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             The character of a popish successour compleat in defence of the first part, against two answers, one written by Mr. L'Estrange, called The papist in masquerade, &c., and another by an unknown hand.
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           THE
           CHARACTER
           OF
           A
           Popish
           Successour
           COMPLEAT
           :
           IN
           DEFENCE
           of
           the
           FIRST
           PART
           ,
           AGAINST
           Two
           ANSWERS
           ,
           One
           Written
           by
           M
           r
           L'ESTRANGE
           ,
           CALLED
           
             The
             Papist
             in
             Masquerade
          
           ,
           &c.
           
           And
           another
           By
           an
           Unknown
           Hand
           .
        
         
           LONDON
           :
           Printed
           for
           
             I.
             Graves
          
           ,
           and
           are
           to
           be
           sold
           by
           most
           Booksellers
           .
           1681.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           THE
           PREFACE
           .
        
         
           UPon
           perusal
           of
           a
           Pamphlet
           written
           by
           so
           ingenious
           an
           Author
           as
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           ,
           called
           ,
           
             The
             Papist
             in
             Masquerade
             ,
             in
             answer
             to
             the
             Character
             of
             a
             Popish
             Successour
             ,
          
           my
           expectation
           was
           strangely
           frustrated
           ,
           when
           I
           found
           the
           Book
           look
           more
           like
           a
           Poor
           Robin's
           Almanack
           than
           an
           Answer
           ,
           the
           major
           part
           of
           the
           Pamphlet
           being
           a
           kind
           of
           
             Red-letter
             Kalendar
          
           in
           two
           Columes
           ,
           with
           the
           
             Popish
             Worthies
          
           on
           one
           side
           ,
           and
           the
           Republican
           ones
           on
           the
           other
           ;
           as
           Raviliac
           on
           that
           hand
           and
           Oliver
           over
           against
           him
           ;
           and
           so
           Mariana
           and
           
             Knox
             ,
             Pius
             Quintus
          
           and
           
             Buchanan
             ,
             Guido
             Faux
          
           and
           
             Hugh
             Peters
          
           ,
           &c.
           
           I
           confess
           ,
           had
           he
           design'd
           to
           publish
           the
           Villanies
           both
           of
           a
           Popish
           and
           a
           Republican
           Conspiracy
           ,
           and
           after
           a
           plain
           demonstration
           of
           the
           Government
           's
           being
           really
           undermined
           by
           both
           those
           threatning
           Enemies
           ,
           had
           given
           his
           Country
           some
           light
           to
           steer
           in
           the
           
             golden
             Medium
          
           between
           both
           those
           fatal
           Extreams
           ,
           his
           Intention
           had
           been
           honest
           ,
           and
           he
           had
           writ
           like
           a
           Patriot
           :
           But
           alas
           !
           that
           's
           none
           of
           his
           Province
           ;
           his
           Talent
           is
           otherwise
           employ'd
           :
           for
           the
           sole
           drift
           of
           his
           Book
           was
           not
           in
           the
           least
           to
           expose
           Popery
           any
           farther
           than
           to
           make
           the
           Fanatical
           and
           Jesuitical
           Principles
           agree
           ;
           for
           take
           his
           Opinion
           abstracted
           from
           that
           Designe
           ,
           and
           his
           whole
           Book
           has
           no
           other
           aim
           but
           to
           make
           all
           our
           dangers
           of
           Popery
           and
           a
           Popish
           Successour
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           whole
           Plot
           against
           the
           King
           ,
           Religion
           ,
           and
           Government
           ,
           (
           to
           use
           his
           own
           Phrase
           ,
           p.
           69.
           )
           
             but
             a
             painted
             Lion
             upon
             a
             Wall
          
           ;
           and
           the
           Prosecutors
           of
           that
           Plot
           ,
           and
           the
           Opposers
           of
           those
           Dangers
           ,
           
             a
             real
             Bed
             of
             Vipers
          
           .
           In
           fine
           ,
           the
           main
           purpose
           he
           drives
           at
           ,
           is
           to
           make
           an
           exact
           Parallel
           between
           this
           Age
           and
           that
           of
           40
           &
           41
           ,
           &c.
           
           And
           that
           he
           may
           so
           do
           ,
           you
           must
           allow
           him
           this
           
             great
             Fundamental
          
           ,
           That
           all
           the
           Sticklers
           against
           Popery
           and
           a
           Popish
           Successour
           ,
           are
           Fanaticks
           ;
           and
           that
           all
           Fanaticks
           hate
           both
           the
           King
           and
           Kingly
           Government
           ,
           and
           are
           tooth
           &
           nail
           down-right
           Republicans
           .
           Vpon
           this
           Basis
           his
           whole
           Fabrick
           stands
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           rectifie
           his
           Mistake
           in
           this
           great
           point
           :
           Have
           not
           four
           Parliaments
           successively
           been
           satisfied
           in
           the
           truth
           of
           a
           Popish
           Plot
           for
           the
           murder
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           subversion
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           jealous
           of
           the
           dangers
           of
           Popery
           ,
           like
           honest
           Patriots
           muster'd
           all
           their
           strength
           to
           prevent
           it
           ?
           If
           the
           Plot
           were
           onely
           a
           Bugbear
           ,
           how
           comes
           it
           that
           the
           Wisdom
           of
           the
           Nation
           in
           four
           Parliaments
           together
           ,
           has
           not
           discover'd
           the
           Cheat
           ?
           or
           if
           they
           do
           know
           the
           Cheat
           and
           act
           themselves
           the
           Legerdemain
           ,
           and
           so
           make
           the
           prosecution
           of
           the
           Plot
           but
           a
           Presbyterian
           Artifice
           to
           inflame
           a
           Kingdom
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           playing
           the
           game
           of
           41
           ore
           again
           ,
           as
           his
           impious
           detractions
           would
           insinuate
           ,
           I
           would
           ask
           him
           ,
           first
           ,
           How
           comes
           it
           to
           pass
           that
           all
           the
           Plot-Evidence
           have
           all
           along
           so
           constantly
           adhered
           to
           their
           Attestations
           ,
           and
           that
           too
           in
           so
           beggarly
           and
           starving
           a
           Cause
           ,
           after
           such
           vast
           and
           tempting
           Proffers
           for
           retracting
           of
           their
           Evidence
           ;
           and
           vaster
           Rewards
           ,
           no
           doubt
           ,
           they
           might
           have
           ,
           upon
           the
           discovery
           of
           such
           a
           Presbyterian
           Cheat
           ,
           if
           it
           were
           one
           ,
           not
           onely
           as
           a
           Ransom
           for
           
           so
           many
           Great
           mens
           lives
           ,
           but
           likewise
           from
           the
           greatest
           hands
           of
           the
           Nation
           that
           would
           desire
           nothing
           more
           than
           such
           a
           Discovery
           ?
           Secondly
           ,
           I
           would
           ask
           him
           how
           it
           came
           about
           that
           the
           first
           of
           these
           four
           Parliaments
           grew
           so
           vehement
           against
           the
           Plot
           ?
           they
           ,
           I
           hope
           ,
           he
           'll
           confess
           were
           a
           Protestant
           and
           a
           
             Church
             of
             England
          
           Parliament
           ;
           they
           were
           elected
           Members
           just
           after
           the
           King's
           Restoration
           ,
           in
           all
           the
           height
           of
           the
           Extasie
           of
           England
           ,
           when
           Majesty
           and
           Monarchy
           were
           the
           Peoples
           Darlings
           even
           to
           Idolatry
           ,
           at
           a
           time
           when
           the
           Horrours
           of
           the
           Civil
           Wars
           were
           fresh
           in
           their
           memories
           ,
           when
           the
           very
           thought
           of
           Presbyterian
           or
           Independent
           Commonwealths
           ,
           with
           Rumpers
           and
           Rumps
           ,
           were
           as
           detestable
           as
           Hell
           !
           That
           Parliament
           ,
           I
           hope
           ,
           thus
           chosen
           and
           thus
           qualified
           ,
           he
           'll
           allow
           had
           no
           Presbyterian
           Gall
           in
           their
           Veins
           ,
           and
           no
           Canker
           of
           41
           ,
           being
           the
           very
           men
           that
           on
           the
           contrary
           made
           the
           Laws
           against
           all
           Dissenters
           ,
           and
           in
           all
           their
           Acts
           throughout
           maintain'd
           the
           Dignity
           and
           Glory
           of
           the
           present
           Church
           of
           England
           ;
           and
           yet
           this
           Parliament
           ,
           as
           little
           Presbyterian
           as
           it
           was
           ,
           gave
           the
           first
           stroke
           against
           the
           Plot
           ;
           as
           I
           remember
           ,
           't
           was
           they
           that
           discovered
           those
           swarms
           of
           Papists
           that
           had
           infested
           the
           King's
           Guards
           ,
           and
           his
           Court
           it self
           ,
           and
           crept
           into
           almost
           all
           Offices
           of
           Trust
           ,
           and
           by
           whom
           planted
           ,
           I
           need
           not
           tell
           him
           :
           And
           as
           I
           remember
           ,
           those
           were
           the
           very
           men
           that
           created
           the
           Test
           ,
           and
           made
           the
           Reception
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Sacrament
           ,
           and
           the
           Renunciation
           of
           the
           Idolatries
           of
           Rome
           ,
           an
           Introduction
           to
           all
           Employments
           ,
           on
           purpose
           to
           sweep
           out
           those
           Locusts
           :
           Nay
           ,
           those
           were
           the
           very
           men
           that
           removed
           our
           Popish
           Heir
           presumptive
           from
           his
           Admiralty
           ,
           and
           all
           other
           his
           Preferments
           ;
           and
           no
           doubt
           had
           they
           continued
           still
           ,
           would
           have
           very
           little
           varied
           from
           the
           true
           and
           honourable
           
             English
             Genius
          
           of
           the
           last
           :
           So
           that
           without
           shamming
           this
           inveteracy
           onely
           upon
           Dissenters
           ,
           there
           has
           been
           a
           Protestant
           People
           ,
           a
           Protestant
           House
           of
           Commons
           ,
           and
           Protestant
           Lords
           ,
           (
           Protestant
           Lord
           Bishops
           onely
           excepted
           )
           that
           have
           struggled
           both
           against
           Popery
           and
           a
           Popish
           Succession
           .
           So
           that
           upon
           Mr.
           
           L'Estrange's
           Argument
           that
           the
           present
           Dangers
           of
           England
           lie
           onely
           in
           a
           Republican
           Conspiracy
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           present
           state
           of
           80
           and
           81
           ,
           is
           but
           a
           kind
           of
           transmigration
           of
           the
           Spirit
           of
           41
           and
           42
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           the
           revival
           of
           the
           old
           Game
           of
           48
           ;
           it
           is
           not
           onely
           the
           Dissenters
           but
           the
           Protestants
           are
           in
           the
           Confederacy
           ;
           and
           so
           the
           whole
           Nation
           is
           in
           a
           Spirit
           of
           Rebellion
           ,
           (
           the
           innocent
           Papists
           onely
           excepted
           :
           )
           that
           is
           ,
           
             There
             's
             a
             Plot
             lies
             at
             every
             door
             but
             the
             right
             .
          
           However
           ,
           the
           Pamphleteers
           of
           this
           Age
           will
           not
           be
           so
           satisfied
           :
           for
           't
           is
           the
           great
           Maxime
           they
           all
           lay
           down
           ,
           Every
           man
           that
           is
           for
           excluding
           a
           Popish
           Successour
           is
           a
           Fanatick
           ,
           and
           every
           Fanatick
           (
           as
           I
           told
           you
           )
           a
           Republican
           .
           But
           to
           convince
           'em
           ,
           if
           they
           are
           not
           incorrigible
           ,
           that
           't
           is
           not
           onely
           a
           Fanatical
           Exclusion
           ,
           What
           if
           I
           pickt
           out
           even
           of
           the
           very
           protesting
           Lords
           themselves
           ,
           several
           of
           them
           of
           famous
           and
           exemplary
           Loyalty
           ,
           so
           far
           from
           the
           possibility
           either
           of
           Fanaticks
           or
           Republicans
           ,
           that
           they
           have
           been
           Caviliers
           and
           Loyalists
           through
           all
           our
           late
           Troubles
           ;
           one
           or
           two
           of
           them
           that
           have
           been
           Generals
           in
           the
           King's
           service
           ;
           a
           third
           ,
           whose
           Father
           lost
           his
           head
           for
           him
           ;
           a
           fourth
           ,
           that
           for
           asserting
           the
           King
           's
           Right
           in
           the
           Field
           ,
           had
           no
           other
           Reprieve
           from
           a
           Gallows
           but
           his
           Majesties
           Return
           ;
           a
           fifth
           ,
           that
           beside
           the
           constant
           sums
           sent
           over
           to
           the
           King
           in
           his
           Exile
           ,
           after
           a
           total
           sequestration
           of
           his
           Estate
           ,
           pawn'd
           even
           his
           last
           Stake
           ,
           his
           Plate
           ,
           to
           serve
           him
           ;
           with
           several
           other
           Sufferings
           that
           many
           others
           of
           'em
           underwent
           :
           And
           yet
           the
           Scriblers
           of
           these
           times
           shall
           tell
           you
           there
           's
           never
           a
           Mothers
           son
           of
           them
           all
           that
           loves
           either
           the
           King
           or
           the
           Government
           ,
           but
           is
           a
           rank
           Fanatick
           ;
           for
           the
           very
           thought
           of
           an
           Exclusion
           turns
           
             ipso
             momento
          
           Fanaticism
           .
           So
           that
           it
           will
           be
           worth
           a
           mans
           while
           to
           give
           the
           world
           the
           
           true
           definition
           of
           a
           Fanatick
           ,
           and
           a
           full
           interpretation
           of
           the
           word
           .
           Formerly
           in
           old
           times
           ,
           a
           Fanatick
           so
           called
           ,
           signified
           an
           Enthusiastick
           in
           Religion
           ,
           one
           that
           pretended
           to
           Inspiration
           and
           new
           Light
           ,
           or
           had
           a
           picque
           against
           a
           Liturgie
           or
           Surplice
           ,
           or
           the
           like
           :
           But
           a
           Fanatick
           of
           79
           and
           80
           ,
           is
           quite
           another
           thing
           ,
           and
           the
           word
           of
           a
           quite
           different
           signification
           ;
           for
           now
           ,
           
             He
             that
             values
             the
             safety
             of
             himself
             and
             his
             Posterity
             ,
             he
             that
             thinks
             he
             has
             an
             Estate
             and
             Liberty
             worth
             preserving
             ,
             a
             Country
             worth
             saving
             ,
             a
             Religion
             worth
             defending
             ,
             and
             indeed
             a
             God
             worth
             serving
             ,
             is
             a
             FANATICK
             .
          
        
         
           
             But
             't
             will
             not
             be
             amiss
             to
             instance
             the
             validity
             of
             some
             of
             those
             Comparisons
             he
             makes
             between
             the
             present
             Iealousies
             and
             those
             of
             the
             late
             times
             .
             Mr.
          
           L'Estrange
           ,
           
             p.
             21.
          
           says
           Earle
           before
           the
           Commons
           ,
           
             Nov.
             5.
             1644.
          
           
           Saul's
           Sons
           are
           not
           spared
           ,
           no
           nor
           may
           Agag
           or
           Benhadad
           ,
           though
           themselves
           Kings
           :
           Zimri
           and
           Cosbi
           ,
           though
           Princes
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           must
           be
           pursued
           into
           their
           Tents
           .
           This
           is
           the
           way
           to
           consecrate
           your selves
           to
           God.
           
             Vpon
             which
             he
             remarks
          
           ,
           And
           what
           was
           the
           ground
           of
           all
           this
           Fierceness
           ,
           but
           a
           Popish
           King
           ,
           though
           the
           glory
           of
           the
           Reformation
           ,
           for
           want
           of
           a
           Popish
           Successour
           ?
        
         
           So
           that
           here
           lies
           the
           Analogie
           betwixt
           our
           Fears
           and
           theirs
           .
           Then
           the
           groundless
           Fierceness
           lay
           against
           a
           pretended
           imaginary
           Popish
           King
           ,
           though
           in
           truth
           the
           Glory
           of
           the
           Reformation
           ;
           and
           now
           the
           fierceness
           lies
           against
           a
           real
           Popish
           Subject
           ,
           that
           may
           be
           our
           King
           ,
           the
           very
           Infamy
           of
           all
           Apostacy
           ,
           when
           degenerated
           to
           such
           principles
           ,
           and
           yet
           born
           of
           such
           a
           Father
           .
           And
           afterwards
           in
           the
           same
           page
           ,
           he
           says
           ,
           Mr.
           L'E
           .
           
             This
             is
             enough
             to
             convince
             the
             world
             that
             the
             very
             sound
             of
             Popery
             will
             do
             the
             business
             as
             well
             without
             a
             ground
             as
             with
             it
             ;
             and
             whoever
             goes
             to
             alarm
             the
             people
             upon
             this
             desperate
             point
             ,
             had
             need
             give
             good
             security
             for
             his
             Allegiance
             .
          
        
         
           And
           what
           's
           all
           this
           ,
           but
           to
           tell
           us
           ,
           because
           a
           Bugbear
           frighted
           us
           once
           ,
           therefore
           a
           real
           Fiend
           must
           not
           fright
           us
           now
           ?
           So
           that
           his
           whole
           Discourse
           can
           be
           reduced
           to
           no
           other
           heads
           but
           these
           .
        
         
           First
           .
           It
           makes
           the
           most
           uncharitable
           inferences
           that
           't
           is
           possible
           for
           Malice
           or
           Ill-nature
           to
           invent
           .
           Because
           a
           Judas
           once
           kiss'd
           and
           betray'd
           ,
           and
           a
           
             Joab
             embraced
          
           and
           stab'd
           ,
           therefore
           no
           man
           must
           ever
           kiss
           or
           embrace
           without
           a
           treacherous
           and
           murderous
           intention
           .
           The
           hatching
           of
           the
           old
           
             Republican
             Conspiracy
          
           under
           the
           
             fictitious
             fears
          
           of
           approaching
           Popery
           ,
           must
           now
           make
           the
           
             just
             fears
          
           of
           the
           
             true
             danger
          
           of
           Popery
           equally
           guilty
           of
           the
           same
           Treason
           and
           Combination
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           He
           cuts
           off
           the
           whole
           Right
           and
           Liberty
           of
           the
           Subject
           at
           one
           blow
           .
           Because
           a
           knot
           of
           Achitophels
           once
           pretended
           Grievances
           where
           none
           was
           ,
           to
           accomplish
           their
           own
           wicked
           purposes
           ;
           therefore
           no
           Subject
           shall
           or
           may
           petition
           or
           vote
           ,
           though
           in
           a
           
             legal
             Parliamentary
             way
          
           ,
           for
           the
           redress
           of
           the
           greatest
           Grievance
           in
           Nature
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           the
           plainest
           and
           most
           imminent
           Exigence
           of
           a
           Nation
           ;
           but
           must
           be
           forced
           silently
           to
           sit
           down
           by
           his
           hard
           Fate
           ,
           and
           be
           debarred
           the
           priviledge
           of
           Laws
           ,
           nay
           even
           of
           his
           very
           Prayers
           for
           his
           Deliverance
           .
        
         
           Now
           is
           it
           not
           a
           little
           hard
           ,
           that
           after
           the
           goodness
           of
           our
           most
           gracious
           Soveraign
           that
           has
           made
           
             An
             Act
             of
             Oblivion
          
           ,
           Mr.
           
           L'Estrange's
           Vengeance
           alone
           should
           be
           implacable
           ,
           and
           set
           the
           Childrens
           teeth
           an
           edge
           for
           the
           sour
           Grapes
           their
           Grandfathers
           eat
           so
           long
           ago
           ,
           by
           entailing
           a
           Curse
           upon
           their
           Posterity
           in
           
             secula
             seculorum
          
           ?
           But
           how
           ridiculous
           and
           how
           false
           soever
           were
           the
           fears
           of
           Popery
           in
           the
           last
           Age
           ,
           how
           treacherous
           the
           Serpent
           that
           lurkt
           under
           those
           fair
           but
           false
           pretences
           ,
           and
           how
           fatal
           soever
           the
           sting
           that
           
           attended
           it
           ,
           yet
           our
           endeavours
           sure
           may
           beboth
           legal
           and
           honest
           ,
           against
           the
           plain
           and
           visible
           dangers
           of
           Popery
           under
           the
           threatning
           influence
           of
           a
           Popish
           Heir
           ;
           manifested
           such
           a
           one
           ,
           not
           onely
           by
           the
           long
           and
           indefatigable
           Machinations
           of
           Hell
           in
           his
           behalf
           ,
           the
           most
           horrid
           Iesuitish
           Confederacy
           against
           the
           life
           of
           a
           Protestant
           King
           ,
           a
           Protestant
           Church
           and
           Government
           ,
           animated
           and
           founded
           on
           their
           Assurance
           of
           establishing
           their
           own
           infernal
           Reign
           under
           the
           umbrage
           of
           his
           Scepter
           ,
           a
           scepter
           design'd
           to
           be
           made
           out
           of
           that
           consecrated
           Ponyards
           hilt
           reserved
           to
           cut
           a
           passage
           for
           him
           to
           a
           Throne
           through
           the
           heart
           of
           a
           Protestant
           Majesty
           ,
           a
           Scepter
           that
           both
           like
           Moses
           and
           
           Aaron's
           Rod
           ,
           at
           once
           should
           bud
           and
           blossom
           for
           the
           Glory
           of
           Rome
           ,
           but
           turn
           a
           devouring
           Snake
           for
           the
           Heretick
           Confusion
           and
           Destruction
           ;
           manifested
           such
           a
           one
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           not
           onely
           from
           all
           this
           apparent
           Testimony
           ,
           but
           even
           by
           a
           yet
           stronger
           demonstration
           ,
           those
           
             printed
             recorded
             Pacquets
             of
             Letters
          
           which
           as
           
             littora
             scripta
             manet
          
           ,
           flie
           in
           the
           face
           of
           all
           Dispute
           ,
           and
           stop
           the
           very
           mouth
           of
           Flattery
           ,
           Equivocation
           ,
           and
           Artisice
           ,
           by
           plainly
           exposing
           to
           all
           Eyes
           and
           all
           Vnderstandings
           a
           private
           Intrigue
           and
           Correspondence
           between
           the
           Heir
           of
           a
           Protestant
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           the
           Pope
           ,
           the
           most
           implacable
           Enemy
           both
           of
           Protestant
           Kings
           and
           Kingdoms
           ;
           a
           Correspondence
           too
           subtly
           disguis'd
           in
           MYSTERIES
           and
           CHARACTERS
           ,
           that
           usual
           Hocus
           pocus-Language
           where
           the
           World
           has
           so
           often
           been
           the
           Cully
           ,
           whilst
           Treachery
           play'd
           the
           Iuggler
           :
           So
           that
           to
           match
           the
           present
           Genius
           of
           England
           with
           that
           of
           41
           and
           42
           ,
           as
           all
           the
           scribling
           canting
           Favourers
           of
           Popery
           would
           impudently
           sham
           upon
           the
           world
           ,
           is
           to
           make
           even
           North
           and
           South
           meet
           together
           ,
           to
           unite
           the
           most
           opposite
           Contradictions
           in
           Nature
           ,
           to
           make
           a
           Plot
           and
           no
           Plot
           ,
           shadows
           and
           substances
           ,
           truth
           and
           falshood
           ,
           dangers
           and
           no
           dangers
           ,
           Protestants
           and
           no
           Protestants
           ,
           nay
           Patriots
           and
           Traytors
           the
           very
           same
           thing
           ,
           the
           designe
           of
           that
           Age
           being
           to
           reduce
           us
           to
           Slavery
           ,
           and
           this
           to
           free
           us
           from
           it
           .
        
         
           But
           suppose
           (
           as
           they
           say
           )
           there
           were
           some
           turbulent
           malecontented
           Spirits
           in
           the
           Nation
           of
           Commonwealth
           principles
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           herded
           amongst
           the
           honest
           and
           worthy
           Opposers
           of
           Popery
           ,
           resolving
           to
           play
           the
           Spider
           and
           extract
           poyson
           from
           the
           same
           Flower
           from
           which
           the
           Bee
           sucks
           Honey
           .
           Let
           us
           but
           consider
           two
           things
           ,
           and
           then
           we
           shall
           find
           how
           impossible
           't
           is
           for
           them
           to
           attain
           their
           desires
           ,
           and
           perfect
           so
           extravagant
           a
           projection
           .
           1.
           
           The
           Grievance
           of
           the
           Nation
           is
           a
           Popish
           Successour
           ;
           and
           that
           Grievance
           once
           removed
           by
           a
           
             Bill
             of
             Exclusion
          
           ,
           we
           countermine
           all
           the
           Arts
           and
           Subtilties
           of
           Rome
           ,
           that
           have
           or
           can
           be
           form'd
           against
           us
           ,
           and
           raise
           an
           impregnable
           Bulwark
           against
           all
           our
           Enemies
           on
           that
           side
           ,
           and
           at
           the
           same
           time
           they
           will
           not
           onely
           supply
           the
           King
           with
           money
           ,
           which
           is
           one
           of
           the
           strongest
           Nerves
           of
           power
           ,
           but
           also
           it
           will
           undoubtedly
           restore
           him
           the
           intire
           Affections
           of
           all
           or
           most
           of
           the
           Commonalty
           of
           England
           which
           have
           or
           can
           be
           alienated
           ,
           or
           estranged
           by
           his
           unhappy
           and
           too
           vigorous
           defence
           of
           a
           Successour
           so
           universally
           odious
           :
           so
           that
           these
           Republican
           Matchivilians
           joyn
           in
           the
           very
           project
           that
           destroys
           them
           ;
           for
           by
           this
           means
           what
           the
           Monarch
           wins
           ,
           the
           Republican
           loses
           .
           2.
           
           'T
           is
           an
           undeniable
           Truth
           ,
           that
           the
           whole
           Populace
           in
           general
           abhor
           such
           a
           thought
           ,
           and
           the
           Miseries
           of
           the
           late
           Civil
           Wars
           are
           too
           lively
           in
           their
           memories
           ,
           for
           them
           ever
           to
           be
           wrought
           up
           again
           into
           the
           same
           Frenzy
           .
        
         
           Though
           the
           deluded
           Multitude
           were
           then
           put
           out
           of
           love
           with
           Kings
           ,
           they
           found
           too
           soon
           by
           woful
           Experience
           ,
           that
           the
           Protectorate
           was
           ten
           times
           worse
           ,
           and
           whatever
           prejudice
           they
           had
           conceived
           against
           the
           old
           unhappy
           King
           ,
           yet
           the
           grievous
           Oppressions
           ,
           Taxes
           ,
           and
           standing
           Armies
           under
           Gromwel
           ,
           
           quickly
           open'd
           their
           Eyes
           ,
           and
           to
           their
           own
           sad
           cost
           ,
           assured
           them
           they
           had
           not
           mended
           but
           marred
           their
           condition
           by
           rebelling
           :
           And
           that
           
           Oliver's
           policy
           in
           deposing
           a
           King
           to
           establish
           a
           Protector
           ,
           was
           but
           an
           old
           Roman
           Iuggle
           revived
           ;
           when
           as
           History
           tells
           us
           ,
           after
           the
           Romans
           had
           been
           weary
           of
           Kings
           ,
           as
           a
           power
           too
           Arbitrary
           for
           them
           ,
           they
           were
           cunningly
           drawn
           in
           to
           a
           subjection
           to
           that
           of
           Imperator
           ,
           which
           was
           ten
           times
           more
           Tyrannick
           of
           the
           two
           ,
           and
           shelter'd
           the
           Cruelties
           of
           the
           worst
           of
           Monsters
           ,
           a
           Nero
           and
           a
           Caligula
           :
           So
           that
           in
           our
           circumstances
           ,
           't
           is
           almost
           impossible
           that
           English
           men
           should
           be
           twice
           gull'd
           with
           the
           same
           Cheat
           ,
           or
           their
           Swords
           be
           ever
           drawn
           in
           our
           old
           unnatural
           Broyls
           ;
           but
           if
           ever
           that
           day
           shall
           come
           that
           they
           are
           drawn
           again
           ,
           it
           must
           be
           onely
           then
           when
           a
           Popish
           Successour's
           possessing
           the
           Throne
           shall
           represent
           to
           them
           a
           more
           terrible
           Scene
           of
           Misery
           than
           a
           Civil
           War
           can
           bring
           :
           so
           that
           if
           ever
           they
           are
           inflamed
           into
           that
           desperation
           ,
           it
           must
           be
           when
           they
           shall
           run
           headlong
           into
           a
           less
           Charybis
           to
           avoid
           a
           greater
           Scylla
           .
           But
           whether
           one
           be
           greater
           or
           less
           than
           t'other
           ,
           or
           they
           but
           think
           it
           so
           ,
           yet
           this
           is
           most
           certain
           ,
           Popery
           and
           Rebellion
           are
           both
           those
           dangerous
           Gulphs
           that
           will
           either
           of
           them
           swallow
           up
           the
           peace
           of
           England
           .
           And
           as
           't
           is
           unanswerably
           true
           ,
           that
           the
           glory
           of
           God
           ,
           the
           defence
           of
           our
           Lives
           and
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           the
           support
           of
           our
           present
           Monarchy
           of
           England
           ,
           are
           onely
           to
           be
           upheld
           by
           a
           Protestant
           Interest
           ,
           and
           that
           Interest
           is
           never
           to
           be
           effectually
           secured
           but
           by
           a
           Popish
           Exclusion
           :
           So
           that
           Exclusion
           likewise
           at
           the
           same
           time
           puts
           an
           end
           to
           all
           our
           dangers
           on
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           viz.
           to
           all
           thoughts
           or
           possibility
           of
           a
           Rebellion
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           give
           a
           truer
           account
           of
           the
           present
           State
           of
           England
           than
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           has
           done
           in
           affinity
           to
           41
           ,
           I
           will
           confess
           this
           present
           Age
           has
           derived
           one
           thing
           from
           41
           and
           42
           ,
           and
           that
           is
           a
           Curse
           they
           left
           behind
           'em
           ,
           the
           Curse
           of
           the
           Shepherds
           Boy
           in
           the
           Fable
           ;
           our
           crying
           out
           so
           often
           formerly
           ,
           
             Help
             ,
             Master
             ,
             help
             ,
             the
             Wolf
             's
             in
             the
             Shepfold
             ,
          
           when
           he
           was
           not
           there
           ,
           has
           made
           us
           disbelieved
           at
           last
           now
           he
           is
           there
           ;
           and
           like
           him
           too
           ,
           be
           left
           most
           helpless
           when
           we
           most
           want
           it
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           Postscript
           .
        
         
           THE
           Author
           of
           
             The
             Character
             of
             a
             Popish
             Successour
          
           was
           so
           far
           from
           priding
           himself
           upon
           that
           Piece
           ,
           that
           his
           greatest
           Ambition
           in
           writing
           it
           ,
           was
           the
           serving
           his
           Country
           ;
           and
           he
           's
           very
           well
           pleased
           to
           see
           so
           many
           Scions
           since
           sprung
           from
           that
           Root
           .
           But
           one
           particular
           Acknowledgment
           he
           is
           bound
           to
           make
           for
           the
           unexpected
           Favours
           it
           has
           received
           ,
           that
           the
           Authorship
           of
           a
           Book
           that
           has
           no
           other
           Merit
           than
           the
           Truths
           it
           relates
           should
           be
           so
           esteemed
           ,
           that
           coming
           Fatherless
           into
           the
           World
           ,
           it
           has
           since
           had
           the
           honour
           of
           so
           many
           kinde
           Friends
           ,
           that
           like
           the
           Rival
           Cities
           of
           old
           for
           the
           Birth
           of
           Homer
           ,
           have
           given
           it
           their
           Adoption
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           THE
           CHARACTER
           OF
           A
           Popish
           Successour
           COMPLEAT
           .
        
         
           THE
           first
           Allegation
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           makes
           against
           the
           Characterizer's
           Reasonings
           is
           ,
           That
           his
           Master-piece
           is
           a
           Paradox
           ,
           by
           the
           supposal
           of
           a
           most
           excellent
           person
           ,
           and
           yet
           making
           him
           the
           greater
           Devil
           for
           his
           Vertues
           ;
           and
           so
           he
           sums
           up
           the
           Characterizer's
           opinion
           in
           short
           thus
           :
        
         
           Ch.
           
             His
             Fortitude
          
           (
           says
           he
           )
           
             makes
             him
             the
             more
             daring
             in
             the
             Cause
             of
          
           Rome
           ;
           
             his
             Iustice
             makes
             it
             a
             point
             of
             Conscience
             to
             deliver
             us
             up
             to
             the
             Pope
             ;
             his
             Temperance
             in
             the
             government
             of
             his
             Passions
             ,
             makes
             him
             more
             close
             and
             steady
             ;
             and
             his
             Prudence
             crowns
             the
             work
             by
             the
             assistance
             it
             gives
             him
             in
             the
             management
             of
             his
             Policies
             and
             Conduct
          
           ;
           and
           so
           he
           goes
           on
           .
           What
           boots
           it
           in
           a
           Popish
           Heir
           to
           say
           ,
           he
           's
           the
           truest
           Friend
           ,
           the
           greatest
           of
           Hero's
           ,
           the
           best
           of
           Masters
           ,
           the
           justest
           Judge
           ,
           and
           the
           honestest
           of
           Men
           ?
           All
           meer
           treacherous
           Quick-sands
           for
           a
           People
           to
           repose
           the
           least
           glimps
           of
           Safety
           in
           ,
           or
           build
           the
           least
           Hopes
           upon
           .
        
         
           Thus
           much
           the
           Character
           .
           To
           which
           he
           answers
           ,
        
         
           This
           is
           fairly
           push'd
           ,
           I
           must
           consess
           ;
           but
           't
           is
           onely
           a
           Cast
           of
           his
           Rhetorick
           :
           for
           every
           body
           knows
           that
           all
           Christian
           Princes
           thus
           qualified
           ,
           and
           under
           Articles
           of
           Treaty
           and
           Agreement
           ,
           keep
           touch
           even
           with
           Infidels
           ,
           nay
           ,
           and
           Infidels
           with
           Christians
           .
        
         
           This
           is
           all
           he
           has
           in
           his
           whole
           Pamphlet
           in
           answer
           to
           this
           part
           of
           the
           Character
           :
           for
           he
           thinks
           he
           has
           made
           the
           Characterizer's
           whole
           Argument
           so
           plain
           a
           contradiction
           in
           its
           self
           ,
           that
           he
           needs
           no
           other
           Brand
           than
           his
           own
           words
           ,
           to
           stigmatize
           him
           ;
           and
           the
           very
           repetition
           of
           a
           Supposition
           so
           monstrous
           ,
           is
           its
           own
           confutation
           .
        
         
           But
           this
           on
           our
           Answerers
           part
           is
           not
           so
           fairly
           push'd
           :
           for
           thus
           far
           here
           's
           neither
           Rhetorick
           nor
           Reason
           .
           For
           what
           Relation
           can
           Christian
           Princes
           keeping
           touch
           with
           Infidels
           ,
           and
           Infidels
           with
           Christians
           ,
           upon
           Articles
           of
           Treaty
           and
           Agreement
           ,
           have
           to
           a
           Popish
           Successour's
           Tyranny
           and
           Injustice
           over
           his
           own
           Subjects
           ?
           Does
           it
           follow
           ,
           Because
           the
           French
           King
           upon
           Articles
           of
           Treaty
           and
           Agreement
           ,
           has
           kept
           touch
           with
           the
           Swede
           ,
           though
           the
           most
           inveterate
           Enemy
           of
           the
           Popish
           Religion
           perhaps
           of
           any
           Protestant
           Prince
           in
           Christendom
           ,
           and
           consequently
           the
           most
           opposite
           to
           his
           own
           perswasion
           ,
           that
           therefore
           he
           has
           not
           overleap'd
           all
           the
           
           due
           and
           lawful
           bounds
           of
           the
           French
           Government
           ,
           and
           tyrannically
           enslaved
           his
           People
           ;
           nay
           ,
           contrary
           to
           the
           solemn
           Covenant
           at
           Nants
           in
           behalf
           of
           the
           Hugonots
           ,
           most
           inhumanely
           persecuted
           the
           poor
           Protestants
           ?
           What
           if
           a
           Christian
           Prince
           keeps
           his
           Articles
           with
           Turks
           or
           Infidels
           ,
           nay
           Villains
           and
           Robbers
           ,
           the
           Pyrates
           of
           Argiers
           or
           Sally
           ?
           Nay
           ,
           what
           if
           Q.
           Mary
           her self
           had
           done
           as
           much
           ,
           must
           it
           therefore
           follow
           that
           she
           would
           not
           break
           her
           Vows
           and
           Protestations
           with
           the
           Norfolk
           and
           
           Suffolk-inhabitants
           ,
           and
           burn
           the
           very
           men
           that
           mounted
           her
           into
           her
           Throne
           ,
           when
           animated
           by
           the
           Withcrafts
           of
           Rome
           ?
           But
           that
           the
           Fidelity
           betwixt
           Prince
           and
           Prince
           may
           more
           plainly
           appear
           to
           hold
           no
           proportion
           or
           affinity
           with
           that
           betwixt
           Prince
           and
           People
           ;
           or
           foreign
           Articles
           either
           for
           the
           enlargement
           or
           security
           of
           Empire
           ,
           the
           promotion
           of
           Trade
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           State-interest
           ,
           with
           a
           Church-government
           or
           Church-persecution
           at
           home
           ,
           we
           shall
           give
           this
           undeniable
           Reason
           .
        
         
           A
           King
           for
           breach
           of
           Faith
           with
           his
           People
           ,
           esteems
           himself
           onely
           accountable
           to
           God
           ;
           but
           for
           breach
           of
           Faith
           with
           Foreign
           Princes
           ,
           either
           Christian
           or
           Infidels
           ,
           he
           is
           accountable
           to
           Man
           ,
           and
           may
           draw
           down
           a
           just
           War
           upon
           his
           head
           for
           such
           a
           Violation
           ;
           nay
           ,
           perhaps
           wholly
           dispossess
           himself
           of
           the
           hopes
           of
           Foreign
           Assistance
           for
           the
           future
           in
           his
           greatest
           dangers
           and
           exigences
           ,
           occasion'd
           by
           the
           stain
           such
           Infidelity
           may
           lay
           upon
           him
           ,
           when
           his
           more
           venial
           breach
           of
           Vows
           at
           home
           ,
           shall
           be
           no
           blot
           in
           his
           Scutcheon
           .
           And
           whereas
           here
           he
           's
           onely
           answerable
           to
           God
           ,
           what
           if
           his
           Priests
           ,
           as
           in
           Queen
           
           Mary's
           Case
           ,
           impose
           so
           far
           upon
           his
           blinded
           Zeal
           till
           they
           make
           him
           believe
           that
           the
           performance
           of
           Protestations
           in
           cases
           derogatory
           to
           the
           glory
           of
           Heaven
           ,
           and
           against
           the
           propagation
           of
           Christianity
           ,
           shall
           be
           more
           answerable
           to
           God
           than
           the
           breaking
           of
           them
           ?
        
         
           But
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           resolves
           to
           play
           the
           State-Sophister
           ,
           and
           gives
           us
           this
           tryal
           of
           his
           strength
           in
           his
           very
           first
           page
           ,
           to
           let
           us
           know
           how
           great
           a
           Casuist
           and
           how
           potent
           an
           Antagonist
           we
           must
           expect
           to
           find
           him
           .
        
         
           But
           here
           the
           other
           Answerer
           is
           a
           little
           more
           prolix
           upon
           this
           subject
           ,
           and
           tells
           the
           Characterizer
           ,
           
             That
             in
             a
             Roman
             Catholick
             he
             makes
             Virtues
             themselves
             turn
             Vices
             ,
             and
             equals
             if
             not
             outgoes
             Transubstantiation
             it self
             .
          
           And
           to
           justifie
           the
           four
           Cardinal
           Virtues
           from
           the
           Characterizer's
           making
           them
           an
           Instrument
           of
           our
           Destruction
           ,
           he
           assignes
           'em
           a
           quite
           contrary
           operation
           in
           a
           Popish
           Successour
           than
           that
           in
           the
           Character
           ,
           viz.
           
        
         
           If
           he
           has
           Fortitude
           ,
           which
           is
           a
           Vertue
           equally
           distant
           from
           Temerity
           and
           Rashness
           ,
           as
           from
           Fear
           and
           Cowardize
           ,
           it
           will
           with-hold
           him
           from
           attempting
           things
           impossible
           ;
           as
           setting
           up
           Arbitrary
           Power
           ,
           or
           introducing
           Popery
           .
           If
           he
           be
           a
           man
           of
           Iustice
           ,
           that
           should
           give
           us
           the
           greater
           assurance
           that
           his
           Courage
           shall
           be
           no
           otherwise
           exercised
           than
           for
           our
           Safety
           and
           Honour
           ,
           to
           whom
           all
           his
           endeavours
           by
           all
           the
           Laws
           both
           Humane
           and
           Divine
           are
           due
           ,
           and
           to
           which
           he
           shall
           be
           by
           Oath
           obliged
           .
           
             But
             here
             by
             the
             way
             ,
             I
             could
             have
             wish'd
             our
             Author
             had
             left
             out
             the
             word
          
           [
           Divine
           ;
           ]
           
             for
             those
             hearty
             endeavours
             the
             Divine
             Laws
             of
             a
             Popish
             Successour
             will
             instruct
             him
             to
             exercise
             for
             the
             Safety
             and
             Honour
             of
             a
             Heretick
             Nation
             and
             Heretick
             Religion
             ,
             we
             are
             better
             inform'd
             of
             .
             But
             to
             proceed
             ,
          
           If
           he
           's
           a
           Master
           of
           Temperance
           ,
           what
           is
           that
           but
           a
           Bridle
           upon
           all
           his
           Excesses
           ,
           a
           perpetual
           Bosom-Monitor
           that
           will
           with-hold
           his
           Arm
           and
           allay
           his
           Heat
           ,
           and
           curb
           all
           the
           motions
           of
           Cruelty
           and
           Revenge
           ?
           And
           lastly
           ,
           if
           he
           has
           Prudence
           ,
           that
           will
           teach
           him
           not
           to
           exasperate
           a
           People
           of
           so
           stiff
           a
           Neck
           ,
           nor
           lose
           the
           hearts
           of
           his
           Subjects
           for
           their
           difference
           of
           opinion
           ,
           and
           thereby
           peradventure
           endanger
           the
           loss
           of
           his
           Crown
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
         
           Now
           this
           Author
           I
           confess
           has
           push'd
           a
           little
           fairer
           than
           t'other
           ;
           for
           he
           has
           given
           us
           an
           Argument
           that
           looks
           like
           Sence
           ,
           though
           it
           be
           none
           :
           for
           what
           's
           all
           this
           to
           the
           conduct
           of
           an
           inflexible
           Papist
           ?
           The
           Characterizer
           tells
           us
           ,
           that
           in
           a
           Bigotted
           Prince
           ,
           his
           Morals
           shall
           be
           Slaves
           to
           his
           Zeal
           ;
           and
           accordingly
           instances
           how
           far
           they
           shall
           be
           instrumental
           to
           the
           Protestant
           subversion
           and
           destruction
           :
           But
           here
           the
           Answerer
           artfully
           leaves
           out
           the
           main
           point
           ,
           and
           tells
           us
           what
           a
           
             meer
             moral
          
           man
           would
           do
           ,
           in
           case
           of
           succeeding
           to
           the
           Crown
           of
           England
           .
           He
           mounts
           the
           poor
           Postilion
           into
           the
           Saddle
           ,
           and
           tells
           us
           how
           his
           meer
           Morality
           would
           drive
           ;
           but
           takes
           no
           notice
           of
           that
           Lordly
           Charioteer
           ,
           Religion
           ,
           that
           holds
           the
           Reins
           above
           him
           ,
           whose
           nod
           he
           obeys
           ,
           and
           at
           whose
           absolute
           command
           he
           turns
           either
           to
           the
           right
           or
           the
           left
           .
           So
           that
           as
           this
           Answerer
           has
           stated
           the
           case
           ,
           I
           am
           thus
           far
           of
           his
           mind
           ,
           That
           had
           we
           an
           Heir
           apparent
           of
           no
           more
           Religion
           than
           a
           Iulian
           or
           a
           Nero
           ,
           and
           yet
           at
           the
           same
           time
           were
           compleatly
           Master
           of
           the
           moral
           Virtues
           ,
           possibly
           he
           might
           steer
           as
           he
           proposes
           :
           but
           let
           him
           recollect
           himself
           ,
           and
           put
           Popery
           and
           Morals
           together
           ,
           and
           then
           he
           'll
           find
           his
           mistake
           .
           For
           my
           part
           ,
           I
           am
           asham'd
           that
           any
           men
           that
           pretend
           to
           write
           Sence
           ,
           should
           endeavour
           to
           perswade
           us
           that
           a
           Popish
           Bigot
           ,
           and
           a
           man
           of
           courage
           and
           wisdom
           in
           a
           Successour
           ,
           should
           not
           go
           farther
           towards
           the
           establishing
           of
           Popery
           ,
           than
           a
           Coward
           and
           a
           Fool
           ;
           so
           that
           not
           onely
           his
           Morals
           ,
           but
           every
           other
           natural
           Gift
           or
           Perfection
           ,
           shall
           be
           particularly
           assistant
           to
           the
           Ruine
           both
           of
           Protestant
           Religion
           and
           Liberty
           .
           But
           because
           Example
           is
           more
           powerful
           than
           Precept
           ,
           I
           'll
           give
           you
           a
           taste
           of
           the
           Popish
           Morals
           in
           a
           very
           remarkable
           Story
           .
        
         
           Soon
           after
           the
           selling
           of
           Dunkirk
           ,
           from
           which
           time
           the
           poor
           Protestants
           in
           France
           date
           the
           AEra
           of
           their
           Calamities
           ,
           it
           being
           about
           that
           time
           that
           the
           French
           King
           began
           to
           disturb
           their
           Peace
           ,
           infringe
           their
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           demolish
           their
           Churches
           ,
           contrary
           to
           all
           the
           sacred
           Bonds
           of
           the
           solemn
           Engagement
           at
           Nants
           ;
           the
           distress'd
           Hugonots
           groaning
           beneath
           a
           greater
           load
           of
           Misery
           than
           any
           of
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           French
           Subjects
           ,
           their
           fellow-slaves
           ,
           under
           the
           persecution
           of
           his
           new
           Ashtaroth
           Arbitrary
           power
           ,
           thought
           fit
           privately
           to
           implore
           the
           intercession
           of
           a
           powerful
           Neighbour
           ,
           a
           Protestant
           Monarch
           ,
           to
           mediate
           in
           their
           behalf
           in
           mitigation
           of
           the
           French
           King
           's
           unchristian-like
           severity
           ;
           and
           accordingly
           chose
           a
           very
           honest
           and
           wise
           man
           ,
           by
           name
           Rohux
           ,
           an
           Inhabitant
           of
           Nisme
           in
           Languedock
           ,
           for
           this
           secret
           Embassie
           ,
           as
           being
           a
           person
           formerly
           very
           fortunate
           in
           England
           before
           on
           the
           like
           occasion
           ,
           having
           obtain'd
           a
           lucky
           Favour
           from
           Cromwel
           in
           reconciliation
           of
           a
           difference
           betwixt
           the
           French
           Protestants
           and
           Cardinal
           Mazarine
           .
           This
           Rohux
           thus
           commission'd
           ,
           the
           approach
           to
           Majesty
           being
           difficult
           ,
           to
           make
           his
           Access
           more
           easie
           ,
           applies
           himself
           first
           to
           a
           visibly
           Protestant
           Heir
           apparent
           ,
           hoping
           to
           strengthen
           the
           power
           of
           his
           own
           Supplications
           by
           the
           introduction
           and
           countenance
           of
           so
           great
           and
           so
           princely
           an
           Advocate
           .
           This
           Royal
           Heir
           or
           Masquerader
           ,
           or
           by
           what
           other
           Title
           disguis'd
           or
           distinguish'd
           ,
           with
           a
           seeming-cordial
           Friendship
           embraces
           the
           poor
           Hugonots
           Cause
           ,
           and
           day
           after
           day
           receives
           his
           Address
           with
           many
           solemn
           but
           airy
           promises
           of
           speedy
           Assistance
           ;
           but
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           ,
           disgusted
           and
           gall'd
           to
           the
           Soul
           at
           so
           audacious
           and
           impious
           a
           Petition
           as
           the
           Protestant
           preservation
           ,
           and
           abhorring
           so
           detestable
           an
           Employment
           ,
           nay
           ,
           the
           very
           name
           of
           the
           Hereticks
           Defender
           ,
           instead
           of
           his
           promis'd
           Aid
           ,
           he
           on
           the
           contrary
           most
           cunningly
           laid
           the
           Platform
           of
           a
           Revenge
           as
           exquisite
           as
           so
           heinous
           a
           Petition
           deserv'd
           .
           Immediately
           he
           goes
           to
           the
           French
           Embassadour
           ,
           and
           tells
           him
           how
           one
           of
           the
           French
           
           Subjects
           had
           very
           arrogantly
           and
           scandalously
           calumniated
           his
           great
           Master
           with
           obprobrious
           names
           of
           Tyranny
           ,
           Oppression
           ,
           and
           breach
           of
           Faith
           ;
           into
           which
           very
           Language
           he
           himself
           before
           had
           exasperated
           him
           ,
           on
           purpose
           to
           make
           his
           Ruine
           secure
           ,
           which
           the
           bare
           accusation
           of
           a
           Suit
           in
           behalf
           of
           his
           Religion
           ,
           would
           not
           alone
           have
           effected
           .
           The
           Embassadour
           ,
           as
           bound
           in
           duty
           ,
           for
           the
           vindication
           of
           his
           King's
           Honour
           ,
           desires
           a
           farther
           testimony
           of
           the
           Offence
           and
           Offender
           :
           Which
           the
           Royal
           Informer
           effectually
           gives
           him
           ,
           by
           appointing
           another
           Conference
           with
           Rohux
           ;
           where
           privately
           he
           plants
           this
           Kingly
           Representative
           as
           an
           Honourable
           Evesdropper
           ,
           to
           over-hear
           a
           Repetition
           of
           the
           whole
           Discourse
           ,
           and
           confirm
           his
           Belief
           from
           his
           own
           Ears
           .
        
         
           Now
           some
           people
           would
           start
           an
           Objection
           ,
           and
           say
           ,
           That
           this
           humble
           Office
           and
           low-spirited
           Snare
           against
           the
           life
           of
           a
           poor
           wretch
           ,
           might
           derogate
           from
           the
           Glory
           of
           two
           such
           Illustrious
           Personages
           ;
           the
           one
           for
           the
           greatness
           of
           his
           Employment
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           the
           greatness
           of
           his
           Birth
           .
           But
           to
           remove
           their
           mistake
           ,
           I
           assure
           'em
           there
           is
           not
           that
           Deed
           so
           abject
           ,
           when
           acted
           for
           the
           Cause
           of
           Rome
           ,
           that
           cannot
           be
           transform'd
           into
           Princely
           and
           Heroick
           ,
           by
           the
           stupendious
           power
           of
           that
           infallible
           Church
           ,
           where
           even
           Daggers
           and
           Ponyards
           admit
           of
           Consecration
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           return
           to
           our
           History
           .
           This
           Conference
           contrived
           and
           managed
           as
           heart
           could
           with
           ,
           the
           Embassadour
           posts
           over
           this
           Rohux
           Treachery
           to
           France
           ,
           whilst
           he
           ,
           poor
           unsuspecting
           Innocence
           ,
           continues
           his
           dayly
           Prayers
           to
           his
           Great
           Advocate
           .
           But
           finding
           in
           time
           so
           many
           delatory
           Demurs
           ,
           he
           luckily
           at
           last
           discovers
           he
           is
           betray'd
           :
           Upon
           which
           ,
           dreading
           the
           Vengeance
           of
           the
           French
           King
           ,
           not
           daring
           to
           return
           to
           France
           ,
           he
           steals
           away
           into
           Switzerland
           for
           his
           protection
           ;
           but
           the
           French
           King
           being
           advertised
           of
           his
           Motions
           ,
           gets
           him
           trepan'd
           by
           an
           Ambsuscade
           in
           the
           night
           ,
           and
           being
           by
           surprize
           forced
           out
           from
           thence
           into
           France
           ,
           he
           is
           broken
           upon
           the
           Wheel
           .
        
         
           Now
           who
           so
           blind
           as
           cannot
           but
           plainly
           see
           that
           each
           particular
           Cardinal
           Virtue
           in
           this
           Illustrious
           Heroe
           ,
           were
           most
           signally
           exercised
           in
           this
           Triumphant
           Encounter
           ?
           First
           ,
           here
           was
           Courage
           even
           to
           admiration
           ;
           he
           play'd
           the
           Romish
           Champion
           young
           ,
           and
           early
           flush'd
           himself
           in
           Heretick
           Bloud
           ,
           whilst
           like
           a
           second
           Alcides
           ,
           who
           strangled
           Snakes
           even
           in
           his
           Cradle
           ,
           he
           most
           victoriously
           tore
           up
           that
           Heart
           by
           the
           roots
           whose
           Tongue
           durst
           but
           hiss
           against
           the
           Papal
           Dignity
           ,
           as
           the
           first
           bold
           Prologue
           of
           his
           more
           undaunted
           Atchievements
           ,
           and
           more
           dazling
           Glories
           yet
           to
           come
           .
        
         
           Then
           here
           was
           Iustice
           to
           the
           height
           ;
           an
           impudent
           French
           Villain
           as
           he
           was
           ,
           to
           cross
           the
           Seas
           on
           so
           infamous
           a
           Commission
           as
           the
           Rebuilding
           of
           the
           
           Hugonot-Temples
           ,
           those
           Altars
           of
           Baal
           ,
           which
           the
           God-like
           hand
           of
           France
           had
           so
           justly
           laid
           in
           Ruine
           ?
           an
           Impiety
           so
           hainous
           as
           forfeited
           both
           Life
           and
           Soul
           ,
           and
           deserved
           the
           severest
           Rods
           and
           Axes
           of
           Justice
           :
           He
           deserv'd
           'em
           ,
           and
           he
           had
           '
           em
           .
        
         
           Then
           here
           was
           Temperance
           even
           to
           astonishment
           ;
           here
           was
           no
           launching
           into
           Passion
           ,
           no
           Thunder
           in
           his
           Tongue
           ,
           nor
           Basilisks
           in
           his
           Eyes
           ,
           at
           the
           surprize
           of
           so
           execrable
           a
           Petition
           as
           the
           imploring
           his
           Intercession
           for
           the
           loath'd
           Hereticks
           Deliverance
           :
           Alas
           ,
           no
           ,
           his
           Temperance
           ,
           like
           a
           Bosom-Monster
           (
           as
           our
           Author
           has
           it
           )
           bridled
           all
           those
           Excesses
           ,
           and
           treated
           this
           notorious
           Suppliant
           with
           those
           hearty
           professions
           of
           kindness
           ,
           and
           promis'd
           services
           ,
           till
           he
           betray'd
           his
           bones
           to
           the
           Wheel
           ,
           with
           a
           Conduct
           and
           Aspect
           so
           moderate
           and
           so
           serene
           ,
           as
           the
           old
           Romans
           lead
           their
           Victims
           with
           Flowers
           and
           Garlands
           to
           their
           Execution
           .
        
         
         
           Then
           here
           was
           Prudence
           beyond
           example
           ;
           first
           ,
           in
           inflaming
           the
           poor
           French-man
           into
           declamations
           and
           detractions
           against
           the
           Majesty
           of
           France
           ,
           thereby
           to
           manage
           his
           Tragedy
           more
           artfully
           ,
           by
           making
           him
           receive
           the
           Blow
           from
           the
           hands
           of
           the
           Temporal
           not
           Ecclesiastical
           Justice
           ,
           as
           dying
           more
           for
           a
           Traytor
           than
           a
           Heretick
           :
           for
           though
           ,
           't
           is
           true
           ,
           the
           last
           was
           Crime
           sufficient
           ,
           yet
           lest
           the
           ill-judging
           world
           might
           mistake
           ,
           and
           not
           think
           so
           ,
           he
           was
           wisely
           noosed
           into
           one
           Crime
           ,
           to
           pull
           down
           the
           Vengeance
           due
           to
           the
           other
           .
           But
           what
           's
           the
           greatest
           Prudence
           of
           all
           yet
           ,
           this
           politick
           Heroe
           all
           this
           while
           was
           a
           visible
           Member
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Church
           ,
           knelt
           at
           our
           Altars
           ,
           joyn'd
           in
           our
           Prayers
           ,
           and
           shared
           in
           our
           Sacrament
           and
           Communion
           .
        
         
           But
           one
           thing
           I
           had
           almost
           forgotten
           ;
           the
           unknown
           Answerer
           ,
           to
           prepare
           us
           for
           the
           more
           firm
           security
           that
           a
           Popish
           Successour's
           Cardinal
           Virtues
           shall
           keep
           that
           Honourable
           and
           indeed
           Innocent
           Path
           that
           he
           has
           traced
           out
           for
           him
           ,
           he
           makes
           a
           very
           long
           Harangue
           in
           praise
           of
           his
           adored
           Mecoenas
           .
           First
           ,
           for
           his
           Courage
           ,
           
             That
             his
             Royal
             Bloud
             (
             as
             often
             as
             his
             King
             or
             Countries
             Honour
             or
             Safety
             called
             upon
             him
             )
             was
             ever
             as
             dangerously
             and
             as
             freely
             exposed
             ,
             as
             that
             which
             fills
             the
             veins
             of
             the
             vilest
             Plebeian
             ,
          
           &c
           ,
           And
           why
           not
           ?
           since
           it
           is
           no
           such
           wondrous
           Novelty
           for
           even
           crown'd
           heads
           themselves
           personally
           to
           fight
           their
           own
           Battels
           :
           I
           cannot
           think
           it
           any
           great
           condescention
           in
           a
           Prince
           (
           at
           that
           time
           not
           altogether
           so
           visible
           an
           Heir
           apparent
           )
           to
           accept
           of
           the
           Admiralty
           of
           an
           English
           Navy
           ;
           an
           Employment
           ,
           where
           the
           Glory
           of
           it
           does
           more
           than
           reward
           the
           Hazard
           .
           So
           that
           as
           I
           take
           it
           ,
           his
           own
           Honour
           as
           well
           as
           his
           Countries
           ,
           call'd
           upon
           him
           .
        
         
           After
           this
           ,
           he
           passes
           to
           another
           branch
           of
           Princely
           Endowments
           ,
           
             viz.
             That
             his
             Friendships
             have
             ever
             been
             as
             firmly
             maintain'd
             ,
             as
             they
             were
             judiciously
             chosen
             :
             That
             his
             Mouth
             and
             his
             Heart
             have
             always
             been
             so
             true
             to
             one
             another
             ,
             that
             his
             Word
             has
             been
             as
             inviolate
             as
             the
             Oaths
             of
             others
             :
             And
             this
             noble
             Constancy
             has
             not
             been
             the
             effect
             so
             much
             of
             his
             Honour
             as
             his
             Conscience
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           Without
           all
           doubt
           :
           Yet
           I
           have
           heard
           a
           very
           odde
           Story
           of
           one
           Mr.
           Coleman
           that
           tipt
           over
           the
           pearch
           about
           a
           year
           or
           two
           ago
           .
           I
           fancy
           I
           could
           draw
           a
           Picture
           with
           this
           Label
           in
           his
           mouth
           ,
           
             There
             is
             no
             Faith
             in
             Man
             ,
          
           so
           like
           him
           ,
           you
           'd
           scarce
           know
           one
           from
           t'other
           :
           Nay
           ,
           poor
           
             Iack
             Catch
          
           shall
           cry
           out
           shame
           of
           all
           such
           usage
           .
           There
           was
           not
           that
           poorest
           Rogue
           of
           all
           the
           Plot-Martyrs
           ,
           that
           had
           not
           two
           or
           three
           Guinneys
           at
           least
           at
           his
           service
           ,
           to
           bribe
           him
           to
           use
           a
           gentle
           hand
           with
           them
           and
           hang
           'em
           out
           of
           pain
           ,
           before
           he
           made
           minced
           Meat
           of
           them
           .
           But
           Coleman
           was
           so
           trepan'd
           into
           
           Pluto's
           Court
           ,
           came
           so
           unprepared
           for
           the
           
           Elysian-shades
           ,
           that
           he
           that
           had
           been
           Master
           of
           the
           Purses
           both
           of
           the
           French
           and
           English
           Monsieurs
           too
           ,
           when
           he
           came
           to
           cross
           the
           Stygian
           Lake
           ,
           had
           not
           so
           much
           as
           one
           poor
           Obelus
           to
           pay
           his
           Ferriman's
           Fare
           .
           
             Durum
             est
             post
             omnia
             perdere
             naulum
             .
          
           And
           methinks
           this
           was
           a
           little
           unkindly
           done
           ;
           yet
           upon
           second
           thoughts
           ,
           possibly
           it
           might
           be
           contrived
           for
           his
           good
           .
           Flesh
           and
           Bloud
           is
           frail
           ,
           and
           who
           knows
           but
           he
           might
           have
           had
           humane
           thoughts
           about
           him
           ,
           and
           so
           have
           fallen
           from
           the
           holy
           Cause
           ;
           which
           careful
           Mother
           Church
           ,
           for
           the
           salvation
           of
           his
           Soul
           ,
           in
           her
           pious
           and
           Christian
           wisdom
           ,
           thought
           fit
           to
           prevent
           ,
           by
           making
           a
           Saint
           of
           him
           without
           his
           knowledge
           :
           And
           alas
           ,
           he
           was
           shrewdly
           hurt
           ,
           was
           he
           not
           ?
           to
           be
           tript
           up
           into
           Heaven
           ,
           and
           cheated
           into
           Immortality
           .
        
         
           But
           here
           I
           cannot
           omit
           one
           remarkable
           Observation
           of
           Mr.
           
             L'Estrange's
             ,
             pag.
          
           38.
           speaking
           of
           this
           Princes
           former
           services
           to
           his
           Country
           ;
           where
           he
           says
           ,
        
         
         
           Mr.
           L'E
           .
           I
           find
           some
           people
           of
           opinion
           ,
           that
           this
           King
           in
           Reversion
           ,
           is
           of
           the
           same
           Perswasion
           at
           this
           day
           ,
           that
           he
           was
           when
           he
           acquired
           all
           those
           Glories
           .
        
         
           Now
           if
           there
           be
           such
           a
           sort
           of
           people
           ,
           and
           so
           strong
           a
           Faith
           in
           the
           world
           ,
           I
           would
           willingly
           be
           instructed
           what
           They
           ,
           or
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           for
           them
           ,
           mean
           by
           Perswasion
           .
           If
           the
           Popish
           perswasion
           ,
           then
           they
           justifie
           the
           severest
           Reflections
           in
           the
           whole
           Character
           ,
           and
           lay
           that
           unprincely
           and
           unchristian
           Disguise
           at
           his
           door
           of
           kneeling
           at
           our
           Altars
           ,
           and
           participating
           of
           our
           Sacraments
           with
           all
           the
           meanest
           and
           basest
           Hypocrisie
           imaginable
           ;
           little
           less
           than
           dipping
           in
           the
           Dish
           ,
           and
           drinking
           of
           the
           Cup
           ,
           and
           kissing
           where
           he
           betray'd
           .
           But
           if
           they
           mean
           the
           Protestant
           perswasion
           ,
           of
           which
           Communion
           he
           then
           visibly
           was
           ▪
           and
           they
           will
           be
           but
           so
           kind
           as
           to
           prove
           him
           a
           Protestant
           still
           ,
           I
           assure
           them
           the
           Author
           shall
           burn
           his
           Character
           ,
           and
           make
           a
           publick
           Recantation
           for
           his
           Mistake
           ;
           but
           at
           the
           same
           time
           they
           must
           give
           him
           leave
           to
           write
           another
           tentimes
           bitterer
           than
           the
           first
           :
           For
           he
           that
           can
           suppose
           a
           Prince
           really
           and
           truly
           a
           Protestant
           ,
           that
           shall
           for
           so
           many
           years
           together
           withdraw
           from
           his
           own
           Communion
           ,
           and
           that
           too
           not
           onely
           so
           manifestly
           against
           his
           Interest
           ,
           but
           against
           the
           very
           Dictates
           of
           his
           Conscience
           ,
           the
           Duty
           of
           his
           Religion
           ,
           and
           the
           Glory
           of
           his
           God
           ;
           thereby
           to
           exasperate
           and
           embroil
           a
           whole
           Nation
           in
           Distractions
           ,
           to
           inflame
           and
           widen
           all
           our
           Divisions
           ,
           and
           in
           short
           ,
           to
           put
           out
           both
           his
           own
           Eyes
           to
           put
           out
           one
           of
           his
           Brothers
           ;
           and
           all
           this
           for
           just
           nothing
           ,
           except
           a
           meer
           Humour
           ,
           a
           letchery
           of
           doing
           Mischief
           for
           no
           other
           end
           or
           purpose
           but
           meer
           Mischiefs
           sake
           ,
           is
           a
           character
           of
           that
           unparallel'd
           Ingratitude
           ,
           and
           indeed
           all
           that
           's
           ill
           together
           ,
           that
           I
           hope
           Earth
           nere
           bore
           ,
           nor
           Hell
           ere
           punisht
           :
           for
           I
           should
           be
           sorry
           to
           think
           it
           possible
           there
           could
           be
           such
           a
           Creature
           in
           nature
           ;
           neither
           am
           I
           a
           little
           sorry
           to
           think
           there
           is
           a
           people
           in
           the
           world
           that
           can
           fancy
           there
           is
           such
           a
           one
           .
           I
           confess
           ,
           the
           withdrawing
           from
           our
           Communion
           upon
           the
           change
           of
           Opinions
           ,
           may
           admit
           of
           some
           Apology
           ;
           and
           our
           ill
           circumstances
           under
           that
           Change
           ,
           are
           not
           altogether
           so
           wonderful
           .
        
         
           
             Now
             after
             this
             Answerer
             has
             sum'd
             up
             all
             his
             matchless
             Virtues
             ,
             he
             tells
             you
             in
             short
             ,
          
           How
           improbable
           a
           thing
           it
           would
           be
           ,
           how
           contradictory
           to
           Reason
           and
           common
           Sence
           ,
           that
           the
           difference
           of
           a
           mans
           opinion
           about
           some
           few
           disputable
           matters
           of
           Faith
           ,
           and
           not
           very
           material
           Ceremonies
           of
           Divine
           Worship
           ,
           should
           on
           a
           sudden
           efface
           all
           those
           good
           Characters
           of
           Magnanimity
           and
           Iustice
           ,
           Generosity
           and
           Goodness
           ,
           not
           slightly
           traced
           ,
           but
           deeply
           engraved
           in
           his
           Breast
           .
        
         
           Here
           the
           Reader
           may
           observe
           what
           a
           good
           Protestant
           the
           Author
           is
           ,
           and
           how
           prettily
           he
           states
           the
           little
           disparity
           betwixt
           the
           Protestant
           and
           Popish
           Faith
           ,
           differing
           onely
           in
           some
           few
           disputable
           matters
           of
           Faith
           ,
           and
           not
           very
           material
           Ceremonies
           of
           Divine
           Worship
           .
           As
           for
           example
           :
           The
           Deifying
           of
           Wafers
           ,
           the
           Idolizing
           of
           Images
           ,
           the
           Invocation
           of
           Saints
           ,
           and
           making
           the
           Milk
           of
           a
           Mary
           almost
           of
           as
           great
           vertue
           as
           the
           Bloud
           of
           a
           Iesus
           ;
           with
           twenty
           other
           Trifles
           and
           inconsiderable
           Ceremonies
           .
           For
           my
           part
           ,
           I
           would
           not
           be
           he
           that
           at
           Cadice
           or
           Salamanca
           should
           make
           no
           more
           difference
           betwixt
           the
           Divine
           Worship
           of
           Holy
           Church
           and
           that
           of
           Heretick
           Dogs
           ,
           for
           fear
           the
           Lords
           of
           the
           Inquisition
           should
           make
           some
           material
           Ceremony
           with
           me
           ,
           and
           treat
           me
           with
           a
           Cauldron
           of
           scalding
           Oyl
           for
           my
           Entertainment
           .
           But
           perhaps
           our
           Answerer
           durst
           say
           twice
           as
           much
           ,
           if
           he
           were
           there
           ;
           for
           no
           doubt
           but
           they
           know
           him
           so
           well
           ,
           that
           they
           'd
           pardon
           his
           Railery
           ,
           and
           take
           it
           for
           but
           a
           
           copy
           of
           his
           Countenance
           .
           But
           whatever
           our
           Author's
           Religion
           is
           ,
           his
           Memory
           is
           none
           of
           the
           best
           ;
           for
           within
           three
           leaves
           after
           this
           ,
           he
           quite
           forgets
           himself
           ,
           and
           unluckily
           compares
           the
           difference
           between
           the
           two
           Religions
           
             in
             haec
             Verba
          
           .
        
         
           This
           Idolatrous
           Superstition
           has
           been
           so
           long
           worn
           off
           the
           minds
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           and
           the
           Reformation
           so
           deeply
           and
           so
           strongly
           rooted
           in
           the
           Reigns
           of
           four
           most
           religious
           and
           prudent
           Princes
           ;
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           so
           firmly
           establisht
           ,
           and
           that
           as
           much
           by
           the
           purity
           of
           its
           Doctrine
           ,
           the
           decency
           of
           its
           Discipline
           ,
           and
           the
           innocency
           of
           its
           Principles
           ,
           as
           by
           the
           Authority
           of
           the
           Publick
           and
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Land.
           The
           Romish
           Church
           so
           detested
           both
           for
           the
           dangerous
           Innovations
           of
           its
           Doctrine
           ,
           and
           the
           Idolatry
           of
           its
           Ceremonies
           ;
           and
           so
           odious
           in
           the
           eyes
           of
           the
           People
           for
           its
           pernicious
           Principles
           express'd
           in
           the
           villanous
           practices
           of
           its
           Professors
           in
           Massacres
           and
           Plots
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           But
           our
           Answerer's
           Ingenuity
           can
           answer
           all
           this
           ,
           and
           tell
           you
           ,
           What
           though
           their
           Ceremonies
           are
           so
           idolatrous
           ,
           their
           Innovations
           so
           dangerous
           ,
           their
           Principles
           so
           pernicious
           ,
           their
           Plots
           so
           odious
           ,
           their
           Massacres
           so
           barbarous
           ,
           and
           their
           Professors
           so
           villanous
           ?
           yet
           a
           Popish
           Heir
           presumptive
           professing
           the
           same
           Superstition
           ,
           shall
           be
           a
           Lamb
           ,
           a
           Dove
           ,
           a
           Saint
           amongst
           us
           upon
           occasion
           ,
           and
           that
           too
           for
           his
           Reasons
           above-said
           :
           For
           as
           he
           told
           you
           before
           ,
           he
           is
           a
           person
           of
           Royal
           Bloud
           ,
           loves
           his
           Friend
           ,
           is
           a
           man
           of
           Courage
           ,
           and
           a
           Prince
           ,
           and
           has
           been
           an
           Admiral
           .
           A
           thundering
           Demonstration
           of
           a
           peaceable
           Popish
           Innocence
           !
           Three
           more
           such
           unconfutable
           Arguments
           are
           enough
           to
           convert
           the
           Turk
           ,
           and
           bring
           in
           the
           Jews
           .
        
         
           But
           now
           from
           these
           infallible
           Morals
           in
           our
           Heir
           presumptive
           ,
           the
           great
           Bulwark
           against
           all
           our
           Fears
           ,
           this
           unknown
           Author
           concludes
           both
           our
           Protestant
           Religion
           and
           Laws
           secure
           under
           him
           ;
           that
           the
           present
           Constitution
           of
           Government
           ,
           and
           the
           present
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           must
           and
           shall
           ,
           in
           spite
           of
           Fate
           ,
           continue
           unshaken
           .
           
             If
             the
             Popish
             Priests
             are
             such
             Incendiaries
          
           (
           says
           he
           )
           
             and
             our
             most
             potent
             Enemies
             ,
             have
             we
             not
             Laws
             against
             them
             ?
             and
             then
             why
             are
             we
             in
             such
             fear
             ?
             What
             is
             left
             to
             any
             Monarch
             that
             succeeds
             ,
             but
             to
             execute
             the
             Laws
             be
             finds
             derived
             down
             to
             him
             to
             maintain
             and
             preserve
             together
             with
             his
             Crown
             and
             Dignity
             ?
          
           And
           though
           the
           Characterizer
           seems
           to
           be
           in
           so
           much
           dread
           of
           those
           swarms
           of
           Roman
           Emissaries
           that
           will
           infest
           us
           under
           the
           connivance
           and
           indulgence
           of
           a
           Popish
           Successour
           ,
           he
           tells
           you
           he
           is
           quite
           mistaken
           ;
           
             The
             Reign
             of
             a
             Popish
             King
             will
             be
             so
             far
             from
             advantageous
             ,
             that
             it
             will
             be
             rather
             destructive
             to
             all
             those
             Iesuitical
             Instruments
             ;
             and
             that
             it
             shall
             be
             so
             ,
             't
             is
             in
             the
             power
             of
             every
             Subject
             in
             the
             three
             Kingdoms
             to
             be
             a
             defender
             of
             the
             Protestant
             Religion
             ,
             if
             it
             want
             it
             ;
             there
             being
             no
             Information
             ,
             no
             Conviction
             of
             Recusants
             ,
             no
             Administration
             of
             Tests
             or
             Oaths
             ,
             that
             shall
             be
             wanting
             ,
             and
             no
             diligence
             that
             shall
             be
             spared
             ,
             backt
             by
             the
             Laws
             of
             the
             Land
             ,
             which
             then
             more
             than
             ever
             will
             be
             wakened
             against
             them
             ,
             which
             can't
             be
             dispenc'd
             withal
             ,
             but
             must
             be
             effectual
             to
             the
             utter
             ruine
             of
             the
             whole
             Party
             .
          
           Miracles
           and
           Prodiges
           !
           And
           that
           there
           shall
           be
           nothing
           wanting
           on
           the
           Kings
           part
           to
           do
           all
           this
           ,
           this
           worthy
           Author
           is
           pleased
           to
           be
           his
           Guarrantee
           ,
           assuring
           us
           in
           his
           Name
           ,
           that
           he
           will
           take
           care
           to
           let
           the
           Laws
           have
           their
           due
           course
           ;
           
             And
             whatever
             his
             private
             Opinion
             may
             be
             ,
             whatever
             tenderness
             he
             may
             bear
             to
             the
             persons
             be
             shall
             punish
             ,
             yet
             he
             shall
             remember
             his
             Obligation
             to
             the
             publick
             ,
             so
             far
             as
             to
             give
             'em
             up
             to
             the
             hands
             of
             Iustice
             with
             the
             same
             constancy
             of
             mind
             ,
             with
             
             the
             same
             applauses
             of
             present
             and
             commendation
             of
             all
             succeeding
             Ages
             ,
             that
             the
             immortal
          
           Brutus
           
             delivered
             up
             his
             darling
             Sons
             to
             the
             Rods
             and
             Axes
             of
             the
             Lictours
             ,
          
           &c.
           
        
         
           I
           ,
           here
           's
           a
           stupendious
           Character
           of
           a
           Popish
           Successour
           indeed
           !
           What
           
             Iö
             Paeans
          
           might
           England
           sing
           ,
           if
           
           Rome's
           long
           hope
           ,
           their
           Churches
           Champion
           and
           Restorer
           ,
           their
           hopeful
           Hercules
           ,
           would
           build
           his
           Columnes
           and
           write
           his
           
             Nil
             plus
             ultra
          
           here
           !
           But
           alas
           ,
           we
           are
           deceived
           ,
           his
           Labours
           are
           to
           come
           ;
           there
           's
           a
           pestilent
           contagious
           Northern
           Heresie
           to
           be
           rooted
           out
           ;
           that
           many
           headed
           Beast
           of
           Errors
           and
           Schisms
           ,
           that
           like
           Cerberus
           and
           Hydra
           ,
           are
           to
           be
           subdued
           ,
           whilst
           in
           the
           defence
           of
           Religion
           and
           the
           Cause
           of
           God
           ,
           he
           's
           to
           play
           a
           second
           Atlas
           ,
           and
           even
           the
           weight
           of
           Heaven
           is
           to
           lie
           on
           his
           shoulders
           .
           But
           our
           Oratorical
           Scribler
           has
           promis'd
           Wonders
           in
           a
           Popish
           Successours
           Name
           ,
           and
           elegantly
           pickt
           out
           a
           most
           excellent
           Brutus
           for
           his
           Comparison
           .
           I
           remember
           there
           was
           another
           Roman
           of
           that
           Name
           ,
           though
           not
           of
           that
           Nature
           ,
           whose
           Story
           is
           equally
           as
           famous
           and
           as
           pertinent
           to
           the
           matter
           in
           hand
           .
           A
           Brutus
           the
           Head
           and
           Leader
           of
           a
           Conspiracy
           against
           the
           life
           of
           the
           great
           Caesar
           ;
           a
           Brutus
           that
           joyn'd
           his
           heart
           and
           hand
           with
           the
           Murderers
           ,
           and
           blended
           his
           Dagger
           in
           the
           Assassination
           amongst
           the
           thirty
           mortal
           wounds
           that
           stab'd
           the
           Majesty
           of
           the
           World
           ;
           a
           Brutus
           to
           whom
           the
           dying
           Monarch
           with
           an
           Astonishment
           more
           surprizing
           than
           the
           death
           he
           received
           ,
           in
           his
           last
           gasp
           could
           say
           ,
           
             Et
             tu
             Brute
          
           ?
           Is
           my
           Son
           ,
           my
           Friend
           ,
           my
           Darling
           ,
           my
           Delight
           ,
           the
           man
           I
           have
           rais'd
           ,
           loved
           ,
           honour'd
           ,
           cherisht
           and
           defended
           ,
           is
           Brutus
           a
           Traytor
           ?
        
         
           But
           to
           bring
           our
           Author
           to
           his
           right
           wits
           again
           ,
           and
           to
           shew
           him
           how
           unlikely
           't
           is
           that
           the
           English
           Rods
           or
           Axes
           shall
           ever
           hurt
           a
           Son
           of
           Rome
           under
           a
           Romish
           Successour
           .
           If
           the
           Popish
           or
           Jesuitish
           party
           have
           found
           such
           Mercy
           under
           the
           Reigns
           of
           Protestant
           Kings
           ,
           but
           shall
           now
           on
           the
           contrary
           stand
           the
           inevitable
           shock
           of
           Statutes
           ,
           Jayls
           ,
           and
           Gibbets
           ,
           under
           a
           Popish
           King
           ,
           the
           Jesuits
           have
           plotted
           fairly
           .
           If
           the
           Pope
           and
           his
           Conclave
           have
           no
           deeper
           politicks
           than
           this
           comes
           to
           ,
           the
           very
           Geese
           that
           kept
           thir
           Capitol
           before
           them
           ,
           had
           more
           Brains
           than
           they
           .
           If
           this
           were
           the
           effect
           of
           their
           hopeful
           Royal
           Heirs
           Conversion
           ,
           Heaven
           help
           'em
           ,
           for
           Hell
           has
           forsaken
           '
           em
           .
        
         
           No
           ,
           Mr.
           Littleplot
           ,
           once
           in
           thy
           life
           thou
           art
           mistaken
           ;
           and
           to
           convince
           thee
           that
           the
           Protestant
           Laws
           will
           not
           ,
           nay
           shall
           not
           be
           so
           hard-hearted
           under
           his
           Reign
           ,
           nor
           his
           St.
           Omers
           Friends
           treated
           so
           coursly
           as
           thou
           imaginest
           ,
           they
           have
           had
           a
           little
           taste
           of
           their
           kinder
           Entertainment
           before
           hand
           .
           For
           Example
           :
           Were
           there
           a
           Country
           where
           Commissions
           of
           Peace
           ,
           day
           after
           day
           ,
           and
           time
           out
           of
           mind
           ,
           have
           been
           taken
           away
           for
           daring
           but
           to
           lift
           a
           hand
           against
           a
           Son
           of
           Rome
           ;
           nay
           ,
           at
           the
           same
           time
           when
           all
           other
           Recusants
           have
           been
           prosecuted
           ,
           and
           that
           with
           encouragement
           and
           reward
           ;
           and
           all
           by
           a
           Royal
           Heir's
           protection
           and
           interest
           .
           Would
           not
           any
           Reader
           reply
           ,
           Will
           he
           that
           has
           been
           their
           Guardian-Angel
           whilst
           but
           their
           fellow-Subject
           ,
           suffer
           a
           hair
           of
           their
           heads
           to
           perish
           when
           he
           's
           their
           King
           ?
        
         
           But
           yet
           our
           new
           Sir
           Positive
           will
           defend
           our
           Protestant
           Laws
           even
           in
           despight
           of
           Fate
           ,
           and
           tell
           you
           ,
           That
           Justice
           shall
           guide
           her
           hand
           so
           impartially
           ,
           and
           poise
           her
           scales
           so
           evenly
           ,
           as
           shall
           be
           to
           the
           admiration
           of
           present
           and
           succeeding
           Ages
           .
           Now
           I
           fancy
           I
           have
           heard
           a
           Tryal
           ,
           where
           a
           Criminal
           of
           Quality
           convicted
           of
           no
           less
           a
           Crime
           than
           the
           subornation
           and
           stifling
           of
           Evidence
           ,
           and
           in
           no
           less
           a
           Case
           than
           where
           the
           life
           of
           the
           
           King
           ,
           and
           the
           subversion
           both
           of
           Religion
           and
           Government
           were
           concern'd
           ,
           has
           been
           mulkt
           in
           the
           inconsiderable
           sum
           of
           a
           hundred
           pound
           ,
           payable
           perhaps
           at
           latter
           Lammas
           ;
           a
           meer
           trifle
           ,
           and
           scarce
           more
           than
           a
           
           Peter-peny
           for
           an
           Absolution
           :
           Whilst
           in
           the
           other
           extream
           there
           has
           been
           a
           poor
           Fellow
           condemn'd
           to
           the
           Pillory
           ,
           Imprisonment
           ,
           and
           five
           hundred
           pound
           fine
           ,
           ten
           times
           more
           than
           he
           was
           worth
           in
           the
           world
           ,
           for
           publishing
           a
           scandalous
           reflecting
           line
           in
           a
           Pamphlet
           ;
           much
           less
           offensive
           in
           my
           simple
           opinion
           ,
           than
           a
           Dagger
           to
           kill
           Kings
           and
           subvert
           States
           .
           And
           pray
           ,
           where
           will
           our
           Protestant
           Laws
           be
           ?
           and
           what
           even
           Ballances
           is
           Justice
           like
           to
           have
           under
           the
           full-grown
           Scepter
           of
           a
           Popish
           Successour
           ,
           if
           his
           influence
           is
           so
           potent
           in
           his
           Minority
           ?
           No
           ,
           a
           Rhadamanth
           for
           an
           Astraea
           must
           be
           the
           best
           of
           our
           expectations
           at
           that
           black
           day
           .
           Alas
           ,
           the
           See
           of
           Rome
           is
           like
           the
           old
           Lake
           of
           Sodom
           ,
           the
           lightest
           Feather
           that
           offends
           it
           ,
           sinks
           in
           it
           ;
           but
           to
           its
           darling
           Catholick
           Champions
           ,
           't
           is
           a
           Lake
           of
           liquid
           Gold
           ,
           where
           ,
           incircled
           round
           in
           Wealth
           ,
           Glory
           ,
           and
           Preferments
           ,
           the
           heaviest
           massiest
           bars
           of
           Iron
           ,
           Swords
           ,
           Daggers
           ,
           Poniards
           ,
           float
           on
           the
           glittering
           surface
           of
           Honour
           ,
           and
           swim
           securely
           .
           Nay
           ,
           I
           would
           ask
           any
           reasonable
           man
           ,
           That
           if
           the
           Jesuits
           hellish
           Machination
           against
           the
           Kings
           life
           had
           taken
           effect
           ,
           whether
           't
           is
           likely
           that
           they
           feared
           smarting
           for
           't
           either
           in
           this
           world
           or
           the
           next
           ,
           as
           dreading
           a
           Vengeance
           temporal
           or
           eternal
           ?
           No
           doubt
           but
           they
           had
           fairer
           hopes
           than
           so
           ;
           for
           had
           their
           execrable
           Blow
           succeeded
           ,
           the
           blood
           of
           Majesty
           might
           in
           all
           probability
           have
           found
           the
           same
           inquisition
           as
           the
           firing
           of
           London
           :
           Or
           if
           at
           worst
           the
           world
           would
           not
           have
           been
           so
           satisfied
           ,
           were
           not
           the
           Fanatick
           shoulders
           broad
           enough
           to
           bear
           both
           the
           guilt
           and
           the
           punishment
           ?
           Alas
           ,
           't
           was
           but
           at
           worst
           reviving
           an
           old
           experienced
           shift
           ,
           a
           known
           
             pia
             Fraus
          
           for
           a
           Recovery
           .
           Has
           not
           the
           Gunpowder-Treason
           (
           poor
           innocent
           Papists
           !
           )
           been
           a
           thousand
           times
           affirm'd
           a
           Plot
           of
           Cecils
           ?
           Has
           not
           our
           late
           designe
           against
           both
           King
           ,
           Religion
           ,
           and
           Government
           ,
           in
           contradiction
           of
           the
           unanimous
           Voice
           of
           the
           whole
           Nation
           in
           Parliament
           ,
           been
           confidently
           retorted
           upon
           the
           Presbyterians
           ;
           and
           that
           too
           without
           the
           least
           proof
           or
           shadow
           for
           't
           ?
           And
           then
           how
           easily
           might
           the
           Papal
           policy
           have
           made
           a
           Popish
           Murder
           a
           Fanatick
           Stab
           ?
           and
           so
           by
           the
           borrow'd
           face
           of
           Innocence
           ,
           have
           most
           triumphantly
           play'd
           the
           second
           part
           of
           Amboyna
           ,
           and
           have
           sheath'd
           the
           false
           Sword
           in
           the
           false
           Murderers
           heart
           ,
           whilst
           the
           true
           Dagger
           had
           been
           consecrated
           ,
           and
           the
           real
           Traytor
           canoniz'd
           .
           Thus
           wisely
           did
           the
           prudent
           Nero
           lay
           his
           burning
           of
           Rome
           at
           the
           poor
           innocent
           Christians
           doors
           ,
           and
           then
           with
           all
           the
           most
           exquisite
           studied
           Cruelties
           ,
           made
           the
           Christian
           bones
           rue
           for
           what
           the
           Infidels
           hand
           had
           perpetrated
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           return
           to
           our
           Author
           ,
           I
           will
           refer
           him
           to
           some
           modern
           Records
           ,
           more
           applicable
           to
           our
           purpose
           than
           the
           History
           of
           his
           immortal
           Brutus
           .
           Have
           we
           not
           lately
           perus'd
           whole
           scrowls
           of
           Letters
           from
           our
           Saint
           Secretary
           Coleman
           to
           French
           Confessours
           ,
           French
           Ministers
           ,
           and
           all
           for
           French
           Interest
           ;
           and
           as
           many
           
           Rome-wards
           bound
           to
           Jesuits
           ,
           Cardinals
           ,
           and
           Pope
           himself
           ,
           fraught
           with
           golden
           Mountains
           ,
           and
           promis'd
           Miracles
           to
           be
           acted
           by
           the
           Royal
           —
           for
           
           Rome's
           Glory
           ,
           Catholick
           Cause
           ,
           and
           Mother
           Church
           :
           And
           will
           any
           person
           of
           common
           sense
           believe
           that
           our
           trusty
           and
           well-beloved
           Secretary
           promis'd
           more
           in
           the
           name
           of
           Al.
           than
           Al.
           would
           perform
           .
           And
           were
           all
           those
           sums
           of
           money
           to
           be
           return'd
           from
           France
           to
           England
           to
           be
           laid
           out
           onely
           in
           Rosaries
           ,
           Beades
           ,
           and
           Crucifixes
           .
           Believe
           it
           who
           can
           ;
           for
           for
           my
           part
           I
           am
           an
           Infidel
           .
           Alas
           
           no
           ,
           our
           hopeful
           English
           Son
           of
           Mars
           ,
           that
           modern
           Achilles
           ,
           without
           whose
           Arm
           our
           Protestant
           Troy
           could
           never
           fall
           ,
           was
           no
           doubt
           to
           have
           been
           brought
           over
           to
           
           Rome's
           Holy
           War
           ,
           as
           once
           the
           old
           Achilles
           to
           the
           Grecian
           .
           The
           subtle
           France
           ,
           like
           the
           cunning
           Vlysses
           ,
           plays
           not
           the
           Pedler
           with
           such
           small
           Wares
           ,
           such
           effeminate
           Toys
           and
           Trifles
           ;
           but
           wisely
           hides
           a
           sparkling
           Sword
           amongst
           those
           guil'ded
           Bawbles
           ,
           a
           Sword
           ,
           a
           Temptation
           fit
           for
           a
           valiant
           Masquerader
           ;
           an
           Instrument
           worthy
           
           Rome's
           Hero.
           
        
         
           Besides
           ,
           have
           we
           no
           Records
           but
           
           Coleman's
           ?
           Have
           we
           not
           had
           whole
           Pacquets
           from
           
             Al.
             Al.
             Al.
          
           to
           that
           Priest
           ,
           this
           Jesuit
           ,
           and
           t'other
           Cardinal
           ;
           but
           more
           especially
           with
           Commendations
           to
           his
           Holiness
           ,
           his
           Adored
           Holiness
           ;
           and
           all
           wisely
           and
           artificially
           coucht
           in
           CHARACTERS
           ?
           And
           can
           any
           man
           ,
           with
           half
           the
           brains
           of
           a
           Woodcock
           ,
           believe
           that
           they
           were
           all
           but
           so
           many
           
             How
             do
             ye's
          
           ;
           or
           some
           idle
           Compliment
           onely
           to
           beg
           a
           Chip
           of
           the
           Cross
           ,
           or
           a
           Rag
           of
           the
           Virgins
           Petticoat
           ?
        
         
           If
           the
           designes
           of
           Al.
           were
           honourable
           ,
           why
           an
           Intrigue
           betwixt
           the
           Heir
           of
           a
           Protestant
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           the
           profest
           and
           greatest
           Enemy
           of
           our
           Religion
           and
           Liberties
           ?
           Or
           if
           that
           Commerce
           between
           'em
           could
           by
           any
           extorted
           supposition
           ,
           or
           upon
           any
           pretence
           whatever
           ,
           be
           imagined
           to
           be
           innocent
           ,
           why
           was
           the
           whole
           Correspondence
           disguised
           in
           RIDDLES
           and
           in
           CHARACTERS
           ?
           Why
           in
           such
           mystick
           Cloathing
           ,
           those
           fraudulent
           Missives
           of
           Hell
           ,
           and
           the
           usual
           notorious
           Masks
           of
           Villanies
           ,
           Treasons
           ,
           and
           Conspiracies
           .
        
         
           Now
           from
           this
           Testimony
           ,
           I
           would
           ask
           if
           it
           be
           reasonable
           to
           suppose
           that
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           and
           Liberty
           ,
           and
           the
           Laws
           of
           that
           wilde
           Boar
           Harry
           the
           Eighth
           ,
           and
           his
           Daughter
           Bess
           that
           She-devil
           ,
           will
           be
           defended
           by
           a
           Popish
           Successour
           ,
           when
           in
           defending
           of
           them
           he
           must
           rob
           both
           the
           Church
           and
           God
           himself
           of
           their
           Right
           ;
           and
           as
           much
           as
           in
           him
           lies
           ,
           strike
           his
           Dagger
           into
           the
           sacred
           Gates
           of
           Rome
           ,
           and
           dart
           a
           Javelin
           at
           the
           very
           heart
           of
           Christs
           own
           Vicar
           ,
           and
           Gods
           undeniable
           Representative
           ;
           and
           at
           the
           same
           minute
           be
           obliged
           to
           dayly
           Outrages
           ,
           nay
           Butcheries
           too
           upon
           the
           very
           persons
           of
           Gods
           Elect
           ,
           the
           Pillars
           of
           Religion
           ,
           and
           the
           very
           Successours
           of
           the
           Apostles
           themselves
           ?
           A
           pretty
           kind
           of
           Law
           ,
           that
           shall
           oblige
           him
           to
           commit
           at
           once
           both
           Murder
           and
           Sacriledge
           ;
           and
           all
           this
           ,
           forsooth
           ,
           in
           defence
           of
           a
           Religion
           ,
           as
           they
           'll
           swear
           for
           't
           ,
           sprung
           from
           Harry
           the
           Eighth's
           Codpiece
           ,
           maintain'd
           and
           preacht
           onely
           by
           a
           pack
           of
           Reprobate
           Rascals
           ,
           a
           Bastard-sort
           of
           Priests
           ordain'd
           by
           the
           by
           at
           the
           Nagshead-Tavern
           .
           —
           I
           ,
           but
           there
           lies
           his
           Honour
           and
           Coronation
           Oath
           in
           the
           way
           to
           a
           Crown
           ,
           that
           shall
           oblige
           him
           to
           do
           all
           this
           .
           And
           so
           if
           there
           lay
           a
           knot
           of
           Thieves
           in
           a
           mans
           way
           home
           ,
           that
           should
           compel
           him
           to
           engage
           and
           promise
           'em
           to
           meet
           'em
           such
           a
           day
           with
           a
           good
           Horse
           under
           him
           ,
           and
           a
           good
           pair
           of
           Pistols
           before
           him
           ,
           to
           take
           the
           Rode
           with
           them
           ,
           and
           rob
           and
           murder
           in
           their
           company
           .
           A
           pretty
           piece
           of
           Honour
           that
           ,
           and
           a
           strange
           point
           of
           Conscience
           ,
           that
           shall
           tye
           him
           to
           keep
           his
           word
           with
           them
           !
        
         
           Let
           us
           but
           rightly
           consider
           ;
           is
           it
           to
           be
           conceived
           that
           the
           Pope
           with
           all
           his
           wisdom
           and
           politicks
           ,
           will
           ever
           be
           guilty
           of
           so
           much
           Ill-husbandry
           as
           to
           make
           no
           better
           Emprovement
           of
           such
           a
           pretty
           spot
           of
           Ground
           as
           England
           ,
           when
           he
           has
           once
           retrieved
           it
           again
           into
           his
           own
           Hucksters
           hands
           ,
           a
           Popish
           Successours
           possession
           ,
           as
           to
           let
           it
           lie
           waste
           still
           ,
           because
           it
           has
           lain
           so
           for
           so
           many
           Ages
           last
           past
           ,
           with
           scarce
           any
           thing
           more
           upon
           it
           than
           a
           parcel
           of
           rank
           Weeds
           and
           Thistles
           that
           have
           been
           running
           up
           
           to
           Seed
           for
           above
           a
           hundred
           years
           together
           ?
           Perswade
           him
           to
           it
           ,
           if
           you
           can
           .
        
         
           I
           will
           onely
           refer
           my
           Reader
           ,
           for
           his
           diversion
           ,
           but
           to
           one
           short
           passage
           in
           the
           above-named
           printed
           Pacquets
           of
           Letters
           ,
           where
           his
           transported
           Holiness
           ,
           at
           the
           receipt
           of
           a
           comfortable
           line
           or
           two
           from
           a
           very
           good
           Hand
           ,
           and
           as
           't
           is
           to
           be
           imagined
           ,
           a
           true
           and
           trusty
           Friend
           ,
           is
           said
           to
           have
           
             Wept
             for
             Ioy.
          
           Now
           I
           would
           seriously
           ask
           my
           Reader
           ,
           if
           he
           believes
           those
           precious
           Tears
           ,
           that
           sanctified
           Brine
           ,
           that
           ,
           like
           
           Aaron's
           Ointment
           ,
           trickled
           down
           the
           Beard
           of
           the
           Reverend
           Sire
           ,
           dropt
           at
           the
           hearing
           of
           no
           better
           News
           ,
           and
           at
           the
           prospect
           of
           no
           fairer
           hopes
           than
           this
           .
           My
           life
           for
           yours
           ,
           there
           was
           no
           such
           meaning
           in
           it
           .
           No
           ;
           for
           once
           I
           'll
           give
           you
           a
           better
           KEY
           for
           those
           CHARACTERS
           :
           Our
           Protestant
           Sun
           ,
           't
           was
           hoped
           ,
           was
           near
           setting
           when
           that
           Dew
           fell
           .
        
         
           From
           this
           we
           come
           to
           the
           power
           of
           a
           Coronation-Oath
           with
           a
           Popish
           Successour
           ;
           and
           there
           our
           Answerers
           are
           extraordinary
           vehement
           against
           the
           Character
           for
           averring
           ,
           That
           if
           the
           Popish
           Religion
           will
           absolve
           Subjects
           from
           their
           Allegiance
           to
           an
           Heretical
           King
           ,
           why
           may
           it
           not
           release
           a
           King
           from
           his
           Faith
           to
           an
           Heretical
           excommunicated
           People
           .
           Upon
           which
           ,
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           remarks
           ,
        
         
           Mr.
           
             L'E
             .
             Take
             it
             for
             granted
             ,
             there
             's
             no
             trusting
             to
             the
             Oath
             of
             a
             Roman
             Catholick
             Prince
             ,
             and
             ye
             cut
             the
             very
             Ligaments
             of
             Society
             and
             Commerce
             .
             There
             's
             an
             end
             of
             all
             Treaties
             and
             Alliances
             ,
             amicable
             and
             mutual
             Offices
             betwixt
             Christian
             Princes
             and
             States
             .
             Nay
             ,
             in
             one
             word
             ,
             erect
             but
             this
             Maxime
             ,
             you
             turn
          
           Europe
           
             into
             a
             Shambles
             ,
             and
             put
          
           Christendom
           
             without
             any
             more
             ado
             into
             a
             state
             of
             War
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           Though
           by
           the
           way
           ,
           all
           this
           makes
           nothing
           to
           his
           purpose
           :
           for
           Treaties
           ,
           Alliances
           ,
           and
           Commerce
           betwixt
           Christian
           Princes
           and
           States
           ,
           have
           no
           Affinity
           with
           a
           Princes
           keeping
           Faith
           with
           his
           People
           upon
           the
           account
           of
           Religion
           ;
           as
           had
           been
           proved
           before
           .
        
         
           But
           from
           this
           he
           goes
           on
           ,
           and
           says
           ,
        
         
           Mr.
           
             L'E
             .
             I
             am
             not
             ignorant
             yet
             ,
             either
             of
             the
             Doctrine
             ,
             or
             of
             the
             practice
             of
             several
             profligate
             wretches
             of
             the
             Roman
             Communion
             ,
             in
             this
             impious
             particular
             :
             But
             they
             are
             such
             then
             that
             are
             wholly
             lost
             in
             Brutality
             and
             Blindness
             ;
             and
             I
             neither
             do
             nor
             can
             believe
             all
             Papists
             to
             be
             equally
             susceptible
             of
             that
             unchristian
             Impression
             .
             It
             is
             a
             Position
             that
             may
             be
             made
             use
             of
             at
             a
             dead
             lift
             to
             serve
             a
             political
             turn
             :
             And
             the
             Trick
             will
             not
             pass
             neither
             ,
             but
             upon
             some
             enthusiastick
             sick-headed
             Zealot
             ,
             that
             takes
             all
             his
             Dreams
             for
             Visions
             ,
             and
             the
             vapours
             of
             his
             Distempers
             for
             Revelations
             .
          
           Now
           in
           my
           apprehension
           ,
           never
           did
           any
           man
           so
           forget
           himself
           as
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           has
           done
           here
           :
           He
           believes
           here
           ,
           that
           that
           unchristian
           Impression
           ,
           as
           the
           Allowance
           of
           Perjury
           ,
           is
           onely
           the
           Tenet
           of
           some
           profligate
           wretches
           wholly
           lost
           in
           Brutality
           and
           Blindness
           .
           But
           at
           the
           latter
           end
           of
           his
           Book
           ,
           
             pag.
             83.
          
           he
           down-right
           contradicts
           that
           belief
           ,
           and
           says
           ,
        
         
           Mr.
           
             L'E
             .
             Pope
          
           Pius
           Quintus
           
             absolved
             the
             Subjects
             of
             Queen
          
           Elizabeth
           
             from
             all
             their
             Oaths
             of
             Allegiance
             to
             her
             for
             ever
             .
          
           So
           that
           now
           belike
           it
           was
           not
           onely
           the
           Maxime
           of
           the
           above-said
           profligate
           wretches
           ,
           but
           even
           of
           the
           Great
           Successour
           of
           Peter
           ,
           and
           the
           Voice
           of
           Infallibility
           it self
           ;
           and
           that
           too
           not
           the
           product
           of
           Blindness
           and
           Brutality
           upon
           Dreams
           and
           Vapours
           ,
           but
           the
           deliberate
           Act
           and
           Decree
           of
           the
           Imperial
           See
           of
           Rome
           .
        
         
           I
           could
           make
           several
           other
           instances
           in
           this
           kind
           ,
           as
           the
           Popes
           absolving
           the
           Subjects
           from
           their
           Allegiance
           to
           
             K.
             Iohn
          
           ,
           &c.
           but
           't
           is
           the
           common
           
           Theme
           of
           all
           Pens
           ,
           and
           so
           much
           the
           known
           practice
           and
           principle
           of
           their
           Popes
           through
           all
           Ages
           ,
           that
           I
           shall
           not
           think
           it
           worth
           my
           while
           .
           Besides
           ,
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           forgets
           himself
           a
           little
           further
           in
           this
           point
           ,
           and
           says
           in
           the
           same
           83
           page
           ,
           
             That
             the
             Romish
             Iesuit
             holds
             that
             Dominion
             is
             founded
             in
             Grace
             ,
             and
             upon
             that
             principle
             deposes
             Protestant
             Princes
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           Then
           adds
           ,
           
             That
             the
             Pope
             may
             deprive
             a
             King
             of
             his
             Royal
             Dignity
             for
             Heresie
             ,
             Schism
             ,
          
           &c.
           (
           
             as
             in
             the
             Bishop
             of
          
           Lincoln
           
             's
             Popish
             Principles
          
           .
           p.
           20.
           )
           
             and
             after
             Excommunication
             ,
             says
          
           Mariana
           ,
           
             in
             case
             of
             obstinacy
             ,
             the
             people
             may
             take
             away
             his
             life
             .
          
        
         
           After
           these
           Affirmations
           of
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           ,
           if
           these
           are
           the
           principles
           of
           the
           Pope
           and
           Jesuit
           ,
           I
           hope
           we
           may
           safely
           conclude
           ,
           That
           they
           that
           set
           such
           little
           value
           on
           the
           sacred
           Dignity
           and
           Persons
           of
           Kings
           themselves
           ,
           when
           once
           attainted
           with
           Heresie
           ,
           that
           not
           onely
           their
           Crowns
           are
           forfeited
           ,
           but
           their
           very
           Lives
           lie
           exposed
           to
           the
           fury
           and
           hand
           of
           every
           vile
           Plebeian
           ,
           should
           in
           all
           reason
           set
           less
           on
           the
           Rights
           ,
           Priviledges
           ,
           and
           Lives
           of
           Subjects
           under
           the
           same
           Attainder
           :
           for
           no
           doubt
           ,
           if
           Heresie
           can
           make
           a
           forfeiture
           in
           the
           first
           ,
           the
           Devil
           's
           in
           't
           if
           it
           does
           not
           in
           the
           last
           .
           So
           that
           by
           his
           leave
           ,
           where
           's
           all
           the
           Oaths
           ,
           Honour
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           Mighty
           and
           Illustrious
           Attributes
           he
           gives
           our
           Popish
           Successour
           in
           vindication
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Peace
           and
           security
           under
           him
           ,
           whilst
           these
           are
           the
           principles
           not
           onely
           of
           the
           Jesuits
           that
           seduced
           him
           ,
           but
           of
           the
           very
           Head
           of
           his
           Church
           ,
           that
           Lord
           God
           the
           Pope
           ?
           But
           according
           to
           his
           first
           belief
           ,
           if
           this
           were
           really
           the
           opinion
           of
           some
           Doctors
           ,
           but
           not
           all
           ,
           he
           would
           do
           well
           to
           prove
           that
           Father
           Patrick
           ,
           that
           curst
           Incendiary
           of
           all
           our
           Distractions
           ,
           was
           not
           one
           of
           those
           Affirmative
           Doctors
           ,
           and
           Benningfield
           his
           successour
           another
           of
           them
           .
           No
           doubt
           the
           subtle
           Rome
           in
           converting
           our
           Heir
           presumptive
           ,
           did
           not
           bound
           its
           ambition
           in
           the
           gaining
           one
           single
           Soul
           ,
           but
           the
           recovery
           of
           a
           Kingdom
           was
           their
           designe
           .
           In
           his
           conversion
           they
           had
           brought
           their
           long
           Hopes
           to
           a
           perfection
           ,
           they
           had
           found
           that
           second
           Moses
           ,
           who
           under
           the
           God-like
           influence
           of
           Rome
           ,
           like
           a
           
             Cloud
             by
             day
          
           ,
           and
           a
           
             Pillar
             of
             fire
             by
             night
          
           ,
           should
           guide
           and
           lead
           'em
           through
           all
           opposition
           and
           all
           dangers
           to
           their
           beloved
           Canaan
           ,
           a
           Land
           that
           flows
           with
           
             Milk
             and
             Honey
          
           ,
           Rome's
           old
           Treasure-house
           ,
           that
           dear
           
             Puteus
             Inexhaustus
          
           ,
           England
           .
        
         
           And
           is
           it
           to
           be
           imagined
           ,
           if
           
             Fides
             non
             est
             tenenda
             cum
             Haereticis
          
           were
           ever
           in
           request
           ,
           it
           should
           be
           wanting
           now
           ,
           on
           so
           glorious
           an
           occasion
           ;
           or
           so
           inconsiderable
           a
           Trifle
           as
           a
           Coronation
           Oath
           should
           blast
           so
           forward
           and
           so
           sacred
           a
           Designe
           .
           And
           if
           ,
           as
           he
           confesses
           ,
           that
           Tenet
           is
           onely
           made
           use
           of
           to
           serve
           a
           political
           turn
           ,
           I
           would
           gladly
           be
           inform'd
           what
           greater
           or
           more
           political
           turn
           it
           could
           serve
           ,
           than
           for
           the
           Conversion
           of
           England
           ,
           that
           great
           Work
           which
           the
           unknown
           Answerer
           tells
           us
           ,
           
             Has
             ,
             like
          
           China
           ,
           
             been
             a
             hundred
             years
             a
             ripening
             .
          
        
         
           But
           here
           our
           Answerers
           continue
           ,
           and
           assure
           us
           we
           need
           have
           no
           fear
           of
           any
           such
           prejudice
           in
           that
           case
           from
           our
           Popish
           Heir
           ,
           considering
           ,
           as
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           says
           ,
        
         
           Mr.
           L'E
           .
           If
           he
           could
           so
           scandalously
           play
           the
           Hypocrite
           as
           to
           change
           his
           shape
           at
           that
           rate
           as
           the
           Character
           says
           ,
           and
           act
           any
           part
           for
           his
           advantage
           ,
           which
           Rome
           or
           
           Rome's
           Interest
           shall
           impose
           upon
           him
           ,
           what
           should
           have
           hinder'd
           him
           from
           continuing
           a
           Protestant
           to
           the
           Eye
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           though
           a
           Papist
           in
           his
           heart
           ?
           since
           that
           was
           the
           onely
           means
           to
           have
           gain'd
           him
           his
           point
           .
           
             And
             as
             the
             other
             Answerer
             enlarges
             upon
             it
             ,
          
           If
           out
           of
           the
           conscience
           of
           an
           Oath
           ,
           and
           the
           Obligation
           he
           believ'd
           was
           in
           it
           ,
           he
           has
           already
           
           parted
           with
           the
           places
           of
           the
           greatest
           Honour
           and
           Profit
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           is
           it
           likely
           he
           'll
           ever
           have
           a
           less
           veneration
           for
           that
           most
           religious
           one
           he
           must
           take
           at
           his
           Coronation
           ?
           Or
           is
           it
           likely
           if
           he
           had
           made
           no
           scruple
           of
           an
           Oath
           ,
           he
           would
           have
           refused
           it
           at
           a
           time
           when
           he
           might
           have
           removed
           all
           suspicions
           and
           Iealousies
           of
           his
           Religion
           by
           it
           ,
           and
           thereby
           have
           facilitated
           his
           way
           to
           a
           Throne
           ?
        
         
           Now
           I
           wonder
           to
           what
           Readers
           these
           Authors
           write
           ,
           that
           at
           this
           time
           of
           day
           they
           would
           make
           us
           believe
           that
           his
           squeamishness
           against
           the
           Test
           and
           the
           Oath
           of
           Supremacy
           ,
           made
           our
           consciencious
           Heir
           quit
           his
           honourable
           Employments
           !
           As
           we
           better
           remember
           ▪
           't
           was
           not
           so
           much
           the
           Test
           ,
           as
           the
           Test-makers
           ,
           that
           disgusted
           him
           ,
           his
           natural
           antipathy
           to
           Parliaments
           ,
           his
           continual
           little
           thoughts
           of
           that
           Great
           Council
           ,
           (
           and
           less
           of
           them
           he
           will
           have
           ,
           if
           ever
           he
           comes
           to
           the
           Crown
           )
           with
           his
           disdain
           that
           such
           insolent
           Earth
           and
           Ashes
           should
           dare
           to
           give
           Laws
           to
           his
           Divinity
           .
           So
           that
           in
           short
           ,
           his
           Pride
           ,
           not
           Conscience
           ,
           got
           the
           Ascendant
           ;
           and
           whatever
           advantages
           he
           might
           have
           gain'd
           by
           keeping
           his
           Employments
           and
           swallowing
           the
           Oaths
           ,
           yet
           such
           is
           his
           perverse
           and
           stubborn
           Haughtiness
           ,
           that
           he
           would
           rather
           cry
           ,
           
             Sink
             Interest
             ,
             perish
             Succession
             ,
             and
             even
             Popedom
             it self
             ,
             rather
             than
             truckle
             to
             what
             I
             scorn
             .
          
        
         
           But
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           ,
           methinks
           ,
           of
           all
           men
           should
           be
           farthest
           from
           supposing
           it
           a
           difficulty
           in
           a
           Papist
           to
           take
           an
           Oath
           he
           never
           intends
           to
           perform
           ,
           when
           in
           the
           4th
           page
           of
           his
           Book
           he
           grants
           the
           very
           Protestants
           themselves
           ,
           nay
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           Protestants
           ,
           upon
           occasion
           ,
           may
           do
           the
           like
           :
           Where
           he
           says
           ,
        
         
           Mr.
           L'E
           .
           In
           the
           case
           of
           a
           Popish
           King
           ,
           who
           is
           either
           kept
           out
           or
           driven
           out
           from
           the
           Exercise
           of
           his
           Right
           by
           the
           tumultuary
           License
           of
           the
           Rabble
           ,
           an
           Oath
           of
           Abjuration
           in
           case
           of
           any
           fair
           opportunity
           for
           him
           to
           assert
           his
           Claim
           with
           his
           Sword
           in
           his
           hand
           ,
           will
           be
           so
           far
           from
           engaging
           any
           man
           against
           him
           ,
           that
           yielded
           contrary
           to
           his
           Conscience
           to
           swallow
           it
           for
           the
           saving
           of
           his
           Stake
           ,
           that
           he
           will
           find
           no
           firmer
           Friends
           to
           his
           Cause
           or
           Interest
           ,
           than
           those
           men
           that
           are
           stimulated
           both
           by
           Honour
           and
           Revenge
           to
           the
           execution
           of
           their
           Duties
           .
        
         
           Now
           by
           those
           firm
           English
           Friends
           that
           may
           take
           this
           Abjuration-Oath
           against
           their
           Consciences
           ,
           he
           cannot
           mean
           the
           Fanaticks
           ;
           for
           they
           'tis
           supposed
           are
           the
           
             Drivers
             out
          
           ,
           that
           impose
           this
           Oath
           .
           Besides
           ,
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           is
           so
           far
           from
           believing
           that
           Party
           capable
           of
           coming
           under
           the
           denomination
           of
           a
           Popish
           Successour's
           Friends
           ,
           that
           on
           the
           contrary
           it
           has
           been
           the
           drift
           of
           almost
           all
           his
           Pamphlets
           to
           prove
           them
           his
           onely
           implacable
           Enemies
           .
           Neither
           can
           those
           firm
           Friends
           here
           mentioned
           ,
           be
           understood
           the
           Popish
           Party
           ;
           for
           upon
           the
           supposition
           of
           this
           tumultuary
           driving
           out
           of
           the
           Popish
           Heir
           from
           his
           Right
           ,
           't
           is
           likewise
           to
           be
           concluded
           that
           Party
           will
           most
           of
           them
           share
           in
           his
           Fate
           ;
           that
           there
           will
           be
           very
           few
           of
           them
           left
           to
           be
           put
           to
           that
           Oath
           of
           Abjuration
           :
           or
           if
           there
           were
           ,
           and
           they
           would
           take
           such
           an
           Oath
           ,
           it
           would
           be
           so
           far
           from
           doing
           their
           business
           ;
           that
           lying
           under
           such
           a
           brand
           of
           Infidelity
           already
           (
           as
           they
           do
           )
           all
           the
           Oaths
           they
           could
           ever
           take
           would
           never
           be
           believed
           :
           so
           that
           the
           saving
           of
           their
           Stake
           that
           way
           would
           be
           impossible
           .
           So
           that
           't
           is
           plain
           (
           as
           I
           said
           before
           )
           by
           those
           
             Abjuring
             Oath-swallowing
             Friends
          
           ,
           he
           can
           mean
           no
           other
           but
           the
           
             Church
             of
          
           England
           Protestants
           .
        
         
         
           And
           yet
           methinks
           after
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           has
           so
           long
           and
           so
           vigorously
           play'd
           the
           Church
           of
           
           England's
           Champion
           ,
           so
           strenuously
           maintain'd
           the
           integrity
           and
           purity
           of
           that
           Belief
           and
           Communion
           ,
           with
           the
           undaunted
           courage
           of
           its
           Professours
           ,
           continually
           copying
           and
           patterning
           their
           Perfections
           from
           a
           no-less
           sacred
           Original
           than
           the
           Fortitude
           ,
           Patience
           ,
           and
           Perseverance
           of
           the
           Primitive
           Christians
           ;
           it
           is
           a
           little
           odd
           ,
           as
           I
           may
           say
           ,
           from
           a
           Protestant
           Defender
           ,
           and
           indeed
           unlike
           himself
           ,
           after
           all
           this
           ,
           to
           lay
           so
           wretched
           ,
           so
           despicable
           ,
           and
           so
           cowardly
           a
           Condescention
           at
           their
           doors
           ;
           as
           the
           Abjuration
           of
           Gods
           Anointed
           and
           their
           native
           Soveraign
           to
           save
           a
           Stake
           ,
           a
           Cow
           ,
           a
           Farm
           ,
           or
           a
           Cottage
           .
           Aye
           ,
           but
           that
           Abjuration
           is
           but
           a
           Copy
           of
           their
           Countenance
           ,
           he
           tells
           you
           .
           Fie
           ,
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           ,
           this
           is
           worse
           and
           worse
           !
           What
           ,
           the
           Members
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           
           England's
           Communion
           so
           notoriously
           break
           a
           Gospel-precept
           ,
           as
           to
           come
           to
           a
           
             So
             help
             me
             God
          
           ,
           with
           a
           Lye
           in
           their
           mouths
           ,
           and
           a
           Reserve
           in
           their
           Hearts
           ,
           to
           play
           the
           Hypocrite
           ,
           and
           that
           too
           even
           with
           Oaths
           ;
           and
           so
           do
           so
           impious
           an
           Ill
           that
           Good
           may
           come
           of
           it
           !
           Are
           these
           the
           true
           passive
           obedient
           Sons
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           those
           unshaken
           Professors
           of
           Christianity
           ,
           the
           Martyrs
           that
           will
           be
           upon
           occasion
           under
           a
           Romish
           Tyrant
           ?
           But
           cry
           you
           mercy
           :
           Now
           I
           think
           on
           't
           better
           ,
           I
           find
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           is
           onely
           making
           room
           for
           more
           Masqueraders
           ;
           as
           he
           made
           the
           Fanaticks
           Papists
           in
           Masquerade
           ,
           so
           he
           intends
           to
           make
           the
           Protestants
           Abjurers
           in
           Masquerade
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           return
           to
           our
           Coronation-Oath
           :
           If
           the
           Members
           (
           as
           he
           says
           )
           of
           a
           Religion
           that
           professes
           against
           breach
           of
           Oaths
           ,
           shall
           yet
           swallow
           one
           against
           Conscience
           for
           the
           saving
           a
           Stake
           ,
           and
           that
           so
           inconsiderable
           a
           Stake
           as
           the
           possession
           of
           a
           Subject
           ;
           I
           suppose
           he
           will
           allow
           that
           a
           Member
           of
           a
           Religion
           that
           absolves
           Oaths
           ,
           will
           not
           stand
           out
           at
           the
           swallowing
           one
           for
           the
           securing
           so
           great
           a
           Stake
           as
           that
           of
           three
           Kingdoms
           .
           So
           that
           without
           any
           other
           Evidence
           than
           his
           own
           ,
           where
           's
           the
           obligation
           of
           an
           Oath
           ,
           or
           indeed
           the
           least
           shadow
           of
           a
           Trust
           to
           be
           reposed
           in
           a
           Popish
           Successour
           ?
        
         
           
             But
             however
             ,
             Mr.
          
           L'Estrange
           
             goes
             farther
             ,
             and
             gives
             us
             an
             Example
             of
             the
             Innocence
             and
             Indulgence
             of
             a
             Popish
             King
             ,
             in
             favour
             of
             Protestants
             ,
          
           page
           49.
           
           
             He
             acknowledges
             indeed
          
           ,
           That
           Queen
           Mary
           did
           persecute
           the
           Christians
           :
           
             And
             before
          
           ,
           page
           26.
           
             he
             yields
             with
             the
             Character
          
           ,
           That
           she
           brake
           her
           promise
           with
           the
           Norfolk
           and
           Suffolk
           Inhabitants
           ,
           and
           with
           a
           mean
           ingratitude
           to
           the
           generous
           Loyalty
           of
           that
           people
           ,
           persecuted
           and
           burnt
           those
           very
           men
           that
           gave
           her
           the
           first
           lift
           to
           the
           Crown
           .
           
             But
             though
             ,
             as
             he
             grants
             ,
             all
             this
             is
             true
             ,
             yet
             he
             says
             ,
          
           All
           Princes
           are
           not
           alike
           :
           Queen
           Mary
           persecuted
           the
           Protestants
           ;
           Henry
           the
           fourth
           of
           France
           did
           not
           so
           :
           And
           it
           is
           as
           good
           an
           Inference
           from
           the
           instance
           of
           Henry
           the
           fourth
           ,
           that
           a
           Popish
           Heir
           will
           not
           be
           a
           Persecutor
           ,
           as
           from
           that
           of
           Queen
           Mary
           that
           he
           will.
           But
           where
           the
           Popes
           Authority
           intervenes
           ,
           both
           King
           and
           People
           are
           bound
           to
           obey
           .
           And
           yet
           we
           see
           ,
           for
           all
           the
           power
           of
           the
           Pope
           and
           the
           Covenant
           of
           
             Holy
             League
          
           to
           boot
           ,
           the
           people
           of
           France
           ,
           though
           Roman
           Catholicks
           ,
           would
           not
           submit
           to
           the
           dispossessing
           of
           a
           Protestant
           Successour
           ;
           neither
           did
           that
           generous
           Prince
           upon
           the
           reconciling
           of
           himself
           afterwards
           to
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           exercise
           any
           one
           act
           of
           Tyranny
           over
           his
           Protestant
           Subjects
           :
           which
           is
           enough
           upon
           this
           point
           .
        
         
           Enough
           indeed
           ,
           unless
           there
           were
           more
           Truth
           or
           more
           Reason
           in
           't
           :
           
           For
           to
           pass
           by
           the
           Clemency
           and
           Moderation
           ,
           he
           designes
           to
           prove
           from
           the
           Example
           of
           this
           Popish
           King
           ,
           here
           's
           one
           of
           the
           most
           notorious
           falshoods
           averr'd
           that
           ever
           look'd
           Light
           i'
           th'
           face
           .
           The
           Roman
           Catholick
           people
           of
           France
           were
           so
           far
           from
           admitting
           this
           Protestant
           Successour
           to
           the
           Throne
           ,
           that
           't
           is
           recorded
           ,
           they
           shut
           their
           very
           Gates
           against
           him
           ;
           and
           so
           little
           acknowledged
           him
           their
           King
           ,
           that
           the
           Pope
           and
           the
           States
           of
           France
           were
           for
           setting
           up
           no
           less
           than
           three
           Competitors
           against
           him
           :
           nay
           ,
           there
           were
           such
           insolent
           indignities
           and
           oppositions
           offer'd
           him
           ,
           that
           the
           onely
           cause
           of
           his
           changing
           his
           Religion
           was
           ,
           that
           nothing
           less
           than
           his
           Reconciliation
           to
           the
           Romish
           Faith
           ,
           could
           gain
           him
           his
           Birthright
           and
           his
           Crown
           .
           And
           all
           this
           is
           so
           plainly
           and
           so
           amply
           testified
           from
           the
           French
           History
           ,
           that
           never
           was
           any
           Assertion
           more
           false
           than
           this
           of
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           .
           And
           then
           his
           Inference
           of
           a
           Popish
           Successours
           Lenity
           to
           the
           Protestants
           ,
           from
           the
           instance
           of
           this
           Popish
           King
           ,
           is
           the
           weakest
           and
           shallowest
           that
           ever
           any
           man
           of
           sence
           could
           have
           thought
           on
           :
           For
           this
           King
           was
           at
           best
           but
           one
           of
           Mr.
           
           L'Estrange's
           Abjurers
           in
           Masquerade
           ;
           for
           't
           is
           most
           apparent
           that
           the
           saving
           of
           his
           Stake
           ,
           his
           Crown
           ,
           not
           the
           dint
           of
           their
           Arguments
           or
           Perswasion
           ,
           the
           strength
           of
           the
           Romish
           power
           ,
           not
           that
           of
           their
           Religion
           ,
           made
           him
           a
           Convert
           .
           And
           if
           this
           King
           of
           all
           mankind
           had
           proved
           a
           Protestant
           persecutor
           ,
           he
           had
           been
           a
           Monster
           indeed
           ,
           and
           worse
           than
           a
           Nero
           ;
           for
           he
           must
           have
           acted
           quite
           contrary
           to
           the
           Dictates
           of
           his
           Soul
           and
           Conscience
           .
        
         
           Now
           more
           and
           above
           all
           this
           ,
           the
           Reader
           is
           here
           to
           take
           notice
           ,
           that
           out
           of
           all
           the
           Chronicles
           of
           all
           Ages
           ,
           and
           of
           all
           the
           Popish
           Kings
           in
           Europe
           ,
           this
           is
           the
           onely
           Popish
           Prince
           he
           has
           found
           out
           for
           an
           Example
           of
           Good-nature
           ,
           and
           a
           true
           and
           Favourer
           of
           the
           Protestants
           .
           Now
           I
           profess
           ,
           might
           I
           advise
           him
           ,
           if
           either
           the
           Popish
           Records
           afforded
           no
           other
           instance
           in
           this
           kind
           ,
           or
           his
           Reading
           could
           not
           finde
           it
           out
           ,
           he
           should
           e'en
           throw
           up
           the
           Cudgels
           and
           answer
           no
           more
           Characters
           ,
           but
           believe
           a
           Popish
           Successor's
           Cause
           either
           impossible
           to
           be
           defended
           ,
           or
           himself
           uncapable
           of
           doing
           it
           .
        
         
           But
           this
           breaking
           of
           Oaths
           still
           sticks
           in
           his
           Gizard
           ,
           and
           he
           cannot
           forbear
           another
           fling
           at
           it
           .
        
         
           Mr.
           L'E
           .
           Taking
           his
           position
           for
           granted
           ,
           that
           a
           Popish
           Prince
           is
           bound
           by
           his
           Religion
           ,
           to
           act
           contrary
           to
           his
           Oaths
           and
           Promises
           ,
           Honour
           and
           Iustice
           ,
           the
           Dictates
           of
           Nature
           ,
           the
           Laws
           of
           Nations
           ,
           and
           the
           Bonds
           of
           humane
           Society
           ;
           contrary
           to
           all
           this
           (
           I
           say
           )
           and
           to
           his
           Interest
           too
           ,
           be
           must
           be
           unman'd
           as
           well
           as
           unchristian'd
           ;
           an
           Excommunicate
           to
           humane
           Nature
           ,
           and
           excluded
           from
           all
           the
           Benefits
           and
           Offices
           of
           Mankind
           .
           It
           must
           be
           a
           strange
           digestion
           sure
           ,
           that
           can
           put
           over
           all
           other
           Impieties
           ,
           and
           turn
           the
           violation
           of
           all
           that
           is
           sacred
           in
           Nature
           into
           a
           meritorious
           Virtue
           .
        
         
           Never
           did
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           in
           all
           his
           Fardles
           of
           writing
           sum
           up
           so
           many
           Truths
           as
           in
           these
           few
           lines
           :
           For
           indeed
           (
           as
           he
           says
           )
           a
           Prince
           that
           's
           guilty
           of
           all
           this
           ,
           must
           be
           both
           unman'd
           ,
           unchristian'd
           ,
           and
           an
           Excommunicate
           to
           humane
           Nature
           ,
           &c.
           if
           the
           Gospel
           and
           Christianity
           be
           truth
           ;
           for
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           Christ
           and
           his
           Apostles
           will
           pronounce
           him
           such
           a
           one
           ,
           But
           all
           this
           while
           the
           Reader
           is
           to
           observe
           ,
           that
           this
           great
           Truth
           is
           urged
           by
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           in
           favour
           of
           his
           great
           Mecaenas
           ,
           designing
           it
           not
           so
           much
           to
           set
           this
           Brand
           upon
           a
           Popish
           Successour's
           perfidy
           in
           such
           a
           case
           ,
           as
           to
           let
           us
           understand
           't
           is
           a
           picture
           of
           a
           Popish
           Successour
           so
           strangely
           deform'd
           ,
           and
           so
           extravagantly
           monstrous
           ,
           that
           't
           is
           not
           to
           be
           
           matcht
           or
           copy'd
           in
           Flesh
           and
           Bloud
           ,
           and
           indeed
           has
           no
           being
           in
           Nature
           .
           But
           not
           to
           let
           him
           carry
           it
           off
           so
           ,
           what
           does
           he
           think
           of
           Sigismond
           King
           of
           Sweden
           ,
           crown'd
           in
           the
           year
           1580.
           who
           in
           the
           very
           exact
           parallel
           to
           our
           present
           state
           of
           England
           ,
           being
           privately
           bred
           by
           his
           Mother
           a
           Roman
           Catholick
           ,
           unknown
           to
           his
           Father
           ,
           and
           afterwards
           being
           elected
           King
           of
           Poland
           ,
           openly
           profest
           the
           Romish
           Religion
           ;
           but
           upon
           his
           Fathers
           death
           ,
           return'd
           to
           his
           Hereditary
           Swedish
           Kingdom
           :
           where
           with
           much
           difficulty
           he
           was
           received
           ;
           but
           under
           all
           the
           solemn
           conditions
           and
           engagements
           that
           could
           possibly
           be
           made
           between
           Prince
           and
           Subject
           ,
           of
           his
           maintaining
           and
           upholding
           their
           Lutheran
           Religion
           .
           But
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           no
           sooner
           were
           the
           Reins
           in
           his
           hand
           ,
           but
           with
           all
           the
           fiercest
           Career
           of
           Infidelity
           ,
           as
           if
           Hell
           drove
           him
           ,
           he
           presently
           erects
           Popish
           Churches
           ,
           places
           Popish
           Governours
           in
           all
           his
           Forts
           and
           Castles
           ,
           encourages
           and
           countenances
           no
           other
           Perswasion
           ,
           but
           striving
           by
           all
           Arts
           imaginary
           to
           bring
           in
           the
           Romish
           Religion
           .
           Upon
           this
           notorious
           Perjury
           his
           Subjects
           gave
           him
           the
           Reward
           which
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           has
           elegantly
           allow'd
           such
           Perjury
           deserv'd
           ;
           they
           excluded
           him
           from
           all
           the
           Offices
           and
           Benefits
           of
           mankind
           :
           for
           accusing
           him
           of
           breach
           of
           Faith
           and
           mischievous
           practices
           against
           the
           Government
           ,
           they
           deposed
           him
           .
           And
           this
           was
           done
           by
           Lutheran
           Protestants
           ,
           neither
           Presbyterian
           nor
           Independent
           Fanaticks
           ;
           yet
           with
           offer
           of
           crowning
           his
           Infant-son
           Vdislaus
           ,
           provided
           they
           might
           have
           the
           breeding
           of
           him
           in
           their
           own
           Belief
           ;
           which
           he
           refusing
           after
           seven
           years
           Treaties
           and
           other
           Endeavours
           for
           accommodation
           ,
           all
           in
           vain
           ,
           in
           the
           year
           1607.
           they
           crown'd
           his
           Uncle
           Charles
           the
           third
           Son
           of
           his
           Grandfather
           
             Gustavus
             Errichson
          
           .
        
         
           Now
           how
           many
           
             Bejesuited
             ,
             Fanatical
             ,
             Rebellious
             ,
             Covenanting
             ,
             Trayterous
             ,
             Holy-leaguing
             ,
             Dissenting
             Psudoprotestants
             ,
          
           would
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           have
           call'd
           these
           Lutherans
           ,
           were
           his
           Pen
           retain'd
           against
           them
           ?
           and
           what
           Volumes
           would
           he
           publish
           in
           vindication
           of
           
             Iure
             Divino
          
           and
           unalterable
           Succession
           ,
           &c.
           with
           all
           the
           Curses
           of
           Bell
           ,
           Book
           ,
           and
           Candle
           ,
           against
           them
           ,
           as
           he
           has
           done
           against
           the
           Popish
           Character
           ,
           for
           making
           so
           slight
           of
           that
           indispensable
           Duty
           ,
           
             Passive
             Obedience
          
           ;
           though
           as
           ill
           luck
           would
           have
           it
           ,
           certainly
           the
           busie
           Spirit
           of
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           was
           not
           then
           in
           the
           world
           :
           for
           there
           are
           no
           such
           vilruent
           Records
           against
           them
           either
           in
           any
           of
           the
           Historians
           of
           that
           Age
           ,
           or
           indeed
           ever
           since
           .
           Now
           one
           Remark
           I
           would
           make
           upon
           this
           Sigismond
           ,
           to
           continue
           the
           parallel
           to
           our
           Case
           :
           He
           was
           a
           Prince
           in
           his
           nature
           as
           Heroick
           as
           we
           have
           or
           can
           have
           a
           Popish
           Heir
           ,
           worthy
           of
           all
           those
           praises
           that
           either
           of
           these
           two
           Answerers
           have
           given
           the
           last
           ;
           and
           in
           short
           ,
           to
           use
           one
           of
           their
           own
           words
           ,
           
             A
             Prince
             for
             every
             thing
             else
             ,
             bating
             his
             Perswasion
             ,
             brave
             to
             admiration
             :
          
           Which
           one
           thing
           must
           more
           particularly
           witness
           for
           him
           ,
           his
           being
           elected
           King
           of
           Poland
           ,
           a
           Nation
           which
           we
           all
           know
           make
           their
           choice
           for
           a
           King
           out
           of
           the
           gallant
           ,
           famous
           ,
           and
           illustrious
           Worthies
           of
           all
           the
           Princes
           and
           Nobility
           through
           the
           whole
           Christian
           world
           .
           And
           yet
           we
           fee
           neither
           Magnanimity
           ,
           Justice
           ,
           all
           the
           Cardinal
           Vertues
           that
           adorn'd
           him
           ,
           nor
           all
           the
           promising
           Perfections
           and
           Accomplishments
           of
           Nature
           ,
           strengthen'd
           with
           all
           the
           Bonds
           of
           Protestations
           ,
           Oaths
           ,
           or
           Sacraments
           ,
           could
           hold
           the
           head-strong
           Violence
           of
           his
           Religion
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           return
           to
           Mr.
           L'Estrange
           ,
           in
           answer
           to
           the
           Character
           's
           proving
           how
           improbable
           ,
           nay
           impossible
           't
           is
           to
           suppose
           we
           may
           have
           a
           Roman
           Catholick
           King
           ,
           
             That
             shall
             discountenance
             Popery
             ,
             cherish
             Protestantism
             ,
             and
             effectually
             deter
             all
             those
             that
             shall
             endeavour
             to
             undermine
             or
             supplant
             it
             ,
          
           he
           says
           .
        
         
         
           As
           to
           the
           Influence
           ,
           which
           a
           Popish
           Suceessor
           may
           have
           upon
           Ecclesiastick
           Matters
           (
           As
           in
           the
           Character
           )
           ,
           There
           needs
           no
           more
           to
           be
           said
           in
           't
           then
           this
           ;
           that
           the
           King
           has
           been
           Gratiously
           pleased
           ,
           to
           offer
           the
           passing
           of
           any
           Bill
           for
           securing
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           without
           Barring
           or
           diverting
           the
           Succession
           .
           And
           such
           expedients
           have
           been
           also
           framed
           to
           that
           effect
           ,
           as
           have
           been
           by
           great
           Authority
           judged
           competent
           for
           the
           obviating
           of
           that
           difficulty
           .
        
         
           The
           first
           part
           of
           this
           Assertion
           ,
           all
           the
           world
           knows
           to
           be
           truth
           ▪
           but
           if
           such
           
             Competent
             Expedients
          
           have
           been
           framed
           ,
           either
           the
           Framers
           of
           them
           have
           been
           the
           Unkindest
           Men
           in
           Christendom
           ,
           or
           the
           three
           last
           Parliaments
           the
           Unluckyest
           :
           The
           first
           ,
           in
           either
           never
           producing
           or
           publishing
           those
           expedients
           for
           the
           Nations
           service
           ,
           in
           this
           time
           of
           exigence
           ,
           or
           the
           last
           in
           never
           having
           the
           good
           fortune
           to
           meet
           with
           them
           ;
           for
           if
           the
           Parliament
           at
           Oxford
           were
           not
           damnably
           mistaken
           ,
           or
           very
           lewdly
           forgetful
           ,
           they
           have
           declared
           (
           
             Nemine
             Contradicente
          
           )
           that
           neither
           they
           ,
           nor
           their
           Predecessors
           have
           ever
           heard
           or
           seen
           one
           syllable
           of
           such
           a
           
             Frame
             of
             Expedients
          
           offered
           them
           ;
           so
           that
           with
           Mr.
           Lestranges
           Pardon
           ,
           his
           above
           named
           
             Great
             Authority
          
           has
           been
           greatly
           unkind
           in
           this
           Matter
           ,
           or
           else
           their
           expedients
           were
           like
           one
           of
           the
           
             Virtuosoe's
             Engines
             never
             design'd
             for
             use
             .
          
           But
           he
           goes
           on
           .
           
             As
             to
             the
             rest
             I
             will
             not
             deny
             ,
             but
             that
             it
             is
             a
             hard
             thing
             for
             a
             Prince
             to
             teize
             and
             persecute
             a
             people
             of
             his
             own
             Religion
             ,
             purely
          
           Eonomine
           
             for
             their
             being
             so
             .
             And
             it
             is
             very
             probable
             too
             ,
             that
             he
             will
             connive
             as
             Men
             of
             that
             perswasion
             in
             many
             cases
             ,
             where
             the
             Law
             directs
             a
             Punishment
             .
             And
             what
             is
             there
             more
             in
             this
             ,
             than
             what
             has
             been
             done
             already
             more
             or
             less
             from
             the
             Date
             of
             the
             Statutes
             themselves
             to
             this
             very
             Day
             :
             And
             what
             is
             done
             by
             the
             Government
             it self
             towards
             the
          
           Nonconformists
           
             at
             this
             Instant
             !
             Where
             is
             the
             great
             Crime
             now
             ,
             (
             upon
             this
             Admittance
             )
             in
             not
             punishing
             the
          
           Papists
           ,
           
             so
             long
             as
             the
          
           Protestants
           
             are
             not
             persecuted
          
           .
        
         
           Here
           the
           Reader
           by
           the
           by
           may
           take
           notice
           ,
           that
           these
           two
           Answerers
           did
           not
           confer
           Notes
           ,
           for
           one
           says
           a
           Popish
           Successor
           will
           be
           a
           
             second
             part
          
           of
           the
           
             Immortal
             Brutus
          
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           that
           he
           will
           be
           a
           quite
           contrary
           manner
           of
           Man.
           
        
         
           But
           here
           I
           would
           beg
           Mr.
           Lestrange
           to
           explain
           himself
           :
           if
           he
           means
           by
           a
           Popish
           Successors
           
             conniving
             at
             Men
             ,
             of
             his
             own
             perswasion
             ,
          
           to
           be
           no
           larger
           an
           extent
           of
           Royal
           favor
           ,
           than
           what
           that
           party
           have
           received
           in
           the
           two
           last
           Kings
           Reigns
           ,
           the
           priviledge
           perhaps
           of
           no
           more
           than
           a
           Queens
           or
           an
           Embassadors
           private
           Chapple
           ,
           for
           the
           visible
           worship
           of
           the
           whole
           party
           throughout
           all
           England
           ,
           then
           he
           contradicts
           the
           confessions
           of
           all
           the
           late
           Popish
           Martyrs
           ,
           for
           amongst
           all
           their
           
             plot
             silence
          
           ,
           they
           unanimously
           confess
           they
           had
           a
           fair
           list
           for
           a
           Toleration
           .
           And
           in
           case
           of
           such
           a
           Toleration
           in
           the
           next
           Kings
           Reign
           ,
           under
           a
           Popish
           Successor
           ;
           wha'rs
           that
           less
           than
           Sigismunds
           erecting
           of
           Popish
           Churches
           ,
           and
           with
           them
           no
           doubt
           placing
           Popish
           Governors
           in
           all
           Forts
           and
           Castles
           ,
           Popish
           Ministers
           in
           all
           offices
           of
           trust
           ,
           with
           Popish
           Generals
           ,
           and
           Popish
           Admirals
           upon
           occasion
           ,
           encouraging
           and
           countenancing
           no
           other
           perswasion
           ,
           and
           striving
           by
           all
           Acts
           imaginary
           of
           setting
           up
           the
           Romish
           Religion
           ,
           and
           all
           this
           dayly
           pusht
           forwards
           farther
           and
           farther
           ,
           higher
           and
           higher
           by
           Degrees
           .
           Alas
           !
           the
           Character
           never
           design'd
           to
           sham
           such
           a
           ridiculous
           impossible
           supposition
           on
           the
           world
           ,
           that
           the
           Persecuting
           fury
           of
           a
           Popish
           King
           shall
           falt
           down
           upon
           us
           like
           Fire
           from
           Heaven
           ,
           all
           of
           a
           suddain
           ,
           and
           no
           less
           miraculously
           ,
           or
           that
           Popery
           or
           Arbitrary
           Power
           ,
           should
           grow
           up
           like
           
             Ionas
             Goad
          
           ,
           in
           a
           Night
           .
           Alas
           ,
           
             Smith
             field
          
           Stakes
           ,
           
             Lollards
             Towers
          
           ,
           and
           
             Inquisition
             Houses
          
           
           are
           the
           work
           of
           time
           ;
           and
           therefore
           where
           as
           yet
           ,
           open
           Hostility
           cannot
           march
           ,
           nor
           greater
           Conflagrations
           be
           attempted
           ,
           they
           must
           have
           redress
           to
           less
           Games
           in
           the
           mean
           while
           ,
           the
           use
           of
           smaller
           Fire-Brands
           ,
           and
           
             Foxes
             Tailes
          
           to
           tye
           'em
           to
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           next
           page
           he
           continues
           very
           smart
           upon
           the
           Character
           ,
           part
           of
           which
           to
           be
           better
           understood
           ,
           I
           must
           be
           forced
           to
           repeat
           .
        
         
           Char.
           Speaking
           of
           a
           Popish
           successor
           ,
           executing
           the
           Laws
           .
        
         
           A
           very
           pretty
           chimera
           ?
           which
           is
           as
           much
           as
           to
           make
           this
           Popish
           King
           the
           greatest
           Barbarian
           of
           the
           Creation
           ,
           a
           Barbarian
           ,
           that
           shall
           cherish
           and
           maintain
           the
           Dissenters
           from
           Truth
           ,
           and
           punish
           and
           condemn
           the
           pillars
           of
           Christianity
           and
           proselytes
           of
           Heaven
           :
           which
           is
           no
           other
           than
           to
           speak
           him
           the
           Basest
           of
           men
           ,
           and
           little
           less
           then
           a
           Monster
           .
           Besides
           at
           the
           same
           time
           that
           we
           suppose
           that
           King
           that
           dares
           not
           uphold
           nor
           encourage
           his
           own
           Religion
           ,
           we
           render
           him
           the
           most
           deplorable
           of
           Cowards
           ,
           a
           Coward
           so
           abject
           ,
           that
           he
           dares
           not
           be
           a
           champion
           even
           for
           his
           God.
           And
           how
           consistent
           this
           is
           with
           the
           Glory
           of
           a
           Crown'd
           Head
           ,
           and
           what
           hope
           England
           has
           of
           such
           a
           Successor
           ,
           I
           leave
           all
           men
           of
           sense
           to
           Iudge
           .
        
         
           
             Mr.
             Lestrange
          
           .
           Behold
           here
           's
           the
           upshot
           of
           his
           high
           flown
           paragraph
        
         
           [
           A
           Popish
           Prince
           that
           puts
           the
           Laws
           in
           execution
           for
           the
           punishing
           of
           Papists
           and
           for
           the
           countenancing
           and
           protecting
           of
           Protestants
           ,
           is
           little
           less
           then
           the
           basest
           of
           monsters
           .
           ]
           How
           comes
           it
           then
           that
           the
           Crown
           of
           France
           has
           not
           treated
           the
           Protestants
           there
           ,
           as
           this
           Pictur-drawer
           pronounces
           ,
           that
           a
           Popish
           Successor
           would
           treat
           his
           subjects
           here
           ?
           The
           Protestants
           have
           now
           and
           then
           been
           severely
           handled
           ,
           I
           know
           ,
           in
           France
           ,
           as
           the
           Papists
           upon
           some
           junctures
           have
           been
           in
           England
           :
           and
           now
           of
           late
           wors
           then
           usuall
           .
           All
           which
           hath
           been
           influenced
           as
           well
           by
           reasons
           of
           state
           ,
           as
           by
           impulse
           of
           Religion
           .
           But
           shall
           we
           pronounce
           the
           most
           Christian
           King
           the
           greater
           monster
           for
           his
           better
           usage
           of
           us
           &c.
           
        
         
           Now
           I
           dare
           defie
           the
           world
           to
           find
           me
           out
           that
           author
           ,
           that
           ever
           wrackt
           his
           Brains
           to
           labour
           out
           such
           mormoes
           as
           this
           ;
           a
           discourse
           soe
           intirely
           
             mal
             a
             Propos
          
           ,
           and
           altogether
           soe
           little
           to
           his
           purpose
           ;
           what
           can
           he
           intend
           ,
           or
           what
           would
           he
           argue
           from
           this
           ?
           is
           there
           any
           resemblance
           between
           the
           State
           of
           England
           and
           France
           ;
           is
           the
           French
           King
           ,
           (
           as
           the
           character
           says
           )
           bound
           
             to
             condemn
             the
             pillars
             of
             christianity
             and
             proselytes
             of
             Heaven
             ?
          
           or
           has
           he
           any
           Laws
           to
           
             put
             in
             execution
             against
             the
             Papists
             ?
          
           doe
           his
           Laws
           uphold
           no
           other
           Religion
           but
           the
           Protestant
           ,
           and
           in
           defence
           of
           that
           ,
           declare
           Popery
           Treason
           ,
           and
           oblige
           him
           to
           hang
           every
           Popish
           Priest
           in
           his
           Kingdom
           .
           Is
           there
           therefore
           the
           least
           compulsion
           upon
           him
           to
           render
           him
           that
           Barbarian
           or
           Coward
           mentioned
           in
           the
           Character
           .
           Nay
           on
           the
           quite
           contrary
           is
           not
           Popery
           there
           the
           Establisht
           Lord
           of
           the
           soyl
           ,
           and
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           only
           an
           inmate
           by
           toleration
           .
           Is
           there
           any
           more
           Hugonot
           Churches
           to
           that
           Great
           City
           Paris
           ,
           then
           one
           stragling
           one
           ,
           like
           our
           Pancras
           ,
           for
           all
           the
           Protestants
           in
           that
           Populous
           Town
           .
        
         
           And
           now
           what
           if
           Mr.
           L'estrange
           would
           bring
           no
           less
           then
           20.
           precedents
           of
           good
           natured
           French
           Kings
           that
           have
           not
           molested
           the
           Hugonots
           under
           them
           .
           Has
           not
           their
           own
           Religion
           the
           ascendant
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           does
           it
           not
           flourish
           and
           triumph
           in
           Pomp
           ,
           State
           and
           Glory
           ,
           whilst
           the
           poor
           Hugonot
           perswasion
           only
           humbly
           truckles
           beneath
           it
           ,
           and
           what
           then
           ,
           if
           their
           Royal
           mercy
           does
           not
           persecute
           the
           Protestants
           ,
           is
           there
           any
           thing
           in
           that
           mercy
           so
           monstrous
           or
           so
           unnatural
           ;
           or
           is
           their
           any
           Laws
           ,
           Restrictions
           
           or
           Clogs
           upon
           the
           French
           King
           that
           can
           give
           such
           a
           shock
           to
           the
           soul
           of
           a
           Papist
           as
           the
           Protestant
           Laws
           of
           England
           .
        
         
           I
           confess
           Mr.
           Lestrange
           in
           one
           clause
           before
           was
           much
           in
           the
           Right
           ,
           where
           he
           affirm'd
           
             the
             continuing
             a
          
           Protestant
           
             to
             the
             Eye
             of
             the
             World
             had
             been
             a
             means
             of
             gaining
             the
             point
             :
          
           and
           't
           is
           no
           less
           a
           truth
           ,
           that
           showing
           the
           Cards
           before
           the
           playing
           ,
           has
           often
           endanger'd
           the
           Game
           .
           And
           indeed
           I
           have
           heard
           some
           smart
           sort
           of
           People
           a
           little
           Satyrical
           upon
           this
           Subject
           .
           I
           remember
           a
           passage
           of
           this
           kind
           I
           read
           to'ther
           day
           ,
           being
           an
           invective
           against
           Machiavel
           for
           an
           unlucky
           Miscarriage
           in
           one
           of
           his
           great
           Designs
           ,
           which
           translated
           into
           our
           
             own
             English
          
           runs
           thus
           .
        
         
           Oh!
           that
           our
           shallow
           thoughtless
           Machiavel
           should
           have
           so
           much
           zeal
           ,
           and
           so
           little
           Brains
           to
           manage
           it
           .
           Such
           a
           Bigot
           ,
           such
           Principles
           ,
           such
           Resolution
           ,
           such
           Infatuation
           :
           Impenetrable
           to
           all
           foolish
           effeminate
           thoughts
           of
           humanity
           ;
           a
           temper
           as
           rough
           ,
           and
           as
           brutal
           as
           a
           second
           Ajax
           ,
           untainted
           with
           remorse
           or
           pitty
           ,
           that
           hates
           all
           thoughts
           of
           gratitude
           ,
           friendship
           and
           fidelity
           ,
           as
           much
           as
           Rome
           loves
           greatness
           ,
           as
           deaf
           to
           a
           Kings
           interest
           and
           a
           Kingdoms
           Groans
           ,
           as
           Romes
           own
           wish
           could
           form
           him
           .
           That
           excellent
           matchless
           engine
           for
           our
           work
           ,
           had
           not
           this
           only
           wretched
           ill
           conduct
           blasted
           all
           ,
           and
           crack't
           the
           whole
           foundation
           .
           Had
           he
           but
           play'd
           the
           sly
           and
           wise
           Ulysses
           till
           under
           his
           disguise
           he
           had
           stoln
           their
           
             fatal
             Palladium
          
           ,
           and
           left
           their
           ruind
           Troynovant
           guardianless
           and
           defenseless
           ,
           our
           Glory
           had
           been
           compleat
           .
        
         
           How
           might
           our
           great
           ,
           our
           adorable
           Machine
           have
           succeeded
           ,
           had
           not
           this
           unlucky
           Marr-al
           ruind
           it
           ?
           How
           might
           the
           reaking
           Gore
           of
           Butcher'd
           Infidels
           have
           fatten'd
           the
           Land
           ,
           and
           with
           the
           Steam
           perfumed
           the
           Skies
           ,
           and
           smelt
           sweet
           in
           the
           Nostrils
           of
           the
           Saints
           .
           We
           had
           a
           time
           ,
           we
           had
           a
           day
           ,
           a
           favourable
           smiling
           Courting
           Hour
           ,
           the
           morning
           Dawn
           to
           our
           great
           Iubile
           :
           But
           oh
           !
           that
           dear
           ,
           that
           blest
           Minute
           's
           gon
           .
           A
           Curse
           of
           all
           unthinking
           greatness
           !
           How
           might
           this
           mighty
           Hunter
           have
           pursued
           the
           glorious
           Game
           ,
           like
           the
           immortal
           Roman
           Tullia
           that
           drove
           her
           Chariot
           over
           her
           murder'd
           Fathers
           heart
           ,
           and
           Rod
           tryumphant
           o're
           the
           crackling
           Bones
           of
           Majesty
           ,
           had
           he
           not
           so
           rashly
           pull'd
           off
           the
           Vizard
           too
           soon
           ,
           thus
           senselesly
           turn'd
           up
           his
           Cask
           ,
           and
           show'd
           the
           fatal
           Face
           within
           it
           .
           And
           by
           that
           only
           accurst
           unfortunate
           Act
           ,
           waken'd
           a
           whole
           alarum'd
           Nation
           to
           snatch
           the
           Reins
           ,
           from
           this
           bold
           Rider
           ,
           and
           cry
           ,
           
             stop
             Iehu
          
           .
        
         
           
             Well
             ,
             but
             Mr.
          
           Lestrange
           ,
           
             through
             almost
             all
             his
             whole
             Pamphlet
             is
             still
             upon
             the
             impossibility
             of
          
           Popery
           ,
           and
           Arbitrary
           Powers
           
             advance
             into
          
           England
           .
           
             Page
             82.
             he
             says
          
           ,
           take
           the
           matter
           as
           they
           suppose
           it
           ,
           a
           King
           upon
           a
           Throne
           that
           's
           principled
           for
           Arbitrary
           Government
           and
           Popery
           ,
           but
           so
           clogg'd
           and
           shackled
           with
           Popular
           and
           Protestant
           Laws
           ,
           that
           if
           he
           had
           never
           so
           great
           a
           mind
           to
           't
           ,
           there
           's
           not
           one
           Subject
           in
           his
           Dominions
           ,
           that
           would
           dare
           to
           serve
           him
           in
           his
           Design
           .
        
         
           Now
           the
           King
           of
           France
           we
           see
           has
           made
           himself
           absolute
           ▪
           and
           that
           as
           I
           take
           it
           by
           the
           help
           of
           his
           Subjects
           ;
           and
           why
           English
           Men
           should
           not
           dare
           to
           do
           any
           thing
           ,
           that
           the
           French
           have
           done
           before
           them
           ,
           I
           cannot
           understand
           .
           Neither
           do
           I
           find
           ,
           but
           a
           Popish
           King
           might
           not
           only
           have
           good
           
             Irish
             Hands
          
           out
           of
           his
           Dominions
           ,
           but
           good
           
             English
             ones
          
           too
           upon
           that
           occasion
           ,
           for
           besides
           his
           Popish
           Friends
           ,
           we
           have
           but
           too
           many
           of
           all
           Religions
           ,
           but
           more
           of
           no
           Religion
           at
           all
           ,
           whose
           desperate
           Fortunes
           would
           make
           their
           hearts
           leap
           at
           so
           pleasing
           a
           motion
           ,
           and
           push
           for
           a
           change
           at
           any
           rate
           to
           fish
           in
           troubled
           Waters
           ,
           and
           that
           too
           notwithstanding
           
           
             the
             hazard
             of
             their
             Necks
             ,
             upon
             a
             Scheame
             of
             Law
             which
             he
             proposes
             Pag.
             40
             ,
             to
             be
             form'd
             for
             that
             purpose
             .
          
           Nay
           that
           Scheame
           of
           capital
           Laws
           should
           serve
           for
           an
           incentive
           to
           their
           Resolution
           ,
           and
           make
           'em
           wade
           the
           deeper
           ,
           the
           more
           unsafe
           and
           dangerous
           it
           should
           be
           to
           retire
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           foregoing
           Page
           he
           says
           ,
        
         
           Mr.
           Lest.
           that
           possibly
           there
           may
           be
           a
           Popish
           King
           that
           may
           not
           have
           the
           will
           to
           change
           the
           Government
           ,
           in
           respest
           of
           the
           immorality
           of
           inclinin
           to
           such
           a
           violation
           of
           his
           trust
           and
           word
           ,
           but
           most
           certainly
           not
           ,
           in
           regard
           of
           so
           manifest
           an
           inability
           to
           bring
           it
           to
           pass
           .
        
         
           Now
           't
           is
           evident
           the
           Plotters
           and
           Jesuites
           have
           not
           believed
           it
           such
           an
           impossible
           exploit
           ,
           and
           why
           may
           not
           a
           Prince
           of
           their
           own
           Opinion
           ,
           and
           their
           own
           Industry
           for
           Rome
           ,
           upon
           the
           presumption
           of
           whose
           principles
           and
           for
           whose
           sake
           their
           whole
           Machine
           moved
           ;
           with
           a
           Crown
           on
           his
           head
           ,
           and
           a
           Sword
           in
           his
           hand
           believe
           as
           they
           do
           ?
           So
           that
           were
           there
           a
           real
           inability
           in
           the
           case
           ,
           yet
           if
           the
           blindness
           of
           zeal
           and
           the
           over-sight
           of
           Ambition
           shall
           not
           distinguish
           that
           inability
           to
           be
           manifest
           till
           the
           event
           &
           fatal
           success
           has
           proved
           it
           so
           ,
           what
           shall
           that
           hinder
           his
           endeavors
           in
           attempting
           and
           prosecuting
           it
           ,
           and
           then
           where
           's
           the
           certainty
           of
           his
           will
           against
           it
           .
           And
           these
           endeavors
           once
           prosecuted
           amidst
           all
           the
           violent
           Inrodes
           or
           subtle
           Attaques
           that
           shall
           be
           made
           for
           Popery
           and
           Slavery
           ,
           no
           God
           ha'
           mercy
           to
           his
           Kindness
           for
           't
           ,
           it
           is
           none
           of
           his
           fault
           that
           he
           lays
           his
           Bones
           by
           the
           seige
           ,
           and
           does
           not
           live
           it
           out
           to
           put
           us
           to
           Storm
           .
        
         
           And
           I
           need
           not
           insist
           how
           far
           the
           Peace
           ,
           Prosperity
           and
           Freedom
           of
           this
           once
           flourishing
           Kingdom
           will
           suffer
           under
           such
           a
           seige
           and
           how
           far
           they
           will
           be
           dayly
           harass'd
           and
           gall'd
           with
           so
           potent
           and
           so
           pressing
           an
           Enemy
           .
           At
           best
           they
           must
           expect
           to
           have
           their
           Laws
           snapt
           asunder
           as
           often
           and
           as
           fast
           as
           Sampsons
           cords
           ,
           and
           their
           City
           gates
           in
           the
           scuffle
           twing'd
           off
           ,
           and
           if
           at
           last
           they
           play
           the
           Philistians
           ,
           and
           live
           to
           pick
           out
           both
           his
           Eyes
           for
           't
           ,
           the
           end
           of
           all
           must
           terminat
           in
           Sampsons
           fate
           ,
           they
           'll
           have
           an
           old
           heavy
           roof
           pull'd
           down
           both
           upon
           his
           head
           and
           theirs
           together
           .
        
         
           The
           next
           thing
           Mr.
           L'estrange
           falls
           foule
           upon
           ,
           are
           the
           Acts
           of
           Parliament
           recited
           in
           the
           character
           ,
           and
           here
           he
           either
           tells
           the
           Reader
           
             they
             are
             nothing
             to
             the
             characters
             purpose
             ,
          
           or
           if
           they
           are
           ,
           he
           finds
           such
           flaws
           in
           the
           Law-makers
           that
           made
           them
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           unreasonable
           ,
           and
           consequently
           void
           in
           themselves
           ,
           as
           you
           shall
           hear
           anon
           .
           And
           so
           he
           fairly
           trips
           up
           the
           heels
           of
           Kings
           ,
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           at
           once
           ,
           and
           makes
           their
           whole
           authority
           insignificant
           because
           their
           Laws
           are
           against
           Mr.
           L'estranges
           inclination
           .
        
         
           
             First
             ,
             he
             's
             very
             angry
             with
             the
             character
             ,
          
           for
           advancing
           the
           Popish
           Succesour
           first
           from
           the
           Possibility
           of
           a
           good
           man
           ,
           then
           from
           bad
           to
           wars
           ,
           and
           at
           last
           to
           a
           downright
           Traitor
           :
           and
           that
           from
           a
           statute
           of
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           ,
           that
           declares
           every
           subject
           of
           England
           ,
           that
           shall
           take
           absolution
           from
           Rome
           ,
           or
           own
           the
           ▪
           Popes
           supremacy
           ,
           or
           pay
           any
           Fealty
           to
           the
           See
           of
           Rome
           guilty
           of
           High
           Treason
           .
           
             And
             then
             he
             answers
             this
             by
             saying
             ,
          
           there
           are
           two
           provisoes
           in
           the
           Act
           that
           makes
           the
           case
           somwhat
           different
           from
           what
           the
           Characteriser
           has
           Stated
           it
           .
           viz.
           
        
         
           1
           Provided
           alway
           ,
           that
           for
           as
           much
           as
           the
           Queens
           Maiesty
           is
           otherwise
           sufficiently
           assured
           of
           the
           faith
           and
           loyalty
           of
           the
           temporal
           Lords
           of
           her
           high
           Court
           of
           Parliament
           :
           Therefore
           this
           Act
           ,
           nor
           any
           thing
           therein
           contained
           ,
           shall
           not
           extend
           to
           compell
           any
           Temporal
           Person
           ,
           of
           or
           above
           the
           degrée
           of
           a
           Baron
           of
           this
           Realm
           to
           take
           or
           pronounce
           the
           Dath
           abovesaid
           ,
           (
           viz.
           of
           Supremacy
           )
           nor
           to
           incur
           
           any
           penalty
           ,
           limited
           by
           this
           Act
           for
           not
           taking
           or
           refusing
           the
           same
           (
           &c.
           )
        
         
           2.
           
           Provided
           also
           ,
           that
           if
           any
           Péer
           of
           this
           Realm
           shall
           hereafter
           offend
           contrary
           to
           this
           Act
           ,
           or
           any
           Branch
           or
           Article
           thereof
           ,
           that
           ,
           in
           that
           and
           all
           such
           case
           and
           cases
           ,
           they
           shall
           be
           Tryed
           by
           their
           Péers
           ,
           in
           such
           manner
           and
           form
           as
           in
           other
           cases
           of
           Treasons
           they
           haue
           used
           to
           be
           tryed
           ,
           and
           by
           no
           other
           means
           .
        
         
           Now
           I
           would
           defie
           any
           impartial
           Reader
           to
           Judge
           if
           ever
           any
           thing
           was
           so
           weakly
           and
           so
           impertinently
           urged
           as
           these
           two
           Provisoes
           .
           The
           first
           tells
           you
           that
           the
           Queen
           was
           so
           assured
           of
           the
           Loyalty
           of
           her
           Nobility
           ,
           that
           she
           would
           not
           put
           them
           to
           the
           trouble
           of
           Swearing
           to
           confirm
           it
           ,
           as
           the
           Law
           required
           from
           her
           Inferior
           Subjects
           ,
           but
           on
           the
           other
           side
           the
           second
           Proviso
           tells
           us
           that
           notwithstanding
           that
           ,
           if
           any
           of
           them
           offended
           against
           the
           Law
           or
           any
           Branch
           or
           Article
           of
           it
           ,
           they
           should
           find
           no
           more
           Mercy
           than
           the
           meanest
           Commoner
           in
           her
           Kingdom
           ,
           but
           be
           equally
           Tryed
           for
           High
           Treason
           .
           Now
           what
           he
           drives
           at
           by
           this
           objection
           or
           what
           favor
           these
           Provisoes
           make
           for
           a
           Popish
           Heir
           ,
           I
           declare
           I
           cannot
           Imagine
           ,
           neither
           do
           I
           believe
           he
           knows
           himself
           .
        
         
           
             Upon
             this
             he
             comes
             to
             a
             touch
             of
             Conscience
             ,
             and
             says
          
           ;
           It
           would
           be
           well
           if
           every
           man
           that
           presses
           with
           this
           unprecedented
           rigor
           upon
           the
           Person
           here
           in
           Question
           ,
           would
           lay
           his
           hand
           upon
           his
           Heart
           ,
           and
           say
           ,
           if
           the
           King
           has
           Pardoned
           me
           Ten
           Thousand
           times
           more
           than
           this
           comes
           to
           ,
           with
           what
           reason
           or
           Conscience
           can
           I
           Importune
           His
           Majesty
           thus
           bitterly
           against
           his
           Brother
           .
        
         
           
             Ten
             Thousand
             times
             more
          
           than
           this
           comes
           to
           ,
           is
           a
           very
           great
           disproportion
           .
           But
           thus
           much
           I
           am
           certain
           ,
           for
           the
           Heir
           of
           a
           Protestant
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           the
           Son
           of
           a
           Protestant
           Martyr
           ,
           to
           be
           perverted
           to
           the
           Religion
           and
           Interest
           of
           Rome
           ,
           so
           notoriously
           destructive
           to
           the
           English
           Government
           ,
           and
           thereby
           to
           be
           the
           cause
           of
           all
           those
           Distractions
           in
           the
           Nation
           ,
           that
           tye
           up
           the
           Hearts
           and
           Hands
           of
           the
           Subject
           ,
           from
           their
           Duty
           to
           the
           best
           of
           Princes
           ,
           and
           weaken
           both
           his
           greatness
           at
           home
           ,
           and
           his
           Alliance
           abroad
           ;
           and
           not
           only
           this
           ,
           but
           to
           be
           seduced
           to
           a
           perswasion
           ,
           in
           such
           a
           juncture
           of
           Affairs
           ,
           on
           whose
           only
           score
           ,
           have
           all
           the
           late
           Conspiracies
           against
           His
           Majesties
           Sacred
           Life
           been
           contrived
           and
           animated
           ,
           This
           I
           say
           ,
           is
           bad
           enough
           ,
           but
           to
           find
           out
           a
           man
           Guilty
           of
           Ten
           Thousand
           times
           more
           than
           this
           comes
           to
           ,
           and
           Pardoned
           for
           it
           too
           ,
           is
           (
           to
           use
           his
           own
           word
           )
           to
           give
           us
           an
           Original
           of
           an
           unprecedented
           Criminal
           ,
           and
           as
           unprecedented
           Mercy
           .
           But
           if
           he
           intends
           this
           as
           a
           lash
           against
           the
           Author
           of
           the
           Character
           ,
           I
           'le
           venture
           to
           clear
           him
           ,
           for
           to
           my
           knowledge
           ,
           he
           is
           a
           Person
           so
           far
           from
           laying
           his
           hand
           on
           his
           Heart
           ,
           and
           owing
           any
           Benefit
           to
           Royal
           Pardons
           or
           Acts
           of
           Oblivion
           ,
           that
           I
           must
           say
           this
           truth
           for
           him
           .
           
             Ianuary
             48
          
           was
           past
           before
           he
           was
           Born.
           
        
         
           
             In
             the
             next
             Page
             he
             confesses
             that
             the
             Strongest
             Argument
             he
             finds
             in
             the
             whole
             Character
             is
             this
             .
             Char.
          
           if
           ever
           a
           Papist
           mounts
           this
           Throne
           ,
           then
           all
           their
           murmurs
           their
           petitions
           ,
           protesting
           and
           Association
           Votes
           will
           be
           remembred
           to
           the
           purpose
           ,
           
             upon
             which
             he
             makes
             this
             remark
             .
          
           Mr.
           L.
           Now
           what
           can
           be
           a
           greater
           Indignity
           to
           the
           Iustice
           and
           Resolution
           of
           that
           Illustrious
           Body
           (
           viz.
           
             the
             Parliament
          
           )
           then
           to
           imagine
           so
           narrow
           a
           thought
           could
           any
           way
           influence
           the
           Candor
           and
           Solemnity
           of
           their
           Debates
           .
        
         
           Yes
           ,
           indeed
           ,
           what
           greater
           indignity
           then
           to
           imagine
           it
           .
           For
           if
           as
           the
           Character
           says
           ,
           and
           Mr.
           
             Lestrange
             grants
          
           ,
           they
           will
           be
           remember'd
           to
           the
           purpose
           ,
           and
           the
           Heretick
           Dogs
           ,
           upon
           his
           mounting
           into
           the
           Throne
           may
           live
           to
           be
           hang'd
           for
           their
           Barking
           ,
           what
           greater
           indignity
           
           to
           the
           Courage
           and
           Resolution
           of
           those
           Illustrious
           Patriots
           then
           to
           imagine
           they
           'le
           slacken
           their
           Votes
           and
           Debates
           against
           a
           Popish
           Succession
           for
           fear
           of
           his
           Revenge
           .
           So
           cowardly
           a
           thought
           indeed
           (
           as
           he
           says
           )
           would
           be
           
             too
             narrow
          
           for
           the
           Souls
           of
           English
           Men.
           
        
         
           From
           this
           he
           comes
           to
           the
           main
           point
           the
           Characters
           proving
           the
           Succession
           of
           the
           English
           Crown
           to
           be
           wholly
           subjected
           to
           the
           disposal
           Determinations
           and
           Limitations
           of
           Parliament
           .
        
         
           The
           Parliament
           (
           says
           the
           Character
           )
           25
           of
           Henry
           the
           9th
           ,
           setled
           the
           Crown
           upon
           the
           Heirs
           of
           that
           Kings
           Body
           by
           Queen
           Anne
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           28
           repealed
           that
           Act
           ,
           and
           intayl'd
           the
           Succession
           upon
           the
           Heirs
           of
           his
           Body
           by
           Queen
           
             Jane
             ,
             Mary
          
           and
           Elizabeth
           being
           declared
           illegitimate
           .
           And
           in
           case
           they
           died
           without
           issue
           then
           the
           Parliament
           Empowr'd
           him
           by
           the
           same
           Act
           to
           dispose
           of
           the
           Succession
           by
           his
           own
           Letters
           Patents
           or
           his
           last
           will.
           In
           the
           35th
           .
           Year
           of
           his
           Reign
           the
           Parliament
           granted
           the
           Succession
           to
           Edward
           ,
           and
           for
           want
           of
           the
           Heirs
           of
           his
           Body
           to
           the
           Lady
           Mary
           ,
           and
           the
           Heirs
           of
           her
           Body
           ,
           and
           for
           want
           of
           such
           Heirs
           to
           the
           Lady
           Elizabeth
           ,
           under
           certain
           Limitations
           and
           Conditions
           contain'd
           in
           that
           Act.
           
        
         
           But
           to
           prove
           all
           this
           nothing
           to
           his
           purpose
           he
           makes
           these
           six
           Objections
           .
        
         
           Mr.
           Lest.
           First
           ,
           he
           says
           the
           Charasteriser
           infers
           that
           a
           Parliament
           may
           Order
           or
           Dispose
           the
           Succession
           .
           But
           whither
           they
           may
           or
           no
           ,
           here
           's
           little
           or
           nothing
           proved
           from
           these
           Citations
           .
           First
           under
           the
           ambiguity
           of
           the
           word
           Parliament
           ,
           he
           would
           have
           this
           thought
           to
           be
           the
           single
           Act
           of
           the
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           ,
           when
           the
           Enacting
           authority
           of
           it
           was
           solely
           in
           the
           King.
           
             This
             first
             Objection
             has
             more
             quibble
             than
             reason
             in
             it
             ,
             and
             deserves
             no
             serious
             Answer
             .
             For
             the
             Character
             is
             so
             far
             from
             starting
             up
             an
             Ordinance
             instead
             of
             an
             Act
             of
             Parliament
             ,
             that
             no
             man
             of
             sense
             can
             extort
             any
             such
             meaning
             from
             him
             .
          
        
         
           
             Secondly
             he
             says
          
           .
           These
           Statutes
           do
           not
           so
           properly
           transfer
           a
           Right
           ,
           as
           declare
           and
           notify
           the
           Persons
           ,
           for
           the
           prevention
           of
           disputes
           and
           competitions
           ,
           as
           appears
           by
           the
           preamble
           to
           that
           of
           the
           28th
           .
           Statute
           .
        
         
           Wherefore
           we
           your
           most
           humble
           and
           obedient
           Subiects
           ,
           in
           this
           present
           Parliament
           Assembled
           ,
           calling
           to
           our
           Remembrance
           the
           great
           Divisions
           which
           in
           times
           past
           have
           been
           in
           this
           Realm
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           several
           titles
           pretended
           to
           the
           Imperial
           Crown
           of
           this
           Realm
           .
           which
           sometimes
           and
           for
           the
           most
           part
           ensued
           ,
           by
           occasion
           of
           ambiguity
           and
           doubts
           ,
           then
           not
           so
           perfectly
           declared
           ,
           but
           that
           Men
           might
           upon
           froward
           intents
           expound
           them
           to
           every
           Mans
           sinister
           Appetite
           and
           Affection
           ,
           and
           Posterity
           of
           the
           lawful
           Kings
           and
           Emperors
           of
           this
           Realm
           ;
           whereof
           hath
           ensued
           great
           Effusion
           and
           Destruction
           of
           Mans
           Blood
           ,
           as
           well
           of
           the
           great
           Number
           of
           Nobles
           ,
           as
           of
           other
           the
           Subiects
           ,
           and
           especially
           Inheritors
           in
           the
           same
           ,
           And
           the
           greatest
           Occasion
           thereof
           hath
           been
           ,
           because
           no
           perfect
           and
           substantial
           Provision
           by
           Law
           hath
           béen
           made
           within
           this
           Realm
           it self
           :
           When
           doubts
           and
           questions
           have
           been
           moved
           and
           proponed
           of
           the
           certainty
           and
           Legality
           of
           the
           Succession
           ,
           and
           Posterity
           of
           the
           Crown
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           Mr.
           
             L
             ▪
          
           Now
           so
           far
           is
           the
           intent
           of
           this
           Act
           from
           diverting
           the
           Succession
           ,
           that
           the
           express
           end
           of
           it
           was
           the
           setting
           of
           it
           right
           ,
           by
           the
           avoidance
           of
           a
           former
           settlement
           upon
           the
           nullity
           of
           the
           Marriage
           .
           And
           afterward
           26th
           .
           of
           the
           same
           King.
           cap.
           2.
           
           The
           Act
           here
           before
           mentioned
           is
           called
           :
           
             The
             Act
             for
             the
             establishment
             of
             the
             Succession
             of
             the
             Heirs
             of
             the
             Kings
             Highness
             in
             the
             Imperial
             Crown
             of
             this
             Realm
             .
          
           Mr.
           L.
           Now
           there
           's
           a
           great
           deal
           of
           difference
           betwixt
           translating
           the
           Succession
           
           from
           the
           wrong
           to
           the
           right
           ,
           and
           the
           diverting
           it
           from
           the
           right
           to
           the
           wrong
           .
        
         
           Now
           certainly
           never
           had
           any
           objection
           less
           sense
           in
           it
           then
           this
           ,
           for
           if
           this
           Act
           impowr'd
           the
           King
           upon
           the
           failure
           of
           
             Edward
             ,
             Mary
          
           and
           Elizabeth
           ,
           to
           give
           the
           Crown
           to
           whome
           he
           pleased
           ,
           as
           really
           it
           did
           ,
           and
           that
           must
           be
           expounded
           to
           give
           it
           only
           to
           the
           
             next
             right
             Heir
          
           .
           Now
           their
           could
           be
           but
           one
           right
           Heir
           in
           the
           case
           ,
           and
           consequently
           if
           that
           right
           ought
           to
           possess
           ,
           the
           empowring
           the
           King
           ,
           to
           dispose
           of
           the
           Crown
           where
           he
           pleased
           ,
           was
           downright
           nonsense
           and
           a
           palpable
           contradiction
           in
           the
           very
           words
           .
           So
           that
           for
           instance
           had
           Henry
           the
           8th
           Upon
           presumption
           of
           this
           Act
           ,
           out
           of
           some
           particular
           inclination
           ,
           bequeath'd
           the
           Reversion
           of
           his
           Crown
           to
           a
           Tenth
           Cozen
           removed
           instead
           of
           a
           First
           ,
           and
           this
           Law
           had
           been
           to
           have
           been
           read
           by
           Mr.
           L'estranges
           Spectacles
           ,
           the
           very
           end
           they
           made
           it
           for
           ,
           (
           viz.
           )
           to
           keep
           peace
           and
           quiet
           had
           been
           utterly
           destroy'd
           ;
           for
           instead
           of
           Reconciling
           all
           differences
           between
           future
           pretenders
           ,
           and
           fixing
           the
           succession
           ,
           it
           had
           only
           given
           new
           occasions
           for
           fresh
           Feuds
           ,
           and
           so
           the
           Parliament
           had
           only
           wisely
           made
           an
           Act
           to
           ruine
           the
           very
           intent
           of
           it's
           Creation
           .
        
         
           
             Mr.
             L.
          
           Thirdly
           ,
           this
           change
           and
           disposition
           of
           settlement
           though
           it
           pased
           all
           the
           formalityes
           of
           Bill
           and
           Debate
           ,
           yet
           the
           First
           spring
           of
           it
           was
           from
           their
           certain
           knowledge
           of
           the
           Kings
           Pleasure
           to
           have
           it
           so
           ,
           without
           which
           they
           durst
           never
           have
           ventred
           on
           such
           a
           proposition
           .
        
         
           
             Mr.
             L.
          
           Fourthly
           ,
           matter
           of
           Fact
           is
           no
           proof
           of
           Right
           ,
           and
           especially
           a
           Fact
           accompanied
           with
           so
           many
           circumstances
           of
           
             cross
             Capers
          
           and
           contradictions
           ,
           as
           the
           pronouncing
           of
           the
           same
           persons
           to
           be
           both
           Illegitimate
           ,
           and
           legitimate
           ,
           &c.
           
           And
           a
           Man
           cannot
           imagine
           ,
           without
           a
           scandal
           to
           that
           Grave
           and
           Wise
           Assembly
           ,
           that
           the
           levity
           of
           those
           Councels
           and
           that
           humor
           of
           Swearing
           and
           Counter-swearing
           could
           be
           any
           other
           than
           the
           caprice
           of
           their
           new
           Head
           and
           Governor
           .
        
         
           Now
           pray
           observe
           the
           slyness
           of
           this
           slur
           he
           puts
           upon
           Majesty
           :
           He
           cunningly
           insinuates
           that
           Matter
           of
           Fact
           may
           not
           be
           Matter
           of
           Right
           ,
           and
           that
           when
           the
           
             Humor
             ,
             Caprice
          
           or
           Pleasure
           of
           a
           King
           influences
           the
           Votes
           of
           his
           Parliament
           to
           make
           it
           so
           .
        
         
           Now
           upon
           concession
           of
           Mr.
           Lestranges
           opinion
           ,
           here
           's
           a
           broad
           gate
           opened
           for
           a
           Rebellion
           ;
           for
           by
           his
           Argument
           't
           is
           but
           disallowing
           the
           rightfulness
           of
           
             Hearth
             money
          
           ,
           and
           indeed
           almost
           all
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Kings
           Revenues
           because
           the
           King
           generally
           askt
           the
           Parliament
           money
           first
           ,
           and
           so
           since
           the
           
             first
             spring
             of
             those
             grants
             were
             from
             the
             knowledge
             of
             the
             Kings
             pleasure
             to
             have
             it
             so
             ,
          
           't
           is
           but
           Mr.
           L'estranges
           denying
           the
           matter
           of
           right
           in
           this
           case
           ,
           and
           so
           he
           makes
           the
           King
           a
           Tyrant
           to
           demand
           his
           own
           ,
           and
           thereupon
           encourages
           the
           Subject
           to
           the
           most
           impudent
           undutifulness
           and
           disloyalty
           in
           nature
           .
           Now
           those
           
             cross
             Capers
          
           and
           contradictions
           ,
           as
           he
           calls
           them
           ,
           in
           declaring
           the
           same
           Persons
           one
           while
           Illegitimate
           and
           afterwards
           legitimate
           is
           one
           of
           the
           greatest
           Arguments
           that
           the
           conservation
           of
           a
           Nations
           Peace
           ,
           was
           held
           a
           greater
           piece
           of
           Conscience
           in
           that
           Age
           ,
           then
           the
           maintaining
           the
           right
           of
           Blood
           ,
           when
           Illegitimacy
           it self
           upon
           occasion
           could
           be
           restored
           to
           the
           power
           of
           Succession
           .
           Neither
           was
           there
           any
           such
           Swearing
           or
           Counter-swearing
           or
           any
           such
           levity
           (
           as
           he
           calls
           it
           )
           in
           that
           grave
           Assembly
           ,
           for
           the
           Oath
           they
           enjoyn'd
           the
           People
           in
           fidelity
           to
           the
           Kings
           Heirs
           could
           have
           no
           other
           meaning
           than
           whilst
           they
           were
           Lawfully
           so
           ,
           and
           in
           all
           Justice
           the
           Obligation
           of
           it
           expired
           in
           course
           ,
           when
           the
           Law
           declared
           
           them
           no
           longer
           such
           .
           Nor
           was
           it
           indeed
           any
           more
           than
           the
           Tenure
           of
           our
           present
           
             Oath
             of
             Allegiance
          
           ,
           in
           which
           we
           swear
           to
           be
           
             faithful
             to
             the
             King
             's
             lawful
             Heirs
             and
             Successors
             ,
          
           which
           the
           Ignorance
           of
           some
           People
           has
           used
           as
           an
           Argument
           against
           the
           changing
           of
           Succession
           ;
           as
           thinking
           they
           have
           sworn
           fealty
           to
           the
           next
           of
           Blood
           ,
           whereas
           in
           reality
           there
           's
           nothing
           in
           that
           Oath
           that
           binds
           them
           to
           the
           Person
           but
           the
           Thing
           ,
           to
           no
           particular
           Man
           any
           further
           than
           as
           he
           is
           Heir
           and
           
             Successor
             ,
             Lawfully
          
           so
           ,
           and
           no
           Man
           truly
           is
           either
           Heir
           or
           Successor
           til
           he
           Inherits
           and
           Succeeds
           ,
           and
           as
           't
           is
           most
           ridiculous
           to
           think
           the
           intent
           of
           an
           Oath
           of
           Allegiance
           is
           to
           make
           a
           Man
           Swear
           Loyalty
           to
           a
           fellow
           Subject
           ,
           as
           as
           the
           greatest
           Heir
           apparent
           is
           no
           more
           whilst
           the
           King
           Lives
           ,
           so
           the
           duty
           of
           that
           part
           of
           the
           Oath
           cannot
           necessarily
           be
           understood
           to
           commence
           or
           take
           effect
           till
           the
           present
           Kings
           death
           ,
           and
           then
           if
           in
           the
           mean
           while
           the
           absolute
           Power
           of
           the
           Land
           ,
           the
           King
           ,
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           have
           constituted
           a
           new
           Heir
           and
           Successor
           ,
           the
           obligation
           of
           that
           Oath
           of
           Allegiance
           can
           have
           no
           other
           Aspect
           ,
           then
           to
           the
           Heir
           and
           Successor
           so
           constituted
           .
        
         
           Mr.
           Lest
           ,
           fithly
           ,
           with
           Reverence
           to
           the
           utility
           and
           constitution
           of
           good
           and
           wholesome
           Laws
           ,
           it
           is
           not
           presently
           to
           Cite
           a
           statute
           and
           say
           ,
           
             there
             's
             a
             precedent
          
           ,
           for
           those
           Laws
           that
           are
           repugnant
           to
           the
           
             Light
             of
             nature
          
           and
           
             Common
             Right
          
           are
           Nullities
           in
           themselves
           .
        
         
           Now
           here
           's
           one
           of
           the
           boldest
           Master
           strokes
           of
           the
           pen
           that
           ever
           came
           in
           print
           .
           This
           point
           once
           gain'd
           ,
           all
           the
           Protestant
           Laws
           since
           the
           reformation
           ,
           and
           the
           whole
           fabrick
           of
           the
           present
           Government
           are
           totally
           subverted
           .
           'T
           is
           but
           a
           Popish
           Successors
           believing
           aud
           maintaining
           that
           all
           the
           Protestant
           Laws
           ever
           since
           Henry
           the
           8ths
           .
           perversion
           are
           against
           the
           
             light
             of
             nature
          
           ,
           and
           consequently
           
             Nullites
             in
             themselves
          
           :
           So
           down
           goes
           the
           Protestant
           Church
           ,
           up
           start
           the
           old
           Statutes
           
             de
             Haeretico
             comburendo
          
           ,
           the
           old
           
             Smith
             field
          
           Fire-works
           ,
           whilst
           Popery
           comes
           in
           in
           the
           open
           face
           of
           day
           most
           triumphantly
           introduced
           even
           by
           the
           awful
           Divinity
           of
           Law
           and
           Justice
           for
           its
           Supporters
           .
           So
           that
           after
           all
           Mr.
           Lestranges
           Vindication
           of
           the
           
             Honor
             ,
             Honesty
             ,
             Veneration
             of
             Oathes
             ,
             Performance
             of
             Laws
             ,
          
           and
           
             Preservation
             of
             the
          
           Protestant
           Religion
           in
           a
           Popish
           Successor
           ,
           he
           has
           very
           subtly
           sound
           him
           out
           an
           Evasion
           to
           be
           a
           greater
           Tyrant
           and
           Devil
           than
           the
           Author
           of
           the
           Character
           could
           paint
           him
           ,
           and
           that
           too
           with
           all
           the
           Innocence
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           even
           without
           the
           least
           Blemish
           of
           Infidelity
           .
           But
           to
           come
           a
           little
           nearer
           to
           him
           ,
           in
           the
           first
           Place
           these
           Acts
           for
           the
           settlement
           of
           the
           Crown
           were
           so
           far
           from
           being
           repugnant
           to
           the
           Light
           of
           nature
           ,
           that
           on
           the
           contrary
           't
           is
           evidently
           manifest
           that
           the
           Law-Makers
           that
           made
           e'm
           mov'd
           by
           no
           other
           Guide
           or
           Light
           but
           that
           .
           For
           since
           
             self
             Preservation
          
           is
           the
           first
           and
           greatest
           thing
           that
           the
           light
           of
           nature
           teaches
           all
           Mankind
           ,
           the
           very
           preamble
           to
           the
           Acts
           confirm
           us
           that
           
             the
             preservation
             of
             themselves
             and
             their
             Heirs
             in
             Peace
             and
             Tranquillity
             ,
             and
             to
             avoid
             the
             future
             Effusion
             of
          
           English
           Blood
           ,
           was
           the
           sole
           End
           and
           Design
           of
           those
           Acts.
           
        
         
           Secondly
           these
           Acts
           have
           nothing
           repugnant
           or
           destructive
           of
           common
           right
           .
           For
           if
           by
           common
           right
           ,
           he
           implies
           a
           right
           to
           any
           possession
           or
           pretension
           derived
           from
           human
           Power
           and
           the
           Laws
           of
           Man
           ,
           then
           't
           is
           plain
           by
           the
           Constitution
           of
           our
           Government
           ,
           where
           our
           Laws
           are
           not
           like
           these
           of
           the
           Medes
           and
           Persians
           ,
           that
           the
           Law-makers
           that
           gave
           can
           take
           ,
           and
           in
           that
           respect
           there
           's
           no
           right
           so
           firm
           ,
           which
           the
           absolute
           Power
           of
           the
           Law
           lying
           in
           the
           three
           States
           in
           Parliament
           cannot
           shake
           .
           
           But
           if
           by
           common
           right
           he
           means
           a
           right
           derived
           from
           the
           Laws
           or
           Commands
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           therefore
           those
           Acts
           of
           Parliament
           are
           nullities
           in
           themselves
           ,
           because
           repugnant
           to
           the
           Rules
           and
           Duty
           of
           Christianity
           .
           Then
           he
           would
           do
           well
           to
           tell
           us
           when
           that
           Law
           of
           God
           was
           made
           or
           that
           Command
           given
           .
           But
           that
           there
           is
           no
           such
           Law
           nor
           any
           such
           Rules
           of
           Christianity
           is
           plainly
           to
           be
           demonstrated
           from
           the
           most
           eminent
           precedents
           of
           holy
           writ
           ;
           where
           we
           find
           proximity
           of
           blood
           has
           been
           so
           far
           from
           challenging
           that
           unalterable
           Right
           of
           Empire
           that
           on
           the
           other
           side
           there
           have
           been
           several
           Changes
           of
           Kings
           made
           in
           that
           case
           even
           amongst
           Gods
           own
           People
           and
           that
           always
           by
           his
           Consent
           ,
           and
           sometimes
           by
           his
           special
           Order
           .
           Besides
           if
           any
           such
           Law
           of
           God
           had
           been
           made
           ,
           and
           left
           us
           in
           holy
           Scripture
           ,
           't
           is
           certain
           that
           Law
           ought
           to
           have
           no
           more
           obligation
           over
           one
           Christian
           Kingdom
           than
           another
           ,
           and
           then
           consequently
           Venice
           and
           Holland
           that
           have
           no
           Kings
           at
           all
           ,
           and
           Poland
           that
           always
           elect
           their
           Kings
           ,
           by
           Mr.
           Lestranges
           Inference
           live
           Age
           after
           Age
           in
           continual
           Violation
           of
           Common
           Right
           ,
           the
           Duty
           of
           Christians
           ,
           and
           the
           Laws
           of
           God.
           I
           do
           confess
           I
           have
           heard
           of
           a
           Command
           of
           Christ
           that
           says
           ,
           
             Let
             every
             Soule
             be
             subject
             unto
             the
             higher
             Powers
             ;
             for
             there
             is
             no
             Power
             but
             of
             God
             ;
             whosoever
             therefore
             resisteth
             the
             Power
             resisteth
             the
             Ordinance
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             they
             that
             resist
             shall
             receive
             to
             themselves
             Damnation
          
           ;
           and
           therefore
           if
           the
           higher
           Powers
           of
           England
           the
           King
           ,
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           are
           an
           Ordinance
           of
           God
           too
           ,
           it
           is
           an
           Article
           of
           my
           Creed
           ,
           That
           he
           that
           denies
           their
           Authority
           and
           Power
           ,
           and
           not
           content
           with
           that
           only
           ,
           endeavors
           to
           perswade
           and
           seduce
           the
           rest
           of
           his
           fellow
           subjects
           to
           the
           same
           denial
           is
           not
           only
           a
           Traitor
           to
           his
           Country
           ,
           but
           from
           Christs
           own
           Sentence
           shall
           receive
           ,
           if
           possibly
           ,
           a
           double
           Portion
           of
           Damnation
           .
        
         
           But
           now
           for
           his
           Sixth
           Observation
           on
           this
           Statute
           .
        
         
           
             Mr.
             L.
          
           Lastly
           he
           brings
           instance
           here
           to
           prove
           that
           a
           Parliament
           may
           divert
           the
           succession
           ,
           but
           he
           shows
           withal
           ,
           that
           there
           can
           be
           no
           security
           even
           in
           that
           Exclusion
           ,
           showing
           that
           what
           one
           Parliament
           does
           another
           may
           undo
           ,
           so
           that
           now
           we
           are
           upon
           equall
           Tearms
           of
           security
           or
           hazard
           ,
           either
           in
           the
           exclusion
           of
           the
           successor
           or
           in
           restraining
           him
           ,
           for
           if
           he
           be
           tyed
           up
           by
           one
           Parliament
           ,
           another
           may
           set
           him
           at
           Liberty
           ;
           and
           if
           he
           be
           excluded
           by
           one
           Parliament
           ,
           another
           may
           take
           him
           in
           again
           .
        
         
           Now
           certainly
           this
           is
           the
           most
           comical
           humor
           I
           ever
           met
           with
           ,
           to
           advise
           a
           Parliament
           to
           have
           a
           care
           of
           excluding
           a
           Papist
           for
           fear
           another
           Parliament
           restore
           him
           .
           Perswade
           e'm
           to
           fear
           that
           once
           ,
           and
           make
           e'm
           Jealous
           of
           fancyes
           and
           Chimeras
           indeed
           .
           But
           to
           dissipate
           all
           shadows
           of
           any
           such
           dangers
           ,
           there
           are
           some
           heads
           as
           wise
           as
           Mr.
           L'estranges
           (
           no
           disparagment
           )
           that
           are
           of
           opinion
           if
           one
           English
           Parliament
           once
           exclude
           a
           Popish
           successor
           we
           may
           safely
           defy
           Five
           Hundred
           Parliaments
           afterwards
           to
           restore
           him
           .
           The
           disinheriting
           of
           a
           Popish
           successor
           being
           a
           kind
           of
           Limbus
           ,
           that
           if
           we
           have
           once
           got
           him
           into
           it
           ,
           't
           is
           damnable
           odds
           that
           all
           the
           intrest
           of
           Rome
           with
           Ten
           Millions
           of
           Masses
           never
           get
           him
           out
           of
           it
           .
           I
           must
           confess
           if
           we
           could
           have
           a
           Parliament
           of
           Mr.
           L'estranges
           particular
           choosing
           ,
           the
           Consistory
           of
           Cardinals
           for
           the
           House
           of
           Lords
           ,
           and
           
             St
             Omers
             Colledge
          
           for
           the
           House
           of
           Commons
           much
           might
           be
           ;
           but
           till
           then
           we
           are
           pretty
           safe
           in
           that
           point
           .
        
         
           But
           amongst
           all
           Mr.
           L'estranges
           despicable
           thoughts
           of
           the
           Decrees
           and
           power
           of
           Parliaments
           in
           Henry
           the
           Eight's
           days
           ,
           he
           clearly
           forgets
           to
           answer
           that
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           of
           Queen
           Elizabeths
           mentioned
           in
           the
           Character
           ,
           in
           which
           't
           was
           made
           Treason
           for
           any
           man
           to
           affirm
           that
           the
           
           disposal
           of
           the
           Imperial
           Crown
           of
           England
           lay
           not
           in
           the
           Queen
           and
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           indeed
           that
           Act
           comes
           so
           near
           the
           present
           face
           of
           the
           affairs
           in
           England
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           made
           upon
           the
           selfe
           same
           occasion
           ,
           that
           the
           Bill
           of
           Exclusion
           was
           endeavour'd
           by
           the
           late
           Parliaments
           ,
           
             (
             viz.
          
           )
           with
           an
           intention
           of
           putting
           by
           
             Mary
             Queen
             of
             Scots
          
           the
           then
           next
           Popish
           Heir
           from
           the
           Succession
           ,
           had
           not
           her
           Conspiracy
           against
           the
           Life
           of
           the
           Queen
           ,
           put
           an
           end
           to
           all
           farther
           care
           ,
           by
           the
           forefeiture
           of
           her
           head
           .
           But
           these
           Six
           Objections
           with
           the
           help
           of
           
             Common
             Right
          
           and
           the
           
             Light
             of
             Nature
          
           may
           serve
           to
           answer
           both
           ;
           and
           truly
           Mr.
           L'estrange
           has
           given
           us
           the
           top
           of
           his
           Politicks
           ,
           and
           the
           utmost
           strength
           of
           his
           Reason
           for
           the
           defence
           of
           a
           Popish
           Successor
           ,
           in
           opposition
           even
           to
           the
           Supreme
           Authority
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           and
           against
           all
           the
           precedents
           of
           Laws
           and
           History
           .
           But
           alas
           !
           what
           signifies
           Supreme
           Authority
           ,
           Presidents
           ,
           Laws
           ,
           &c.
           
           There
           's
           nothing
           so
           sacred
           which
           stands
           in
           their
           way
           ,
           that
           the
           Champions
           of
           Rome
           must
           not
           endeavor
           to
           overthrow
           ,
           and
           when
           the
           Popish
           Interest
           cries
           Halloo
           ,
           they
           must
           Bark
           at
           least
           though
           they
           cannot
           Bite
           .
           Now
           't
           is
           plainly
           to
           be
           discovered
           at
           what
           Foundation
           he
           strikes
           ,
           by
           lessening
           and
           enfeebling
           the
           Legislative
           Power
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           and
           though
           he
           wisely
           lays
           the
           Scene
           at
           such
           distance
           as
           the
           remoter
           Age
           of
           Henry
           the
           8th
           ,
           yet
           we
           understand
           where
           he
           aims
           the
           lash
           he
           gives
           ,
           and
           what
           Gall
           his
           Ink's
           made
           of
           .
           But
           truly
           in
           his
           Remarks
           and
           Reflections
           upon
           the
           Capriches
           (
           as
           he
           calls
           them
           )
           of
           Henry
           the
           8th
           ,
           with
           the
           weakness
           of
           his
           great
           Council
           ,
           the
           shallowness
           of
           their
           Debates
           ,
           and
           the
           invalidity
           of
           their
           decrees
           ,
           he
           chooses
           the
           safer
           Subject
           .
           The
           Majesty
           he
           reviles
           ,
           and
           the
           Authority
           he
           ridicules
           ,
           being
           so
           long
           since
           inoffensive
           Dust
           and
           Ashes
           ,
           that
           he
           has
           this
           Reason
           for
           his
           Boldness
           ,
           and
           this
           shield
           for
           his
           Defence
           .
           
             
               Nulli
               gravis
               est
               percussus
               Achilles
               .
            
          
        
         
           But
           to
           answer
           those
           strait-laced
           Consciences
           that
           so
           vehemently
           maintain
           and
           assert
           Succession
           to
           be
           
             Iure
             Divino
          
           ,
           and
           cannot
           be
           alter'd
           by
           any
           human
           Laws
           ,
           I
           will
           put
           this
           instance
           .
        
         
           Suppose
           a
           King
           has
           two
           Sons
           ,
           the
           eldest
           of
           which
           ,
           ambitious
           of
           a
           Crown
           ,
           and
           mislead
           by
           the
           ill
           Counsel
           of
           his
           Priests
           ,
           favourites
           or
           the
           like
           ,
           conspires
           to
           depose
           his
           Father
           ,
           and
           in
           Order
           thereunto
           ,
           confederates
           with
           some
           neighbouring
           Monarch
           ;
           who
           upon
           assurance
           given
           him
           ,
           by
           this
           Aspirer
           of
           resigning
           of
           some
           part
           of
           his
           Dominions
           to
           him
           ,
           or
           becoming
           tributary
           to
           him
           ,
           furnishes
           him
           with
           Money
           and
           Men
           ,
           by
           which
           assistance
           he
           flies
           out
           into
           an
           open
           Rebellion
           against
           his
           Father
           ,
           upon
           w
           ch
           the
           Father
           commissions
           his
           younger
           Son
           to
           fight
           this
           Rebel
           Prince
           ,
           who
           beats
           him
           ,
           and
           makes
           him
           fly
           out
           of
           his
           fathers
           Dominions
           to
           that
           confederate
           neighbours
           Protection
           ,
           upon
           which
           the
           King
           with
           the
           unanimous
           consent
           of
           his
           loyal
           Subjects
           passes
           an
           Act
           for
           a
           total
           Exclusion
           of
           the
           Elder
           son
           from
           the
           Crown
           ,
           and
           to
           place
           the
           Succession
           in
           the
           younger
           .
           Now
           will
           any
           Man
           say
           that
           this
           is
           not
           warrantable
           and
           just
           both
           by
           the
           Laws
           of
           God
           and
           Man.
           For
           if
           it
           be
           unwarantable
           ,
           and
           that
           this
           Rebel
           Prince
           must
           still
           suceeed
           ,
           then
           consider
           what
           follows
           .
        
         
           Frst
           ,
           here
           's
           a
           manifest
           obstructing
           of
           the
           distribution
           of
           the
           greatest
           Justice
           both
           human
           and
           divine
           .
           For
           whilst
           this
           Prince
           continues
           safe
           by
           his
           Flight
           ,
           and
           his
           forreign
           Protection
           ,
           from
           any
           personal
           Sufferance
           for
           his
           Crimes
           ,
           and
           at
           the
           same
           time
           't
           is
           granted
           he
           cannot
           suffer
           in
           his
           
           Birthright
           ,
           then
           this
           indispensable
           continuation
           of
           succession
           confers
           the
           greatest
           Earthly
           felicity
           and
           reward
           viz.
           a
           Diadem
           on
           the
           greatest
           of
           Criminals
           ,
           one
           Doubly
           a
           Traitor
           not
           only
           against
           the
           Lords
           anointed
           ,
           but
           even
           to
           the
           Fountain
           of
           his
           own
           Royal
           Blood
           ,
           and
           the
           Author
           of
           his
           being
           ,
           a
           Father
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ;
           it
           makes
           crown'd
           Heads
           the
           most
           miserable
           State
           of
           all
           man
           kind
           ;
           nay
           they
           are
           below
           the
           meanest
           Peasant
           in
           their
           Kingdoms
           :
           For
           the
           vengeance
           of
           a
           Subject
           ,
           having
           the
           Power
           to
           disinherit
           ,
           shall
           persue
           a
           Rebel
           son
           even
           to
           the
           
             East
             Indies
          
           ,
           whilst
           a
           King
           ,
           who
           they
           say
           ,
           
             has
             ,
             or
             should
             have
             long
             hands
          
           shall
           notwith
           all
           his
           thunder
           reach
           the
           worst
           of
           rebels
           cross
           the
           next
           Sea
           ,
           or
           perhaps
           the
           next
           County
           .
           So
           that
           where
           's
           their
           boasting
           themselves
           to
           be
           Gods
           Vicegerents
           ,
           when
           they
           alone
           of
           all
           Men
           are
           most
           debarred
           that
           greatest
           Prerogative
           of
           a
           Diety
           ,
           REVENGE
           .
        
         
           3d
           ,
           By
           this
           means
           Majesty
           that
           should
           be
           most
           sacred
           ,
           and
           the
           person
           of
           it
           most
           religiously
           guarded
           ,
           and
           defended
           ,
           lies
           more
           exposed
           than
           all
           Mankind
           besides
           ,
           for
           if
           it
           be
           true
           that
           .
           
             
               Filius
               ante
               diem
               patrios
               inquirit
               in
               annos
               .
            
          
        
         
           And
           the
           lust
           of
           Inheritance
           makes
           the
           Blood
           of
           the
           Impatient
           Heir
           boil
           high
           for
           possession
           ,
           then
           't
           is
           most
           true
           ,
           where
           the
           Inheritance
           is
           Greatest
           ,
           and
           the
           Temptation
           Strongest
           ,
           as
           in
           the
           case
           of
           a
           Crown
           ,
           that
           there
           the
           Blood
           boiles
           highest
           .
           And
           if
           so
           ,
           and
           Birth-right
           be
           still
           unforfitable
           ,
           then
           to
           the
           strongest
           Temptation
           here
           's
           the
           least
           danger
           ,
           and
           the
           greatest
           Encouragement
           for
           gratifying
           that
           lust
           ,
           and
           accomplishing
           all
           such
           tempting
           desires
           .
           So
           that
           upon
           this
           position
           ,
           who
           so
           arm'd
           for
           a
           Traitor
           as
           he
           that
           's
           Born
           to
           a
           Crown
           ,
           and
           who
           so
           unsafe
           as
           he
           that
           wears
           it
           .
           But
           surely
           't
           is
           inconsistant
           with
           that
           particular
           care
           ,
           that
           God
           takes
           for
           the
           Preservation
           of
           Kings
           ,
           to
           entail
           that
           
             Ius
             Divinum
          
           upon
           them
           ,
           that
           places
           them
           infra
           
             statum
             Humanum
          
           .
        
         
           However
           to
           give
           a
           little
           clearer
           light
           into
           this
           great
           point
           of
           Succession
           I
           shall
           trouble
           my
           Reader
           with
           one
           instance
           more
           .
        
         
           It
           cannot
           be
           disputed
           but
           that
           either
           
             Queen
             Mary
          
           or
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           did
           succeed
           to
           the
           Imperial
           Crown
           of
           England
           not
           by
           
             Divine
             Right
          
           of
           Succession
           ,
           since
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           was
           Born
           whilst
           Queen
           Katharine
           the
           Mother
           of
           Queen
           Mary
           was
           living
           ,
           but
           one
           of
           them
           must
           undoubtedly
           enjoy
           the
           Crown
           
             Iure
             Parliamentario
          
           :
           if
           the
           latter
           ,
           (
           as
           cannot
           be
           denyed
           )
           and
           that
           Succession
           is
           
             Iure
             Divino
          
           ,
           then
           she
           was
           an
           Usurpess
           upon
           the
           Right
           of
           the
           House
           of
           Scotland
           :
           and
           what
           then
           is
           the
           consequence
           of
           all
           this
           !
        
         
           First
           ,
           it
           shakes
           ,
           and
           strikes
           at
           the
           Foundation
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           which
           derives
           all
           its
           Power
           and
           Authority
           from
           the
           Crown
           which
           began
           in
           King
           Henry
           the
           8ths
           ,
           and
           were
           more
           fully
           confirmd
           by
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           ,
           and
           therefore
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           was
           setled
           by
           a
           Princess
           
             de
             facto
          
           and
           not
           
             de
             jure
          
           ,
           insomuch
           that
           it
           undermines
           the
           very
           basis
           of
           the
           Hierarchy
           and
           Ecclesiastick
           power
           ,
           and
           the
           order
           of
           the
           whole
           Clergy
           ,
           who
           derive
           their
           Distinctions
           and
           Ordinations
           from
           that
           Queen
           .
        
         
           2ly
           .
           It
           may
           call
           in
           Question
           all
           the
           Grants
           of
           that
           Queen
           ,
           which
           have
           not
           been
           confirmed
           by
           the
           Scottish
           Line
           ,
           and
           destroy
           the
           many
           and
           great
           Priviledges
           conferr'd
           on
           both
           the
           Universities
           .
        
         
         
           3ly
           .
           According
           to
           the
           Rule
           of
           
             Ius
             Divinum
          
           it
           may
           raise
           a
           Question
           hereafter
           of
           what
           validity
           those
           Honors
           are
           which
           that
           Queen
           was
           pleased
           to
           confer
           upon
           several
           great
           and
           eminent
           Families
           .
        
         
           Lastly
           it
           would
           well
           become
           many
           worthy
           and
           learned
           Men
           seriously
           to
           consider
           whether
           they
           do
           not
           labor
           to
           do
           the
           Work
           and
           Drudgery
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           who
           assert
           so
           fatal
           a
           Principle
           ,
           whereby
           they
           make
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           an
           Usurpress
           ,
           and
           build
           the
           superstructure
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           the
           right
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           the
           Legality
           of
           the
           whole
           Clergy
           of
           England
           ,
           upon
           such
           a
           sandy
           and
           ruinous
           Foundation
           as
           the
           High
           and
           Mighty
           
             Ius
             Divinum
          
           .
           But
           if
           we
           will
           allow
           that
           Princess
           our
           lawful
           Queen
           ,
           which
           I
           hope
           no
           Man
           will
           have
           the
           Impudence
           to
           deny
           ,
           then
           the
           disposal
           of
           the
           Crown
           by
           Parliament
           is
           just
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           
             Ius
             Divinum
          
           that
           lay
           buried
           44
           Years
           together
           must
           make
           a
           Resurrection
           in
           our
           present
           Distractions
           of
           England
           ,
           and
           both
           Honor
           and
           Conscience
           render
           an
           exclusion
           Bill
           unlawful
           ,
           how
           came
           the
           proposition
           of
           making
           a
           Popish
           Successor
           but
           a
           
             Nominal
             Prince
          
           ,
           and
           setling
           the
           Administration
           in
           Protestant
           hands
           :
           If
           that
           may
           be
           ,
           then
           here
           's
           
             Ius
             Divinum
          
           quite
           laid
           aside
           :
           for
           Divine
           Right
           of
           Birth
           entitles
           a
           Prince
           to
           the
           power
           as
           well
           as
           the
           name
           of
           a
           King
           ,
           and
           if
           that
           right
           be
           sacred
           and
           inviolable
           ,
           no
           one
           part
           of
           it
           more
           than
           another
           ought
           or
           can
           lawfully
           be
           alienated
           .
           But
           if
           the
           
             greatest
             part
          
           of
           it
           be
           by
           the
           
             greatest
             Authority
          
           allow'd
           
             justly
             Alienable
          
           by
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           there
           's
           an
           end
           of
           all
           Divine
           Right
           ,
           and
           a
           concession
           of
           the
           Iurisdiction
           of
           Parliaments
           ,
           insomuch
           that
           if
           they
           may
           legally
           take
           away
           the
           Kernel
           ,
           and
           leave
           only
           the
           Husk
           of
           Succession
           ,
           by
           the
           same
           Authority
           they
           may
           as
           well
           take
           away
           both
           :
           and
           a
           total
           Exclusion
           is
           no
           more
           repugnant
           to
           Honor
           or
           Conscience
           then
           an
           Exclusion
           
             in
             part
          
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           any
           Man
           has
           a
           curiosity
           to
           examine
           the
           Effects
           of
           Exclusions
           
             in
             part
             ,
             viz.
          
           Limitations
           and
           Restrictions
           that
           have
           been
           put
           upon
           the
           English
           Crown
           ,
           I
           will
           only
           advise
           him
           cursorly
           to
           run
           over
           the
           contests
           between
           King
           Iohn
           and
           the
           
             Barons
             ;
             Henry
          
           the
           
             3d
             ,
             Edward
          
           the
           2d
           ,
           and
           Richard
           the
           2d
           and
           their
           Barons
           ,
           and
           the
           troubles
           of
           Henry
           the
           6th
           ,
           and
           the
           several
           Agreements
           made
           between
           him
           and
           the
           D.
           of
           York
           ,
           and
           he
           'le
           easily
           satisfie
           himself
           that
           notwithstanding
           the
           several
           Agreements
           Restraints
           and
           Limitations
           put
           upon
           the
           Crown
           ,
           and
           those
           confirm'd
           not
           only
           by
           Acts
           of
           Parliament
           but
           solemnly
           ratifyed
           in
           the
           Face
           of
           Heaven
           by
           many
           Oaths
           and
           dreadful
           Excommunications
           by
           the
           Church
           ,
           yet
           none
           ever
           held
           :
           but
           so
           soon
           as
           those
           Parliaments
           were
           dissolved
           ,
           or
           the
           first
           opportunity
           or
           advantage
           happen'd
           ,
           those
           Kings
           by
           the
           ill
           advice
           of
           their
           Favourites
           and
           Minions
           broke
           all
           ,
           whereupon
           both
           parties
           flying
           to
           Arms
           ,
           the
           King
           accusing
           them
           of
           Treason
           ,
           and
           they
           Him
           of
           Perjury
           ,
           the
           rise
           of
           all
           those
           long
           and
           bloody
           Civil
           Wars
           had
           no
           other
           ground
           but
           this
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           back
           his
           last
           six
           Arguments
           in
           defence
           of
           the
           Succession
           we
           find
           him
           for
           the
           next
           three
           or
           four
           Pages
           together
           corroborating
           his
           Opinion
           with
           the
           practice
           of
           the
           primitive
           Christians
           .
           First
           he
           tells
           you
           
             'tis
             a
             Gospel
             precept
             not
             to
             do
             ill
             that
             good
             may
             come
             of
             it
             ,
             such
             as
             the
             unwarrantable
             devesting
             of
             a
             Prince
             of
             his
             Birthright
             though
             for
             any
             safety
             or
             preservation
             whatever
             .
             So
             that
             in
             the
             case
             of
          
           England
           
             supposing
             it
             would
             come
             at
             last
             to
             a
             down-right
             persecution
             under
             a
          
           Popish
           
             Successor
             ,
             yet
             to
             stand
             upon
             our
          
           Guards
           
             to
             prevent
             it
             would
             be
             more
             than
             ever
             the
             primitive
             Christians
             did
             under
             the
             
             ten
             Persecutions
             ;
             and
             we
             have
             not
             only
             their
             Example
             but
             their
             express
             Doctrine
             against
             it
             .
          
           And
           therefore
           (
           as
           he
           says
           in
           another
           place
           )
           
             't
             is
             our
             Duty
             to
             bless
             God
             for
             the
             Peace
             and
             Happiness
             we
             now
             enjoy
             ,
             and
             rather
             wait
             his
             farther
             pleasure
             with
             thankfulness
             and
             resignation
             ,
             then
             with
             murmuring
             and
             a●●trust
             to
             Anticipate
             future
             Evils
             and
             Prejudge
             Providences
             to
             come
             .
          
        
         
           Now
           never
           was
           any
           thing
           more
           plausibly
           managed
           to
           so
           little
           purpose
           ,
           for
           the
           Correspondence
           between
           ours
           and
           the
           primitive
           Christians
           case
           is
           here
           so
           incoherently
           Ballanced
           ,
           that
           never
           were
           Arguments
           more
           Sophistical
           .
           The
           primitive
           Christians
           preacht
           Obedience
           to
           Nero
           ,
           yes
           ,
           and
           they
           had
           forfeited
           their
           Christianity
           if
           they
           had
           done
           otherwise
           ,
           but
           what
           was
           that
           Nero
           ,
           an
           absolute
           Monarch
           :
           and
           what
           those
           primitive
           Bishops
           ?
           not
           such
           as
           ours
           ,
           they
           were
           not
           a
           part
           of
           the
           Legislative
           Power
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           as
           our
           Prelates
           are
           .
           If
           Nero
           invented
           Wracks
           ,
           Tortures
           and
           Gibbets
           for
           persecuting
           or
           murdering
           the
           poor
           Christians
           ,
           he
           did
           it
           by
           his
           own
           uncontroulable
           Authority
           ,
           nor
           were
           those
           primitive
           Bishops
           call'd
           to
           make
           Laws
           ,
           and
           therefore
           had
           not
           the
           lawful
           power
           of
           the
           least
           Vote
           in
           Moderation
           of
           Neroes
           Cruelty
           ,
           or
           in
           Redress
           of
           the
           Christians
           Torments
           .
           I
           am
           sure
           if
           they
           had
           had
           any
           such
           voting
           or
           law-making
           Power
           ,
           and
           yet
           out
           of
           a
           base
           principle
           of
           cowardly
           Fear
           on
           one
           side
           ,
           and
           like
           fordid
           Sycophants
           out
           of
           a
           servile
           Flattery
           of
           Neroes
           barbarous
           Inclinations
           on
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           had
           neglected
           the
           means
           ,
           (
           as
           much
           as
           in
           them
           lay
           )
           of
           preventing
           those
           Persecutions
           ,
           they
           had
           been
           rather
           Wolves
           then
           Shepherds
           over
           the
           flock
           of
           Christ
           ,
           and
           Accessaries
           to
           all
           those
           Butcheries
           that
           Nero
           committed
           against
           them
           .
           For
           not
           to
           oppose
           where
           opposition
           is
           lawful
           ,
           is
           to
           permit
           ,
           and
           to
           permit
           is
           to
           Act.
           So
           that
           there
           would
           not
           have
           been
           that
           Engine
           made
           to
           rend
           the
           Tortured
           Christians
           Bones
           ,
           that
           they
           them selves
           in
           so
           doing
           had
           not
           lent
           a
           helping
           hand
           to
           the
           winding
           of
           it
           up
           .
           Nor
           is
           it
           to
           be
           doubted
           but
           that
           if
           those
           Primitive
           Prelates
           had
           had
           those
           Sacred
           Recorded
           Statutes
           ,
           those
           Royal
           decrees
           ,
           Presidents
           and
           Laws
           before
           'em
           ,
           wherin
           the
           disposal
           of
           the
           Crown
           under
           which
           they
           lived
           had
           lain
           in
           the
           Absolute
           Power
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           it
           being
           declared
           no
           less
           then
           Treason
           to
           deny
           it
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           Kingdoms
           safety
           in
           despight
           of
           Birth-right
           had
           sometimes
           Authorized
           the
           change
           of
           the
           Sucession
           ;
           had
           these
           Prelates
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           lived
           under
           such
           a
           Government
           ,
           and
           at
           the
           same
           time
           sat
           at
           the
           Helm
           like
           ours
           ,
           it
           is
           to
           be
           presumed
           upon
           the
           certain
           prospect
           of
           a
           next
           Successor
           of
           known
           Principles
           of
           Barbarity
           and
           persecution
           ,
           with
           the
           Innate
           implacable
           inveteracy
           against
           Christians
           and
           Christianity
           ;
           they
           would
           boldly
           and
           unanimously
           have
           endeavored
           and
           Voted
           for
           his
           Removal
           ,
           and
           whatever
           Obedience
           they
           Preacht
           to
           a
           
             Nero
             upon
          
           a
           Throne
           ,
           they
           would
           have
           thought
           it
           neither
           an
           Obligation
           of
           Conscience
           or
           Christianity
           to
           have
           lent
           their
           Assistance
           to
           the
           mounting
           a
           
             Nero
             into
          
           a
           Throne
           .
           So
           that
           't
           is
           more
           than
           likely
           under
           such
           a
           Power
           and
           such
           Circumstances
           they
           would
           have
           stood
           upon
           their
           Guards
           ,
           (
           as
           the
           Character
           says
           )
           against
           so
           dangerous
           and
           so
           fatal
           a
           Succession
           ;
           not
           stood
           upon
           their
           Guards
           ,
           as
           Mr.
           Lestrange
           interprets
           it
           ,
           
             with
             their
             Swords
             in
             their
             hands
             ,
          
           but
           as
           the
           Author
           meant
           it
           ,
           with
           their
           Eyes
           and
           Tongues
           in
           their
           heads
           and
           resolution
           in
           their
           Soules
           ,
           to
           see
           the
           real
           dangers
           themselves
           and
           their
           Religion
           are
           in
           ,
           and
           to
           propose
           and
           provide
           all
           lawful
           and
           necessary
           means
           to
           prevent
           them
           .
        
         
           Nor
           would
           they
           upon
           second
           thoughts
           with
           Mr.
           Lestranges
           tender
           
           Conscience
           have
           judged
           this
           legal
           &
           manly
           Resolution
           in
           defence
           of
           their
           Religion
           to
           fall
           under
           the
           Premunire
           mention'd
           in
           the
           3d.
           P.
           of
           his
           Book
           ,
           
             a
             Prostituting
             of
             their
             Soules
             to
             save
             their
             Skins
             and
             Fortunes
             .
          
           This
           I
           am
           sure
           ,
           they
           could
           never
           with
           Reason
           or
           Religion
           have
           judged
           it
           any
           such
           Prostitution
           ,
           but
           if
           they
           had
           made
           Religion
           and
           Conscience
           the
           Pretence
           to
           judge
           it
           so
           ,
           and
           thereupon
           had
           directed
           and
           managed
           all
           their
           
             Studies
             ,
             Labors
             ,
             Endeavors
             ,
             Votings
             ,
             Preachings
             ,
             Insinuations
          
           and
           Encouragements
           for
           the
           Establishment
           of
           such
           a
           Successor
           ,
           they
           might
           very
           seasonably
           fall
           under
           as
           severe
           a
           scandal
           ,
           and
           I
           am
           sure
           as
           justly
           deserved
           ,
           as
           what
           Mr.
           Lestrange
           has
           given
           the
           Fanaticks
           under
           the
           Name
           of
           
             Papists
             in
             Masquerade
          
           ;
           for
           in
           this
           case
           the
           wiser
           part
           of
           the
           World
           would
           have
           shrewdly
           suspected
           they
           had
           been
           more
           Heathens
           in
           Masquerade
           ,
           than
           Christians
           .
        
         
           Neither
           is
           there
           (
           by
           Mr.
           Lestranges
           Permission
           )
           that
           incumbent
           Duty
           upon
           Christianity
           ,
           to
           be
           so
           wholly
           employ'd
           in
           blessing
           God
           for
           our
           present
           Peace
           and
           Prosperity
           ,
           as
           to
           wait
           his
           farther
           Pleasure
           and
           Providences
           to
           come
           with
           so
           intire
           a
           Resignation
           ,
           till
           we
           neglect
           a
           lawful
           Preservation
           when
           approaching
           Ruine
           threatens
           us
           ;
           he
           that
           by
           the
           Blessing
           of
           God
           stands
           upon
           the
           firm
           Shore
           and
           sees
           that
           terrible
           and
           unusual
           Torrent
           come
           rowling
           on
           ,
           which
           in
           Probability
           may
           break
           the
           banks
           and
           drown
           him
           ,
           is
           so
           far
           from
           being
           oblidged
           to
           an
           idle
           standing
           still
           ,
           and
           a
           resignation
           to
           the
           will
           of
           Providence
           ,
           whether
           the
           Innundation
           shall
           break
           in
           ,
           and
           he
           sink
           or
           swim
           :
           That
           if
           he
           miscarries
           by
           that
           idle
           neglect
           of
           himself
           ,
           it
           will
           not
           at
           all
           clear
           him
           from
           being
           accessary
           to
           his
           own
           destruction
           ,
           (
           and
           therefore
           answerable
           for
           it
           )
           by
           excusing
           himself
           to
           God
           ,
           and
           saying
           ,
           Lord
           ,
           I
           submitted
           to
           thy
           pleasure
           .
        
         
           From
           this
           we
           come
           to
           the
           Characters
           Doctrin
           of
           
             Passive
             Obedience
          
           ,
           which
           the
           Character
           avows
           may
           be
           laid
           aside
           under
           the
           Tyranny
           of
           a
           Popish
           Succession
           ;
           in
           answer
           to
           which
           we
           have
           Mr.
           L'estrange
           very
           severe
           against
           him
           ,
           for
           so
           bold
           and
           so
           dangerous
           a
           position
           ,
           and
           perhaps
           if
           there
           be
           any
           glimpse
           of
           Reason
           throughout
           his
           whole
           answer
           't
           is
           there
           ;
           but
           however
           that
           the
           Authors
           Opinion
           may
           not
           appear
           so
           strangely
           enormous
           ,
           nor
           his
           position
           so
           wholly
           destructive
           to
           Government
           ,
           and
           so
           opposite
           to
           Christianity
           ,
           as
           his
           answer
           would
           render
           it
           ;
           let
           us
           venture
           to
           make
           a
           little
           explanation
           of
           the
           Character
           .
           First
           then
           to
           distinguish
           what
           that
           Tyranny
           is
           which
           he
           justifies
           we
           may
           lawfully
           oppose
           ,
           and
           what
           Invasion
           that
           ,
           we
           may
           justly
           repel
           ,
           I
           must
           refer
           the
           Reader
           to
           the
           Character
           page
           22d
           .
        
         
           
             Char.
             What
             does
             this
             Popish
             King
             by
             admitting
             the
             Popes
             Supremacy
             ,
             but
             divest
             himself
             of
             half
             his
             Royalty
             ,
             whilst
             like
             the
             Junior
             King
             of
             Brentford
             in
             the
             play
             he
             resigns
             and
             alienates
             the
             Right
             hand
             power
             of
             Majesty
             to
             an
             Invader
             and
             Usurper
             ;
             and
             thus
             we
             are
             enslaved
             by
             a
             medley
             Government
             betwixt
             Tyranny
             and
             Usurpation
             .
             and
             again
             .
             
               page
               6.
            
             
          
        
         
           
             Char.
             If
             he
             be
             a
             Man
             of
             Justice
             that
             still
             makes
             for
             Rome
             ,
             for
             whilst
             he
             believes
             the
             Pope
             to
             be
             Christs
             lawful
             Vicar
             ,
             and
             that
             Office
             includes
             the
             Ecclesiastick
             Supremacy
             ,
             no
             doubt
             but
             he
             'le
             think
             it
             as
             much
             the
             duty
             of
             his
             Christianity
             to
             give
             the
             Pope
             his
             right
             as
             to
             take
             his
             own
             .
             So
             that
             upon
             this
             supposition
             of
             the
             Popes
             Supremacy
             restored
             ,
             the
             Author
             has
             stated
             both
             our
             Tyrants
             and
             our
             Slavery
             .
          
           But
           to
           return
           to
           Mr.
           
             L'estrange
             .
             page
             73.
          
           
        
         
           Mr.
           L.
           In
           our
           Oath
           of
           Supremacy
           we
           swear
           that
           the
           King
           is
           the
           ONLY
           
           SUPREME
           ,
           Governor
           SUPREME
           ,
           so
           none
           ,
           (
           not
           the
           Pope
           )
           above
           him
           ,
           and
           ONLY
           SUPREME
           ,
           so
           none
           coordinate
           or
           equal
           with
           him
           .
        
         
           If
           so
           ,
           and
           the
           King
           is
           Supreme
           Governor
           Ecclesiastick
           and
           Civil
           ,
           and
           a
           Popish
           King
           notwithstanding
           shall
           alienate
           half
           his
           Supremacy
           to
           the
           Pope
           ,
           then
           the
           Pope
           is
           co-King
           with
           him
           ;
           and
           that
           it
           may
           not
           be
           objected
           that
           Supream
           
             Ecclesiastick
             Power
          
           is
           not
           
             Kingly
             Power
          
           ,
           where
           the
           Highest
           and
           
             last
             Appeal
          
           lyes
           ,
           there
           lyes
           
             Royal
             Power
          
           ,
           and
           therefore
           whilst
           the
           highest
           and
           last
           appeal
           in
           all
           causes
           Ecclesiastick
           ,
           in
           such
           a
           Government
           is
           lodged
           in
           the
           Pope
           his
           Power
           is
           Royal.
           For
           it
           would
           be
           very
           absurd
           to
           say
           that
           a
           Supreme
           Moderator
           in
           causes
           betwixt
           
             Man
             and
             Man
          
           should
           be
           a
           Kingly
           Governor
           ,
           and
           a
           Supreme
           Moderator
           in
           causes
           between
           
             God
             and
             Man
          
           should
           be
           none
           .
           That
           were
           to
           place
           a
           Majesty
           in
           that
           Authority
           that
           says
           
             Thou
             shalt
             not
             steal
          
           ,
           and
           none
           in
           that
           that
           says
           
             Thou
             shalt
             have
             no
             other
             Gods
             but
             me
             .
          
           'T
           is
           true
           the
           Pope
           to
           mince
           the
           matter
           ,
           and
           to
           Sham
           upon
           those
           Romish
           Kings
           that
           Admit
           of
           his
           Church
           Supremacy
           ,
           very
           cunningly
           usurps
           the
           Prerogative
           without
           the
           Name
           ,
           and
           therefore
           wherever
           he
           is
           Supream
           Iudge
           ,
           he
           lets
           the
           Temporal
           Soveraignty
           be
           still
           the
           Supream
           Sheriff
           ,
           for
           whereever
           his
           Tribunal
           condemns
           ,
           the
           Popish
           King
           is
           
             Hangman
             Generalissimo
          
           to
           execute
           .
           Yet
           still
           in
           reality
           his
           Power
           is
           never
           the
           less
           Kingly
           ,
           when
           we
           see
           that
           this
           Popish
           Executioner
           under
           him
           ,
           is
           so
           far
           from
           the
           Exercise
           of
           any
           Regal
           Authority
           in
           his
           Sheriffalty
           ,
           that
           he
           's
           but
           a
           substitute
           of
           the
           Popes
           ,
           and
           accountable
           to
           the
           Pope
           for
           the
           least
           neglect
           or
           misdemeanor
           in
           his
           office
           of
           that
           kind
           ,
           so
           that
           the
           reestablishment
           of
           the
           Popes
           Supremacy
           here
           ,
           is
           setting
           up
           a
           new
           Kingly
           Power
           .
           But
           by
           what
           Title
           ?
           None
           .
           For
           granting
           his
           Supremacy
           of
           old
           was
           his
           right
           whilst
           he
           possest
           it
           ,
           yet
           considering
           that
           right
           has
           been
           lost
           above
           a
           Hundred
           years
           together
           ,
           by
           the
           Laws
           of
           Conquest
           't
           is
           now
           wholly
           expired
           ,
           and
           he
           can
           lay
           no
           more
           claim
           or
           pretence
           to
           't
           after
           so
           long
           an
           alienation
           ,
           then
           the
           Christians
           to
           Constantinople
           ,
           or
           the
           Danes
           or
           Saxons
           to
           England
           .
           Now
           't
           is
           a
           known
           Maxim
           in
           England
           that
           a
           King
           of
           himself
           cannot
           give
           ,
           sell
           ,
           or
           alienate
           all
           ,
           or
           part
           of
           his
           hereditary
           Soveraign
           Power
           ,
           neither
           can
           he
           any
           more
           restore
           the
           Pope
           (
           out
           of
           a
           freak
           of
           conscience
           )
           to
           his
           Supremacy
           ,
           or
           his
           Abby
           Lubbers
           to
           their
           old
           fat
           pastures
           ,
           then
           he
           can
           say
           to
           the
           Duke
           of
           Saxony
           ,
           Sir
           ,
           lay
           claim
           to
           half
           England
           and
           't
           is
           yours
           ,
           and
           therefore
           land
           a
           colony
           in
           the
           West
           of
           England
           ,
           and
           Crown
           your self
           King
           there
           ,
           whilst
           I
           content
           my self
           with
           the
           Soveraignty
           of
           York-shire
           ,
           and
           two
           or
           three
           more
           Northern
           Counties
           about
           it
           .
           Nay
           suppose
           a
           King
           should
           say
           so
           ,
           and
           this
           Saxon
           Prince
           upon
           that
           presumption
           should
           come
           ,
           and
           make
           a
           Seisure
           ,
           there
           's
           never
           a
           Subject
           in
           England
           ,
           notwithstanding
           their
           Lawful
           Soveraigns
           special
           Gommand
           to
           them
           to
           yeeld
           Obedience
           to
           this
           usurping
           invading
           Saxon
           ,
           that
           may
           not
           justly
           and
           with
           a
           safe
           Conscience
           oppose
           this
           Invader
           ,
           and
           shoot
           him
           though
           the
           heart
           at
           the
           very
           first
           step
           he
           makes
           into
           England
           .
           For
           whatever
           passive
           Obedience
           is
           due
           to
           our
           Native
           Prince
           we
           have
           none
           due
           to
           a
           
             Forreign
             Invader
          
           .
           So
           likewise
           't
           is
           a
           plain
           case
           that
           the
           Popes
           Supremacy
           entring
           into
           England
           is
           an
           Invading
           and
           Usurping
           Royalty
           .
           For
           though
           we
           are
           bound
           to
           pay
           fealty
           ,
           to
           what
           ever
           
             Deputies
             ,
             Viceroys
          
           ,
           or
           Subministers
           the
           King
           shall
           Ordain
           or
           Institute
           under
           him
           ,
           yet
           the
           Popes
           Supremacy
           cannot
           come
           under
           that
           name
           ,
           for
           it
           ceases
           to
           be
           Supream
           if
           there
           be
           
           a
           Power
           above
           it
           .
           So
           that
           whenever
           the
           King
           shall
           say
           to
           the
           Pope
           assume
           your
           Prerogative
           ,
           there
           's
           never
           a
           Subject
           of
           England
           ,
           that
           may
           not
           by
           violence
           rescue
           an
           Heretick
           from
           a
           Stake
           that
           's
           condemn'd
           by
           that
           Prerogative
           ,
           or
           any
           delegated
           Authority
           from
           the
           Usurped
           Supremacy
           of
           the
           Pope
           ,
           nay
           if
           they
           burn
           the
           very
           Tribunal
           about
           those
           Jesuitish
           Judges
           eares
           that
           pronounced
           that
           Hereticks
           Condemnation
           ,
           they
           may
           Iustify
           the
           Fact
           both
           to
           their
           King
           and
           their
           God.
           
        
         
           The
           
             Papist
             in
             Masquerade
          
           draws
           now
           near
           to
           a
           Conclusion
           ,
           and
           gives
           the
           Characteriser
           a
           dead
           doing
           blow
           at
           last
           stroke
           ,
           by
           the
           Argument
           raised
           against
           the
           Characters
           position
           ,
           
             that
             Kings
             were
             made
             for
             the
             People
             ,
             and
             not
             the
             People
             for
             the
             Kings
             .
          
           Though
           by
           the
           way
           the
           Characterisers
           assertion
           is
           not
           only
           one
           Drs.
           opinion
           ;
           for
           if
           he
           will
           allow
           King
           Iames
           to
           have
           as
           much
           sense
           as
           himself
           ,
           we
           shall
           find
           him
           ,
           (
           if
           we
           may
           take
           his
           Royal
           word
           for
           't
           )
           a
           little
           leaning
           towards
           the
           Characters
           side
           ,
           witness
           this
           clause
           in
           one
           of
           his
           Speeches
           in
           Parliament
           .
           
             Anno
             1603.
          
           
        
         
           As
           I
           am
           a
           Head
           and
           Governor
           of
           all
           the
           People
           in
           my
           Dominions
           ,
           who
           are
           my
           natural
           Vassals
           and
           Subjects
           considering
           them
           in
           number
           and
           distinct
           Ranks
           ;
           so
           if
           we
           take
           the
           People
           as
           one
           Body
           and
           Mass
           ,
           then
           as
           the
           Head
           is
           ordeind
           for
           the
           Body
           ,
           and
           not
           the
           Body
           for
           the
           Head
           ,
           so
           must
           a
           righteous
           King
           know
           himself
           to
           be
           ordain'd
           for
           his
           People
           ,
           and
           not
           his
           People
           for
           him
           ;
           for
           though
           a
           King
           and
           his
           People
           be
           Relata
           ,
           yet
           can
           he
           be
           no
           King
           if
           he
           want
           People
           and
           Subjects
           ;
           but
           there
           be
           many
           People
           in
           the
           World
           that
           lack
           a
           Head
           ,
           &c
        
         
           But
           no
           matter
           for
           all
           this
           ,
           Kings
           are
           but
           Men
           ,
           and
           this
           human
           Error
           of
           King
           Iames
           ,
           must
           not
           dare
           to
           oppose
           the
           more
           sacred
           Authority
           of
           Mr.
           Lestrange
           .
           For
           to
           bafflle
           this
           gross
           Mistake
           of
           them
           both
           ,
           he
           continues
           ,
        
         
           
             But
             after
             all
             these
             Words
             ,
             to
             shew
             that
             Government
             originally
             was
             not
             popular
             ,
             I
             shall
             add
             a
             few
             more
             to
             prove
             the
             Institution
             of
             it
             to
             be
             purely
             Divine
             ;
             which
             Opinion
             ,
             in
             truth
             ,
             needs
             not
             any
             other
             support
             then
             the
             Authority
             of
             the
             holy
             Scriptures
             .
          
           By
           me
           Kings
           reighn
           &c.
           I
           have
           made
           the
           Earth
           ,
           the
           Man
           ,
           and
           the
           Beasts
           that
           are
           upon
           the
           Ground
           by
           my
           great
           Power
           ,
           and
           my
           Out-stretch'd
           Arm
           ,
           and
           have
           given
           it
           to
           whom
           it
           seem'd
           meet
           unto
           me
           Ier.
           27th
           .
           5.
           
        
         
           Now
           I
           cannot
           find
           by
           this
           Text
           :
           
             By
             me
             Kings
             raighn
          
           &c.
           
           But
           that
           by
           me
           Subjects
           possess
           their
           lawful
           Inheritances
           might
           claim
           the
           same
           right
           .
           For
           an
           Empire
           to
           a
           Monarch
           and
           a
           Lordship
           to
           a
           Subject
           ,
           a
           Naboths
           Vineyard
           ,
           or
           an
           Ahabs
           Kingdom
           are
           equally
           the
           Gift
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           by
           our
           Authors
           reasons
           may
           equally
           pretend
           to
           a
           
             Divine
             Iustitution
          
           .
           Neither
           is
           there
           so
           much
           Support
           as
           he
           calls
           it
           in
           this
           holy
           Authority
           ,
           but
           I
           can
           match
           it
           with
           another
           as
           holy
           and
           as
           much
           to
           his
           purpose
           ,
           which
           tells
           us
           ,
           
             not
             a
             Sparrow
             falls
             to
             the
             Ground
             without
             the
             will
             of
             my
             Father
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           Now
           if
           no
           King
           reighns
           without
           him
           ,
           and
           no
           Sparrow
           falls
           without
           him
           ;
           a
           Manmight
           ask
           him
           why
           the
           holy
           Authority
           of
           this
           last
           Text
           might
           not
           make
           the
           falling
           of
           a
           Sparrow
           have
           as
           much
           of
           divine
           Institution
           in
           it
           as
           the
           Enthroning
           of
           a
           Monarch
           .
           Nor
           can
           I
           perceive
           that
           there
           lies
           so
           much
           stress
           in
           
             Gods
             giving
             the
             Government
             of
             the
             Earth
             ,
             Man
             ,
             and
             Beasts
             to
             whom
             it
             seem'd
             Meet
             to
             him
             ,
          
           as
           to
           Nebuchadnezar
           in
           the
           Text
           ,
           but
           that
           a
           
             MENE
             ,
             MENE
             ,
             TEKEL
             ,
             UPHARZIN
             ,
          
           written
           by
           the
           Almighties
           own
           hand
           against
           his
           impious
           Heir
           ,
           the
           
             sacrilegious
             Idolatrous
             Balshazar
          
           was
           as
           much
           the
           Word
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           had
           as
           much
           
             divine
             Institution
          
           in
           it
           as
           by
           
             me
             Kings
             raign
          
           .
           But
           to
           proceed
           in
           our
           Authors
           argument
           .
        
         
           Mr.
           L.
           That
           which
           we
           now
           call
           Kingly
           Government
           was
           at
           First
           called
           
           Paternal
           ,
           and
           after
           Patriarchal
           &c.
           
           And
           we
           sind
           by
           the
           powers
           they
           excercised
           
             &c.
             
             And
             so
             he
             advances
             in
             a
             Florid
             Descant
             upon
             this
             Subject
             till
             he
             lodges
             the
             first
          
           Paternal
           Kingly
           
             Government
             in
             Adam
          
           .
        
         
           Here
           you
           may
           perceive
           he
           's
           harping
           at
           the
           old
           
             Iure
             Divino
          
           ,
           but
           I
           shall
           wave
           that
           point
           of
           dispute
           ,
           and
           even
           with
           granting
           his
           supposition
           true
           ,
           out
           of
           his
           own
           opinion
           invalidate
           the
           chief
           argument
           of
           all
           his
           discourse
           ,
           and
           the
           Fundamental
           Design
           of
           his
           whole
           pamphlet
           ,
           
             (
             viz
             :
             )
             Unalterable
             Right
             of
             Succession
             .
          
           If
           then
           (
           as
           he
           says
           )
           the
           Patriarchall
           power
           was
           Kingly
           ,
           how
           comes
           it
           to
           pass
           that
           Esau
           forfeited
           his
           Royal
           Inheritance
           ?
           and
           Iacob
           his
           younger
           Brother
           got
           it
           from
           him
           ;
           nay
           the
           alienation
           of
           his
           Birthright
           (
           as
           Regal
           and
           as
           Divine
           as
           our
           Masquerader
           would
           have
           it
           ,
           )
           was
           transferd
           to
           the
           younger
           Brother
           even
           by
           God
           himself
           ,
           and
           that
           too
           (
           as
           we
           read
           in
           Gods
           promis
           to
           the
           Mother
           )
           before
           they
           were
           born
           .
           Nay
           though
           the
           Father
           Isaac
           had
           no
           prejudice
           against
           Esau
           ,
           but
           resolved
           to
           make
           him
           his
           Heir
           ,
           and
           accordingly
           sent
           him
           for
           venison
           to
           cherish
           his
           heart
           ,
           that
           he
           might
           receive
           his
           Blessing
           and
           with
           it
           the
           Assurance
           of
           his
           Inheritance
           ;
           yet
           when
           Iacob
           by
           Artifice
           ,
           and
           his
           Brothers
           borrowed
           Name
           had
           deceived
           the
           Father
           ,
           and
           extorted
           the
           Blessing
           ,
           we
           find
           the
           grant
           of
           his
           Inheritance
           ,
           though
           fraudulently
           obtain'd
           was
           so
           far
           from
           being
           retracted
           ,
           that
           the
           Fathers
           promise
           and
           word
           even
           to
           the
           
             Counterfeit
             Esau
          
           was
           more
           sacred
           ,
           then
           all
           the
           formidable
           ties
           of
           Blood
           ,
           and
           the
           inviolable
           Right
           of
           Succession
           .
           Now
           I
           hope
           ,
           our
           wise
           Author
           will
           not
           quarrel
           with
           Isaacs
           Injustice
           and
           appeal
           to
           the
           
             Light
             of
             Nature
          
           and
           
             Common
             Right
          
           for
           the
           Redress
           of
           Esaus
           wrongs
           .
           Perhaps
           it
           may
           be
           objected
           rhat
           Esau
           sold
           his
           Birth-right
           foolishly
           for
           a
           
             Mess
             of
             Pottage
          
           ,
           though
           that
           we
           find
           had
           no
           influence
           on
           Isaacs
           Determination
           ,
           yet
           if
           a
           
             Royal
             Birth-right
          
           could
           be
           sold
           or
           forfeited
           either
           by
           the
           Folly
           or
           Fault
           of
           the
           Heir
           ,
           where
           's
           SUCCESSION
           ?
           and
           if
           in
           our
           present
           State
           of
           England
           we
           have
           an
           Heir
           of
           those
           corrupted
           Principles
           ,
           and
           that
           depraved
           Infatuation
           ,
           till
           he
           has
           prodigally
           forfeited
           his
           Fathers
           and
           his
           Grand-Fathers
           Blessings
           ,
           the
           one
           having
           sealed
           the
           Protestant
           Faith
           with
           his
           Blood
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           having
           particularly
           entayl'd
           a
           curse
           upon
           all
           his
           Progeny
           that
           should
           ever
           Apostatise
           from
           the
           Protestant
           Truth
           to
           the
           Popish
           Superstition
           ,
           if
           we
           have
           an
           Heir
           so
           bewitcht
           by
           the
           Charms
           of
           Rome
           ,
           which
           like
           the
           Syrens
           songs
           can
           convert
           Reason
           into
           Madness
           ,
           or
           rather
           like
           Circes
           Bowles
           transform
           Men
           into
           Swine
           ,
           why
           not
           the
           Prodigals
           fare
           the
           husks
           ,
           a
           more
           proper
           Reward
           from
           him
           ,
           than
           a
           
             Coronation
             Festival
          
           .
           This
           I
           am
           certain
           ,
           if
           he
           had
           Esaus
           Fate
           ,
           the
           Blessing
           and
           Inheritance
           should
           go
           together
           .
        
         
           I
           shall
           only
           instance
           one
           particular
           more
           out
           of
           holy
           Writt
           ,
           I
           hope
           his
           &c.
           in
           the
           last
           Paragraph
           will
           allow
           the
           Iudges
           of
           Israel
           were
           a
           Kingly
           Power
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Patriarchal
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           may
           indeed
           appear
           so
           ,
           we
           find
           their
           Government
           the
           most
           agreeing
           with
           the
           present
           Monarchy
           of
           England
           ,
           for
           they
           had
           the
           Power
           of
           Life
           and
           
             Death
             ,
             Peace
          
           and
           War
           in
           their
           Prerogative
           ,
           but
           then
           as
           a
           Restriction
           against
           Absolute
           and
           Arbitrary
           power
           ,
           (
           like
           our
           Common
           and
           Ecclesiastick
           Laws
           )
           their
           Constitution
           of
           Government
           was
           limited
           and
           confined
           withing
           the
           establisht
           and
           recorded
           
             Mosaick
             Law
          
           which
           was
           the
           ultimate
           Verge
           of
           their
           Jurisdiction
           both
           Civil
           and
           Spiritual
           .
           Now
           here
           in
           the
           case
           of
           Samuel
           Judge
           of
           Isreal
           we
           find
           him
           parting
           with
           his
           Royalty
           and
           conferring
           it
           upon
           his
           two
           Sons
           even
           in
           his
           own
           Life
           time
           :
           after
           that
           we
           find
           the
           Israelites
           disgusted
           against
           
           their
           ill
           Government
           and
           asking
           for
           a
           King
           ,
           that
           is
           such
           a
           King
           as
           
             those
             of
             the
             Nations
             round
             about
             e'm
             ,
             viz.
          
           an
           
             Absolute
             Monarch
          
           .
           And
           upon
           this
           Saul
           stept
           up
           into
           the
           Throne
           .
           Now
           here
           we
           may
           observe
           there
           was
           so
           little
           Regard
           had
           to
           the
           Right
           of
           Succession
           that
           their
           lawful
           Judges
           even
           after
           possession
           were
           divested
           of
           their
           Royal
           Dignity
           ,
           and
           that
           too
           (
           mark
           it
           )
           not
           only
           upon
           the
           
             Peoples
             Request
          
           ,
           but
           even
           by
           a
           Command
           from
           the
           immediate
           Voice
           of
           God
           ,
           without
           the
           lest
           Reflection
           of
           the
           Duty
           of
           
             passive
             Obedience
          
           to
           Samuels
           Sons
           those
           corrupted
           Judges
           of
           Isreal
           .
           And
           though
           it
           may
           be
           objected
           that
           God
           was
           angry
           with
           the
           Children
           of
           Israel
           for
           their
           desires
           of
           Change
           ,
           in
           that
           they
           had
           follow'd
           other
           Gods
           ,
           and
           that
           this
           asking
           for
           a
           King
           as
           we
           read
           )
           look'd
           like
           rejecting
           of
           him
           that
           had
           brought
           e'm
           out
           of
           Egypt
           ,
           and
           deliver'd
           them
           from
           the
           Hands
           of
           their
           Enemies
           ,
           yet
           since
           God
           complyed
           with
           that
           desire
           ,
           no
           Man
           must
           say
           ,
           this
           Change
           was
           unlawful
           or
           the
           removal
           of
           their
           Royal
           Judges
           unjust
           .
           But
           in
           Answer
           to
           all
           this
           ,
           our
           Masquerader
           will
           not
           want
           a
           Justification
           for
           the
           unalterable
           Right
           of
           Succession
           ,
           nay
           rather
           than
           stand
           out
           at
           a
           dead
           Lift
           hee
           'll
           start
           you
           up
           a
           common
           Right
           and
           a
           Light
           of
           Nature
           that
           upon
           occasion
           shall
           supersede
           even
           the
           Records
           of
           Scripture
           and
           the
           very
           immediate
           Acts
           of
           God.
           Nay
           we
           find
           ,
           after
           the
           Constitution
           of
           that
           more
           absolute
           Iewish
           Monarchy
           which
           began
           in
           Saul
           ,
           that
           his
           very
           next
           Successor
           was
           a
           Stranger
           to
           his
           Blood
           ,
           a
           Man
           of
           a
           quite
           different
           Family
           ;
           in
           so
           much
           that
           David
           the
           
             Man
             after
             Gods
             own
             heart
          
           ,
           a
           man
           so
           eminently
           beloved
           of
           the
           Almighty
           ,
           that
           from
           his
           Loyns
           the
           promis'd
           Messias
           should
           procceed
           ,
           was
           a
           Prince
           so
           far
           from
           owing
           his
           Crown
           to
           the
           Right
           of
           Birth
           and
           Blood
           ,
           that
           he
           was
           anointed
           King
           even
           in
           his
           Predecessors
           life
           in
           spight
           of
           the
           Greater
           sons
           of
           Saul
           those
           nearer
           and
           juster
           pretenders
           to
           the
           Crown
           had
           Birth-right
           given
           e'm
           title
           to
           it
           .
           But
           so
           Early
           a
           sea-mark
           did
           God
           set
           up
           against
           that
           fatal
           Rock
           ,
           
             unalterable
             Succession
          
           ;
           and
           so
           timely
           a
           care
           did
           the
           great
           Founder
           of
           Empires
           ,
           the
           Divine
           Omnipotence
           take
           ,
           to
           show
           that
           the
           Dispensations
           of
           Majesty
           for
           his
           
             Peoples
             good
          
           and
           his
           own
           Glory
           ,
           were
           to
           be
           preferr'd
           before
           the
           Soveraignty
           of
           Birth
           ,
           that
           blinder
           gift
           of
           Chance
           .
           But
           to
           come
           a
           little
           down
           to
           our
           own
           age
           ,
           even
           in
           all
           our
           latest
           Modern
           constitutions
           of
           Monarchy
           ,
           and
           that
           not
           only
           in
           England
           but
           all
           the
           Christian
           Kingdoms
           in
           Europe
           ,
           we
           find
           there
           is
           not
           altogether
           that
           infallibility
           in
           Birth
           right
           ,
           but
           that
           Fools
           and
           Mad-men
           notwithstanding
           their
           proximity
           of
           descent
           are
           excluded
           from
           Empire
           ,
           so
           that
           by
           Mr.
           Lestranges
           permission
           a
           
             Shallow
             Perecranium
          
           or
           an
           Addled
           one
           upon
           occasion
           shall
           put
           very
           good
           Royal
           veins
           out
           of
           play
           .
           So
           that
           to
           make
           Monarchy
           go
           a
           little
           hand
           in
           hand
           with
           our
           new
           natural
           Philosophy
           ,
           some
           Criticks
           will
           tell
           you
           ,
           that
           the
           Life
           of
           it
           lyes
           more
           in
           the
           Head
           than
           the
           Heart
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           in
           the
           Brain
           than
           the
           Blood.
           
        
         
           And
           that
           I
           need
           not
           stray
           far
           for
           an
           Instance
           ,
           have
           we
           not
           had
           a
           late
           King
           of
           Portugal
           deposed
           as
           Delirious
           and
           Frantick
           and
           consequently
           render'd
           by
           Law
           uncapable
           of
           reighning
           ,
           and
           all
           this
           done
           by
           his
           own
           Subjects
           and
           those
           of
           his
           own
           Religion
           ,
           without
           the
           least
           Reflection
           of
           Treason
           or
           Rebellion
           or
           the
           Aspersion
           of
           lifting
           a
           hand
           against
           the
           Lords
           anointed
           .
        
         
           Nay
           if
           truth
           might
           make
           bold
           in
           England
           there
           be
           those
           that
           dare
           honestly
           venture
           to
           say
           there
           must
           go
           so
           strong
           a
           Dose
           of
           Folly
           and
           Madness
           or
           indeed
           both
           together
           to
           make
           up
           the
           composition
           of
           a
           Popish
           Heir
           
           to
           the
           Protestant
           Crown
           of
           England
           ,
           especially
           an
           Heir
           that
           can
           be
           fond
           of
           the
           
             Gugaws
             ,
             Bawbles
          
           and
           Trumpery
           of
           the
           Romish
           Superstition
           as
           to
           hazard
           three
           Crowns
           for
           them
           ,
           and
           that
           too
           by
           an
           Apostacy
           from
           a
           native
           Hereditary
           Protestant
           Faith
           ,
           not
           only
           derived
           down
           to
           him
           ,
           but
           more
           signally
           sealed
           by
           a
           Royal
           Fathers
           Martyrdom
           ,
           a
           light
           which
           certainly
           would
           shine
           through
           all
           the
           mists
           and
           fogs
           the
           
             Iesuitish
             Magick
          
           has
           or
           can
           cast
           about
           him
           ,
           though
           thicker
           if
           possible
           then
           the
           
             Egyptian
             Darkness
          
           it self
           ,
           a
           Darkness
           to
           be
           felt
           ;
           were
           there
           not
           a
           Skull
           in
           the
           case
           more
           than
           strangely
           impenetrable
           ,
           and
           a
           Cerebellum
           if
           possibly
           more
           than
           supernaturally
           impedimented
           :
           so
           that
           if
           in
           Truth
           he
           but
           fairly
           stood
           the
           Test
           of
           an
           old
           Statute
           we
           have
           already
           ,
           the
           Begging
           of
           his
           Reversion
           would
           be
           so
           feasible
           that
           it
           would
           be
           cross
           we
           won
           ,
           and
           pile
           he
           lost
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           come
           yet
           a
           little
           nearer
           to
           the
           mark
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           most
           undoubtedly
           true
           that
           Soules
           are
           never
           Generate
           ,
           and
           consequently
           not
           always
           derived
           from
           the
           Father
           that
           Begets
           ,
           it
           sometimes
           so
           falls
           out
           by
           the
           Caprice
           of
           some
           ill
           natured
           planet
           ,
           or
           to
           come
           to
           a
           more
           Christian
           notion
           ,
           by
           the
           indisputable
           Will
           of
           Omnipotence
           that
           moulds
           the
           Clay
           as
           he
           pleases
           ,
           to
           make
           such
           infinite
           disproportions
           in
           the
           unequal
           distributing
           of
           those
           sparks
           of
           his
           own
           Celestial
           fires
           call'd
           soules
           ,
           that
           so
           much
           over
           rule
           the
           inferior
           Mass
           of
           Flesh
           and
           Blood
           ,
           and
           sometimes
           so
           far
           Estrange
           and
           alienated
           a
           Son
           from
           the
           
             Nature
             ,
             Temper
          
           ,
           and
           indeed
           almost
           
             every
             thing
          
           of
           the
           Father
           ,
           till
           it
           does
           worse
           then
           Bastardize
           even
           Legitimacy
           it self
           .
        
         
           FINIS