The ill effects of animosities among Protestants in England detected and the necessity of love unto, and confidence in one another, in order to withstand the designs of their common enemies, laid open and enforced.
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           THE
           ILL
           Effects
           of
           Animosities
           AMONG
           PROTESTANTS
           IN
           ENGLAND
           DETECTED
           :
           AND
           The
           necessity
           of
           Love
           unto
           ,
           and
           Confidence
           in
           one
           another
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           withstand
           the
           Designs
           of
           their
           Common
           Enemies
           ,
           laid
           open
           and
           enforced
           .
        
         
           
             Every
             Kingdom
             divided
             against
             it self
             ,
             is
             brought
             to
             desolation
             ;
             and
             every
             city
             or
             house
             divided
             against
             it self
             ,
             shall
             not
             stand
             .
          
           
             
               Matth.
               xii
            
             .
             25.
             
          
        
         
           
             Dum
             pugnant
             singuli
             ,
             universi
             vincuntur
             .
          
           
             Tacit.
             
          
        
         
           Printed
           in
           the
           Year
           1688.
           
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
           IT
           is
           long
           since
           the
           Court
           of
           England
           ,
           under
           the
           Authority
           of
           the
           late
           King
           and
           his
           Brother
           ,
           was
           embarked
           in
           a
           design
           of
           subverting
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           and
           of
           introducing
           and
           establishing
           Popery
           .
           For
           the
           two
           Royal
           Brothers
           being
           in
           the
           time
           of
           their
           Exile
           seduced
           by
           the
           Caresles
           and
           importunities
           of
           their
           Mother
           ,
           allured
           by
           the
           promises
           and
           favours
           of
           Popish
           Princes
           ,
           and
           being
           wheedled
           by
           the
           Crafts
           and
           Arts
           of
           Priests
           and
           Jesuits
           ,
           who
           are
           cunning
           to
           deceive
           ,
           and
           knew
           how
           to
           prevail
           upon
           persons
           ,
           that
           were
           but
           weakly
           established
           in
           the
           Doctrine
           ,
           and
           wholly
           strangers
           to
           the
           practice
           and
           power
           of
           the
           Religion
           they
           were
           tempted
           from
           ;
           they
           not
           only
           abjured
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           ,
           and
           became
           reconciled
           to
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           but
           by
           their
           example
           ,
           and
           the
           influence
           which
           they
           had
           over
           those
           that
           depended
           upon
           them
           both
           for
           present
           subsistence
           and
           future
           hopes
           ,
           they
           drew
           many
           that
           accompanied
           them
           in
           their
           Banishment
           ,
           to
           renounce
           the
           Doctrine
           ,
           Worship
           ,
           and
           Communion
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           though
           in
           the
           War
           between
           Charles
           I.
           and
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           they
           had
           pretended
           to
           fight
           for
           them
           in
           equal
           conjunction
           with
           the
           Prerogatives
           of
           the
           Crown
           .
           So
           that
           upon
           the
           Restoration
           in
           the
           year
           1660.
           they
           were
           not
           only
           moulded
           and
           prepared
           themselves
           for
           promoting
           the
           desires
           of
           the
           Pope
           and
           his
           Emissaries
           ,
           but
           they
           were
           furnished
           with
           a
           stock
           of
           Gentlemen
           out
           of
           whom
           they
           might
           have
           a
           supply
           of
           Instruments
           both
           in
           Parliament
           and
           elsewhere
           ,
           to
           cooperate
           with
           ,
           and
           under
           them
           ,
           in
           the
           methods
           that
           should
           be
           judged
           most
           proper
           and
           subservient
           to
           the
           extirpation
           of
           Protestancy
           ,
           and
           the
           bringing
           the
           Nation
           again
           into
           a
           servitude
           to
           the
           Triple
           Crown
           .
           And
           besides
           the
           Obligations
           ,
           that
           the
           Principles
           of
           the
           Religion
           to
           which
           they
           had
           revolted
           ,
           laid
           them
           under
           for
           eradicating
           the
           Established
           Doctrine
           and
           Worship
           ,
           they
           had
           bound
           themselves
           unto
           it
           ,
           by
           all
           the
           promises
           and
           Oaths
           ,
           which
           persons
           are
           capable
           of
           having
           proscribed
           unto
           and
           exacted
           of
           them
           .
        
         
           Nor
           can
           any
           Now
           disbelieve
           his
           late
           Majesties
           having
           lived
           and
           died
           a
           Papist
           ,
           who
           hath
           either
           heard
           what
           he
           both
           said
           and
           did
           ,
           when
           under
           the
           prospect
           of
           approaching
           death
           ,
           and
           past
           hope
           of
           Acting
           a
           Part
           any
           longer
           on
           the
           present
           Stage
           ,
           or
           who
           have
           seen
           and
           read
           the
           two
           Papers
           left
           in
           his
           Closet
           ,
           which
           have
           been
           since
           published
           to
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           attested
           for
           Authentick
           by
           the
           present
           King.
           And
           had
           we
           been
           so
           just
           to
           our selves
           ,
           as
           to
           have
           examined
           the
           whole
           course
           of
           his
           Reign
           ,
           both
           in
           his
           Alliances
           abroad
           ,
           and
           his
           most
           important
           Counsels
           and
           Actions
           at
           home
           ,
           or
           had
           we
           hearkned
           to
           the
           reports
           of
           those
           who
           knew
           him
           at
           Collen
           and
           in
           Flanders
           ,
           we
           had
           been
           long
           ago
           convinced
           of
           what
           Religion
           he
           was
           .
           Nor
           were
           his
           many
           repeated
           protestations
           of
           his
           Zeal
           for
           Protestancy
           ,
           but
           in
           order
           to
           delude
           the
           Nation
           ,
           till
           insensibly
           as
           to
           us
           ,
           and
           with
           safety
           to
           himself
           ,
           he
           had
           overturned
           the
           Religion
           which
           he
           pretended
           to
           own
           ,
           and
           had
           introduced
           that
           which
           he
           inveighed
           against
           .
           And
           while
           with
           the
           highest
           asseverations
           he
           disclaimed
           the
           being
           what
           he
           really
           was
           ,
           and
           with
           most
           sacred
           and
           tremendous
           Oaths
           professed
           the
           being
           what
           he
           was
           not
           ,
           his
           Religion
           might
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           have
           been
           traced
           through
           all
           the
           signal
           occurrences
           of
           his
           Government
           ,
           and
           have
           been
           discerned
           written
           in
           Capital
           Letters
           ,
           through
           all
           the
           material
           affairs
           wherein
           he
           was
           engaged
           from
           the
           day
           he
           ascended
           the
           Throne
           ,
           till
           the
           hour
           he
           left
           the
           World.
           His
           entring
           into
           two
           Wars
           against
           the
           Dutch
           ,
           without
           any
           provocation
           on
           their
           part
           ,
           or
           ground
           on
           his
           ,
           save
           their
           being
           a
           Protestant
           State
           ;
           his
           being
           not
           only
           conscious
           unto
           ,
           but
           enterposing
           his
           commands
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           encouragements
           ,
           for
           the
           burning
           of
           London
           ;
           his
           concurrence
           in
           all
           the
           parts
           of
           the
           Popish
           Plot
           ,
           except
           that
           which
           the
           Jesuits
           ,
           with
           a
           few
           others
           ,
           were
           involved
           in
           against
           himself
           ;
           his
           stifling
           that
           Conspiracy
           ,
           and
           delivering
           the
           Roman
           Catholicks
           from
           the
           dangers
           into
           which
           it
           had
           cast
           them
           ;
           his
           being
           the
           Author
           of
           so
           many
           forged
           Plots
           ,
           which
           he
           caused
           to
           be
           charged
           
           upon
           Protestants
           ;
           his
           constant
           Confederacies
           with
           France
           ,
           to
           the
           dissobliging
           his
           people
           ,
           the
           betraying
           of
           Europe
           ,
           the
           neglect
           of
           the
           Reformed
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           the
           encouraging
           the
           design
           carried
           on
           against
           them
           for
           their
           extirpation
           ;
           his
           entailing
           the
           Duke
           of
           York
           upon
           the
           Nation
           ,
           contrary
           to
           the
           desires
           and
           endeavours
           of
           three
           several
           Parliaments
           ,
           and
           that
           not
           out
           of
           love
           to
           his
           Person
           ,
           but
           affection
           to
           Popery
           ,
           which
           he
           knew
           that
           Gentleman
           would
           introduce
           and
           establish
           :
           all
           these
           ,
           besides
           many
           other
           things
           which
           might
           be
           named
           ,
           were
           sufficient
           evidences
           of
           the
           late
           Kings
           Religion
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           design
           he
           was
           ingaged
           in
           for
           the
           Subversion
           of
           ours
           .
           So
           that
           it
           would
           fill
           a
           sober
           person
           with
           amazement
           ,
           to
           think
           that
           after
           all
           this
           there
           should
           be
           so
           many
           sincere
           Protestants
           and
           true
           Englishmen
           ,
           who
           not
           only
           believed
           the
           late
           King
           to
           be
           of
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           ,
           but
           with
           an
           insatiableness
           thirsted
           after
           the
           blood
           of
           those
           that
           durst
           otherwise
           represent
           him
           .
           And
           had
           it
           not
           been
           for
           his
           receiving
           Absolution
           and
           Extreme
           Unction
           from
           a
           Popish
           Priest
           at
           his
           death
           ,
           and
           for
           what
           he
           left
           in
           Writing
           in
           the
           two
           Papers
           found
           in
           his
           
             Strong
             Box
          
           ,
           he
           would
           have
           still
           passed
           for
           a
           Prince
           who
           had
           lived
           and
           died
           a
           Cordial
           and
           Zealous
           Protestant
           ,
           and
           whosoever
           had
           muttered
           any
           thing
           to
           the
           contrary
           ,
           would
           have
           been
           branded
           for
           a
           Villian
           and
           an
           execrable
           person
           .
           But
           with
           what
           a
           scent
           and
           odour
           must
           it
           recommend
           his
           memory
           to
           them
           ,
           to
           consider
           his
           having
           not
           only
           lived
           and
           died
           in
           the
           Communion
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           in
           contradiction
           to
           all
           his
           publick
           Speeches
           ,
           solemn
           Declarations
           and
           highest
           Asserverations
           to
           his
           people
           in
           Parliament
           ,
           but
           his
           participating
           from
           time
           to
           time
           of
           the
           Sacrament
           ,
           as
           Administred
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           while
           in
           the
           interim
           he
           had
           Abjured
           our
           Religion
           ,
           stood
           reconciled
           to
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           and
           had
           obliged
           himself
           by
           most
           sacred
           Vows
           and
           was
           endeavouring
           by
           all
           the
           Frauds
           and
           Arts
           imaginable
           to
           subvert
           the
           Established
           Doctrine
           and
           Worship
           ,
           and
           set
           up
           Heresie
           and
           Idolatry
           in
           their
           room
           .
           And
           it
           must
           needs
           give
           them
           an
           abhorrent
           Idea
           and
           Character
           of
           Popery
           ,
           and
           a
           loathsom
           representation
           of
           those
           trusted
           with
           the
           Conduct
           and
           Guidance
           of
           the
           Consciences
           of
           Men
           in
           the
           Roman
           Communion
           ,
           that
           they
           should
           not
           only
           Dispence
           with
           ,
           and
           indulge
           such
           Crimes
           and
           Villanies
           ,
           but
           proclaim
           them
           sanctified
           and
           meritorious
           from
           the
           end
           which
           they
           are
           calculated
           for
           ,
           and
           levelled
           at
           .
        
         
           And
           for
           his
           dear
           Brother
           ,
           and
           renowned
           Successor
           ,
           who
           now
           possesseth
           the
           Throne
           ,
           I
           suppose
           his
           most
           partial
           Admirers
           ,
           who
           took
           him
           for
           a
           Prince
           ,
           not
           only
           merciful
           in
           his
           Temper
           ,
           and
           imbued
           with
           all
           gracious
           inclinations
           to
           our
           Laws
           ,
           and
           the
           Rights
           of
           the
           Subject
           ,
           but
           for
           one
           Orthodox
           in
           his
           Religion
           ,
           and
           who
           would
           prove
           a
           Zealous
           Defender
           of
           the
           Doctrine
           ,
           Worship
           ,
           and
           Discipline
           of
           the
           Church
           as
           Established
           by
           Law
           ;
           are
           by
           this
           time
           both
           undeceived
           ,
           and
           filled
           with
           resentments
           for
           his
           having
           abused
           their
           credulity
           ,
           deceived
           their
           exspectations
           ,
           and
           reproached
           all
           their
           gloryings
           and
           boastings
           of
           him
           .
           For
           as
           it
           would
           be
           now
           the
           greatest
           affront
           they
           could
           put
           upon
           the
           King
           ,
           to
           question
           his
           being
           of
           the
           Roman
           Communion
           ,
           or
           to
           detract
           from
           his
           Zeal
           for
           the
           introduction
           of
           Popery
           ,
           notwithstanding
           his
           own
           antecedent
           protestations
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           many
           Statutes
           in
           force
           for
           the
           preservation
           of
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           ;
           so
           I
           must
           take
           the
           liberty
           to
           tell
           them
           ,
           that
           his
           Apostacy
           is
           not
           of
           so
           late
           a
           Date
           ,
           as
           the
           World
           is
           made
           commonly
           to
           believe
           .
           For
           though
           it
           was
           many
           years
           concealed
           ,
           and
           the
           contrary
           pretended
           and
           dissembled
           ;
           yet
           it
           is
           most
           certain
           that
           he
           Abjured
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           soon
           after
           the
           Exilement
           of
           the
           Royal
           Family
           ,
           and
           was
           reconciled
           to
           the
           Romish
           Church
           at
           St.
           Germains
           in
           France
           .
           Nor
           were
           several
           of
           the
           then
           suffering
           Bishops
           and
           Clergy
           ignorant
           of
           this
           ,
           though
           they
           had
           neither
           the
           Integrity
           nor
           Courage
           to
           give
           the
           Nation
           and
           Church
           warning
           of
           it
           .
           And
           within
           these
           five
           years
           there
           was
           in
           the
           custody
           of
           a
           very
           worthy
           and
           honest
           Gentleman
           ,
           a
           Letter
           written
           to
           the
           late
           Bishop
           of
           D●●by
           a
           Dr.
           of
           Divinity
           ,
           then
           attending
           upon
           the
           Royal
           Brothers
           ,
           wherein
           
           the
           Apostacy
           of
           the
           then
           ▪
           Duke
           of
           York
           to
           the
           Sea
           of
           Rome
           is
           particularly
           related
           ,
           and
           an
           account
           given
           how
           much
           the
           Duchess
           of
           Tremoville
           (
           who
           without
           being
           her self
           observed
           )
           had
           heard
           the
           Queen
           Mother
           glorying
           of
           it
           ,
           bewailed
           it
           as
           a
           dishonor
           to
           the
           Royal
           Family
           ,
           and
           as
           that
           which
           might
           prove
           of
           pernicious
           consequence
           to
           the
           Protestant
           Interest
           .
           But
           tho
           the
           old
           Queen
           privately
           rejoiced
           and
           triumphed
           in
           it
           ,
           yet
           she
           knew
           too
           well
           what
           disadvantage
           it
           might
           be
           both
           to
           her
           Son
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           Papal
           Cause
           in
           
             Great
             Britain
          
           ,
           to
           have
           it
           at
           that
           season
           communicated
           and
           divulged
           .
           Thereupon
           it
           remained
           a
           Secret
           for
           many
           years
           ,
           and
           by
           vertue
           of
           a
           Dispensation
           ,
           he
           sometimes
           joyned
           in
           all
           Ordinances
           with
           those
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Communion
           .
           But
           for
           allthe
           art
           ,
           hypocrisie
           and
           sacrilege
           ,
           by
           which
           it
           was
           endeavoured
           to
           be
           concealed
           ,
           it
           might
           have
           been
           easily
           discerned
           ,
           as
           manifesting
           it self
           in
           the
           whole
           course
           of
           his
           Actions
           .
           And
           at
           last
           his
           own
           zeal
           ,
           the
           importunity
           of
           the
           Priests
           ,
           and
           the
           cunning
           of
           the
           late
           King
           ,
           prevailing
           over
           Reasons
           of
           State
           ,
           he
           withdrew
           from
           all
           Acts
           of
           Fellowship
           with
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           .
           But
           neither
           that
           ,
           nor
           his
           refusing
           the
           Test
           enjoyned
           by
           Law
           for
           distinguishing
           Papists
           from
           Protestants
           ,
           tho
           thereupon
           he
           was
           forced
           both
           to
           resign
           his
           Office
           of
           Lord
           High
           Admiral
           ,
           and
           to
           stand
           excluded
           from
           the
           House
           of
           Lords
           ;
           nor
           his
           declining
           the
           Oath
           which
           the
           Laws
           of
           Scotland
           for
           the
           securing
           a
           Protestant
           Governor
           ,
           enjoyn
           to
           be
           taken
           by
           the
           High
           Commissioner
           ;
           nor
           yet
           so
           many
           Parliaments
           having
           endeavoured
           to
           get
           him
           excluded
           from
           Succession
           to
           the
           Crown
           ,
           upon
           the
           account
           of
           having
           revolted
           to
           the
           Sea
           of
           Rome
           ,
           and
           thereby
           become
           dangerous
           to
           the
           established
           Religion
           ,
           could
           make
           impression
           upon
           a
           willfully
           deluded
           and
           obstinate
           sort
           of
           Protestants
           ,
           but
           in
           defiance
           of
           all
           means
           of
           Conviction
           ,
           they
           would
           persuade
           themselves
           ,
           that
           he
           was
           still
           a
           zealot
           for
           our
           Religion
           ,
           and
           a
           grand
           Patriot
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           .
           Nor
           could
           any
           thing
           undeceive
           them
           ,
           till
           upon
           his
           Brothers
           death
           he
           had
           openly
           declared
           himself
           a
           Roman
           Catholick
           ,
           and
           afterwards
           in
           the
           fumes
           and
           raptures
           of
           his
           victory
           over
           the
           late
           Duke
           of
           Monmouth
           ,
           had
           discovered
           and
           proclaimed
           his
           intentions
           of
           overthrowing
           both
           our
           Religion
           and
           our
           Laws
           .
           Yea
           ,
           so
           closely
           had
           some
           sealed
           up
           their
           Eyes
           against
           all
           Beams
           of
           Light
           ,
           and
           hardened
           themselves
           against
           all
           evidences
           from
           Reason
           and
           Fact
           ,
           that
           had
           it
           pleased
           the
           Almighty
           God
           to
           have
           prospered
           the
           Duke
           of
           
           Monmouth's
           Arms
           in
           the
           Summer
           85.
           the
           present
           King
           would
           have
           gone
           off
           the
           State
           ,
           with
           the
           reputation
           among
           them
           of
           a
           Prince
           tender
           of
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           who
           notwithstanding
           his
           own
           being
           a
           Papist
           ,
           would
           have
           preserved
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           ,
           and
           have
           maintained
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           in
           all
           her
           Grandeur
           and
           Rights
           .
           And
           tho
           his
           whole
           life
           had
           been
           but
           one
           continued
           Conspiracy
           against
           our
           Civil
           Liberties
           and
           Privileges
           ,
           he
           had
           left
           the
           Throne
           with
           the
           Character
           and
           under
           the
           Esteem
           of
           a
           Gentleman
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           whole
           course
           of
           his
           Government
           would
           have
           regulated
           himself
           by
           the
           Rules
           of
           the
           Constitution
           ,
           and
           the
           Statutes
           of
           the
           Realm
           .
        
         
           Now
           among
           all
           the
           Methods
           fallen
           upon
           by
           the
           Royal
           Brothers
           ,
           for
           the
           undermining
           and
           subverting
           our
           Religion
           and
           Laws
           ,
           there
           is
           none
           that
           they
           have
           pursued
           with
           more
           ardor
           ,
           and
           wherein
           they
           have
           been
           more
           succesful
           to
           the
           compassing
           of
           their
           designs
           ,
           than
           in
           their
           dividing
           Protestants
           ,
           and
           alienating
           their
           Affections
           ,
           and
           imbittering
           their
           Minds
           from
           and
           against
           one
           another
           .
           And
           had
           not
           this
           lain
           under
           their
           prospect
           ,
           and
           the
           means
           of
           effecting
           it
           appeared
           easie
           ,
           they
           might
           have
           been
           Papists
           themselves
           ,
           while
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           they
           had
           been
           dispensed
           with
           to
           protest
           and
           swear
           their
           being
           of
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           ,
           and
           they
           might
           have
           envied
           our
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           bewailed
           their
           Restriction
           from
           Arbitrary
           and
           Despotical
           Power
           ;
           but
           they
           never
           durst
           have
           entertained
           a
           thought
           of
           subverting
           the
           established
           Religion
           ,
           or
           of
           altering
           the
           Civil
           Government
           ,
           nor
           would
           they
           ever
           have
           had
           the
           boldness
           to
           have
           attempted
           the
           introducing
           and
           erecting
           Popery
           and
           Tyranny
           in
           their
           room
           .
           
           And
           whosoever
           should
           have
           put
           them
           upon
           reducing
           the
           Nation
           to
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           or
           upon
           rendring
           the
           Monarchy
           unlimited
           and
           iudependent
           on
           the
           Law
           ,
           would
           have
           been
           thought
           to
           have
           laid
           a
           snare
           for
           exposing
           the
           Papists
           to
           greater
           severities
           ,
           than
           they
           were
           obnoxious
           unto
           before
           ,
           and
           to
           have
           projected
           the
           robbing
           the
           Crown
           of
           the
           Prerogatives
           which
           belong
           unto
           it
           by
           the
           Rules
           of
           the
           Constitution
           ,
           and
           to
           which
           it
           was
           so
           lately
           restored
           .
           And
           the
           despair
           of
           succeeding
           ,
           would
           have
           rendred
           the
           Royal
           Brothers
           deaf
           to
           all
           importunities
           from
           Romish
           Emissaries
           ,
           and
           Court
           Minions
           .
           Neither
           the
           promises
           and
           Oaths
           which
           they
           had
           made
           and
           taken
           beyond
           Sea
           to
           introduce
           Popery
           ,
           nor
           their
           ambition
           to
           advance
           themselves
           beyond
           the
           restraint
           of
           Laws
           ,
           and
           the
           Controll
           of
           Parliaments
           ,
           would
           have
           prevailed
           upon
           them
           to
           have
           encountred
           the
           hazards
           and
           difficulties
           ,
           which
           in
           case
           of
           the
           Union
           of
           English
           Protestants
           ,
           must
           have
           attended
           and
           ensued
           upon
           attempts
           and
           endeavours
           of
           the
           one
           kind
           and
           of
           the
           other
           .
           Or
           should
           their
           beloved
           Popery
           ,
           and
           their
           own
           be
           biggottedness
           in
           the
           Romish
           Superstition
           ,
           have
           so
           far
           transported
           them
           beyond
           the
           bounds
           of
           wisdom
           and
           discretion
           ,
           as
           to
           have
           appeared
           possessed
           with
           an
           intention
           of
           Subverting
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           and
           of
           enslaving
           the
           Nation
           to
           the
           Superstition
           and
           Idolatry
           of
           Rome
           ,
           they
           would
           have
           been
           made
           soon
           to
           understand
           .
           That
           the
           Laws
           which
           make
           it
           Treason
           to
           own
           the
           jurisdiction
           of
           the
           Pope
           ,
           or
           to
           seduce
           the
           meanest
           subject
           to
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           were
           not
           enacted
           in
           vain
           ,
           and
           that
           those
           as
           well
           as
           many
           more
           made
           for
           the
           security
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           and
           to
           prevent
           the
           growth
           and
           introduction
           of
           Popery
           ,
           were
           not
           to
           be
           dallied
           and
           plaid
           withal
           .
           Or
           should
           they
           have
           been
           so
           far
           infatuated
           and
           abandoned
           of
           all
           understanding
           ,
           as
           out
           of
           a
           foolish
           and
           haughty
           affectation
           of
           being
           Absolute
           ,
           to
           have
           attempted
           the
           alteration
           of
           the
           Civil
           Government
           ,
           they
           would
           have
           been
           immediately
           and
           unanimously
           told
           ,
           that
           the
           people
           have
           the
           same
           Right
           to
           their
           Liberties
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           hath
           to
           the
           Prerogatives
           of
           the
           Crown
           .
           And
           if
           they
           would
           not
           have
           been
           contented
           with
           what
           belongs
           unto
           the
           Prince
           by
           the
           Common
           and
           Statute
           Laws
           of
           the
           Realm
           ,
           but
           had
           invaded
           the
           Priviledges
           reserved
           unto
           the
           Subject
           :
           they
           would
           have
           been
           made
           to
           know
           ,
           that
           they
           might
           not
           only
           be
           withstood
           in
           what
           they
           strove
           to
           Usurp
           contrary
           to
           
             Magna
             Charta
             ,
             Petition
             of
             Right
             ,
          
           and
           other
           Laws
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           but
           that
           thereby
           they
           forfeited
           ,
           and
           might
           be
           disseized
           of
           what
           either
           appertained
           unto
           the
           Crown
           by
           fundamental
           Agreements
           ,
           or
           hath
           been
           since
           settled
           upon
           the
           Monarch
           by
           Statute
           Laws
           .
           Nor
           could
           any
           thing
           have
           emboldned
           his
           late
           Majesty
           and
           the
           present
           King
           ,
           to
           enterprises
           of
           the
           one
           kind
           or
           the
           other
           ,
           but
           the
           prospect
           of
           begetting
           a
           misunderstanding
           ,
           jealousie
           ,
           and
           rancour
           among
           Protestants
           ,
           and
           thereby
           both
           of
           making
           them
           instrumental
           to
           the
           ruin
           of
           one
           another
           ,
           and
           contributary
           to
           the
           loss
           of
           English
           Liberty
           and
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           ,
           which
           they
           equally
           value
           and
           esteem
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           setting
           up
           Popery
           and
           Tyranny
           ,
           which
           the
           one
           detesteth
           and
           abhorreth
           no
           less
           than
           the
           other
           .
        
         
           Though
           all
           English
           Protestants
           have
           ever
           been
           at
           an
           accord
           in
           all
           the
           Essentials
           and
           Vitals
           of
           Religion
           ,
           yet
           from
           the
           very
           beginning
           of
           the
           Reformation
           ,
           there
           have
           been
           differences
           among
           them
           concerning
           Ecclesiastical
           Government
           and
           Discipline
           ,
           and
           about
           Forms
           ,
           Rites
           ,
           and
           Ceremonies
           of
           Worship
           .
           And
           had
           they
           consulted
           either
           their
           Duty
           to
           God
           ,
           or
           the
           common
           interest
           of
           Religion
           ,
           they
           might
           have
           found
           ways
           either
           for
           removing
           the
           occasions
           of
           them
           ,
           or
           they
           ought
           to
           have
           lived
           together
           as
           Brethren
           ,
           notwithstanding
           the
           differences
           which
           were
           among
           them
           in
           those
           things
           .
           But
           how
           much
           wiser
           are
           the
           Children
           of
           this
           World
           ,
           than
           those
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           of
           God
           and
           of
           Jesus
           Christ.
           For
           though
           the
           differences
           amon
           the
           Papists
           do
           far
           exceed
           ours
           ,
           both
           in
           their
           number
           and
           in
           the
           importancy
           of
           those
           things
           wherein
           they
           disagree
           ,
           yet
           they
           do
           mutually
           tolerate
           and
           bear
           with
           one
           another
           .
           The
           
           matters
           wherein
           they
           differ
           ,
           are
           neither
           made
           the
           Terms
           of
           their
           Church
           Communion
           ,
           nor
           the
           grounds
           of
           mutual
           Excommunications
           and
           Persecutions
           .
        
         
           But
           alas
           !
           one
           party
           among
           us
           hath
           been
           always
           endeavouring
           to
           cut
           or
           stretch
           others
           to
           their
           own
           size
           ,
           and
           have
           made
           those
           things
           which
           themselves
           stile
           indifferent
           ,
           both
           the
           Qualifications
           for
           admission
           to
           the
           Pastoral
           Office
           ,
           and
           the
           conditions
           of
           Fellowship
           in
           the
           Ordinances
           of
           the
           Gospel
           .
           Nor
           is
           it
           to
           be
           expressed
           ,
           what
           advantages
           were
           hereby
           administred
           all
           along
           to
           the
           Common
           Enemy
           ,
           and
           what
           Sufferings
           Peaceable
           and
           Orthodox
           Christians
           were
           exposed
           unto
           from
           their
           peevish
           and
           angry
           Brethren
           .
           And
           tho
           these
           things
           ,
           with
           the
           heats
           begotten
           among
           all
           ,
           and
           the
           Calamities
           undergone
           by
           one
           side
           ,
           were
           not
           the
           cause
           of
           that
           funestous
           War
           betwixt
           Charles
           the
           First
           ,
           and
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           yet
           they
           were
           an
           occasion
           of
           diverting
           thousands
           from
           the
           side
           which
           the
           persecuting
           Church
           Men
           espoused
           ,
           and
           of
           engaging
           them
           in
           the
           behalf
           of
           the
           two
           Houses
           ,
           in
           the
           Quarrel
           which
           they
           begun
           and
           carried
           on
           against
           that
           Prince
           ,
           for
           Defence
           of
           the
           Civil
           Liberties
           ,
           Privileges
           ,
           and
           Rights
           of
           the
           People
           .
           But
           some
           of
           the
           Mitred
           Clergy
           were
           so
           far
           from
           being
           made
           wise
           by
           their
           own
           and
           the
           Nations
           Sufferings
           ,
           as
           upon
           their
           Restoration
           to
           hearken
           to
           moderate
           Counsels
           ,
           and
           to
           decline
           their
           former
           Rigors
           and
           Severities
           ,
           that
           they
           became
           the
           Tools
           and
           Instruments
           of
           the
           Court
           ,
           not
           only
           far
           reviving
           ,
           but
           for
           heightning
           and
           enflaming
           all
           the
           Differences
           ,
           which
           had
           formerly
           been
           among
           English
           Protestants
           .
           For
           the
           Royal
           Brothers
           finding
           nothing
           more
           adapted
           and
           subservient
           than
           this
           ,
           to
           their
           design
           of
           altering
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           subverting
           Religion
           ,
           they
           animated
           those
           waspish
           and
           impolitick
           Ecclesiasticks
           ,
           not
           only
           to
           pursue
           the
           Restoration
           of
           all
           those
           things
           which
           had
           given
           rise
           and
           occasion
           to
           former
           Dissentions
           and
           Persecutions
           ,
           but
           to
           lay
           new
           snares
           for
           alienating
           many
           persons
           of
           unspotted
           lives
           and
           tender
           consciences
           from
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           of
           rendring
           them
           obnoxious
           to
           suffer
           in
           their
           Names
           ,
           Persons
           ,
           and
           Estates
           .
           And
           what
           a
           satisfaction
           was
           it
           to
           the
           late
           King
           and
           his
           Brother
           ,
           to
           find
           the
           old
           Episcopal
           Clergy
           prepared
           through
           principles
           of
           revenge
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           from
           love
           of
           domination
           ,
           ambition
           ,
           and
           covetousness
           to
           fall
           in
           with
           the
           design
           not
           only
           of
           increasing
           Divisions
           among
           Protestants
           ,
           both
           by
           making
           the
           conditions
           of
           entring
           upon
           the
           Pastoral
           Function
           narrower
           and
           for
           screwing
           conformity
           with
           the
           Church
           in
           her
           Forms
           and
           Ceremonies
           of
           Worship
           ,
           into
           Tests
           for
           admission
           to
           Magistracy
           and
           Civil
           Trusts
           ,
           but
           of
           obtaining
           severer
           Laws
           against
           Dissenters
           ,
           whereby
           the
           penalties
           to
           which
           they
           foresaw
           that
           people
           would
           become
           liable
           ,
           were
           rendered
           greater
           than
           they
           had
           been
           before
           ,
           and
           their
           Sufferings
           made
           more
           merciless
           ,
           inhuman
           and
           barbarous
           .
        
         
           For
           tho
           his
           late
           Majesty
           had
           by
           a
           Declaration
           dated
           at
           Breda
           ,
           promised
           Indulgence
           to
           all
           Protestants
           that
           would
           live
           peaceably
           under
           the
           Civil
           Government
           ;
           yet
           it
           was
           never
           in
           his
           thoughts
           to
           perform
           it
           ,
           and
           the
           previous
           obligations
           which
           he
           was
           under
           to
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           had
           a
           vertue
           to
           supercede
           and
           cancel
           his
           Engagements
           to
           English
           Hereticks
           .
           And
           all
           he
           intended
           by
           that
           Declaration
           was
           only
           to
           wheedle
           and
           Iull
           those
           into
           a
           tameness
           of
           admitting
           his
           Return
           into
           his
           Dominions
           ,
           whom
           a
           jealousie
           of
           being
           afterwards
           persecuted
           for
           their
           Consciences
           ,
           might
           have
           awakened
           to
           withstand
           and
           dispute
           it
           .
           And
           to
           give
           him
           his
           due
           ,
           he
           never
           judged
           himself
           longer
           bound
           to
           the
           observation
           of
           Promises
           and
           Oaths
           made
           to
           his
           People
           ,
           than
           until
           without
           hazard
           to
           his
           Person
           and
           Government
           he
           could
           violate
           and
           break
           them
           .
           Accordingly
           he
           was
           no
           sooner
           seated
           in
           the
           Throne
           of
           his
           Ancestors
           ,
           and
           those
           whom
           he
           had
           been
           apprehensive
           of
           resistance
           and
           disturbance
           from
           ,
           put
           out
           of
           capacity
           and
           condition
           of
           attempting
           any
           thing
           against
           him
           ,
           but
           he
           thought
           himself
           discharged
           from
           every
           thing
           ,
           that
           the
           Royal
           Word
           and
           Faith
           of
           a
           Prince
           
           had
           been
           pledged
           and
           laid
           to
           stake
           for
           in
           that
           Declaration
           ,
           and
           from
           that
           day
           forward
           acted
           in
           direct
           opposition
           to
           all
           the
           parts
           and
           branches
           of
           it
           .
           For
           having
           soon
           after
           his
           return
           obtained
           a
           Parliament
           moulded
           and
           adapted
           both
           to
           his
           Arbitrary
           and
           Papish
           Ends
           ,
           he
           immediately
           set
           all
           his
           Instruments
           at
           work
           for
           the
           procuring
           such
           Laws
           to
           be
           enacted
           ,
           as
           might
           divide
           and
           weaken
           Protestants
           ,
           and
           thereby
           make
           us
           not
           only
           the
           more
           easie
           a
           Prey
           to
           the
           Papists
           ,
           but
           afford
           them
           an
           advantage
           through
           our
           Scuffles
           ,
           of
           undermining
           our
           Religion
           with
           the
           less
           notice
           and
           observation
           .
           How
           such
           persons
           came
           to
           be
           chosen
           and
           to
           constitute
           the
           majority
           of
           the
           House
           of
           Commons
           ,
           who
           by
           their
           actings
           have
           made
           themselves
           infamous
           and
           execrable
           to
           all
           ages
           ,
           were
           a
           matter
           too
           large
           to
           penetrate
           at
           present
           into
           the
           reasons
           of
           :
           but
           that
           which
           my
           Theme
           conducts
           me
           to
           observe
           ,
           is
           ,
           that
           as
           they
           sacrificed
           the
           Treasure
           of
           the
           Nation
           to
           the
           profuseness
           and
           prodigality
           of
           the
           Prince
           ,
           and
           our
           Rights
           and
           Liberties
           to
           his
           Ambition
           and
           arbitrary
           Will
           ,
           so
           they
           both
           reintroduced
           and
           established
           those
           things
           which
           have
           been
           a
           means
           of
           dividing
           us
           ,
           and
           by
           many
           severe
           and
           repeated
           Laws
           ,
           they
           subjected
           a
           great
           number
           of
           industrious
           English
           Men
           and
           true
           Protestants
           ,
           to
           Excommunications
           ,
           Imprisonments
           ,
           rigorous
           and
           multiplied
           Fines
           ,
           and
           all
           this
           for
           matters
           only
           relating
           to
           their
           Consciences
           ,
           and
           for
           their
           Obedience
           to
           God
           in
           the
           Ordinances
           of
           his
           Worship
           and
           House
           .
           And
           notwithstanding
           the
           late
           Kings
           often
           pretended
           compassions
           to
           the
           Fanaticks
           ,
           it
           will
           be
           hard
           to
           discern
           them
           ,
           unless
           in
           effects
           which
           proceed
           from
           very
           different
           and
           opposite
           principles
           .
           The
           distance
           which
           hekept
           them
           from
           his
           Person
           and
           favor
           ;
           the
           influencing
           these
           members
           of
           both
           Houses
           that
           depended
           upon
           him
           ,
           to
           be
           the
           Authors
           and
           Promoters
           of
           Severities
           against
           them
           ;
           the
           enjoyning
           so
           often
           the
           Judges
           and
           Justices
           of
           Peace
           to
           execute
           the
           Laws
           upon
           them
           in
           their
           utmost
           Rigor
           ;
           the
           instigating
           the
           Bishops
           and
           Ecclesiastical
           Courts
           ,
           if
           at
           any
           time
           they
           relented
           in
           their
           prosecutions
           ,
           to
           pursue
           them
           with
           fresh
           Citations
           and
           Censures
           ;
           the
           arraigning
           them
           not
           only
           upon
           the
           Statutes
           made
           intentionally
           against
           Dissenters
           ,
           but
           upon
           those
           that
           were
           originally
           and
           solely
           enacted
           against
           the
           Papists
           ;
           these
           and
           other
           procedures
           of
           that
           nature
           are
           the
           only
           proofs
           and
           evidences
           which
           we
           can
           find
           ,
           of
           the
           late
           Kings
           Bowels
           ,
           Pity
           ,
           and
           Tenderness
           to
           the
           Fanaticks
           .
           And
           whereas
           the
           weak
           Church-Men
           were
           imposed
           upon
           to
           believe
           ,
           that
           all
           the
           Severity
           against
           the
           Nonconformists
           ,
           was
           the
           Fruit
           of
           his
           Zeal
           for
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           Security
           of
           the
           Worship
           and
           Discipline
           established
           by
           Law
           ;
           they
           might
           have
           easily
           discovered
           ,
           if
           passion
           ,
           prejudice
           ,
           wealth
           and
           honor
           ,
           had
           not
           blinded
           them
           ,
           that
           all
           this
           was
           calculated
           for
           ends
           perfectly
           destructive
           to
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           inconsistent
           with
           the
           safety
           and
           happiness
           of
           all
           Protestants
           .
           For
           as
           his
           seeking
           oftner
           than
           once
           to
           have
           wriggled
           himself
           into
           a
           power
           of
           superceding
           and
           dispensing
           with
           those
           Laws
           ,
           and
           suspending
           their
           Execution
           ,
           plainly
           shews
           that
           he
           never
           intended
           the
           support
           and
           preservation
           of
           the
           Church
           by
           them
           ;
           so
           his
           non-execution
           of
           the
           Laws
           against
           Papists
           ,
           his
           conniving
           at
           their
           encrease
           ;
           his
           persuading
           those
           nearest
           unto
           him
           to
           reconcile
           themselves
           to
           the
           Sea
           of
           Rome
           ,
           as
           he
           did
           among
           others
           the
           late
           Duke
           of
           Monmouth
           ;
           his
           countenancing
           the
           Roman
           Catholicks
           in
           their
           open
           and
           intolerable
           Insolencies
           ,
           and
           his
           advancing
           them
           to
           the
           most
           gainful
           and
           important
           Places
           and
           Trusts
           ,
           sufficiently
           declare
           that
           he
           never
           had
           any
           love
           to
           Protestants
           ,
           or
           care
           of
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           ;
           but
           that
           all
           his
           designs
           were
           of
           a
           contrary
           tendency
           ,
           and
           his
           fairest
           pretences
           for
           the
           protection
           and
           grandeur
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           adapted
           to
           other
           ends
           .
           Thus
           the
           Royal
           Brothers
           having
           obtained
           such
           Laws
           to
           be
           enacted
           whereby
           one
           party
           of
           Protestants
           was
           armed
           with
           means
           of
           oppressing
           and
           persecuting
           all
           others
           ,
           neither
           the
           necessity
           of
           their
           affairs
           at
           any
           time
           since
           ,
           nor
           the
           application
           and
           interposure
           of
           several
           Parliaments
           for
           removing
           the
           grounds
           of
           our
           Differences
           and
           Animosities
           by
           an
           indulgence
           
           to
           be
           past
           into
           a
           Law
           ,
           could
           prevail
           either
           upon
           his
           late
           Majesty
           or
           the
           present
           King
           to
           forego
           the
           advantage
           they
           had
           gotten
           of
           keeping
           us
           in
           mutual
           enmity
           &
           thereby
           of
           ministring
           to
           their
           projection
           of
           supplanting
           our
           religion
           ,
           &
           of
           reestablishing
           the
           Faith
           ,
           &
           Worship
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           .
           Hereupon
           the
           last
           King
           not
           only
           refused
           to
           consent
           to
           such
           Bills
           as
           diverse
           late
           Parliaments
           had
           prepared
           for
           indulging
           Dissenters
           ,
           &
           of
           bringing
           them
           into
           an
           union
           of
           Counsels
           ,
           &
           conjunction
           of
           interest
           ,
           with
           those
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           for
           resisting
           the
           conspiracies
           of
           the
           Papists
           against
           our
           legal
           Government
           &
           established
           Religion
           ;
           but
           he
           rejected
           an
           address
           for
           suspending
           the
           execution
           of
           the
           penal
           Laws
           against
           Fanaticks
           ,
           which
           was
           offered
           &
           presented
           unto
           him
           by
           that
           very
           Parliament
           which
           had
           framed
           &
           enacted
           those
           cruel
           &
           villanous
           Laws
           .
        
         
           And
           as
           the
           Royal
           Brothers
           have
           made
           it
           their
           constant
           business
           to
           Cherish
           a
           division
           &
           rancour
           among
           Protestants
           ,
           and
           to
           provoke
           one
           party
           to
           persecute
           &
           ruine
           an
           other
           ,
           so
           nothing
           could
           more
           naturally
           fall
           in
           with
           the
           design
           of
           Arbitrariness
           ,
           or
           be
           more
           subservient
           to
           the
           betraying
           the
           Nation
           to
           Papal
           Idolatry
           &
           Jurisdiction
           .
           For
           severe
           penal
           Laws
           against
           a
           considerable
           Body
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           do
           either
           expose
           them
           against
           whom
           they
           are
           enacted
           ,
           to
           be
           destroyed
           by
           the
           Prince
           with
           whom
           the
           executive
           power
           of
           the
           Law
           is
           trusted
           and
           deposited
           ,
           or
           they
           prove
           a
           temptation
           to
           such
           as
           are
           obnoxious
           ,
           of
           resigning
           themselves
           in
           such
           a
           manner
           to
           the
           will
           and
           pleasure
           of
           the
           Monarch
           ,
           for
           the
           obtaining
           his
           connivency
           at
           their
           violation
           of
           the
           Laws
           ,
           as
           is
           unsafe
           and
           dangerous
           for
           the
           common
           liberty
           ,
           and
           good
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           .
           For
           in
           case
           the
           Supream
           Magistrate
           pursue
           an
           interest
           distinct
           from
           and
           destructive
           to
           that
           of
           his
           people
           ,
           they
           who
           the
           Law
           hath
           made
           liable
           to
           be
           oppressed
           ,
           are
           brought
           under
           inducements
           of
           becoming
           so
           many
           Partisans
           for
           abetting
           him
           in
           his
           designes
           ,
           in
           hopes
           of
           being
           thereupon
           protected
           from
           the
           penal
           Statutes
           ,
           the
           execution
           whereof
           is
           committed
           to
           him
           .
           And
           as
           it
           is
           not
           agreeable
           to
           the
           wisdom
           &
           prudence
           which
           ought
           to
           be
           among
           men
           ,
           nor
           to
           the
           mercy
           &
           compassion
           which
           should
           be
           among
           Christians
           ,
           for
           one
           party
           to
           surrender
           an
           other
           into
           the
           hands
           &
           power
           of
           the
           Soveraign
           to
           be
           impoverished
           &
           ruined
           by
           him
           at
           his
           pleasure
           ,
           especially
           when
           those
           whom
           they
           give
           up
           to
           be
           thus
           treated
           &
           entertained
           ,
           are
           at
           agreement
           with
           them
           in
           all
           the
           Essentials
           of
           Religion
           ,
           equally
           zealous
           as
           themselves
           for
           the
           Liberties
           of
           their
           Country
           ,
           &
           who
           for
           sobriety
           in
           their
           lives
           ,
           industry
           in
           their
           callings
           ,
           &
           usefulness
           in
           the
           Common-wealth
           ,
           are
           inferior
           to
           none
           of
           their
           Fellow
           Subjects
           :
           so
           it
           is
           obvious
           to
           any
           who
           give
           themselves
           leave
           to
           think
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           would
           long
           ere
           this
           have
           been
           stated
           in
           the
           absoluteness
           that
           is
           aspired
           after
           ,
           &
           both
           Church
           and
           State
           reduced
           to
           ly
           at
           the
           discretion
           of
           the
           Monarch
           ,
           provided
           the
           Nonconformists
           ,
           for
           procuring
           his
           favour
           in
           non-execution
           of
           the
           Laws
           ,
           had
           suffered
           themselves
           to
           be
           prevailed
           upon
           ,
           and
           drawn
           over
           to
           stand
           by
           and
           assist
           him
           in
           his
           Popish
           and
           Despotical
           Designs
           .
        
         
           But
           those
           people
           ,
           tho
           hated
           and
           maligned
           by
           their
           Brethren
           ,
           rather
           than
           be
           found
           aiding
           the
           King
           in
           his
           usurpations
           over
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           have
           chosen
           to
           undergoe
           the
           utmost
           calamities
           they
           could
           be
           made
           subject
           unto
           ,
           either
           through
           the
           execution
           of
           those
           Laws
           which
           had
           been
           made
           against
           them
           ,
           or
           through
           our
           Princes
           &
           their
           Ministers
           wrecking
           their
           malice
           upon
           them
           in
           arbitrary
           and
           illegal
           methods
           .
           But
           what
           the
           Royal
           Brothers
           could
           not
           work
           the
           afflicted
           and
           persecuted
           side
           unto
           ,
           they
           found
           the
           art
           to
           engage
           the
           other
           side
           in
           ,
           tho
           not
           only
           excepted
           from
           all
           obnoxiousness
           to
           those
           Laws
           ,
           but
           strenthened
           &
           supported
           by
           them
           .
           For
           as
           soon
           as
           the
           Court
           begun
           to
           despaire
           of
           prevailing
           upon
           the
           Fanaticks
           ,
           to
           become
           their
           Tools
           &
           Instruments
           of
           enslaving
           the
           Nation
           ,
           and
           of
           exalting
           the
           Monarchy
           to
           despotical
           absoluteness
           ,
           they
           applyed
           to
           Some
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           whom
           by
           gratifying
           with
           a
           vigorous
           
           execution
           of
           the
           Laws
           upon
           Dissenters
           ,
           they
           brought
           to
           abett
           ,
           applaud
           ,
           and
           justify
           them
           ,
           in
           all
           those
           counsels
           and
           ways
           which
           have
           reduced
           us
           into
           that
           miserable
           condition
           wherein
           we
           now
           are
           .
           The
           Clergy
           being
           advanced
           to
           grandure
           and
           opulency
           ,
           things
           which
           many
           of
           them
           are
           fonder
           of
           ,
           and
           loather
           to
           forego
           ,
           than
           Religion
           and
           the
           Rights
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           the
           Court
           made
           it
           their
           business
           to
           possess
           them
           with
           a
           belief
           ,
           that
           unless
           the
           Fanaticks
           were
           suppressed
           and
           ruined
           ,
           they
           could
           not
           enjoy
           with
           security
           their
           dignities
           and
           wealth
           .
           Whereupon
           not
           only
           the
           lesser
           Levites
           ,
           but
           the
           superior
           Clergy
           having
           their
           lesson
           and
           cue
           given
           them
           from
           Whitehall
           and
           St
           James
           ,
           fell
           upon
           pursuing
           the
           Nonconformists
           with
           Ecclesiastical
           punishments
           ,
           and
           upon
           exciting
           and
           animating
           the
           Civil
           Officers
           against
           them
           .
           And
           under
           pretence
           of
           preserving
           and
           defending
           the
           Church
           ,
           they
           gave
           themselves
           over
           to
           an
           implicit
           serving
           of
           the
           Court
           ,
           and
           became
           not
           only
           Advocates
           but
           Instruments
           for
           the
           robbing
           of
           Corporations
           of
           their
           Charters
           ,
           for
           imposing
           Sheriffs
           upon
           the
           City
           of
           London
           who
           had
           not
           been
           legally
           elected
           ,
           and
           of
           fining
           and
           punishing
           men
           Arbitrarily
           for
           no
           crime
           ,
           save
           the
           having
           asserted
           their
           own
           and
           the
           Nations
           Rights
           in
           modest
           and
           lawful
           ways
           .
           Posterity
           will
           hardly
           believe
           that
           so
           many
           of
           the
           prelatical
           Clergy
           ,
           and
           so
           great
           a
           number
           of
           members
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           should
           from
           an
           enmity
           unto
           ,
           and
           pretended
           jealousie
           of
           the
           Panaticks
           ,
           have
           become
           Tools
           under
           the
           late
           King
           for
           justifying
           the
           Dissolution
           of
           so
           many
           Parliaments
           ,
           the
           invasion
           made
           upon
           their
           priviledges
           ,
           the
           ridiculing
           and
           stifling
           of
           the
           Popish
           plot
           ,
           the
           shamming
           of
           forged
           Conspiracies
           upon
           Protestants
           ,
           the
           condemning
           several
           to
           death
           for
           high
           Treason
           who
           could
           be
           rendred
           guilty
           by
           the
           Transgression
           of
           no
           known
           Law
           ,
           and
           finally
           for
           advancing
           a
           Gentleman
           to
           the
           Throne
           ,
           who
           had
           been
           engaged
           in
           a
           conjuration
           against
           Religion
           and
           the
           legal
           Government
           ,
           and
           whom
           three
           several
           Parliaments
           would
           have
           therefore
           excluded
           from
           the
           Right
           of
           Succession
           .
           And
           being
           seduced
           into
           an
           espousal
           of
           the
           Interests
           of
           the
           Court
           against
           Religion
           ,
           Parliaments
           ,
           and
           the
           Nation
           ,
           it
           is
           doleful
           to
           consider
           what
           Doctrines
           both
           from
           pulpit
           and
           press
           ,
           were
           thereupon
           belched
           forth
           and
           divulged
           .
           Such
           as
           Monarchy's
           being
           a
           Government
           by
           divine
           Right
           ;
           that
           it
           is
           in
           the
           Princes
           power
           to
           Rule
           as
           he
           pleaseth
           ;
           that
           it
           is
           a
           grace
           and
           condescention
           in
           the
           King
           to
           give
           an
           account
           of
           what
           he
           does
           ;
           that
           for
           Parliaments
           to
           direct
           or
           regulate
           the
           Succession
           borders
           upon
           Treason
           ,
           and
           is
           an
           offence
           against
           the
           Law
           of
           Nature
           ;
           and
           that
           the
           only
           thing
           left
           to
           subjects
           in
           case
           the
           King
           will
           Tyrannise
           over
           their
           Consciences
           ,
           Persons
           &
           Estates
           ,
           is
           tamely
           to
           suffer
           ,
           and
           as
           they
           absurdly
           express
           it
           ,
           to
           exercise
           passive
           obedience
           .
           So
           that
           by
           corrupting
           the
           minds
           &
           consciences
           of
           men
           with
           those
           pestilent
           and
           slavish
           Notions
           ,
           they
           betrayed
           the
           Nation
           both
           to
           the
           mischiefs
           which
           have
           already
           overtaken
           us
           ,
           &
           to
           what
           further
           we
           are
           yet
           threatned
           with
           .
           Nor
           did
           these
           Doctrines
           tend
           meerly
           to
           the
           fettering
           &
           enfeebling
           the
           Spirits
           of
           men
           ,
           but
           they
           were
           a
           temptation
           to
           the
           Royal
           Brothers
           to
           put
           in
           execution
           what
           they
           had
           been
           so
           long
           contriving
           and
           travelling
           with
           ,
           and
           were
           a
           kind
           of
           reprimanding
           them
           for
           being
           ignorant
           of
           their
           own
           Right
           and
           power
           ,
           and
           for
           not
           exerting
           it
           with
           that
           vigour
           and
           expedition
           which
           they
           might
           .
           I
           do
           acknowledge
           that
           there
           were
           many
           both
           of
           the
           sacred
           order
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           laick
           Communion
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           who
           were
           far
           from
           being
           infected
           with
           those
           brutish
           sentiments
           and
           opinions
           ,
           and
           who
           were
           as
           zealous
           as
           any
           for
           having
           the
           Monarchy
           kept
           within
           its
           ancient
           limits
           ;
           Parliaments
           maintained
           in
           their
           wonted
           Reverence
           and
           Authority
           ;
           the
           subjects
           preserved
           in
           the
           enjoyment
           of
           their
           immemorial
           priviledges
           ;
           and
           who
           were
           far
           from
           sacrificing
           our
           Religion
           and
           Laws
           to
           Popery
           &
           Arbitrariness
           ,
           and
           from
           lulling
           us
           into
           a
           tameness
           and
           lethargy
           ,
           in
           case
           the
           Court
           should
           attempt
           the
           abolishing
           the
           established
           Doctrin
           and
           Worship
           ,
           and
           the
           subverting
           and
           changing
           the
           Civil
           Government
           .
           But
           alas
           !
           besides
           
           their
           being
           immediately
           branded
           with
           the
           name
           of
           conformable
           Fanaticks
           ,
           and
           registred
           in
           the
           Kalender
           with
           those
           that
           stood
           precluded
           the
           Kings
           favour
           &
           merited
           his
           animadversion
           ;
           their
           modesty
           was
           soon
           drownd
           and
           silenced
           in
           the
           loud
           noise
           of
           their
           clamorous
           Brethren
           ,
           and
           their
           retiredness
           from
           conversation
           ,
           while
           the
           others
           ,
           frequented
           all
           places
           of
           society
           and
           publick
           concourse
           ,
           deprived
           the
           Nation
           of
           the
           benefit
           of
           their
           example
           ,
           and
           the
           happiness
           of
           their
           instructions
           .
           Not
           have
           I
           mentioned
           the
           extravagancies
           of
           any
           of
           the
           Ecclesiasticks
           and
           members
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           with
           a
           design
           either
           of
           reproaching
           and
           upbraiding
           them
           ,
           or
           of
           provoking
           and
           exasperating
           the
           Fanaticks
           to
           resentments
           ,
           but
           only
           to
           shew
           how
           fatal
           our
           divisions
           have
           been
           unto
           us
           ,
           what
           excesses
           they
           have
           occasioned
           our
           being
           hurried
           and
           transported
           into
           ,
           and
           what
           mischievous
           improvement
           our
           enemies
           have
           made
           of
           them
           to
           the
           supplanting
           and
           almost
           subverting
           of
           all
           that
           is
           valuable
           unto
           us
           as
           we
           are
           Englishmen
           ,
           Christians
           ,
           and
           Protestants
           .
        
         
           And
           as
           our
           animosities
           through
           our
           Divisions
           gave
           the
           Court
           an
           advantage
           of
           suborning
           that
           party
           ,
           which
           they
           pretended
           to
           befriend
           and
           uphold
           ,
           into
           a
           ministration
           to
           all
           their
           Counsels
           and
           projections
           against
           our
           Religion
           and
           Laws
           ;
           so
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           unnatural
           heats
           wherewith
           Protestants
           have
           been
           enflamed
           and
           enraged
           against
           Protestants
           ,
           many
           weak
           ,
           ungrounded
           ,
           and
           unstable
           Souls
           ,
           have
           been
           tempted
           to
           question
           the
           truth
           of
           our
           Religion
           ,
           and
           to
           apostatise
           to
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           and
           thereupon
           have
           become
           united
           in
           inclination
           ,
           power
           ,
           and
           endeavours
           with
           the
           Court
           and
           our
           old
           Enemies
           the
           Papists
           ,
           for
           the
           exstirpation
           of
           protestancy
           and
           the
           alteration
           of
           the
           Government
           .
           As
           it
           hath
           been
           matter
           of
           offence
           and
           scandal
           to
           all
           Men
           ,
           so
           it
           hath
           been
           ground
           of
           stumbling
           and
           falling
           unto
           many
           ,
           to
           see
           those
           who
           are
           professedly
           of
           the
           same
           Religion
           ,
           to
           be
           mutually
           embittered
           against
           one
           another
           ,
           and
           so
           far
           transported
           with
           malice
           and
           rage
           ,
           as
           to
           seek
           and
           pursue
           each
           others
           destruction
           .
           For
           such
           a
           carriage
           and
           behaviour
           are
           so
           contrary
           to
           the
           spirit
           an
           principles
           of
           Christianity
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           genius
           and
           temper
           of
           true
           Religion
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           no
           mervaile
           ,
           if
           persons
           ignorant
           of
           the
           holy
           Scriptures
           ,
           and
           strangers
           to
           the
           converting
           and
           comforting
           vertue
           of
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           the
           Gospel
           asserted
           in
           our
           Confessions
           ,
           and
           insisted
           upon
           by
           our
           Divines
           ;
           should
           suspect
           the
           Orthodoxy
           of
           that
           Religion
           which
           is
           accompanied
           with
           so
           bitter
           fruits
           ,
           even
           in
           the
           Dispensers
           of
           the
           word
           as
           well
           as
           in
           others
           ,
           and
           betake
           themselves
           to
           the
           Communion
           of
           that
           Church
           ,
           where
           how
           many
           and
           important
           soever
           their
           differences
           be
           one
           with
           an
           other
           ,
           yet
           they
           do
           not
           break
           forth
           into
           those
           flames
           of
           excommunicating
           and
           persecuting
           each
           other
           ;
           that
           ours
           have
           done
           .
           How
           have
           some
           among
           us
           through
           having
           their
           spirits
           fretted
           and
           exasperated
           by
           the
           craft
           and
           cunning
           of
           our
           Enemies
           ,
           not
           only
           loaded
           and
           stigmatised
           their
           Bretheren
           and
           Fellow
           Protestants
           with
           crimes
           and
           Names
           ,
           which
           were
           they
           true
           and
           deserved
           ,
           would
           justly
           render
           us
           a
           loathing
           and
           an
           abomination
           to
           mankind
           ,
           but
           have
           libelled
           and
           branded
           those
           whom
           God
           had
           honored
           to
           be
           instruments
           of
           the
           Reformation
           ,
           with
           appellations
           and
           characters
           fit
           to
           beget
           a
           detestation
           of
           their
           Doctrine
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           their
           Memory
           .
           The
           worst
           that
           the
           Papists
           have
           forged
           and
           vomited
           out
           against
           Luther
           Zwinglius
           ,
           Calvin
           &c.
           hath
           been
           raked
           up
           and
           repeated
           to
           the
           disparagment
           of
           the
           Reformation
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           scandalising
           the
           minds
           of
           weak
           men
           against
           it
           .
           And
           as
           the
           Jesuites
           and
           Priests
           have
           improved
           those
           slanders
           and
           calumnies
           to
           the
           seduction
           of
           diverse
           from
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           and
           to
           a
           working
           them
           over
           to
           a
           Reconciliation
           with
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ;
           so
           the
           Court
           hath
           there
           by
           had
           an
           increase
           of
           their
           Faction
           and
           party
           against
           our
           Religion
           aud
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           have
           been
           inabled
           to
           muster
           Troops
           of
           Janisaries
           for
           their
           Despotical
           and
           unlimited
           claim
           .
        
         
         
           Nor
           have
           our
           Divisions
           with
           the
           heats
           ,
           animosities
           ,
           revilings
           ,
           &
           persecutions
           that
           have
           ensued
           thereupon
           ,
           proved
           only
           an
           occasion
           of
           the
           seduction
           of
           several
           from
           our
           Religion
           ,
           and
           of
           their
           Apostacy
           to
           Popery
           ,
           but
           they
           have
           been
           a
           main
           spring
           &
           force
           of
           the
           debauchery
           ,
           irreligion
           and
           Atheisme
           ,
           which
           have
           overspread
           the
           Nation
           ,
           &
           have
           brought
           so
           many
           both
           to
           an
           indifferency
           and
           unconcernedness
           for
           the
           Gospel
           and
           all
           that
           is
           vertuous
           and
           noble
           ,
           and
           have
           disposed
           them
           to
           fall
           in
           with
           those
           that
           could
           countenance
           and
           protect
           them
           in
           their
           impiety
           and
           prophaneness
           ,
           &
           feed
           their
           luxury
           and
           pride
           with
           honor
           and
           gain
           .
           What
           a
           woful
           scheme
           of
           Religion
           have
           we
           afforded
           the
           world
           ,
           and
           how
           shamefully
           have
           we
           painted
           forth
           and
           represented
           the
           holy
           Doctrin
           of
           the
           blessed
           Jesus
           ,
           while
           we
           have
           not
           only
           lived
           in
           a
           direct
           opposition
           to
           all
           the
           commands
           of
           meekness
           ,
           love
           and
           mutual
           forbearance
           ,
           which
           our
           Religion
           lays
           us
           under
           the
           Authority
           off
           ,
           but
           have
           neglected
           to
           practice
           good
           manners
           ,
           to
           observe
           the
           rules
           of
           Civility
           ,
           to
           treat
           one
           another
           with
           common
           humanity
           &
           to
           do
           as
           we
           would
           be
           done
           unto
           .
           While
           we
           have
           been
           more
           offended
           at
           what
           seemed
           to
           supplant
           our
           Dominations
           &
           Grandures
           than
           at
           what
           dishonor'd
           God
           &
           reproached
           the
           Gospel
           ;
           while
           we
           weighd
           not
           so
           much
           whether
           they
           whom
           we
           took
           into
           our
           sacred
           Communion
           as
           well
           as
           into
           our
           personal
           friendship
           ,
           were
           conformable
           in
           their
           lives
           to
           the
           Scripture
           ,
           as
           whether
           they
           comply'd
           with
           the
           Canons
           of
           the
           Church
           ;
           while
           we
           reprobated
           all
           that
           were
           not
           of
           our
           way
           ,
           tho
           never
           so
           vertuous
           &
           devout
           ,
           and
           sainted
           all
           that
           were
           ,
           tho
           never
           so
           wicked
           &
           prophane
           ;
           while
           we
           branded
           such
           for
           Fanaticks
           ,
           whom
           we
           could
           justly
           charge
           with
           nothing
           ,
           save
           the
           not
           admiting
           that
           into
           Religion
           which
           came
           not
           from
           the
           divine
           Author
           of
           it
           ,
           &
           hugged
           those
           for
           good
           and
           orthodox
           believers
           ,
           that
           would
           sooner
           consult
           the
           Statute
           Book
           for
           their
           practice
           in
           the
           Worship
           of
           God
           ,
           than
           the
           Bible
           ;
           while
           we
           haled
           those
           to
           prison
           &
           spoiled
           them
           of
           their
           Estates
           ,
           to
           whom
           nothing
           could
           be
           objected
           except
           their
           being
           too
           precise
           and
           conscientious
           in
           avoiding
           that
           through
           fear
           &
           apprehension
           of
           sinning
           ,
           which
           others
           had
           a
           liberty
           &
           latitude
           to
           do
           as
           judging
           it
           lawful
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           esteemed
           those
           worthy
           of
           the
           chiefest
           Trusts
           in
           the
           Church
           &
           commonwealth
           ,
           whose
           folly
           &
           villanies
           made
           them
           unfit
           for
           civil
           Societies
           ;
           while
           they
           who
           lived
           most
           agreeably
           to
           the
           Laws
           of
           God
           ,
           &
           the
           example
           of
           Christ
           ,
           were
           persecuted
           as
           Enemies
           to
           Religion
           and
           the
           pests
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           interim
           too
           many
           of
           the
           very
           Clergy
           were
           not
           only
           countenancers
           of
           the
           most
           profligate
           persons
           as
           their
           best
           friends
           ,
           but
           joined
           and
           assisted
           in
           scandalous
           debaucheries
           ,
           under
           pretence
           of
           sustaining
           the
           honor
           of
           their
           Tribe
           ,
           &
           doing
           service
           to
           the
           Church
           .
           I
           say
           while
           these
           were
           unhappy
           but
           too
           obvious
           fruits
           of
           our
           Divisions
           &
           of
           the
           bitter
           heats
           that
           accompanied
           them
           ,
           how
           was
           the
           reverence
           for
           the
           sacred
           Order
           lessened
           &
           diminished
           ,
           the
           veneration
           for
           Religion
           weakned
           and
           lost
           ,
           the
           shame
           &
           dread
           of
           appearing
           profane
           &
           wicked
           removed
           and
           banished
           ,
           &
           such
           who
           took
           the
           measures
           of
           Chistianity
           from
           the
           practices
           of
           those
           that
           were
           stiled
           Christians
           ,
           rather
           than
           from
           the
           immaculate
           and
           holy
           Scriptures
           ,
           tempted
           to
           think
           all
           Religion
           a
           juggle
           ,
           &
           priesthood
           but
           an
           artifice
           &
           craft
           to
           compass
           honor
           &
           wealth
           .
           And
           tho
           nothing
           but
           a
           shortness
           of
           understanding
           ,
           and
           an
           immoderate
           love
           to
           their
           lusts
           ,
           could
           occasion
           the
           drawing
           such
           a
           conclusion
           from
           foregoing
           premisses
           ,
           yet
           I
           must
           needs
           grant
           that
           there
           was
           too
           just
           ground
           administr'd
           to
           them
           of
           saying
           that
           many
           did
           not
           believe
           that
           themselves
           ,
           the
           Faith
           whereof
           they
           recommended
           to
           others
           .
           But
           that
           which
           I
           would
           more
           particularly
           observe
           ,
           is
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           from
           among
           those
           who
           by
           the
           foregoing
           occasion
           have
           been
           tempted
           to
           debauchery
           &
           irreligion
           ,
           that
           the
           Romish
           Emissaries
           have
           made
           the
           harvest
           of
           proselytes
           &
           converts
           to
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           .
           For
           as
           they
           who
           fear
           not
           God
           ,
           will
           be
           easily
           brought
           to
           imitate
           Caesar
           ,
           &
           such
           who
           are
           of
           no
           Religion
           ,
           will
           
           in
           subserviency
           to
           secular
           ends
           assume
           the
           mask
           and
           profession
           of
           any
           ;
           so
           Popery
           is
           extreamly
           adapted
           to
           the
           wishes
           and
           desires
           of
           wicked
           and
           profane
           men
           ,
           in
           that
           it
           provides
           for
           their
           living
           as
           enormously
           as
           they
           please
           here
           ,
           &
           flatters
           them
           with
           hopes
           &
           assurances
           of
           blessedness
           hereafter
           .
           They
           who
           can
           be
           ascertained
           of
           going
           to
           Heaven
           upon
           the
           confessing
           their
           sins
           to
           a
           Priest
           ,
           and
           their
           receiving
           Absolution
           ,
           the
           Encharist
           and
           Extreme
           Unction
           ,
           need
           not
           look
           after
           Repentance
           toward
           God
           ,
           Conversion
           to
           holiness
           ,
           nor
           a
           life
           ,
           of
           Faith
           ,
           Love
           ,
           Mortification
           ,
           and
           Obedience
           ,
           which
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           upon
           the
           Authority
           of
           the
           Gospel
           obligeth
           them
           unto
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           the
           obtaining
           of
           eternal
           happiness
           .
           And
           as
           the
           late
           Apostates
           to
           Popery
           in
           England
           ,
           are
           chiefly
           such
           who
           were
           Notorious
           for
           loosness
           ,
           prophaness
           and
           immorality
           ,
           and
           were
           the
           scandal
           of
           our
           Religion
           while
           they
           professed
           it
           ,
           and
           while
           in
           our
           Church
           were
           not
           properly
           of
           it
           ,
           so
           it
           from
           among
           men
           of
           this
           stamp
           &
           character
           that
           his
           late
           Majesty
           and
           the
           present
           King
           have
           found
           persons
           assisting
           and
           subservient
           to
           their
           Despotical
           and
           Arbitrary
           designs
           .
           For
           whosoever
           takes
           a
           survey
           of
           the
           Court
           Faction
           ,
           &
           considereth
           who
           have
           been
           the
           Advocates
           for
           encroachments
           upon
           our
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           abetters
           of
           usurpation
           over
           our
           Right
           ,
           they
           will
           find
           them
           to
           have
           been
           principally
           the
           profligate
           and
           debauched
           among
           the
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           ,
           the
           Mercenary
           ,
           ignorant
           &
           scandalous
           among
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           the
           offscouring
           and
           such
           as
           are
           an
           ignominy
           to
           humane
           Nature
           among
           the
           yeomanry
           and
           pesants
           .
           And
           it
           was
           in
           order
           to
           this
           villanous
           End
           ,
           that
           the
           Royal
           Brothers
           have
           endeavoured
           so
           industriously
           to
           debauch
           the
           Nation
           ,
           &
           have
           made
           sensuality
           &
           profaneness
           the
           qualifications
           for
           preferment
           ,
           &
           the
           badges
           of
           Loyalty
           .
           And
           if
           among
           those
           that
           appear
           for
           the
           preservation
           of
           the
           Liberties
           of
           their
           Country
           ,
           there
           be
           any
           that
           deserve
           to
           be
           stiled
           Enemies
           to
           Religion
           and
           vertue
           ,
           as
           I
           dare
           affirm
           that
           they
           owe
           their
           immoralities
           to
           Court
           Education
           ,
           Converse
           &
           Example
           ,
           so
           I
           hope
           that
           though
           they
           have
           not
           hitherto
           been
           all
           of
           them
           so
           happy
           as
           to
           have
           left
           their
           vices
           where
           they
           learned
           them
           ,
           yet
           that
           they
           will
           not
           continue
           to
           disparage
           the
           good
           cause
           which
           they
           have
           espoused
           with
           an
           unsuitable
           life
           ,
           nor
           give
           their
           Adversaries
           reason
           to
           say
           ,
           that
           while
           they
           pretend
           to
           seek
           the
           Reformation
           of
           the
           State
           ,
           they
           are
           both
           the
           deriders
           of
           sobriety
           &
           virtue
           ,
           without
           which
           no
           Constitution
           can
           long
           subsist
           ,
           &
           guilty
           of
           such
           horrid
           Oaths
           ,
           Cursing
           ,
           imprecations
           ,
           blasphemies
           and
           uncleanesses
           ,
           which
           naturally
           as
           well
           as
           morally
           and
           meritously
           dispose
           Nations
           to
           subversion
           and
           Extirpation
           .
        
         
           Finally
           being
           through
           the
           bitter
           effects
           which
           have
           ensued
           upon
           our
           Divisions
           ,
           made
           apprehensive
           &
           jealous
           one
           of
           another
           ,
           it
           hath
           from
           there
           come
           to
           pass
           ,
           that
           while
           the
           care
           of
           the
           Conformists
           hath
           been
           to
           watch
           against
           the
           grouth
           of
           the
           Dissenters
           ,
           &
           the
           solicitude
           of
           the
           Nonconformists
           hath
           been
           how
           to
           prevert
           the
           rage
           of
           the
           Bigotted
           Church
           men
           ,
           the
           Papists
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           without
           being
           headed
           or
           observ'd
           have
           both
           incredibly
           multiplied
           ,
           &
           made
           considerable
           advances
           in
           their
           designs
           of
           ruining
           us
           .
           For
           whensoever
           the
           Court
           was
           to
           take
           a
           signal
           step
           towards
           Popery
           &
           Arbitrary
           power
           ,
           there
           was
           a
           clamor
           raised
           of
           some
           menacing
           boldness
           of
           the
           Fanaticks
           .
           And
           if
           the
           Nation
           grew
           at
           any
           time
           alarm'd
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           favor
           shewn
           to
           Roman
           Catholicks
           ,
           &
           of
           some
           visible
           progress
           made
           towards
           the
           Kings
           becoming
           Despotical
           ,
           all
           was
           immediatly
           husht
           with
           a
           shout
           and
           cry
           of
           the
           Government
           and
           Churches
           being
           in
           eminent
           hazard
           from
           the
           Dissenters
           .
           Yea
           whensoever
           the
           Papists
           &
           their
           Royal
           Patrens
           stood
           detected
           of
           having
           been
           conspiring
           against
           our
           Religion
           &
           Civil
           Liberties
           ,
           all
           was
           diverted
           &
           stiffled
           by
           putting
           the
           Kingdom
           upon
           a
           false
           scent
           ,
           and
           by
           hounding
           out
           their
           Beagles
           upon
           the
           Nonconformists
           .
           So
           that
           the
           eyes
           &
           minds
           of
           Protestants
           being
           employed
           in
           reference
           to
           what
           was
           to
           be
           apprehended
           &
           feared
           from
           one
           anoother
           ,
           
           the
           workings
           of
           our
           Popish
           Enemies
           either
           escaped
           our
           observation
           ,
           or
           were
           heeded
           by
           most
           only
           with
           a
           superficial
           and
           unaffective
           glance
           .
           And
           while
           our
           Church
           men
           stood
           prepossessed
           by
           the
           Court
           with
           a
           dread
           and
           jealousie
           of
           the
           Fanaticks
           ,
           all
           that
           was
           said
           and
           written
           of
           a
           Conspiracy
           carried
           on
           by
           the
           Papists
           against
           our
           Laws
           and
           Religion
           ,
           was
           entertained
           and
           represented
           by
           the
           prejudiced
           Clergy
           ,
           as
           an
           Artifice
           only
           of
           the
           Dissenters
           for
           compassing
           an
           Indulgence
           from
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           which
           in
           case
           such
           a
           plot
           had
           obtained
           the
           belief
           that
           a
           matter
           of
           so
           great
           danger
           and
           consequence
           required
           ,
           would
           have
           been
           easily
           granted
           ,
           being
           the
           only
           rational
           expedient
           for
           the
           preservation
           of
           the
           established
           Religion
           and
           the
           legal
           Government
           .
           Nor
           did
           our
           Enemies
           question
           but
           that
           having
           enflamed
           our
           Divisions
           and
           raised
           our
           Animosities
           to
           so
           great
           a
           height
           ,
           rather
           than
           the
           one
           party
           would
           lay
           aside
           their
           severities
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           let
           fall
           their
           resentments
           ,
           we
           would
           even
           be
           contented
           to
           lye
           at
           their
           mercy
           ,
           and
           submit
           our selves
           to
           the
           pleasure
           and
           discretion
           of
           the
           Court
           and
           Papists
           .
           And
           there
           have
           not
           wanted
           some
           peevish
           ,
           foolish
           ,
           and
           ill
           men
           of
           both
           parties
           ,
           who
           rather
           than
           sacrifice
           their
           spleen
           and
           passion
           ,
           and
           abandon
           their
           particular
           Quarrels
           for
           the
           interest
           and
           safety
           of
           the
           whole
           ,
           would
           be
           inclined
           to
           expose
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           and
           English
           Liberties
           ,
           to
           the
           hazards
           wherewith
           they
           are
           apparently
           threatned
           ,
           and
           to
           suffer
           all
           extremities
           ,
           meerly
           to
           have
           the
           satisfaction
           of
           seeing
           those
           whom
           they
           respectively
           hate
           ,
           involved
           with
           them
           under
           the
           same
           miseries
           .
           But
           as
           this
           is
           such
           a
           degree
           of
           madness
           and
           infatuation
           ,
           as
           can
           proceed
           from
           nothing
           but
           brutish
           rage
           ,
           and
           argues
           no
           less
           than
           a
           Divine
           Nemesis
           ;
           so
           I
           hope
           they
           are
           but
           few
           that
           stand
           infected
           with
           these
           passionate
           sentiments
           and
           inclinations
           ,
           and
           remain
           thus
           hardned
           in
           their
           mutual
           prejudices
           .
           And
           to
           those
           I
           have
           nothing
           to
           say
           ,
           nor
           the
           least
           advice
           to
           administer
           ,
           but
           shall
           leave
           them
           to
           their
           own
           follies
           ,
           as
           persons
           to
           whose
           conviction
           no
           Discourse
           tho
           never
           so
           rational
           can
           be
           adapted
           ,
           and
           whom
           only
           stripes
           can
           work
           upon
           .
        
         
           'T
           is
           to
           such
           therefore
           as
           are
           capable
           of
           hearkning
           to
           Reason
           ,
           &
           who
           are
           ready
           to
           embrace
           any
           Counsel
           that
           shall
           be
           found
           adjusted
           to
           the
           Common
           Interest
           ,
           that
           I
           am
           to
           address
           what
           remains
           to
           be
           represented
           and
           said
           in
           the
           following
           leaves
           .
           For
           all
           parties
           of
           Protestants
           having
           seen
           ,
           how
           far
           our
           Enemies
           have
           improved
           our
           divisions
           and
           rancours
           to
           the
           compassing
           their
           wicked
           and
           ambitious
           designs
           ,
           and
           the
           robbing
           us
           of
           all
           ,
           that
           good
           &
           generous
           men
           account
           valuable
           ,
           they
           are
           at
           last
           convinced
           of
           the
           necessity
           we
           are
           reduced
           unto
           ,
           of
           altering
           the
           measures
           of
           our
           acting
           towards
           one
           another
           ,
           and
           both
           of
           laying
           aside
           our
           persecutions
           ,
           and
           of
           exchanging
           our
           wranglings
           among
           our selves
           ,
           into
           a
           joint
           contending
           for
           the
           Faith
           of
           the
           Gospel
           ,
           &
           the
           Rights
           of
           the
           Nation
           .
           For
           what
           the
           Gentleman
           now
           in
           the
           Throne
           intends
           and
           aims
           at
           ,
           is
           not
           any
           longer
           matter
           of
           meer
           suspicion
           &
           jealousie
           ,
           but
           of
           demonstrable
           evidence
           &
           unquestionable
           certainty
           .
           His
           mask
           &
           vizor
           of
           zeal
           for
           the
           preservation
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           and
           of
           tender
           regard
           for
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Land
           are
           laid
           by
           &
           put
           off
           ,
           and
           his
           resolutions
           of
           Governing
           arbitiarily
           ,
           &
           of
           introducing
           Popery
           ,
           are
           become
           obvious
           to
           all
           men
           whom
           Reason
           and
           sense
           have
           not
           forseken
           &
           left
           .
           The
           Papists
           whom
           it
           was
           thought
           much
           a
           while
           ago
           to
           see
           connived
           at
           in
           the
           exercise
           of
           their
           Worship
           in
           private
           Houses
           ,
           are
           allowed
           now
           to
           practice
           their
           Idolatry
           openly
           in
           our
           chief
           Towns
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           Metropolitan
           City
           of
           the
           neighboring
           Kingdom
           to
           usurp
           the
           publick
           Churches
           &
           Cathedarals
           .
           Those
           Catholick
           Gentlemen
           whom
           heretofore
           it
           was
           matter
           of
           surprise
           ,
           to
           see
           countenanced
           with
           the
           private
           favor
           of
           the
           Prince
           ,
           are
           now
           advanced
           to
           the
           supream
           Commands
           in
           the
           Army
           ,
           &
           the
           principal
           Trust
           in
           Civil
           affairs
           .
           The
           Recusant
           Lords
           whose
           enlargement
           out
           of
           the
           Tower
           ,
           we
           could
           not
           but
           look
           upon
           as
           an
           unpresidented
           violation
           both
           of
           Laws
           of
           the
           Land
           &
           of
           the
           Rights
           &
           jurisdiction
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           being
           
           committed
           thither
           by
           the
           Authority
           of
           the
           House
           of
           Lords
           upon
           a
           charge
           &
           Impeachment
           of
           high
           Treason
           by
           the
           Commons
           of
           England
           in
           Parliament
           assembled
           ,
           are
           now
           honored
           to
           be
           members
           of
           the
           privy
           Council
           ,
           and
           exalted
           to
           be
           chief
           Ministers
           of
           State.
           They
           whom
           the
           Statutes
           of
           the
           Realm
           make
           subject
           to
           the
           severest
           penalties
           for
           Apostacy
           to
           Rome
           ,
           are
           not
           only
           protected
           from
           the
           edge
           of
           the
           Law
           ,
           but
           maintained
           in
           Parochial
           Incumbencies
           &
           Headships
           of
           Colledges
           .
           Our
           Orthodox
           Clergy
           are
           not
           only
           inhibited
           to
           preach
           against
           Popery
           ,
           but
           are
           illegally
           reprimanded
           ,
           silenced
           ,
           &
           suspended
           ,
           for
           discharching
           that
           duty
           ,
           which
           their
           Consciences
           ,
           Offices
           ,
           Oaths
           ,
           and
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           oblige
           them
           unto
           .
           And
           such
           whom
           neither
           the
           Ecclesiastical
           nor
           Westminster
           Courts
           ,
           can
           arraign
           &
           proceed
           against
           ,
           we
           have
           a
           new
           Court
           of
           Inquisition
           erected
           for
           the
           adjudging
           &
           punishing
           of
           them
           .
           So
           that
           it
           is
           not
           the
           Fanaticks
           who
           are
           the
           only
           persons
           to
           be
           stuck
           at
           and
           ruined
           ,
           but
           the
           Conformists
           are
           to
           be
           treated
           after
           the
           same
           manner
           ,
           and
           to
           share
           in
           the
           common
           lot
           whereunto
           all
           honest
           &
           sincere
           Protestants
           are
           destined
           &
           designed
           .
           Even
           they
           who
           were
           the
           darlings
           of
           Whitehall
           &
           St.
           
           Iames's
           ,
           &
           recompenced
           with
           Honors
           and
           Titles
           for
           betraying
           the
           Rights
           and
           Priviledges
           of
           Corporations
           ,
           persecuting
           Dissenters
           ,
           &
           heading
           Addresses
           ,
           wherein
           Parliaments
           were
           reproached
           ,
           the
           Course
           of
           Justice
           against
           Popish
           Offenders
           was
           slandered
           ,
           the
           illegal
           &
           arbitrary
           procedures
           of
           the
           Court
           applauded
           and
           justified
           ,
           &
           all
           that
           were
           zealous
           for
           our
           Laws
           and
           Liberties
           stigmatised
           with
           the
           names
           of
           Villains
           and
           Traitors
           ,
           are
           now
           themselves
           ,
           for
           but
           discouraging
           Popish
           Assemblies
           &
           attempting
           to
           put
           the
           Laws
           in
           execution
           against
           Priests
           who
           had
           publickly
           celebrated
           Mass
           ,
           not
           only
           checkt
           and
           rebuked
           ,
           but
           punished
           with
           seisure
           and
           imprisonment
           .
           Nor
           are
           our
           Religion
           and
           Civil
           Liberties
           meerly
           supplanted
           and
           undermined
           by
           illegal
           Tricks
           glossed
           over
           with
           the
           varnish
           of
           judicial
           Forms
           ,
           but
           they
           are
           assaulted
           &
           battered
           in
           the
           face
           of
           the
           Sun
           ,
           without
           so
           much
           as
           a
           palliation
           to
           give
           their
           procedures
           a
           plausible
           figure
           .
           And
           the
           King
           being
           brought
           to
           a
           despair
           of
           managing
           the
           Parliament
           to
           his
           bare-faced
           purposes
           of
           Popery
           &
           Arbitrariness
           ,
           &
           of
           prevailing
           with
           them
           to
           establish
           Tyranny
           &
           Idolatry
           by
           Law
           ,
           notwithstanding
           their
           having
           been
           as
           industriously
           packt
           &
           chosen
           to
           answer
           such
           a
           design
           ▪
           as
           art
           ,
           bribery
           &
           Authority
           could
           reach
           ,
           &
           notwithstanding
           their
           having
           been
           obsequious
           in
           their
           first
           Session
           to
           an
           excess
           that
           hath
           proved
           unsafe
           to
           themselves
           &
           the
           Nation
           ,
           he
           seems
           resolvd
           not
           to
           allow
           them
           to
           meet
           any
           more
           ,
           but
           to
           set
           up
           
             a
             la
             mode
             de
             France
          
           ,
           and
           to
           have
           his
           personal
           Commands
           ,
           seconded
           with
           the
           assent
           of
           his
           
             durante
             beueplacito
          
           judges
           to
           be
           acknowledged
           and
           obeyed
           for
           Laws
           .
           So
           that
           they
           who
           were
           formerly
           seduced
           into
           a
           good
           opinion
           of
           him
           ,
           are
           not
           only
           undeceived
           ,
           but
           provoked
           to
           warm
           resentments
           for
           having
           had
           their
           credulity
           &
           easmess
           of
           belief
           so
           grosly
           abused
           .
           And
           as
           the
           converting
           so
           vast
           a
           number
           of
           well
           meaning
           but
           wofully
           deluded
           people
           ,
           who
           had
           suffered
           themselves
           to
           be
           hoodwinked
           and
           fatally
           hurried
           to
           betray
           their
           Religion
           ,
           Country
           ,
           &
           Posterity
           ,
           to
           the
           Ambition
           &
           Popish
           Bigottry
           of
           the
           Court
           ,
           was
           a
           design
           becoming
           the
           Compassion
           ,
           Mercy
           and
           Wisdom
           of
           God
           ;
           so
           the
           methods
           &
           means
           whereby
           they
           are
           come
           to
           be
           enlightned
           &
           proselyted
           ,
           are
           a
           signal
           vindication
           of
           the
           Sapience
           &
           Righteousness
           of
           God
           in
           all
           these
           tremendous
           steps
           of
           his
           providence
           ,
           by
           which
           our
           Enemies
           have
           been
           emboldned
           to
           detect
           &
           discover
           themselves
           .
           For
           tho
           their
           continuing
           so
           long
           to
           have
           a
           good
           opinion
           of
           the
           present
           King
           ,
           and
           their
           abetting
           him
           so
           far
           in
           the
           undermining
           our
           Religion
           and
           invading
           our
           Liberties
           ,
           may
           seem
           to
           have
           proceeded
           not
           so
           much
           from
           their
           ignorance
           is
           from
           their
           obstinacy
           &
           malice
           ;
           yet
           God
           who
           penetrates
           into
           the
           hearts
           of
           men
           ,
           may
           have
           discovered
           some
           degrees
           of
           sincerity
           in
           their
           pretensions
           &
           carriages
           tho
           accompanied
           with
           a
           great
           deal
           of
           folly
           &
           unmanliness
           .
           Nor
           are
           the
           Lords
           ways
           like
           to
           outs
           ,
           
           to
           give
           persons
           over
           us
           unteachable
           and
           irreclaimable
           ,
           upon
           their
           withstanding
           every
           measure
           of
           light
           ,
           and
           the
           resisting
           even
           those
           means
           which
           were
           sufficient
           and
           proper
           for
           their
           conviction
           ;
           but
           he
           will
           try
           them
           by
           new
           and
           extraordinary
           methods
           ,
           &
           see
           whether
           feeling
           &
           doleful
           experience
           may
           not
           convert
           those
           ,
           upon
           whom
           arguments
           and
           moral
           evidence
           could
           make
           no
           impressions
           .
           And
           their
           being
           among
           those
           formerly
           missed
           and
           deluded
           Protestants
           ,
           many
           who
           retained
           a
           love
           for
           their
           Country
           ,
           a
           care
           for
           their
           posterity
           ,
           and
           a
           zeal
           for
           the
           Gospel
           and
           Reformed
           Religion
           ,
           even
           when
           their
           actions
           imported
           the
           contrary
           ,
           &
           seem'd
           to
           betray
           them
           ;
           the
           singling
           and
           weeding
           out
           such
           from
           among
           the
           Court
           Faction
           &
           party
           ,
           is
           a
           compensation
           both
           for
           the
           defeatment
           of
           all
           endeavours
           for
           the
           prevention
           of
           the
           evils
           that
           have
           overtaken
           us
           ,
           &
           for
           the
           distresses
           &
           calamities
           under
           which
           we
           do
           at
           present
           lye
           &
           groan
           .
           And
           if
           there
           be
           joy
           in
           Heaven
           upon
           the
           conversion
           of
           a
           Sinner
           ,
           with
           that
           thankfulness
           to
           God
           ,
           &
           joy
           in
           themselves
           ,
           should
           they
           who
           have
           so
           many
           years
           wrestled
           against
           the
           encreachments
           of
           Popery
           &
           Arbitrariness
           ,
           &
           who
           have
           deeply
           suffered
           in
           their
           Names
           ,
           Persons
           and
           Estates
           upon
           that
           account
           ,
           welcome
           &
           embrace
           their
           once
           erring
           &
           misled
           but
           now
           enlightned
           ,
           reclaimed
           and
           converted
           Brethren
           .
           And
           instead
           of
           remembring
           or
           upbraiding
           them
           with
           the
           opposition
           and
           rancour
           ▪
           which
           they
           expressed
           against
           our
           persons
           ,
           principles
           ,
           &
           ways
           ,
           let
           there
           be
           no
           language
           heard
           from
           us
           ,
           but
           what
           may
           declare
           the
           joy
           we
           have
           in
           our selves
           for
           their
           conversion
           ,
           and
           the
           entire
           trust
           &
           confidence
           which
           we
           put
           in
           them
           .
           For
           tho
           as
           to
           many
           things
           which
           might
           have
           been
           hindred
           ,
           had
           they
           not
           been
           lulled
           into
           deep
           delusions
           ,
           they
           may
           seem
           born
           out
           of
           due
           time
           ,
           yet
           there
           is
           season
           enough
           left
           both
           for
           giving
           obstruction
           to
           what
           we
           are
           farther
           threatned
           with
           ,
           &
           for
           recovering
           out
           of
           the
           jaws
           of
           the
           Enemy
           what
           he
           thinks
           he
           hath
           irretrievably
           swallowed
           and
           devoured
           .
        
         
           The
           first
           duty
           incumbent
           therefore
           upon
           Dissenters
           towards
           those
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           is
           to
           believe
           that
           notwithstanding
           there
           having
           been
           many
           of
           them
           so
           long
           Advocates
           &
           Partizans
           for
           the
           Court
           through
           ignorance
           of
           what
           was
           aimed
           at
           &
           intended
           ,
           they
           are
           nevertheless
           as
           really
           concerned
           as
           any
           others
           ,
           and
           as
           truly
           zealous
           for
           the
           preservation
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           &
           for
           maintaining
           the
           legal
           Rights
           &
           Liberties
           of
           the
           Subject
           ,
           &
           when
           occasion
           shall
           offer
           will
           approve
           themselves
           accordingly
           .
           'T
           is
           a
           ridiculous
           as
           well
           as
           a
           mischievous
           fancie
           ,
           for
           one
           party
           to
           confine
           all
           Religion
           only
           to
           themselves
           ,
           or
           to
           circumscribe
           all
           the
           ancient
           English
           ardor
           for
           the
           common
           Rights
           of
           the
           Nation
           to
           such
           as
           are
           of
           their
           particular
           Fellowship
           &
           persuasion
           ,
           there
           being
           sincere
           Christians
           ,
           &
           true
           Englishmen
           among
           those
           of
           all
           judgments
           ,
           &
           societies
           of
           Protestants
           ,
           &
           among
           none
           more
           than
           those
           of
           the
           Communion
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           .
           It
           were
           the
           height
           of
           wickedness
           as
           well
           as
           the
           most
           prodigious
           folly
           ,
           to
           imagine
           that
           the
           Conformists
           have
           abandoned
           all
           fidelity
           to
           God.
           &
           cast
           off
           all
           care
           of
           themselves
           and
           their
           Country
           ,
           upon
           a
           mistaken
           iudgment
           of
           being
           Loyal
           &
           obedient
           to
           the
           King.
           They
           know
           as
           well
           as
           any
           ,
           that
           the
           giving
           to
           Cesar
           the
           things
           that
           are
           Cesars
           ,
           lays
           them
           under
           no
           obligation
           of
           surrendring
           unto
           him
           the
           things
           that
           are
           Gods
           ,
           nor
           of
           sacrificing
           unto
           the
           will
           of
           the
           Soveraign
           the
           priviledges
           reserved
           unto
           the
           people
           by
           the
           Fundamental
           Rules
           of
           the
           Constitution
           ,
           ●●d
           by
           the
           Statutes
           of
           the
           Realm
           .
           And
           they
           understand
           as
           well
           as
           others
           ,
           that
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Land
           are
           the
           only
           measures
           of
           the
           Princes
           Authority
           and
           of
           the
           Subjects
           Fealty
           ,
           and
           where
           they
           give
           him
           no
           Right
           to
           command
           ,
           they
           lay
           them
           under
           no
           tye
           to
           obey
           .
           And
           tho
           here
           &
           there
           a
           Dissenter
           have
           written
           against
           Popery
           with
           good
           success
           ,
           yet
           they
           have
           been
           mostly
           conformable
           Divines
           who
           have
           triumphed
           over
           it
           in
           elaborate
           Discourses
           ,
           and
           who
           have
           beaten
           the
           Romish
           Scriblers
           off
           the
           Stage
           .
           Nor
           can
           it
           be
           thought
           
           that
           they
           who
           have
           so
           accurately
           related
           and
           vindicated
           the
           History
           ,
           and
           asserted
           an
           desended
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           the
           Reformation
           ,
           should
           either
           tamely
           relinquish
           ,
           or
           be
           wanting
           in
           all
           due
           and
           legal
           ways
           to
           uphold
           and
           maintain
           it
           .
           And
           tho
           one
           or
           two
           Fanaticks
           have
           with
           sufficient
           strength
           and
           applause
           brandished
           their
           pens
           against
           Arbitrariness
           and
           in
           detecting
           the
           Designs
           of
           the
           Royal
           Brothers
           ,
           yet
           they
           who
           have
           generally
           and
           with
           greatest
           honor
           appeared
           for
           our
           Laws
           and
           Legal
           Government
           against
           the
           Invasions
           and
           Usurpations
           of
           the
           Court
           ,
           have
           been
           Theologues
           and
           Gentlemen
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           .
           Nor
           in
           case
           of
           further
           attempts
           for
           altering
           the
           Constitution
           and
           enslaving
           the
           Nation
           ,
           will
           they
           shew
           themselves
           unworthy
           the
           having
           descended
           from
           Ancestors
           ,
           whose
           Motto
           in
           the
           high
           places
           of
           the
           Field
           was
           
             Nolumus
             leges
             Angliae
             mutari
          
           .
           They
           who
           have
           so
           often
           justified
           the
           Arms
           of
           the
           
             united
             Netherlands
          
           against
           their
           Rightful
           Princes
           the
           Kings
           of
           Spain
           ,
           and
           so
           unanswerably
           vindicated
           their
           casting
           off
           Obedience
           to
           those
           Monarchs
           ,
           when
           they
           had
           invaded
           their
           Priviledges
           ,
           and
           attempted
           to
           establish
           the
           Inquisition
           over
           them
           ,
           cannot
           be
           ignorant
           what
           their
           own
           Right
           and
           Duty
           is
           in
           behalf
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           and
           English
           Libertles
           ;
           for
           the
           security
           whereof
           ,
           we
           have
           not
           only
           so
           many
           Laws
           ,
           but
           the
           Coronation
           Oaths
           and
           Stipulations
           of
           our
           Kings
           .
           And
           those
           Gentlemen
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           who
           appeared
           so
           vigorously
           in
           three
           Parliaments
           for
           excluding
           the
           Duke
           of
           York
           ,
           from
           the
           Succession
           to
           the
           Crown
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           a
           jealousie
           of
           what
           ,
           through
           being
           a
           Papist
           ,
           he
           would
           attempt
           against
           our
           Religion
           and
           Priviledges
           ,
           in
           case
           he
           were
           suffered
           to
           ascend
           the
           Throne
           ;
           cannot
           be
           now
           to
           seek
           what
           becomes
           them
           towards
           him
           ,
           tho
           actually
           Regnant
           ,
           having
           seen
           and
           felt
           what
           before
           they
           only
           apprehended
           and
           feared
           .
           For
           if
           the
           Law
           that
           entalleth
           the
           Succession
           upon
           the
           next
           of
           Kin
           ,
           and
           obligeth
           the
           Subjects
           to
           admit
           and
           receive
           him
           ,
           not
           only
           may
           but
           ought
           to
           be
           dispensed
           with
           ,
           in
           case
           the
           Heir
           ,
           through
           having
           imbib'd
           Principles
           which
           threaten
           the
           safety
           ,
           and
           are
           inconsistent
           with
           the
           happiness
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           hath
           made
           himself
           incapable
           to
           inherit
           ;
           we
           know
           by
           a
           short
           Ratiocination
           how
           far
           we
           stand
           bound
           to
           a
           Prince
           on
           the
           Throne
           ,
           who
           by
           transgressing
           against
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Constitution
           ,
           hath
           abdicated
           himself
           from
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           stands
           virtually
           deposed
           .
           For
           whosoever
           shall
           offer
           to
           Rule
           arbitrarily
           ,
           does
           immediately
           cease
           to
           be
           King
           
             de
             jure
          
           ,
           seeing
           by
           the
           Fundamental
           ,
           Common
           and
           Stature
           Laws
           of
           the
           Realm
           ,
           we
           know
           none
           for
           Supream
           Magistrate
           and
           Governor
           ,
           but
           a
           limited
           Prince
           ,
           and
           one
           who
           stands
           circumscribed
           and
           bounded
           in
           his
           Power
           and
           Prerogative
           .
           And
           should
           the
           Dissenters
           entertain
           a
           belief
           that
           the
           Conformists
           are
           less
           concerned
           and
           zealous
           than
           themselves
           for
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           and
           Laws
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           they
           would
           not
           only
           sin
           and
           offend
           against
           the
           Rules
           of
           Charity
           ,
           but
           against
           the
           measures
           of
           Justice
           ,
           and
           daily
           Evidences
           from
           matters
           of
           Fact.
           For
           neither
           they
           not
           we
           owe
           our
           Conversion
           to
           God
           ,
           and
           our
           practical
           holiness
           to
           the
           Opinions
           about
           Discipline
           ,
           Forms
           of
           Worship
           ,
           and
           Ceremonies
           ,
           wherein
           we
           differ
           ,
           but
           to
           the
           Doctrines
           of
           Faith
           and
           Christian
           Obedience
           ,
           wherein
           we
           agree
           .
           'T
           is
           not
           their
           being
           for
           a
           Liturgy
           ,
           a
           Surprize
           ,
           or
           a
           Bishop
           ,
           that
           hath
           heretofore
           Influenced
           them
           to
           subserve
           the
           Court
           in
           Designs
           tending
           to
           Absoluteness
           ,
           but
           they
           were
           seduced
           unto
           it
           upon
           Motives
           whereof
           they
           are
           now
           ashamed
           ,
           and
           the
           ridiculousness
           and
           folly
           of
           which
           they
           have
           at
           last
           discovered
           .
           Nor
           is
           the
           multitude
           of
           profligate
           and
           scandalous
           persons
           with
           which
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           is
           crowded
           ,
           any
           just
           impeachment
           of
           the
           purity
           of
           her
           Doctrine
           in
           the
           Vitals
           and
           Essentials
           of
           Religion
           ,
           or
           of
           the
           Virtue
           and
           Piety
           of
           many
           of
           her
           Members
           .
           For
           as
           it
           is
           her
           being
           the
           only
           Society
           established
           by
           Law
           that
           attracts
           those
           Vermin
           to
           her
           Bosom
           ,
           so
           it
           is
           her
           being
           restrained
           by
           Law
           from
           debarring
           them
           ,
           that
           keeps
           them
           there
           to
           her
           reproach
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           grief
           of
           many
           
           of
           many
           of
           her
           Ecclesiasticls
           .
           Neither
           is
           it
           the
           fault
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           that
           the
           Agents
           and
           Factors
           for
           Popery
           and
           Arbitrary
           Power
           ,
           have
           chosen
           to
           pass
           under
           the
           name
           of
           her
           Sons
           ;
           but
           it
           proceeds
           partly
           from
           their
           Malice
           ,
           as
           hoping
           by
           that
           means
           to
           disgrace
           her
           with
           all
           true
           Englishmen
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           with
           Dissenters
           ,
           and
           partly
           from
           their
           Craft
           ,
           in
           order
           thereby
           the
           better
           to
           conceal
           their
           Design
           ,
           and
           to
           shrowd
           themselves
           from
           the
           Censure
           and
           Punishment
           ,
           which
           had
           it
           not
           been
           for
           that
           Mask
           ▪
           they
           would
           have
           been
           exposed
           unto
           ,
           and
           have
           undergone
           .
           And
           I
           dare
           affirm
           ,
           that
           besides
           the
           Obligations
           from
           Religion
           ,
           which
           the
           Conformists
           are
           equa●ly
           under
           with
           Dissenters
           ,
           for
           hindering
           the
           introduction
           of
           Popery
           ,
           there
           are
           several
           inducements
           from
           Interest
           ,
           which
           sway
           them
           to
           prevent
           its
           establishment
           ,
           wherein
           the
           Fanaticks
           are
           but
           little
           concerned
           .
           For
           tho
           Popery
           would
           be
           alike
           afflictive
           to
           the
           Consciences
           of
           Protestants
           of
           all
           Perswasions
           ,
           yet
           they
           are
           Gentlemen
           and
           Ministers
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           whose
           Livings
           ,
           Revenues
           ,
           and
           Estates
           are
           threatened
           in
           e●se
           it
           come
           to
           be
           established
           .
           Nor
           wou'd
           the
           most
           Loyal
           and
           Obsequious
           Levites
           ,
           provided
           they
           resolve
           to
           continue
           Protestants
           ,
           be
           willing
           that
           their
           Parsonages
           and
           Incumbencies
           ,
           to
           which
           they
           have
           no
           less
           Right
           by
           Law
           ,
           than
           the
           King
           hath
           to
           the
           Excise
           and
           Customs
           ,
           should
           be
           taken
           from
           them
           and
           bestowed
           upon
           Romish
           Priests
           ,
           by
           an
           Act
           of
           Dispotical
           Power
           ,
           and
           of
           unlimited
           Prerogative
           .
           And
           for
           the
           Gentlemen
           ,
           as
           I
           think
           sew
           of
           them
           would
           hold
           themselves
           obliged
           to
           part
           with
           their
           Purses
           to
           High-way
           Padders
           ,
           t●ough
           such
           should
           have
           a
           Patent
           from
           the
           King
           to
           rob
           whomsoever
           they
           encountred
           upon
           the
           Read
           ;
           so
           there
           will
           not
           be
           many
           inclined
           to
           suffer
           their
           Mannors
           and
           Abbey-Lands
           ,
           to
           which
           they
           have
           so
           good
           a
           Title
           ,
           to
           be
           ravished
           from
           them
           either
           by
           Monks
           or
           Janizaries
           ,
           tho
           authorized
           thereunto
           by
           the
           Prince's
           Commission
           .
           Even
           they
           who
           had
           formerly
           suffered
           themselves
           to
           be
           seduced
           to
           prove
           in
           a
           manner
           Betrayers
           of
           the
           Rights
           and
           Religion
           of
           their
           Country
           ,
           will
           now
           (
           being
           undeceived
           !
           not
           only
           in
           conjunction
           with
           others
           withstand
           the
           Court
           in
           its
           prosecution
           of
           Popish
           and
           Arbitrary
           Designs
           ,
           but
           through
           a
           generous
           exasperation
           for
           having
           been
           deluded
           and
           abused
           ,
           will
           judg
           themselves
           obliged
           in
           vindication
           of
           their
           actings
           before
           ,
           to
           appear
           for
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           and
           the
           Laws
           of
           England
           ,
           with
           a
           Zeal
           equal
           to
           that
           wherewith
           they
           contributed
           to
           the
           undermining
           and
           supplanting
           of
           them
           .
           For
           they
           are
           not
           only
           become
           more
           sensible
           than
           they
           were
           of
           the
           Mischiefs
           of
           Absolute
           Government
           so
           as
           for
           the
           future
           to
           prize
           and
           assert
           the
           Priviledges
           reserved
           unto
           the
           People
           by
           the
           Rules
           of
           the
           Constitution
           ,
           and
           chalkt
           out
           for
           them
           in
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Land
           ;
           but
           they
           have
           such
           a
           fresh
           view
           of
           Popery
           both
           in
           its
           Heresies
           ,
           Blasphemies
           ,
           Superstitions
           and
           Idolatries
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           Treachery
           ,
           Sanguinariness
           ,
           Violence
           and
           Cruelty
           ,
           which
           the
           Papal
           Principles
           mould
           ,
           influence
           ,
           and
           oblige
           men
           unto
           ,
           that
           they
           not
           only
           entertain
           the
           greatest
           Abhorrency
           and
           Detestation
           imaginable
           for
           it
           ,
           but
           seem
           resolved
           not
           to
           cherish
           in
           their
           Bosom
           ,
           a
           thing
           so
           abominable
           to
           God
           ,
           execrable
           to
           good
           Men
           ,
           and
           destructive
           to
           Humane
           as
           well
           as
           to
           Christian
           Societies
           .
        
         
           Nor
           are
           the
           Dissenters
           merely
           to
           believe
           that
           the
           Conformists
           are
           equally
           zealous
           as
           themselves
           for
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           and
           English
           Rights
           ,
           but
           they
           are
           to
           consider
           them
           as
           thy
           only
           great
           and
           united
           Body
           of
           Protestants
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           with
           whom
           all
           other
           Parties
           compared
           bear
           no
           considerable
           proportion
           .
           For
           tho
           the
           Nonconformists
           considered
           abstractedly
           make
           a
           vast
           number
           of
           honest
           and
           useful
           People
           ,
           yet
           being
           laid
           in
           the
           Scale
           with
           those
           of
           the
           Episcopal
           Communion
           ,
           they
           are
           but
           few
           and
           lie
           in
           a
           little
           room
           .
           And
           whosoever
           will
           take
           the
           pains
           to
           ballance
           the
           one
           against
           the
           other
           ,
           even
           where
           the
           Fanaticks
           make
           the
           greatest
           Figure
           ,
           and
           may
           justly
           boast
           of
           their
           multitude
           ,
           they
           will
           soon
           be
           convinced
           that
           the
           number
           
           of
           the
           other
           doth
           far
           transcend
           and
           exceed
           them
           .
           And
           it
           be
           so
           in
           Cities
           and
           Corporations
           ,
           where
           the
           greatest
           Bulk
           of
           Dissenters
           are
           ,
           it
           is
           much
           more
           so
           in
           Country
           Parishes
           ,
           where
           the
           latter
           bear
           not
           the
           proportion
           of
           one
           to
           a
           hundred
           .
           Nor
           doth
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           more
           exceed
           the
           other
           Parties
           in
           her
           number
           ,
           than
           she
           doth
           in
           the
           Quality
           of
           her
           Members
           .
           For
           whereas
           they
           who
           make
           up
           and
           constitute
           the
           separate
           Societies
           ,
           are
           chiefly
           persons
           of
           the
           middle
           Rank
           and
           Condition
           ,
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           doth
           in
           a
           manner
           vouch
           ,
           and
           claim
           all
           the
           Persons
           of
           Honor
           ,
           of
           the
           Learned
           Professions
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           have
           valuable
           Estates
           ,
           for
           her
           Communicants
           .
           And
           though
           the
           other
           sort
           are
           as
           necessary
           in
           the
           Common-wealth
           ,
           and
           contribute
           as
           much
           to
           its
           Strength
           ,
           Prosperity
           ,
           and
           Happiness
           ,
           yet
           they
           make
           not
           that
           Figure
           in
           the
           Government
           ,
           nor
           stand
           in
           that
           capacity
           of
           having
           influence
           upon
           publick
           Affairs
           :
           for
           not
           only
           the
           Gentlemen
           of
           both
           the
           Gowns
           ,
           who
           by
           reason
           of
           their
           Calling
           and
           Learning
           are
           best
           able
           to
           defend
           our
           Religion
           and
           vindicate
           our
           Laws
           and
           Privileges
           with
           their
           Tongues
           and
           Pens
           ,
           but
           they
           whose
           Estates
           ,
           Reputation
           ,
           and
           Interest
           ,
           recommendeth
           them
           to
           be
           elected
           Members
           of
           the
           great
           Senate
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           they
           who
           by
           reason
           of
           their
           Honors
           and
           Baronages
           are
           hereditary
           Legislators
           ,
           are
           generally
           ,
           if
           not
           all
           ,
           of
           the
           Communion
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           :
           so
           that
           they
           who
           conform
           to
           the
           established
           Worship
           and
           Discipline
           ,
           are
           to
           be
           look'd
           upon
           and
           acknowledged
           as
           the
           great
           Bulwark
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           in
           England
           ,
           and
           the
           Hedge
           and
           Fence
           of
           our
           Civil
           Liberties
           and
           Rights
           .
           And
           though
           it
           be
           true
           that
           this
           great
           breach
           ,
           made
           upon
           our
           Religion
           and
           Laws
           ,
           is
           fallen
           out
           under
           their
           hand
           ,
           while
           the
           poor
           Dissenters
           had
           neither
           accession
           to
           ,
           nor
           were
           in
           a
           condition
           to
           prevent
           it
           ;
           yet
           seeing
           their
           own
           Consciences
           do
           sufficiently
           load
           and
           charge
           them
           for
           it
           with
           Shame
           and
           Ignominy
           ,
           it
           were
           neither
           candid
           ,
           nor
           at
           this
           juncture
           seasonable
           ,
           to
           upbraid
           it
           to
           them
           ,
           or
           improve
           it
           to
           their
           dishonor
           and
           reproach
           .
           For
           as
           they
           have
           tamely
           look'd
           on
           and
           connived
           till
           our
           Religion
           and
           Liberties
           are
           so
           far
           undermined
           and
           supplanted
           ,
           so
           it
           is
           they
           alone
           who
           are
           in
           a
           condition
           of
           stemming
           the
           Inundation
           of
           Idolatry
           and
           Tyranny
           with
           which
           we
           are
           threatned
           ,
           and
           of
           repairing
           our
           Breaches
           ,
           and
           reducing
           the
           Prerogative
           to
           its
           old
           Channel
           ,
           and
           making
           Popery
           sneak
           and
           retreat
           into
           its
           Holes
           and
           Corners
           again
           .
           And
           should
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           he
           overthrown
           and
           devoured
           ,
           what
           an
           easie
           Prey
           would
           the
           Fanaticks
           be
           to
           the
           Romish
           Cormorants
           .
           And
           could
           the
           King
           ,
           under
           the
           Conduct
           of
           the
           Iesuits
           ,
           and
           with
           the
           assistance
           of
           his
           Myrmidons
           ,
           dissolve
           the
           established
           Worship
           and
           Discipline
           ,
           they
           of
           the
           Separation
           would
           be
           in
           no
           capacity
           to
           support
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           ,
           nor
           able
           to
           escape
           the
           common
           Ruine
           and
           Persecution
           .
           'T
           is
           therefore
           the
           interest
           as
           well
           as
           the
           duty
           of
           the
           Dissenters
           ,
           to
           help
           maintain
           and
           defend
           those
           Walls
           ,
           within
           the
           skreen
           and
           shelter
           whereof
           ,
           their
           own
           Hutts
           and
           Cottages
           are
           built
           and
           stand
           ;
           and
           the
           rather
           ,
           seeing
           the
           Conformists
           are
           at
           last
           ,
           tho
           to
           their
           own
           Religion's
           and
           the
           Nations
           expence
           ,
           become
           so
           far
           enlightned
           ,
           as
           to
           see
           a
           necessry
           of
           growing
           more
           amicable
           towards
           them
           ,
           and
           if
           not
           to
           enlarge
           the
           Terms
           of
           their
           Communion
           ,
           yet
           to
           grant
           an
           Indulgence
           to
           all
           Protestants
           that
           differ
           from
           them
           .
           And
           as
           we
           ought
           to
           admire
           the
           Wisdom
           of
           God
           in
           those
           Providences
           ,
           by
           which
           Protestants
           are
           taught
           to
           lay
           aside
           their
           Animosities
           ,
           and
           to
           let
           fall
           their
           Persecutions
           of
           one
           another
           ;
           so
           it
           would
           be
           a
           contradiction
           both
           to
           the
           Principles
           and
           repeated
           Protestations
           of
           Dissenters
           ,
           to
           aim
           at
           more
           than
           such
           a
           Liberty
           as
           is
           consistent
           with
           a
           National
           Ecclesiastick
           Establishment
           .
           Yet
           it
           were
           to
           proclaim
           themselves
           both
           Villains
           and
           Hypocrites
           ,
           not
           to
           allow
           their
           Fellow
           Protestants
           the
           exercise
           of
           their
           Judgments
           ,
           with
           what
           farther
           Profits
           and
           Emoluments
           the
           Law
           will
           grant
           them
           ,
           provided
           themselves
           may
           be
           discharged
           from
           all
           obnoxiousness
           to
           Penalties
           and
           Censures
           upon
           the
           account
           of
           their
           Consciences
           ,
           and
           be
           admitted
           a
           free
           and
           publick
           practice
           of
           
           their
           own
           respective
           Modes
           of
           Discipline
           ,
           and
           be
           suffered
           to
           Worship
           God
           in
           those
           ways
           which
           they
           think
           he
           hath
           required
           of
           and
           enjoyned
           them
           .
           And
           were
           England
           immediately
           to
           be
           rendered
           so
           happy
           as
           to
           have
           a
           Protestant
           Prince
           ascend
           the
           Throne
           ,
           and
           to
           enjoy
           a
           Parliament
           duesy
           chosen
           ,
           and
           acting
           with
           freedom
           ,
           no
           one
           Party
           of
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           among
           us
           ,
           must
           ever
           expect
           to
           be
           established
           and
           supported
           to
           the
           denyal
           of
           Liberty
           to
           others
           ,
           much
           less
           to
           be
           by
           Law
           empowered
           to
           ruin
           and
           destroy
           them
           .
           Should
           it
           please
           Almighty
           God
           ,
           through
           denying
           Male
           Issue
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           to
           bring
           the
           Princess
           of
           Orange
           to
           the
           Crown
           ,
           tho
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           may
           in
           that
           case
           justly
           expect
           the
           being
           preserved
           and
           upheld
           as
           the
           National
           Establishment
           ,
           yet
           all
           other
           Protestants
           may
           very
           rationally
           promise
           themselves
           an
           Indulgence
           ,
           and
           that
           not
           only
           from
           the
           mildness
           and
           compassionate
           sweetness
           of
           her
           Temper
           ,
           but
           from
           the
           influence
           which
           the
           Prince
           her
           Husband
           will
           have
           upon
           her
           ,
           who
           as
           he
           is
           descended
           from
           Ancestors
           ,
           whose
           glory
           it
           was
           to
           be
           the
           Redeemers
           of
           their
           Country
           from
           Papal
           Persecution
           and
           Spanish
           Tyranny
           ,
           so
           his
           Education
           ,
           Generosity
           ,
           Wisdom
           ,
           and
           many
           Heroick
           V●rtues
           ,
           dispose
           him
           to
           embrace
           all
           Protestants
           with
           an
           equal
           tenderness
           ,
           and
           to
           erect
           his
           Interest
           upon
           the
           being
           the
           Head
           and
           Patron
           of
           all
           that
           profess
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           .
           Had
           the
           late
           Duke
           of
           Monmouth
           been
           victorious
           against
           the
           Forces
           of
           the
           present
           King
           ,
           and
           inabled
           to
           have
           wrested
           the
           Scepter
           our
           of
           his
           hand
           ;
           tho
           all
           Protestants
           might
           thereupon
           have
           expected
           ,
           and
           would
           certainly
           have
           enjoyed
           an
           equal
           Freedom
           ,
           without
           the
           lyableness
           of
           any
           Party
           to
           Penal
           Laws
           for
           matters
           of
           Religion
           ,
           yet
           he
           would
           have
           been
           careful
           ,
           and
           I
           have
           reason
           to
           believe
           that
           it
           was
           his
           purpose
           ,
           to
           have
           had
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           preserved
           and
           maintained
           ,
           and
           that
           she
           should
           have
           suffered
           no
           alteration
           but
           what
           would
           have
           been
           to
           her
           strength
           and
           glory
           ,
           through
           an
           enlargement
           of
           the
           Terms
           of
           her
           Communion
           ,
           and
           what
           would
           have
           been
           to
           the
           praise
           of
           her
           Moderation
           and
           Charity
           ,
           through
           her
           being
           perswaded
           to
           bear
           with
           such
           as
           differed
           from
           her
           in
           little
           things
           ,
           and
           could
           not
           prevail
           with
           themselves
           to
           partake
           with
           her
           in
           all
           Ordinances
           .
           Upon
           the
           whole
           ,
           it
           is
           both
           the
           prudence
           and
           safety
           of
           Dissenters
           ,
           as
           they
           would
           escape
           Extirpation
           themselves
           ,
           and
           have
           Religion
           conveyed
           down
           to
           Posterity
           ,
           to
           unite
           their
           strength
           and
           endeavours
           to
           those
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           for
           the
           upholding
           her
           against
           the
           Assaults
           of
           Popish
           Enemies
           ,
           who
           pursue
           her
           Subversion
           .
           As
           matters
           are
           now
           circumstanced
           and
           stated
           in
           England
           ,
           there
           is
           not
           an
           Affront
           or
           Injury
           offered
           or
           done
           unto
           her
           by
           the
           Court
           ,
           which
           do
           not
           at
           the
           same
           time
           reach
           and
           wound
           the
           Fanaticks
           .
           'T
           is
           not
           her
           being
           for
           Episcopacy
           Cerimonies
           ,
           and
           imposed
           set
           Forms
           of
           Worship
           ,
           the
           things
           about
           which
           she
           and
           the
           Nonconformists
           differ
           ,
           that
           she
           is
           maligned
           and
           struck
           at
           by
           the
           Man
           in
           power
           and
           his
           Popish
           Juncto
           ;
           but
           it
           is
           for
           being
           Protestant
           ,
           Reformed
           ,
           and
           Orthodox
           ,
           Crimes
           under
           the
           guilt
           whereof
           Dissenters
           are
           equally
           concerned
           and
           involved
           .
           Being
           therefore
           in
           opposition
           to
           the
           common
           Cause
           of
           Religion
           ,
           that
           the
           late
           Court
           of
           Inquisition
           is
           erected
           over
           her
           Ecclesiasticks
           ,
           all
           Protestants
           ought
           jointly
           to
           resent
           the
           Wrongs
           which
           she
           sustains
           ,
           and
           not
           only
           to
           sympathise
           with
           those
           Dignified
           and
           lower
           Clergy
           ,
           which
           are
           called
           to
           suffer
           ,
           but
           to
           espouse
           their
           Quarrel
           with
           the
           same
           warmth
           that
           we
           would
           our
           own
           .
        
         
           And
           as
           we
           are
           to
           look
           upon
           those
           of
           the
           Episcopal
           Communion
           ,
           to
           be
           the
           great
           Bulwark
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           and
           Reformed
           Interest
           in
           England
           ;
           so
           it
           is
           farther
           incumbent
           upon
           Dissenters
           towards
           them
           ,
           and
           a
           duty
           which
           they
           owe
           to
           God
           ,
           the
           Nation
           ,
           and
           themselves
           ,
           not
           to
           be
           accessary
           to
           any
           thing
           ,
           through
           which
           the
           legal
           Establishment
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           may
           by
           any
           Act
           of
           pretended
           Regal
           Prerogative
           be
           weakned
           and
           supplanted
           .
           I
           am
           not
           counselling
           the
           Fanaticks
           to
           renounce
           their
           Principles
           ,
           nor
           to
           participate
           with
           the
           Prelatical
           Church
           in
           all
           Ordinances
           
           on
           the
           Terms
           to
           which
           they
           have
           straitned
           and
           narrowed
           their
           Communion
           ,
           For
           while
           they
           remain
           unsatisfied
           of
           the
           lawfulness
           of
           those
           Terms
           and
           Conditions
           ,
           they
           cannot
           do
           it
           without
           offending
           God
           and
           contracting
           guilt
           upon
           their
           Souls
           ;
           nor
           will
           they
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           in
           Charity
           ,
           Justice
           ,
           and
           Honesty
           ,
           expect
           it
           from
           them
           :
           for
           whatsoever
           any
           man
           believeth
           to
           be
           in
           ,
           it
           is
           so
           to
           him
           ,
           and
           will
           by
           God
           be
           impured
           as
           such
           ,
           till
           he
           be
           otherwise
           englightned
           and
           convinced
           ;
           nor
           are
           the
           Fanaticks
           to
           be
           falie
           and
           cruel
           to
           themselves
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           be
           kind
           and
           friendly
           to
           them
           .
           But
           that
           which
           I
           would
           advice
           them
           unto
           ,
           is
           that
           after
           the
           maintaining
           the
           highest
           measure
           of
           love
           to
           the
           consormable
           Congregations
           as
           Churches
           of
           Christ
           ,
           and
           the
           esteeming
           their
           Members
           as
           Christian
           Protestant
           Brethren
           ,
           notwithstanding
           the
           several
           things
           wherein
           they
           judge
           them
           to
           err
           and
           to
           be
           mistaken
           ,
           that
           they
           would
           not
           by
           any
           Act
           and
           Transaction
           of
           theirs
           ,
           betray
           them
           into
           the
           Despotical
           Power
           of
           this
           Popish
           King
           ,
           nor
           directly
           nor
           indirectly
           acknowledge
           his
           being
           vested
           with
           an
           Authority
           paramount
           unto
           ,
           and
           superceding
           the
           Laws
           ,
           by
           which
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           is
           established
           in
           its
           present
           form
           ,
           order
           ,
           and
           mode
           of
           Jurisdiction
           ,
           Discipline
           ,
           and
           external
           Worship
           .
           Whatsoever
           ease
           arriveth
           to
           the
           Dissenters
           ,
           through
           the
           King
           's
           suspending
           the
           execution
           of
           the
           Penal
           Laws
           ,
           without
           their
           Address
           and
           Application
           ,
           they
           may
           receive
           it
           with
           joy
           and
           humility
           in
           themselves
           ,
           and
           with
           thankfulness
           to
           God
           ;
           nor
           is
           there
           hereby
           any
           prejudice
           offered
           on
           their
           part
           to
           the
           Authority
           of
           the
           Law
           ,
           or
           offence
           or
           injury
           given
           or
           done
           to
           the
           Conformable
           Clergy
           .
           Nor
           is
           without
           grief
           and
           regret
           that
           the
           Church-men
           are
           forced
           to
           behold
           the
           harassing
           ,
           spoiling
           ,
           and
           imprisonment
           of
           the
           Nonconformists
           ,
           while
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           the
           Papists
           are
           suffered
           to
           assemble
           to
           the
           celebration
           of
           their
           Idolatrous
           Worship
           without
           censure
           and
           controul
           .
           And
           were
           it
           in
           their
           power
           to
           remedy
           it
           ,
           and
           give
           relief
           to
           their
           Protestant
           Brethren
           ,
           they
           would
           with
           delight
           and
           readiness
           embrace
           the
           occasion
           and
           opportunity
           of
           doing
           it
           .
           But
           alas
           !
           instead
           of
           having
           an
           advantage
           put
           into
           their
           hand
           ,
           of
           contributing
           to
           the
           relief
           of
           the
           Fanaticks
           ,
           which
           I
           dare
           say
           many
           of
           them
           ardently
           wish
           and
           desire
           ,
           they
           are
           compelled
           ,
           contrary
           to
           their
           Inclination
           as
           well
           as
           their
           Interest
           ,
           to
           become
           instrumental
           in
           persecuting
           and
           oppressing
           them
           ,
           Nor
           does
           the
           King
           covet
           a
           better
           and
           a
           more
           legal
           Advantage
           against
           the
           Conformists
           ,
           than
           that
           they
           would
           refuse
           to
           pursue
           Dissenters
           ,
           and
           decline
           molesting
           them
           with
           Ecclesiastical
           Censures
           and
           Civil
           Punishments
           :
           so
           that
           their
           Condition
           is
           to
           be
           pitied
           and
           bewailed
           ,
           in
           that
           they
           are
           hindred
           from
           Acting
           against
           the
           Papists
           ,
           though
           both
           enjoined
           by
           Law
           ,
           and
           influenced
           thereunto
           by
           motives
           of
           Self-preservation
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           by
           ties
           of
           Conscience
           ;
           while
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           they
           are
           forced
           to
           prosecute
           their
           Fellow
           Protestants
           ,
           or
           else
           to
           be
           suspended
           and
           deposed
           ,
           and
           put
           out
           of
           their
           Offices
           and
           Employs
           .
           And
           though
           I
           do
           believe
           ,
           that
           they
           would
           at
           last
           have
           more
           Peace
           in
           themselves
           ,
           and
           be
           better
           accepted
           with
           God
           in
           the
           great
           day
           of
           their
           account
           ,
           should
           they
           refuse
           to
           disturb
           and
           prosecute
           their
           Protestant
           Brethren
           ,
           and
           scorn
           to
           be
           any
           longer
           Court
           Tools
           for
           weakning
           and
           undermining
           the
           Reformed
           Cause
           and
           Interest
           ;
           yet
           I
           shall
           leave
           them
           to
           act
           in
           this
           as
           they
           shall
           be
           persuaded
           in
           themselves
           ,
           and
           as
           they
           shall
           judge
           most
           agreeable
           to
           Principles
           of
           Wisdom
           and
           Conscience
           .
           In
           the
           interim
           ,
           the
           Fanaticks
           have
           all
           the
           reason
           in
           the
           World
           to
           believe
           ,
           that
           the
           Proceedings
           of
           the
           Clergy
           and
           Members
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           at
           this
           season
           and
           juncture
           against
           them
           ,
           are
           not
           the
           Results
           of
           their
           Election
           and
           Choice
           ,
           but
           the
           effects
           of
           moral
           compulsion
           and
           necessity
           .
           Not
           will
           any
           Dissenter
           that
           is
           prudent
           and
           discreet
           ,
           blame
           them
           for
           a
           matter
           which
           they
           cannot
           help
           ,
           but
           bear
           his
           misfortune
           and
           lot
           with
           patience
           in
           himself
           ,
           and
           with
           compassion
           and
           charity
           towards
           them
           ,
           and
           have
           his
           Indignation
           raised
           only
           against
           the
           Court
           ,
           which
           forceth
           them
           to
           be
           instrumental
           in
           their
           oppression
           
           and
           trouble
           .
           And
           instead
           of
           being
           thereby
           provoked
           to
           petition
           the
           King
           to
           suspend
           the
           execution
           of
           the
           Penal
           Laws
           ,
           or
           that
           he
           would
           by
           an
           Act
           of
           his
           Prerogative
           dispense
           with
           their
           Meetings
           for
           religious
           Worship
           in
           defiance
           of
           them
           ;
           they
           ought
           to
           consider
           that
           is
           what
           the
           Court
           aims
           at
           ,
           by
           commanding
           their
           conformable
           Brethren
           to
           molest
           and
           pursue
           them
           .
           For
           a
           power
           paramount
           and
           transcendent
           to
           the
           Law
           is
           what
           the
           King
           is
           usurping
           ,
           and
           which
           he
           would
           fain
           work
           his
           Subjects
           one
           way
           or
           another
           to
           acknowledge
           .
           The
           Fanaticks
           cannot
           be
           so
           far
           void
           of
           sense
           ,
           as
           to
           think
           that
           the
           person
           now
           in
           the
           Throne
           bears
           them
           any
           good
           will
           ,
           but
           his
           drift
           is
           to
           screw
           himself
           into
           a
           Supremacy
           and
           Absoluteness
           over
           the
           Law
           ,
           and
           to
           get
           such
           an
           Authority
           confessed
           to
           be
           vested
           in
           him
           ,
           as
           when
           he
           pleaseth
           he
           may
           subvert
           the
           established
           Religion
           ,
           and
           set
           up
           Popery
           :
           for
           by
           the
           same
           power
           that
           he
           can
           dispense
           with
           the
           Penal
           Statutes
           against
           the
           Nonconformists
           ,
           he
           may
           also
           dispense
           with
           those
           against
           the
           Roman
           Catholicks
           :
           and
           whosoever
           owneth
           that
           he
           hath
           a
           Right
           to
           do
           the
           first
           ,
           doth
           in
           effect
           own
           that
           he
           hath
           a
           Right
           to
           do
           the
           last
           ;
           for
           if
           he
           be
           allowed
           a
           Power
           for
           the
           superceding
           some
           Laws
           made
           in
           reference
           to
           matters
           of
           Religion
           ,
           he
           may
           challenge
           the
           like
           Power
           for
           the
           superceding
           others
           of
           the
           same
           kind
           :
           and
           then
           by
           the
           same
           Authority
           that
           he
           can
           suspend
           the
           Laws
           against
           Popery
           ,
           he
           may
           also
           suspend
           those
           for
           Protestancy
           :
           and
           by
           the
           same
           Power
           that
           he
           can
           in
           defiance
           of
           Law
           indulge
           the
           Papists
           the
           exercise
           of
           their
           Religion
           in
           Houses
           ,
           he
           may
           establish
           them
           in
           the
           publick
           celebration
           of
           their
           Idolatry
           in
           Churches
           and
           Cathedrals
           .
           Yea
           whereas
           the
           Laws
           that
           relate
           to
           Religion
           are
           enacted
           by
           no
           less
           Authority
           than
           those
           that
           are
           made
           for
           the
           preservation
           of
           our
           Civil
           Rights
           ,
           should
           the
           King
           be
           admitted
           to
           have
           an
           Arbitrary
           Power
           over
           the
           one
           ,
           it
           is
           very
           like
           that
           by
           the
           Logick
           of
           Whitehall
           he
           will
           challenge
           the
           same
           absoluteness
           over
           the
           other
           .
           Nor
           do
           I
           doubt
           but
           that
           the
           
             eleven
             Iudges
          
           who
           have
           gratified
           him
           with
           a
           Despoticalness
           over
           the
           former
           ,
           will
           ,
           when
           required
           ,
           grant
           him
           the
           same
           over
           the
           latter
           .
           I
           know
           the
           Dissenters
           are
           under
           no
           small
           Temptations
           ,
           both
           by
           reason
           of
           being
           hindred
           from
           enjoying
           the
           Ordinances
           of
           the
           Gospel
           ,
           and
           because
           of
           many
           grievous
           Calamities
           which
           they
           daily
           suffer
           for
           their
           Nonconformity
           ,
           of
           making
           Applications
           to
           the
           King
           for
           some
           relief
           ,
           by
           his
           suspending
           the
           execution
           of
           the
           Laws
           ;
           but
           they
           must
           give
           me
           leave
           to
           add
           ,
           that
           they
           ought
           not
           ,
           for
           the
           obtaining
           of
           a
           little
           ease
           ,
           to
           betray
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           sacrifice
           the
           legal
           Constitution
           of
           the
           Government
           to
           the
           Lust
           and
           Pleasure
           of
           a
           Popish
           Prince
           ,
           whom
           nothing
           less
           will
           serve
           than
           being
           Absolute
           and
           Despotical
           .
           And
           were
           he
           once
           in
           the
           quiet
           Possession
           of
           an
           Authority
           to
           dispense
           with
           the
           Penal
           Laws
           ,
           the
           Fanaticks
           would
           not
           long
           enjoy
           the
           benefit
           of
           it
           .
           Nor
           can
           they
           deny
           him
           a
           Power
           of
           reviving
           the
           execution
           of
           the
           Law
           ,
           which
           is
           part
           of
           the
           Trust
           deposited
           with
           him
           as
           supreme
           Magistrate
           ,
           who
           have
           granted
           him
           a
           Power
           of
           suspending
           the
           Laws
           ,
           which
           the
           Rules
           of
           the
           Government
           preclude
           him
           from
           .
           And
           as
           he
           may
           ,
           whensoever
           he
           pleaseth
           ,
           cause
           the
           Laws
           to
           which
           they
           are
           obnoxious
           ,
           to
           be
           executed
           upon
           them
           ,
           so
           by
           virtue
           of
           having
           an
           Authority
           acknowledged
           in
           him
           of
           superceding
           the
           Laws
           ,
           he
           may
           deprive
           them
           of
           the
           Liberty
           of
           meeting
           together
           to
           the
           number
           of
           Five
           ,
           a
           Grace
           which
           the
           Parliament
           thought
           fit
           to
           allow
           them
           ,
           under
           all
           the
           other
           Severities
           to
           which
           they
           were
           subjected
           .
           Nor
           needs
           there
           any
           further
           evidence
           that
           the
           Prince's
           challenging
           such
           a
           Power
           is
           an
           Usurpation
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           Subjects
           making
           any
           Application
           by
           which
           it
           seems
           allowed
           to
           him
           ,
           is
           a
           betraying
           of
           the
           ancient
           Legal
           Government
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ;
           than
           to
           consider
           that
           the
           most
           obsequious
           and
           servile
           Parliament
           to
           the
           Court
           that
           ever
           England
           knew
           ,
           not
           only
           denied
           this
           Prerogative
           to
           the
           late
           King
           ,
           but
           made
           him
           renounce
           it
           by
           revoking
           his
           Declaration
           of
           Indulgence
           ,
           which
           he
           had
           emitted
           Anno
           1672.
           
           And
           as
           it
           will
           be
           to
           the
           perpetual
           Honor
           of
           the
           Dissenters
           
           to
           have
           chosen
           rather
           to
           suffer
           the
           Severities
           which
           the
           Laws
           make
           them
           liable
           unto
           than
           by
           any
           Act
           and
           Transaction
           of
           theirs
           ,
           to
           undermine
           and
           weaken
           either
           the
           Church
           or
           the
           State
           ;
           so
           it
           will
           be
           a
           means
           both
           of
           endearing
           them
           to
           future
           Parliaments
           ,
           and
           of
           bringing
           them
           and
           the
           Conformists
           into
           an
           union
           of
           Counsels
           and
           endeavours
           against
           Popery
           and
           Tyranny
           ,
           which
           is
           at
           this
           season
           a
           thing
           so
           indispensably
           necessary
           for
           their
           common
           preservation
           :
           especially
           when
           ,
           though
           a
           new
           and
           more
           threatning
           Alliance
           and
           Confederacy
           with
           France
           than
           that
           in
           72
           ,
           the
           King
           hath
           not
           only
           engaged
           to
           act
           by
           and
           observe
           the
           same
           measures
           towards
           Protestants
           in
           England
           ,
           which
           that
           Monarch
           hath
           vouchsafed
           the
           World
           a
           Pattern
           and
           Copy
           of
           in
           his
           carriage
           towards
           those
           of
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           in
           France
           ;
           but
           hath
           promised
           to
           disturb
           the
           Peace
           and
           Repose
           of
           his
           Neighbors
           ,
           and
           to
           commence
           a
           War
           in
           conjunction
           with
           that
           Prince
           against
           Foreign
           Protestants
           .
           For
           as
           the
           Kings
           giving
           Liberty
           and
           Protection
           to
           the
           Algerines
           to
           frequent
           his
           Havens
           ,
           and
           sell
           the
           Prizes
           which
           they
           take
           from
           the
           Dutch
           ,
           is
           both
           a
           most
           infamous
           Action
           for
           a
           Prince
           pretending
           to
           be
           a
           Christian
           ,
           and
           a
           direct
           violation
           of
           his
           Alliance
           with
           the
           States
           General
           ;
           so
           nothing
           can
           be
           more
           evident
           ,
           than
           that
           he
           thereby
           seeks
           to
           render
           them
           the
           weaker
           for
           him
           to
           assault
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           is
           resolved
           (
           if
           some
           unforeseen
           and
           extraordinary
           Providence
           doth
           not
           interpose
           and
           prevent
           )
           to
           declare
           War
           against
           them
           the
           next
           Summer
           ,
           in
           order
           whereunto
           great
           Remises
           of
           Mony
           are
           already
           ordered
           him
           from
           the
           French
           Court.
           So
           that
           the
           Indulgence
           which
           he
           pretends
           to
           be
           inclinable
           to
           afford
           the
           Dissenters
           ,
           is
           not
           an
           effect
           of
           kindness
           and
           good
           Will
           ,
           but
           an
           Artifice
           whereby
           to
           oblige
           their
           Assistance
           in
           destroying
           those
           abroad
           of
           the
           same
           Religion
           with
           themselves
           .
           Which
           if
           he
           can
           compass
           ,
           it
           is
           easie
           to
           foresee
           what
           Fate
           both
           the
           Fanaticks
           and
           they
           of
           the
           Communion
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           are
           to
           expect
           .
           Who
           as
           they
           will
           not
           then
           know
           whither
           to
           retreat
           for
           shelter
           ,
           so
           they
           will
           be
           destitute
           of
           Comfort
           in
           themselves
           ,
           and
           deprived
           of
           Pity
           from
           others
           ,
           not
           only
           for
           having
           through
           their
           Divisions
           made
           themselves
           a
           Prey
           to
           the
           Papists
           at
           home
           ,
           but
           for
           having
           been
           accessary
           to
           the
           ruine
           of
           a
           Reformed
           State
           abroad
           ,
           and
           which
           was
           the
           Asilum
           and
           Sanctuary
           of
           all
           those
           that
           were
           elsewhere
           oppressed
           and
           persecuted
           for
           Religion
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .