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The character of a popish successour compleat in defence of the first part, against two answers, one written by Mr. L'Estrange, called The papist in masquerade, &c., and another by an unknown hand.
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THE
CHARACTER
OF
A
Popish
Successour
COMPLEAT
:
IN
DEFENCE
of
the
FIRST
PART
,
AGAINST
Two
ANSWERS
,
One
Written
by
M
r
L'ESTRANGE
,
CALLED
The
Papist
in
Masquerade
,
&c.
And
another
By
an
Unknown
Hand
.
LONDON
:
Printed
for
I.
Graves
,
and
are
to
be
sold
by
most
Booksellers
.
1681.
THE
PREFACE
.
UPon
perusal
of
a
Pamphlet
written
by
so
ingenious
an
Author
as
Mr.
L'Estrange
,
called
,
The
Papist
in
Masquerade
,
in
answer
to
the
Character
of
a
Popish
Successour
,
my
expectation
was
strangely
frustrated
,
when
I
found
the
Book
look
more
like
a
Poor
Robin's
Almanack
than
an
Answer
,
the
major
part
of
the
Pamphlet
being
a
kind
of
Red-letter
Kalendar
in
two
Columes
,
with
the
Popish
Worthies
on
one
side
,
and
the
Republican
ones
on
the
other
;
as
Raviliac
on
that
hand
and
Oliver
over
against
him
;
and
so
Mariana
and
Knox
,
Pius
Quintus
and
Buchanan
,
Guido
Faux
and
Hugh
Peters
,
&c.
I
confess
,
had
he
design'd
to
publish
the
Villanies
both
of
a
Popish
and
a
Republican
Conspiracy
,
and
after
a
plain
demonstration
of
the
Government
's
being
really
undermined
by
both
those
threatning
Enemies
,
had
given
his
Country
some
light
to
steer
in
the
golden
Medium
between
both
those
fatal
Extreams
,
his
Intention
had
been
honest
,
and
he
had
writ
like
a
Patriot
:
But
alas
!
that
's
none
of
his
Province
;
his
Talent
is
otherwise
employ'd
:
for
the
sole
drift
of
his
Book
was
not
in
the
least
to
expose
Popery
any
farther
than
to
make
the
Fanatical
and
Jesuitical
Principles
agree
;
for
take
his
Opinion
abstracted
from
that
Designe
,
and
his
whole
Book
has
no
other
aim
but
to
make
all
our
dangers
of
Popery
and
a
Popish
Successour
,
and
all
the
whole
Plot
against
the
King
,
Religion
,
and
Government
,
(
to
use
his
own
Phrase
,
p.
69.
)
but
a
painted
Lion
upon
a
Wall
;
and
the
Prosecutors
of
that
Plot
,
and
the
Opposers
of
those
Dangers
,
a
real
Bed
of
Vipers
.
In
fine
,
the
main
purpose
he
drives
at
,
is
to
make
an
exact
Parallel
between
this
Age
and
that
of
40
&
41
,
&c.
And
that
he
may
so
do
,
you
must
allow
him
this
great
Fundamental
,
That
all
the
Sticklers
against
Popery
and
a
Popish
Successour
,
are
Fanaticks
;
and
that
all
Fanaticks
hate
both
the
King
and
Kingly
Government
,
and
are
tooth
&
nail
down-right
Republicans
.
Vpon
this
Basis
his
whole
Fabrick
stands
.
But
to
rectifie
his
Mistake
in
this
great
point
:
Have
not
four
Parliaments
successively
been
satisfied
in
the
truth
of
a
Popish
Plot
for
the
murder
of
the
King
,
and
subversion
of
the
Government
,
and
jealous
of
the
dangers
of
Popery
,
like
honest
Patriots
muster'd
all
their
strength
to
prevent
it
?
If
the
Plot
were
onely
a
Bugbear
,
how
comes
it
that
the
Wisdom
of
the
Nation
in
four
Parliaments
together
,
has
not
discover'd
the
Cheat
?
or
if
they
do
know
the
Cheat
and
act
themselves
the
Legerdemain
,
and
so
make
the
prosecution
of
the
Plot
but
a
Presbyterian
Artifice
to
inflame
a
Kingdom
,
in
order
to
playing
the
game
of
41
ore
again
,
as
his
impious
detractions
would
insinuate
,
I
would
ask
him
,
first
,
How
comes
it
to
pass
that
all
the
Plot-Evidence
have
all
along
so
constantly
adhered
to
their
Attestations
,
and
that
too
in
so
beggarly
and
starving
a
Cause
,
after
such
vast
and
tempting
Proffers
for
retracting
of
their
Evidence
;
and
vaster
Rewards
,
no
doubt
,
they
might
have
,
upon
the
discovery
of
such
a
Presbyterian
Cheat
,
if
it
were
one
,
not
onely
as
a
Ransom
for
so
many
Great
mens
lives
,
but
likewise
from
the
greatest
hands
of
the
Nation
that
would
desire
nothing
more
than
such
a
Discovery
?
Secondly
,
I
would
ask
him
how
it
came
about
that
the
first
of
these
four
Parliaments
grew
so
vehement
against
the
Plot
?
they
,
I
hope
,
he
'll
confess
were
a
Protestant
and
a
Church
of
England
Parliament
;
they
were
elected
Members
just
after
the
King's
Restoration
,
in
all
the
height
of
the
Extasie
of
England
,
when
Majesty
and
Monarchy
were
the
Peoples
Darlings
even
to
Idolatry
,
at
a
time
when
the
Horrours
of
the
Civil
Wars
were
fresh
in
their
memories
,
when
the
very
thought
of
Presbyterian
or
Independent
Commonwealths
,
with
Rumpers
and
Rumps
,
were
as
detestable
as
Hell
!
That
Parliament
,
I
hope
,
thus
chosen
and
thus
qualified
,
he
'll
allow
had
no
Presbyterian
Gall
in
their
Veins
,
and
no
Canker
of
41
,
being
the
very
men
that
on
the
contrary
made
the
Laws
against
all
Dissenters
,
and
in
all
their
Acts
throughout
maintain'd
the
Dignity
and
Glory
of
the
present
Church
of
England
;
and
yet
this
Parliament
,
as
little
Presbyterian
as
it
was
,
gave
the
first
stroke
against
the
Plot
;
as
I
remember
,
't
was
they
that
discovered
those
swarms
of
Papists
that
had
infested
the
King's
Guards
,
and
his
Court
it self
,
and
crept
into
almost
all
Offices
of
Trust
,
and
by
whom
planted
,
I
need
not
tell
him
:
And
as
I
remember
,
those
were
the
very
men
that
created
the
Test
,
and
made
the
Reception
of
the
Protestant
Sacrament
,
and
the
Renunciation
of
the
Idolatries
of
Rome
,
an
Introduction
to
all
Employments
,
on
purpose
to
sweep
out
those
Locusts
:
Nay
,
those
were
the
very
men
that
removed
our
Popish
Heir
presumptive
from
his
Admiralty
,
and
all
other
his
Preferments
;
and
no
doubt
had
they
continued
still
,
would
have
very
little
varied
from
the
true
and
honourable
English
Genius
of
the
last
:
So
that
without
shamming
this
inveteracy
onely
upon
Dissenters
,
there
has
been
a
Protestant
People
,
a
Protestant
House
of
Commons
,
and
Protestant
Lords
,
(
Protestant
Lord
Bishops
onely
excepted
)
that
have
struggled
both
against
Popery
and
a
Popish
Succession
.
So
that
upon
Mr.
L'Estrange's
Argument
that
the
present
Dangers
of
England
lie
onely
in
a
Republican
Conspiracy
,
and
that
the
present
state
of
80
and
81
,
is
but
a
kind
of
transmigration
of
the
Spirit
of
41
and
42
,
in
order
to
the
revival
of
the
old
Game
of
48
;
it
is
not
onely
the
Dissenters
but
the
Protestants
are
in
the
Confederacy
;
and
so
the
whole
Nation
is
in
a
Spirit
of
Rebellion
,
(
the
innocent
Papists
onely
excepted
:
)
that
is
,
There
's
a
Plot
lies
at
every
door
but
the
right
.
However
,
the
Pamphleteers
of
this
Age
will
not
be
so
satisfied
:
for
't
is
the
great
Maxime
they
all
lay
down
,
Every
man
that
is
for
excluding
a
Popish
Successour
is
a
Fanatick
,
and
every
Fanatick
(
as
I
told
you
)
a
Republican
.
But
to
convince
'em
,
if
they
are
not
incorrigible
,
that
't
is
not
onely
a
Fanatical
Exclusion
,
What
if
I
pickt
out
even
of
the
very
protesting
Lords
themselves
,
several
of
them
of
famous
and
exemplary
Loyalty
,
so
far
from
the
possibility
either
of
Fanaticks
or
Republicans
,
that
they
have
been
Caviliers
and
Loyalists
through
all
our
late
Troubles
;
one
or
two
of
them
that
have
been
Generals
in
the
King's
service
;
a
third
,
whose
Father
lost
his
head
for
him
;
a
fourth
,
that
for
asserting
the
King
's
Right
in
the
Field
,
had
no
other
Reprieve
from
a
Gallows
but
his
Majesties
Return
;
a
fifth
,
that
beside
the
constant
sums
sent
over
to
the
King
in
his
Exile
,
after
a
total
sequestration
of
his
Estate
,
pawn'd
even
his
last
Stake
,
his
Plate
,
to
serve
him
;
with
several
other
Sufferings
that
many
others
of
'em
underwent
:
And
yet
the
Scriblers
of
these
times
shall
tell
you
there
's
never
a
Mothers
son
of
them
all
that
loves
either
the
King
or
the
Government
,
but
is
a
rank
Fanatick
;
for
the
very
thought
of
an
Exclusion
turns
ipso
momento
Fanaticism
.
So
that
it
will
be
worth
a
mans
while
to
give
the
world
the
true
definition
of
a
Fanatick
,
and
a
full
interpretation
of
the
word
.
Formerly
in
old
times
,
a
Fanatick
so
called
,
signified
an
Enthusiastick
in
Religion
,
one
that
pretended
to
Inspiration
and
new
Light
,
or
had
a
picque
against
a
Liturgie
or
Surplice
,
or
the
like
:
But
a
Fanatick
of
79
and
80
,
is
quite
another
thing
,
and
the
word
of
a
quite
different
signification
;
for
now
,
He
that
values
the
safety
of
himself
and
his
Posterity
,
he
that
thinks
he
has
an
Estate
and
Liberty
worth
preserving
,
a
Country
worth
saving
,
a
Religion
worth
defending
,
and
indeed
a
God
worth
serving
,
is
a
FANATICK
.
But
't
will
not
be
amiss
to
instance
the
validity
of
some
of
those
Comparisons
he
makes
between
the
present
Iealousies
and
those
of
the
late
times
.
Mr.
L'Estrange
,
p.
21.
says
Earle
before
the
Commons
,
Nov.
5.
1644.
Saul's
Sons
are
not
spared
,
no
nor
may
Agag
or
Benhadad
,
though
themselves
Kings
:
Zimri
and
Cosbi
,
though
Princes
of
the
people
,
must
be
pursued
into
their
Tents
.
This
is
the
way
to
consecrate
your selves
to
God.
Vpon
which
he
remarks
,
And
what
was
the
ground
of
all
this
Fierceness
,
but
a
Popish
King
,
though
the
glory
of
the
Reformation
,
for
want
of
a
Popish
Successour
?
So
that
here
lies
the
Analogie
betwixt
our
Fears
and
theirs
.
Then
the
groundless
Fierceness
lay
against
a
pretended
imaginary
Popish
King
,
though
in
truth
the
Glory
of
the
Reformation
;
and
now
the
fierceness
lies
against
a
real
Popish
Subject
,
that
may
be
our
King
,
the
very
Infamy
of
all
Apostacy
,
when
degenerated
to
such
principles
,
and
yet
born
of
such
a
Father
.
And
afterwards
in
the
same
page
,
he
says
,
Mr.
L'E
.
This
is
enough
to
convince
the
world
that
the
very
sound
of
Popery
will
do
the
business
as
well
without
a
ground
as
with
it
;
and
whoever
goes
to
alarm
the
people
upon
this
desperate
point
,
had
need
give
good
security
for
his
Allegiance
.
And
what
's
all
this
,
but
to
tell
us
,
because
a
Bugbear
frighted
us
once
,
therefore
a
real
Fiend
must
not
fright
us
now
?
So
that
his
whole
Discourse
can
be
reduced
to
no
other
heads
but
these
.
First
.
It
makes
the
most
uncharitable
inferences
that
't
is
possible
for
Malice
or
Ill-nature
to
invent
.
Because
a
Judas
once
kiss'd
and
betray'd
,
and
a
Joab
embraced
and
stab'd
,
therefore
no
man
must
ever
kiss
or
embrace
without
a
treacherous
and
murderous
intention
.
The
hatching
of
the
old
Republican
Conspiracy
under
the
fictitious
fears
of
approaching
Popery
,
must
now
make
the
just
fears
of
the
true
danger
of
Popery
equally
guilty
of
the
same
Treason
and
Combination
.
Secondly
,
He
cuts
off
the
whole
Right
and
Liberty
of
the
Subject
at
one
blow
.
Because
a
knot
of
Achitophels
once
pretended
Grievances
where
none
was
,
to
accomplish
their
own
wicked
purposes
;
therefore
no
Subject
shall
or
may
petition
or
vote
,
though
in
a
legal
Parliamentary
way
,
for
the
redress
of
the
greatest
Grievance
in
Nature
,
and
that
in
the
plainest
and
most
imminent
Exigence
of
a
Nation
;
but
must
be
forced
silently
to
sit
down
by
his
hard
Fate
,
and
be
debarred
the
priviledge
of
Laws
,
nay
even
of
his
very
Prayers
for
his
Deliverance
.
Now
is
it
not
a
little
hard
,
that
after
the
goodness
of
our
most
gracious
Soveraign
that
has
made
An
Act
of
Oblivion
,
Mr.
L'Estrange's
Vengeance
alone
should
be
implacable
,
and
set
the
Childrens
teeth
an
edge
for
the
sour
Grapes
their
Grandfathers
eat
so
long
ago
,
by
entailing
a
Curse
upon
their
Posterity
in
secula
seculorum
?
But
how
ridiculous
and
how
false
soever
were
the
fears
of
Popery
in
the
last
Age
,
how
treacherous
the
Serpent
that
lurkt
under
those
fair
but
false
pretences
,
and
how
fatal
soever
the
sting
that
attended
it
,
yet
our
endeavours
sure
may
beboth
legal
and
honest
,
against
the
plain
and
visible
dangers
of
Popery
under
the
threatning
influence
of
a
Popish
Heir
;
manifested
such
a
one
,
not
onely
by
the
long
and
indefatigable
Machinations
of
Hell
in
his
behalf
,
the
most
horrid
Iesuitish
Confederacy
against
the
life
of
a
Protestant
King
,
a
Protestant
Church
and
Government
,
animated
and
founded
on
their
Assurance
of
establishing
their
own
infernal
Reign
under
the
umbrage
of
his
Scepter
,
a
scepter
design'd
to
be
made
out
of
that
consecrated
Ponyards
hilt
reserved
to
cut
a
passage
for
him
to
a
Throne
through
the
heart
of
a
Protestant
Majesty
,
a
Scepter
that
both
like
Moses
and
Aaron's
Rod
,
at
once
should
bud
and
blossom
for
the
Glory
of
Rome
,
but
turn
a
devouring
Snake
for
the
Heretick
Confusion
and
Destruction
;
manifested
such
a
one
,
I
say
,
not
onely
from
all
this
apparent
Testimony
,
but
even
by
a
yet
stronger
demonstration
,
those
printed
recorded
Pacquets
of
Letters
which
as
littora
scripta
manet
,
flie
in
the
face
of
all
Dispute
,
and
stop
the
very
mouth
of
Flattery
,
Equivocation
,
and
Artisice
,
by
plainly
exposing
to
all
Eyes
and
all
Vnderstandings
a
private
Intrigue
and
Correspondence
between
the
Heir
of
a
Protestant
Kingdom
,
and
the
Pope
,
the
most
implacable
Enemy
both
of
Protestant
Kings
and
Kingdoms
;
a
Correspondence
too
subtly
disguis'd
in
MYSTERIES
and
CHARACTERS
,
that
usual
Hocus
pocus-Language
where
the
World
has
so
often
been
the
Cully
,
whilst
Treachery
play'd
the
Iuggler
:
So
that
to
match
the
present
Genius
of
England
with
that
of
41
and
42
,
as
all
the
scribling
canting
Favourers
of
Popery
would
impudently
sham
upon
the
world
,
is
to
make
even
North
and
South
meet
together
,
to
unite
the
most
opposite
Contradictions
in
Nature
,
to
make
a
Plot
and
no
Plot
,
shadows
and
substances
,
truth
and
falshood
,
dangers
and
no
dangers
,
Protestants
and
no
Protestants
,
nay
Patriots
and
Traytors
the
very
same
thing
,
the
designe
of
that
Age
being
to
reduce
us
to
Slavery
,
and
this
to
free
us
from
it
.
But
suppose
(
as
they
say
)
there
were
some
turbulent
malecontented
Spirits
in
the
Nation
of
Commonwealth
principles
,
and
that
they
herded
amongst
the
honest
and
worthy
Opposers
of
Popery
,
resolving
to
play
the
Spider
and
extract
poyson
from
the
same
Flower
from
which
the
Bee
sucks
Honey
.
Let
us
but
consider
two
things
,
and
then
we
shall
find
how
impossible
't
is
for
them
to
attain
their
desires
,
and
perfect
so
extravagant
a
projection
.
1.
The
Grievance
of
the
Nation
is
a
Popish
Successour
;
and
that
Grievance
once
removed
by
a
Bill
of
Exclusion
,
we
countermine
all
the
Arts
and
Subtilties
of
Rome
,
that
have
or
can
be
form'd
against
us
,
and
raise
an
impregnable
Bulwark
against
all
our
Enemies
on
that
side
,
and
at
the
same
time
they
will
not
onely
supply
the
King
with
money
,
which
is
one
of
the
strongest
Nerves
of
power
,
but
also
it
will
undoubtedly
restore
him
the
intire
Affections
of
all
or
most
of
the
Commonalty
of
England
which
have
or
can
be
alienated
,
or
estranged
by
his
unhappy
and
too
vigorous
defence
of
a
Successour
so
universally
odious
:
so
that
these
Republican
Matchivilians
joyn
in
the
very
project
that
destroys
them
;
for
by
this
means
what
the
Monarch
wins
,
the
Republican
loses
.
2.
'T
is
an
undeniable
Truth
,
that
the
whole
Populace
in
general
abhor
such
a
thought
,
and
the
Miseries
of
the
late
Civil
Wars
are
too
lively
in
their
memories
,
for
them
ever
to
be
wrought
up
again
into
the
same
Frenzy
.
Though
the
deluded
Multitude
were
then
put
out
of
love
with
Kings
,
they
found
too
soon
by
woful
Experience
,
that
the
Protectorate
was
ten
times
worse
,
and
whatever
prejudice
they
had
conceived
against
the
old
unhappy
King
,
yet
the
grievous
Oppressions
,
Taxes
,
and
standing
Armies
under
Gromwel
,
quickly
open'd
their
Eyes
,
and
to
their
own
sad
cost
,
assured
them
they
had
not
mended
but
marred
their
condition
by
rebelling
:
And
that
Oliver's
policy
in
deposing
a
King
to
establish
a
Protector
,
was
but
an
old
Roman
Iuggle
revived
;
when
as
History
tells
us
,
after
the
Romans
had
been
weary
of
Kings
,
as
a
power
too
Arbitrary
for
them
,
they
were
cunningly
drawn
in
to
a
subjection
to
that
of
Imperator
,
which
was
ten
times
more
Tyrannick
of
the
two
,
and
shelter'd
the
Cruelties
of
the
worst
of
Monsters
,
a
Nero
and
a
Caligula
:
So
that
in
our
circumstances
,
't
is
almost
impossible
that
English
men
should
be
twice
gull'd
with
the
same
Cheat
,
or
their
Swords
be
ever
drawn
in
our
old
unnatural
Broyls
;
but
if
ever
that
day
shall
come
that
they
are
drawn
again
,
it
must
be
onely
then
when
a
Popish
Successour's
possessing
the
Throne
shall
represent
to
them
a
more
terrible
Scene
of
Misery
than
a
Civil
War
can
bring
:
so
that
if
ever
they
are
inflamed
into
that
desperation
,
it
must
be
when
they
shall
run
headlong
into
a
less
Charybis
to
avoid
a
greater
Scylla
.
But
whether
one
be
greater
or
less
than
t'other
,
or
they
but
think
it
so
,
yet
this
is
most
certain
,
Popery
and
Rebellion
are
both
those
dangerous
Gulphs
that
will
either
of
them
swallow
up
the
peace
of
England
.
And
as
't
is
unanswerably
true
,
that
the
glory
of
God
,
the
defence
of
our
Lives
and
Liberties
,
and
the
support
of
our
present
Monarchy
of
England
,
are
onely
to
be
upheld
by
a
Protestant
Interest
,
and
that
Interest
is
never
to
be
effectually
secured
but
by
a
Popish
Exclusion
:
So
that
Exclusion
likewise
at
the
same
time
puts
an
end
to
all
our
dangers
on
the
other
side
,
viz.
to
all
thoughts
or
possibility
of
a
Rebellion
.
But
to
give
a
truer
account
of
the
present
State
of
England
than
Mr.
L'Estrange
has
done
in
affinity
to
41
,
I
will
confess
this
present
Age
has
derived
one
thing
from
41
and
42
,
and
that
is
a
Curse
they
left
behind
'em
,
the
Curse
of
the
Shepherds
Boy
in
the
Fable
;
our
crying
out
so
often
formerly
,
Help
,
Master
,
help
,
the
Wolf
's
in
the
Shepfold
,
when
he
was
not
there
,
has
made
us
disbelieved
at
last
now
he
is
there
;
and
like
him
too
,
be
left
most
helpless
when
we
most
want
it
.
Postscript
.
THE
Author
of
The
Character
of
a
Popish
Successour
was
so
far
from
priding
himself
upon
that
Piece
,
that
his
greatest
Ambition
in
writing
it
,
was
the
serving
his
Country
;
and
he
's
very
well
pleased
to
see
so
many
Scions
since
sprung
from
that
Root
.
But
one
particular
Acknowledgment
he
is
bound
to
make
for
the
unexpected
Favours
it
has
received
,
that
the
Authorship
of
a
Book
that
has
no
other
Merit
than
the
Truths
it
relates
should
be
so
esteemed
,
that
coming
Fatherless
into
the
World
,
it
has
since
had
the
honour
of
so
many
kinde
Friends
,
that
like
the
Rival
Cities
of
old
for
the
Birth
of
Homer
,
have
given
it
their
Adoption
.
THE
CHARACTER
OF
A
Popish
Successour
COMPLEAT
.
THE
first
Allegation
Mr.
L'Estrange
makes
against
the
Characterizer's
Reasonings
is
,
That
his
Master-piece
is
a
Paradox
,
by
the
supposal
of
a
most
excellent
person
,
and
yet
making
him
the
greater
Devil
for
his
Vertues
;
and
so
he
sums
up
the
Characterizer's
opinion
in
short
thus
:
Ch.
His
Fortitude
(
says
he
)
makes
him
the
more
daring
in
the
Cause
of
Rome
;
his
Iustice
makes
it
a
point
of
Conscience
to
deliver
us
up
to
the
Pope
;
his
Temperance
in
the
government
of
his
Passions
,
makes
him
more
close
and
steady
;
and
his
Prudence
crowns
the
work
by
the
assistance
it
gives
him
in
the
management
of
his
Policies
and
Conduct
;
and
so
he
goes
on
.
What
boots
it
in
a
Popish
Heir
to
say
,
he
's
the
truest
Friend
,
the
greatest
of
Hero's
,
the
best
of
Masters
,
the
justest
Judge
,
and
the
honestest
of
Men
?
All
meer
treacherous
Quick-sands
for
a
People
to
repose
the
least
glimps
of
Safety
in
,
or
build
the
least
Hopes
upon
.
Thus
much
the
Character
.
To
which
he
answers
,
This
is
fairly
push'd
,
I
must
consess
;
but
't
is
onely
a
Cast
of
his
Rhetorick
:
for
every
body
knows
that
all
Christian
Princes
thus
qualified
,
and
under
Articles
of
Treaty
and
Agreement
,
keep
touch
even
with
Infidels
,
nay
,
and
Infidels
with
Christians
.
This
is
all
he
has
in
his
whole
Pamphlet
in
answer
to
this
part
of
the
Character
:
for
he
thinks
he
has
made
the
Characterizer's
whole
Argument
so
plain
a
contradiction
in
its
self
,
that
he
needs
no
other
Brand
than
his
own
words
,
to
stigmatize
him
;
and
the
very
repetition
of
a
Supposition
so
monstrous
,
is
its
own
confutation
.
But
this
on
our
Answerers
part
is
not
so
fairly
push'd
:
for
thus
far
here
's
neither
Rhetorick
nor
Reason
.
For
what
Relation
can
Christian
Princes
keeping
touch
with
Infidels
,
and
Infidels
with
Christians
,
upon
Articles
of
Treaty
and
Agreement
,
have
to
a
Popish
Successour's
Tyranny
and
Injustice
over
his
own
Subjects
?
Does
it
follow
,
Because
the
French
King
upon
Articles
of
Treaty
and
Agreement
,
has
kept
touch
with
the
Swede
,
though
the
most
inveterate
Enemy
of
the
Popish
Religion
perhaps
of
any
Protestant
Prince
in
Christendom
,
and
consequently
the
most
opposite
to
his
own
perswasion
,
that
therefore
he
has
not
overleap'd
all
the
due
and
lawful
bounds
of
the
French
Government
,
and
tyrannically
enslaved
his
People
;
nay
,
contrary
to
the
solemn
Covenant
at
Nants
in
behalf
of
the
Hugonots
,
most
inhumanely
persecuted
the
poor
Protestants
?
What
if
a
Christian
Prince
keeps
his
Articles
with
Turks
or
Infidels
,
nay
Villains
and
Robbers
,
the
Pyrates
of
Argiers
or
Sally
?
Nay
,
what
if
Q.
Mary
her self
had
done
as
much
,
must
it
therefore
follow
that
she
would
not
break
her
Vows
and
Protestations
with
the
Norfolk
and
Suffolk-inhabitants
,
and
burn
the
very
men
that
mounted
her
into
her
Throne
,
when
animated
by
the
Withcrafts
of
Rome
?
But
that
the
Fidelity
betwixt
Prince
and
Prince
may
more
plainly
appear
to
hold
no
proportion
or
affinity
with
that
betwixt
Prince
and
People
;
or
foreign
Articles
either
for
the
enlargement
or
security
of
Empire
,
the
promotion
of
Trade
,
or
any
other
State-interest
,
with
a
Church-government
or
Church-persecution
at
home
,
we
shall
give
this
undeniable
Reason
.
A
King
for
breach
of
Faith
with
his
People
,
esteems
himself
onely
accountable
to
God
;
but
for
breach
of
Faith
with
Foreign
Princes
,
either
Christian
or
Infidels
,
he
is
accountable
to
Man
,
and
may
draw
down
a
just
War
upon
his
head
for
such
a
Violation
;
nay
,
perhaps
wholly
dispossess
himself
of
the
hopes
of
Foreign
Assistance
for
the
future
in
his
greatest
dangers
and
exigences
,
occasion'd
by
the
stain
such
Infidelity
may
lay
upon
him
,
when
his
more
venial
breach
of
Vows
at
home
,
shall
be
no
blot
in
his
Scutcheon
.
And
whereas
here
he
's
onely
answerable
to
God
,
what
if
his
Priests
,
as
in
Queen
Mary's
Case
,
impose
so
far
upon
his
blinded
Zeal
till
they
make
him
believe
that
the
performance
of
Protestations
in
cases
derogatory
to
the
glory
of
Heaven
,
and
against
the
propagation
of
Christianity
,
shall
be
more
answerable
to
God
than
the
breaking
of
them
?
But
Mr.
L'Estrange
resolves
to
play
the
State-Sophister
,
and
gives
us
this
tryal
of
his
strength
in
his
very
first
page
,
to
let
us
know
how
great
a
Casuist
and
how
potent
an
Antagonist
we
must
expect
to
find
him
.
But
here
the
other
Answerer
is
a
little
more
prolix
upon
this
subject
,
and
tells
the
Characterizer
,
That
in
a
Roman
Catholick
he
makes
Virtues
themselves
turn
Vices
,
and
equals
if
not
outgoes
Transubstantiation
it self
.
And
to
justifie
the
four
Cardinal
Virtues
from
the
Characterizer's
making
them
an
Instrument
of
our
Destruction
,
he
assignes
'em
a
quite
contrary
operation
in
a
Popish
Successour
than
that
in
the
Character
,
viz.
If
he
has
Fortitude
,
which
is
a
Vertue
equally
distant
from
Temerity
and
Rashness
,
as
from
Fear
and
Cowardize
,
it
will
with-hold
him
from
attempting
things
impossible
;
as
setting
up
Arbitrary
Power
,
or
introducing
Popery
.
If
he
be
a
man
of
Iustice
,
that
should
give
us
the
greater
assurance
that
his
Courage
shall
be
no
otherwise
exercised
than
for
our
Safety
and
Honour
,
to
whom
all
his
endeavours
by
all
the
Laws
both
Humane
and
Divine
are
due
,
and
to
which
he
shall
be
by
Oath
obliged
.
But
here
by
the
way
,
I
could
have
wish'd
our
Author
had
left
out
the
word
[
Divine
;
]
for
those
hearty
endeavours
the
Divine
Laws
of
a
Popish
Successour
will
instruct
him
to
exercise
for
the
Safety
and
Honour
of
a
Heretick
Nation
and
Heretick
Religion
,
we
are
better
inform'd
of
.
But
to
proceed
,
If
he
's
a
Master
of
Temperance
,
what
is
that
but
a
Bridle
upon
all
his
Excesses
,
a
perpetual
Bosom-Monitor
that
will
with-hold
his
Arm
and
allay
his
Heat
,
and
curb
all
the
motions
of
Cruelty
and
Revenge
?
And
lastly
,
if
he
has
Prudence
,
that
will
teach
him
not
to
exasperate
a
People
of
so
stiff
a
Neck
,
nor
lose
the
hearts
of
his
Subjects
for
their
difference
of
opinion
,
and
thereby
peradventure
endanger
the
loss
of
his
Crown
,
&c.
Now
this
Author
I
confess
has
push'd
a
little
fairer
than
t'other
;
for
he
has
given
us
an
Argument
that
looks
like
Sence
,
though
it
be
none
:
for
what
's
all
this
to
the
conduct
of
an
inflexible
Papist
?
The
Characterizer
tells
us
,
that
in
a
Bigotted
Prince
,
his
Morals
shall
be
Slaves
to
his
Zeal
;
and
accordingly
instances
how
far
they
shall
be
instrumental
to
the
Protestant
subversion
and
destruction
:
But
here
the
Answerer
artfully
leaves
out
the
main
point
,
and
tells
us
what
a
meer
moral
man
would
do
,
in
case
of
succeeding
to
the
Crown
of
England
.
He
mounts
the
poor
Postilion
into
the
Saddle
,
and
tells
us
how
his
meer
Morality
would
drive
;
but
takes
no
notice
of
that
Lordly
Charioteer
,
Religion
,
that
holds
the
Reins
above
him
,
whose
nod
he
obeys
,
and
at
whose
absolute
command
he
turns
either
to
the
right
or
the
left
.
So
that
as
this
Answerer
has
stated
the
case
,
I
am
thus
far
of
his
mind
,
That
had
we
an
Heir
apparent
of
no
more
Religion
than
a
Iulian
or
a
Nero
,
and
yet
at
the
same
time
were
compleatly
Master
of
the
moral
Virtues
,
possibly
he
might
steer
as
he
proposes
:
but
let
him
recollect
himself
,
and
put
Popery
and
Morals
together
,
and
then
he
'll
find
his
mistake
.
For
my
part
,
I
am
asham'd
that
any
men
that
pretend
to
write
Sence
,
should
endeavour
to
perswade
us
that
a
Popish
Bigot
,
and
a
man
of
courage
and
wisdom
in
a
Successour
,
should
not
go
farther
towards
the
establishing
of
Popery
,
than
a
Coward
and
a
Fool
;
so
that
not
onely
his
Morals
,
but
every
other
natural
Gift
or
Perfection
,
shall
be
particularly
assistant
to
the
Ruine
both
of
Protestant
Religion
and
Liberty
.
But
because
Example
is
more
powerful
than
Precept
,
I
'll
give
you
a
taste
of
the
Popish
Morals
in
a
very
remarkable
Story
.
Soon
after
the
selling
of
Dunkirk
,
from
which
time
the
poor
Protestants
in
France
date
the
AEra
of
their
Calamities
,
it
being
about
that
time
that
the
French
King
began
to
disturb
their
Peace
,
infringe
their
Liberties
,
and
demolish
their
Churches
,
contrary
to
all
the
sacred
Bonds
of
the
solemn
Engagement
at
Nants
;
the
distress'd
Hugonots
groaning
beneath
a
greater
load
of
Misery
than
any
of
the
rest
of
the
French
Subjects
,
their
fellow-slaves
,
under
the
persecution
of
his
new
Ashtaroth
Arbitrary
power
,
thought
fit
privately
to
implore
the
intercession
of
a
powerful
Neighbour
,
a
Protestant
Monarch
,
to
mediate
in
their
behalf
in
mitigation
of
the
French
King
's
unchristian-like
severity
;
and
accordingly
chose
a
very
honest
and
wise
man
,
by
name
Rohux
,
an
Inhabitant
of
Nisme
in
Languedock
,
for
this
secret
Embassie
,
as
being
a
person
formerly
very
fortunate
in
England
before
on
the
like
occasion
,
having
obtain'd
a
lucky
Favour
from
Cromwel
in
reconciliation
of
a
difference
betwixt
the
French
Protestants
and
Cardinal
Mazarine
.
This
Rohux
thus
commission'd
,
the
approach
to
Majesty
being
difficult
,
to
make
his
Access
more
easie
,
applies
himself
first
to
a
visibly
Protestant
Heir
apparent
,
hoping
to
strengthen
the
power
of
his
own
Supplications
by
the
introduction
and
countenance
of
so
great
and
so
princely
an
Advocate
.
This
Royal
Heir
or
Masquerader
,
or
by
what
other
Title
disguis'd
or
distinguish'd
,
with
a
seeming-cordial
Friendship
embraces
the
poor
Hugonots
Cause
,
and
day
after
day
receives
his
Address
with
many
solemn
but
airy
promises
of
speedy
Assistance
;
but
in
the
mean
time
,
disgusted
and
gall'd
to
the
Soul
at
so
audacious
and
impious
a
Petition
as
the
Protestant
preservation
,
and
abhorring
so
detestable
an
Employment
,
nay
,
the
very
name
of
the
Hereticks
Defender
,
instead
of
his
promis'd
Aid
,
he
on
the
contrary
most
cunningly
laid
the
Platform
of
a
Revenge
as
exquisite
as
so
heinous
a
Petition
deserv'd
.
Immediately
he
goes
to
the
French
Embassadour
,
and
tells
him
how
one
of
the
French
Subjects
had
very
arrogantly
and
scandalously
calumniated
his
great
Master
with
obprobrious
names
of
Tyranny
,
Oppression
,
and
breach
of
Faith
;
into
which
very
Language
he
himself
before
had
exasperated
him
,
on
purpose
to
make
his
Ruine
secure
,
which
the
bare
accusation
of
a
Suit
in
behalf
of
his
Religion
,
would
not
alone
have
effected
.
The
Embassadour
,
as
bound
in
duty
,
for
the
vindication
of
his
King's
Honour
,
desires
a
farther
testimony
of
the
Offence
and
Offender
:
Which
the
Royal
Informer
effectually
gives
him
,
by
appointing
another
Conference
with
Rohux
;
where
privately
he
plants
this
Kingly
Representative
as
an
Honourable
Evesdropper
,
to
over-hear
a
Repetition
of
the
whole
Discourse
,
and
confirm
his
Belief
from
his
own
Ears
.
Now
some
people
would
start
an
Objection
,
and
say
,
That
this
humble
Office
and
low-spirited
Snare
against
the
life
of
a
poor
wretch
,
might
derogate
from
the
Glory
of
two
such
Illustrious
Personages
;
the
one
for
the
greatness
of
his
Employment
,
and
the
other
the
greatness
of
his
Birth
.
But
to
remove
their
mistake
,
I
assure
'em
there
is
not
that
Deed
so
abject
,
when
acted
for
the
Cause
of
Rome
,
that
cannot
be
transform'd
into
Princely
and
Heroick
,
by
the
stupendious
power
of
that
infallible
Church
,
where
even
Daggers
and
Ponyards
admit
of
Consecration
.
But
to
return
to
our
History
.
This
Conference
contrived
and
managed
as
heart
could
with
,
the
Embassadour
posts
over
this
Rohux
Treachery
to
France
,
whilst
he
,
poor
unsuspecting
Innocence
,
continues
his
dayly
Prayers
to
his
Great
Advocate
.
But
finding
in
time
so
many
delatory
Demurs
,
he
luckily
at
last
discovers
he
is
betray'd
:
Upon
which
,
dreading
the
Vengeance
of
the
French
King
,
not
daring
to
return
to
France
,
he
steals
away
into
Switzerland
for
his
protection
;
but
the
French
King
being
advertised
of
his
Motions
,
gets
him
trepan'd
by
an
Ambsuscade
in
the
night
,
and
being
by
surprize
forced
out
from
thence
into
France
,
he
is
broken
upon
the
Wheel
.
Now
who
so
blind
as
cannot
but
plainly
see
that
each
particular
Cardinal
Virtue
in
this
Illustrious
Heroe
,
were
most
signally
exercised
in
this
Triumphant
Encounter
?
First
,
here
was
Courage
even
to
admiration
;
he
play'd
the
Romish
Champion
young
,
and
early
flush'd
himself
in
Heretick
Bloud
,
whilst
like
a
second
Alcides
,
who
strangled
Snakes
even
in
his
Cradle
,
he
most
victoriously
tore
up
that
Heart
by
the
roots
whose
Tongue
durst
but
hiss
against
the
Papal
Dignity
,
as
the
first
bold
Prologue
of
his
more
undaunted
Atchievements
,
and
more
dazling
Glories
yet
to
come
.
Then
here
was
Iustice
to
the
height
;
an
impudent
French
Villain
as
he
was
,
to
cross
the
Seas
on
so
infamous
a
Commission
as
the
Rebuilding
of
the
Hugonot-Temples
,
those
Altars
of
Baal
,
which
the
God-like
hand
of
France
had
so
justly
laid
in
Ruine
?
an
Impiety
so
hainous
as
forfeited
both
Life
and
Soul
,
and
deserved
the
severest
Rods
and
Axes
of
Justice
:
He
deserv'd
'em
,
and
he
had
'
em
.
Then
here
was
Temperance
even
to
astonishment
;
here
was
no
launching
into
Passion
,
no
Thunder
in
his
Tongue
,
nor
Basilisks
in
his
Eyes
,
at
the
surprize
of
so
execrable
a
Petition
as
the
imploring
his
Intercession
for
the
loath'd
Hereticks
Deliverance
:
Alas
,
no
,
his
Temperance
,
like
a
Bosom-Monster
(
as
our
Author
has
it
)
bridled
all
those
Excesses
,
and
treated
this
notorious
Suppliant
with
those
hearty
professions
of
kindness
,
and
promis'd
services
,
till
he
betray'd
his
bones
to
the
Wheel
,
with
a
Conduct
and
Aspect
so
moderate
and
so
serene
,
as
the
old
Romans
lead
their
Victims
with
Flowers
and
Garlands
to
their
Execution
.
Then
here
was
Prudence
beyond
example
;
first
,
in
inflaming
the
poor
French-man
into
declamations
and
detractions
against
the
Majesty
of
France
,
thereby
to
manage
his
Tragedy
more
artfully
,
by
making
him
receive
the
Blow
from
the
hands
of
the
Temporal
not
Ecclesiastical
Justice
,
as
dying
more
for
a
Traytor
than
a
Heretick
:
for
though
,
't
is
true
,
the
last
was
Crime
sufficient
,
yet
lest
the
ill-judging
world
might
mistake
,
and
not
think
so
,
he
was
wisely
noosed
into
one
Crime
,
to
pull
down
the
Vengeance
due
to
the
other
.
But
what
's
the
greatest
Prudence
of
all
yet
,
this
politick
Heroe
all
this
while
was
a
visible
Member
of
the
Protestant
Church
,
knelt
at
our
Altars
,
joyn'd
in
our
Prayers
,
and
shared
in
our
Sacrament
and
Communion
.
But
one
thing
I
had
almost
forgotten
;
the
unknown
Answerer
,
to
prepare
us
for
the
more
firm
security
that
a
Popish
Successour's
Cardinal
Virtues
shall
keep
that
Honourable
and
indeed
Innocent
Path
that
he
has
traced
out
for
him
,
he
makes
a
very
long
Harangue
in
praise
of
his
adored
Mecoenas
.
First
,
for
his
Courage
,
That
his
Royal
Bloud
(
as
often
as
his
King
or
Countries
Honour
or
Safety
called
upon
him
)
was
ever
as
dangerously
and
as
freely
exposed
,
as
that
which
fills
the
veins
of
the
vilest
Plebeian
,
&c
,
And
why
not
?
since
it
is
no
such
wondrous
Novelty
for
even
crown'd
heads
themselves
personally
to
fight
their
own
Battels
:
I
cannot
think
it
any
great
condescention
in
a
Prince
(
at
that
time
not
altogether
so
visible
an
Heir
apparent
)
to
accept
of
the
Admiralty
of
an
English
Navy
;
an
Employment
,
where
the
Glory
of
it
does
more
than
reward
the
Hazard
.
So
that
as
I
take
it
,
his
own
Honour
as
well
as
his
Countries
,
call'd
upon
him
.
After
this
,
he
passes
to
another
branch
of
Princely
Endowments
,
viz.
That
his
Friendships
have
ever
been
as
firmly
maintain'd
,
as
they
were
judiciously
chosen
:
That
his
Mouth
and
his
Heart
have
always
been
so
true
to
one
another
,
that
his
Word
has
been
as
inviolate
as
the
Oaths
of
others
:
And
this
noble
Constancy
has
not
been
the
effect
so
much
of
his
Honour
as
his
Conscience
,
&c.
Without
all
doubt
:
Yet
I
have
heard
a
very
odde
Story
of
one
Mr.
Coleman
that
tipt
over
the
pearch
about
a
year
or
two
ago
.
I
fancy
I
could
draw
a
Picture
with
this
Label
in
his
mouth
,
There
is
no
Faith
in
Man
,
so
like
him
,
you
'd
scarce
know
one
from
t'other
:
Nay
,
poor
Iack
Catch
shall
cry
out
shame
of
all
such
usage
.
There
was
not
that
poorest
Rogue
of
all
the
Plot-Martyrs
,
that
had
not
two
or
three
Guinneys
at
least
at
his
service
,
to
bribe
him
to
use
a
gentle
hand
with
them
and
hang
'em
out
of
pain
,
before
he
made
minced
Meat
of
them
.
But
Coleman
was
so
trepan'd
into
Pluto's
Court
,
came
so
unprepared
for
the
Elysian-shades
,
that
he
that
had
been
Master
of
the
Purses
both
of
the
French
and
English
Monsieurs
too
,
when
he
came
to
cross
the
Stygian
Lake
,
had
not
so
much
as
one
poor
Obelus
to
pay
his
Ferriman's
Fare
.
Durum
est
post
omnia
perdere
naulum
.
And
methinks
this
was
a
little
unkindly
done
;
yet
upon
second
thoughts
,
possibly
it
might
be
contrived
for
his
good
.
Flesh
and
Bloud
is
frail
,
and
who
knows
but
he
might
have
had
humane
thoughts
about
him
,
and
so
have
fallen
from
the
holy
Cause
;
which
careful
Mother
Church
,
for
the
salvation
of
his
Soul
,
in
her
pious
and
Christian
wisdom
,
thought
fit
to
prevent
,
by
making
a
Saint
of
him
without
his
knowledge
:
And
alas
,
he
was
shrewdly
hurt
,
was
he
not
?
to
be
tript
up
into
Heaven
,
and
cheated
into
Immortality
.
But
here
I
cannot
omit
one
remarkable
Observation
of
Mr.
L'Estrange's
,
pag.
38.
speaking
of
this
Princes
former
services
to
his
Country
;
where
he
says
,
Mr.
L'E
.
I
find
some
people
of
opinion
,
that
this
King
in
Reversion
,
is
of
the
same
Perswasion
at
this
day
,
that
he
was
when
he
acquired
all
those
Glories
.
Now
if
there
be
such
a
sort
of
people
,
and
so
strong
a
Faith
in
the
world
,
I
would
willingly
be
instructed
what
They
,
or
Mr.
L'Estrange
for
them
,
mean
by
Perswasion
.
If
the
Popish
perswasion
,
then
they
justifie
the
severest
Reflections
in
the
whole
Character
,
and
lay
that
unprincely
and
unchristian
Disguise
at
his
door
of
kneeling
at
our
Altars
,
and
participating
of
our
Sacraments
with
all
the
meanest
and
basest
Hypocrisie
imaginable
;
little
less
than
dipping
in
the
Dish
,
and
drinking
of
the
Cup
,
and
kissing
where
he
betray'd
.
But
if
they
mean
the
Protestant
perswasion
,
of
which
Communion
he
then
visibly
was
▪
and
they
will
be
but
so
kind
as
to
prove
him
a
Protestant
still
,
I
assure
them
the
Author
shall
burn
his
Character
,
and
make
a
publick
Recantation
for
his
Mistake
;
but
at
the
same
time
they
must
give
him
leave
to
write
another
tentimes
bitterer
than
the
first
:
For
he
that
can
suppose
a
Prince
really
and
truly
a
Protestant
,
that
shall
for
so
many
years
together
withdraw
from
his
own
Communion
,
and
that
too
not
onely
so
manifestly
against
his
Interest
,
but
against
the
very
Dictates
of
his
Conscience
,
the
Duty
of
his
Religion
,
and
the
Glory
of
his
God
;
thereby
to
exasperate
and
embroil
a
whole
Nation
in
Distractions
,
to
inflame
and
widen
all
our
Divisions
,
and
in
short
,
to
put
out
both
his
own
Eyes
to
put
out
one
of
his
Brothers
;
and
all
this
for
just
nothing
,
except
a
meer
Humour
,
a
letchery
of
doing
Mischief
for
no
other
end
or
purpose
but
meer
Mischiefs
sake
,
is
a
character
of
that
unparallel'd
Ingratitude
,
and
indeed
all
that
's
ill
together
,
that
I
hope
Earth
nere
bore
,
nor
Hell
ere
punisht
:
for
I
should
be
sorry
to
think
it
possible
there
could
be
such
a
Creature
in
nature
;
neither
am
I
a
little
sorry
to
think
there
is
a
people
in
the
world
that
can
fancy
there
is
such
a
one
.
I
confess
,
the
withdrawing
from
our
Communion
upon
the
change
of
Opinions
,
may
admit
of
some
Apology
;
and
our
ill
circumstances
under
that
Change
,
are
not
altogether
so
wonderful
.
Now
after
this
Answerer
has
sum'd
up
all
his
matchless
Virtues
,
he
tells
you
in
short
,
How
improbable
a
thing
it
would
be
,
how
contradictory
to
Reason
and
common
Sence
,
that
the
difference
of
a
mans
opinion
about
some
few
disputable
matters
of
Faith
,
and
not
very
material
Ceremonies
of
Divine
Worship
,
should
on
a
sudden
efface
all
those
good
Characters
of
Magnanimity
and
Iustice
,
Generosity
and
Goodness
,
not
slightly
traced
,
but
deeply
engraved
in
his
Breast
.
Here
the
Reader
may
observe
what
a
good
Protestant
the
Author
is
,
and
how
prettily
he
states
the
little
disparity
betwixt
the
Protestant
and
Popish
Faith
,
differing
onely
in
some
few
disputable
matters
of
Faith
,
and
not
very
material
Ceremonies
of
Divine
Worship
.
As
for
example
:
The
Deifying
of
Wafers
,
the
Idolizing
of
Images
,
the
Invocation
of
Saints
,
and
making
the
Milk
of
a
Mary
almost
of
as
great
vertue
as
the
Bloud
of
a
Iesus
;
with
twenty
other
Trifles
and
inconsiderable
Ceremonies
.
For
my
part
,
I
would
not
be
he
that
at
Cadice
or
Salamanca
should
make
no
more
difference
betwixt
the
Divine
Worship
of
Holy
Church
and
that
of
Heretick
Dogs
,
for
fear
the
Lords
of
the
Inquisition
should
make
some
material
Ceremony
with
me
,
and
treat
me
with
a
Cauldron
of
scalding
Oyl
for
my
Entertainment
.
But
perhaps
our
Answerer
durst
say
twice
as
much
,
if
he
were
there
;
for
no
doubt
but
they
know
him
so
well
,
that
they
'd
pardon
his
Railery
,
and
take
it
for
but
a
copy
of
his
Countenance
.
But
whatever
our
Author's
Religion
is
,
his
Memory
is
none
of
the
best
;
for
within
three
leaves
after
this
,
he
quite
forgets
himself
,
and
unluckily
compares
the
difference
between
the
two
Religions
in
haec
Verba
.
This
Idolatrous
Superstition
has
been
so
long
worn
off
the
minds
of
the
People
,
and
the
Reformation
so
deeply
and
so
strongly
rooted
in
the
Reigns
of
four
most
religious
and
prudent
Princes
;
the
Church
of
England
so
firmly
establisht
,
and
that
as
much
by
the
purity
of
its
Doctrine
,
the
decency
of
its
Discipline
,
and
the
innocency
of
its
Principles
,
as
by
the
Authority
of
the
Publick
and
the
Laws
of
the
Land.
The
Romish
Church
so
detested
both
for
the
dangerous
Innovations
of
its
Doctrine
,
and
the
Idolatry
of
its
Ceremonies
;
and
so
odious
in
the
eyes
of
the
People
for
its
pernicious
Principles
express'd
in
the
villanous
practices
of
its
Professors
in
Massacres
and
Plots
,
&c.
But
our
Answerer's
Ingenuity
can
answer
all
this
,
and
tell
you
,
What
though
their
Ceremonies
are
so
idolatrous
,
their
Innovations
so
dangerous
,
their
Principles
so
pernicious
,
their
Plots
so
odious
,
their
Massacres
so
barbarous
,
and
their
Professors
so
villanous
?
yet
a
Popish
Heir
presumptive
professing
the
same
Superstition
,
shall
be
a
Lamb
,
a
Dove
,
a
Saint
amongst
us
upon
occasion
,
and
that
too
for
his
Reasons
above-said
:
For
as
he
told
you
before
,
he
is
a
person
of
Royal
Bloud
,
loves
his
Friend
,
is
a
man
of
Courage
,
and
a
Prince
,
and
has
been
an
Admiral
.
A
thundering
Demonstration
of
a
peaceable
Popish
Innocence
!
Three
more
such
unconfutable
Arguments
are
enough
to
convert
the
Turk
,
and
bring
in
the
Jews
.
But
now
from
these
infallible
Morals
in
our
Heir
presumptive
,
the
great
Bulwark
against
all
our
Fears
,
this
unknown
Author
concludes
both
our
Protestant
Religion
and
Laws
secure
under
him
;
that
the
present
Constitution
of
Government
,
and
the
present
Church
of
England
,
must
and
shall
,
in
spite
of
Fate
,
continue
unshaken
.
If
the
Popish
Priests
are
such
Incendiaries
(
says
he
)
and
our
most
potent
Enemies
,
have
we
not
Laws
against
them
?
and
then
why
are
we
in
such
fear
?
What
is
left
to
any
Monarch
that
succeeds
,
but
to
execute
the
Laws
be
finds
derived
down
to
him
to
maintain
and
preserve
together
with
his
Crown
and
Dignity
?
And
though
the
Characterizer
seems
to
be
in
so
much
dread
of
those
swarms
of
Roman
Emissaries
that
will
infest
us
under
the
connivance
and
indulgence
of
a
Popish
Successour
,
he
tells
you
he
is
quite
mistaken
;
The
Reign
of
a
Popish
King
will
be
so
far
from
advantageous
,
that
it
will
be
rather
destructive
to
all
those
Iesuitical
Instruments
;
and
that
it
shall
be
so
,
't
is
in
the
power
of
every
Subject
in
the
three
Kingdoms
to
be
a
defender
of
the
Protestant
Religion
,
if
it
want
it
;
there
being
no
Information
,
no
Conviction
of
Recusants
,
no
Administration
of
Tests
or
Oaths
,
that
shall
be
wanting
,
and
no
diligence
that
shall
be
spared
,
backt
by
the
Laws
of
the
Land
,
which
then
more
than
ever
will
be
wakened
against
them
,
which
can't
be
dispenc'd
withal
,
but
must
be
effectual
to
the
utter
ruine
of
the
whole
Party
.
Miracles
and
Prodiges
!
And
that
there
shall
be
nothing
wanting
on
the
Kings
part
to
do
all
this
,
this
worthy
Author
is
pleased
to
be
his
Guarrantee
,
assuring
us
in
his
Name
,
that
he
will
take
care
to
let
the
Laws
have
their
due
course
;
And
whatever
his
private
Opinion
may
be
,
whatever
tenderness
he
may
bear
to
the
persons
be
shall
punish
,
yet
he
shall
remember
his
Obligation
to
the
publick
,
so
far
as
to
give
'em
up
to
the
hands
of
Iustice
with
the
same
constancy
of
mind
,
with
the
same
applauses
of
present
and
commendation
of
all
succeeding
Ages
,
that
the
immortal
Brutus
delivered
up
his
darling
Sons
to
the
Rods
and
Axes
of
the
Lictours
,
&c.
I
,
here
's
a
stupendious
Character
of
a
Popish
Successour
indeed
!
What
Iö
Paeans
might
England
sing
,
if
Rome's
long
hope
,
their
Churches
Champion
and
Restorer
,
their
hopeful
Hercules
,
would
build
his
Columnes
and
write
his
Nil
plus
ultra
here
!
But
alas
,
we
are
deceived
,
his
Labours
are
to
come
;
there
's
a
pestilent
contagious
Northern
Heresie
to
be
rooted
out
;
that
many
headed
Beast
of
Errors
and
Schisms
,
that
like
Cerberus
and
Hydra
,
are
to
be
subdued
,
whilst
in
the
defence
of
Religion
and
the
Cause
of
God
,
he
's
to
play
a
second
Atlas
,
and
even
the
weight
of
Heaven
is
to
lie
on
his
shoulders
.
But
our
Oratorical
Scribler
has
promis'd
Wonders
in
a
Popish
Successours
Name
,
and
elegantly
pickt
out
a
most
excellent
Brutus
for
his
Comparison
.
I
remember
there
was
another
Roman
of
that
Name
,
though
not
of
that
Nature
,
whose
Story
is
equally
as
famous
and
as
pertinent
to
the
matter
in
hand
.
A
Brutus
the
Head
and
Leader
of
a
Conspiracy
against
the
life
of
the
great
Caesar
;
a
Brutus
that
joyn'd
his
heart
and
hand
with
the
Murderers
,
and
blended
his
Dagger
in
the
Assassination
amongst
the
thirty
mortal
wounds
that
stab'd
the
Majesty
of
the
World
;
a
Brutus
to
whom
the
dying
Monarch
with
an
Astonishment
more
surprizing
than
the
death
he
received
,
in
his
last
gasp
could
say
,
Et
tu
Brute
?
Is
my
Son
,
my
Friend
,
my
Darling
,
my
Delight
,
the
man
I
have
rais'd
,
loved
,
honour'd
,
cherisht
and
defended
,
is
Brutus
a
Traytor
?
But
to
bring
our
Author
to
his
right
wits
again
,
and
to
shew
him
how
unlikely
't
is
that
the
English
Rods
or
Axes
shall
ever
hurt
a
Son
of
Rome
under
a
Romish
Successour
.
If
the
Popish
or
Jesuitish
party
have
found
such
Mercy
under
the
Reigns
of
Protestant
Kings
,
but
shall
now
on
the
contrary
stand
the
inevitable
shock
of
Statutes
,
Jayls
,
and
Gibbets
,
under
a
Popish
King
,
the
Jesuits
have
plotted
fairly
.
If
the
Pope
and
his
Conclave
have
no
deeper
politicks
than
this
comes
to
,
the
very
Geese
that
kept
thir
Capitol
before
them
,
had
more
Brains
than
they
.
If
this
were
the
effect
of
their
hopeful
Royal
Heirs
Conversion
,
Heaven
help
'em
,
for
Hell
has
forsaken
'
em
.
No
,
Mr.
Littleplot
,
once
in
thy
life
thou
art
mistaken
;
and
to
convince
thee
that
the
Protestant
Laws
will
not
,
nay
shall
not
be
so
hard-hearted
under
his
Reign
,
nor
his
St.
Omers
Friends
treated
so
coursly
as
thou
imaginest
,
they
have
had
a
little
taste
of
their
kinder
Entertainment
before
hand
.
For
Example
:
Were
there
a
Country
where
Commissions
of
Peace
,
day
after
day
,
and
time
out
of
mind
,
have
been
taken
away
for
daring
but
to
lift
a
hand
against
a
Son
of
Rome
;
nay
,
at
the
same
time
when
all
other
Recusants
have
been
prosecuted
,
and
that
with
encouragement
and
reward
;
and
all
by
a
Royal
Heir's
protection
and
interest
.
Would
not
any
Reader
reply
,
Will
he
that
has
been
their
Guardian-Angel
whilst
but
their
fellow-Subject
,
suffer
a
hair
of
their
heads
to
perish
when
he
's
their
King
?
But
yet
our
new
Sir
Positive
will
defend
our
Protestant
Laws
even
in
despight
of
Fate
,
and
tell
you
,
That
Justice
shall
guide
her
hand
so
impartially
,
and
poise
her
scales
so
evenly
,
as
shall
be
to
the
admiration
of
present
and
succeeding
Ages
.
Now
I
fancy
I
have
heard
a
Tryal
,
where
a
Criminal
of
Quality
convicted
of
no
less
a
Crime
than
the
subornation
and
stifling
of
Evidence
,
and
in
no
less
a
Case
than
where
the
life
of
the
King
,
and
the
subversion
both
of
Religion
and
Government
were
concern'd
,
has
been
mulkt
in
the
inconsiderable
sum
of
a
hundred
pound
,
payable
perhaps
at
latter
Lammas
;
a
meer
trifle
,
and
scarce
more
than
a
Peter-peny
for
an
Absolution
:
Whilst
in
the
other
extream
there
has
been
a
poor
Fellow
condemn'd
to
the
Pillory
,
Imprisonment
,
and
five
hundred
pound
fine
,
ten
times
more
than
he
was
worth
in
the
world
,
for
publishing
a
scandalous
reflecting
line
in
a
Pamphlet
;
much
less
offensive
in
my
simple
opinion
,
than
a
Dagger
to
kill
Kings
and
subvert
States
.
And
pray
,
where
will
our
Protestant
Laws
be
?
and
what
even
Ballances
is
Justice
like
to
have
under
the
full-grown
Scepter
of
a
Popish
Successour
,
if
his
influence
is
so
potent
in
his
Minority
?
No
,
a
Rhadamanth
for
an
Astraea
must
be
the
best
of
our
expectations
at
that
black
day
.
Alas
,
the
See
of
Rome
is
like
the
old
Lake
of
Sodom
,
the
lightest
Feather
that
offends
it
,
sinks
in
it
;
but
to
its
darling
Catholick
Champions
,
't
is
a
Lake
of
liquid
Gold
,
where
,
incircled
round
in
Wealth
,
Glory
,
and
Preferments
,
the
heaviest
massiest
bars
of
Iron
,
Swords
,
Daggers
,
Poniards
,
float
on
the
glittering
surface
of
Honour
,
and
swim
securely
.
Nay
,
I
would
ask
any
reasonable
man
,
That
if
the
Jesuits
hellish
Machination
against
the
Kings
life
had
taken
effect
,
whether
't
is
likely
that
they
feared
smarting
for
't
either
in
this
world
or
the
next
,
as
dreading
a
Vengeance
temporal
or
eternal
?
No
doubt
but
they
had
fairer
hopes
than
so
;
for
had
their
execrable
Blow
succeeded
,
the
blood
of
Majesty
might
in
all
probability
have
found
the
same
inquisition
as
the
firing
of
London
:
Or
if
at
worst
the
world
would
not
have
been
so
satisfied
,
were
not
the
Fanatick
shoulders
broad
enough
to
bear
both
the
guilt
and
the
punishment
?
Alas
,
't
was
but
at
worst
reviving
an
old
experienced
shift
,
a
known
pia
Fraus
for
a
Recovery
.
Has
not
the
Gunpowder-Treason
(
poor
innocent
Papists
!
)
been
a
thousand
times
affirm'd
a
Plot
of
Cecils
?
Has
not
our
late
designe
against
both
King
,
Religion
,
and
Government
,
in
contradiction
of
the
unanimous
Voice
of
the
whole
Nation
in
Parliament
,
been
confidently
retorted
upon
the
Presbyterians
;
and
that
too
without
the
least
proof
or
shadow
for
't
?
And
then
how
easily
might
the
Papal
policy
have
made
a
Popish
Murder
a
Fanatick
Stab
?
and
so
by
the
borrow'd
face
of
Innocence
,
have
most
triumphantly
play'd
the
second
part
of
Amboyna
,
and
have
sheath'd
the
false
Sword
in
the
false
Murderers
heart
,
whilst
the
true
Dagger
had
been
consecrated
,
and
the
real
Traytor
canoniz'd
.
Thus
wisely
did
the
prudent
Nero
lay
his
burning
of
Rome
at
the
poor
innocent
Christians
doors
,
and
then
with
all
the
most
exquisite
studied
Cruelties
,
made
the
Christian
bones
rue
for
what
the
Infidels
hand
had
perpetrated
.
But
to
return
to
our
Author
,
I
will
refer
him
to
some
modern
Records
,
more
applicable
to
our
purpose
than
the
History
of
his
immortal
Brutus
.
Have
we
not
lately
perus'd
whole
scrowls
of
Letters
from
our
Saint
Secretary
Coleman
to
French
Confessours
,
French
Ministers
,
and
all
for
French
Interest
;
and
as
many
Rome-wards
bound
to
Jesuits
,
Cardinals
,
and
Pope
himself
,
fraught
with
golden
Mountains
,
and
promis'd
Miracles
to
be
acted
by
the
Royal
—
for
Rome's
Glory
,
Catholick
Cause
,
and
Mother
Church
:
And
will
any
person
of
common
sense
believe
that
our
trusty
and
well-beloved
Secretary
promis'd
more
in
the
name
of
Al.
than
Al.
would
perform
.
And
were
all
those
sums
of
money
to
be
return'd
from
France
to
England
to
be
laid
out
onely
in
Rosaries
,
Beades
,
and
Crucifixes
.
Believe
it
who
can
;
for
for
my
part
I
am
an
Infidel
.
Alas
no
,
our
hopeful
English
Son
of
Mars
,
that
modern
Achilles
,
without
whose
Arm
our
Protestant
Troy
could
never
fall
,
was
no
doubt
to
have
been
brought
over
to
Rome's
Holy
War
,
as
once
the
old
Achilles
to
the
Grecian
.
The
subtle
France
,
like
the
cunning
Vlysses
,
plays
not
the
Pedler
with
such
small
Wares
,
such
effeminate
Toys
and
Trifles
;
but
wisely
hides
a
sparkling
Sword
amongst
those
guil'ded
Bawbles
,
a
Sword
,
a
Temptation
fit
for
a
valiant
Masquerader
;
an
Instrument
worthy
Rome's
Hero.
Besides
,
have
we
no
Records
but
Coleman's
?
Have
we
not
had
whole
Pacquets
from
Al.
Al.
Al.
to
that
Priest
,
this
Jesuit
,
and
t'other
Cardinal
;
but
more
especially
with
Commendations
to
his
Holiness
,
his
Adored
Holiness
;
and
all
wisely
and
artificially
coucht
in
CHARACTERS
?
And
can
any
man
,
with
half
the
brains
of
a
Woodcock
,
believe
that
they
were
all
but
so
many
How
do
ye's
;
or
some
idle
Compliment
onely
to
beg
a
Chip
of
the
Cross
,
or
a
Rag
of
the
Virgins
Petticoat
?
If
the
designes
of
Al.
were
honourable
,
why
an
Intrigue
betwixt
the
Heir
of
a
Protestant
Kingdom
,
and
the
profest
and
greatest
Enemy
of
our
Religion
and
Liberties
?
Or
if
that
Commerce
between
'em
could
by
any
extorted
supposition
,
or
upon
any
pretence
whatever
,
be
imagined
to
be
innocent
,
why
was
the
whole
Correspondence
disguised
in
RIDDLES
and
in
CHARACTERS
?
Why
in
such
mystick
Cloathing
,
those
fraudulent
Missives
of
Hell
,
and
the
usual
notorious
Masks
of
Villanies
,
Treasons
,
and
Conspiracies
.
Now
from
this
Testimony
,
I
would
ask
if
it
be
reasonable
to
suppose
that
the
Protestant
Religion
and
Liberty
,
and
the
Laws
of
that
wilde
Boar
Harry
the
Eighth
,
and
his
Daughter
Bess
that
She-devil
,
will
be
defended
by
a
Popish
Successour
,
when
in
defending
of
them
he
must
rob
both
the
Church
and
God
himself
of
their
Right
;
and
as
much
as
in
him
lies
,
strike
his
Dagger
into
the
sacred
Gates
of
Rome
,
and
dart
a
Javelin
at
the
very
heart
of
Christs
own
Vicar
,
and
Gods
undeniable
Representative
;
and
at
the
same
minute
be
obliged
to
dayly
Outrages
,
nay
Butcheries
too
upon
the
very
persons
of
Gods
Elect
,
the
Pillars
of
Religion
,
and
the
very
Successours
of
the
Apostles
themselves
?
A
pretty
kind
of
Law
,
that
shall
oblige
him
to
commit
at
once
both
Murder
and
Sacriledge
;
and
all
this
,
forsooth
,
in
defence
of
a
Religion
,
as
they
'll
swear
for
't
,
sprung
from
Harry
the
Eighth's
Codpiece
,
maintain'd
and
preacht
onely
by
a
pack
of
Reprobate
Rascals
,
a
Bastard-sort
of
Priests
ordain'd
by
the
by
at
the
Nagshead-Tavern
.
—
I
,
but
there
lies
his
Honour
and
Coronation
Oath
in
the
way
to
a
Crown
,
that
shall
oblige
him
to
do
all
this
.
And
so
if
there
lay
a
knot
of
Thieves
in
a
mans
way
home
,
that
should
compel
him
to
engage
and
promise
'em
to
meet
'em
such
a
day
with
a
good
Horse
under
him
,
and
a
good
pair
of
Pistols
before
him
,
to
take
the
Rode
with
them
,
and
rob
and
murder
in
their
company
.
A
pretty
piece
of
Honour
that
,
and
a
strange
point
of
Conscience
,
that
shall
tye
him
to
keep
his
word
with
them
!
Let
us
but
rightly
consider
;
is
it
to
be
conceived
that
the
Pope
with
all
his
wisdom
and
politicks
,
will
ever
be
guilty
of
so
much
Ill-husbandry
as
to
make
no
better
Emprovement
of
such
a
pretty
spot
of
Ground
as
England
,
when
he
has
once
retrieved
it
again
into
his
own
Hucksters
hands
,
a
Popish
Successours
possession
,
as
to
let
it
lie
waste
still
,
because
it
has
lain
so
for
so
many
Ages
last
past
,
with
scarce
any
thing
more
upon
it
than
a
parcel
of
rank
Weeds
and
Thistles
that
have
been
running
up
to
Seed
for
above
a
hundred
years
together
?
Perswade
him
to
it
,
if
you
can
.
I
will
onely
refer
my
Reader
,
for
his
diversion
,
but
to
one
short
passage
in
the
above-named
printed
Pacquets
of
Letters
,
where
his
transported
Holiness
,
at
the
receipt
of
a
comfortable
line
or
two
from
a
very
good
Hand
,
and
as
't
is
to
be
imagined
,
a
true
and
trusty
Friend
,
is
said
to
have
Wept
for
Ioy.
Now
I
would
seriously
ask
my
Reader
,
if
he
believes
those
precious
Tears
,
that
sanctified
Brine
,
that
,
like
Aaron's
Ointment
,
trickled
down
the
Beard
of
the
Reverend
Sire
,
dropt
at
the
hearing
of
no
better
News
,
and
at
the
prospect
of
no
fairer
hopes
than
this
.
My
life
for
yours
,
there
was
no
such
meaning
in
it
.
No
;
for
once
I
'll
give
you
a
better
KEY
for
those
CHARACTERS
:
Our
Protestant
Sun
,
't
was
hoped
,
was
near
setting
when
that
Dew
fell
.
From
this
we
come
to
the
power
of
a
Coronation-Oath
with
a
Popish
Successour
;
and
there
our
Answerers
are
extraordinary
vehement
against
the
Character
for
averring
,
That
if
the
Popish
Religion
will
absolve
Subjects
from
their
Allegiance
to
an
Heretical
King
,
why
may
it
not
release
a
King
from
his
Faith
to
an
Heretical
excommunicated
People
.
Upon
which
,
Mr.
L'Estrange
remarks
,
Mr.
L'E
.
Take
it
for
granted
,
there
's
no
trusting
to
the
Oath
of
a
Roman
Catholick
Prince
,
and
ye
cut
the
very
Ligaments
of
Society
and
Commerce
.
There
's
an
end
of
all
Treaties
and
Alliances
,
amicable
and
mutual
Offices
betwixt
Christian
Princes
and
States
.
Nay
,
in
one
word
,
erect
but
this
Maxime
,
you
turn
Europe
into
a
Shambles
,
and
put
Christendom
without
any
more
ado
into
a
state
of
War
,
&c.
Though
by
the
way
,
all
this
makes
nothing
to
his
purpose
:
for
Treaties
,
Alliances
,
and
Commerce
betwixt
Christian
Princes
and
States
,
have
no
Affinity
with
a
Princes
keeping
Faith
with
his
People
upon
the
account
of
Religion
;
as
had
been
proved
before
.
But
from
this
he
goes
on
,
and
says
,
Mr.
L'E
.
I
am
not
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
that
are
wholly
lost
in
Brutality
and
Blindness
;
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
pass
neither
,
but
upon
some
enthusiastick
sick-headed
Zealot
,
that
takes
all
his
Dreams
for
Visions
,
and
the
vapours
of
his
Distempers
for
Revelations
.
Now
in
my
apprehension
,
never
did
any
man
so
forget
himself
as
Mr.
L'Estrange
has
done
here
:
He
believes
here
,
that
that
unchristian
Impression
,
as
the
Allowance
of
Perjury
,
is
onely
the
Tenet
of
some
profligate
wretches
wholly
lost
in
Brutality
and
Blindness
.
But
at
the
latter
end
of
his
Book
,
pag.
83.
he
down-right
contradicts
that
belief
,
and
says
,
Mr.
L'E
.
Pope
Pius
Quintus
absolved
the
Subjects
of
Queen
Elizabeth
from
all
their
Oaths
of
Allegiance
to
her
for
ever
.
So
that
now
belike
it
was
not
onely
the
Maxime
of
the
above-said
profligate
wretches
,
but
even
of
the
Great
Successour
of
Peter
,
and
the
Voice
of
Infallibility
it self
;
and
that
too
not
the
product
of
Blindness
and
Brutality
upon
Dreams
and
Vapours
,
but
the
deliberate
Act
and
Decree
of
the
Imperial
See
of
Rome
.
I
could
make
several
other
instances
in
this
kind
,
as
the
Popes
absolving
the
Subjects
from
their
Allegiance
to
K.
Iohn
,
&c.
but
't
is
the
common
Theme
of
all
Pens
,
and
so
much
the
known
practice
and
principle
of
their
Popes
through
all
Ages
,
that
I
shall
not
think
it
worth
my
while
.
Besides
,
Mr.
L'Estrange
forgets
himself
a
little
further
in
this
point
,
and
says
in
the
same
83
page
,
That
the
Romish
Iesuit
holds
that
Dominion
is
founded
in
Grace
,
and
upon
that
principle
deposes
Protestant
Princes
,
&c.
Then
adds
,
That
the
Pope
may
deprive
a
King
of
his
Royal
Dignity
for
Heresie
,
Schism
,
&c.
(
as
in
the
Bishop
of
Lincoln
's
Popish
Principles
.
p.
20.
)
and
after
Excommunication
,
says
Mariana
,
in
case
of
obstinacy
,
the
people
may
take
away
his
life
.
After
these
Affirmations
of
Mr.
L'Estrange
,
if
these
are
the
principles
of
the
Pope
and
Jesuit
,
I
hope
we
may
safely
conclude
,
That
they
that
set
such
little
value
on
the
sacred
Dignity
and
Persons
of
Kings
themselves
,
when
once
attainted
with
Heresie
,
that
not
onely
their
Crowns
are
forfeited
,
but
their
very
Lives
lie
exposed
to
the
fury
and
hand
of
every
vile
Plebeian
,
should
in
all
reason
set
less
on
the
Rights
,
Priviledges
,
and
Lives
of
Subjects
under
the
same
Attainder
:
for
no
doubt
,
if
Heresie
can
make
a
forfeiture
in
the
first
,
the
Devil
's
in
't
if
it
does
not
in
the
last
.
So
that
by
his
leave
,
where
's
all
the
Oaths
,
Honour
,
and
all
the
Mighty
and
Illustrious
Attributes
he
gives
our
Popish
Successour
in
vindication
of
the
Protestant
Peace
and
security
under
him
,
whilst
these
are
the
principles
not
onely
of
the
Jesuits
that
seduced
him
,
but
of
the
very
Head
of
his
Church
,
that
Lord
God
the
Pope
?
But
according
to
his
first
belief
,
if
this
were
really
the
opinion
of
some
Doctors
,
but
not
all
,
he
would
do
well
to
prove
that
Father
Patrick
,
that
curst
Incendiary
of
all
our
Distractions
,
was
not
one
of
those
Affirmative
Doctors
,
and
Benningfield
his
successour
another
of
them
.
No
doubt
the
subtle
Rome
in
converting
our
Heir
presumptive
,
did
not
bound
its
ambition
in
the
gaining
one
single
Soul
,
but
the
recovery
of
a
Kingdom
was
their
designe
.
In
his
conversion
they
had
brought
their
long
Hopes
to
a
perfection
,
they
had
found
that
second
Moses
,
who
under
the
God-like
influence
of
Rome
,
like
a
Cloud
by
day
,
and
a
Pillar
of
fire
by
night
,
should
guide
and
lead
'em
through
all
opposition
and
all
dangers
to
their
beloved
Canaan
,
a
Land
that
flows
with
Milk
and
Honey
,
Rome's
old
Treasure-house
,
that
dear
Puteus
Inexhaustus
,
England
.
And
is
it
to
be
imagined
,
if
Fides
non
est
tenenda
cum
Haereticis
were
ever
in
request
,
it
should
be
wanting
now
,
on
so
glorious
an
occasion
;
or
so
inconsiderable
a
Trifle
as
a
Coronation
Oath
should
blast
so
forward
and
so
sacred
a
Designe
.
And
if
,
as
he
confesses
,
that
Tenet
is
onely
made
use
of
to
serve
a
political
turn
,
I
would
gladly
be
inform'd
what
greater
or
more
political
turn
it
could
serve
,
than
for
the
Conversion
of
England
,
that
great
Work
which
the
unknown
Answerer
tells
us
,
Has
,
like
China
,
been
a
hundred
years
a
ripening
.
But
here
our
Answerers
continue
,
and
assure
us
we
need
have
no
fear
of
any
such
prejudice
in
that
case
from
our
Popish
Heir
,
considering
,
as
Mr.
L'Estrange
says
,
Mr.
L'E
.
If
he
could
so
scandalously
play
the
Hypocrite
as
to
change
his
shape
at
that
rate
as
the
Character
says
,
and
act
any
part
for
his
advantage
,
which
Rome
or
Rome's
Interest
shall
impose
upon
him
,
what
should
have
hinder'd
him
from
continuing
a
Protestant
to
the
Eye
of
the
World
,
though
a
Papist
in
his
heart
?
since
that
was
the
onely
means
to
have
gain'd
him
his
point
.
And
as
the
other
Answerer
enlarges
upon
it
,
If
out
of
the
conscience
of
an
Oath
,
and
the
Obligation
he
believ'd
was
in
it
,
he
has
already
parted
with
the
places
of
the
greatest
Honour
and
Profit
in
the
Kingdom
,
is
it
likely
he
'll
ever
have
a
less
veneration
for
that
most
religious
one
he
must
take
at
his
Coronation
?
Or
is
it
likely
if
he
had
made
no
scruple
of
an
Oath
,
he
would
have
refused
it
at
a
time
when
he
might
have
removed
all
suspicions
and
Iealousies
of
his
Religion
by
it
,
and
thereby
have
facilitated
his
way
to
a
Throne
?
Now
I
wonder
to
what
Readers
these
Authors
write
,
that
at
this
time
of
day
they
would
make
us
believe
that
his
squeamishness
against
the
Test
and
the
Oath
of
Supremacy
,
made
our
consciencious
Heir
quit
his
honourable
Employments
!
As
we
better
remember
▪
't
was
not
so
much
the
Test
,
as
the
Test-makers
,
that
disgusted
him
,
his
natural
antipathy
to
Parliaments
,
his
continual
little
thoughts
of
that
Great
Council
,
(
and
less
of
them
he
will
have
,
if
ever
he
comes
to
the
Crown
)
with
his
disdain
that
such
insolent
Earth
and
Ashes
should
dare
to
give
Laws
to
his
Divinity
.
So
that
in
short
,
his
Pride
,
not
Conscience
,
got
the
Ascendant
;
and
whatever
advantages
he
might
have
gain'd
by
keeping
his
Employments
and
swallowing
the
Oaths
,
yet
such
is
his
perverse
and
stubborn
Haughtiness
,
that
he
would
rather
cry
,
Sink
Interest
,
perish
Succession
,
and
even
Popedom
it self
,
rather
than
truckle
to
what
I
scorn
.
But
Mr.
L'Estrange
,
methinks
,
of
all
men
should
be
farthest
from
supposing
it
a
difficulty
in
a
Papist
to
take
an
Oath
he
never
intends
to
perform
,
when
in
the
4th
page
of
his
Book
he
grants
the
very
Protestants
themselves
,
nay
the
Church
of
England
Protestants
,
upon
occasion
,
may
do
the
like
:
Where
he
says
,
Mr.
L'E
.
In
the
case
of
a
Popish
King
,
who
is
either
kept
out
or
driven
out
from
the
Exercise
of
his
Right
by
the
tumultuary
License
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
or
Interest
,
than
those
men
that
are
stimulated
both
by
Honour
and
Revenge
to
the
execution
of
their
Duties
.
Now
by
those
firm
English
Friends
that
may
take
this
Abjuration-Oath
against
their
Consciences
,
he
cannot
mean
the
Fanaticks
;
for
they
'tis
supposed
are
the
Drivers
out
,
that
impose
this
Oath
.
Besides
,
Mr.
L'Estrange
is
so
far
from
believing
that
Party
capable
of
coming
under
the
denomination
of
a
Popish
Successour's
Friends
,
that
on
the
contrary
it
has
been
the
drift
of
almost
all
his
Pamphlets
to
prove
them
his
onely
implacable
Enemies
.
Neither
can
those
firm
Friends
here
mentioned
,
be
understood
the
Popish
Party
;
for
upon
the
supposition
of
this
tumultuary
driving
out
of
the
Popish
Heir
from
his
Right
,
't
is
likewise
to
be
concluded
that
Party
will
most
of
them
share
in
his
Fate
;
that
there
will
be
very
few
of
them
left
to
be
put
to
that
Oath
of
Abjuration
:
or
if
there
were
,
and
they
would
take
such
an
Oath
,
it
would
be
so
far
from
doing
their
business
;
that
lying
under
such
a
brand
of
Infidelity
already
(
as
they
do
)
all
the
Oaths
they
could
ever
take
would
never
be
believed
:
so
that
the
saving
of
their
Stake
that
way
would
be
impossible
.
So
that
't
is
plain
(
as
I
said
before
)
by
those
Abjuring
Oath-swallowing
Friends
,
he
can
mean
no
other
but
the
Church
of
England
Protestants
.
And
yet
methinks
after
Mr.
L'Estrange
has
so
long
and
so
vigorously
play'd
the
Church
of
England's
Champion
,
so
strenuously
maintain'd
the
integrity
and
purity
of
that
Belief
and
Communion
,
with
the
undaunted
courage
of
its
Professours
,
continually
copying
and
patterning
their
Perfections
from
a
no-less
sacred
Original
than
the
Fortitude
,
Patience
,
and
Perseverance
of
the
Primitive
Christians
;
it
is
a
little
odd
,
as
I
may
say
,
from
a
Protestant
Defender
,
and
indeed
unlike
himself
,
after
all
this
,
to
lay
so
wretched
,
so
despicable
,
and
so
cowardly
a
Condescention
at
their
doors
;
as
the
Abjuration
of
Gods
Anointed
and
their
native
Soveraign
to
save
a
Stake
,
a
Cow
,
a
Farm
,
or
a
Cottage
.
Aye
,
but
that
Abjuration
is
but
a
Copy
of
their
Countenance
,
he
tells
you
.
Fie
,
Mr.
L'Estrange
,
this
is
worse
and
worse
!
What
,
the
Members
of
the
Church
of
England's
Communion
so
notoriously
break
a
Gospel-precept
,
as
to
come
to
a
So
help
me
God
,
with
a
Lye
in
their
mouths
,
and
a
Reserve
in
their
Hearts
,
to
play
the
Hypocrite
,
and
that
too
even
with
Oaths
;
and
so
do
so
impious
an
Ill
that
Good
may
come
of
it
!
Are
these
the
true
passive
obedient
Sons
of
the
Church
,
those
unshaken
Professors
of
Christianity
,
the
Martyrs
that
will
be
upon
occasion
under
a
Romish
Tyrant
?
But
cry
you
mercy
:
Now
I
think
on
't
better
,
I
find
Mr.
L'Estrange
is
onely
making
room
for
more
Masqueraders
;
as
he
made
the
Fanaticks
Papists
in
Masquerade
,
so
he
intends
to
make
the
Protestants
Abjurers
in
Masquerade
.
But
to
return
to
our
Coronation-Oath
:
If
the
Members
(
as
he
says
)
of
a
Religion
that
professes
against
breach
of
Oaths
,
shall
yet
swallow
one
against
Conscience
for
the
saving
a
Stake
,
and
that
so
inconsiderable
a
Stake
as
the
possession
of
a
Subject
;
I
suppose
he
will
allow
that
a
Member
of
a
Religion
that
absolves
Oaths
,
will
not
stand
out
at
the
swallowing
one
for
the
securing
so
great
a
Stake
as
that
of
three
Kingdoms
.
So
that
without
any
other
Evidence
than
his
own
,
where
's
the
obligation
of
an
Oath
,
or
indeed
the
least
shadow
of
a
Trust
to
be
reposed
in
a
Popish
Successour
?
But
however
,
Mr.
L'Estrange
goes
farther
,
and
gives
us
an
Example
of
the
Innocence
and
Indulgence
of
a
Popish
King
,
in
favour
of
Protestants
,
page
49.
He
acknowledges
indeed
,
That
Queen
Mary
did
persecute
the
Christians
:
And
before
,
page
26.
he
yields
with
the
Character
,
That
she
brake
her
promise
with
the
Norfolk
and
Suffolk
Inhabitants
,
and
with
a
mean
ingratitude
to
the
generous
Loyalty
of
that
people
,
persecuted
and
burnt
those
very
men
that
gave
her
the
first
lift
to
the
Crown
.
But
though
,
as
he
grants
,
all
this
is
true
,
yet
he
says
,
All
Princes
are
not
alike
:
Queen
Mary
persecuted
the
Protestants
;
Henry
the
fourth
of
France
did
not
so
:
And
it
is
as
good
an
Inference
from
the
instance
of
Henry
the
fourth
,
that
a
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
we
see
,
for
all
the
power
of
the
Pope
and
the
Covenant
of
Holy
League
to
boot
,
the
people
of
France
,
though
Roman
Catholicks
,
would
not
submit
to
the
dispossessing
of
a
Protestant
Successour
;
neither
did
that
generous
Prince
upon
the
reconciling
of
himself
afterwards
to
the
Church
of
Rome
,
exercise
any
one
act
of
Tyranny
over
his
Protestant
Subjects
:
which
is
enough
upon
this
point
.
Enough
indeed
,
unless
there
were
more
Truth
or
more
Reason
in
't
:
For
to
pass
by
the
Clemency
and
Moderation
,
he
designes
to
prove
from
the
Example
of
this
Popish
King
,
here
's
one
of
the
most
notorious
falshoods
averr'd
that
ever
look'd
Light
i'
th'
face
.
The
Roman
Catholick
people
of
France
were
so
far
from
admitting
this
Protestant
Successour
to
the
Throne
,
that
't
is
recorded
,
they
shut
their
very
Gates
against
him
;
and
so
little
acknowledged
him
their
King
,
that
the
Pope
and
the
States
of
France
were
for
setting
up
no
less
than
three
Competitors
against
him
:
nay
,
there
were
such
insolent
indignities
and
oppositions
offer'd
him
,
that
the
onely
cause
of
his
changing
his
Religion
was
,
that
nothing
less
than
his
Reconciliation
to
the
Romish
Faith
,
could
gain
him
his
Birthright
and
his
Crown
.
And
all
this
is
so
plainly
and
so
amply
testified
from
the
French
History
,
that
never
was
any
Assertion
more
false
than
this
of
Mr.
L'Estrange
.
And
then
his
Inference
of
a
Popish
Successours
Lenity
to
the
Protestants
,
from
the
instance
of
this
Popish
King
,
is
the
weakest
and
shallowest
that
ever
any
man
of
sence
could
have
thought
on
:
For
this
King
was
at
best
but
one
of
Mr.
L'Estrange's
Abjurers
in
Masquerade
;
for
't
is
most
apparent
that
the
saving
of
his
Stake
,
his
Crown
,
not
the
dint
of
their
Arguments
or
Perswasion
,
the
strength
of
the
Romish
power
,
not
that
of
their
Religion
,
made
him
a
Convert
.
And
if
this
King
of
all
mankind
had
proved
a
Protestant
persecutor
,
he
had
been
a
Monster
indeed
,
and
worse
than
a
Nero
;
for
he
must
have
acted
quite
contrary
to
the
Dictates
of
his
Soul
and
Conscience
.
Now
more
and
above
all
this
,
the
Reader
is
here
to
take
notice
,
that
out
of
all
the
Chronicles
of
all
Ages
,
and
of
all
the
Popish
Kings
in
Europe
,
this
is
the
onely
Popish
Prince
he
has
found
out
for
an
Example
of
Good-nature
,
and
a
true
and
Favourer
of
the
Protestants
.
Now
I
profess
,
might
I
advise
him
,
if
either
the
Popish
Records
afforded
no
other
instance
in
this
kind
,
or
his
Reading
could
not
finde
it
out
,
he
should
e'en
throw
up
the
Cudgels
and
answer
no
more
Characters
,
but
believe
a
Popish
Successor's
Cause
either
impossible
to
be
defended
,
or
himself
uncapable
of
doing
it
.
But
this
breaking
of
Oaths
still
sticks
in
his
Gizard
,
and
he
cannot
forbear
another
fling
at
it
.
Mr.
L'E
.
Taking
his
position
for
granted
,
that
a
Popish
Prince
is
bound
by
his
Religion
,
to
act
contrary
to
his
Oaths
and
Promises
,
Honour
and
Iustice
,
the
Dictates
of
Nature
,
the
Laws
of
Nations
,
and
the
Bonds
of
humane
Society
;
contrary
to
all
this
(
I
say
)
and
to
his
Interest
too
,
be
must
be
unman'd
as
well
as
unchristian'd
;
an
Excommunicate
to
humane
Nature
,
and
excluded
from
all
the
Benefits
and
Offices
of
Mankind
.
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
.
Never
did
Mr.
L'Estrange
in
all
his
Fardles
of
writing
sum
up
so
many
Truths
as
in
these
few
lines
:
For
indeed
(
as
he
says
)
a
Prince
that
's
guilty
of
all
this
,
must
be
both
unman'd
,
unchristian'd
,
and
an
Excommunicate
to
humane
Nature
,
&c.
if
the
Gospel
and
Christianity
be
truth
;
for
the
Doctrine
of
Christ
and
his
Apostles
will
pronounce
him
such
a
one
,
But
all
this
while
the
Reader
is
to
observe
,
that
this
great
Truth
is
urged
by
Mr.
L'Estrange
in
favour
of
his
great
Mecaenas
,
designing
it
not
so
much
to
set
this
Brand
upon
a
Popish
Successour's
perfidy
in
such
a
case
,
as
to
let
us
understand
't
is
a
picture
of
a
Popish
Successour
so
strangely
deform'd
,
and
so
extravagantly
monstrous
,
that
't
is
not
to
be
matcht
or
copy'd
in
Flesh
and
Bloud
,
and
indeed
has
no
being
in
Nature
.
But
not
to
let
him
carry
it
off
so
,
what
does
he
think
of
Sigismond
King
of
Sweden
,
crown'd
in
the
year
1580.
who
in
the
very
exact
parallel
to
our
present
state
of
England
,
being
privately
bred
by
his
Mother
a
Roman
Catholick
,
unknown
to
his
Father
,
and
afterwards
being
elected
King
of
Poland
,
openly
profest
the
Romish
Religion
;
but
upon
his
Fathers
death
,
return'd
to
his
Hereditary
Swedish
Kingdom
:
where
with
much
difficulty
he
was
received
;
but
under
all
the
solemn
conditions
and
engagements
that
could
possibly
be
made
between
Prince
and
Subject
,
of
his
maintaining
and
upholding
their
Lutheran
Religion
.
But
on
the
contrary
,
no
sooner
were
the
Reins
in
his
hand
,
but
with
all
the
fiercest
Career
of
Infidelity
,
as
if
Hell
drove
him
,
he
presently
erects
Popish
Churches
,
places
Popish
Governours
in
all
his
Forts
and
Castles
,
encourages
and
countenances
no
other
Perswasion
,
but
striving
by
all
Arts
imaginary
to
bring
in
the
Romish
Religion
.
Upon
this
notorious
Perjury
his
Subjects
gave
him
the
Reward
which
Mr.
L'Estrange
has
elegantly
allow'd
such
Perjury
deserv'd
;
they
excluded
him
from
all
the
Offices
and
Benefits
of
mankind
:
for
accusing
him
of
breach
of
Faith
and
mischievous
practices
against
the
Government
,
they
deposed
him
.
And
this
was
done
by
Lutheran
Protestants
,
neither
Presbyterian
nor
Independent
Fanaticks
;
yet
with
offer
of
crowning
his
Infant-son
Vdislaus
,
provided
they
might
have
the
breeding
of
him
in
their
own
Belief
;
which
he
refusing
after
seven
years
Treaties
and
other
Endeavours
for
accommodation
,
all
in
vain
,
in
the
year
1607.
they
crown'd
his
Uncle
Charles
the
third
Son
of
his
Grandfather
Gustavus
Errichson
.
Now
how
many
Bejesuited
,
Fanatical
,
Rebellious
,
Covenanting
,
Trayterous
,
Holy-leaguing
,
Dissenting
Psudoprotestants
,
would
Mr.
L'Estrange
have
call'd
these
Lutherans
,
were
his
Pen
retain'd
against
them
?
and
what
Volumes
would
he
publish
in
vindication
of
Iure
Divino
and
unalterable
Succession
,
&c.
with
all
the
Curses
of
Bell
,
Book
,
and
Candle
,
against
them
,
as
he
has
done
against
the
Popish
Character
,
for
making
so
slight
of
that
indispensable
Duty
,
Passive
Obedience
;
though
as
ill
luck
would
have
it
,
certainly
the
busie
Spirit
of
Mr.
L'Estrange
was
not
then
in
the
world
:
for
there
are
no
such
vilruent
Records
against
them
either
in
any
of
the
Historians
of
that
Age
,
or
indeed
ever
since
.
Now
one
Remark
I
would
make
upon
this
Sigismond
,
to
continue
the
parallel
to
our
Case
:
He
was
a
Prince
in
his
nature
as
Heroick
as
we
have
or
can
have
a
Popish
Heir
,
worthy
of
all
those
praises
that
either
of
these
two
Answerers
have
given
the
last
;
and
in
short
,
to
use
one
of
their
own
words
,
A
Prince
for
every
thing
else
,
bating
his
Perswasion
,
brave
to
admiration
:
Which
one
thing
must
more
particularly
witness
for
him
,
his
being
elected
King
of
Poland
,
a
Nation
which
we
all
know
make
their
choice
for
a
King
out
of
the
gallant
,
famous
,
and
illustrious
Worthies
of
all
the
Princes
and
Nobility
through
the
whole
Christian
world
.
And
yet
we
fee
neither
Magnanimity
,
Justice
,
all
the
Cardinal
Vertues
that
adorn'd
him
,
nor
all
the
promising
Perfections
and
Accomplishments
of
Nature
,
strengthen'd
with
all
the
Bonds
of
Protestations
,
Oaths
,
or
Sacraments
,
could
hold
the
head-strong
Violence
of
his
Religion
.
But
to
return
to
Mr.
L'Estrange
,
in
answer
to
the
Character
's
proving
how
improbable
,
nay
impossible
't
is
to
suppose
we
may
have
a
Roman
Catholick
King
,
That
shall
discountenance
Popery
,
cherish
Protestantism
,
and
effectually
deter
all
those
that
shall
endeavour
to
undermine
or
supplant
it
,
he
says
.
As
to
the
Influence
,
which
a
Popish
Suceessor
may
have
upon
Ecclesiastick
Matters
(
As
in
the
Character
)
,
There
needs
no
more
to
be
said
in
't
then
this
;
that
the
King
has
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
framed
to
that
effect
,
as
have
been
by
great
Authority
judged
competent
for
the
obviating
of
that
difficulty
.
The
first
part
of
this
Assertion
,
all
the
world
knows
to
be
truth
▪
but
if
such
Competent
Expedients
have
been
framed
,
either
the
Framers
of
them
have
been
the
Unkindest
Men
in
Christendom
,
or
the
three
last
Parliaments
the
Unluckyest
:
The
first
,
in
either
never
producing
or
publishing
those
expedients
for
the
Nations
service
,
in
this
time
of
exigence
,
or
the
last
in
never
having
the
good
fortune
to
meet
with
them
;
for
if
the
Parliament
at
Oxford
were
not
damnably
mistaken
,
or
very
lewdly
forgetful
,
they
have
declared
(
Nemine
Contradicente
)
that
neither
they
,
nor
their
Predecessors
have
ever
heard
or
seen
one
syllable
of
such
a
Frame
of
Expedients
offered
them
;
so
that
with
Mr.
Lestranges
Pardon
,
his
above
named
Great
Authority
has
been
greatly
unkind
in
this
Matter
,
or
else
their
expedients
were
like
one
of
the
Virtuosoe's
Engines
never
design'd
for
use
.
But
he
goes
on
.
As
to
the
rest
I
will
not
deny
,
but
that
it
is
a
hard
thing
for
a
Prince
to
teize
and
persecute
a
people
of
his
own
Religion
,
purely
Eonomine
for
their
being
so
.
And
it
is
very
probable
too
,
that
he
will
connive
as
Men
of
that
perswasion
in
many
cases
,
where
the
Law
directs
a
Punishment
.
And
what
is
there
more
in
this
,
than
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
towards
the
Nonconformists
at
this
Instant
!
Where
is
the
great
Crime
now
,
(
upon
this
Admittance
)
in
not
punishing
the
Papists
,
so
long
as
the
Protestants
are
not
persecuted
.
Here
the
Reader
by
the
by
may
take
notice
,
that
these
two
Answerers
did
not
confer
Notes
,
for
one
says
a
Popish
Successor
will
be
a
second
part
of
the
Immortal
Brutus
,
and
the
other
that
he
will
be
a
quite
contrary
manner
of
Man.
But
here
I
would
beg
Mr.
Lestrange
to
explain
himself
:
if
he
means
by
a
Popish
Successors
conniving
at
Men
,
of
his
own
perswasion
,
to
be
no
larger
an
extent
of
Royal
favor
,
than
what
that
party
have
received
in
the
two
last
Kings
Reigns
,
the
priviledge
perhaps
of
no
more
than
a
Queens
or
an
Embassadors
private
Chapple
,
for
the
visible
worship
of
the
whole
party
throughout
all
England
,
then
he
contradicts
the
confessions
of
all
the
late
Popish
Martyrs
,
for
amongst
all
their
plot
silence
,
they
unanimously
confess
they
had
a
fair
list
for
a
Toleration
.
And
in
case
of
such
a
Toleration
in
the
next
Kings
Reign
,
under
a
Popish
Successor
;
wha'rs
that
less
than
Sigismunds
erecting
of
Popish
Churches
,
and
with
them
no
doubt
placing
Popish
Governors
in
all
Forts
and
Castles
,
Popish
Ministers
in
all
offices
of
trust
,
with
Popish
Generals
,
and
Popish
Admirals
upon
occasion
,
encouraging
and
countenancing
no
other
perswasion
,
and
striving
by
all
Acts
imaginary
of
setting
up
the
Romish
Religion
,
and
all
this
dayly
pusht
forwards
farther
and
farther
,
higher
and
higher
by
Degrees
.
Alas
!
the
Character
never
design'd
to
sham
such
a
ridiculous
impossible
supposition
on
the
world
,
that
the
Persecuting
fury
of
a
Popish
King
shall
falt
down
upon
us
like
Fire
from
Heaven
,
all
of
a
suddain
,
and
no
less
miraculously
,
or
that
Popery
or
Arbitrary
Power
,
should
grow
up
like
Ionas
Goad
,
in
a
Night
.
Alas
,
Smith
field
Stakes
,
Lollards
Towers
,
and
Inquisition
Houses
are
the
work
of
time
;
and
therefore
where
as
yet
,
open
Hostility
cannot
march
,
nor
greater
Conflagrations
be
attempted
,
they
must
have
redress
to
less
Games
in
the
mean
while
,
the
use
of
smaller
Fire-Brands
,
and
Foxes
Tailes
to
tye
'em
to
.
In
the
next
page
he
continues
very
smart
upon
the
Character
,
part
of
which
to
be
better
understood
,
I
must
be
forced
to
repeat
.
Char.
Speaking
of
a
Popish
successor
,
executing
the
Laws
.
A
very
pretty
chimera
?
which
is
as
much
as
to
make
this
Popish
King
the
greatest
Barbarian
of
the
Creation
,
a
Barbarian
,
that
shall
cherish
and
maintain
the
Dissenters
from
Truth
,
and
punish
and
condemn
the
pillars
of
Christianity
and
proselytes
of
Heaven
:
which
is
no
other
than
to
speak
him
the
Basest
of
men
,
and
little
less
then
a
Monster
.
Besides
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
Crown'd
Head
,
and
what
hope
England
has
of
such
a
Successor
,
I
leave
all
men
of
sense
to
Iudge
.
Mr.
Lestrange
.
Behold
here
's
the
upshot
of
his
high
flown
paragraph
[
A
Popish
Prince
that
puts
the
Laws
in
execution
for
the
punishing
of
Papists
and
for
the
countenancing
and
protecting
of
Protestants
,
is
little
less
then
the
basest
of
monsters
.
]
How
comes
it
then
that
the
Crown
of
France
has
not
treated
the
Protestants
there
,
as
this
Pictur-drawer
pronounces
,
that
a
Popish
Successor
would
treat
his
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
wors
then
usuall
.
All
which
hath
been
influenced
as
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
&c.
Now
I
dare
defie
the
world
to
find
me
out
that
author
,
that
ever
wrackt
his
Brains
to
labour
out
such
mormoes
as
this
;
a
discourse
soe
intirely
mal
a
Propos
,
and
altogether
soe
little
to
his
purpose
;
what
can
he
intend
,
or
what
would
he
argue
from
this
?
is
there
any
resemblance
between
the
State
of
England
and
France
;
is
the
French
King
,
(
as
the
character
says
)
bound
to
condemn
the
pillars
of
christianity
and
proselytes
of
Heaven
?
or
has
he
any
Laws
to
put
in
execution
against
the
Papists
?
doe
his
Laws
uphold
no
other
Religion
but
the
Protestant
,
and
in
defence
of
that
,
declare
Popery
Treason
,
and
oblige
him
to
hang
every
Popish
Priest
in
his
Kingdom
.
Is
there
therefore
the
least
compulsion
upon
him
to
render
him
that
Barbarian
or
Coward
mentioned
in
the
Character
.
Nay
on
the
quite
contrary
is
not
Popery
there
the
Establisht
Lord
of
the
soyl
,
and
the
Protestant
Religion
only
an
inmate
by
toleration
.
Is
there
any
more
Hugonot
Churches
to
that
Great
City
Paris
,
then
one
stragling
one
,
like
our
Pancras
,
for
all
the
Protestants
in
that
Populous
Town
.
And
now
what
if
Mr.
L'estrange
would
bring
no
less
then
20.
precedents
of
good
natured
French
Kings
that
have
not
molested
the
Hugonots
under
them
.
Has
not
their
own
Religion
the
ascendant
of
the
Nation
,
does
it
not
flourish
and
triumph
in
Pomp
,
State
and
Glory
,
whilst
the
poor
Hugonot
perswasion
only
humbly
truckles
beneath
it
,
and
what
then
,
if
their
Royal
mercy
does
not
persecute
the
Protestants
,
is
there
any
thing
in
that
mercy
so
monstrous
or
so
unnatural
;
or
is
their
any
Laws
,
Restrictions
or
Clogs
upon
the
French
King
that
can
give
such
a
shock
to
the
soul
of
a
Papist
as
the
Protestant
Laws
of
England
.
I
confess
Mr.
Lestrange
in
one
clause
before
was
much
in
the
Right
,
where
he
affirm'd
the
continuing
a
Protestant
to
the
Eye
of
the
World
had
been
a
means
of
gaining
the
point
:
and
't
is
no
less
a
truth
,
that
showing
the
Cards
before
the
playing
,
has
often
endanger'd
the
Game
.
And
indeed
I
have
heard
some
smart
sort
of
People
a
little
Satyrical
upon
this
Subject
.
I
remember
a
passage
of
this
kind
I
read
to'ther
day
,
being
an
invective
against
Machiavel
for
an
unlucky
Miscarriage
in
one
of
his
great
Designs
,
which
translated
into
our
own
English
runs
thus
.
Oh!
that
our
shallow
thoughtless
Machiavel
should
have
so
much
zeal
,
and
so
little
Brains
to
manage
it
.
Such
a
Bigot
,
such
Principles
,
such
Resolution
,
such
Infatuation
:
Impenetrable
to
all
foolish
effeminate
thoughts
of
humanity
;
a
temper
as
rough
,
and
as
brutal
as
a
second
Ajax
,
untainted
with
remorse
or
pitty
,
that
hates
all
thoughts
of
gratitude
,
friendship
and
fidelity
,
as
much
as
Rome
loves
greatness
,
as
deaf
to
a
Kings
interest
and
a
Kingdoms
Groans
,
as
Romes
own
wish
could
form
him
.
That
excellent
matchless
engine
for
our
work
,
had
not
this
only
wretched
ill
conduct
blasted
all
,
and
crack't
the
whole
foundation
.
Had
he
but
play'd
the
sly
and
wise
Ulysses
till
under
his
disguise
he
had
stoln
their
fatal
Palladium
,
and
left
their
ruind
Troynovant
guardianless
and
defenseless
,
our
Glory
had
been
compleat
.
How
might
our
great
,
our
adorable
Machine
have
succeeded
,
had
not
this
unlucky
Marr-al
ruind
it
?
How
might
the
reaking
Gore
of
Butcher'd
Infidels
have
fatten'd
the
Land
,
and
with
the
Steam
perfumed
the
Skies
,
and
smelt
sweet
in
the
Nostrils
of
the
Saints
.
We
had
a
time
,
we
had
a
day
,
a
favourable
smiling
Courting
Hour
,
the
morning
Dawn
to
our
great
Iubile
:
But
oh
!
that
dear
,
that
blest
Minute
's
gon
.
A
Curse
of
all
unthinking
greatness
!
How
might
this
mighty
Hunter
have
pursued
the
glorious
Game
,
like
the
immortal
Roman
Tullia
that
drove
her
Chariot
over
her
murder'd
Fathers
heart
,
and
Rod
tryumphant
o're
the
crackling
Bones
of
Majesty
,
had
he
not
so
rashly
pull'd
off
the
Vizard
too
soon
,
thus
senselesly
turn'd
up
his
Cask
,
and
show'd
the
fatal
Face
within
it
.
And
by
that
only
accurst
unfortunate
Act
,
waken'd
a
whole
alarum'd
Nation
to
snatch
the
Reins
,
from
this
bold
Rider
,
and
cry
,
stop
Iehu
.
Well
,
but
Mr.
Lestrange
,
through
almost
all
his
whole
Pamphlet
is
still
upon
the
impossibility
of
Popery
,
and
Arbitrary
Powers
advance
into
England
.
Page
82.
he
says
,
take
the
matter
as
they
suppose
it
,
a
King
upon
a
Throne
that
's
principled
for
Arbitrary
Government
and
Popery
,
but
so
clogg'd
and
shackled
with
Popular
and
Protestant
Laws
,
that
if
he
had
never
so
great
a
mind
to
't
,
there
's
not
one
Subject
in
his
Dominions
,
that
would
dare
to
serve
him
in
his
Design
.
Now
the
King
of
France
we
see
has
made
himself
absolute
▪
and
that
as
I
take
it
by
the
help
of
his
Subjects
;
and
why
English
Men
should
not
dare
to
do
any
thing
,
that
the
French
have
done
before
them
,
I
cannot
understand
.
Neither
do
I
find
,
but
a
Popish
King
might
not
only
have
good
Irish
Hands
out
of
his
Dominions
,
but
good
English
ones
too
upon
that
occasion
,
for
besides
his
Popish
Friends
,
we
have
but
too
many
of
all
Religions
,
but
more
of
no
Religion
at
all
,
whose
desperate
Fortunes
would
make
their
hearts
leap
at
so
pleasing
a
motion
,
and
push
for
a
change
at
any
rate
to
fish
in
troubled
Waters
,
and
that
too
notwithstanding
the
hazard
of
their
Necks
,
upon
a
Scheame
of
Law
which
he
proposes
Pag.
40
,
to
be
form'd
for
that
purpose
.
Nay
that
Scheame
of
capital
Laws
should
serve
for
an
incentive
to
their
Resolution
,
and
make
'em
wade
the
deeper
,
the
more
unsafe
and
dangerous
it
should
be
to
retire
.
In
the
foregoing
Page
he
says
,
Mr.
Lest.
that
possibly
there
may
be
a
Popish
King
that
may
not
have
the
will
to
change
the
Government
,
in
respest
of
the
immorality
of
inclinin
to
such
a
violation
of
his
trust
and
word
,
but
most
certainly
not
,
in
regard
of
so
manifest
an
inability
to
bring
it
to
pass
.
Now
't
is
evident
the
Plotters
and
Jesuites
have
not
believed
it
such
an
impossible
exploit
,
and
why
may
not
a
Prince
of
their
own
Opinion
,
and
their
own
Industry
for
Rome
,
upon
the
presumption
of
whose
principles
and
for
whose
sake
their
whole
Machine
moved
;
with
a
Crown
on
his
head
,
and
a
Sword
in
his
hand
believe
as
they
do
?
So
that
were
there
a
real
inability
in
the
case
,
yet
if
the
blindness
of
zeal
and
the
over-sight
of
Ambition
shall
not
distinguish
that
inability
to
be
manifest
till
the
event
&
fatal
success
has
proved
it
so
,
what
shall
that
hinder
his
endeavors
in
attempting
and
prosecuting
it
,
and
then
where
's
the
certainty
of
his
will
against
it
.
And
these
endeavors
once
prosecuted
amidst
all
the
violent
Inrodes
or
subtle
Attaques
that
shall
be
made
for
Popery
and
Slavery
,
no
God
ha'
mercy
to
his
Kindness
for
't
,
it
is
none
of
his
fault
that
he
lays
his
Bones
by
the
seige
,
and
does
not
live
it
out
to
put
us
to
Storm
.
And
I
need
not
insist
how
far
the
Peace
,
Prosperity
and
Freedom
of
this
once
flourishing
Kingdom
will
suffer
under
such
a
seige
and
how
far
they
will
be
dayly
harass'd
and
gall'd
with
so
potent
and
so
pressing
an
Enemy
.
At
best
they
must
expect
to
have
their
Laws
snapt
asunder
as
often
and
as
fast
as
Sampsons
cords
,
and
their
City
gates
in
the
scuffle
twing'd
off
,
and
if
at
last
they
play
the
Philistians
,
and
live
to
pick
out
both
his
Eyes
for
't
,
the
end
of
all
must
terminat
in
Sampsons
fate
,
they
'll
have
an
old
heavy
roof
pull'd
down
both
upon
his
head
and
theirs
together
.
The
next
thing
Mr.
L'estrange
falls
foule
upon
,
are
the
Acts
of
Parliament
recited
in
the
character
,
and
here
he
either
tells
the
Reader
they
are
nothing
to
the
characters
purpose
,
or
if
they
are
,
he
finds
such
flaws
in
the
Law-makers
that
made
them
,
that
they
are
unreasonable
,
and
consequently
void
in
themselves
,
as
you
shall
hear
anon
.
And
so
he
fairly
trips
up
the
heels
of
Kings
,
Lords
and
Commons
at
once
,
and
makes
their
whole
authority
insignificant
because
their
Laws
are
against
Mr.
L'estranges
inclination
.
First
,
he
's
very
angry
with
the
character
,
for
advancing
the
Popish
Succesour
first
from
the
Possibility
of
a
good
man
,
then
from
bad
to
wars
,
and
at
last
to
a
downright
Traitor
:
and
that
from
a
statute
of
Queen
Elizabeth
,
that
declares
every
subject
of
England
,
that
shall
take
absolution
from
Rome
,
or
own
the
▪
Popes
supremacy
,
or
pay
any
Fealty
to
the
See
of
Rome
guilty
of
High
Treason
.
And
then
he
answers
this
by
saying
,
there
are
two
provisoes
in
the
Act
that
makes
the
case
somwhat
different
from
what
the
Characteriser
has
Stated
it
.
viz.
1
Provided
alway
,
that
for
as
much
as
the
Queens
Maiesty
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
compell
any
Temporal
Person
,
of
or
above
the
degrée
of
a
Baron
of
this
Realm
to
take
or
pronounce
the
Dath
abovesaid
,
(
viz.
of
Supremacy
)
nor
to
incur
any
penalty
,
limited
by
this
Act
for
not
taking
or
refusing
the
same
(
&c.
)
2.
Provided
also
,
that
if
any
Péer
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
Tryed
by
their
Péers
,
in
such
manner
and
form
as
in
other
cases
of
Treasons
they
haue
used
to
be
tryed
,
and
by
no
other
means
.
Now
I
would
defie
any
impartial
Reader
to
Judge
if
ever
any
thing
was
so
weakly
and
so
impertinently
urged
as
these
two
Provisoes
.
The
first
tells
you
that
the
Queen
was
so
assured
of
the
Loyalty
of
her
Nobility
,
that
she
would
not
put
them
to
the
trouble
of
Swearing
to
confirm
it
,
as
the
Law
required
from
her
Inferior
Subjects
,
but
on
the
other
side
the
second
Proviso
tells
us
that
notwithstanding
that
,
if
any
of
them
offended
against
the
Law
or
any
Branch
or
Article
of
it
,
they
should
find
no
more
Mercy
than
the
meanest
Commoner
in
her
Kingdom
,
but
be
equally
Tryed
for
High
Treason
.
Now
what
he
drives
at
by
this
objection
or
what
favor
these
Provisoes
make
for
a
Popish
Heir
,
I
declare
I
cannot
Imagine
,
neither
do
I
believe
he
knows
himself
.
Upon
this
he
comes
to
a
touch
of
Conscience
,
and
says
;
It
would
be
well
if
every
man
that
presses
with
this
unprecedented
rigor
upon
the
Person
here
in
Question
,
would
lay
his
hand
upon
his
Heart
,
and
say
,
if
the
King
has
Pardoned
me
Ten
Thousand
times
more
than
this
comes
to
,
with
what
reason
or
Conscience
can
I
Importune
His
Majesty
thus
bitterly
against
his
Brother
.
Ten
Thousand
times
more
than
this
comes
to
,
is
a
very
great
disproportion
.
But
thus
much
I
am
certain
,
for
the
Heir
of
a
Protestant
Kingdom
,
and
the
Son
of
a
Protestant
Martyr
,
to
be
perverted
to
the
Religion
and
Interest
of
Rome
,
so
notoriously
destructive
to
the
English
Government
,
and
thereby
to
be
the
cause
of
all
those
Distractions
in
the
Nation
,
that
tye
up
the
Hearts
and
Hands
of
the
Subject
,
from
their
Duty
to
the
best
of
Princes
,
and
weaken
both
his
greatness
at
home
,
and
his
Alliance
abroad
;
and
not
only
this
,
but
to
be
seduced
to
a
perswasion
,
in
such
a
juncture
of
Affairs
,
on
whose
only
score
,
have
all
the
late
Conspiracies
against
His
Majesties
Sacred
Life
been
contrived
and
animated
,
This
I
say
,
is
bad
enough
,
but
to
find
out
a
man
Guilty
of
Ten
Thousand
times
more
than
this
comes
to
,
and
Pardoned
for
it
too
,
is
(
to
use
his
own
word
)
to
give
us
an
Original
of
an
unprecedented
Criminal
,
and
as
unprecedented
Mercy
.
But
if
he
intends
this
as
a
lash
against
the
Author
of
the
Character
,
I
'le
venture
to
clear
him
,
for
to
my
knowledge
,
he
is
a
Person
so
far
from
laying
his
hand
on
his
Heart
,
and
owing
any
Benefit
to
Royal
Pardons
or
Acts
of
Oblivion
,
that
I
must
say
this
truth
for
him
.
Ianuary
48
was
past
before
he
was
Born.
In
the
next
Page
he
confesses
that
the
Strongest
Argument
he
finds
in
the
whole
Character
is
this
.
Char.
if
ever
a
Papist
mounts
this
Throne
,
then
all
their
murmurs
their
petitions
,
protesting
and
Association
Votes
will
be
remembred
to
the
purpose
,
upon
which
he
makes
this
remark
.
Mr.
L.
Now
what
can
be
a
greater
Indignity
to
the
Iustice
and
Resolution
of
that
Illustrious
Body
(
viz.
the
Parliament
)
then
to
imagine
so
narrow
a
thought
could
any
way
influence
the
Candor
and
Solemnity
of
their
Debates
.
Yes
,
indeed
,
what
greater
indignity
then
to
imagine
it
.
For
if
as
the
Character
says
,
and
Mr.
Lestrange
grants
,
they
will
be
remember'd
to
the
purpose
,
and
the
Heretick
Dogs
,
upon
his
mounting
into
the
Throne
may
live
to
be
hang'd
for
their
Barking
,
what
greater
indignity
to
the
Courage
and
Resolution
of
those
Illustrious
Patriots
then
to
imagine
they
'le
slacken
their
Votes
and
Debates
against
a
Popish
Succession
for
fear
of
his
Revenge
.
So
cowardly
a
thought
indeed
(
as
he
says
)
would
be
too
narrow
for
the
Souls
of
English
Men.
From
this
he
comes
to
the
main
point
the
Characters
proving
the
Succession
of
the
English
Crown
to
be
wholly
subjected
to
the
disposal
Determinations
and
Limitations
of
Parliament
.
The
Parliament
(
says
the
Character
)
25
of
Henry
the
9th
,
setled
the
Crown
upon
the
Heirs
of
that
Kings
Body
by
Queen
Anne
,
and
in
the
28
repealed
that
Act
,
and
intayl'd
the
Succession
upon
the
Heirs
of
his
Body
by
Queen
Jane
,
Mary
and
Elizabeth
being
declared
illegitimate
.
And
in
case
they
died
without
issue
then
the
Parliament
Empowr'd
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
the
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
contain'd
in
that
Act.
But
to
prove
all
this
nothing
to
his
purpose
he
makes
these
six
Objections
.
Mr.
Lest.
First
,
he
says
the
Charasteriser
infers
that
a
Parliament
may
Order
or
Dispose
the
Succession
.
But
whither
they
may
or
no
,
here
's
little
or
nothing
proved
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.
This
first
Objection
has
more
quibble
than
reason
in
it
,
and
deserves
no
serious
Answer
.
For
the
Character
is
so
far
from
starting
up
an
Ordinance
instead
of
an
Act
of
Parliament
,
that
no
man
of
sense
can
extort
any
such
meaning
from
him
.
Secondly
he
says
.
These
Statutes
do
not
so
properly
transfer
a
Right
,
as
declare
and
notify
the
Persons
,
for
the
prevention
of
disputes
and
competitions
,
as
appears
by
the
preamble
to
that
of
the
28th
.
Statute
.
Wherefore
we
your
most
humble
and
obedient
Subiects
,
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
sometimes
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
Emperors
of
this
Realm
;
whereof
hath
ensued
great
Effusion
and
Destruction
of
Mans
Blood
,
as
well
of
the
great
Number
of
Nobles
,
as
of
other
the
Subiects
,
and
especially
Inheritors
in
the
same
,
And
the
greatest
Occasion
thereof
hath
been
,
because
no
perfect
and
substantial
Provision
by
Law
hath
béen
made
within
this
Realm
it self
:
When
doubts
and
questions
have
been
moved
and
proponed
of
the
certainty
and
Legality
of
the
Succession
,
and
Posterity
of
the
Crown
,
&c.
Mr.
L
▪
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
Kings
Highness
in
the
Imperial
Crown
of
this
Realm
.
Mr.
L.
Now
there
's
a
great
deal
of
difference
betwixt
translating
the
Succession
from
the
wrong
to
the
right
,
and
the
diverting
it
from
the
right
to
the
wrong
.
Now
certainly
never
had
any
objection
less
sense
in
it
then
this
,
for
if
this
Act
impowr'd
the
King
upon
the
failure
of
Edward
,
Mary
and
Elizabeth
,
to
give
the
Crown
to
whome
he
pleased
,
as
really
it
did
,
and
that
must
be
expounded
to
give
it
only
to
the
next
right
Heir
.
Now
their
could
be
but
one
right
Heir
in
the
case
,
and
consequently
if
that
right
ought
to
possess
,
the
empowring
the
King
,
to
dispose
of
the
Crown
where
he
pleased
,
was
downright
nonsense
and
a
palpable
contradiction
in
the
very
words
.
So
that
for
instance
had
Henry
the
8th
Upon
presumption
of
this
Act
,
out
of
some
particular
inclination
,
bequeath'd
the
Reversion
of
his
Crown
to
a
Tenth
Cozen
removed
instead
of
a
First
,
and
this
Law
had
been
to
have
been
read
by
Mr.
L'estranges
Spectacles
,
the
very
end
they
made
it
for
,
(
viz.
)
to
keep
peace
and
quiet
had
been
utterly
destroy'd
;
for
instead
of
Reconciling
all
differences
between
future
pretenders
,
and
fixing
the
succession
,
it
had
only
given
new
occasions
for
fresh
Feuds
,
and
so
the
Parliament
had
only
wisely
made
an
Act
to
ruine
the
very
intent
of
it's
Creation
.
Mr.
L.
Thirdly
,
this
change
and
disposition
of
settlement
though
it
pased
all
the
formalityes
of
Bill
and
Debate
,
yet
the
First
spring
of
it
was
from
their
certain
knowledge
of
the
Kings
Pleasure
to
have
it
so
,
without
which
they
durst
never
have
ventred
on
such
a
proposition
.
Mr.
L.
Fourthly
,
matter
of
Fact
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
Councels
and
that
humor
of
Swearing
and
Counter-swearing
could
be
any
other
than
the
caprice
of
their
new
Head
and
Governor
.
Now
pray
observe
the
slyness
of
this
slur
he
puts
upon
Majesty
:
He
cunningly
insinuates
that
Matter
of
Fact
may
not
be
Matter
of
Right
,
and
that
when
the
Humor
,
Caprice
or
Pleasure
of
a
King
influences
the
Votes
of
his
Parliament
to
make
it
so
.
Now
upon
concession
of
Mr.
Lestranges
opinion
,
here
's
a
broad
gate
opened
for
a
Rebellion
;
for
by
his
Argument
't
is
but
disallowing
the
rightfulness
of
Hearth
money
,
and
indeed
almost
all
the
rest
of
the
Kings
Revenues
because
the
King
generally
askt
the
Parliament
money
first
,
and
so
since
the
first
spring
of
those
grants
were
from
the
knowledge
of
the
Kings
pleasure
to
have
it
so
,
't
is
but
Mr.
L'estranges
denying
the
matter
of
right
in
this
case
,
and
so
he
makes
the
King
a
Tyrant
to
demand
his
own
,
and
thereupon
encourages
the
Subject
to
the
most
impudent
undutifulness
and
disloyalty
in
nature
.
Now
those
cross
Capers
and
contradictions
,
as
he
calls
them
,
in
declaring
the
same
Persons
one
while
Illegitimate
and
afterwards
legitimate
is
one
of
the
greatest
Arguments
that
the
conservation
of
a
Nations
Peace
,
was
held
a
greater
piece
of
Conscience
in
that
Age
,
then
the
maintaining
the
right
of
Blood
,
when
Illegitimacy
it self
upon
occasion
could
be
restored
to
the
power
of
Succession
.
Neither
was
there
any
such
Swearing
or
Counter-swearing
or
any
such
levity
(
as
he
calls
it
)
in
that
grave
Assembly
,
for
the
Oath
they
enjoyn'd
the
People
in
fidelity
to
the
Kings
Heirs
could
have
no
other
meaning
than
whilst
they
were
Lawfully
so
,
and
in
all
Justice
the
Obligation
of
it
expired
in
course
,
when
the
Law
declared
them
no
longer
such
.
Nor
was
it
indeed
any
more
than
the
Tenure
of
our
present
Oath
of
Allegiance
,
in
which
we
swear
to
be
faithful
to
the
King
's
lawful
Heirs
and
Successors
,
which
the
Ignorance
of
some
People
has
used
as
an
Argument
against
the
changing
of
Succession
;
as
thinking
they
have
sworn
fealty
to
the
next
of
Blood
,
whereas
in
reality
there
's
nothing
in
that
Oath
that
binds
them
to
the
Person
but
the
Thing
,
to
no
particular
Man
any
further
than
as
he
is
Heir
and
Successor
,
Lawfully
so
,
and
no
Man
truly
is
either
Heir
or
Successor
til
he
Inherits
and
Succeeds
,
and
as
't
is
most
ridiculous
to
think
the
intent
of
an
Oath
of
Allegiance
is
to
make
a
Man
Swear
Loyalty
to
a
fellow
Subject
,
as
as
the
greatest
Heir
apparent
is
no
more
whilst
the
King
Lives
,
so
the
duty
of
that
part
of
the
Oath
cannot
necessarily
be
understood
to
commence
or
take
effect
till
the
present
Kings
death
,
and
then
if
in
the
mean
while
the
absolute
Power
of
the
Land
,
the
King
,
Lords
and
Commons
have
constituted
a
new
Heir
and
Successor
,
the
obligation
of
that
Oath
of
Allegiance
can
have
no
other
Aspect
,
then
to
the
Heir
and
Successor
so
constituted
.
Mr.
Lest
,
fithly
,
with
Reverence
to
the
utility
and
constitution
of
good
and
wholesome
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
Nullities
in
themselves
.
Now
here
's
one
of
the
boldest
Master
strokes
of
the
pen
that
ever
came
in
print
.
This
point
once
gain'd
,
all
the
Protestant
Laws
since
the
reformation
,
and
the
whole
fabrick
of
the
present
Government
are
totally
subverted
.
'T
is
but
a
Popish
Successors
believing
aud
maintaining
that
all
the
Protestant
Laws
ever
since
Henry
the
8ths
.
perversion
are
against
the
light
of
nature
,
and
consequently
Nullites
in
themselves
:
So
down
goes
the
Protestant
Church
,
up
start
the
old
Statutes
de
Haeretico
comburendo
,
the
old
Smith
field
Fire-works
,
whilst
Popery
comes
in
in
the
open
face
of
day
most
triumphantly
introduced
even
by
the
awful
Divinity
of
Law
and
Justice
for
its
Supporters
.
So
that
after
all
Mr.
Lestranges
Vindication
of
the
Honor
,
Honesty
,
Veneration
of
Oathes
,
Performance
of
Laws
,
and
Preservation
of
the
Protestant
Religion
in
a
Popish
Successor
,
he
has
very
subtly
sound
him
out
an
Evasion
to
be
a
greater
Tyrant
and
Devil
than
the
Author
of
the
Character
could
paint
him
,
and
that
too
with
all
the
Innocence
in
the
World
,
and
even
without
the
least
Blemish
of
Infidelity
.
But
to
come
a
little
nearer
to
him
,
in
the
first
Place
these
Acts
for
the
settlement
of
the
Crown
were
so
far
from
being
repugnant
to
the
Light
of
nature
,
that
on
the
contrary
't
is
evidently
manifest
that
the
Law-Makers
that
made
e'm
mov'd
by
no
other
Guide
or
Light
but
that
.
For
since
self
Preservation
is
the
first
and
greatest
thing
that
the
light
of
nature
teaches
all
Mankind
,
the
very
preamble
to
the
Acts
confirm
us
that
the
preservation
of
themselves
and
their
Heirs
in
Peace
and
Tranquillity
,
and
to
avoid
the
future
Effusion
of
English
Blood
,
was
the
sole
End
and
Design
of
those
Acts.
Secondly
these
Acts
have
nothing
repugnant
or
destructive
of
common
right
.
For
if
by
common
right
,
he
implies
a
right
to
any
possession
or
pretension
derived
from
human
Power
and
the
Laws
of
Man
,
then
't
is
plain
by
the
Constitution
of
our
Government
,
where
our
Laws
are
not
like
these
of
the
Medes
and
Persians
,
that
the
Law-makers
that
gave
can
take
,
and
in
that
respect
there
's
no
right
so
firm
,
which
the
absolute
Power
of
the
Law
lying
in
the
three
States
in
Parliament
cannot
shake
.
But
if
by
common
right
he
means
a
right
derived
from
the
Laws
or
Commands
of
God
,
and
therefore
those
Acts
of
Parliament
are
nullities
in
themselves
,
because
repugnant
to
the
Rules
and
Duty
of
Christianity
.
Then
he
would
do
well
to
tell
us
when
that
Law
of
God
was
made
or
that
Command
given
.
But
that
there
is
no
such
Law
nor
any
such
Rules
of
Christianity
is
plainly
to
be
demonstrated
from
the
most
eminent
precedents
of
holy
writ
;
where
we
find
proximity
of
blood
has
been
so
far
from
challenging
that
unalterable
Right
of
Empire
that
on
the
other
side
there
have
been
several
Changes
of
Kings
made
in
that
case
even
amongst
Gods
own
People
and
that
always
by
his
Consent
,
and
sometimes
by
his
special
Order
.
Besides
if
any
such
Law
of
God
had
been
made
,
and
left
us
in
holy
Scripture
,
't
is
certain
that
Law
ought
to
have
no
more
obligation
over
one
Christian
Kingdom
than
another
,
and
then
consequently
Venice
and
Holland
that
have
no
Kings
at
all
,
and
Poland
that
always
elect
their
Kings
,
by
Mr.
Lestranges
Inference
live
Age
after
Age
in
continual
Violation
of
Common
Right
,
the
Duty
of
Christians
,
and
the
Laws
of
God.
I
do
confess
I
have
heard
of
a
Command
of
Christ
that
says
,
Let
every
Soule
be
subject
unto
the
higher
Powers
;
for
there
is
no
Power
but
of
God
;
whosoever
therefore
resisteth
the
Power
resisteth
the
Ordinance
of
God
,
and
they
that
resist
shall
receive
to
themselves
Damnation
;
and
therefore
if
the
higher
Powers
of
England
the
King
,
Lords
and
Commons
are
an
Ordinance
of
God
too
,
it
is
an
Article
of
my
Creed
,
That
he
that
denies
their
Authority
and
Power
,
and
not
content
with
that
only
,
endeavors
to
perswade
and
seduce
the
rest
of
his
fellow
subjects
to
the
same
denial
is
not
only
a
Traitor
to
his
Country
,
but
from
Christs
own
Sentence
shall
receive
,
if
possibly
,
a
double
Portion
of
Damnation
.
But
now
for
his
Sixth
Observation
on
this
Statute
.
Mr.
L.
Lastly
he
brings
instance
here
to
prove
that
a
Parliament
may
divert
the
succession
,
but
he
shows
withal
,
that
there
can
be
no
security
even
in
that
Exclusion
,
showing
that
what
one
Parliament
does
another
may
undo
,
so
that
now
we
are
upon
equall
Tearms
of
security
or
hazard
,
either
in
the
exclusion
of
the
successor
or
in
restraining
him
,
for
if
he
be
tyed
up
by
one
Parliament
,
another
may
set
him
at
Liberty
;
and
if
he
be
excluded
by
one
Parliament
,
another
may
take
him
in
again
.
Now
certainly
this
is
the
most
comical
humor
I
ever
met
with
,
to
advise
a
Parliament
to
have
a
care
of
excluding
a
Papist
for
fear
another
Parliament
restore
him
.
Perswade
e'm
to
fear
that
once
,
and
make
e'm
Jealous
of
fancyes
and
Chimeras
indeed
.
But
to
dissipate
all
shadows
of
any
such
dangers
,
there
are
some
heads
as
wise
as
Mr.
L'estranges
(
no
disparagment
)
that
are
of
opinion
if
one
English
Parliament
once
exclude
a
Popish
successor
we
may
safely
defy
Five
Hundred
Parliaments
afterwards
to
restore
him
.
The
disinheriting
of
a
Popish
successor
being
a
kind
of
Limbus
,
that
if
we
have
once
got
him
into
it
,
't
is
damnable
odds
that
all
the
intrest
of
Rome
with
Ten
Millions
of
Masses
never
get
him
out
of
it
.
I
must
confess
if
we
could
have
a
Parliament
of
Mr.
L'estranges
particular
choosing
,
the
Consistory
of
Cardinals
for
the
House
of
Lords
,
and
St
Omers
Colledge
for
the
House
of
Commons
much
might
be
;
but
till
then
we
are
pretty
safe
in
that
point
.
But
amongst
all
Mr.
L'estranges
despicable
thoughts
of
the
Decrees
and
power
of
Parliaments
in
Henry
the
Eight's
days
,
he
clearly
forgets
to
answer
that
Act
of
Parliament
of
Queen
Elizabeths
mentioned
in
the
Character
,
in
which
't
was
made
Treason
for
any
man
to
affirm
that
the
disposal
of
the
Imperial
Crown
of
England
lay
not
in
the
Queen
and
Parliament
,
and
indeed
that
Act
comes
so
near
the
present
face
of
the
affairs
in
England
,
that
it
was
made
upon
the
selfe
same
occasion
,
that
the
Bill
of
Exclusion
was
endeavour'd
by
the
late
Parliaments
,
(
viz.
)
with
an
intention
of
putting
by
Mary
Queen
of
Scots
the
then
next
Popish
Heir
from
the
Succession
,
had
not
her
Conspiracy
against
the
Life
of
the
Queen
,
put
an
end
to
all
farther
care
,
by
the
forefeiture
of
her
head
.
But
these
Six
Objections
with
the
help
of
Common
Right
and
the
Light
of
Nature
may
serve
to
answer
both
;
and
truly
Mr.
L'estrange
has
given
us
the
top
of
his
Politicks
,
and
the
utmost
strength
of
his
Reason
for
the
defence
of
a
Popish
Successor
,
in
opposition
even
to
the
Supreme
Authority
of
the
Nation
,
and
against
all
the
precedents
of
Laws
and
History
.
But
alas
!
what
signifies
Supreme
Authority
,
Presidents
,
Laws
,
&c.
There
's
nothing
so
sacred
which
stands
in
their
way
,
that
the
Champions
of
Rome
must
not
endeavor
to
overthrow
,
and
when
the
Popish
Interest
cries
Halloo
,
they
must
Bark
at
least
though
they
cannot
Bite
.
Now
't
is
plainly
to
be
discovered
at
what
Foundation
he
strikes
,
by
lessening
and
enfeebling
the
Legislative
Power
of
the
Nation
,
and
though
he
wisely
lays
the
Scene
at
such
distance
as
the
remoter
Age
of
Henry
the
8th
,
yet
we
understand
where
he
aims
the
lash
he
gives
,
and
what
Gall
his
Ink's
made
of
.
But
truly
in
his
Remarks
and
Reflections
upon
the
Capriches
(
as
he
calls
them
)
of
Henry
the
8th
,
with
the
weakness
of
his
great
Council
,
the
shallowness
of
their
Debates
,
and
the
invalidity
of
their
decrees
,
he
chooses
the
safer
Subject
.
The
Majesty
he
reviles
,
and
the
Authority
he
ridicules
,
being
so
long
since
inoffensive
Dust
and
Ashes
,
that
he
has
this
Reason
for
his
Boldness
,
and
this
shield
for
his
Defence
.
Nulli
gravis
est
percussus
Achilles
.
But
to
answer
those
strait-laced
Consciences
that
so
vehemently
maintain
and
assert
Succession
to
be
Iure
Divino
,
and
cannot
be
alter'd
by
any
human
Laws
,
I
will
put
this
instance
.
Suppose
a
King
has
two
Sons
,
the
eldest
of
which
,
ambitious
of
a
Crown
,
and
mislead
by
the
ill
Counsel
of
his
Priests
,
favourites
or
the
like
,
conspires
to
depose
his
Father
,
and
in
Order
thereunto
,
confederates
with
some
neighbouring
Monarch
;
who
upon
assurance
given
him
,
by
this
Aspirer
of
resigning
of
some
part
of
his
Dominions
to
him
,
or
becoming
tributary
to
him
,
furnishes
him
with
Money
and
Men
,
by
which
assistance
he
flies
out
into
an
open
Rebellion
against
his
Father
,
upon
w
ch
the
Father
commissions
his
younger
Son
to
fight
this
Rebel
Prince
,
who
beats
him
,
and
makes
him
fly
out
of
his
fathers
Dominions
to
that
confederate
neighbours
Protection
,
upon
which
the
King
with
the
unanimous
consent
of
his
loyal
Subjects
passes
an
Act
for
a
total
Exclusion
of
the
Elder
son
from
the
Crown
,
and
to
place
the
Succession
in
the
younger
.
Now
will
any
Man
say
that
this
is
not
warrantable
and
just
both
by
the
Laws
of
God
and
Man.
For
if
it
be
unwarantable
,
and
that
this
Rebel
Prince
must
still
suceeed
,
then
consider
what
follows
.
Frst
,
here
's
a
manifest
obstructing
of
the
distribution
of
the
greatest
Justice
both
human
and
divine
.
For
whilst
this
Prince
continues
safe
by
his
Flight
,
and
his
forreign
Protection
,
from
any
personal
Sufferance
for
his
Crimes
,
and
at
the
same
time
't
is
granted
he
cannot
suffer
in
his
Birthright
,
then
this
indispensable
continuation
of
succession
confers
the
greatest
Earthly
felicity
and
reward
viz.
a
Diadem
on
the
greatest
of
Criminals
,
one
Doubly
a
Traitor
not
only
against
the
Lords
anointed
,
but
even
to
the
Fountain
of
his
own
Royal
Blood
,
and
the
Author
of
his
being
,
a
Father
.
Secondly
;
it
makes
crown'd
Heads
the
most
miserable
State
of
all
man
kind
;
nay
they
are
below
the
meanest
Peasant
in
their
Kingdoms
:
For
the
vengeance
of
a
Subject
,
having
the
Power
to
disinherit
,
shall
persue
a
Rebel
son
even
to
the
East
Indies
,
whilst
a
King
,
who
they
say
,
has
,
or
should
have
long
hands
shall
notwith
all
his
thunder
reach
the
worst
of
rebels
cross
the
next
Sea
,
or
perhaps
the
next
County
.
So
that
where
's
their
boasting
themselves
to
be
Gods
Vicegerents
,
when
they
alone
of
all
Men
are
most
debarred
that
greatest
Prerogative
of
a
Diety
,
REVENGE
.
3d
,
By
this
means
Majesty
that
should
be
most
sacred
,
and
the
person
of
it
most
religiously
guarded
,
and
defended
,
lies
more
exposed
than
all
Mankind
besides
,
for
if
it
be
true
that
.
Filius
ante
diem
patrios
inquirit
in
annos
.
And
the
lust
of
Inheritance
makes
the
Blood
of
the
Impatient
Heir
boil
high
for
possession
,
then
't
is
most
true
,
where
the
Inheritance
is
Greatest
,
and
the
Temptation
Strongest
,
as
in
the
case
of
a
Crown
,
that
there
the
Blood
boiles
highest
.
And
if
so
,
and
Birth-right
be
still
unforfitable
,
then
to
the
strongest
Temptation
here
's
the
least
danger
,
and
the
greatest
Encouragement
for
gratifying
that
lust
,
and
accomplishing
all
such
tempting
desires
.
So
that
upon
this
position
,
who
so
arm'd
for
a
Traitor
as
he
that
's
Born
to
a
Crown
,
and
who
so
unsafe
as
he
that
wears
it
.
But
surely
't
is
inconsistant
with
that
particular
care
,
that
God
takes
for
the
Preservation
of
Kings
,
to
entail
that
Ius
Divinum
upon
them
,
that
places
them
infra
statum
Humanum
.
However
to
give
a
little
clearer
light
into
this
great
point
of
Succession
I
shall
trouble
my
Reader
with
one
instance
more
.
It
cannot
be
disputed
but
that
either
Queen
Mary
or
Queen
Elizabeth
did
succeed
to
the
Imperial
Crown
of
England
not
by
Divine
Right
of
Succession
,
since
Queen
Elizabeth
was
Born
whilst
Queen
Katharine
the
Mother
of
Queen
Mary
was
living
,
but
one
of
them
must
undoubtedly
enjoy
the
Crown
Iure
Parliamentario
:
if
the
latter
,
(
as
cannot
be
denyed
)
and
that
Succession
is
Iure
Divino
,
then
she
was
an
Usurpess
upon
the
Right
of
the
House
of
Scotland
:
and
what
then
is
the
consequence
of
all
this
!
First
,
it
shakes
,
and
strikes
at
the
Foundation
of
the
Church
of
England
,
which
derives
all
its
Power
and
Authority
from
the
Crown
which
began
in
King
Henry
the
8ths
,
and
were
more
fully
confirmd
by
Queen
Elizabeth
,
and
therefore
the
Church
of
England
was
setled
by
a
Princess
de
facto
and
not
de
jure
,
insomuch
that
it
undermines
the
very
basis
of
the
Hierarchy
and
Ecclesiastick
power
,
and
the
order
of
the
whole
Clergy
,
who
derive
their
Distinctions
and
Ordinations
from
that
Queen
.
2ly
.
It
may
call
in
Question
all
the
Grants
of
that
Queen
,
which
have
not
been
confirmed
by
the
Scottish
Line
,
and
destroy
the
many
and
great
Priviledges
conferr'd
on
both
the
Universities
.
3ly
.
According
to
the
Rule
of
Ius
Divinum
it
may
raise
a
Question
hereafter
of
what
validity
those
Honors
are
which
that
Queen
was
pleased
to
confer
upon
several
great
and
eminent
Families
.
Lastly
it
would
well
become
many
worthy
and
learned
Men
seriously
to
consider
whether
they
do
not
labor
to
do
the
Work
and
Drudgery
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
who
assert
so
fatal
a
Principle
,
whereby
they
make
Queen
Elizabeth
an
Usurpress
,
and
build
the
superstructure
of
the
Protestant
Religion
,
the
right
of
the
Church
,
and
the
Legality
of
the
whole
Clergy
of
England
,
upon
such
a
sandy
and
ruinous
Foundation
as
the
High
and
Mighty
Ius
Divinum
.
But
if
we
will
allow
that
Princess
our
lawful
Queen
,
which
I
hope
no
Man
will
have
the
Impudence
to
deny
,
then
the
disposal
of
the
Crown
by
Parliament
is
just
.
But
if
Ius
Divinum
that
lay
buried
44
Years
together
must
make
a
Resurrection
in
our
present
Distractions
of
England
,
and
both
Honor
and
Conscience
render
an
exclusion
Bill
unlawful
,
how
came
the
proposition
of
making
a
Popish
Successor
but
a
Nominal
Prince
,
and
setling
the
Administration
in
Protestant
hands
:
If
that
may
be
,
then
here
's
Ius
Divinum
quite
laid
aside
:
for
Divine
Right
of
Birth
entitles
a
Prince
to
the
power
as
well
as
the
name
of
a
King
,
and
if
that
right
be
sacred
and
inviolable
,
no
one
part
of
it
more
than
another
ought
or
can
lawfully
be
alienated
.
But
if
the
greatest
part
of
it
be
by
the
greatest
Authority
allow'd
justly
Alienable
by
Act
of
Parliament
,
there
's
an
end
of
all
Divine
Right
,
and
a
concession
of
the
Iurisdiction
of
Parliaments
,
insomuch
that
if
they
may
legally
take
away
the
Kernel
,
and
leave
only
the
Husk
of
Succession
,
by
the
same
Authority
they
may
as
well
take
away
both
:
and
a
total
Exclusion
is
no
more
repugnant
to
Honor
or
Conscience
then
an
Exclusion
in
part
.
But
if
any
Man
has
a
curiosity
to
examine
the
Effects
of
Exclusions
in
part
,
viz.
Limitations
and
Restrictions
that
have
been
put
upon
the
English
Crown
,
I
will
only
advise
him
cursorly
to
run
over
the
contests
between
King
Iohn
and
the
Barons
;
Henry
the
3d
,
Edward
the
2d
,
and
Richard
the
2d
and
their
Barons
,
and
the
troubles
of
Henry
the
6th
,
and
the
several
Agreements
made
between
him
and
the
D.
of
York
,
and
he
'le
easily
satisfie
himself
that
notwithstanding
the
several
Agreements
Restraints
and
Limitations
put
upon
the
Crown
,
and
those
confirm'd
not
only
by
Acts
of
Parliament
but
solemnly
ratifyed
in
the
Face
of
Heaven
by
many
Oaths
and
dreadful
Excommunications
by
the
Church
,
yet
none
ever
held
:
but
so
soon
as
those
Parliaments
were
dissolved
,
or
the
first
opportunity
or
advantage
happen'd
,
those
Kings
by
the
ill
advice
of
their
Favourites
and
Minions
broke
all
,
whereupon
both
parties
flying
to
Arms
,
the
King
accusing
them
of
Treason
,
and
they
Him
of
Perjury
,
the
rise
of
all
those
long
and
bloody
Civil
Wars
had
no
other
ground
but
this
.
But
to
back
his
last
six
Arguments
in
defence
of
the
Succession
we
find
him
for
the
next
three
or
four
Pages
together
corroborating
his
Opinion
with
the
practice
of
the
primitive
Christians
.
First
he
tells
you
'tis
a
Gospel
precept
not
to
do
ill
that
good
may
come
of
it
,
such
as
the
unwarrantable
devesting
of
a
Prince
of
his
Birthright
though
for
any
safety
or
preservation
whatever
.
So
that
in
the
case
of
England
supposing
it
would
come
at
last
to
a
down-right
persecution
under
a
Popish
Successor
,
yet
to
stand
upon
our
Guards
to
prevent
it
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
therefore
(
as
he
says
in
another
place
)
't
is
our
Duty
to
bless
God
for
the
Peace
and
Happiness
we
now
enjoy
,
and
rather
wait
his
farther
pleasure
with
thankfulness
and
resignation
,
then
with
murmuring
and
a●●trust
to
Anticipate
future
Evils
and
Prejudge
Providences
to
come
.
Now
never
was
any
thing
more
plausibly
managed
to
so
little
purpose
,
for
the
Correspondence
between
ours
and
the
primitive
Christians
case
is
here
so
incoherently
Ballanced
,
that
never
were
Arguments
more
Sophistical
.
The
primitive
Christians
preacht
Obedience
to
Nero
,
yes
,
and
they
had
forfeited
their
Christianity
if
they
had
done
otherwise
,
but
what
was
that
Nero
,
an
absolute
Monarch
:
and
what
those
primitive
Bishops
?
not
such
as
ours
,
they
were
not
a
part
of
the
Legislative
Power
of
the
Nation
,
as
our
Prelates
are
.
If
Nero
invented
Wracks
,
Tortures
and
Gibbets
for
persecuting
or
murdering
the
poor
Christians
,
he
did
it
by
his
own
uncontroulable
Authority
,
nor
were
those
primitive
Bishops
call'd
to
make
Laws
,
and
therefore
had
not
the
lawful
power
of
the
least
Vote
in
Moderation
of
Neroes
Cruelty
,
or
in
Redress
of
the
Christians
Torments
.
I
am
sure
if
they
had
had
any
such
voting
or
law-making
Power
,
and
yet
out
of
a
base
principle
of
cowardly
Fear
on
one
side
,
and
like
fordid
Sycophants
out
of
a
servile
Flattery
of
Neroes
barbarous
Inclinations
on
the
other
side
,
had
neglected
the
means
,
(
as
much
as
in
them
lay
)
of
preventing
those
Persecutions
,
they
had
been
rather
Wolves
then
Shepherds
over
the
flock
of
Christ
,
and
Accessaries
to
all
those
Butcheries
that
Nero
committed
against
them
.
For
not
to
oppose
where
opposition
is
lawful
,
is
to
permit
,
and
to
permit
is
to
Act.
So
that
there
would
not
have
been
that
Engine
made
to
rend
the
Tortured
Christians
Bones
,
that
they
them selves
in
so
doing
had
not
lent
a
helping
hand
to
the
winding
of
it
up
.
Nor
is
it
to
be
doubted
but
that
if
those
Primitive
Prelates
had
had
those
Sacred
Recorded
Statutes
,
those
Royal
decrees
,
Presidents
and
Laws
before
'em
,
wherin
the
disposal
of
the
Crown
under
which
they
lived
had
lain
in
the
Absolute
Power
of
the
Nation
,
it
being
declared
no
less
then
Treason
to
deny
it
,
and
that
the
Kingdoms
safety
in
despight
of
Birth-right
had
sometimes
Authorized
the
change
of
the
Sucession
;
had
these
Prelates
,
I
say
,
lived
under
such
a
Government
,
and
at
the
same
time
sat
at
the
Helm
like
ours
,
it
is
to
be
presumed
upon
the
certain
prospect
of
a
next
Successor
of
known
Principles
of
Barbarity
and
persecution
,
with
the
Innate
implacable
inveteracy
against
Christians
and
Christianity
;
they
would
boldly
and
unanimously
have
endeavored
and
Voted
for
his
Removal
,
and
whatever
Obedience
they
Preacht
to
a
Nero
upon
a
Throne
,
they
would
have
thought
it
neither
an
Obligation
of
Conscience
or
Christianity
to
have
lent
their
Assistance
to
the
mounting
a
Nero
into
a
Throne
.
So
that
't
is
more
than
likely
under
such
a
Power
and
such
Circumstances
they
would
have
stood
upon
their
Guards
,
(
as
the
Character
says
)
against
so
dangerous
and
so
fatal
a
Succession
;
not
stood
upon
their
Guards
,
as
Mr.
Lestrange
interprets
it
,
with
their
Swords
in
their
hands
,
but
as
the
Author
meant
it
,
with
their
Eyes
and
Tongues
in
their
heads
and
resolution
in
their
Soules
,
to
see
the
real
dangers
themselves
and
their
Religion
are
in
,
and
to
propose
and
provide
all
lawful
and
necessary
means
to
prevent
them
.
Nor
would
they
upon
second
thoughts
with
Mr.
Lestranges
tender
Conscience
have
judged
this
legal
&
manly
Resolution
in
defence
of
their
Religion
to
fall
under
the
Premunire
mention'd
in
the
3d.
P.
of
his
Book
,
a
Prostituting
of
their
Soules
to
save
their
Skins
and
Fortunes
.
This
I
am
sure
,
they
could
never
with
Reason
or
Religion
have
judged
it
any
such
Prostitution
,
but
if
they
had
made
Religion
and
Conscience
the
Pretence
to
judge
it
so
,
and
thereupon
had
directed
and
managed
all
their
Studies
,
Labors
,
Endeavors
,
Votings
,
Preachings
,
Insinuations
and
Encouragements
for
the
Establishment
of
such
a
Successor
,
they
might
very
seasonably
fall
under
as
severe
a
scandal
,
and
I
am
sure
as
justly
deserved
,
as
what
Mr.
Lestrange
has
given
the
Fanaticks
under
the
Name
of
Papists
in
Masquerade
;
for
in
this
case
the
wiser
part
of
the
World
would
have
shrewdly
suspected
they
had
been
more
Heathens
in
Masquerade
,
than
Christians
.
Neither
is
there
(
by
Mr.
Lestranges
Permission
)
that
incumbent
Duty
upon
Christianity
,
to
be
so
wholly
employ'd
in
blessing
God
for
our
present
Peace
and
Prosperity
,
as
to
wait
his
farther
Pleasure
and
Providences
to
come
with
so
intire
a
Resignation
,
till
we
neglect
a
lawful
Preservation
when
approaching
Ruine
threatens
us
;
he
that
by
the
Blessing
of
God
stands
upon
the
firm
Shore
and
sees
that
terrible
and
unusual
Torrent
come
rowling
on
,
which
in
Probability
may
break
the
banks
and
drown
him
,
is
so
far
from
being
oblidged
to
an
idle
standing
still
,
and
a
resignation
to
the
will
of
Providence
,
whether
the
Innundation
shall
break
in
,
and
he
sink
or
swim
:
That
if
he
miscarries
by
that
idle
neglect
of
himself
,
it
will
not
at
all
clear
him
from
being
accessary
to
his
own
destruction
,
(
and
therefore
answerable
for
it
)
by
excusing
himself
to
God
,
and
saying
,
Lord
,
I
submitted
to
thy
pleasure
.
From
this
we
come
to
the
Characters
Doctrin
of
Passive
Obedience
,
which
the
Character
avows
may
be
laid
aside
under
the
Tyranny
of
a
Popish
Succession
;
in
answer
to
which
we
have
Mr.
L'estrange
very
severe
against
him
,
for
so
bold
and
so
dangerous
a
position
,
and
perhaps
if
there
be
any
glimpse
of
Reason
throughout
his
whole
answer
't
is
there
;
but
however
that
the
Authors
Opinion
may
not
appear
so
strangely
enormous
,
nor
his
position
so
wholly
destructive
to
Government
,
and
so
opposite
to
Christianity
,
as
his
answer
would
render
it
;
let
us
venture
to
make
a
little
explanation
of
the
Character
.
First
then
to
distinguish
what
that
Tyranny
is
which
he
justifies
we
may
lawfully
oppose
,
and
what
Invasion
that
,
we
may
justly
repel
,
I
must
refer
the
Reader
to
the
Character
page
22d
.
Char.
What
does
this
Popish
King
by
admitting
the
Popes
Supremacy
,
but
divest
himself
of
half
his
Royalty
,
whilst
like
the
Junior
King
of
Brentford
in
the
play
he
resigns
and
alienates
the
Right
hand
power
of
Majesty
to
an
Invader
and
Usurper
;
and
thus
we
are
enslaved
by
a
medley
Government
betwixt
Tyranny
and
Usurpation
.
and
again
.
page
6.
Char.
If
he
be
a
Man
of
Justice
that
still
makes
for
Rome
,
for
whilst
he
believes
the
Pope
to
be
Christs
lawful
Vicar
,
and
that
Office
includes
the
Ecclesiastick
Supremacy
,
no
doubt
but
he
'le
think
it
as
much
the
duty
of
his
Christianity
to
give
the
Pope
his
right
as
to
take
his
own
.
So
that
upon
this
supposition
of
the
Popes
Supremacy
restored
,
the
Author
has
stated
both
our
Tyrants
and
our
Slavery
.
But
to
return
to
Mr.
L'estrange
.
page
73.
Mr.
L.
In
our
Oath
of
Supremacy
we
swear
that
the
King
is
the
ONLY
SUPREME
,
Governor
SUPREME
,
so
none
,
(
not
the
Pope
)
above
him
,
and
ONLY
SUPREME
,
so
none
coordinate
or
equal
with
him
.
If
so
,
and
the
King
is
Supreme
Governor
Ecclesiastick
and
Civil
,
and
a
Popish
King
notwithstanding
shall
alienate
half
his
Supremacy
to
the
Pope
,
then
the
Pope
is
co-King
with
him
;
and
that
it
may
not
be
objected
that
Supream
Ecclesiastick
Power
is
not
Kingly
Power
,
where
the
Highest
and
last
Appeal
lyes
,
there
lyes
Royal
Power
,
and
therefore
whilst
the
highest
and
last
appeal
in
all
causes
Ecclesiastick
,
in
such
a
Government
is
lodged
in
the
Pope
his
Power
is
Royal.
For
it
would
be
very
absurd
to
say
that
a
Supreme
Moderator
in
causes
betwixt
Man
and
Man
should
be
a
Kingly
Governor
,
and
a
Supreme
Moderator
in
causes
between
God
and
Man
should
be
none
.
That
were
to
place
a
Majesty
in
that
Authority
that
says
Thou
shalt
not
steal
,
and
none
in
that
that
says
Thou
shalt
have
no
other
Gods
but
me
.
'T
is
true
the
Pope
to
mince
the
matter
,
and
to
Sham
upon
those
Romish
Kings
that
Admit
of
his
Church
Supremacy
,
very
cunningly
usurps
the
Prerogative
without
the
Name
,
and
therefore
wherever
he
is
Supream
Iudge
,
he
lets
the
Temporal
Soveraignty
be
still
the
Supream
Sheriff
,
for
whereever
his
Tribunal
condemns
,
the
Popish
King
is
Hangman
Generalissimo
to
execute
.
Yet
still
in
reality
his
Power
is
never
the
less
Kingly
,
when
we
see
that
this
Popish
Executioner
under
him
,
is
so
far
from
the
Exercise
of
any
Regal
Authority
in
his
Sheriffalty
,
that
he
's
but
a
substitute
of
the
Popes
,
and
accountable
to
the
Pope
for
the
least
neglect
or
misdemeanor
in
his
office
of
that
kind
,
so
that
the
reestablishment
of
the
Popes
Supremacy
here
,
is
setting
up
a
new
Kingly
Power
.
But
by
what
Title
?
None
.
For
granting
his
Supremacy
of
old
was
his
right
whilst
he
possest
it
,
yet
considering
that
right
has
been
lost
above
a
Hundred
years
together
,
by
the
Laws
of
Conquest
't
is
now
wholly
expired
,
and
he
can
lay
no
more
claim
or
pretence
to
't
after
so
long
an
alienation
,
then
the
Christians
to
Constantinople
,
or
the
Danes
or
Saxons
to
England
.
Now
't
is
a
known
Maxim
in
England
that
a
King
of
himself
cannot
give
,
sell
,
or
alienate
all
,
or
part
of
his
hereditary
Soveraign
Power
,
neither
can
he
any
more
restore
the
Pope
(
out
of
a
freak
of
conscience
)
to
his
Supremacy
,
or
his
Abby
Lubbers
to
their
old
fat
pastures
,
then
he
can
say
to
the
Duke
of
Saxony
,
Sir
,
lay
claim
to
half
England
and
't
is
yours
,
and
therefore
land
a
colony
in
the
West
of
England
,
and
Crown
your self
King
there
,
whilst
I
content
my self
with
the
Soveraignty
of
York-shire
,
and
two
or
three
more
Northern
Counties
about
it
.
Nay
suppose
a
King
should
say
so
,
and
this
Saxon
Prince
upon
that
presumption
should
come
,
and
make
a
Seisure
,
there
's
never
a
Subject
in
England
,
notwithstanding
their
Lawful
Soveraigns
special
Gommand
to
them
to
yeeld
Obedience
to
this
usurping
invading
Saxon
,
that
may
not
justly
and
with
a
safe
Conscience
oppose
this
Invader
,
and
shoot
him
though
the
heart
at
the
very
first
step
he
makes
into
England
.
For
whatever
passive
Obedience
is
due
to
our
Native
Prince
we
have
none
due
to
a
Forreign
Invader
.
So
likewise
't
is
a
plain
case
that
the
Popes
Supremacy
entring
into
England
is
an
Invading
and
Usurping
Royalty
.
For
though
we
are
bound
to
pay
fealty
,
to
what
ever
Deputies
,
Viceroys
,
or
Subministers
the
King
shall
Ordain
or
Institute
under
him
,
yet
the
Popes
Supremacy
cannot
come
under
that
name
,
for
it
ceases
to
be
Supream
if
there
be
a
Power
above
it
.
So
that
whenever
the
King
shall
say
to
the
Pope
assume
your
Prerogative
,
there
's
never
a
Subject
of
England
,
that
may
not
by
violence
rescue
an
Heretick
from
a
Stake
that
's
condemn'd
by
that
Prerogative
,
or
any
delegated
Authority
from
the
Usurped
Supremacy
of
the
Pope
,
nay
if
they
burn
the
very
Tribunal
about
those
Jesuitish
Judges
eares
that
pronounced
that
Hereticks
Condemnation
,
they
may
Iustify
the
Fact
both
to
their
King
and
their
God.
The
Papist
in
Masquerade
draws
now
near
to
a
Conclusion
,
and
gives
the
Characteriser
a
dead
doing
blow
at
last
stroke
,
by
the
Argument
raised
against
the
Characters
position
,
that
Kings
were
made
for
the
People
,
and
not
the
People
for
the
Kings
.
Though
by
the
way
the
Characterisers
assertion
is
not
only
one
Drs.
opinion
;
for
if
he
will
allow
King
Iames
to
have
as
much
sense
as
himself
,
we
shall
find
him
,
(
if
we
may
take
his
Royal
word
for
't
)
a
little
leaning
towards
the
Characters
side
,
witness
this
clause
in
one
of
his
Speeches
in
Parliament
.
Anno
1603.
As
I
am
a
Head
and
Governor
of
all
the
People
in
my
Dominions
,
who
are
my
natural
Vassals
and
Subjects
considering
them
in
number
and
distinct
Ranks
;
so
if
we
take
the
People
as
one
Body
and
Mass
,
then
as
the
Head
is
ordeind
for
the
Body
,
and
not
the
Body
for
the
Head
,
so
must
a
righteous
King
know
himself
to
be
ordain'd
for
his
People
,
and
not
his
People
for
him
;
for
though
a
King
and
his
People
be
Relata
,
yet
can
he
be
no
King
if
he
want
People
and
Subjects
;
but
there
be
many
People
in
the
World
that
lack
a
Head
,
&c
But
no
matter
for
all
this
,
Kings
are
but
Men
,
and
this
human
Error
of
King
Iames
,
must
not
dare
to
oppose
the
more
sacred
Authority
of
Mr.
Lestrange
.
For
to
bafflle
this
gross
Mistake
of
them
both
,
he
continues
,
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
then
the
Authority
of
the
holy
Scriptures
.
By
me
Kings
reighn
&c.
I
have
made
the
Earth
,
the
Man
,
and
the
Beasts
that
are
upon
the
Ground
by
my
great
Power
,
and
my
Out-stretch'd
Arm
,
and
have
given
it
to
whom
it
seem'd
meet
unto
me
Ier.
27th
.
5.
Now
I
cannot
find
by
this
Text
:
By
me
Kings
raighn
&c.
But
that
by
me
Subjects
possess
their
lawful
Inheritances
might
claim
the
same
right
.
For
an
Empire
to
a
Monarch
and
a
Lordship
to
a
Subject
,
a
Naboths
Vineyard
,
or
an
Ahabs
Kingdom
are
equally
the
Gift
of
God
,
and
by
our
Authors
reasons
may
equally
pretend
to
a
Divine
Iustitution
.
Neither
is
there
so
much
Support
as
he
calls
it
in
this
holy
Authority
,
but
I
can
match
it
with
another
as
holy
and
as
much
to
his
purpose
,
which
tells
us
,
not
a
Sparrow
falls
to
the
Ground
without
the
will
of
my
Father
,
&c.
Now
if
no
King
reighns
without
him
,
and
no
Sparrow
falls
without
him
;
a
Manmight
ask
him
why
the
holy
Authority
of
this
last
Text
might
not
make
the
falling
of
a
Sparrow
have
as
much
of
divine
Institution
in
it
as
the
Enthroning
of
a
Monarch
.
Nor
can
I
perceive
that
there
lies
so
much
stress
in
Gods
giving
the
Government
of
the
Earth
,
Man
,
and
Beasts
to
whom
it
seem'd
Meet
to
him
,
as
to
Nebuchadnezar
in
the
Text
,
but
that
a
MENE
,
MENE
,
TEKEL
,
UPHARZIN
,
written
by
the
Almighties
own
hand
against
his
impious
Heir
,
the
sacrilegious
Idolatrous
Balshazar
was
as
much
the
Word
of
God
,
and
had
as
much
divine
Institution
in
it
as
by
me
Kings
raign
.
But
to
proceed
in
our
Authors
argument
.
Mr.
L.
That
which
we
now
call
Kingly
Government
was
at
First
called
Paternal
,
and
after
Patriarchal
&c.
And
we
sind
by
the
powers
they
excercised
&c.
And
so
he
advances
in
a
Florid
Descant
upon
this
Subject
till
he
lodges
the
first
Paternal
Kingly
Government
in
Adam
.
Here
you
may
perceive
he
's
harping
at
the
old
Iure
Divino
,
but
I
shall
wave
that
point
of
dispute
,
and
even
with
granting
his
supposition
true
,
out
of
his
own
opinion
invalidate
the
chief
argument
of
all
his
discourse
,
and
the
Fundamental
Design
of
his
whole
pamphlet
,
(
viz
:
)
Unalterable
Right
of
Succession
.
If
then
(
as
he
says
)
the
Patriarchall
power
was
Kingly
,
how
comes
it
to
pass
that
Esau
forfeited
his
Royal
Inheritance
?
and
Iacob
his
younger
Brother
got
it
from
him
;
nay
the
alienation
of
his
Birthright
(
as
Regal
and
as
Divine
as
our
Masquerader
would
have
it
,
)
was
transferd
to
the
younger
Brother
even
by
God
himself
,
and
that
too
(
as
we
read
in
Gods
promis
to
the
Mother
)
before
they
were
born
.
Nay
though
the
Father
Isaac
had
no
prejudice
against
Esau
,
but
resolved
to
make
him
his
Heir
,
and
accordingly
sent
him
for
venison
to
cherish
his
heart
,
that
he
might
receive
his
Blessing
and
with
it
the
Assurance
of
his
Inheritance
;
yet
when
Iacob
by
Artifice
,
and
his
Brothers
borrowed
Name
had
deceived
the
Father
,
and
extorted
the
Blessing
,
we
find
the
grant
of
his
Inheritance
,
though
fraudulently
obtain'd
was
so
far
from
being
retracted
,
that
the
Fathers
promise
and
word
even
to
the
Counterfeit
Esau
was
more
sacred
,
then
all
the
formidable
ties
of
Blood
,
and
the
inviolable
Right
of
Succession
.
Now
I
hope
,
our
wise
Author
will
not
quarrel
with
Isaacs
Injustice
and
appeal
to
the
Light
of
Nature
and
Common
Right
for
the
Redress
of
Esaus
wrongs
.
Perhaps
it
may
be
objected
rhat
Esau
sold
his
Birth-right
foolishly
for
a
Mess
of
Pottage
,
though
that
we
find
had
no
influence
on
Isaacs
Determination
,
yet
if
a
Royal
Birth-right
could
be
sold
or
forfeited
either
by
the
Folly
or
Fault
of
the
Heir
,
where
's
SUCCESSION
?
and
if
in
our
present
State
of
England
we
have
an
Heir
of
those
corrupted
Principles
,
and
that
depraved
Infatuation
,
till
he
has
prodigally
forfeited
his
Fathers
and
his
Grand-Fathers
Blessings
,
the
one
having
sealed
the
Protestant
Faith
with
his
Blood
,
and
the
other
having
particularly
entayl'd
a
curse
upon
all
his
Progeny
that
should
ever
Apostatise
from
the
Protestant
Truth
to
the
Popish
Superstition
,
if
we
have
an
Heir
so
bewitcht
by
the
Charms
of
Rome
,
which
like
the
Syrens
songs
can
convert
Reason
into
Madness
,
or
rather
like
Circes
Bowles
transform
Men
into
Swine
,
why
not
the
Prodigals
fare
the
husks
,
a
more
proper
Reward
from
him
,
than
a
Coronation
Festival
.
This
I
am
certain
,
if
he
had
Esaus
Fate
,
the
Blessing
and
Inheritance
should
go
together
.
I
shall
only
instance
one
particular
more
out
of
holy
Writt
,
I
hope
his
&c.
in
the
last
Paragraph
will
allow
the
Iudges
of
Israel
were
a
Kingly
Power
as
well
as
the
Patriarchal
,
and
that
they
may
indeed
appear
so
,
we
find
their
Government
the
most
agreeing
with
the
present
Monarchy
of
England
,
for
they
had
the
Power
of
Life
and
Death
,
Peace
and
War
in
their
Prerogative
,
but
then
as
a
Restriction
against
Absolute
and
Arbitrary
power
,
(
like
our
Common
and
Ecclesiastick
Laws
)
their
Constitution
of
Government
was
limited
and
confined
withing
the
establisht
and
recorded
Mosaick
Law
which
was
the
ultimate
Verge
of
their
Jurisdiction
both
Civil
and
Spiritual
.
Now
here
in
the
case
of
Samuel
Judge
of
Isreal
we
find
him
parting
with
his
Royalty
and
conferring
it
upon
his
two
Sons
even
in
his
own
Life
time
:
after
that
we
find
the
Israelites
disgusted
against
their
ill
Government
and
asking
for
a
King
,
that
is
such
a
King
as
those
of
the
Nations
round
about
e'm
,
viz.
an
Absolute
Monarch
.
And
upon
this
Saul
stept
up
into
the
Throne
.
Now
here
we
may
observe
there
was
so
little
Regard
had
to
the
Right
of
Succession
that
their
lawful
Judges
even
after
possession
were
divested
of
their
Royal
Dignity
,
and
that
too
(
mark
it
)
not
only
upon
the
Peoples
Request
,
but
even
by
a
Command
from
the
immediate
Voice
of
God
,
without
the
lest
Reflection
of
the
Duty
of
passive
Obedience
to
Samuels
Sons
those
corrupted
Judges
of
Isreal
.
And
though
it
may
be
objected
that
God
was
angry
with
the
Children
of
Israel
for
their
desires
of
Change
,
in
that
they
had
follow'd
other
Gods
,
and
that
this
asking
for
a
King
as
we
read
)
look'd
like
rejecting
of
him
that
had
brought
e'm
out
of
Egypt
,
and
deliver'd
them
from
the
Hands
of
their
Enemies
,
yet
since
God
complyed
with
that
desire
,
no
Man
must
say
,
this
Change
was
unlawful
or
the
removal
of
their
Royal
Judges
unjust
.
But
in
Answer
to
all
this
,
our
Masquerader
will
not
want
a
Justification
for
the
unalterable
Right
of
Succession
,
nay
rather
than
stand
out
at
a
dead
Lift
hee
'll
start
you
up
a
common
Right
and
a
Light
of
Nature
that
upon
occasion
shall
supersede
even
the
Records
of
Scripture
and
the
very
immediate
Acts
of
God.
Nay
we
find
,
after
the
Constitution
of
that
more
absolute
Iewish
Monarchy
which
began
in
Saul
,
that
his
very
next
Successor
was
a
Stranger
to
his
Blood
,
a
Man
of
a
quite
different
Family
;
in
so
much
that
David
the
Man
after
Gods
own
heart
,
a
man
so
eminently
beloved
of
the
Almighty
,
that
from
his
Loyns
the
promis'd
Messias
should
procceed
,
was
a
Prince
so
far
from
owing
his
Crown
to
the
Right
of
Birth
and
Blood
,
that
he
was
anointed
King
even
in
his
Predecessors
life
in
spight
of
the
Greater
sons
of
Saul
those
nearer
and
juster
pretenders
to
the
Crown
had
Birth-right
given
e'm
title
to
it
.
But
so
Early
a
sea-mark
did
God
set
up
against
that
fatal
Rock
,
unalterable
Succession
;
and
so
timely
a
care
did
the
great
Founder
of
Empires
,
the
Divine
Omnipotence
take
,
to
show
that
the
Dispensations
of
Majesty
for
his
Peoples
good
and
his
own
Glory
,
were
to
be
preferr'd
before
the
Soveraignty
of
Birth
,
that
blinder
gift
of
Chance
.
But
to
come
a
little
down
to
our
own
age
,
even
in
all
our
latest
Modern
constitutions
of
Monarchy
,
and
that
not
only
in
England
but
all
the
Christian
Kingdoms
in
Europe
,
we
find
there
is
not
altogether
that
infallibility
in
Birth
right
,
but
that
Fools
and
Mad-men
notwithstanding
their
proximity
of
descent
are
excluded
from
Empire
,
so
that
by
Mr.
Lestranges
permission
a
Shallow
Perecranium
or
an
Addled
one
upon
occasion
shall
put
very
good
Royal
veins
out
of
play
.
So
that
to
make
Monarchy
go
a
little
hand
in
hand
with
our
new
natural
Philosophy
,
some
Criticks
will
tell
you
,
that
the
Life
of
it
lyes
more
in
the
Head
than
the
Heart
,
that
is
,
in
the
Brain
than
the
Blood.
And
that
I
need
not
stray
far
for
an
Instance
,
have
we
not
had
a
late
King
of
Portugal
deposed
as
Delirious
and
Frantick
and
consequently
render'd
by
Law
uncapable
of
reighning
,
and
all
this
done
by
his
own
Subjects
and
those
of
his
own
Religion
,
without
the
least
Reflection
of
Treason
or
Rebellion
or
the
Aspersion
of
lifting
a
hand
against
the
Lords
anointed
.
Nay
if
truth
might
make
bold
in
England
there
be
those
that
dare
honestly
venture
to
say
there
must
go
so
strong
a
Dose
of
Folly
and
Madness
or
indeed
both
together
to
make
up
the
composition
of
a
Popish
Heir
to
the
Protestant
Crown
of
England
,
especially
an
Heir
that
can
be
fond
of
the
Gugaws
,
Bawbles
and
Trumpery
of
the
Romish
Superstition
as
to
hazard
three
Crowns
for
them
,
and
that
too
by
an
Apostacy
from
a
native
Hereditary
Protestant
Faith
,
not
only
derived
down
to
him
,
but
more
signally
sealed
by
a
Royal
Fathers
Martyrdom
,
a
light
which
certainly
would
shine
through
all
the
mists
and
fogs
the
Iesuitish
Magick
has
or
can
cast
about
him
,
though
thicker
if
possible
then
the
Egyptian
Darkness
it self
,
a
Darkness
to
be
felt
;
were
there
not
a
Skull
in
the
case
more
than
strangely
impenetrable
,
and
a
Cerebellum
if
possibly
more
than
supernaturally
impedimented
:
so
that
if
in
Truth
he
but
fairly
stood
the
Test
of
an
old
Statute
we
have
already
,
the
Begging
of
his
Reversion
would
be
so
feasible
that
it
would
be
cross
we
won
,
and
pile
he
lost
.
But
to
come
yet
a
little
nearer
to
the
mark
,
as
it
is
most
undoubtedly
true
that
Soules
are
never
Generate
,
and
consequently
not
always
derived
from
the
Father
that
Begets
,
it
sometimes
so
falls
out
by
the
Caprice
of
some
ill
natured
planet
,
or
to
come
to
a
more
Christian
notion
,
by
the
indisputable
Will
of
Omnipotence
that
moulds
the
Clay
as
he
pleases
,
to
make
such
infinite
disproportions
in
the
unequal
distributing
of
those
sparks
of
his
own
Celestial
fires
call'd
soules
,
that
so
much
over
rule
the
inferior
Mass
of
Flesh
and
Blood
,
and
sometimes
so
far
Estrange
and
alienated
a
Son
from
the
Nature
,
Temper
,
and
indeed
almost
every
thing
of
the
Father
,
till
it
does
worse
then
Bastardize
even
Legitimacy
it self
.
FINIS