder
.
Witnesse
the
Close
of
the
Declaration
before-mentioned
,
Pag.
666.
We
do
here
Protest
before
the
Ever-Living
God
,
that
the
Chief
End
of
all
our
Councels
and
Resolutions
,
is
to
secure
the
Persons
,
Estates
,
and
Liberties
of
all
that
joyn
with
us
,
and
to
procure
and
establish
the
Safety
of
Religion
,
and
Fruition
of
our
Laws
and
Libertyes
,
in
This
and
all
Other
his
Majesties
Dominions
,
without
any
Intention
or
desire
to
hurt
or
injure
his
Majesty
,
either
in
his
Person
,
or
JUST
Power
.
Let
any
man
consider
,
that
at
This
very
time
,
they
were
destroying
the
Church
;
In
Arms
against
the
King
;
Plundring
and
Imprisoning
those
that
would
not
joyn
with
them
;
and
lastly
,
that
they
order'd
this
Declaration
to
be
forthwith
Printed
,
and
Read
in
all
Churches
and
Chappels
in
England
and
Wales
:
calling
Heaven
and
Earth
to
Witnesse
the
Integrity
of
their
Souls
,
under
all
these
Gross
,
and
Scandalous
Contradictions
.
Now
to
the
Latter
part
of
his
Paragraph
,
First
,
he
lays
down
a
false
Supposition
,
and
then
he
raises
out
of
it
a
most
uncharitable
Consequence
.
For
the
very
Position
that
there
is
no
Salvation
out
of
the
Church
;
is
qualifyed
yet
with
an
Exception
,
in
case
of
an
Invincible
Perswasion
;
But
if
this
be
so
lew'd
a
Principle
,
in
One
Religion
,
why
is
it
not
so
in
Another
?
There
is
not
a
fouler
Character
in
Hell
,
then
he
has
drawn
here
of
a
Popish
Successor
.
and
he
founds
it
upon
the
Irresistible
Impulses
and
Dictates
of
the
Religion
.
which
being
admitted
,
involves
every
Individual
member
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
in
the
same
Condemnation
.
So
that
he
himself
damns
all
the
Papists
,
as
well
as
he
makes
Them
Damn
all
the
Protestants
.
So
much
for
the
Son
of
that
Royal
Protestant
,
as
he
expresses
it
.
But
he
says
nothing
all
this
while
of
the
undutifull
Subjects
of
that
blessed
Martyr
:
Those
that
actually
divided
his
Sacred
Head
from
his
Body
,
and
then
glory'd
in
it
as
an
Acceptable
Sacrifice
unto
the
Lord.
But
was
This
Prince
so
pious
,
does
he
say
,
that
his
very
Enemies
dare
not
asperse
his
Memory
?
&c.
What
if
I
should
shew
him
now
(
to
convince
him
of
his
Mistake
)
three
or
four
of
the
Fiercest
Sticklers
we
have
for
the
Phanatical
Interest
,
that
have
pass'd
their
Approbation
upon
that
Execrable
Murther
?
Char.
However
(
says
he
)
if
there
be
such
a
King
in
Nature
,
as
will
not
Defend
his
Own
Religion
,
because
he
dares
not
;
but
Sneaks
upon
a
Throne
,
and
in
Obedience
to
his
Fear
shrinks
from
the
Dictates
of
his
Conscience
:
If
like
Jupiters
Logg
,
Such
a
King
can
be
;
and
Fate
has
ordain'd
us
for
a
Popish
Prince
;
Pray
Heaven
shroud
the
Imperial
Lyon
in
this
Innocent
Lamb-Skin
.
(
Fol.
3.
)
He
does
well
enough
to
pray
for
Jupiters
Logg
,
considering
what
Havock
the
Republican
Storks
have
made
with
us
Allready
.
But
is
it
so
Base
a
things
(
says
he
)
for
a
Prince
to
shrink
from
the
Dictates
of
his
Conscience
?
What
if
his
Majesty
himself
should
make
it
a
point
of
Conscience
not
to
entertein
any
Project
for
the
Uniting
,
as
they
call
it
,
of
Protestant
Dissenters
;
in
regard
both
of
the
Publike
Peace
,
and
the
Heretical
Opinions
that
must
be
indulg'd
under
that
Denomination
?
Would
not
the
Kings
concessions
in
that
point
bring
him
within
the
Equity
of
this
Successours
Character
?
Char.
But
I
have
heard
(
says
he
)
a
great
many
say
,
it
cannot
enter
into
their
Thoughts
that
a
Popish
Successour
will
ever
take
such
an
Inhumane
,
and
so
unnatural
a
Course
to
Establish
Popery
,
it
being
so
absolutely
against
the
English
Constitution
,
that
it
can
never
be
introduced
with
lesse
then
a
Deluge
of
Bloud
.
Surely
his
very
Glory
should
withhold
him
from
so
much
Cruelty
,
&c.
Fol.
5.
The
Glory
of
a
Papist
!
(
says
he
,
in
Reply
upon
himself
,
)
a
pretty
Aiery
Notion
.
How
shall
we
ever
expect
that
Glory
shall
steer
the
Action
,
of
a
Popish
Successour
,
when
there
is
not
that
thing
so
Abject
,
that
he
shall
refuse
to
do
,
or
That
Shape
or
Hypocrisie
so
Scandalous
,
he
shall
not
assume
,
when
Rome
or
Rome's
Interest
shall
Command
;
nay
,
when
his
own
petulant
Stubbornnesse
shall
but
sway
him
?
As
for
Example
;
for
One
Fit
he
shall
come
to
the
Protestant
Church
,
and
be
a
member
of
their
Communion
,
notwithstanding
at
the
same
time
his
Face
belies
his
Heart
,
and
in
his
Soul
he
is
a
Romanist
.
Nay
,
he
shall
vary
his
Disguises
as
often
as
an
Algerine
his
Colours
,
and
change
his
Flag
to
conceal
the
Pyrat
.
As
for
Instance
,
Another
fit
,
for
whole
years
together
,
he
shall
come
neither
to
One
Church
nor
th'
other
,
and
participate
of
neither
Communion
,
till
ignoble
he
plays
the
Vnprincely
,
nay
the
unmanly
Hypocrite
,
so
long
,
that
he
shelters
himself
under
the
Face
of
an
Atheist
to
shroud
a
Papist
;
a
Visor
more
fit
for
a
Banditto
then
a
Prince
.
And
This
methinks
is
so
Wretched
and
despicable
a
Disguise
,
that
it
looks
like
being
asham'd
of
his
God.
Fol.
5.
If
a
Popish
Successour
will
do
any
thing
,
though
never
so
Abject
,
he
will
comply
then
,
and
make
his
Religion
Truckle
to
his
Interest
:
But
how
comes
he
to
be
so
Abject
,
and
Yielding
in
One
Line
,
and
so
Stubborn
in
the
Next
:
If
it
be
True
that
he
will
so
Scandalously
play
the
Hypocrite
as
to
Change
his
Shape
,
and
Act
any
part
for
his
Advantage
,
which
Rome
,
or
Romes
Interest
shall
Impose
upon
him
;
what
should
hinder
him
from
making
himself
a
Protestant
to
the
Law
,
though
he
continue
a
Papist
still
in
his
Heart
?
And
where
's
the
Outcry
then
,
against
the
Popish
Successour
?
If
he
will
do
This
,
the
Exception
is
Remov'd
;
For
he
's
no
longer
,
in
Construction
of
Law
,
a
Papist
:
And
if
he
will
not
do
it
,
he
has
great
Wrong
done
him
in
the
Character
.
The
Policy
,
or
in
Truth
the
Probability
of
his
running
from
One
Communion
to
Another
,
I
must
Confesse
I
do
not
understand
.
For
if
he
can
dispense
with
shuffling
and
shifting
;
his
way
would
be
to
shift
once
for
all
into
the
shape
of
a
Protestant
;
(
For
That
's
a
Turn
would
gain
him
his
Point
)
and
not
to
wander
thus
from
One
Church
to
Another
,
to
no
manner
of
Purpose
.
Upon
the
whole
Matter
,
the
Authour
methinks
might
have
treated
the
Brother
of
his
Sovereign
with
a
little
more
regard
to
the
Terms
of
Decency
,
and
Respect
,
and
kept
himself
to
the
Cause
,
without
betraying
so
great
an
Animosity
to
the
Person
.
But
having
to
do
with
a
Prince
of
his
own
Creating
,
he
thinks
he
may
deal
with
him
at
what
rate
he
pleases
.
Char.
Besides
,
If
Glory
could
have
any
Ascendant
over
a
Popish
Successor
,
one
would
think
the
word
of
a
King
,
and
the
Solemn
Protestations
of
Majesty
ought
to
be
Sacred
and
Inviolable
.
But
how
many
Presidents
have
we
in
Popish
Princes
to
convince
us
that
their
strongest
Engagements
and
Promises
,
are
lighter
then
the
very
Breath
that
Vtters
them
.
As
for
Examples
sake
,
How
did
their
Saint
Mary
of
England
promise
the
Norfok
and
Suffolk
Inhabitants
the
unmolested
Continuation
of
the
Protestant
Worship
;
calling
her
God
(
that
God
that
saw
the
Falsenesse
of
her
Heart
)
to
witnesse
,
That
though
her
own
Perswasion
was
of
the
Romish
Faith
,
yet
she
would
content
her self
with
the
Private
Exercise
of
her
own
Devotion
,
and
preserve
the
then
Protestant
Government
,
with
all
her
Subjects
Rights
and
Priviledges
,
un-injur'd
.
Vpon
which
,
those
poor
,
credulous
,
honest
,
deluded
Believers
,
on
the
Security
of
such
Prevalent
Conjurations
,
led
by
the
mistaken
Reverence
they
paid
to
a
Protesting
Majesty
,
laid
their
Lives
at
her
Feet
,
and
were
the
very
men
that
in
That
Contest
of
the
Succession
plac'd
her
on
a
Throne
:
But
immediatly
when
her
Sovereign
Power
was
securely
establish'd
,
and
his
pious
Holinesse
had
bid
her
safely
pull
the
Vizor
off
,
no
sooner
did
Smithfield
glow
i'
th
Piles
of
Blazing
Hereticks
;
But
Chronicles
more
particularly
observe
,
that
no
people
in
her
whole
Kingdom
felt
so
signal
marks
of
her
Vengeance
,
as
those
very
Men
that
raised
her
to
the
Throne
.
Her
Princely
Gratitude
for
their
Crowning
her
with
a
Diadem
,
Crown'd
Them
with
their
Martyrdoms
.
But
since
we
have
mentioned
her
Princely
Gratitude
,
't
will
not
be
amisse
to
recollect
one
Instance
more
of
so
Exemplary
a
Virtue
.
In
the
Dispute
betwixt
Her
's
and
the
Lady
Jane
Grey's
Title
to
the
Crown
,
it
was
remarkable
,
that
all
the
Judges
of
England
gave
their
Vnanimous
Opinions
for
the
Lady
Jane's
Succession
,
except
one
of
them
only
,
that
asserted
the
Right
of
Mary
:
But
it
so
fell
out
,
that
This
man
proving
a
Protestant
(
notwithstanding
of
all
the
whole
Scarlet-Robe
he
had
been
her
only
Champion
)
was
so
barbarously
persecuted
by
her
,
that
being
first
degraded
,
then
imprison'd
and
tortur'd
for
his
Religion
,
the
Cruelty
of
his
Torments
was
so
savage
,
that
with
his
own
hand
he
made
himself
a
way
to
escape
'
em
.
And
well
might
the
violence
of
his
Despair
testifie
his
Sufferings
were
Intolerable
,
when
he
fled
to
so
sad
a
Refuge
as
Self-Murther
,
for
Deliverance
.
Fol.
5.
&
6.
See
how
he
Confounds
himself
here
in
his
way
of
Reasoning
:
Because
Q.
Mary
was
not
so
good
as
her
Word
;
therefore
No
Popish
Prince
values
himself
upon
his
Honour
.
'T
is
true
,
she
brake
her
Promise
with
Norfolk
,
and
Suffolk
(
as
he
Reports
it
)
that
gave
her
the
First
Lift
toward
the
Crown
:
But
it
is
more
then
he
can
justifie
to
make
it
a
premeditate
Perfidy
;
as
he
renders
it
.
For
it
is
the
Opinion
of
our
best
Writers
,
that
she
was
rather
wrought
upon
,
ex
post
facto
,
to
that
Violation
;
But
a
Violation
it
was
however
;
and
there
's
no
Excuse
for
't
.
And
it
was
a
mean
Ingratitude
to
the
Generous
Loyalty
of
those
People
,
whom
(
under
favour
)
she
did
not
treat
worse
then
Others
,
but
she
did
ill
in
not
using
them
better
.
As
to
what
concerns
the
matter
of
Title
,
the
Lady
Mary
,
claiming
to
the
Crown
upon
a
Statute
of
35.
Hen.
8.
and
Edward
the
Sixth
,
being
prevail'd
upon
afterward
in
his
Death-sicknesse
,
contrary
to
the
Intent
and
direction
of
that
Statute
,
to
transfer
the
Succession
,
by
Will
,
to
the
Lady
Jane
Grey
,
in
favour
of
a
Faction
that
labour'd
the
Disinheriting
of
the
Ladyes
Mary
and
Elizabeth
;
all
the
Judges
subscribed
to
the
Disinherison
of
the
Sisters
,
save
only
Sr.
James
Hales
;
(
Justice
of
the
Common
Pleas
)
who
refused
,
upon
a
Conscience
of
the
Right
,
without
any
regard
to
the
Person
of
the
Lady
Mary
.
This
same
Sr.
James
Hales
,
for
giving
a
Charge
afterward
,
Derogatory
to
the
Supremacy
of
the
Pope
,
was
commited
to
Prison
;
but
received
Good
Words
and
fair
usage
,
some
time
after
.
He
Fell
however
into
a
deep
melancholly
,
and
in
the
Conclusion
Drown'd
himself
.
But
I
see
no
warrantable
Authority
for
the
Report
of
his
being
put
to
the
Torture
;
only
the
Authour
of
the
Character
finds
it
convenient
to
have
it
so
,
for
the
better
grace
of
his
Story
.
But
we
need
not
trouble
our selves
to
look
so
far
back
for
Instances
of
Breach
of
Faith
;
this
Last
Age
having
made
us
Famous
for
Perjurious
Practises
,
beyond
all
that
ever
went
before
it
.
Witness
the
whole
Tract
of
our
Late
Troubles
.
But
now
comes
Another
Objection
of
his
own
,
with
His
Reply
upon
it
.
Char.
Suppose
(
says
he
)
that
the
Conservation
of
a
Nations
Peace
,
the
Dictates
of
a
Princes
Glory
,
and
all
the
Bonds
of
Morality
,
cannot
have
any
Influence
upon
a
Popish
Successour
;
yet
why
may
there
not
be
that
Prince
,
who
in
veneration
of
his
Coronation-Oath
,
shall
defend
the
Protestant
Religion
,
notwithstanding
all
his
Private
regret
and
inclinations
to
the
Contrary
?
When
,
rather
then
incur
the
infamous
Brand
of
Perjury
,
he
shall
ty
himself
to
the
Performance
of
That
which
not
the
force
of
Religion
it self
shall
violate
.
And
Then
,
how
can
there
be
That
Infidel
of
a
Subject
,
after
so
Solemn
an
Oath
,
that
shall
not
believe
him
?
Why
,
truly
,
I
am
afraid
there
are
a
great
many
of
those
Infidells
,
(
says
he
)
and
some
that
will
give
smart
Reasons
for
their
Infidelity
:
For
,
if
he
keeps
his
Oath
,
we
must
allow
,
that
the
only
Motive
that
Prompts
him
to
keep
it
,
is
some
Obligation
that
he
believes
is
in
an
Oath
.
But
considering
he
is
of
a
Religion
that
can
absolve
Subjects
from
their
Allegeance
,
to
an
Heretical
,
Excommunicated
Prince
,
nay
Depose
him
,
and
take
his
very
Crown
away
:
Why
may
it
not
much
more
release
a
King
from
his
Faith
to
an
Excommunicated
,
Heretical
People
;
by
so
much
as
the
Tyes
of
Vassals
to
Monarchs
are
greater
then
those
of
Monarchs
to
Vassals
.
By
the
Obligation
of
an
Oath
,
I
presume
he
means
the
Religious
Obligation
of
it
;
because
he
speaks
of
That
Obligation
from
which
the
Pope
pretends
a
power
to
absolve
him
.
Now
if
this
be
his
Mind
;
That
Obligation
is
not
(
as
he
says
)
the
only
Motive
to
the
keeping
of
his
Oath
;
but
there
is
a
Super-Additional
Reason
of
State
,
and
Political
Contemplations
,
over
and
above
.
Take
that
for
granted
once
,
that
there
's
no
Trusting
to
the
Oath
of
a
Roman
Catholique
Prince
;
and
ye
cut
the
very
Ligaments
of
Society
,
and
Commerce
.
There
's
an
End
of
All
Treatyes
,
and
Alliances
;
amicable
and
mutual
Offices
betwixt
Christian
Princes
,
and
States
:
Nay
,
in
One
word
,
erect
but
This
Maxim
;
you
turn
Europe
into
a
Shambles
,
and
put
Christendom
,
without
any
more
ado
,
into
a
State
of
War.
For
where
there
's
no
Trust
,
there
can
be
no
Security
:
And
then
we
know
upon
Experience
,
that
the
Outrages
of
Jelousy
,
for
the
Preventing
of
Imaginary
Evills
,
are
actually
the
most
dreadfull
of
Real
ones
themselves
.
This
Opinion
makes
us
a
Scorn
and
a
Prey
to
Infidels
,
and
Strips
us
of
all
that
is
Divine
,
and
Reasonable
in
us
,
together
.
I
am
nor
ignorant
yet
,
either
of
the
Doctrine
,
or
of
the
Practice
of
several
Profligate
Wretches
of
the
Roman
Communion
,
in
This
Impious
Particular
.
But
they
are
such
then
as
are
wholly
lost
in
Brutality
and
Blindnesse
,
and
I
neither
do
,
nor
can
believe
all
Papists
to
be
equally
susceptible
of
That
Unchristian
Impression
.
It
is
a
Position
that
may
be
made
use
of
at
a
Dead
Lift
,
to
serve
a
Political
Turn
.
And
the
Trick
will
not
passe
neither
,
but
upon
some
Enthusiastique
Sick-headed
Zealot
,
that
takes
all
his
Dreams
for
Visions
,
and
the
Vapours
of
his
Distemper
for
Revelations
.
We
have
had
of
these
Romish
Dispensations
and
Absolutions
in
abundance
,
among
our
Own
Fanatical
Jesuites
,
and
not
only
the
Doctrie
asserted
,
but
the
Duty
also
of
abjuring
our
Oaths
of
Allegiance
and
Canonical
Obedience
inculcated
,
and
press'd
upon
the
pain
of
Imprisonment
,
Plunder
and
Damnation
.
Yet
God
forbid
that
the
Acts
of
the
Conclave
of
a
Close
Committee
,
and
the
Determinations
of
an
Ignatian
Assembly
of
Divines
(
the
True
Counter-Part
of
the
Holy
Society
;
)
the
Lord
forbid
(
I
say
)
that
This
Cabal
of
audacious
Extravagants
,
that
took
upon
them
to
Discharge
us
from
the
Obligations
of
the
Ten
Commandements
,
as
well
as
of
the
Laws
of
the
Land
,
should
reflect
a
Scandal
upon
the
whole
Body
of
our
Communion
,
as
if
Their
Warrant
were
a
Legitimation
of
Perjury
and
Rebellion
,
and
the
Doctrine
of
King-killing
,
and
Violence
,
were
the
Dictate
of
our
Profession
.
He
touches
a
little
lower
upon
the
French
Kings
breaking
in
upon
Flanders
,
contrary
to
his
Oath
.
[
All
the
Motives
(
says
he
)
that
could
provoke
him
to
the
Breach
of
his
Oath
,
were
only
his
Ambition
,
a
Lust
of
being
Great
,
&c.
Fol.
6.
]
So
that
he
has
now
found
out
a
Popish
Prince
,
it
seems
,
that
sacrifices
his
Conscience
to
his
Glory
,
though
but
a
little
before
he
made
it
the
Character
of
a
Popish
Successour
to
sacrifice
his
Glory
to
his
Religion
.
Now
by
the
way
,
I
look
upon
Majesty
as
a
Sacred
Character
,
and
not
to
be
handled
but
with
Veneration
:
Wherefore
whether
his
Assumption
be
True
of
False
,
I
shall
speak
to
it
only
as
a
Supposition
.
He
proceeds
now
to
the
ballancing
of
the
matter
.
If
(
says
he
)
a
Roman
Catholique
can
break
an
Oath
only
for
the
Pleasure
of
Conquering
,
which
he
knows
is
doing
Ill
;
Shall
not
a
Popish
Prince
in
England
have
ten
times
more
Inclination
to
break
an
Oath
for
the
Propagation
of
his
own
Faith
,
which
his
Conscience
tells
him
is
meritorious
?
I
Answer
,
that
the
breaking
of
an
Oath
,
out
of
a
Lust
of
being
Great
,
is
the
Crime
properly
of
an
Ambitious
Prince
,
not
of
a
Popish
:
For
he
does
not
consult
his
Religion
,
but
only
his
Glory
,
in
the
Committing
of
it
.
And
the
same
Thirst
of
Dominion
,
with
the
same
degree
of
Indifference
,
as
to
the
Businesse
of
Right
or
wrong
,
in
concurrence
with
the
same
Advantages
of
Power
and
Opportunity
,
would
have
produced
the
very
same
essects
in
a
Prince
of
any
other
Judgment
.
Well
,
but
he
does
an
Ill
thing
knowingly
;
and
so
are
most
of
the
Ill
things
that
are
done
in
the
World
,
without
any
regard
to
the
difference
of
Protestant
or
Papist
.
But
Then
his
Application
of
This
Ill
thing
done
to
another
Prince
of
the
same
Perswasion
is
only
the
cutting
of
One
Diamond
with
another
;
and
nothing
at
all
to
our
Case
.
But
much
more
will
a
Popish
Prince
in
England
(
says
he
)
&c.
—
Does
it
follow
Here
that
because
a
man
would
rather
forswear
himself
to
bring
a
Good
thing
to
pass
,
then
a
Bad
one
,
(
though
we
are
to
do
no
evill
at
all
that
Good
may
come
of
it
)
that
therefore
for
the
compassing
of
a
good
end
a
man
will
forswear
himself
?
Neither
have
I
ever
as
yer
heard
of
the
Merit
of
propagating
any
Religion
,
by
Perjury
:
Or
that
the
Consciences
of
any
sort
of
Christians
could
justifie
them
in
a
Crime
which
even
Infidels
themselves
by
the
meer
instinct
of
Nature
have
in
extreme
abhorrence
.
And
he
follows
the
point
yet
further
.
Char.
He
has
Religion
(
says
he
)
to
drive
the
Royal
Jehu
on
;
Religion
that
from
the
beginning
of
the
world
,
through
all
Ags
,
has
set
all
Nations
in
a
Flame
;
yet
never
confessed
it self
in
the
Wrong
.
These
are
strange
words
to
come
from
the
mouth
of
a
pretender
to
Scruples
,
and
a
Protestant
Advocate
.
His
Quarrel
is
not
now
so
much
to
a
Popish
,
as
to
a
Religious
Successour
.
Nor
is
it
any
longer
Popery
,
but
Religion
it self
,
that
he
strikes
at
,
as
the
dangerous
and
Obstinate
Incendiary
.
Nay
and
since
Religion
was
in
the
world
,
it
was
never
otherwise
he
says
.
So
that
here
is
a
very
fair
expedient
hinted
,
for
the
good
of
Christendom
,
to
exterminate
this
Spirit
of
Discord
(
RELIGION
)
from
off
the
face
of
the
Earth
.
If
he
had
said
only
the
Pretext
of
Religion
,
he
might
have
Appeal'd
,
either
to
the
Clamour
of
his
Brethren
,
or
to
his
own
Papers
.
For
it
is
the
Pretext
that
both
Furnishes
the
Fewel
,
and
blows
the
Coal
:
while
Religion
lies
burning
in
the
Furnace
.
Char.
Beside
(
says
he
)
how
can
a
Popish
Prince
,
in
attempting
to
Establish
his
own
Religion
,
believe
he
does
his
Subjects
an
Injustice
,
in
that
very
thing
in
which
he
does
God
Justice
;
or
think
he
Injures
Them
,
when
he
does
their
Souls
Right
?
Fol.
6.
This
Pretense
of
doing
God
Justice
,
and
the
Souls
of
men
Right
;
will
entitle
a
Prince
,
with
a
much
more
plausible
Colour
,
and
a
better
Grace
,
to
the
breaking
in
upon
the
Territories
and
Subjects
of
other
Princes
and
States
,
under
Countenance
of
the
same
Design
:
For
in
that
case
,
there
's
no
Bar
of
an
Oath
upon
him
;
whereas
the
same
Violence
upon
his
own
Subjects
renders
him
Guilty
of
a
manifest
Perjury
.
But
what
does
he
mean
by
an
Attempt
to
establish
his
own
Religion
?
If
it
be
by
way
of
Argument
;
't
is
well
.
But
if
he
makes
use
of
any
compulsive
act
of
Authority
,
contrary
to
his
Oath
,
he
stands
accountable
to
God
for
breach
of
Faith
;
and
does
no
Justice
to
God
in
it
neither
,
nor
Right
to
the
Souls
of
his
People
.
For
where
's
the
justice
to
God
,
in
making
use
of
his
Name
to
an
Imposture
?
and
in
rendring
him
not
only
a
Witness
,
but
in
some
sort
,
a
Party
to
a
Cheat
?
And
where
's
the
Right
to
his
Peoples
Souls
,
in
forcing
them
to
the
Profession
of
a
Religion
with
their
Lipps
,
which
they
abhor
in
their
Hearts
?
Or
,
in
fine
,
how
can
a
Popish
Prince
so
much
as
pretend
,
either
to
the
one
,
or
the
other
,
against
so
clear
a
Light
,
both
of
Scripture
and
Nature
?
In
short
,
either
he
is
indispensably
bound
to
do
the
thing
,
or
at
liberty
whether
he
will
do
it
or
no
:
If
the
former
,
his
Oath
must
be
either
a
Nullity
or
a
Fraud
;
and
if
the
other
,
his
antecedent
Obligation
has
determin'd
that
liberty
.
[
But
Religious
Phrenzy
(
says
he
,
Fol.
7.
)
leaves
that
eternal
intoxication
behind
it
,
that
where
it
commits
all
the
Cruelties
in
the
World
,
't
is
never
sober
after
to
be
sorry
for
't
.
]
How
truly
,
and
how
severely
is
this
said
?
Witness
the
impenitent
Ends
and
Courses
of
all
the
Kings
Murtherers
,
both
Dead
and
Living
.
And
now
again
[
Thus
(
says
he
)
Whilst
a
Popish
King
sets
his
whole
Kingdom
in
a
Combustion
;
how
little
does
he
think
he
plays
a
Second
Nero
?
Good
Conscienti-Man
,
not
he
;
Alas
!
He
does
not
Tune
his
Joys
to
the
Tyrannick
Nero's
Harp
,
but
to
David's
milder
and
more
sacred
Lyre
;
whilst
,
in
the
height
of
his
pious
Extasy
,
he
sings
Te
Deum
,
at
the
Conflagration
.
ib.
]
Turn
but
Popish
King
here
,
into
Popish
,
Phanatical
Faction
,
and
what
an
admirable
illustration
is
this
of
the
Brethrens
Exultations
and
Thanksgivings
,
for
the
Ruine
of
their
Sovereign
,
the
Holy
Church
,
and
Three
Kingdoms
?
Nay
,
and
the
florid
humour
goes
on
with
him
still
.
[
Thus
(
says
he
)
with
an
Arbitrary
,
unbounded
Power
,
what
does
his
Licentious
holy
Thirst
of
bloud
do
less
,
than
make
his
Kingdoms
a
larger
Slaughter-House
,
and
his
Smithfield
an
Original
Shambles
?
Thus
the
Old
Moloch
,
once
again
revives
,
to
feast
and
riot
on
his
dear
,
human
Sacrifice
:
And
whilst
his
fiery
Iron
hands
,
crush
the
poor
Victim
dead
,
the
PROPAGATION
of
RELIGION
,
and
the
GLORY
of
GOD
(
as
he
calls
it
)
are
the
very
Trumpets
that
deafen
all
the
feeble
Cryes
of
bloud
,
and
drown
the
dying
Groans
of
what
he
Murthers
.
Ibid.
]
Can
any
Man
read
this
Pathetical
Figure
of
Tyranny
and
Desolation
,
without
turning
the
OLD
MOLOCH
into
the
GOOD-OLD-CAVSE
;
and
calling
to
mind
the
Glorious
Sacrifices
that
were
offer'd
at
White-Hall-Gate
;
upon
Tower-Hill
;
Cheap-side
;
Charing-Cross
;
and
in
a
word
,
in
all
the
Quarters
of
His
Majesties
Dominions
,
to
that
Mercyless
and
Insatiable
Idol
?
To
say
nothing
of
those
Whole-Sale
Carnages
,
at
Edge-hill
,
Newbury
,
Marston-Moor
,
Navesby
,
&c.
where
the
blood
of
loyal
Subjects
,
and
true
Protestants
,
was
spilt
like
Water
,
and
the
Priests
of
Baal
,
all
this
while
,
with
the
PROPAGATION
of
RELIGION
,
and
the
GLORY
of
GOD
in
their
Mouths
,
celebrating
,
in
their
Pulpits
and
Festivals
,
these
Barbarous
Triumphs
.
And
yet
again
;
Char.
Thus
(
says
he
)
whilst
the
bonds
of
Faith
,
Vows
,
Oaths
and
Sacraments
cannot
hold
a
Popish
Successor
;
what
is
that
in
an
Imperial
Head
,
but
what
in
a
private
Man
we
punish
with
a
Jail
and
Pillory
?
whilst
the
Perjur'd
Wretch
stands
the
Vniversal
Marque
of
Infamy
,
and
then
is
driven
from
all
Conversation
,
and
like
a
Monster
hooted
from
Light
and
Day
.
]
Pray'e
correct
the
Errata
'
s
of
this
passage
,
thus
:
For
Popish
Successor
read
Jesuitical
Covenanter
;
and
for
an
Imperial
Head
read
a
Committee
of
Safety
:
And
then
ye
have
the
Mystery
uncipher'd
.
[
But
the
Pope
(
he
says
)
and
a
Royal
Hand
,
may
do
any
thing
;
there
's
a
Crown
in
the
case
,
to
guild
the
deeds
his
Royal
Engines
act
.
]
This
Pope
and
Royal
Hand
should
have
been
their
General
Assembly
;
and
their
(
Pretended
)
Christ
upon
his
Throne
;
and
then
Gods
Cause
,
and
according
to
the
Covenant
hallows
the
Sedition
—
Et
quod
.
Turpe
est
Cerdoni
,
Volesos
,
Brutosque
decebit
.
One
Verse
more
would
have
expounded
the
whole
business
.
Ille
Crucem
sceleris
Pretium
,
tulit
,
Hic
,
Diadema
.
Char.
They
are
still
(
says
he
)
that
adorable
Sovereign
Greatness
we
must
kneel
to
,
and
obey
.
What
if
a
little
Perjur'd
Villain
has
sworn
a
poor
Neighbour
out
of
a
Cow
or
a
Cottage
!
Hang
him
,
inconsiderable
Rogue
!
His
Ears
deserve
a
Pillory
.
But
to
VOW
and
COVENANT
and
FORSWEAR
THREE
KINGDOMS
OVT
OF
THEIR
LIBERTIES
AND
LIVES
;
that
's
Illustrious
and
Heroique
.
There
's
Glory
in
great
Atchievments
,
and
Virtue
in
Success
.
Alas
!
a
vast
Imperial
Nimro●
hunts
for
Nobler
Spoils
;
flyes
at
a
whole
Nations
Property
and
Inheritance
.
A
Game
w●rthy
a
Son
of
Rome
,
and
Heir
of
Paradise
.
And
to
lay
the
mighty
scene
of
ruine
secure
,
he
makes
his
Coronation-Oath
,
and
all
his
Royal
Protestations
(
those
splendid
Baits
of
premeditated
Perjury
)
the
Cover
and
Skreen
to
the
hidden
fatal
Toyl
,
laid
to
ensnare
a
Nation
.
fol.
7.
Never
were
those
Illustrious
and
He●oick
Vowers
and
Covenanters
,
that
for
swore
three
Kingdoms
out
of
their
Liberties
and
Lives
,
drawn
so
to
the
Life
;
and
five
hundred
Nimrods
too
upon
the
chase
of
our
Property
and
Inheritance
.
And
it
was
a
Game
worthy
of
the
Sons
of
Buchanan
;
and
(
if
they
may
be
their
own
Godfathers
)
the
Children
of
the
Lord
too
,
under
the
Cover
of
their
ambiguous
Protestations
;
and
their
Holy
League-Bands
of
Confederacy
;
they
c●nceal'd
the
Snare
of
that
premeditated
Perjnry
,
which
was
follow'd
with
so
many
dreadful
judgments
upon
the
Nation
.
He
prosecutes
his
Subject
with
a
Reply
to
the
Objection
,
that
'
its
impossible
for
a
Popish
Successor
to
introduce
Popery
into
England
.
That
the
Jesuits
,
had
such
a
design
;
&
that
the
whole
Party
believ'd
it
practicable
,
he
evinces
from
the
Plot
;
and
the
prospect
of
a
presumptive
Popish
Heir
,
render'd
them
more
confident
of
succeeding
in
it
,
fol.
7.
and
8.
And
yet
four
or
five
Lines
further
,
he
represents
the
difficulties
of
restoring
Popery
into
England
to
be
almost
insuperable
:
and
so
with
just
reflections
upon
the
Paris
,
and
Irish
Massacres
;
Villanies
of
Gun-powder
Treasons
,
Conflagratiens
,
and
Plots
against
Kings
and
Kingdoms
.
He
finishes
that
Paragraph
.
I
shall
easily
agree
here
to
all
the
Ill
that
he
says
of
the
Seditious
and
pragmatical
Papists
,
without
disputing
one
syllable
of
it
.
And
yet
I
think
it
very
well
worth
our
care
,
to
distinguish
betwixt
zeal
and
clamour
;
and
not
over-hastily
to
give
credit
to
That
Sort
of
People
,
whose
method
it
is
;
first
,
to
make
Papists
odious
;
and
then
to
make
the
Church
of
England
Popish
.
And
this
is
not
said
neither
to
divert
any
man
from
a
reasonable
apprehension
of
the
other
danger
.
There
never
was
a
greater
noise
of
Popery
,
than
in
the
Prologue
to
the
misfortunes
of
the
late
King.
And
what
was
the
Ground
,
or
what
the
Issue
of
it
?
There
was
a
Conspiracy
to
undermine
the
Government
,
and
no
way
but
that
to
put
the
People
out
of
their
Wits
,
and
out
of
their
Duties
together
;
and
the
Project
succeeded
,
to
the
actual
subversion
of
the
Government
.
And
when
the
Zelots
had
possessed
themselves
of
the
Quarry
,
they
shar'd
both
publick
and
private
Revenues
among
themselves
,
and
fell
afterward
to
the
cutting
of
one
another's
Throats
,
for
the
Booty
;
without
one
word
more
of
Popery
.
In
Brief
,
to
joyn
in
an
Out-cry
against
Papists
,
with
those
that
Reckon
Episcopacy
to
be
Popery
,
is
to
assist
our
Enemies
toward
the
putting
on
of
our
own
Shackles
.
And
it
is
gone
so
far
too
,
that
the
Libellers
,
and
their
Dictators
range
them
hand
in
hand
already
;
and
you
shall
seldom
see
a
Blow
made
at
the
Pope
,
without
a
Lick
at
the
Bishops
.
But
the
Project
begins
now
to
open
.
Char.
Let
us
now
rightly
consider
how
far
the
first
Foundations
of
Popery
(
vix
.
Arbitrary
Power
)
may
be
laid
in
England
.
First
,
then
,
if
a
Papist
Reign
;
the
Judges
,
Sheriffs
,
Justices
of
the
Peace
,
and
all
the
Judiciary
Officers
are
of
the
King's
Creation
:
and
as
such
,
how
far
may
the
influence
of
Preferment
;
on
baser
Constitutions
,
cull'd
out
for
his
purpose
,
prevail
even
to
deprave
the
very
Throne
of
Justice
her self
;
and
make
our
Judges
use
even
our
Protestant
Laws
themselves
to
open
the
first
Gate
to
Slavery
.
We
are
just
now
upon
a
Preliminary
to
the
Nineteen
Old
Propositions
over
again
.
For
fear
of
an
Arbitrary
Power
,
the
King
was
not
to
be
trusted
with
the
Choice
of
his
own
Officers
.
But
no
though
taken
for
the
securing
of
the
Government
from
Popular
Tumults
and
Insurrections
;
in
case
of
lodging
that
trust
in
any
other
hand
.
Beside
the
putting
of
the
King
into
an
incapacity
of
providing
for
the
justice
,
and
security
of
the
Government
.
But
he
is
so
far
however
in
the
right
;
that
the
perverting
of
that
power
may
endanger
the
State.
And
for
that
consideration
,
it
is
a
Trust
not
to
be
parted
with
,
lest
it
should
once
more
be
re-apply'd
to
the
destruction
of
the
King
and
People
,
as
it
was
before
.
It
is
a
certain
Truth
,
that
a
Prince
,
by
the
abuse
of
his
Power
may
prove
a
Tyrant
.
But
it
is
as
certain
again
,
that
there
is
not
any
form
,
or
temperament
of
Sovereignty
imaginable
,
that
is
not
lyable
to
the
same
possibility
.
For
Tyranny
it self
,
is
only
the
straining
of
the
Essential
and
necessary
powers
of
Government
beyond
their
pitch
.
We
have
experimented
the
worst
effects
of
Usurpation
,
and
Corruption
;
and
of
turning
the
Equity
of
the
Law
against
the
Letter
of
it
;
nay
of
setting
up
the
Laws
themselves
against
the
very
authority
that
made
them
.
And
all
this
would
never
have
done
the
work
neither
,
if
the
faction
had
not
supply'd
the
want
of
Laws
for
their
purpose
in
some
cases
,
and
superseded
others
that
were
against
them
,
by
an
Arbitrary
Device
of
Votes
,
and
Ordinances
.
So
that
the
hazard
is
nothing
so
great
as
he
represents
it
,
in
the
hand
of
a
Prince
,
for
want
of
that
power
of
Enacting
and
Repealing
,
which
the
Faction
possessed
themselves
of
by
an
Usurpation
.
But
alas
!
(
says
he
,
Pag.
8.
)
The
Laws
in
corrupted
Iudges
hands
have
been
too
often
used
as
barbarously
as
the
Guests
of
Procrustes
,
who
had
a
Bed
for
all
Travellers
;
but
then
he
either
cut
them
shorter
,
or
stretch'd
them
longer
,
to
fit
them
to
it
,
And
is
not
this
very
charitably
done
now
;
to
imagine
the
worst
things
that
either
ever
were
or
can
be
done
;
Of
a
Prince
,
(
admitting
my
Author's
supposition
)
whose
Empire
,
Safety
;
Donions
;
and
the
wel-fare
of
whose
People
,
are
all
dependent
upon
his
good
behaviour
,
and
justice
?
So
that
he
ventures
his
All
on
the
one
side
,
to
get
nothing
on
the
other
,
Here
is
the
fansie
of
remote
and
uncertain
difficulties
,
oppo'sd
to
our
present
security
and
well-being
!
and
after
a
Capital
Sentence
,
pronounced
with
a
formality
of
Law
,
upon
an
Imperial
Prince
,
as
a
Traytor
to
the
Sovereignty
of
the
People
;
We
are
now
opening
the
way
to
bring
another
Prince
to
the
Scaffold
.
For
that
's
the
Scope
of
several
Virulent
Libels
,
both
printed
and
written
,
that
have
at
present
,
their
free
course
without
controll
?
These
are
the
Incendiaries
I
speak
of
,
and
no
other
.
[
Well
(
says
he
again
)
but
if
the
publick
Ministers
of
Justice
betray
the
Liberty
of
the
Subject
;
The
Subject
may
Petition
for
a
Parliament
to
punish
'em
for
't
.
But
what
if
he
will
neither
hear
one
,
nor
call
the
other
?
who
shall
compel
him
?
]
This
is
a
very
artificial
way
of
getting
a
shoot
at
the
King
through
the
Duke
;
and
to
intimate
the
Exercise
of
an
Arbitrary
Power
,
by
this
manner
of
supposing
it
.
It
was
by
these
very
steps
of
accusing
evil
Councellours
;
crying
out
for
justice
against
them
;
and
for
a
Parliament
to
punish
them
;
that
the
Faction
mounted
the
Government
,
and
strip'd
his
Majesty
;
first
of
his
Friends
;
then
of
his
Revenue
;
next
of
his
Liberty
;
and
lastly
of
his
Life
,
and
all
this
was
actually
done
,
for
fear
of
no
body
knew
what
.
Ther
's
no
doubt
(
says
the
Character
)
but
hee
'l
find
sufficient
assistance
from
the
Pope
,
English
Papists
,
and
Foreign
Princes
;
beside
the
Revenues
of
the
Crown
.
And
then
having
but
a
prudent
eye
,
and
a
tenacious
hand
to
manage
his
Exchequer
;
we
shall
find
hee
'l
never
call
that
People
he
shall
never
have
need
of
,
fol.
8.
]
He
supposes
here
an
assistance
for
a
Prince
in
possession
of
his
Crown
.
But
an
assistance
for
what
,
unless
in
case
of
a
Rebellion
?
Or
is
it
an
assistance
to
enable
him
to
live
without
Parliaments
?
As
if
Foreign
Princes
would
be
at
that
charge
,
to
be
never
the
better
sor't
.
Or
if
he
means
a
Military
Assistance
toward
the
settling
of
him
in
the
Possession
of
an
Absolute
Power
;
his
Interest
undoubtedly
will
be
much
greater
in
the
supporting
of
him
as
an
Heir
,
than
in
advancing
him
as
a
Tyrant
;
beside
,
that
for
one
English
Man
to
serve
him
in
such
an
unwarrantable
design
,
he
will
have
an
hundred
,
in
case
of
any
unjust
delusion
,
to
stand
by
him
in
the
defence
or
recovery
of
an
nndoubted
Right
.
This
is
only
the
quitting
of
one
Pamphlet
with
another
;
and
to
make
use
of
that
liberty
my self
which
is
allow'd
to
others
.
[
But
all
this
while
(
says
he
)
the
Pope
is
not
Absolute
.
There
wants
a
Standing
Army
to
Crown
the
Work
:
And
he
shall
have
it
,
for
who
shall
hinder
him
?
Nay
,
all
his
Commanders
shall
be
present
qualifi'd
,
even
by
our
Protestant
Test
,
for
the
employment
.
]
We
have
not
forgot
the
Time
when
one
standing
Army
was
Raised
for
fear
of
another
;
and
between
Thirty
and
Forty
Thousand
Men
kept
in
Pay
for
a
matter
of
thirteen
or
fourteen
years
together
,
when
the
War
was
over
,
and
not
one
Enemy
left
in
the
Field
;
one
King
imprison'd
,
and
another
in
Banishment
;
Taxes
multiply'd
;
The
People
peel'd
to
the
very
Bones
;
and
the
Persons
and
Estates
of
Free-born
English
Men
subjected
to
the
most
Scandalous
Tyranny
that
ever
was
inflicted
upon
reasonable
Creatures
.
And
what
was
the
Ground
and
Foundation
of
this
Calamity
?
The
Multitude
were
Buzz'd
in
the
Head
,
that
the
King
was
Popishly
inclin'd
,
and
govern'd
by
Jesuitical
Councels
;
nothing
but
Papists
about
him
,
and
two
or
three
Antichristian
Bishops
(
a
Pack
of
Tories
,
and
Tantvies
)
and
a
mighty
noise
there
was
of
German
Horse
,
and
the
bringing
of
an
Army
up
to
Town
to
awe
the
City
,
and
the
Parliament
:
and
the
very
fear
alone
of
these
shadows
Transported
them
into
the
uttermost
extremities
of
rage
and
confusion
.
'T
is
true
,
there
was
no
Plot
afoot
then
,
as
there
is
now
;
but
they
made
sufficient
shift
,
without
it
,
to
do
their
own
,
and
the
Kingdoms
business
.
You
shall
now
see
the
Composition
of
his
Popish
Successor's
Standing-Army
.
He
shall
have
enough
Men
of
the
Blade
out
of
one
half
of
the
Gaming
Houses
in
Town
,
to
Officer
twice
as
many
Forces
as
he
shall
want
:
'T
is
true
,
they
shall
be
men
of
no
Estates
,
nor
Princples
,
&c.
]
He
should
e'en
have
gone
on
,
when
his
hands
were
in
,
and
quarter'd
his
new
Leveys
in
Lambeth
House
,
or
Pauls
,
as
in
the
days
of
his
Forefathers
.
But
is
not
this
better
yet
,
than
Spiriting
away
of
Apprentices
from
their
Masters
;
decoying
the
poor
Wenches
out
of
their
Bodkins
and
Thimbles
,
and
squeezing
a
Rebellion
out
of
the
Gospel
?
We
have
seen
an
Army
of
pretended
Saints
,
to
the
value
of
Twenty
or
Thirty
Thousand
in
a
Body
;
and
as
many
Religions
,
as
Men
:
every
Article
of
the
Creed
call'd
in
question
;
and
the
Lord's
Prayer
exploded
as
a
stinting
of
the
Spirit
.
This
and
a
great
deal
more
,
and
worse
,
is
true
,
to
the
very
Letter
.
But
forward
[
And
that
this
Army
may
be
more
quietly
rais'd
;
how
many
honourable
pretences
may
be
found
,
fol.
9.
]
Very
right
.
As
the
fetching
of
the
King
home
to
his
Parliament
;
the
delivering
of
him
out
of
the
hands
of
Papists
.
The
defence
of
his
person
,
and
just
rights
,
in
the
maintenance
of
the
true
Protestant
Religion
;
and
all
this
,
in
the
Stile
of
his
Majesties
most
humble
,
and
obedient
Subjects
.
[
Perhaps
(
says
he
)
the
greatest
and
most
importunate
preservation
of
the
Kingdom
shall
call
for
't
and
then
upon
second
thoughts
,
instead
of
defeating
some
Foreign
Enemy
,
they
are
opportunuely
ready
to
cut
our
Throats
at
home
;
if
we
do
not
submit
,
and
give
all
that
this
King
shall
ask
,
bid
.
]
This
ingenuous
Author
has
directly
Translated
the
true
History
of
the
Rise
and
Advance
of
the
late
Rebellion
,
into
a
Prophetical
Computation
of
the
Methods
and
Proceedings
which
the
World
is
to
expect
from
a
Popish
King.
Did
not
they
seize
those
very
Arms
that
the
King
had
provided
for
the
Relief
of
Ireland
?
and
employ
them
against
his
Majesties
very
Person
at
Edg-hil
?
And
were
not
those
very
Troops
that
were
Raised
,
as
they
swore
,
for
the
defence
of
the
City
of
London
,
Quarter'd
upon
the
Citizens
,
to
Ruine
,
and
Enslave
them
.
Char.
Thus
far
(
says
he
)
we
have
given
the
Pourtraicture
of
a
Popish
King
:
And
now
,
let
us
take
a
draught
of
his
Features
in
his
Minority
;
that
is
,
while
he
is
only
a
Popish
Heir
Apparent
,
I.d.
After
the
Preamble
of
an
Imaginary
Prince
,
elevated
to
the
height
of
a
Generous
and
a
glorious
Character
;
with
a
Supposal
of
a
People
too
not
unworthy
of
the
blessing
of
such
a
Sovereign
;
and
a
smooth
Reproach
in
the
end
of
it
,
to
intimate
how
much
he
is
beholden
to
them
;
he
advances
as
follows
.
Char.
Now
(
says
he
)
let
suppose
,
after
a
long
Tranquility
of
this
matchless
Monarchs
R●ign
,
that
the
immediate
Heir
to
his
Crown
,
and
a
part
of
his
Bloud
,
by
the
Sorceries
of
Rome
is
canker'd
into
a
Papist
.
]
His
meaning
is
easily
suppos'd
,
by
stabbing
of
the
very
Paper
,
whenever
he
comes
near
him
.
[
And
to
pursue
this
Land●hape
,
suppose
we
see
this
once
happy
Flourishing
Kingdom
(
so
far
as
in
all
Duty
and
Reason
bound
)
concern'd
for
themselves
,
their
Heirs
and
their
whole
Countries
Safety
;
till
with
an
honest
,
cautious
,
prudent
Fear
they
begin
to
inspect
a
Kingdoms
Vniversal
Health
;
till
weighing
all
the
Symptoms
of
its
State
,
they
plainly
descry
those
Pestilential
Vapours
fermenting
,
that
may
one
day
infect
their
Ayre
,
and
sicken
their
World
,
and
see
that
rising
Eastern
Storm
engendring
,
that
will
once
bring
in
those
more
then
Egyptian
Locusts
,
that
will
not
only
fill
their
Houses
,
and
their
Temples
,
but
devour
their
Labours
their
Harvests
,
and
their
Vintages
]
Here
's
a
Period
for
an
Apothecary
.
The
Inspectors
(
I
suppose
)
of
our
Body
politick
may
be
Three
or
Four
of
our
Anabaptistical
Protestant
Intelligencing
VVater
Casters
of
the
State.
And
these
are
the
men
that
so
plainly
descry
the
pestilential
vapours
,
he
speaks
of
,
which
in
effect
are
no
other
then
the
Breath
of
their
own
Lungs
.
But
is
it
an
Eastern
Storm
that
they
see
engendring
?
why
then
the
wind
is
turn'd
,
I
perceive
,
for
the
Locusts
of
40
and
43
came
out
of
the
North
;
and
did
us
all
the
mischiefs
too
,
of
his
Egyptian
Locusts
.
And
now
he
has
given
us
the
State
of
our
Disorder
;
he
is
so
kind
as
to
pr●scribe
toward
our
Relief
,
which
is
in
a
few
words
,
That
the
Nation
[
like
true
Patriots
do
anticipate
their
woes
,
with
a
present
sense
of
the
future
miseries
they
foresee
,
fol.
9.
]
which
is
as
much
as
to
say
:
Vp.
and
be
dring
,
Now
again
Char.
VVhat
is
This
Popish
Heir
in
the
Eye
of
England
,
but
perhaps
the
greatest
,
and
only
Grievance
of
the
Nation
;
the
Vniversal
Object
of
their
Hate
and
Fear
,
and
the
Subject
of
their
Clamours
and
Curses
?
(
methinks
he
might
afford
the
Kings
Brother
a
little
better
Language
)
at
whose
door
,
ly●their
Discontents
and
Murmurs
;
but
't
is
murmurs
so
violent
,
that
they
thrust
in
amongst
their
very
Prayers
(
So
did
Curse
ye
Meroz
)
and
become
almost
a
part
of
their
Devotions
.
(
The
Prophet
Davids
Curse
is
faln
upon
them
,
Their
Prayer
is
turn'd
into
Sin
)
Murmurs
so
bold
,
that
they
dare
approach
the
very
Palace
,
nay
Throne
and
Ear
of
Majesty
,
fol.
10.
]
Here
's
a
large
step
advanc'd
upon
the
King
himself
;
but
you
shall
see
him
come
closer
by
and
by
,
[
Whenever
(
says
he
▪
)
the
People
of
England
reflect
on
this
Heir
as
their
King
in
reversion
,
they
have
reason
to
look
upon
him
as
no
better
than
Jupiter
'
s
Stork
amongst
the
Froggs
.
Yes
,
notwithstanding
all
his
former
Glories
and
Conquests
,
his
whole
Stock
of
Fame
is
so
lost
,
and
bury'd
in
his
Apostacy
from
the
Religion
;
and
conseqnently
,
the
Interest
of
these
Protestant
Kingdoms
,
that
all
his
Services
are
Cancell'd
,
and
his
whole
Masse
of
Glory
corrupted
,
ibid.
]
I
find
some
People
of
Opinion
,
that
this
King
in
reversion
is
of
the
same
Perswasion
at
this
day
;
that
he
was
,
when
he
acquir'd
all
those
Glories
:
But
let
that
pass
,
and
see
now
what
's
the
sum
of
all
this
Flourish
,
but
a
labour'd
Piece
of
spiteful
Art
,
to
render
the
Brother
of
his
Sacred
Majesty
as
odious
as
the
soulest
Character
,
and
Calumny
can
make
him
You
shall
fee
presently
that
This
Venom
against
the
Duke
will
terminate
in
the
King
;
and
that
instead
of
a
Christian
,
and
pious
Zeal
for
Religion
,
the
end
of
it
is
to
inflame
a
desperate
Distemper
in
the
State.
It
is
,
in
short
,
a
Character
of
the
worst
of
men
,
adapted
to
a
suitable
Religion
:
And
expos'd
to
the
World
,
in
an
uncharitable
account
of
things
,
which
he
cannot
possibly
foreknow
.
His
next
supposal
is
a
Rhetorical
Speculation
;
and
not
without
Reflexions
bold
enough
,
upon
the
unchangeable
affection
of
his
Majesty
to
his
Royal
Brother
.
What
(
saith
he
)
can
the
consequence
of
this
unhappy
Friendship
be
;
but
that
the
very
Souls
and
Loyalties
of
almost
a
whole
Kingdom
are
stagger'd
at
this
fatal
Conjunction
;
till
I
am
afraid
there
are
too
many
,
who
in
detestation
of
that
one
Gangreen'd
Branch
of
Royalty
can
scarce
forbear
(
how
undutifully
soever
)
to
murmur
and
revile
even
at
that
Imperial
Root
that
cherishes
it
?
Ibid.
]
What
a
strange
Usurpation
is
this
,
not
only
upon
Majesty
,
but
Human
Nature
;
not
to
allow
a
Prince
the
freedom
of
those
affections
which
he
can
no
more
put
off
than
his
Reasonable
Being
?
But
this
is
the
Loyalty
of
the
Old
Stamp
,
that
still
gives
the
Sign
with
a
Hail
Master
,
and
a
Kiss
.
But
how
comes
this
Pamphlet
to
undertake
for
the
sense
of
the
whole
Kingdom
?
It
is
not
that
he
finds
them
so
much
dis-affected
,
but
he
endeavours
to
make
them
so
;
by
teaching
and
animating
the
Sedition
that
he
would
be
thought
to
fear
.
Nay
,
so
far
is
he
from
being
afraid
of
the
undutiful
murmurs
he
seems
to
apprehend
;
that
it
is
scarce
possible
to
do
more
toward
the
creating
of
them
.
And
look
now
how
he
grows
upon
His
Majesty
.
[
Those
very
Knees
(
says
he
)
that
but
now
,
would
have
bow'd
into
their
very
Graves
to
serve
him
,
grow
daily
and
hourly
so
far
from
bending
(
as
they
ought
)
to
a
Crown'd
Head
,
till
they
are
almost
as
stubborn
as
their
Petitions
and
Prayers
have
been
ineffectual
.
]
What
is
this
to
say
,
but
in
his
way
of
intimation
to
insinuate
—
what
the
Reader
will
easily
understand
,
though
more
than
I
am
willing
to
express
.
Char.
Thus
(
says
he
)
whilst
a
Popish
Heirs
extravagant
Zeal
for
Rome
,
makes
him
shake
the
very
Throne
that
upholds
him
,
by
working
and
encroaching
on
the
affections
of
His
Majesty
,
for
that
Protection
and
Indulgence
that
gives
birth
and
life
to
the
Heart-burnings
of
a
Nation
;
what
does
he
otherwise
than
in
a
manner
stabb
his
King
,
his
Patron
,
and
his
Friend
,
in
his
tenderest
part
,
his
Loyal
Subjects
hearts
?
which
certainly
is
little
less
than
to
play
the
more
lingring
sort
of
Parricide
;
a
part
so
strangely
unnatural
,
that
even
Salvages
would
blush
at
,
yet
this
Religion
,
ncorrigible
remorseless
Religion
never
shrinks
at
.
Folio
10.
It
is
worth
observing
,
that
throughout
this
whole
Character
of
a
Popish
Successor
,
the
Author
of
it
lays
more
load
upon
the
Heir
than
upon
the
Religion
;
for
he
treats
the
Latter
still
in
the
terms
of
a
fair
and
generous
enemy
;
but
when
he
comes
to
the
Other
,
he
shoots
Poyson'd
Arrows
,
Parricide
,
Gangreen'd
,
and
the
like
,
without
any
respect
either
to
Modesty
or
Honour
.
And
what
is
the
whole
Tract
indeed
,
but
an
artificial
Declamation
,
without
so
much
as
one
ill
thing
in
't
,
bating
the
Perswasion
,
that
is
either
liable
to
a
proof
,
or
possible
for
him
to
know
:
And
yet
he
does
as
boldly
pronounce
upon
things
to
come
,
as
if
he
had
the
Book
of
Fate
in
his
Pocket
.
He
charges
the
Successor
here
,
with
encroaching
upon
the
Kings
Affections
.
It
was
a
little
while
agoe
,
only
the
invincible
tenderness
of
His
Majesty
;
but
it
is
now
turn'd
into
the
working
and
insinuation
of
his
Brother
:
who
stabbs
the
King
(
says
the
Character-Writer
)
in
the
Hearts
of
his
Loyal
Subjects
.
But
what
if
it
should
happen
that
the
King
should
be
here
stabbed
thorough
the
Duke
?
It
was
at
this
rate
,
that
Laud
and
Strafford
stabb'd
the
late
King
too
.
And
what
was
the
end
on
't
;
but
that
when
the
Kings
Friends
were
remov'd
,
under
the
Character
of
his
Enemies
;
his
Sacred
Majesty
left
naked
and
defenceless
,
those
Hypocrites
that
had
nothing
in
their
Mouths
,
but
Loyalty
and
Religion
;
those
were
the
very
Men
that
stabb'd
him
themselves
.
This
is
the
plain
Historical
Fact
,
without
either
amplifications
or
colours
.
But
if
you
'll
see
a
figure
upon
the
Stretch
;
observe
his
next
fancy
;
where
he
makes
the
Duke
a
Parricide
for
killing
the
King
in
the
hearts
of
his
People
,
by
his
applications
and
respects
to
His
Maiesty
.
And
a
Parricide
(
as
he
phrases
it
)
so
strangely
unnatural
too
,
that
even
Pagans
would
blush
at
it
.
Is
this
Jest
or
Earnest
now
?
is
it
a
pang
of
Duty
and
Conscience
?
Or
is
it
not
rather
the
Luxuriancy
of
a
high-flown
thought
?
How
comes
it
to
be
so
flagitious
a
crime
,
for
one
brother
to
love
another
,
that
Humane
Nature
must
be
startled
at
it
?
Or
that
a
Prince
may
not
presume
to
venture
upon
the
Duties
of
Christianity
,
Natural
Affection
,
Friendship
,
Honour
and
Humanity
,
for
fear
of
being
call'd
to
account
for
't
in
a
Pamphlet
?
Well!
but
he
tells
us
of
the
Heart-burnings
of
the
Nation
at
this
conjunction
;
and
for
that
reason
,
he
expects
,
it
seems
,
that
His
Majesty
shall
relinquish
his
Brother
.
But
what
if
a
Man
should
ask
him
,
First
,
How
he
knows
this
to
be
the
sence
of
the
Nation
?
Secondly
,
What
Commission
he
has
to
tell
the
World
so
?
And
Thirdly
,
How
he
comes
so
positively
to
assert
that
it
is
so
;
when
it
is
clear
,
on
the
contrary
that
it
is
not
so
?
For
the
Peoples
quarrel
is
to
the
Religion
only
,
whereas
the
Authors
is
principally
to
the
Duke
.
But
let
us
give
him
these
Heart-burnings
for
granted
;
and
see
how
far
a
concession
upon
that
point
will
carry
us
at
last
.
First
,
The
Duke
Marches
off
;
and
then
the
Kings
Ministers
back
after
him
;
and
then
goes
the
Militia
:
and
so
in
course
,
the
Bishops
,
the
Revenue
,
&c.
To
the
end
of
the
Chapter
of
Forty
Eight
:
and
all
this
,
to
gratify
one
longing
after
another
,
till
,
in
the
conclusion
,
another
Government
turns
up
Trump
.
Plato
Redivivus
has
the
whole
Scheme
of
the
Project
ready
cut
and
dry'd
.
This
was
the
very
Method
of
our
Ruine
;
and
the
name
of
Religion
led
the
way
to
't
.
A
Covenanted
,
and
,
in
his
own
Words
,
an
incorrigible
,
re●orseless
Religion
.
But
why
these
Heart-burnings
,
now
the
Duke
is
out
of
the
Kingdom
?
unless
they
would
him
out
of
the
World
too
?
And
that
would
not
serve
neither
;
for
so
long
as
there
is
a
Service-Book
,
a
Surplice
,
or
a
Canonical
Habit
in
the
Kingdom
,
and
this
Humour
kept
a
foot
,
there
shall
never
want
Popery
to
work
upon
.
The
next
clause
speaks
the
plainest
English
we
have
had
yet
.
Char.
The
Nation
in
studying
to
prevent
Tyranny
grew
jealous
of
Monarchy
,
and
for
fear
of
their
Moneys
going
the
wrong
way
they
will
give
none
at
all
,
but
rather
triumph
in
His
Majesty's
greatest
wants
,
even
when
his
glory
,
nay
possibly
when
his
nearest
safety
calls
for
their
assistance
.
Fol.
11.
This
way
of
saying
that
they
will
not
give
Money
,
(
which
is
more
yet
than
he
knows
)
carries
the
force
of
an
Advice
that
they
should
not
;
which
is
the
thing
that
this
passage
manifestly
intends
and
designs
.
So
that
is
the
rest
of
the
Nation
were
of
his
mind
,
the
French
King
might
have
this
Kingdom
for
the
asking
;
for
both
King
and
People
upon
these
terms
are
manifestly
abandon'd
as
a
sacrifice
to
this
jealousie
.
Toward
the
bottom
of
the
same
page
he
brings
in
a
Deliberation
to
this
effect
:
This
Popish
Prince
cannot
either
help
his
Persuaasion
or
relinquish
it
;
nor
is
it
a
thing
to
be
exacted
from
him
that
he
should
.
The
Grievances
of
the
Kingdom
may
be
his
unhappiness
and
not
his
fault
;
for
he
is
onely
passive
,
and
lives
to
himself
,
without
meddling
to
encourage
or
favour
Popery
in
the
least
.
But
how
does
it
follow
(
says
he
Fol.
12.
)
that
if
we
do
not
plainly
see
him
act
,
that
he
does
not
act
.
But
how
does
it
follow
on
the
other
side
,
say
I
,
that
he
does
act
if
no
body
can
prove
it
?
It
is
the
rule
of
Christian
Charity
in
doubtful
cases
ever
to
judge
the
best
,
but
the
Author
of
this
Character
does
not
think
fit
to
walk
by
this
rule
;
for
first
he
casts
with
himself
what
is
the
worst
that
can
happen
,
and
then
he
improves
the
far-fetch'd
possibility
of
that
worst
of
Events
into
a
Prediction
,
that
certainly
that
thing
shall
come
to
pass
.
And
then
he
considers
how
mean
and
wicked
it
is
possible
for
Flesh
and
Bloud
to
be
,
and
those
Vices
and
Imperfections
jumbled
together
are
the
Ingredients
that
make
up
his
Character
.
Char.
But
to
the
Objection
(
says
he
)
the
Grievance
of
a
Nation
may
be
his
unhappiness
,
and
not
his
Fault
,
&c.
That
is
in
short
;
He
cannot
help
it
.
Very
right
.
And
so
when
This
Popish
Heir
comes
to
the
Crown
,
and
promotes
the
Romish
Interest
with
all
the
severity
,
Injustice
and
Tyranny
that
Religious
Cruelty
can
invent
.
His
Answer
will
be
,
He
cannot
help
it
;
or
at
least
cannot
withstand
those
irresistable
Motives
that
prompt
him
to
their
Execution
;
which
is
the
same
thing
.
Will
he
have
it
then
that
our
Actions
and
our
Thoughts
are
bound
up
alike
,
under
a
determinate
,
and
insuparable
necessity
,
of
our
doing
this
or
that
,
as
well
as
of
thinking
so
or
so
?
Or
will
he
call
those
motives
,
irresistible
,
that
do
only
prompt
,
and
invite
us
to
the
doing
of
any
thing
?
He
has
screwed
up
Tyranny
and
injustice
here
,
to
the
highest
degree
of
cruelty
and
terrour
.
And
now
if
this
barbarous
rigour
be
so
inseparable
from
the
Genius
of
the
Religion
;
how
comes
it
that
a
French
Popish
King
should
be
better
natur'd
to
his
Subjects
of
the
Reform'd
Religion
,
then
he
will
allow
an
English
Popish
King
capable
of
being
toward
his
Protestant
Subjects
.
[
The
same
impulse
of
Conscience
(
he
sayes
)
that
makes
a
man
a
Roman
Catholique
,
will
make
him
Act
like
one
,
when
opportunity
serves
.
Ibid.
That
's
very
Right
;
but
I
cannot
yet
think
that
any
Party
of
men
will
pretend
explicitely
to
authorize
the
putting
of
Christians
to
death
,
purely
upon
a
Consideration
of
Religion
,
and
Conscience
,
in
order
to
the
propagation
of
the
Gospel
.
And
yet
I
know
,
the
Jesuits
,
of
both
Churches
have
gone
a
great
way
towards
it
.
Cursed
be
he
(
says
Case
,
in
the
late
Rebellion
)
that
witholdeth
his
Sword
from
Blo●d
;
that
spareth
when
God
saith
strike
,
&c.
[
The
Papist
(
he
says
)
is
of
a
Religion
that
makes
humane
merit
the
Path
of
Salvation
:
]
and
so
he
passes
into
a
very
florid
descant
upon
the
Abuses
,
in
the
Church
of
Rome
,
of
this
wonder-working
merit
.
And
our
dissenting
Papists
,
in
the
late
times
,
came
not
one
jote
behind
them
,
in
making
it
the
dayly
Theme
of
the
Pulpit
,
to
Preach
Salvation
to
all
that
di'd
in
the
Cause
.
Char.
And
then
again
,
Popery
is
a
Religion
that
does
not
go
altogether
in
the
Old
Fashion
Apostolical
way
of
Preaching
and
Praying
,
and
teaching
all
Nations
,
&c.
But
scourging
,
and
racking
,
and
broiling
'em
into
the
fear
of
God.
A
Religion
that
for
its
own
propagation
,
will
at
any
time
authorize
its
Champions
to
divest
themselves
of
their
Humanity
,
and
act
worse
than
Devils
to
be
Saints
.
These
are
dreadful
Cruelties
;
but
if
this
fierceness
arise
from
any
principle
of
rigour
in
the
System
of
their
Faith
,
methinks
they
should
treat
all
alike
;
for
if
it
be
upon
an
Impulse
of
Conscience
,
it
becomes
a
Duty
.
The
Jesuits
here
in
our
Covenant
Pers●cution
were
pretty
good
at
this
way
of
Discipline
too
.
There
was
no
scou●ging
,
racking
,
and
broiling
,
't
is
true
;
but
there
was
plundering
,
sequestering
,
starving
,
imprisoning
,
poisoning
in
Gaols
,
and
refusing
the
Holy
Communion
to
Anti-Covenanters
upon
their
Death
bed
.
There
was
a
general
Massacre
propounded
of
all
the
Cavaliers
that
had
been
in
arms
,
which
I
am
well
assur'd
was
carried
but
by
one
voice
in
the
negative
.
There
were
upward
of
a
hundred
sequester'd
Ministers
crowded
into
a
prison
,
where
they
knew
there
was
a
raging
Plague
;
and
,
as
I
am
credibly
inform'd
,
there
was
not
a
thirtieth
part
of
them
came
off
alive
.
And
for
these
Diabolical
Actions
the
Persecutors
were
enroll'd
into
the
number
of
the
Saints
.
Char.
Nay
(
says
he
)
the
very
outrage
of
Thefts
,
Murthers
,
Adulteries
,
and
Rebellions
are
nothing
to
the
pious
Barbarities
of
a
Popish
King.
The
Murtherer
and
Adulterer
,
may
in
time
be
reclaim'd
by
the
Precepts
of
Morality
,
and
the
Terrors
of
Conscience
.
The
Thief
,
by
the
dread
of
a
Gallows
,
may
become
honest
.
Nay
,
the
greatest
Traitor
,
either
by
the
fear
of
Death
or
the
Apprehensions
of
Hell
may
at
last
Repent
:
But
a
Papist
on
a
Throne
has
an
unconsutable
Vindication
for
all
his
Proceedings
,
Challenges
his
Commission
,
even
from
Heaven
,
for
all
his
Cruelty
he
dares
Act
;
and
when
all
the
Inchantments
of
Rome
have
touch'd
his
Tongue
with
a
Coal
from
Her
Altars
,
what
do
his
Enthusiasms
make
him
believe
,
but
that
the
most
savage
,
and
most
hellish
Dooms
his
blinded
Zeal
can
pronounce
,
are
the
Immediate
Oracles
of
God
:
fol.
13.
]
If
it
had
not
been
for
Popish
King
,
Papist
,
and
Rome
,
I
should
have
taken
this
last
Paragraph
for
the
Picture
of
a
Kirk-Conclave
.
For
first
,
though
there
was
Theft
,
Murther
,
and
Rebellion
,
abundantly
in
their
proceedings
;
yet
so
Transcendent
was
the
wickedness
of
their
blasphemous
Bands
and
Associations
;
so
horrid
the
Forms
of
their
Calling
the
Searcher
of
all
hearts
;
with
hands
lifted
up
to
the
most
high
God
,
&c.
to
witness
the
joyning
of
themselves
in
a
holy
Covenant
unto
the
Lord
;
(
which
holy
Covenant
was
yet
in
the
very
first
conception
and
intent
of
it
,
a
premeditate
Complottery
to
destroy
That
in
Effect
,
which
in
Terms
they
swore
to
defend
)
All
other
sins
(
I
say
)
were
as
nothing
,
in
the
Ballance
against
this
Catilinary
,
and
bloudy
Sacrament
.
And
so
remarkable
was
the
Reprobated
Impenitence
that
follow'd
upon
it
,
as
if
the
Devil
himself
had
come
in
,
to
the
Signing
and
Sealing
of
that
Religious
Mockery
,
both
upon
God
and
Man
;
and
turn'd
the
Hypocritical
Covenant
into
a
Magical
Contract
.
As
for
those
that
took
it
with
good
meaning
,
or
perhaps
out
of
weakness
,
and
surprise
;
(
though
I
my self
was
none
of
the
number
)
I
make
no
doubt
,
but
that
God
hath
given
to
many
of
them
a
true
sence
of
their
mistake
;
but
for
those
that
designingly
,
and
frankly
leagu'd
themselves
in
that
Combination
;
I
am
at
a
loss
,
even
according
to
the
largest
allowances
of
Christian
Charity
,
where
to
find
three
Converts
;
the
Living
persisting
still
in
the
obligation
of
that
Oath
;
and
those
that
were
taken
off
by
the
hand
of
justice
,
asserting
it
to
the
Death
.
I
bear
my
Testimony
,
(
says
Kid
,
that
was
Executed
in
Scotland
,
as
a
Rebel
;
Spirit
of
Popery
,
fol.
7.
to
the
Solemn
League
and
Covenant
,
as
it
was
profess'd
and
sworn
in
Scotland
,
England
and
Ireland
,
in
1643.
&c.
And
again
,
Ibid
)
Prelacy
,
as
it
is
now
Establish'd
by
a
pretended
Law
,
is
destructive
downrightly
to
the
sworn
Covenants
;
yea
,
not
only
Prelacy
,
Popery
,
Malignancy
,
and
Heresie
,
but
Supremacy
;
and
every
thing
Originally
upon
,
and
derivate
from
it
.
And
further
(
fol.
17.
)
The
Three
Kingdoms
are
Marry'd
Lands
;
so
I
die
in
the
faith
of
it
,
that
there
will
be
a
Resurrection
of
Christs
Name
,
Cause
,
and
Covenant
.
And
so
likewse
King
,
that
was
Executed
in
Scotland
too
,
(
Id.
fol.
42.
)
I
bear
my
witness
&
Testimony
to
our
Covenants
National
,
and
Solemn
League
betwixt
the
Three
Kingdoms
;
which
Sacred
and
Solemn
Oath
I
believe
cannot
be
dispensed
with
,
nor
loosed
by
any
Person
,
or
party
upon
Earth
;
(
And
fol.
43.
)
I
bear
witness
against
the
Ancient
Christian
Prelacy
,
&c.
and
against
all
Oaths
and
Bonds
contrary
to
our
Covena●t
,
and
Engagement
,
especially
that
Oath
of
Suprem●cy
,
&c.
And
so
Mitchel
,
Weir
,
&c.
See
Ravillac
Redivivus
.
They
do
all
of
them
sing
the
same
Note
.
Now
take
all
together
;
the
deliberate
wickedness
of
their
first
Resolve
upon
the
Covenant
;
their
prophane
and
daring
Hypocrisie
in
the
very
Frame
,
and
wording
of
it
;
the
counterfeiting
of
Gods
Authority
for
Sacrilege
,
and
Rebellion
in
pursuance
of
it
:
and
lastly
,
the
maintaining
and
defending
of
all
their
impieties
,
to
the
last
Gasp.
A
man
may
defie
all
the
Story
of
the
world
,
sacred
and
prophane
,
to
shew
any
other
Party
of
Men
that
we●e
ever
lost
under
so
dreadful
a
der●liction
.
But
yet
there
is
something
of
a
perverse
Bravery
in
renouncing
it
at
last
,
and
after
all
their
●ndignities
put
upon
the
G●d
of
Truth
,
in
making
some
conscience
yet
of
keeping
Touch
with
the
Spirit
of
Delusion
.
And
now
to
finish
the
Parallel
betwixt
our
Dissenting
Papists
,
and
his
Jesuitcal
:
We
have
our
Enthusiasts
too
,
that
vent
their
Dreams
and
Vapours
for
Oracles
.
But
to
shorten
the
matter
;
Bayli'es
Disswasive
will
abundantly
satisfie
the
Reader
upon
this
Subject
.
He
passes
from
hence
to
a
reply
upon
a
supposition
,
[
that
such
Laws
may
be
made
before-hand
,
as
will
make
it
impossible
for
a
Popish
King
to
set
up
Popery
in
England
]
But
that
(
says
he
)
would
be
like
hedging
in
the
Cuckow
,
&c.
for
who
shall
call
this
King
to
question
for
breaking
these
Laws
,
if
he
has
the
power
and
will
to
do
it
?
This
Question
(
fol.
13.
)
might
serve
for
a
piece
of
an
Answer
to
a
Contradiction
he
puts
upon
himself
,
fol.
20.
which
we
shall
handle
in
course
.
If
the
Law
has
put
it
out
of
his
power
;
there
is
no
longer
any
place
for
the
supposal
of
a
power
;
unless
by
Foreign
Force
,
which
would
presently
improve
a
private
Jealousy
of
Religion
into
the
publick
Rupture
of
a
National
Quarrel
,
to
the
almost
inevitable
,
and
irreparable
Loss
of
his
Reputation
,
his
Friends
,
and
his
Dominions
together
▪
Now
the
other
way
,
in
case
of
his
being
injuriously
excluded
,
it
would
be
forty
times
more
easy
for
Him
to
recover
his
Pretensions
from
abroad
,
by
a
Foreign
Assistance
,
in
concurrence
with
such
an
English
Interest
,
as
a
generons
Compassion
to
his
Wrong
,
a
Respect
for
his
Person
,
and
the
Justice
of
his
Title
would
certainly
create
him
,
than
to
erect
an
absolute
Power
against
the
Wills
and
Hearts
of
his
People
:
and
contrary
to
all
the
measures
of
Equity
and
Prudence
.
And
to
do
all
this
too
,
while
he
might
live
and
reign
easily
and
comfortably
to
himself
and
his
Subjects
,
within
the
limits
of
a
Legal
Administration
.
And
if
he
can
never
expect
to
gain
this
point
,
by
calling
in
Auxillaries
from
beyond
the
Seas
:
much
less
will
he
be
able
to
do
it
,
upon
the
bottom
of
his
own
Interest
,
and
within
himself
:
For
there
must
go
a
great
many
more
hands
than
his
own
to
such
a
work
.
And
to
say
that
he
may
do
it
,
by
his
Officers
or
Ministers
,
by
the
force
of
Gratifications
,
Pensions
,
or
the
Promises
and
Hopes
of
Preferment
and
Advantage
:
That
Objection
may
be
easily
obviated
:
For
it
is
a
thing
of
clear
and
easy
prospect
:
the
Forming
of
such
a
Scheme
of
Laws
for
securing
the
Bounds
of
the
Government
,
as
no
man
that
has
either
a
Neck
,
or
a
Fortune
to
lose
,
will
dare
to
violate
.
But
the
bare
Power
,
if
he
had
it
,
would
signify
nothing
neither
:
unless
the
VVill
as
he
says
goes
along
with
it
.
Now
if
he
may
WILL
he
may
NILL
too
:
So
that
he
is
left
at
Liberty
to
make
his
Election
either
of
the
One
,
or
of
the
Other
,
which
has
,
in
a
great
measure
,
discharg'd
him
of
the
pretended
Impulse
of
Religion
,
and
translated
the
Exception
from
the
Papist
to
the
Person
:
Founding
the
apprehension
upon
a
pretended
Foresight
of
Tyranny
and
double
Dealing
,
in
That
Princes
Character
?
which
being
a
thing
that
is
only
to
be
seen
with
His
Spectacles
,
and
a
Prognostick
Peculiar
to
His
way
of
Calculation
,
wee
'l
go
to
the
next
.
I
will
not
deny
(
says
he
ibid.
)
but
a
Popish
King
may
be
totally
restrein'd
from
all
Power
of
Introducing
Popery
,
by
the
Force
of
such
Laws
as
may
be
made
to
tye
up
his
hands
:
but
then
they
must
be
such
as
must
ruine
his
Prerogative
,
and
put
the
Executive
Power
of
the
Laws
into
the
hands
of
the
People
.
]
This
shift
does
not
at
all
either
weaken
,
or
avoid
my
Assertion
,
for
the
Kings
hands
are
sufficiently
ty'd
,
in
holding
the
hands
of
his
Ministers
:
And
This
may
be
done
(
so
far
as
is
necessary
for
This
purpose
)
without
any
Diminution
to
his
Royal
Dignity
.
If
the
transferring
of
the
Executive
Power
to
the
People
,
that
is
to
say
Deposing
of
him
,
would
do
the
Job
,
the
Character
will
shew
us
by
and
by
,
how
That
may
be
done
,
without
need
of
New
Laws
,
and
in
spite
of
Old
Ones
.
But
what
Monarch
(
says
he
)
will
be
so
unnatural
to
his
bloud
:
So
ill
a
Defender
,
and
so
weak
a
Champion
for
the
Royal
Dignity
he
wears
,
as
to
sign
and
ratify
such
Laws
as
shall
entail
That
Effeminancy
,
and
that
Servility
on
a
Crown
as
shall
render
the
Imperial
Majesty
of
England
but
a
Pageant
,
a
meer
Puppet
upon
a
wire
?
]
He
does
well
to
presume
that
a
Prince
will
not
Unking
himself
:
but
he
would
do
better
yet
to
keep
himself
clear
from
such
Propositions
and
Principles
as
lead
to
that
D●posing
End.
For
whatsoever
strikes
at
the
Crown
,
in
a
Papist
,
falls
,
upon
the
Rebound
,
on
the
Royal
Authority
in
a
Protestant
.
(
But
(
says
he
,
ib.
)
If
no
King
will
assent
to
make
Laws
to
do
it
this
way
,
and
no
Laws
can
do
it
t'other
,
all
Laws
against
Popery
,
in
case
of
a
Popish
Successor
,
are
as
I
told
you
before
,
but
building
the
Hedge
,
&c
]
This
Author
seems
to
scrupulize
more
then
needs
upon
the
fear
〈◊〉
Cramping
the
Prerogative
:
For
he
himself
will
shew
us
by
and
by
how
to
do
that
without
a
Law
,
which
he
despairs
of
ever
seeing
done
by
one
.
If
he
had
thought
of
what
the
King
has
lately
parted
with
out
of
his
Prerogative
,
for
the
begeting
of
a
Plenary
Trust
and
Confidence
in
his
People
,
he
would
not
have
despair'd
of
any
Condescension
from
his
Majesty
,
for
the
securing
of
his
Subjects
in
their
Properties
and
Religion
,
after
so
much
more
done
for
them
already
than
that
,
which
is
here
propounded
,
amounts
to
.
He
tells
us
(
fol.
14.
)
of
the
danger
of
the
Pop●s
Supremacy
;
and
I
must
tell
him
,
that
within
the
Kings
Dominions
,
the
Supremacy
of
the
Kirk
is
every
jote
as
dangerous
.
Wherefore
let
us
look
to
our selves
both
ways
;
as
well
against
those
Papists
that
did
murther
the
Last
King
,
as
those
other
Papists
that
are
in
the
Plot
to
destroy
This.
No
doubt
(
Says
he
)
but
the
Fire
that
burns
the
Heretique
Law-makers
,
shall
give
their
Laws
the
same
Martyrdom
.
]
If
they
have
power
,
't
is
probable
enough
that
they
will
:
But
their
's
a
great
difference
in
the
case
,
betwixt
a
Prince
and
his
own
Subjects
,
and
the
Pope
,
and
Stranger
Hetiques
:
The
one
destroyes
his
Enemies
,
the
other
,
his
Friends
:
The
Pope
is
in
One
Barque
,
the
Heaetiques
in
●onother
,
and
the
one
may
Sink
,
and
the
other
Swim
;
now
the
King
being
in
the
same
bottom
with
his
People
,
if
he
runs
the
Vessel
upon
a
Rock
,
they
are
all
cast
away
together
.
Ch●r
.
With
this
certain
prospect
,
both
of
the
ruine
of
their
Estates
,
Lives
and
Liberties
,
where
lies
the
Sin
in
the
Commons
of
England
,
to
stand
upon
their
Guard
against
a
Popish
Successor
?
Aye
,
a
Gods
name
let
them
stand
upon
their
Gaurds
,
and
use
all
expedients
to
keep
out
Popery
and
Tyranny
;
provided
still
that
we
preserve
the
sacred
Succession
in
its
right
line
,
for
that
we
are
told
,
both
King
and
People
a●e
obliged
in
conscience
to
defe●d
and
uphold
.
This
clause
has
both
more
and
less
in
it
,
than
a
body
would
imagine
;
and
a
man
hardly
knows
either
how
to
meddle
with
it
,
or
how
to
let
it
alone
.
He
begins
with
the
assumption
of
a
thing
certainly
prov'd
;
though
without
any
colour
,
that
I
can
find
,
of
makeing
it
out
to
be
so
much
as
probable
;
and
barely
possible
,
is
the
mos●
that
I
can
make
on
't
.
Nay
,
and
it
is
not
that
neither
,
without
imputing
more
of
Ranc●ur
and
Implacable
Virulency
of
Nature
to
his
Popish
Successor
,
than
ever
any
Man
yet
discovered
,
either
before
,
●r
beside
the
Author
of
this
Character
.
But
however
,
upon
that
substratum
,
he
takes
up
the
Quarrel
(
as
he
would
have
it
understood
)
of
the
Commons
of
England
.
Where
lies
the
sin
(
says
he
)
in
the
Commons
of
England
,
to
stand
upon
their
Guard
against
a
Popish
Successor
]
This
is
only
a
Gin
set
for
a
Woodcock
,
under
the
Equivoque
of
the
Commons
of
England
;
so
that
if
a
Man
speaks
only
to
the
Multitude
,
and
he
applys
it
to
the
Representative
,
there
may
be
matter
pickt
out
of
it
for
an
Enformation
;
Why
,
who
says
there
's
any
sin
in
't
?
And
then
there
's
Guard
and
Guard.
People
are
said
one
way
to
be
upon
their
Guard
with
their
Swords
in
their
hands
;
and
another
way
,
with
their
eies
in
their
heads
.
But
I
presume
he
speaks
to
the
multitude
;
and
he
speaks
too
in
the
Stile
of
Authority
.
Let
them
stand
upon
their
Guard
(
says
he
)
as
if
he
were
giving
Orders
.
He
might
as
well
have
said
,
Let
them
stand
to
their
Arms
:
and
his
expression
(
of
all
expedients
)
expounds
it
so
,
even
allowing
him
to
be
his
own
Interpreter
;
for
the
business
is
to
keep
out
Popery
and
Tyranny
.
And
he
makes
it
one
expedient
,
(
fol.
2.
)
and
an
essential
one
too
,
to
act
the
Offensive
part
as
well
as
the
Defensive
;
Provided
still
(
says
he
)
that
we
preserve
the
Sacred
Succession
in
its
right
Line
;
for
that
we
are
TOLD
,
both
King
and
People
are
oblig'd
in
Conscience
to
defend
and
uphold
.
]
That
same
little
word
TOLD
,
is
a
most
Emphatical
Mockery
:
and
then
,
provided
that
the
Succession
be
secur'd
,
all
other
expedients
are
pronounced
lawful
.
Methinks
he
might
have
thought
of
a
Proviso
too
for
the
securing
of
the
Kings
Honour
,
Dignity
,
Person
,
Government
,
and
the
Peace
of
his
Dominions
:
which
are
,
at
the
rate
of
his
latitude
of
allowance
,
all
of
them
equally
concerned
in
the
danger
with
the
Succession
.
He
proceeds
now
to
debate
the
matter
of
Conscience
:
And
if
we
find
him
as
Tender
as
he
is
Zealous
;
as
good
a
Christian
on
the
Subjects
side
,
as
on
the
Patriots
;
as
careful
to
uphold
the
Sacred
Character
of
Majesty
,
as
to
prevent
the
Excesses
of
Tyranny
;
and
finally
,
as
clear
a
Casuist
,
as
he
is
a
powerful
Orator
,
there
will
be
no
contesting
any
further
with
him
.
Char.
First
then
(
saith
he
)
let
us
fancy
we
see
this
Popish
Heir
on
his
Throne
,
and
by
all
the
most
illegal
and
Arbitrary
Means
contrary
to
the
whole
Frame
and
Hinges
of
the
English
Government
,
introducing
Popery
with
that
Zeal
and
Vigour
till
his
in●atuated●
Conscience
has
perverted
the
King
into
a
Tyrant
.
What
a
phancy
of
a
phancy
is
here
!
that
for
want
of
fact
and
argument
is
fain
to
have
recourse
to
Imaginations
and
Dreams
.
And
to
what
end
is
all
this
,
but
by
disgusting
of
the
People
at
the
ways
of
Providence
,
set
them
a
hankering
after
State-Wizzards
again
,
and
Strange-Gods
,
for
the
knowledge
of
things
to
come
?
wherefore
let
me
once
again
inculcate
that
of
27
Jer.
Hearken
not
ye
to
your
Prophets
,
nor
to
your
Diviners
,
nor
to
your
Dreamers
,
(
which
is
the
same
with
phansiers
)
nor
to
your
Inchanters
,
nor
to
your
Sorcerers
,
which
speak
to
you
saying
,
you
shall
not
serve
the
King
of
Babylon
.
Fo●
they
Prophesie
a
Ly
unto
you
;
to
remove
you
far
from
your
Land.
Let
us
,
for
the
Honour
of
our
kind
,
either
live
and
act
and
reason
like
Men
,
or
else
down
upon
all
four
,
and
away
into
the
Woods
and
Rocks
,
and
hunt
and
growl'd
and
tear
one
another
to
pieces
like
Beasts
.
But
we
'll
discourse
the
matter
a
little
.
Well!
The
English
are
certainly
the
Freest
and
the
Happiest
People
upon
the
Face
of
the
Earth
.
Ay
;
but
we
shall
be
all
Slaves
e're
't
be
long
.
When
's
that
?
When
the
Popish
Heir
comes
to
the
Crown
.
Ay
;
but
when
's
that
again
?
When
the
King
is
dead
.
Well
,
but
when
is
the
King
to
Dy
?
Nay
,
I
cannot
tell
that
.
How
long
has
the
Popish
Heir
to
live
?
I
cannot
tell
that
neither
.
Will
the
Queen
have
any
Children
?
Nor
that
neither
.
How
long
will
the
Queen
live
?
How
should
I
know
that
?
Will
the
King
survive
her
or
not
?
I
cannot
tell
.
Will
he
Marry
again
if
he
does
?
I
cannot
tell
that
neither
.
Will
he
have
any
Children
if
he
Marrys
again
?
Who
knows
?
But
what
if
the
Heir
should
not
live
to
come
to
the
Crown
?
but
it
may
be
he
may
though
.
And
it
may
be
he
may
not
.
Ay
,
but
I
PHANSY
that
he
will.
Well!
But
suppose
he
should
come
to
the
Crown
.
What
then
?
Why
then
he
will
set
up
Popery
and
Tyranny
.
Not
whether
he
can
or
no.
Why
,
how
did
Queen
Mary
?
She
had
the
odds
on
her
side
;
for
the
Papists
were
then
,
in
a
manner
,
as
the
Protestants
are
now
.
And
yet
,
coming
in
betwixt
two
Protestants
,
Popery
,
ye
see
,
went
off
as
it
came
on
.
But
still
there
was
a
Persecution
.
'T
is
true
,
there
was
;
but
all
Princes
are
not
alike
.
Q.
Mary
Persecuted
the
Protestants
;
Henry
the
Fourth
of
France
did
not
so
.
And
it
is
as
good
an
inference
from
the
instance
of
Henry
IV.
that
the
Popish
Heir
will
not
be
a
Persecutor
,
as
from
that
of
Queen
Mary
that
he
will.
But
where
the
Popes
Authority
intervenes
,
both
King
and
People
are
bound
to
obey
.
And
yet
you
see
that
for
all
the
Power
of
the
Pope
,
and
the
Covenant
of
the
Holy
League
to
boot
,
the
People
of
France
,
though
Roman
Catholiques
,
would
not
submit
to
the
Dis-possessing
of
a
Protestant
Successor
;
neither
did
that
generous
Prince
,
upon
the
Reconciling
of
himself
afterward
to
the
Church
of
Rome
,
exercise
any
one
act
of
Tyranny
over
his
Protestant
Subjects
;
which
is
enough
said
upon
this
point
.
Well
,
but
I
PHANSY
it
will
be
Popery
and
Tyranny
yet
,
for
all
this
.
Well!
but
to
go
a
little
further
with
you
,
now
suppose
it
should
come
to
a
down
right
Persecution
?
Aye
,
but
we
must
stand
upon
our
Guards
to
prevent
it
.
That
would
be
more
than
ever
the
Primitive
Christians
did
under
the
Ten
Persecutions
:
And
we
have
not
only
their
Example
,
but
their
Express
Doctrine
against
it
.
And
we
are
never
the
better
Protestants
for
being
the
worse
Christians
:
So
that
here
's
only
Phansy
set
up
in
opposition
to
Religion
,
Reason
and
Experience
.
And
That
's
enough
in
all
Conscience
too
:
For
there
needs
no
more
then
the
Flames
of
a
distemper'd
Spleen
to
cause
an
Earth-quake
in
the
Government
:
What
are
Fears
but
Phansies
?
What
are
Jealousies
but
Phansies
?
What
Original
had
they
?
Phansies
again
.
And
what
was
the
Consequence
of
them
?
Sum
up
the
Sins
and
the
Calamities
of
the
worst
of
People
,
and
of
Times
;
Those
Crimes
and
Those
Miseries
,
were
the
effect
of
Those
Phansies
.
They
were
Hag-ridden
and
Night-mar'd
with
Goblins
and
Apparitions
;
and
haunted
in
their
Beds
with
the
Images
of
those
Visions
and
illusions
which
they
had
taken
down
from
the
Press
and
Pulpit
waking
.
The
brave
Strafford
was
a
Sacrifice
to
the
Phansy
of
Arbitrary
Power
,
and
the
Venerable
Laud
;
a
Victim
to
the
Phansy
of
Popery
.
They
Phansy'd
AntiChrist
in
the
Hierarchy
;
the
Rags
of
the
Whore
of
Babylon
in
a
Surplice
;
Popery
in
the
Common-Prayer
;
the
Sacrament
of
Baptism
they
phansy'd
little
better
than
an
Exorcism
;
the
Lords
Prayer
well
enough
for
a
Christian
Primer
,
a
School-boy
Form
that
might
do
so
so
,
till
People
came
to
be
better
gifted
.
When
they
had
Phansy'd
the
Heads
of
these
great
men
off
their
Shoulders
;
the
Bishops
out
of
the
House
of
Peers
;
they
went
on
Phansying
still
;
They
Phansy'd
Episcopacy
out
of
the
Nation
,
and
their
Scotish
Presbytery
into
it
;
the
Clergy
out
of
their
Living●
▪
the
King
himself
and
his
Loyal
Subjects
out
of
their
Lives
,
Liberties
and
Estates
;
the
Crowns
,
Churches
,
and
the
Peoples
Monies
into
their
own
●ockets
;
the
House
of
Peers
into
a
Cypher
or
Nullity
;
the
House
of
Commons
into
a
Secret
Committee
;
the
Monarchy
into
a
Republick
;
the
Laws
into
Votes
and
Ordinances
;
their
Committe
into
a
Rump-Assembly
;
That
Rump
into
a
Protector
,
and
that
Protector
again
into
a
Committee
of
Safety
.
And
all
this
was
done
by
the
Power
of
Imagination
,
and
a
strong
phansy
of
Tyranny
and
Popery
.
And
why
may
not
all
this
he
phansy'd
over
again
?
But
pray
let
me
Phansy
a
little
on
the
other
side
.
Let
us
Phansy
his
Majesty
to
Survive
his
Brother
;
Let
us
Phansy
an
Heir
Apparent
either
by
her
Majesty
in
being
,
or
by
the
providence
of
a
Second
Marriage
;
or
the
Successor
to
be
a
person
of
Honour
,
Conscience
or
Prudence
,
whatever
his
Religion
be
:
And
that
in
Honour
and
Conscience
he
will
govern
himself
by
the
Tyes
of
his
Word
and
his
Duty
;
and
that
in
Prudence
he
will
not
venture
upon
a
Project
so
impracticable
as
an
attempt
of
Subverting
the
Religion
and
Government
,
when
every
mans
Neck
shall
lye
at
stake
,
that
shall
but
dare
to
assist
him
in
't
;
which
might
be
sufficiently
provided
for
by
some
previous
Act
that
(
saving
the
Kings
Prerogative
in
the
Case
)
might
secure
their
not
being
pardon'd
in
That
particular
.
We
shall
now
Counterpoise
Dangers
to
Dangers
.
Here
is
a
present
opposed
to
a
future
;
a
Certainty
to
a
Possibility
;
a
Greater
to
a
Less
;
and
a
Protestant
King
to
a
Papist
.
The
Present
danger
is
the
probable
Effect
of
these
Intoxicating
Methods
to
the
People
.
If
Phansy
was
Poyson
to
the
Multitude
,
under
the
late
King
;
the
same
Phansy
in
a
larger
Dose
,
and
with
less
Corrective
to
it
,
will
be
at
least
as
strong
a
Poyson
to
the
People
under
This.
If
the
Fact
on
the
one
side
be
true
;
the
Reason
,
on
the
other
side
is
not
to
be
deny'd
.
The
dismal
Calamities
that
ensu'd
upon
it
I
have
●et
forth
already
.
Now
what
is
there
in
the
future
,
to
weight
against
the
Life
of
the
King
,
the
Safety
of
the
Church
,
the
Law
and
the
Government
,
the
Peace
of
the
Kingdom
?
There
may
possibly
be
a
Popish
King
;
and
there
may
probably
not
.
And
that
King
may
Possibly
have
a
Will
to
change
the
Government
;
but
probably
not
;
in
respect
of
the
very
Immorality
of
Inclining
to
such
a
Violation
of
his
Trust
and
Word
:
But
all
most
certainly
not
,
in
regard
of
so
manifest
an
Inability
to
bring
it
to
pass
.
When
I
say
a
Certainty
,
I
mean
only
a
Natural
Train
of
Events
in
the
Application
of
Actives
to
Passives
;
which
,
in
a
high
degree
has
taken
place
already
:
For
the
People
are
almost
Raving
mad
at
the
apprehensions
of
these
Stories
;
the
Feaver
encreases
upon
them
;
and
they
grow
every
day
Hotter
and
Lighter-headed
than
other
.
So
that
we
are
in
Forty
times
a
greater
danger
of
a
Sedition
at
hand
,
than
of
a
Popish
Successor
at
a
Distance
.
As
to
the
Ballance
of
a
greater
danger
,
and
a
Less
,
we
'l
e'en
take
the
matter
as
they
suppose
it
.
A
King
upon
the
Throne
,
that
's
Principled
for
Arbitrary
Government
and
Popery
;
But
so
clogg'd
and
shackl'd
with
Popular
and
Protestant
Laws
,
that
if
he
had
never
so
great
a
mind
to
't
,
there
is
not
a
Subject
in
his
Dominions
that
would
dare
to
serve
him
in
his
Design
.
But
,
on
the
other
hand
,
there
's
no
King
at
all
,
no
Church
,
no
Law
,
no
Government
,
no
Magna
Charta
,
no
Petition
of
Right
,
no
Property
,
no
Liberty
,
&c.
PROBATVM
.
Beside
that
the
Phansy
comes
to
no
more
in
Effect
,
than
if
the
sky
fall
we
shall
catch
Larks
.
But
once
again
yet
.
Here
's
a
Protestant
Prince
expos'd
for
fear
of
a
Popish
one
.
Is
the
Chimera
of
a
future
danger
of
more
value
to
us
then
the
Conscience
of
an
incumbant
and
indispensable
Duty
?
shall
we
take
pet
at
God
Almighties
providence
;
and
not
go
to
Heaven
at
all
,
unless
we
may
go
our
own
way
.
Shall
we
Level
a
shot
at
the
Duke
,
at
a
distance
;
if
there
be
no
coming
at
him
but
through
the
Heart
of
our
Sovereign
?
shall
we
actually
break
in
upon
the
Protestant
profession
,
which
stands
or
falls
with
the
Church
of
England
,
because
the
Author
of
the
Character
phansies
the
hazard
of
a
Popish
Religion
in
the
Moon
;
and
by
the
unavoidable
Consequence
of
a
Misgovernment
under
this
apprehension
,
draws
the
very
plague
upon
us
that
we
pretend
to
fear
:
While
we
thus
go
on
,
exposing
both
our
Temporal
and
Eternal
peace
for
shadows
,
.
The
Writer
of
the
Character
had
most
Rhetorically
amplifi'd
,
in
his
Calculations
upon
his
Popish
Successor
;
but
so
Oversiz'd
the
figure
that
when
ever
the
people
come
to
their
wits
again
,
they
will
look
upon
the
story
of
Garagantua
,
as
not
much
the
less
Credible
of
the
Two
:
For
his
dangers
are
all
out
of
Ken
;
his
Thunder●s
in
the
Clouds
;
and
the
Multitude
are
all
turn'd
Star-Gazers
,
and
gaping
after
ill-boding
Conjunctions
,
and
malevolent
influences
,
while
with
him
in
the
Fable
,
They
are
tumbling
into
a
Precipice
as
deep
as
Hell
,
and
take
no
notice
of
it
.
Here
is
a
danger
suggested
;
and
such
a
means
intimated
for
the
prevention
of
it
,
as
makes
the
Remedy
worse
than
the
Disease
;
for
the
very
Expedient
undermines
the
Government
.
But
first
,
a
word
of
the
dangers
on
the
other
side
.
There
are
several
ways
started
for
the
disappointing
of
this
inconvenience
One
by
Attainder
,
upon
23.
&
13.
of
Eliz.
Another
,
by
a
Bill
in
Parliament
for
diverting
the
Succession
.
And
some
of
the
Libellers
fall
down
right
upon
a
Third
Proposal
of
the
peoples
preventing
the
Succession
,
though
without
or
against
Law.
And
Fourthly
,
either
to
expel
the
Successour
,
or
to
keep
him
out
,
in
case
of
Survivorship
.
To
the
first
,
of
these
ways
I
shall
speak
,
when
the
point
comes
on
.
As
to
the
second
,
which
is
matter
of
Parliamentary
Cognizance
,
I
reckon
it
my
duty
to
acquiesce
in
the
Legal
Issue
of
their
Debates
;
as
an
Authority
to
which
I
have
ever
paid
a
Duty
,
and
a
Veneration
.
This
only
I
shall
take
the
freedom
to
say
,
that
there
is
a
vast
difference
betwixt
their
Deliberations
that
purely
regard
the
prospect
and
interest
of
both
Church
and
State
,
in
what
concerns
the
Popish
and
Protestant
Religion
;
and
the
passionate
excursions
of
private
men
on
the
wrong
side
of
the
Parliament
Door●
,
that
thrust
themselves
into
the
Controversie
rather
out
of
envy
to
the
Person
and
fame
of
the
Successour
,
than
to
promote
the
more
important
cause
of
Religion
;
(
like
men
that
crow'd
into
a
Church
for
company
to
pick
a
pocket
)
and
this
to
,
without
any
respect
to
the
King
himself
,
in
the
person
of
his
Brother
;
or
to
the
measures
of
duty
to
the
Government
.
Now
as
to
the
two
last
ways
of
proposal
,
which
are
eiher
for
prevention
or
exclusion
;
I
have
this
to
say
;
If
there
be
danger
from
a
popish
Successour
,
during
his
expectancy
,
within
the
Kingdom
;
the
danger
is
infinitely
greater
,
if
he
be
driven
out
of
it
.
For
,
first
,
(
as
supposing
it
to
be
the
peoples
Act
)
There
must
be
an
illegal
and
popular
violence
to
accomplish
it
;
and
there
's
the
peace
of
the
Government
broken
already
.
Beside
,
that
the
Authours
of
that
Violence
can
never
be
secure
,
but
by
following
it
with
more
and
greater
.
And
this
comes
presently
to
be
a
natural
transition
from
a
murmur
against
the
Successour
,
to
a
Tumult
in
the
State
:
In
which
Case
,
the
King
has
only
this
Choice
before
him
,
either
to
part
with
every
thing
for
the
asking
,
or
to
stand
the
shock
or
a
Rebellion
.
Now
take
it
either
way
;
here
's
much
a
greater
mischief
incurr'd
,
than
that
we
feared
;
beside
,
a
Sanding-Army
,
Taxes
,
and
Oaths
that
follow
in
course
;
and
a
new
Set
of
Liberty-keepers
,
and
Major-Generals
to
preserve
the
peace
.
I
speak
this
in
the
contemplation
of
a
violence
without
a
lawful
Authority
to
back
it
;
which
is
the
thing
that
some
people
have
in
prospect
.
This
is
the
Scene
of
things
at
home
and
abroad
,
we
shall
undoubtedly
see
the
Successours
Interest
and
Reputation
,
e●creasing
daily
,
in
regard
of
his
Sufferings
,
his
Title
,
and
his
Religion
:
having
Scotland
to
friend
,
over
and
above
:
and
probably
,
(
as
it
is
at
present
)
the
place
of
his
Residence
.
But
these
are
,
as
yet
,
all
dormant
Interests
,
and
not
to
be
employ'd
,
till
either
his
duty
to
his
Majesty
,
or
Justice
to
his
own
pretensions
shall
require
their
Aid
.
Take
it
the
other
way
now
:
In
the
case
of
a
Pop●sh
King
,
who
is
either
kept
out
(
as
I
said
before
)
or
d●iven
out
from
the
exercise
of
his
right
,
by
the
tumultuary
licence
of
the
Rabble
;
an
Oath
of
Abjuration
in
case
of
any
fair
opportunity
for
him
to
assert
his
Claim
with
his
Sword
in
his
hand
,
will
be
so
far
from
engaging
any
man
against
him
,
that
yielded
contrary
to
his
conscience
to
swallow
it
for
the
saving
of
his
stake
,
that
he
will
find
no
firmer
Friends
to
his
Cause
and
Interest
,
than
those
men
that
are
stimulated
both
by
Honour
and
Revenge
to
the
execution
of
their
Duties
.
For
there
is
no
hatred
so
fell
and
deadly
,
as
that
which
has
for
the
object
of
it
the
Authors
or
Contrivers
of
our
damnation
;
and
the
hazard
is
so
much
the
greater
,
in
regard
of
the
difficulty
to
discover
either
the
persons
or
the
strength
of
their
Enemies
.
And
whether
that
King
makes
any
attempt
or
no
,
the
Nation
must
be
at
the
charge
,
at
least
of
a
defensive
war
,
and
of
Impositions
to
maintain
it
.
And
this
will
be
the
inconvenience
even
in
the
bare
prospect
of
the
state
of
the
Nation
without
a
blow
striking
.
But
from
Scotland
at
least
,
if
not
from
Ireland
too
,
they
must
expect
to
be
ply'd
with
continual
Alarms
,
till
the
insupportable
expence
of
guarding
the
Borders
and
the
Coasts
;
shall
make
them
as
sick
of
their
new
Patriots
as
ever
they
were
of
their
old
ones
;
and
force
them
at
last
(
or
perhaps
sooner
than
they
are
aware
)
to
render
themselves
and
their
Spoil
to
their
irresistible
conjunction
of
so
many
Powers
,
as
will
be
then
Confederate
to
their
destruction
.
And
then
comes
in
the
Popery
in
earnest
,
that
was
dreaded
but
in
fancy
before
.
When
this
new
King
shall
by
the
proper
act
and
forfeiture
of
a
seduc'd
and
unforeseeing
people
,
be
deliver'd
from
the
Fetters
of
both
Honour
and
Laws
;
who
brings
in
Popery
then
,
but
they
that
discharg'd
him
from
those
sacred
Bonds
by
the
solly
and
con●umacy
of
their
own
inconsiderate
Undertakings
?
Compare
now
the
dangers
of
a
Popish
King
bounded
by
Protestant
Laws
,
and
ruling
over
a
Protestant
People
,
where
he
may
be
as
happy
as
an
Imperial
Crown
,
and
the
Affections
of
his
Subjects
,
can
make
him
.
Compare
(
I
say
)
a
Popish
King
under
these
gracious
and
obliging
Circumstances
,
in
the
quiet
administration
of
his
Government
,
with
a
Prince
that
is
forc'd
to
make
his
way
with
his
Sword
for
the
recovery
of
his
own
,
and
is
not
onely
prick'd
on
by
the
impulses
of
justice
and
vengeance
,
but
animated
by
the
Pope
himself
,
and
provok'd
by
indignation
to
take
the
utmost
advantage
of
that
foolish
forfeiture
,
(
the
people
themselves
having
cancell'd
the
Bonds
of
Authority
and
Obedience
.
)
Let
any
man
compare
these
two
cases
,
and
then
speak
his
opinion
.
There
is
one
p●int
yet
behind
,
that
goes
further
(
I
think
)
than
any
of
the
rest
.
If
it
be
reasonable
to
believe
(
as
we
are
often
told
,
and
no
Mortal
can
deny
it
)
that
our
Religion
is
an
Eye
sore
to
the
Church
of
Rome
,
and
that
this
Island
would
make
a
considerable
addition
to
our
victorious
Neighbours
late
Conquests
;
what
way
in
the
world
could
be
propounded
more
to
the
advantage
,
both
of
the
Crown
of
France
and
the
Court
of
Rome
,
than
the
bringing
of
matters
to
the
issue
here
in
question
,
when
in
the
powerful
and
liberal
Assistances
to
this
supposed
King
for
the
regaining
of
his
own
,
the
one
and
the
other
are
but
doing
of
their
own
business
?
This
Prince
in
the
mean
while
being
led
to
the
one
by
inclination
,
and
overborn
upon
the
other
by
Necessity
.
Here
's
enough
said
to
lay
open
the
miserable
effects
of
popular
motions
in
matters
of
this
high
importance
;
and
so
I
shall
pass
forward
,
submitting
what
I
have
said
upon
this
occasion
to
the
judgment
and
determination
of
my
Superiours
.
The
remainder
of
the
last
Paragraph
above
cited
is
fully
answered
already
,
bate
onely
the
Clause
that
I
am
now
about
to
proceed
upon
.
Char.
Whilest
we
are
thus
enslaved
(
says
he
)
by
a
medly
Government
,
betwixt
Tyranny
and
Usurpation
,
by
establishing
a
Papist
on
a
Throne
,
we
are
so
far
from
preserving
the
Crown
,
that
is
,
the
Imperial
Dignity
in
a
right
Line
of
Succession
,
that
we
do
not
preserve
it
at
all
;
but
on
the
contrary
,
extirpate
and
destroy
it
,
whilst
by
Enthroning
a
Papist
,
we
totally
Subvert
and
Depose
the
very
Monarchy
it self
.
And
can
it
be
the
Duty
of
either
Englishmen
or
Christians
,
to
have
that
Zeal
for
a
Corrupted
,
Leprous
Branch
of
Royalty
,
that
we
must
ruine
both
Religion
,
Government
and
Majesty
it self
to
support
him
?
It
is
a
strange
way
this
of
shewing
a
Mans
Honour
for
his
Prince
,
by
blasting
the
very
Bloud
of
his
Brother
;
or
of
expressing
his
love
to
Monarchy
,
by
treating
Majesty
,
tho
but
in
reversion
,
at
so
course
a
rate
.
But
it
is
upon
a
Principle
that
may
be
supported
by
Imperiousness
and
Heat
;
in
regard
that
it
will
not
bear
the
Test
of
a
modest
Debate
;
and
a
corrupted
,
Leprous
Branch
of
Royalty
is
the
dint
of
the
Argument
.
But
what
does
he
mean
to
confound
Civil
Power
and
Religion
thus
,
and
impose
upon
the
World
a
Paradox
,
that
for
want
of
rightly
dividing
,
endangers
both
?
Government
is
matter
of
Publique
and
External
Order
;
and
a
Divine
Provision
for
the
Peace
,
Comfort
and
Security
of
Mankind
:
wherein
all
the
several
parts
are
bound
up
in
one
Community
,
to
attend
the
Interest
and
Conservation
of
the
whole
.
Whereas
Religion
is
the
business
of
every
individual
apart
,
and
only
so
far
cognizable
in
a
State
,
as
it
affects
the
Civil
Power
.
What
can
be
more
gross
than
to
talk
of
fighting
for
Religion
?
or
to
pretend
to
the
maintaining
of
that
by
Arms
,
that
is
not
liable
to
Violence
?
Did
ever
any
Man
hear
of
a
Religion
that
was
either
shot
or
cut
?
Nor
can
there
be
any
Confederacy
or
Association
purely
upon
the
score
of
Religion
,
for
how
shall
People
agree
to
defend
they
know
not
what
?
which
is
the
very
case
when
one
Man
undertakes
for
the
Religion
of
another
.
If
our
Religion
be
assaulted
by
Argument
,
we
may
assert
it
by
Redargution
:
But
when
the
Opposition
advances
into
any
over
act
,
the
case
is
no
longer
Religion
,
but
Political
Safety
.
Beside
that
Government
is
Gods
Ordinance
for
the
common
benefit
of
Human
Society
,
and
of
Pagans
,
as
well
as
of
Christians
,
without
any
regard
to
this
or
that
Religion
:
for
Bedies
Politique
have
no
Consciences
;
but
every
particular
indeed
,
stands
or
falls
to
his
own
Master
.
I
cannot
but
observe
through
what
degrees
the
Character
has
advanced
the
Popish
Successor
.
First
,
From
the
possibility
of
a
good
Man
,
and
then
from
bad
to
worse
;
till
he
has
made
him
(
fol.
14.
)
a
Corrupted
,
Leprous
Branch
of
Royalty
;
and
,
at
next
word
,
a
downright
Traitor
,
upon
the
Statutes
of
23
and
13
of
Queen
Eliz.
and
another
of
Hen.
8.
(
Fol.
15.
)
This
matter
being
,
(
as
I
am
informed
)
at
present
coram
Judice
,
I
shall
say
no
more
to
it
than
this
,
that
there
are
two
Provisoes
in
the
5th
of
the
Queen
,
that
make
the
Case
somewhat
different
from
what
he
has
stated
it
:
As
for
Instance
:
Provided
alway
,
that
forasmuch
as
the
Queens
Majesty
is
otherwise
sufficiently
assured
of
the
Faith
and
Loyalty
of
the
Temporal
Lords
of
Her
High
Court
of
Parliament
;
Therefore
this
Act
,
nor
any
thing
therein
contained
,
shall
not
extend
to
compel
any
Temporal
Person
,
of
or
above
the
degree
of
a
Baron
of
this
Realm
,
to
take
or
pronounce
the
Oath
abovesaid
,
(
viz.
of
Supremacy
)
nor
to
incur
any
Penalty
,
limited
by
this
Act
for
not
taking
or
refusing
the
same
,
&c.
II.
Provided
also
,
that
if
any
Peer
of
this
Realm
shall
hereafter
offend
contrary
to
this
Act
,
or
any
Branch
or
Article
thereof
,
that
,
in
that
and
all
such
Case
and
Cases
,
they
shall
be
try'd
by
their
Péers
,
in
such
manner
and
form
as
in
other
Cases
of
Treasons
they
have
used
to
be
Tryed
,
and
by
no
other
means
.
It
would
be
well
if
every
Man
that
presses
,
with
this
un-precedented
rigour
,
upon
the
Person
here
in
question
,
would
lay
his
hand
upon
his
heart
,
and
say
,
if
the
King
has
pardoned
me
Te●
Thousand
times
more
than
this
comes
to
,
with
what
Reason
or
Conscience
can
I
importune
His
Majesty
thus
bitterly
against
His
Brother
?
After
all
these
Clamours
about
a
Popish
Successor
,
I
would
fain
know
how
it
is
possible
for
any
Man
to
be
other
than
a
Papist
,
in
our
present
condition
of
Affairs
.
A
Church-of
England-Man
is
a
Papist
to
the
Dissenters
;
a
Presbyterian
and
an
Independent
so
one
to
another
;
a
Quaker
to
both
;
and
among
the
Eight
Score
several
Sects
of
Heretiques
and
Schismatiques
that
Paget
and
others
,
have
reckoned
up
since
Liberty
of
Conscience
came
in
Fashion
;
there
are
just
so
many
sorts
of
Papists
among
them
,
in
the
Opinion
of
one
Sect
or
another
.
He
has
a
Paragraph
(
fol.
15.
)
where
,
under
the
People
of
England
,
he
expounds
himself
to
mean
their
Representatives
;
which
is
a
point
I
am
not
to
touch
upon
:
Only
,
I
must
confess
,
he
has
drawn
the
Arrow
to
the
Head
,
in
one
expression
in
it
.
Why
should
not
they
(
saith
he
)
the
House
of
Commons
)
be
as
active
and
vigorous
for
their
own
Royal
Inheritance
,
and
Sacred
Succession
of
Power
,
as
a
King
for
His.
What
he
means
by
this
Royal
inheritance
,
and
Sacred
Succession
of
Power
,
I
shall
remit
to
the
Consideration
of
the
Learned
.
(
Bradshaw
indeed
pass'd
a
Sentence
upon
the
Late
King
,
as
a
Traytor
to
the
ROYALTY
of
the
People
.
)
But
the
strongest
Argument
for
himself
that
I
find
in
the
whole
Book
,
is
five
or
six
Lines
lower
.
If
ever
a
Papist
m●unts
this
Throne
(
says
he
)
then
all
their
Murmurs
,
their
Petitions
,
Protesting
and
Associating-Votes
will
be
remembered
to
the
purpose
.
Now
what
can
be
a
greater
indignity
to
the
Justice
and
Resolution
of
that
Illustrious
Body
,
than
to
imagine
that
so
narrow
a
thought
could
any
way
influence
the
Candour
and
Solemnity
of
their
Debates
?
He
spends
his
sixteenth
Page
upon
Instances
out
of
Hen.
VIII
.
to
prove
the
Succession
of
the
English
Crown
to
be
wholly
subjected
to
the
Disposal
,
Determinations
and
Limitations
of
Parliament
.
How
far
his
Assertion
is
right
or
wrong
,
I
shall
not
concern
my self
.
But
however
,
as
he
has
ordered
the
matter
,
it
makes
nothing
at
all
for
his
purpose
.
The
Parliament
(
he
says
)
25
Hen.
8.
)
settled
the
Crown
upon
the
Heirs
of
that
Kings
body
by
Queen
Ann
;
and
in
the
28th
.
Repealed
that
Act
,
and
Entailed
the
Succession
upon
the
Heirs
of
his
body
by
Queen
Jane
;
Mary
and
Elizabeth
being
declared
Illegitimate
.
And
in
Case
he
Died
without
Issue
,
then
the
Parliament
empowered
him
by
the
same
Act
,
to
dispose
of
the
Succession
by
his
own
Letters
Patents
,
or
his
Last
Will.
In
the
35th
Year
of
his
Reign
the
Parliament
granted
the
Succession
to
Edward
;
and
for
want
of
Heirs
of
his
Body
,
to
the
Lady
Mary
,
and
the
Heirs
of
her
body
;
and
for
want
of
such
Heirs
,
to
the
Lady
Elizabeth
,
under
certain
Limitations
and
Conditions
contained
in
that
Act.
From
hence
he
infers
,
that
a
Parliament
may
order
and
dispose
of
the
Succession
.
But
whether
they
may
,
or
not
;
here
's
little
or
nothing
prov'd
from
these
Citations
.
First
,
under
the
ambiguity
of
the
Word
Parliament
,
he
would
have
this
thought
to
be
the
single
Act
of
the
Lords
and
Commons
,
when
the
Enacting
Authority
of
it
was
solely
in
the
King.
And
yet
he
says
expresly
that
Henry
8.
was
so
far
from
submitting
to
Parliaments
,
that
he
would
never
have
complemented
them
with
a
power
that
was
not
their
due
.
If
that
power
did
belong
to
the
Parliament
,
what
needed
they
the
King's
authority
for
the
making
of
it
good
;
or
to
divest
themselves
of
that
power
,
by
transferring
it
to
the
King
,
to
dispose
of
the
Reversion
,
or
Remainder
of
the
Crown
,
by
his
Will
,
or
Letters
,
Patents
,
to
such
person
as
he
pleas'd
?
Secondly
,
These
Statutes
do
not
so
properly
transfer
a
Right
as
declare
and
notifie
the
persons
;
for
the
prevention
of
disputes
,
and
competitions
;
as
appears
by
the
Preamble
to
that
of
the
28th
.
Wherefore
,
We
your
most
humble
and
obedient
Subjects
,
in
this
present
Parliament
Assembled
,
calling
to
Our
Remembrance
the
great
Divisions
which
in
Times
past
have
been
in
this
Realm
;
by
reason
of
several
Titles
pretended
to
the
Imperial
Crown
of
this
Realm
,
which
some
times
,
and
for
the
most
part
ensued
,
by
occasion
of
ambiguity
and
doubts
,
then
not
so
perfectly
declared
,
but
that
men
might
upon
froward
intents
expound
them
to
every
mans
sinister
appetite
and
affection
,
and
posterity
of
the
Lawful
kings
and
Emperours
of
this
Realm
;
whereof
hath
ensued
great
effusion
and
destruction
of
Mans
Bloud
,
as
well
of
a
great
number
of
the
Nobles
,
as
of
other
the
Subjects
,
and
especially
Inheritours
in
the
same
.
And
the
greatest
occasion
thereof
hath
been
,
because
no
perfect
and
substantial
provision
by
Law
hath
been
made
within
this
Realm
of
it self
;
when
doubts
and
questions
have
been
moved
and
proponed
of
the
certainty
and
legallty
of
the
Succession
,
and
Posterity
of
the
Crown
,
&c.
Now
,
so
far
is
the
intent
of
this
Act
from
diverting
the
Succession
,
that
the
express
end
of
it
was
the
setting
of
it
right
,
by
the
avoidance
of
a
former
Settlement
upon
the
nullity
of
the
Marriage
.
And
afterward
,
26th
of
the
same
King
,
cap.
2.
the
Act
here
before
mentioned
is
called
,
The
Act
for
the
Establishment
of
the
Succession
of
the
Heirs
of
the
King's
Highness
in
the
Imperial
Crown
of
this
Realm
.
Now
there
's
a
great
deal
of
difference
betwixt
translating
the
Succession
from
the
wrong
to
the
right
,
and
the
diverting
of
it
from
the
right
to
the
wrong
.
Thirdly
,
this
change
and
disposition
of
Settlement
,
tho
it
pass'd
all
the
formalities
of
Bill
and
Debate
,
yet
the
first
spring
of
it
was
from
the
certain
knowledge
of
the
Kings
pleasure
to
have
it
so
,
without
which
they
durst
never
have
ventur'd
upon
such
a
Proposition
.
Fourthly
,
Matter
of
Fact
in
this
case
is
no
proof
of
Right
,
and
especially
a
Fact
accompanied
with
so
many
circumstances
of
Cross-Capers
and
Contradictions
,
as
the
pronouncing
of
the
same
persons
to
be
both
illegitimate
and
legitimate
,
&c.
And
a
man
cannot
imagine
,
without
a
scandal
to
that
grave
and
wise
Assembly
,
that
the
levity
of
those
Counsels
,
and
that
humour
of
Swearing
and
Counterswearing
,
could
be
any
other
than
the
caprice
of
their
new
Head
and
Governour
.
Fifthly
,
with
reverence
to
the
Utility
and
Constitution
of
good
and
wholesom
Laws
,
it
is
not
presently
to
cite
a
Statute
and
say
,
There
's
a
Precedent
;
for
those
Laws
that
are
repugnant
to
the
light
of
Nature
and
common
Right
,
are
N●llities
in
themselves
.
Lastly
,
he
brings
instances
here
to
prove
,
that
a
Parliament
may
divert
the
Succession
;
but
he
shews
withall
,
that
there
can
be
no
security
even
in
that
exclusion
,
in
shewing
that
what
one
Parliament
does
,
another
may
undo
.
So
that
we
are
now
upon
equal
terms
of
security
or
hazard
,
either
in
the
exclusion
of
the
Successor
,
or
in
the
restraining
of
him
.
For
if
he
be
tied
up
by
one
Parliament
,
another
may
set
him
at
liberty
;
and
if
he
be
excluded
by
one
Parliament
,
another
may
take
him
in
again
.
But
he
that
shapes
his
own
Premises
,
may
cut
out
what
Conclusions
he
pleases
.
Char.
If
then
(
says
he
,
which
no
man
in
his
right
wits
can
deny
)
our
Religion
,
Lives
.
and
Liberties
,
are
onely
held
by
a
Protestant
Tenure
;
and
the
Majesty
of
Englfnd
not
onely
by
the
force
of
his
Coronation
Oath
,
but
by
all
the
Tyes
whatever
,
ought
to
be
the
Pillars
and
Bulwark
of
the
Protestant
Faith
;
and
at
the
same
time
granting
,
that
we
have
a
Popish
Prince
to
inherit
the
Imperial
Crown
of
England
;
he
ought
certainly
in
all
justice
as
little
to
ascend
this
Throne
,
as
Nebuchadnezzar
ought
to
have
kept
his
,
when
the
immediate
Blast
of
Heaven
had
made
him
so
uncapable
of
Ruling
as
a
King
,
that
he
was
only
a
Companion
fit
for
Brutes
and
Savages
.
fol.
17.
It
is
true
,
that
we
hold
the
exercise
of
our
Religion
by
a
Protestant
Tenure
,
with
a
respect
to
a
political
union
:
but
every
man
holds
the
Religion
it self
that
he
ventures
his
Soul
upon
;
not
on
the
Tenure
of
Laws
and
Constitutions
Humane
,
but
on
the
Tenure
of
the
divine
will
and
pleasure
:
Providence
having
dealt
so
graciously
with
Mankind
,
that
,
albeit
in
our
Bodies
and
Estates
,
which
are
only
corruptible
,
and
temporary
,
we
lye
exposed
to
Torments
,
Persecutions
,
Violence
,
and
the
Iniquities
of
Times
and
Seasons
;
Our
Nobler
Part
is
yet
exempt
from
the
Outrages
,
either
of
Men
or
Beasts
;
and
our
faith
,
hope
and
charity
,
treasur'd
up
,
where
neither
Rust
nor
Moth
doth
corrupt
,
and
where
Thieves
do
not
break
through
and
steal
.
As
for
our
Lives
and
Liberties
;
we
hold
them
by
the
Common
Tenure
of
Government
;
the
Common
Right
of
men
bound
up
in
a
Civil
Society
;
and
under
the
Protection
of
such
and
such
Laws
and
Provisions
,
for
the
Common
Benefit
and
Security
of
the
Whole
,
and
Every
part
:
And
all
this
,
clearly
abstracted
from
this
or
that
Religion
.
In
the
cases
of
Treasons
,
Felonies
,
Riots
,
false
Oaths
,
Forgeries
,
Scandals
,
and
other
Misdemeanours
,
that
endanger
the
Publick
peace
;
I
do
not
find
that
the
Law
puts
any
Difference
betwixt
Criminals
,
because
they
are
of
several
Religions
;
The
Protestant
Tenure
of
the
King's
Judges
signify'd
no
more
in
the
eye
of
the
Law
,
than
if
they
had
been
Powder-Plot
Jesuites
.
But
to
come
now
to
his
Protestant
Tenure
;
and
to
close
with
him
upon
it
too
.
(
But
as
a
Supposal
not
to
be
supposed
.
)
If
he
means
by
this
Protestant
Tenure
,
the
Protestant
Religion
of
the
Church
of
England
as
Established
by
Law
;
and
that
it
is
by
this
Tenure
,
that
we
hold
our
Religion
,
Lives
and
Libertiers
;
it
will
concern
us
to
support
this
Tenure
;
but
in
such
manner
yet
,
as
the
Law
directs
:
For
to
set
up
a
Tenure
without
a
Law
,
or
to
assert
a
Tenure
against
a
Law
,
will
not
be
for
the
credit
of
our
Authors
Pretensions
.
If
he
means
the
Dissenting
Protestant
Tenure
;
He
removes
the
Very
Basis
of
all
our
Laws
and
sets
up
the
Title
of
the
Multiude
against
that
of
the
Government
.
And
further
;
this
Protestant
Tenure
of
his
,
cannot
be
understood
barely
of
the
Doctrine
of
the
Church
of
England
;
(
as
in
Our
Nine
and
Thirty
Articles
)
for
first
,
there
are
several
points
of
them
that
are
opposed
and
rejected
by
the
Men
that
value
themselves
upon
this
Character
;
And
Secondly
,
Our
Laws
fall
not
shorter
in
any
thing
perhaps
,
of
so
great
Importance
,
than
in
the
point
of
Competent
Provisions
for
the
Suppressing
and
Punishing
of
Heretical
,
and
Blasphemous
Doctrines
.
So
that
this
Protestant
Tenure
must
of
Necessity
have
a
Regard
to
the
Vniformity
of
worship
,
according
to
the
Forms
,
Rights
,
and
Ceremonies
by
the
Law
in
that
case
provided
:
And
in
this
sence
I
must
confess
that
our
Lives
,
Liberties
,
and
the
Religion
of
the
Government
(
tho'
not
directly
,
yet
in
a
most
Rational
Consecution
of
dangerous
Probabilities
)
lye
all
at
stake
.
Wherefore
again
and
again
I
say
▪
let
us
joyn
with
our
Author
in
the
maintaining
of
this
Protestant
Tenure
.
For
tho'
the
intent
of
it
be
only
to
intimate
a
Jelousy
of
Popery
to
the
multitude
;
we
shall
yet
find
it
,
upon
Examination
,
to
have
a
Loyal
Aspect
toward
the
Government
.
Here
is
an
Vniformity
prescrib'd
;
which
is
neither
a
New
thing
to
us
,
nor
an
Vnnecessary
.
Not
a
New
one
;
for
it
has
descended
to
us
from
the
time
of
Edward
the
Sixth
;
and
it
was
the
only
Expedient
that
Queen
Elizabeth
could
find
out
,
for
the
safety
of
her
Person
,
and
Dominions
:
That
Excellent
Queen
Elizabeth
,
(
as
our
Author
says
,
fol.
17
)
Vnder
whose
long
and
gracious
Reign
,
England
was
so
highly
blessed
.
Nay
,
and
so
sacred
is
the
Providence
of
Order
,
that
Notwithstanding
all
the
fulminations
of
the
Pope
,
and
the
Numbers
,
as
well
as
the
dangerous
Practices
,
of
the
Papists
,
on
the
one
hand
;
and
the
Impetuous
Clamours
and
Importunities
of
dissenting
Protestants
on
the
other
,
Charging
both
her self
and
her
Ministers
with
Popish
practices
and
designs
.
This
steady
Queen
did
yet
(
I
say
)
preserve
her
Princely
dignity
,
and
the
Reputation
of
her
People
,
both
at
home
and
abroad
▪
and
at
the
same
time
,
maintain
her
ground
against
two
potent
Factions
;
by
standing
firm
to
the
Rules
,
and
Methods
of
her
Ecclesiastical
Discipline
,
And
it
is
Remarkable
,
that
the
state
has
still
been
more
or
less
at
ease
in
measure
,
as
That
Discipline
has
been
either
upheld
,
or
Relaxed
.
In
Forty
and
Forty
one
this
fence
was
thrown
down
;
and
I
need
not
say
,
after
the
overturning
of
that
Bank
,
what
Monsters
were
bred
out
of
the
Mud
,
upon
that
Innuundation
.
In
the
14th
.
of
his
Majesties
Reign
,
and
after
his
blessed
Restauration
,
This
Uniformity
was
re-inforc'd
;
and
in
the
16th
.
follow'd
an
Act
for
supp●●ssing
Sedicious
Conventicles
.
And
now
you
shall
see
how
much
it
behoves
us
to
stand
by
our
Protestant
Tenure
,
and
how
far
our
Religion
,
Lives
,
and
Liberties
are
concerned
in
so
doing
.
The
Reformed
,
or
Protestant
Religion
,
both
in
Doctrine
and
Discipline
,
as
it
is
settled
by
Law
;
is
the
Protestant
Tenure
here
in
question
:
And
what
Party
soever
enterprizes
upon
the
worship
here
Establish'd
,
usui●ps
upon
this
Protestant
Tenure
.
It
has
been
the
wisdom
of
the
Government
,
from
time
to
time
to
require
an
Vniformity
,
in
the
manner
and
circumstances
of
our
Worship
;
and
upon
what
motives
and
apprehensions
they
were
induced
to
observe
those
measures
,
will
best
appear
from
the
Acts
themselves
.
To
begin
with
the
Act
of
1
Ed.
6.
it
was
intended
for
the
gaining
of
an
Vniform
,
godly
and
quiet
Order
.
35.
Eliz.
There
was
a
Provision
made
for
the
preventing
and
avoiding
such
great
inconveniences
and
perils
as
might
happen
,
and
grow
by
the
wicked
and
dangerous
practises
of
Seditious
Sectaries
,
and
Disloyal
Persons
,
&c.
Where
it
was
made
penal
so
much
as
to
be
present
at
a
Conventicle
.
In
the
same
year
of
the
Queen
,
there
was
an
Act
against
wicked
and
seditious
persons
,
who
termed
themselves
Catholicks
,
and
being
indeed
Spies
and
Intelligencers
,
not
only
for
her
Majesties
foreign
Enemies
,
but
also
for
Rebellious
and
Trayterous
Subjects
born
within
her
Highnesses
Realms
and
Dominions
;
and
hiding
their
most
detestable
,
and
devilish
purposes
,
under
a
fair
pretext
of
Liberty
of
Conscience
,
do
secretly
wander
and
shift
from
place
to
place
within
this
Realm
,
to
corrupt
and
s●ouce
her
Sajesties
Subjects
,
and
to
stir
them
to
Sedition
and
Rebellion
,
&c.
3
Jac.
An
Act
for
discovering
and
repressing
Popish
Recusants
,
14
Car.
2.
The
intent
of
this
Act
was
the
settling
the
Peace
of
the
Church
and
allaying
the
present
distempers
which
the
indisposition
of
time
had
contracted
.
Many
People
in
the
late
Troubles
having
béen
led
into
Factions
and
Schisms
,
to
the
great
decay
and
scandal
of
the
Reformed
Religion
of
the
Chnrch
of
England
,
and
to
the
hazzard
of
many
Souls
.
And
lastly
,
16
Car.
2.
An
Act
for
suppressing
Conventicles
,
providing
for
further
and
more
spéedy
Remedies
against
the
growing
and
dangerous
Practices
of
seditious
Sectaries
,
and
other
disloyal
persons
,
who
under
pretence
of
tender
Consciences
,
do
at
their
Méeting
contrive
Insurrections
,
as
late
Experience
hath
shewed
,
&
c..
From
these
Citations
we
may
collect
both
the
intent
and
the
necessity
of
an
Vniform
Worship
,
and
upon
what
Considerations
these
Acts
were
made
;
and
it
appears
undenyably
from
those
Outrages
that
follow'd
upon
the
Peoples
breaking
loose
from
this
restraint
,
that
the
Lawmakers
were
not
deceived
in
their
foresight
.
Nor
could
any
other
be
expected
,
but
a
liberty
of
practice
after
a
licence
of
profession
,
and
that
after
a
dissolution
of
the
Law
there
should
be
no
longer
any
regard
had
to
Religion
or
Manners
.
But
what
do
we
talk
of
Religion
in
a
Tune
?
The
sounds
of
things
and
empty
words
,
when
they
come
once
to
be
followed
with
flagitious
actions
and
execrable
effects
?
Was
the
Venom
of
the
Covenant
ever
the
less
Diabolical
for
the
holy
Style
of
it
?
Will
[
Your
Majesty's
most
humble
and
obedient
Subjects
]
attone
for
the
robbing
and
the
murdering
of
their
Soveraign
?
Christ
and
his
Truths
is
every
jot
as
good
a
Claim
as
a
Protestant
Tenure
.
And
yet
I
'le
shew
you
here
the
Contumacy
of
Lucifer
himself
under
that
Mask
,
and
the
very
Soul
of
their
Hands-up-lifting
Covenant
;
which
tho
under
the
name
of
Cargils
Covenant
,
is
the
Old
Covenant
still
,
onely
a
little
rank
with
keeping
.
The
last
Speech
and
Testimony
of
WILL.
GOGOR
,
one
of
the
three
desperate
and
incorrigible
Traytors
executed
at
the
Grass
Market
in
Edinburgh
,
March
11.
1681
,
for
disowning
His
Sacred
Majesty's
Authority
,
and
owning
and
adhering
to
these
bloudy
and
murdering
Principles
,
contained
in
that
execrable
Declaration
at
Sanquhat
,
Cargils
Traitorous
Covenant
,
and
Sacrilegious
Excommunicating
of
the
KING
,
by
that
Arch
Traytor
Cargil
,
and
avowing
of
themselves
to
be
bound
in
Conscience
,
and
by
their
Covenant
,
to
murder
the
KING
,
and
all
that
serve
under
him
;
being
Armed
(
the
time
they
were
appreh●nded
)
for
that
purpose
.
Men
and
Brethren
,
THese
are
to
shew
you
,
that
I
am
come
here
this
day
to
lay
down
my
Life
for
owning
Christ
and
his
Truths
;
and
in
so
much
as
we
are
caluminiated
and
reproached
by
lying
upon
our
Names
,
and
dreadful
upbraiding
of
us
,
with
saying
,
That
we
are
not
led
by
the
Scriptures
;
and
say
,
We
have
taken
other
Rules
to
walk
by
:
I
take
the
Great
God
to
be
witness
against
all
and
every
one
of
them
,
that
I
take
the
Word
of
God
to
be
my
Rule
,
and
I
never
designed
any
thing
but
honesty
and
faithfulness
to
Christ
;
and
for
owning
of
Christ
and
the
Scriptures
this
day
I
am
murder'd
,
for
adhering
to
the
born-down
Truths
I
am
condemned
to
die
;
and
I
also
leave
my
Testimony
,
and
bear
witness
against
all
the
Apostate
Ministers
this
day
,
that
have
taken
favour
at
the
Enemies
hands
,
The
onely
thing
they
take
away
my
Life
for
is
,
because
I
disowned
all
those
bloudy
Traytors
not
to
be
Magistrates
,
which
the
Word
of
God
casts
off
,
and
we
are
bound
in
Conscience
and
Covenant
to
God
,
to
disown
all
such
as
are
Enemies
to
God
,
and
which
they
are
avowed
and
open
Enemies
to
Christ
;
And
they
have
made
void
my
word
,
saith
the
Lord.
Say
what
ye
will
Devils
,
say
Wretches
,
say
Enemies
,
say
what
ye
will
,
we
are
owning
the
Truth
of
Christ
and
his
written
Word
;
and
condemn
me
in
my
Judgment
who
will
,
I
leave
my
Bloud
on
one
and
all
that
say
we
are
not
led
by
the
Scripture
;
I
leave
my
Bloud
upon
you
again
to
be
a
Witness
against
you
,
and
a
Condemnation
in
the
great
day
of
Judgment
.
I
have
no
more
to
say
,
I
think
this
may
mitigate
all
your
rage
;
and
so
forth
.
I
leave
his
Enemies
to
his
Curse
,
to
be
unished
into
everlasting
wrath
for
now
and
ever
.
Amen
.
Sic
subscribitur
Will.
Gogor
.
Methinks
this
Specimen
of
an
Enthusiastick
Zeal
should
make
men
wary
how
they
deal
with
these
guilded
Pills
after
so
damn'd
an
operation
.
And
it
is
not
to
say
,
that
this
is
the
transport
of
a
mad
man
;
but
it
is
the
effort
of
the
very
Principle
,
and
the
whole
strain
of
them
that
has
been
taken
off
by
the
hand
of
Justice
,
(
not
for
treasonous
words
neither
,
but
actual
rebellions
)
have
so
behaved
themselves
at
the
last
cast
,
as
if
the
whole
Schism
were
upon
a
vie
who
should
damn
bravest
.
These
stories
are
no
Meal●tub
Shams
;
Death
and
Damnation
are
past
●oolling
.
But
how
comes
it
that
we
that
wear
Christ
in
our
Foreheads
should
carry
Antichrist
in
our
Hearts
?
and
under
the
name
of
Christians
walk
so
contrary
both
to
the
Doctrine
,
and
to
the
Example
of
our
suffering
Saviour
?
As
if
the
mere
Profession
of
the
Gospel
did
not
onely
make
void
the
Scope
and
Precepts
of
it
,
but
extinguish
in
us
the
very
Dictates
of
right
nature
;
and
then
as
Protestants
under
the
pretended
abomination
of
Popery
to
set
it
up
;
that
is
to
say
,
upon
impulse
of
Religion
to
do
in
any
sort
whatsoever
a
manifest
wrong
.
Let
the
end
be
never
so
good
,
it
must
yet
upon
the
score
of
Conscience
be
warranted
by
lawful
means
,
and
with
such
a
regard
to
Prudence
too
,
that
the
means
we
make
use
of
toward
a
good
end
,
may
not
be
imployed
to
a
bad
one
.
One
man
wishes
a
Reformation
in
the
Government
,
another
skrews
himself
in
under
the
same
Pretence
,
but
to
destroy
it
.
It
would
be
endless
and
nauseous
to
farce
up
a
Pamphlet
with
Citations
,
in
a
case
where
the
whole
Story
of
the
World
is
so
full
of
Precedents
.
How
came
it
that
Hen.
8
when
he
was
suspected
to
be
more
than
half
a
Protestant
,
proceeded
so
quietly
and
without
Opposition
,
in
Declaring
and
Limiting
the
Succession
?
and
then
that
the
Lady
Elizabeth
(
his
Daughter
)
being
a
profess'd
Protestant
and
the
Major
Party
of
the
People
Papists
,
came
to
the
Crown
,
without
any
considerable
Objection
to
her
Religion
?
We
do
not
find
,
notwithstanding
the
Branded
Apostacy
of
Jeroboam
,
that
made
Israel
to
Sin
,
that
his
People
yet
laid
hold
of
any
pretence
to
Rebel
against
him
.
We
do
not
read
in
the
Story
of
Ethelbert
King
of
Kent
,
upon
his
being
Converted
to
Christianity
by
Angustin
the
Monk
,
that
his
Subjects
,
though
Pagans
,
ever
took
up
Arms
against
him
for
't
.
Nor
that
the
Pagan
Subjects
of
any
of
the
Other
Saxon
Kings
in
their
Heptarchy
,
opposed
their
Sovereigns
,
for
Change
of
Religion
;
neither
was
there
any
Persecution
on
the
King's
Side
,
for
matter
of
Religion
.
Bonos
principes
(
says
Tacit.
Hist.
Lib.
4.
)
Voto
expetere
debemus
,
&c.
We
are
to
pray
to
God
for
Good
Kings
,
but
to
submit
to
them
whatever
they
are
.
Tertullian
(
Apolog.
30.
)
Christianus
nullius
est
hostis
,
&c.
The
Christian
(
says
he
)
is
no
Mans
Enemy
,
much
less
the
Emperors
:
for
knowing
that
he
Governs
by
Gods
Appointment
,
he
cannot
but
Love
,
Reverence
,
Honour
and
Wish
him
well
,
with
all
that
belong
to
him
,
and
therefore
we
pay
that
Veneration
to
him
that
belongs
to
him
,
as
being
next
immediately
under
God
;
what
he
has
is
from
God
,
and
God
is
only
his
Superiour
,
&c.
And
so
far
were
the
Primitive
Christians
from
opposing
their
Superiours
,
that
they
would
not
allow
so
much
as
a
dis-respectful
word
to
be
given
them
.
There
was
no
turning
of
Princes
in
those
days
,
a
grazing
with
Nebuchadnezzar
among
the
Beasts
;
no
calling
of
them
Gangreen'd
,
and
Corrupted
,
Leprous
Branches
of
Royalty
.
But
the
very
Apostles
Canons
provided
against
those
rude
indecencies
that
reflect
not
only
upon
his
Popish
Successor
,
but
upon
all
the
Crowned
Heads
of
Christendom
of
that
Perswasion
.
Quisquis
Imperatorem
,
&c.
(
says
the
Canon
)
Whosoever
shall
speak
ill
of
the
Emperor
,
or
of
the
Magistrate
,
let
him
be
punsh'd
.
If
a
Clergy-Man
,
Depos'd
;
if
a
Lay-Man
,
Excommunicated
.
But
what
needs
this
recourse
to
the
Examples
and
Judgments
of
Antiquity
for
the
clearing
of
Christianity
in
a
case
where
the
common
Principles
of
Human
Nature
are
sufficient
to
set
us
right
?
First
,
There
is
the
violation
of
a
Gospel-Precept
,
in
doing
evil
that
good
may
come
of
it
,
As
certainly
the
divesting
of
a
Prince
of
his
right
,
in
an
unwarrantable
way
of
doing
it
,
is
a
very
ill
thing
.
I
speak
all
this
while
to
the
Character
of
a
Popish
Successor
;
which
pushes
on
the
People
,
hand
over
head
,
to
the
end
,
without
that
regard
to
the
Means
,
which
the
Cause
,
I
think
,
does
require
:
But
after
this
,
when
a
lawful
Authority
intervenes
,
the
state
of
the
Question
is
quite
another
thing
;
for
it
is
no
longer
Religion
,
but
Policy
that
will
be
the
Subject
then
in
consideration
.
Secondly
,
The
admittance
of
this
Position
does
in
a
Complement
to
Christianity
,
overthrow
all
Religion
,
and
puts
all
Christians
into
a
state
of
Hostility
:
for
there
are
some
particulars
,
undoubtedly
,
of
all
Perswasions
that
do
firmly
believe
themselves
to
be
in
the
Right
.
And
then
consequently
,
every
divided
Party
is
that
to
the
other
which
a
Popish
Successor
is
to
the
Author
of
the
Character
.
And
at
this
rate
Christians
are
in
the
worst
condition
of
all
Mortals
,
by
making
it
a
point
of
Conscience
to
Enter
worry
one
another
.
To
say
nothing
of
the
Scandal
they
bring
upon
the
Gospel
,
by
erecting
this
Rigorous
and
Sanguinary
Doctrine
upon
the
Foundations
of
Meekness
,
Charity
and
Peace
.
And
this
Position
does
not
only
confound
the
Harmony
that
ought
to
be
among
the
Disciples
of
Jesus
Christ
;
but
superinduces
an
utter
Subversion
of
the
Fundamentals
of
Government
and
Obedience
.
For
to
say
that
a
Prince
of
another
Faith
may
be
Deposed
,
or
Secluded
for
his
Religion
,
does
not
only
Authorize
,
but
provoke
a
Prince
of
another
Perswasion
to
render
the
same
measure
to
his
People
;
and
it
absolves
both
the
One
and
the
Other
from
the
obligation
of
that
mutual
Correspondence
which
is
necessary
betwixt
them
for
the
conservation
of
the
Community
.
Nor
is
it
all
,
that
the
Maxim
it self
is
pernicious
,
(
which
many
times
is
the
ill
hap
of
a
fair
intention
;
)
but
there
is
so
gross
a
Partiality
in
the
Conduct
of
this
Character
,
that
a
Man
must
have
a
great
deal
more
Charity
than
appears
in
the
Author
of
it
,
to
allow
it
so
much
as
the
possibility
of
a
good
meaning
.
Here
's
a
Clamour
advanc'd
in
the
Name
of
the
English
Protestants
,
against
a
Popish
Successor
.
But
upon
what
ground
?
Because
it
is
a
Persecuting
Religion
.
Well!
and
what
Religion
is
it
in
a
Successor
that
would
please
them
?
The
Protestant
Religion
.
But
the
Religion
of
the
Church
Protestants
will
not
please
the
DISSENTING
PROTESTANTS
;
and
then
,
't
is
impossible
for
the
Dissenting
Protestants
to
please
one
another
;
and
as
impossible
for
a
Successor
of
any
one
Religion
to
please
them
all
.
But
now
which
of
these
Protestant
Religions
must
he
be
of
?
for
there
are
a
matter
of
Two
Hundred
Divided
Sects
that
list
themselves
under
that
denomination
.
Well!
but
if
they
be
True
Protestants
they
'll
Vnite
against
Popery
.
Yes
,
As
the
Fellow
united
his
Ratts
,
he
put
them
all
into
a
Tub
together
,
and
then
they
eat
up
one
another
.
View
them
well
,
and
you
shall
not
find
above
three
of
four
of
them
that
have
any
consistence
one
with
another
.
And
which
are
they
?
nay
,
that
's
a
Secret.
But
if
Popery
be
so
dreadful
,
because
it
is
a
Persecuting
Religion
;
why
is
not
the
Writer
of
this
Character
as
sensible
of
150
Persecuting
Religions
on
the
one
side
,
as
of
One
Persecuting
Religion
on
the
other
?
God
preserve
the
Church
of
England
,
I
say
,
from
both
.
Or
if
that
bitter
Cup
be
our
Lot
,
the
Lord
in
his
Mercy
grant
that
we
may
not
add
Sedition
to
Persecution
.
It
were
no
Ill
Embleme
of
the
Original
of
our
Late
Troubles
,
to
phancy
a
Man
in
a
Fright
,
and
leaping
from
a
painted
Lion
upon
a
Wall
into
a
Bed
of
Vipers
.
And
no
better
are
the
pragmatical
part
of
the
Revolters
from
our
Communion
,
while
in
the
mean
time
,
Thousands
and
Thousands
of
the
Credulous
and
Well
meaning
Multitude
are
by
them
inveigled
to
their
destruction
.
About
the
middle
of
the
17th
Page
,
the
Character-Man
is
either
laid
down
to
take
a
Nap
,
while
some
other
less
skilful
hand
supplys
his
place
;
or
else
he
writes
on
in
his
Sleep
.
And
it
would
have
been
well
,
if
all
the
rest
too
had
been
no
more
than
a
Dream
.
There
is
a
Finical
Marchpane
Spark
here
about
the
Town
,
that
takes
a
huge
deal
of
pains
to
get
himself
suspected
for
the
Author
of
this
Book
;
he
makes
me
think
of
a
little
Gentleman
in
a
Yellow
Coat
,
that
would
still
be
talking
how
rarely
he
plaid
o'
th'
Organ
;
and
this
poor
Wretch
phancied
that
he
made
all
the
Musique
,
when
it
was
his
part
only
to
draw
the
Bellows
.
He
has
done
some
very
pretty
things
,
they
say
,
upon
Touzer
.
But
for
this
Character
,
I
dare
venture
to
be
his
Compurgator
;
at
least
to
the
middle
of
the
17th
Page
.
But
further
I
dare
not
undertake
;
for
the
next
two
rages
and
a
half
,
a
Man
may
trace
them
upon
the
Hoof
to
the
very
Ink-pot
.
His
Story
of
Paris's
Mother
,
(
some
body
should
have
told
him
that
it
was
Hecuba
)
that
dream'd
she
was
deliver'd
of
a
Fire-brand
.
His
Debate
upon
the
Parallel
betwixt
the
dis-inheriting
a
Private
Popish
Heir
,
and
a
Popish
Successor
.
His
Proposal
of
the
Successors
following
Curtius
into
the
Gulf
;
the
Third-bare
Story
of
Damocles's
Sword.
And
then
his
Argumentum
à
fortiori
:
These
fragments
might
possibly
be
the
Fruit
of
his
own
Minerva
.
But
now
,
toward
the
bottom
of
the
19th
Page
we
have
the
First
Hand
again
.
Char.
But
to
Sum
up
all
;
(
says
he
)
if
no
reason
must
or
shall
prevail
;
and
that
right
or
wrong
a
Papist
must
succeed
:
when
all
the
inseparable
Cruelties
of
Pope
and
Popery
shall
surround
us
;
suppose
the
worst
that
may
be
,
that
the
dreadful
approach
of
certain
Slavery
,
so
opposite
to
the
Free-Born
Genius
of
England
,
has
exasperated
them
into
a
Spirit
of
Rebellion
:
What
is
it
but
the
Pestilential
Ayer
of
Reigning
Popery
,
that
bloats
and
swells
them
into
that
Contagion
?
And
if
this
Popish
King
Summons
all
his
Thunder
to
punish
them
for
't
,
what
can
the
greatest
Favourer
of
Rome
make
more
on
't
,
than
that
he
warps
them
crooked
,
and
then
breaks
them
to
pieces
because
they
are
not
streight
.
[
Just
as
he
serves
his
Popish
Successor
;
he
draws
ye
the
Picture
of
a
Tyrant
,
and
then
Deposes
him
]
And
what
's
the
whole
Sum
of
a
Revolting
Nation
under
a
Popish
Tyrant
?
but
using
a
violent
Cure
to
expel
an
Universal
Poyson
.
Fol.
19.
This
Clause
is
only
Buchanan
,
Janius
.
Brutus
,
&c.
Translated
into
English
,
and
for
brevity
sake
,
a
fair
hint
toward
a
Rebellion
,
and
an
Apology
for
it
,
both
in
one
.
As
who
should
say
,
If
it
must
come
to
a
Popish
Successor
the
English
Genius
would
never
brook
it
,
and
there
's
no
remedy
but
one
,
that
is
to
say
,
a
Revolt
;
which
they
may
e'en
thank
themselves
for
.
And
then
,
up
goes
Forty
One
again
●
the
Factions
dismount
the
Government
,
set
up
for
themselves
,
and
so
go
on
,
plucking
down
him
still
that
is
uppermost
till
they
come
from
Reforming
to
Levelling
;
and
there
is
an
end
on
't
.
I
would
he
had
not
been
so
positive
upon
the
Free
born
Genius
of
England
;
for
we
have
been
inveigled
actually
into
a
slavery
under
Cobblers
,
and
Tinkers
.
We
that
with
so
much
Indignation
at
present
,
oppose
ourselves
to
the
bare
Possibility
of
a
Royal
Successor
.
And
that
have
Sacrificed
three
Kingdoms
already
to
those
degenerate
fears
.
Char.
But
here
(
says
he
)
will
some
pretended
,
Pious
,
Objector
say
;
How
shall
we
dare
to
Revolt
?
Remember
we
are
Christians
,
and
we
must
Obey
;
or
at
least
yield
a
Passive
Obedience
to
our
King
;
be
his
Religion
,
Principles
,
or
Government
,
never
so
Tyrannique
,
He
is
still
the
Lords
Anointed
,
and
our
Native
Sovereign
.
I
would
ask
(
says
he
)
what
this
Lords
Anointed
is
.
And
who
t
is
is
our
Native
Sovereign
.
When
instead
of
being
free-Subjects
,
Pope
and
Tyranny
shall
rule
Over
us
;
and
we
are
made
slaves
,
and
Papists
?
That
Person
is
the
Lords
Anointed
who
by
Gods
Providence
,
and
a
Legal
Succession
of
right
to
the
Crown
,
is
the
Supreme
Magistrate
;
whom
,
if
we
may
cast
off
for
Popery
and
Tyranny
,
we
may
depose
at
any
time
,
by
saying
That
's
the
Case
:
For
't
is
but
saying
so
,
to
make
it
so
.
Nay
,
and
he
goes
further
yet
.
For
here
's
a
Prince
Depos'd
,
for
fear
he
should
be
so
;
without
any
allowance
for
intervening
Contingences
.
Or
any
Limits
to
the
Extent
of
the
Prospect
.
So
that
't
is
but
the
carrying
on
of
our
Jealousies
to
future
times
,
and
without
any
more
to
do
,
dissolve
the
Monarchy
upon
the
self-same
Contemplation
.
It
would
be
as
pertinent
a
question
now
,
what
are
those
Free
Subjects
,
as
what
is
This
Lords
anointed
?
If
by
this
Freedom
he
would
intimate
an
Exemption
from
the
Law
;
His
Free-Subject
is
a
palpable
contradiction
▪
For
in
This
Case
he
makes
the
Lords
Anointed
the
Subject
;
and
his
Free
Subject
the
Lords
Anointed
.
Char.
We
are
bound
indeed
(
says
he
)
by
our
Oaths
of
Allegiance
to
a
constant
Loyalty
to
the
King
and
his
lawful
Successors
.
Very
Right
.
By
that
Oath
we
are
bound
to
be
his
lawful
Successors
Loyal
Subjects
;
but
why
his
Loyal
Slaves
?
Or
how
is
an
Arbitrary
,
Absolute
Popish
Tyrant
any
longer
a
Lawful
Successor
to
a
Protestant
Established
,
and
bounded
Government
?
When
lawfuly
Succeeding
to
this
limited
Monarchy
,
he
afterwards
violently
,
unlawfully
,
and
Tyrannically
overruns
the
due
b●unds
of
Power
,
dissolves
the
whole
Royal
Constitution
of
the
Three
Free-States
of
England
,
and
the
Subjects
Petition
of
Right
?
whilst
wholly
abandoning
those
Reins
of
Government
,
which
were
his
Lawful
Birth-Right
,
and
making
New
ones
of
his
own
Illegal
Creation
,
he
makes
us
neither
those
Free-born
Subjects
we
were
,
when
we
took
that
Oath
,
nor
himself
That
King
we
swore
to
be
Loyal
to
.
What
have
we
here
but
a
Jesuitical
Dispensation
for
the
breaking
of
an
Oath
,
and
slipping
our
Necks
out
of
the
Collar
of
our
Allegiance
by
a
Mental
Reservation
?
First
,
We
swear
in
this
Oath
(
as
in
all
others
)
to
the
Sense
of
the
Authority
that
imposes
it
.
And
can
any
body
imagine
that
the
Government
impos'd
this
Test
of
Allegeance
upon
the
People
,
to
leave
them
still
at
Liberty
to
play
fast
and
loose
with
Reserves
and
Qualifications
of
their
own
:
And
so
to
frustrate
the
main
intent
of
the
Oath
,
by
accommodating
the
Exposition
of
it
for
the
serving
of
a
Turn
,
or
a
Faction
?
The
Oath
binds
them
to
Subjection
;
and
they
absolve
themselves
of
That
Subjection
by
giving
it
the
Name
of
Slavery
.
And
so
every
man
is
left
at
pleasure
to
take
off
his
own
Shackles
.
But
what
if
it
were
Slavery
it self
?
The
Prince
were
to
blame
for
straining
his
Authority
,
but
the
Subjects
nevertheless
Criminal
,
on
the
other
side
for
withdrawing
their
Duty
.
He
has
found
a
Loop-hole
to
evade
This
Oath
,
by
turning
SVBIECTS
into
SLAVES
.
But
That
will
not
do
his
business
,
without
turning
a
Lawful
Successor
to
a
Protestant
Establisht
and
bounded
Government
into
an
arbitrary
,
absolute
,
Popish
Tyrant
.
In
which
supposition
he
holds
forth
This
Doctrine
to
the
People
;
that
in
This
Case
,
there
is
a
Forfeiture
of
the
Government
;
and
that
this
is
the
very
Case
which
we
have
now
before
us
;
wherein
,
contrary
to
Law
,
Reason
and
the
Fundamental
Essentials
of
all
Government
,
he
does
,
as
much
as
in
him
lyes
,
authorize
and
incite
the
Multitude
to
a
Sedition
.
I
answer
,
that
the
Law
is
clearly
against
him
;
for
tho
the
Prerogative
is
bounded
,
the
Duty
of
the
Subject
is
yet
left
unconditional
,
there
being
no
Law
,
nor
so
much
as
the
colour
of
any
,
incase
of
the
Kings
passing
his
legal
Limits
,
to
absolve
the
People
of
their
Allegeance
.
And
it
is
not
the
Plea
of
Provocation
,
or
the
exercise
of
a
Tyrannical
Power
,
that
will
save
the
Subject
from
the
Sentence
o●
the
Law
,
in
case
of
any
disloyal
act
of
Assault
or
Resistance
.
It
is
against
Reason
likewise
,
that
the
Inferiour
shall
overrule
the
Superiour
,
and
invert
the
last
Resort
of
Decision
and
Judgment
from
the
Prince
to
the
Subject
.
It
is
,
lastly
,
destructive
of
Government
it self
,
to
suppose
such
a
Reserve
in
a
Political
Constitution
,
as
carries
the
last
Appreal
to
the
People
,
which
is
the
case
in
this
Proposition
.
The
King
as
a
Trustee
that
abuses
his
power
incurrs
a
Forfeiture
,
(
as
our
Author
will
have
it
)
of
that
Trust
;
and
so
all
subordinate
Trustees
may
incurr
the
like
Forfeiture
,
till
all
Communities
are
melted
down
again
into
the
ridiculous
conceit
of
the
Original
Soveraignty
of
the
Multitude
,
which
is
onely
a
Chaos
of
Anarchy
and
Confusion
.
He
is
over
again
here
with
the
Royal
Constitution
of
the
three
free
States
of
England
;
which
must
be
understood
either
of
the
Lords
Spiritual
,
Temporal
,
and
Commons
;
or
of
the
King
,
Lords
,
and
Commons
,
reckoning
His
Majesty
to
be
one
of
the
three
Estates
.
Take
it
the
former
way
,
and
instead
of
Your
Majesty's
Loyal
Subjects
the
Lords
and
Commons
in
Parliament
,
(
which
was
the
style
even
of
the
last
Rebellion
it self
)
the
Petition
should
run
t'other
way
,
and
say
,
The
humble
Petition
of
Charles
the
second
,
to
your
Majesties
the
Lords
Spiritual
and
Temporal
,
and
the
Commons
●ssembled
in
Parliament
.
Now
take
it
as
accounting
the
King
to
be
one
of
the
three
Estates
,
that
Imaginary
C●ordination
leaves
him
at
the
mercy
of
the
other
two
whensoever
they
please
.
The
Learned
and
the
Right
Reverened
Bishop
of
Lincoln
,
in
his
Discourse
of
Popery
,
pag.
4.
England
(
says
he
)
is
a
Monarchy
,
the
Crown
Imp●rial
,
and
our
Kings
Supreme
Governours
,
and
sole
Supreme
Governours
of
this
Realm
,
and
all
other
their
Dominions
,
&c.
In
our
Oath
of
Supremacy
we
swea●
,
That
the
King
is
the
Only
Supreme
Governour
,
Supreme
,
so
none
(
not
the
Pope
)
above
him
▪
and
Only
Supreme
,
so
none
Coordinate
or
equal
to
him
.
The
Character
brings
in
the
Subjects
Petition
of
Right
for
a
further
countenance
to
his
pretension
;
but
what
noise
soever
it
makes
in
the
cars
of
the
people
,
there
is
not
one
syllable
in
it
that
appears
in
his
favour
.
And
yet
once
again
upon
the
presumptions
ascresaid
he
grounds
this
Assertion
,
That
in
such
a
case
neither
is
he
the
same
King
that
we
swore
to
,
nor
we
the
same
Subjects
that
took
the
Oath
.
If
this
be
not
Rome
against
Rome
,
and
Popery
against
Popery
,
I
know
not
what
is
.
But
at
the
worst
it
is
but
paraphrazing
upon
the
Oath
of
Allegiance
as
they
did
upon
the
Covenant
.
Give
me
leave
now
to
retort
the
Argument
.
His
Popish
Success●r
will
be
a
Tyrant
,
(
he
says
)
for
it
is
a
Tyrannical
Religion
.
But
after
all
the
stress
of
●rreverent
Language
upon
his
R.
H.
he
cannot
charge
any
thing
in
the
worldupon
him
,
that
looks
that
way
,
in
his
inclination
.
But
yet
here
's
enough
(
says
he
)
to
conclude
the
Reason
and
the
Necessity
of
his
Seclusion
.
The
Compiler
of
this
Character
would
take
it
ill
now
,
on
the
other
side
,
if
a
man
should
say
that
his
very
argument
against
the
Duke
,
holds
as
true
against
the
Author
of
the
Character
.
For
that
Dominion
is
founded
in
Grace
,
is
the
Principle
both
for
which
,
and
by
which
he
pretends
to
Supplant
the
Successor
.
Now
why
may
we
not
apprehend
Sedition
from
the
one
,
as
well
as
Tyranny
from
the
other
?
Nay
and
with
more
Justice
too
;
considering
that
there
is
but
a
bare
Contemplation
the
One
way
,
and
the
Practice
of
an
enflaming
Discourse
over
and
above
that
Contemplation
,
the
other
.
Char.
But
alas
!
(
says
he
)
that
Bug-bear
,
Passive
obedeience
,
is
a
Notion
crept
into
the
world
,
and
most
Zealously
,
and
perhaps
as
ignorantly
defended
.
Fol.
20.
This
Period
brings
him
well
nigh
to
his
Journeys
end
:
For
,
till
now
,
he
contented
himself
with
only
opposing
the
primitive
Practices
,
and
the
Common
Principles
of
Christianity
,
in
justifying
a
Violence
,
upon
an
Impulse
of
Religion
:
But
the
making
of
Passive
Obedience
only
a
Bug-bear
,
and
the
Defence
of
it
an
effect
of
Ignorance
,
brings
it
home
to
the
very
person
of
our
Saviour
,
and
to
the
Doctrine
that
was
delivered
by
those
Holy
Lips.
So
far
(
says
the
Learned
Prelate
above
mentioned
,
Pag.
55.
)
was
St.
Paul
from
believing
those
Popish
Rebellious
Principles
,
(
Denying
the
Superiority
of
the
Civil
power
)
and
from
Dissoyalty
or
Disobedience
to
that
Imperial
(
tho'
Pagan
)
Power
under
which
he
Lived
;
that
he
publickly
acknowledged
,
and
humbly
submitted
to
it
.
Nor
was
he
only
in
his
own
Person
Obedient
,
and
a
Loyal
Subject
to
the
Emperor
,
but
(
writing
to
the
Romans
)
he
did
,
as
an
Apostle
of
Jesus
Chr●st
,
command
them
also
to
be
Loyal
and
Obedient
.
Let
every
Soul
(
every
man
)
be
Subject
to
the
Higher
(
the
Supreme
)
Powers
,
&c.
And
then
he
adds
,
that
they
should
render
to
them
Tribute
,
Custom
,
Fear
,
Honour
,
and
all
their
Duties
.
By
Supreme
Power
there
,
he
means
men
possessing
Supreme
power
,
and
the
Supreme
power
,
under
which
He
and
the
Romans
then
were
,
was
Nero
,
a
most
Impious
Pagan
,
and
Persecutor
of
Christ
,
and
Christians
;
and
yet
every
Soulq
within
his
Empire
,
(
even
Peter
as
well
as
Paul
)
was
(
by
the
Law
of
God
,
and
the
Gospel
)
to
be
Subject
to
Him
,
to
Fear
,
Honour
,
pay
him
Tribute
,
and
Legally
obey
him
.
Nay
the
same
reverend
Prelate
,
(
Pag.
54
)
in
confirmation
of
this
Doctrine
,
cites
the
Precept
of
our
blessed
Saviour
himself
,
as
well
as
St.
Paul.
Our
blessed
Saviour
(
Says
he
,
whose
Vicar
the
Pope
pretends
to
be
)
does
himself
pay
Tribute
to
Caesar
,
(
Tho'
a
Pagan
,
and
Idolat●r
)
leaving
us
an
Admirable
,
and
most
Pious
Example
of
that
obedience
,
and
Loyalty
due
,
even
to
Impious
and
Pagan
Princes
:
N●r
is
this
all
;
for
he
further
gives
express
Command
,
that
all
should
render
to
Cesar
the
things
which
are
Cesars
.
He
acknowledgeth
the
Imperial
rights
of
C●sar
,
of
which
his
Impiety
and
Idolatry
did
not
deprive
him
.
Our
Author
said
but
just
now
,
that
Passive
Obedience
was
no
more
then
a
Bug-bear
,
and
a
Doctrine
groundless
,
and
only
slipt
into
the
world
as
by
the
By.
But
he
tells
us
now
(
Fol.
20.
toward
the
bottom
)
that
in
case
of
a
Vow'd
Allegiance
to
an
Absolute
and
Arbitrary
King
,
a
Passive
Obedience
was
due
:
But
what
's
this
(
says
he
)
to
a
King
of
England
?
With
his
leave
I
take
it
to
be
the
same
thing
as
to
the
Peoples
Obedie●ce
or
Submission
;
tho'
in
respect
of
the
assuming
,
and
Exercising
that
Power
,
the
Case
,
on
the
Kings
side
,
is
greatly
differing
,
for
the
question
is
not
whether
the
King
does
Well
or
Ill
in
forcing
his
Authority
beyond
the
due
hounds
,
but
whether
the
Tyranny
,
on
the
one
side
,
will
justify
an
undutiful
behaviour
,
on
the
other
?
And
the
Law
it self
will
easily
determine
.
This
Controversy
.
If
the
Subject
be
ty'd
up
by
the
Law
to
an
Allegiance
unconditional
,
(
as
aforesaid
)
and
without
any
Exception
,
or
qualification
,
to
discharge
him
of
that
Duty
,
in
any
Cace
whatsoever
,
the
Cause
is
clear
against
him
.
And
this
is
enough
said
to
shew
,
that
under
the
Masque
of
a
zeal
to
crush
one
Sort
of
Popery
,
there
is
a
design
Carryed
on
for
the
introducing
of
another
.
See
now
what
he
says
of
Monarchy
.
Monarchy
(
says
he
fol.
21.
)
can
be
acquir'd
but
by
two
ways
.
First
,
By
the
Choice
of
the
People
,
who
frequently
,
in
the
beginning
of
the
World
,
out
of
a
natural
desire
of
Safety
,
for
the
securing
of
a
Peaceful
Community
and
Conversation
,
chose
a
Single
Person
to
be
their
Head
,
as
a
Proper
,
Supream
Moderator
in
all
Differences
that
might
arise
to
disquiet
that
Community
:
Thus
were
Kings
made
for
the
People
,
and
not
the
People
for
Kings
This
Principle
of
Popular
Liberty
,
and
placing
the
Original
of
Government
in
the
People
,
is
highly
derogatory
to
the
Providence
of
God
;
contrary
to
the
express
Letter
of
the
Text
,
and
destructive
of
the
very
Being
of
Human
Society
,
First
,
By
implying
Mankind
to
be
cast
into
the
World
unprovided
for
.
Secondly
,
It
makes
Magistracy
,
which
the
Apostle
tells
us
;
(
Rom.
13.
2.
)
is
the
Ordinance
of
God
,
to
be
of
Human
Institution
,
or
at
best
,
Nature's
second
Thought
;
but
in
truth
,
an
effect
either
of
Tumult
or
Chance
,
according
as
Men
were
led
to
't
either
by
Choice
or
Necessity
.
Thirdly
,
in
supposing
Power
to
be
radically
in
the
People
,
and
the
grant
of
it
to
be
only
an
act
of
conveyance
by
common
Consent
,
and
with
a
power
of
Revocation
,
upon
certain
equitable
Conditions
,
either
express'd
or
imply'd
;
there
goes
no
more
than
the
Peoples
recalling
of
their
Power
,
to
the
dissolving
of
all
Commu●ities
;
and
Humane
Society
,
at
this
rate
,
lyes
at
the
Mercy
of
the
Multitude
.
But
how
this
Revocation
shall
be
notify'd
,
unless
by
way
of
Advertisement
in
one
of
the
True
Protestant-Anabaptist-Mercurys
,
I
cannot
imagine
.
But
then
consider
again
,
That
this
Grant
and
Revocation
must
Pass
with
a
Nemine
Contradicente
;
nay
,
and
a
Nemine
Absente
too
:
for
one
single
Diss●●●
,
or
the
want
of
one
single
Vote
,
spoils
all
;
and
makes
,
void
both
the
Original
Grant
,
and
all
that
was
done
subsequent
upon
it
:
for
by
reason
of
that
defect
,
it
is
no
longer
the
act
of
the
People
.
It
may
put
a
Man
in
admiration
,
to
see
what
Credit
this
Phantastique
and
Impracticable
Conceit
has
got
in
the
World
,
if
he
does
not
observe
the
Address
in
the
Application
of
it
,
and
the
use
that
is
made
of
it
.
All
violent
Motions
of
State
(
we
see
)
are
wrought
and
brought
about
by
the
Favour
and
Assistance
of
the
People
.
And
there
can
be
no
readier
way
in
the
World
to
make
them
sure
,
then
either
to
calumniate
,
or
otherwise
to
lay
open
the
Nakedness
of
the
Government
,
and
to
tell
them
that
Princes
are
only
Trustees
for
the
Peoples
good
;
the
Sovereignty
in
themselves
;
and
that
if
Governours
break
their
Trust
,
the
People
may
resume
their
Power
.
When
the
Multitude
has
once
imbib'd
this
Doctrine
,
the
next
work
will
be
to
set
up
for
the
recovery
of
their
inheritance
:
and
when
it
comes
to
that
once
,
we
need
but
look
behind
us
to
see
the
end
on
't
.
Our
Author
has
already
admitted
,
(
upon
this
mistake
of
the
Fountain
of
Power
)
that
the
People
may
yet
pass
away
their
Original
Right
,
without
power
of
Revocation
.
Here
indeed
,
(
says
he
,
speaking
of
a
Concession
of
Absolute
Power
)
a
passive
Obedience
was
due
;
but
what
's
this
to
a
King
of
England
?
Now
though
the
Doctrine
of
this
Passage
(
fol.
20.
)
seems
to
clash
with
an
Equity
of
Resumption
,
reserved
to
the
People
in
the
last
Paragraph
above-recited
,
(
fol.
21.
)
I
shall
yet
lay
no
hold
of
that
implication
,
but
turn
the
force
of
his
own
allowance
against
himself
.
If
the
Peoples
alienation
of
their
Power
to
a
Prince
,
without
conditions
,
shall
stand
good
against
them
;
so
shall
the
alienation
of
their
Power
also
to
a
Prince
,
under
conditions
,
stand
every
jote
as
good
,
within
the
limits
of
those
conditions
.
And
where
shall
we
find
those
conditions
,
but
in
the
Establish'd
Law
,
which
marks
out
the
bounds
,
both
of
King
and
People
?
Now
if
the
Law
Pronounces
the
King
to
be
Supream
in
all
Causes
,
and
over
all
Persons
,
&c.
and
yet
with
some
Limitations
and
Restraints
upon
his
Prerogative
:
Suppose
he
passes
those
Terms
,
who
shall
judge
him
,
but
God
if
he
be
Supream
,
and
has
no
other
Power
above
him
?
Or
if
the
People
have
reserved
,
in
such
a
case
,
any
controuling
Power
to
themselves
,
how
comes
it
that
the
Law
takes
no
notice
of
it
;
but
on
the
contrary
,
makes
the
Subjects
accountable
for
any
act
of
Disobedience
or
Violence
to
,
or
upon
the
Person
,
or
Authority
of
the
King
,
upon
what
pretence
soever
?
So
that
under
the
colour
of
opposing
or
preventing
an
Arbitrary
Power
;
the
Law
is
subverted
(
here
)
at
a
b●ow
;
and
a
Foundation
laid
of
the
most
pernicious
and
shameful
sort
of
Tyranny
.
He
says
that
Kings
were
made
for
the
People
,
and
not
People
for
the
Kings
,
which
is
well
enough
,
if
he
means
that
Kings
were
made
for
the
Government
of
the
People
,
which
is
the
great
Blessing
of
Mankind
;
and
not
People
for
the
Government
of
the
King
;
which
turns
Society
into
Confusion
.
But
after
all
these
words
,
to
shew
that
Government
Originally
was
not
Popular
;
I
shall
add
a
few
more
,
to
prove
the
Institution
of
it
to
be
purely
Divine
:
which
opinion
,
in
truth
,
needs
not
any
other
Support
,
than
the
Authority
of
the
Holy
Scriptures
.
By
me
Kings
Reign
,
&c.
I
have
made
the
Earth
,
the
Man
,
and
the
Beasts
that
are
upon
the
Ground
by
my
great
Power
,
and
my
Outstretched
arm
,
and
have
given
it
to
whom
it
seemed
meet
unto
me
,
Jer.
27.
5.
That
which
we
now
call
Kingly
Government
was
at
first
called
Paternel
,
and
after
that
Patriarchal
,
&c.
And
we
find
,
by
the
Powers
they
exercised
(
as
Life
and
Death
,
War
and
Peace
,
&c.
)
that
their
Paternal
Power
did
Then
extend
to
all
the
Acts
of
our
Regal
Power
;
The
Objection
is
,
could
there
be
a
King
without
a
People
?
Which
is
all
one
with
the
Supposal
of
a
Father
without
a
Son.
But
This
does
not
at
all
conclude
that
Adam
had
not
both
a
Regal
and
a
Paternal
Power
,
before
he
had
either
People
or
Children
,
actually
to
govern
,
and
exercise
it
upon
:
It
being
a
thing
so
consonant
also
,
to
the
Methods
of
the
Divine
Wisdom
,
to
supply
him
previously
with
all
needful
Abilities
and
Authorities
for
the
Discharge
of
his
Fatherly
and
Governing
Office
:
The
whole
Race
of
his
Posterity
,
lying
open
,
even
before
they
had
any
Existency
in
Nature
,
to
the
Omniscience
of
God
,
with
whom
there
is
no
PAST
or
FUTVRE
,
but
all
things
,
always
PRESENT
.
Again
,
if
Adam
did
not
bring
his
Authority
into
the
World
with
him
,
when
did
he
receive
his
Commission
?
Or
,
if
he
had
none
at
all
,
how
could
he
justifie
the
Arbitrary
Rule
he
exercis'd
over
those
People
that
were
only
his
Fellow
Subjects
,
under
the
same
God
,
and
without
any
Subordinate
Ruler
over
them
?
Or
if
Adam
was
vested
with
a
Right
of
exerting
the
Power
he
exercis'd
;
how
came
our
Authors
Imaginary
Multitude
to
chuse
a
Governor
of
their
own
,
in
opposition
to
the
appointment
of
Providence
?
Or
who
absolved
them
from
the
Bonds
of
their
filial
and
primary
Duty
and
Obedience
?
What
he
says
afterward
of
Conquest
,
(
which
he
calls
his
Other
Acquisition
of
Monarchy
)
serves
only
for
an
occasion
to
tell
us
,
that
our
Last
Norman
Conquest
was
little
more
than
a
Composition
:
which
is
an
error
and
nothing
at
all
to
the
point
here
in
hand
,
which
refers
only
to
the
constitution
,
and
Settlement
of
the
Government
,
as
now
it
stands
,
without
any
respect
to
the
manner
of
acquiring
it
.
But
he
is
now
drawing
to
a
conclusion
.
Char.
If
now
at
last
,
(
says
he
)
Popery
must
and
shall
come
in
,
(
as
by
law
it
cannot
)
and
consequently
must
be
restored
by
Arbitrary
Power
.
If
a
new
Monarchy
,
then
a
new
Conquest
,
and
if
a
Conquest
,
Heaven
forbid
we
should
be
subdu'd
like
less
than
English-men
;
or
be
debar'd
the
Common
Right
of
all
Nations
,
which
is
,
to
Resist
,
and
Repel
an
Invader
,
if
we
can
,
fol.
21.
This
is
spoken
upon
the
supposition
of
a
Popish
Successors
coming
to
the
Crown
,
whom
he
calls
an
Invader
;
(
though
qualifyed
with
a
Legal
Title
)
and
he
incourages
Violence
against
him
,
tho'
in
this
case
the
Law
pronounces
him
a
King
:
and
this
Resistance
to
be
made
like
English-men
too
,
that
is
to
say
English-men
of
the
late
stamp
.
So
that
there
goes
no
more
(
I
perceive
)
to
the
destruction
of
a
Lawful
Prince
,
but
to
say
that
he
either
is
or
will
be
this
or
tha●
:
And
the
King
himself
stands
in
as
much
danger
,
upon
the
admittance
of
this
Principle
,
as
his
Royal
Brother
.
But
before
Subjects
proceed
to
these
terms
,
which
without
a
legal
Authority
are
criminal
in
any
case
whatsoever
,
Malice
it
sel●
will
not
deny
,
but
that
there
ought
to
be
an
infallible
certainty
of
the
Inconvenience
:
whereas
(
as
I
have
said
before
)
this
is
a
case
lyable
to
many
disappointments
;
the
prospect
of
it
remote
,
the
expedient
unwarrantable
,
and
the
danger
it self
at
last
not
so
mortal
as
it
is
represented
.
He
supports
his
presumption
upon
this
ground
for
granted
,
that
a
Popish
King
must
do
whatsoever
the
Pope
will
have
him
do
,
and
subject
his
people
to
the
Tyranny
as
well
as
the
Religion
of
the
Church
of
Rome
.
What
does
he
say
to
the
French
Kings
Pyramid
then
,
and
the
vindication
of
himself
and
his
people
in
divers
other
cases
,
from
the
Insults
of
Rome
;
and
to
several
other
instances
already
given
in
this
particular
?
Char.
But
to
summ
up
all
this
(
says
he
)
I
must
say
,
the
most
vehement
Disputants
against
the
Peoples
right
of
defending
themselves
,
must
at
length
ac●nowledge
thus
much
,
that
whenever
a
Papist
King
shall
by
Tyranny
establish
the
Popes
Jurisdiction
in
England
,
undoubtedly
in
the
eye
of
God
he
is
guilty
of
a
greater
sin
than
that
People
can
be
,
that
with
open
Arms
oppose
that
Tyranny
.
;
Fol.
22.
This
is
a
clause
of
double
consolation
:
First
,
to
the
Author
,
that
this
Popish
King
shall
be
damn'd
the
deeper
of
the
two
.
And
,
Secondly
,
to
the
People
,
that
they
shall
go
to
the
Devil
in
good
company
.
Char.
The
very
Essence
(
he
says
)
of
a
Popish
Successor
is
the
greatest
Plot
upon
England
since
the
Creation
;
a
Plot
of
God
himself
to
scourge
a
Nation
,
and
make
three
Kingdoms
miserable
.
This
must
be
a
very
great
Plot
,
if
it
be
the
greatest
Plot
that
we
have
seen
even
in
our
days
:
a
Plot
upon
our
Laws
,
and
it
subverted
them
;
upon
the
Church
,
and
it
destroyed
it
root
and
branch
;
upon
our
Estates
,
and
it
took
them
away
by
violence
;
upon
our
Liberties
,
and
it
enslav'd
us
;
upon
our
Lives
,
and
it
was
made
death
to
do
our
Duties
.
It
was
a
Plot
that
left
us
no
other
choice
in
many
cases
but
Death
or
Damnation
.
If
I
had
ask'd
my
revenues
(
says
the
late
King
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
▪
sect
.
24.
)
my
power
of
the
Militia
,
or
any
one
of
my
Kingdoms
,
it
had
been
no
wonder
to
have
been
denied
in
those
things
,
where
the
evil
policy
of
men
forbids
all
Restitution
,
lest
they
should
confess
an
injurious
Usurpation
.
But
to
deny
me
the
Ghostly
comfort
of
Chaplains
,
seems
a
greater
rigour
and
barbarity
then
is
ever
used
by
Christians
to
the
meanest
Prisoners
,
and
greatest
Malefactors
,
whom
,
tho'
the
Justice
of
the
Law
,
deprives
of
worldly
Comforts
,
yet
the
Mercy
of
Religion
allows
them
the
benefit
of
their
Clergy
:
as
not
aiming
at
once
to
destroy
their
Body●
,
and
to
Damn
their
Souls
.
But
My
Agony
must
not
be
Reliev'd
with
the
Presence
of
any
one
Good
Angel
;
(
for
such
●account
a
Learned
,
Godly
and
Discreet
Divine●
&
such
I
would
have
all
Mine
to
be
;
)
They
that
envy
my
being
a
King
,
are
loth
I
should
be
a
Christian
,
while
they
Seck
to
deprive
Me
of
all
things
else
;
they
are
a●●a●d
I
should
save
my
soul.
Has
the
Author
of
the
Character
heard
of
this
Un-Christian
Barbarity
toward
a
Prince
of
the
most
Exemplary
Goodness
and
Piety
(
one
of
them
)
that
ever
liv'd
:
And
how
he
was
yet
,
after
all
this
,
Murther'd
on
a
Scaffold
,
in
the
Name
,
and
under
the
pretended
Sovereignty
of
the
People
of
England
?
How
has
he
then
the
hardness
of
Heart
to
set
up
that
Regicidal
Principle
afresh
;
and
to
pronounce
the
Government
of
a
Popish
Successor
to
be
a
greater
Plot
upon
England
,
than
the
Execrable
Bloud-shed
of
that
Protestant
Prince
?
And
yet
he
carries
it
one
step
higher
.
A
Plot
of
God
(
he
calls
it
)
and
at
the
same
time
lays
the
Foundation
of
it
in
Hell
,
and
most
Heroically
opposes
it
.
From
hence
to
the
end
both
of
the
Page
and
Book
,
there
's
only
more
variety
of
flourish
to
the
same
purpose
.
MY
pretending
to
Answer
this
Discourse
,
looks
methink
,
as
if
a
Man
should
Reply
upon
an
Alman●ck
(
for
several
Years
to
come
)
it
runs
altogether
upon
Phansys
,
Suppositions
,
Predict●ons
,
&c.
And
there
's
no
dis-proving
of
a
Prognostication
;
nor
hardly
any
reasoning
against
it
;
but
so
far
as
it
is
Calculated
according
to
Rules
of
Art
:
And
wheresoever
I
have
found
any
thing
that
looks
like
a
Logical
Connexion
,
I
have
spoken
to
those
Passages
what
I
thought
convenient
.
But
for
the
rest
;
my
business
has
been
to
encounter
the
drift
of
it
,
and
to
expound
the
danger
of
these
present
Iealousies
,
by
referring
People
to
the
miserable
effects
of
the
same
Jealousie
in
the
Late
Times
.
It
is
an
easie
thing
for
People
to
foretel
Calamities
and
Judgments
of
their
own
Contriving
.
There
is
not
any
Man
Living
that
more
passionately
desires
the
Ripping
up
of
this
Dam●'d
,
Hellish
Plot
to
the
bottom
,
than
my self
;
but
I
must
confess
withal
,
that
I
am
for
Suppressing
the
Malice
of
Pope●y
,
as
well
as
the
Name
;
and
utterly
against
the
Damning
of
any
Position
in
a
Papist
,
that
I
practice
my self
.
The
best
way
to
discover
a
Jesuite
,
is
by
his
Principle
;
for
it
is
the
Doctrine
,
and
not
the
Order
,
or
D●n●mination
,
that
creates
the
Danger
.
So
that
we
are
never
the
nearer
for
rocting
out
the
One
,
unless
we
purge
our selves
also
from
the
Leagen
of
the
Other
.
Which
will
be
the
o●ly
safe
way
of
faci●itating
a
Comprehensive
Union
of
those
Conscientious
Dissent●rs
that
wish
well
to
the
King
and
his
Government
.
And
in
Order
to
this
Discrimination
,
I
shall
give
the
Reader
here
a
Taste
of
the
Harmony
and
Agreement
betwixt
the
Jesuites
of
the
Society
,
and
those
of
the
Covenant
.
That
is
to
say
,
such
other
Jesuites
,
as
,
under
the
Cover
of
Dissenting
Protestants
take
advantage
of
the
Credulity
and
Weakness
of
the
Common
People
,
toward
the
working
of
Distempers
in
the
Nation
.
Popish
and
Jesuitical
PRINCIPLES
.
DOminion
is
founded
in
Grace
;
(
says
the
Romish
Jesuite
)
and
upon
That
Principle
,
Deposes
Protestant
Princes
.
But
the
Covenanting
Jesuite
is
even
with
him
,
and
upon
the
same
Principle
deposes
Popish
Princes
:
as
Knox
and
those
of
the
Congregation
in
Scotland
depos'd
the
Queen
Regent
(
Cambden
'
s
Eliz.
An.
1559
)
Penry
told
the
Lord
President
of
Wales
,
That
without
advancing
the
Presbyterian
Discipline
he
could
have
no
Commission
to
Rule
there
;
for
having
rejected
Christ
,
he
was
but
the
Lieutenant
of
Satan
.
And
our
Character
does
pretty
well
too
,
in
ranking
a
Popish
Prince
with
Nebuchadnezzar
,
fol.
17.
The
Pope
may
deprive
a
King
of
his
Royal
Dignity
for
Heresie
,
Schism
,
&c.
(
B.
of
Lincoln's
Popish
Principles
,
pag.
20.
)
and
after
Excommunication
(
says
Mariana
)
in
case
of
Obstinacy
,
the
People
may
take
away
his
Life
.
Now
says
the
Covenanting
Jesuite
;
All
men
as
well
Magistrates
,
as
Inferiors
,
ought
to
be
Subject
to
the
Judgment
of
General
Assemblies
(
See
Bishop
Bramhal
pag.
501.
)
Ministers
(
says
Buchanan
de
Jur.
Reg.
page
70.
)
may
excommunicate
Princes
;
and
when
they
have
cast
them
into
Hell
,
they
are
not
worthy
to
live
any
longer
upon
Earth
.
Pius
Quintus
absolv'd
the
Subjects
of
Q.
Eliz.
from
all
their
Oaths
of
Allegiance
to
her
for
ever
.
And
now
(
says
Knox
to
England
and
Scotland
)
If
Princes
be
Tyrants
against
God
and
his
Truth
,
their
Subjects
are
Free
from
their
Oath
of
Obedie●ce
.
And
our
Jesuitical
Covenanters
did
the
same
thing
too
,
with
a
Penalty
,
in
abolishing
the
Oaths
of
Supremacy
and
Allegiance
,
and
setting
up
their
Covenant
.
We
command
(
says
the
same
Pius
Quintus
)
all
the
Peers
,
People
and
Subjects
of
England
not
to
pay
any
Obedieuce
to
the
Queen
,
her
Commands
,
or
Laws
.
And
was
not
this
the
same
thing
that
our
Covenanting
Jesuites
did
,
in
commanding
upon
pain
of
Imprisonment
,
and
Sequestration
,
not
to
obey
the
Kings
Proclamations
,
and
in
making
it
Death
without
mercy
for
any
man
that
had
taken
the
Cove●ant
to
go
,
without
a
Pass
into
the
Kings
Quarters
?
Pope
PAVL
3d.
Interdicted
all
publick
Prayers
for
Henry
8.
or
his
Adherents
,
after
his
Denyal
of
the
Popes
Supremacy
,
to
the
whole
Nation
.
And
did
not
our
Scottish
Jesuites
the
same
thing
in
refusing
to
to
pray
for
the
Mother
of
King
James
,
when
she
was
in
her
Distress
though
the
King
desired
it
?
and
did
not
our
English
Covenanting
Jesuites
make
it
Malignancy
and
Sequestration
,
to
pray
for
the
King
in
their
Churches
?
If
a
Clergy-Man
Rebel
against
the
King
,
it
is
no
Treason
▪
(
says
Em●nuel
Sa
)
because
Clergy-Men
art
not
the
Kings
Subjects
.
The
Jesuits
of
the
Kirk
told
King
James
,
That
He
was
an
incompetont
Iudge
of
Matters
in
the
Pulpit
,
wich
ought
to
be
exempted
from
the
Iudgment
and
Correction
of
Princes
.
And
the
Assembly
brought
off
Gibson
and
Blake
,
for
Cursing
and
Railing
at
the
King
in
the
Pulpit
,
upon
the
same
Plea.
And
the
Late
King
had
as
little
Remedy
for
Treason
deliver'd
in
the
Pulpits
here
.
The
Papal
Power
(
says
Sciopptus
)
is
Supream
,
and
the
Pope
has
a
Right
to
Direct
and
C●mpel
,
and
a
Power
of
Life
and
Death
.
And
did
not
Our
Jesuits
in
the
Assembly
,
and
the
Two
Houses
Practice
the
same
Usurpations
in
1642
?
Does
not
the
Kirk
,
in
the
Cases
of
Bloud
,
Adultery
,
Blasphemy
,
&c.
take
the
Pardoning-Power
out
of
the
King's
Hand
?
Did
not
the
Scottish
Jesuits
in
1638.
Prote●t
against
Proclamations
,
make
void
Acts
of
Parliament
,
Levy
M●n
,
Monies
and
Arms
,
for
the
Glory
of
God
,
and
preservation
of
Rel●gion
?
Kings
Declaration
.
Pag.
415.
Do
they
not
claim
Power
to
Abrogate
and
Abolish
what
Statutes
and
Ordinances
they
please
,
concerning
Ecclesiastical
Matters
?
See
Bishop
Brambal
,
Fol.
497.
&c.
And
in
short
,
in
ordine
ad
Spiritualia
,
take
into
their
Cognizance
all
matters
whatsoever
.
Snarez
,
approves
of
a
Subjects
killing
his
Prince
in
his
own
defence
;
and
much
more
,
if
it
be
in
defence
of
the
Publique
.
Buchanad
Seconds
him
,
and
would
have
him
rewarded
for
it
,
as
if
he
had
kill'd
a
Wolf
or
a
Bear.
For
(
says
he
,
in
his
de
jure
Regni
)
the
People
are
as
much
above
the
King
,
as
he
is
above
any
one
Person
.
Which
Our
Jesuits
have
Translated
into
Singulis
Major
,
Vniversis
Minor.
Does
not
our
Assembly
set
up
for
Infallible
,
as
well
as
the
Pope
.
And
have
not
Our
Jesuites
their
pious
Frauds
as
well
as
those
of
the
Church
of
Rome
;
their
Dreams
,
Visions
and
Revelations
?
Where
was
there
ever
more
Equivocation
,
or
mental
Reservation
,
then
in
their
swearing
to
preserve
the
King
,
with
a
Design
to
destroy
him
?
Where
did
the
Pope
himself
ever
take
more
upon
him
,
as
to
the
Indicting
of
Assemblies
,
abrogating
Acts
of
Parliament
,
and
in
the
Exercise
of
all
other
the
Ensigns
of
Royalty
?
Does
not
our
Assembly
expect
to
be
submitted
to
with
as
implicite
a
Faith
,
and
as
blind
an
Obedience
as
the
Pope
himself
?
We
must
●●sign
up
our
Judgments
(
says
the
Church
of
Rome
)
our
VVill
,
and
our
Vnderstanding
in
a
deferencé
to
our
Superiors
.
To
which
purpose
(
as
I
find
it
in
Lysimachus
N●canor
page
48.
)
Andrew
Cant
when
he
found
he
could
give
no
reasons
for
subscribing
the
Covenant
,
told
his
Congregation
at
Glascow
,
that
they
must
deny
Learning
and
Reason
,
and
help
Christ
at
a
Lift
:
and
told
them
further
,
upon
the
same
occasion
,
that
he
was
sent
to
them
with
a
Commission
from
Christ
to
bid
them
subscribe
the
Covenant
,
which
was
Christs
Contract
,
and
that
he
himself
was
come
at
a
Wooer
to
them
for
the
Bridegroom
;
and
called
upon
them
to
come
to
be
Hand-fasted
by
Subscribing
That
Contract
:
and
told
them
plainly
,
that
he
would
not
leave
the
Town
till
he
had
all
their
Names
that
refused
to
Subscribe
;
and
that
he
would
complain
on
't
to
his
Master
.
It
would
be
endless
to
run
out
the
Parallel
at
length
,
so
far
as
This
Argument
would
carry
a
man.
But
this
will
suffice
,
I
hope
,
in
some
measure
for
a
Caution
,
that
while
we
are
running
down
of
One
Sort
of
Jesuites
we
do
not
Incorporate
our
Religion
with
Another
.
The
End.
Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
Notes for div A47819-e120
Character
.
Declarat
.
&
Prot.
of
Lords
and
Commons
,
to
the
Kingdom
,
and
the
whole
world
.
Octob.
22.
1642.
Exact
Coll.
pag.
664.