AN Awakening Word IN SEASON, TO THE Grand-Jury-Men OF THE NATION.  
LONDON, Printed for Arthur Jones, at the Flying-Horse, near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1684.   

A Book, Entitled, A Discovery of Treason, Printed at Cambridge for Charles Morden, a Bookseller there, and commonly said to have been Penned by Mr. Jenner of Gaius College, one of the King's Chaplains, and Prebendary of the Church of Sarum, hath publicly undertaken to prove Dr. Whithy (Preceptor of the same Church, and Confessedly, the Author of The Protestant Reconciler) Guilty of Treason; an Encourager of the New Plot; a Giver out unto the the People, That the King and Governors were and are the Betrayers of their Liberties; and therefore deserve Death. This in General; and in the Title Page of the Book.  
In the Book itself (beginning at p. 60) 'tis proved against the said Daniel Whitby, D. D.  

1. That his Design is malicious and Treasonable, not only towards the King, but also towards the Governors of Church and State, Pag. 60.  
2. That he scandalously makes the King and Governors, The Authors of all our present Schism and Factions, Pag. 61.  
3. That he affirms an Horrid Schism, with all its dreadful Consequences, to have been Caused (he does not say Occasioned) by the Imposition of them, throughout the Body of the Nation, pag. 62.  
4. That according to the said Dr. Whitby, in his Libellous Book; The King and Governors, are proud Men, and the Plagues of the Earth, for Imposing things Indifferent, p. 67.  
5. That he the said Dr. Whitby, hath east a great Lie on the King and Government.  
6. That according to him the said Dr. Whitby, The King and Governors deserve Death, for Imposing things Indifferent, p. 68, 69.  
7. That (according to him the said Dr. Whitby) the King and Governors are Traitors to the Commonwealth, and Betrayers of the People's Liberties: and that the People ought not to yield to their Impositions; but aught to Rebel, and vindicate their Christian Liberty; p. 70, 71, etc.  
8. That never did Hugh Peter's Preach and Print greater Treason than the said Dr. Whitby; upon the pretended force of whose Treasonable Argument, Oliver and the Rump, with their Rebellious Army, cut off King Charles the First his Head, p. 71, 72, 73.  
9 That the King and Governors are affirmed by Dr. Whitby, to want Piety and Prudence, in their imposing upon the People things Indifferent, p. 74, 75.  
10. That the said Dr. Whitby does again sound the Trumpet to a New Rebellion, odiously and maliciously misrepresenting the King and Governors unto the People, as Idiots and Fools, as Wicked and , p. 76.  
11. That according to him the said Dr. Whitby, The King and Governors are the Destroyer's of the work of God, and the Murderers of myriads of Souls, by imposing things Indifferent, p. 77.  
12. That he the said Dr. Whitby, feigns the King to command Men to sin, when he commands their Obedience to things Indifferent, p. 79, 80.   
Having Collected this single dozen of remarkable things in that Book, which its Author hath Entitled, A New Discovery of Treason, and faithfully cited the several Pages wherein the Proofs are to be seen by every Reader; and where the Pages of Dr. Whitby, in his Libellous Book, Entitled, The Protestant Reconciler, are cited also: I do not wonder that the said Libel was made an Example of at Oxford, where 'twas publicly Condemned to be Burned Alive, like an Arrant Witch; because it had been known too well to have Bewitched silly Creatures of each Sex with Rebellious Disaffections both to the King, and the Church of England. And Rebellion being a Sin like the Sin of Witchcraft, 'tis not strange the Witch was burned. Nor do I wonder, that the Author of the New Discovery of Treason, has stigmatised Dr. Whitby as the Scurrilous Reconciler, p. 66. or as a second Hugh Peter, p. 72. or as a Janus with two Faces, p. 65. whose Practices in a Cathedral (for the Keeping of Four Preferments, enough for Four Better Men) do flatly contradict his Arguments for Noncompliance, and Nonconformity. Nor do I wonder, that the People do Nickname him Whigby, who has broken all the Statutes of God and Man, to Patronise the worst things in our Modern whigs; and to make them much worse than before they were. I do not wonder, that Mr. Thomas (a very loyal and learned Writer) hath, in his excellent Remarks on the Protestant Reconciler, put the saddest Dilemma on Dr. Whitby, that ever was put by a good Logician upon an ill one: A Dilemma, which evinceth him to be the worst of Men or Monsters, let him take which part he will, p. 4. Nor do I wonder, that Mr. Thomas hath proved the Rail of fanatics to be made by Dr. Whitby, his own entirely, pag. 4. and 5. And that by three several Canons now in force, to wit, the Fourth, Sixth and Tenth, Dr. Whitby stands sentenced unto an Excommunication, pag. 5 and 6, etc. Nor do I wonder, that Mr. Thomas (though of the greatest Moderation) has told the World in plain English, That he (the said Dr. Whitby) has played the Knave with two Kings, pag. 10. for he proves the Accusation by unanswerable Arguments, pag. 11, 12, 13, etc. And other Arguments there are, which never yet came to that Author's Ears. I do not wonder, that Dr. Womock, (now Lord Bishop of St. David's) in his most excellent Book, entitled, (Suffragium Protestantium) hath publicly Gibbetted Dr. Whitby, as the weakest of Logicians, and worst of Men. Nor do I wonder, that such an Apostate, in his Protestant Joiner, has showed his Malice against the King's Commissioners at the Savoy, pag. 39, 40, 197, 198, 199, 330, 331. against the right Reverend Bishop Taylor, Bishop Davenant, Dr. Potter, Dr. Tillotson, Dr. More, Dr. Burnet, Mr. Falkner, Judge Hales, and others, in too many Passages of his Libel to be here numbered up, though I have them ready. Much less do I wonder at his Abuses of the Learned and Reverend Dr. Stillingfleet, as hypocritical and senseless, pag. 297, 298, 301, 302, 363. or as a Man of weak Evasions, pag. 81, 82. much less yet at his avowed Partiality to the Schismatics, pag. 202, 203, 205, as far as to pag. 208. and again, p. 320, 363, 364. Last of all, I do not wonder, that such a Monster of Ingratitude to his own very good Lord, from whose Bounty he hath his Bread, should reproachfully brand so great a Prelate, as the right Reverend Bishop of Sarum, under the Notion of Patron; To whose Instructions and Example, Discourse and Counsel, he owes the small Improvements which he hath hitherto attained: Yea, from whose Favours and Protection, he derives the Comforts and Satisfactions of his Life; yes, and the Encouragement of all his Labours. By all which sly Insinuations, under the colour of a Compliment in a Dedicatory Epistle, 'tis hard to say, how many ways he hath publicly injured so great a Father of the Church; as if the whole Crop of Mischiefs which his Protestant Reconciler had done in England, had taken Root from his Lordship's Discourse and Bounty. I say, I do not wonder at any one of these Enormities, or at all put together: I do not wonder at his Zeal, his impertinent Zeal, his Zeal against Knowledge, (rather than without it) for the Bill of Exclusion; or at the Timeing of his Libel against the Government, when the King was at Newmarket, designed for Slaughter in his Return. I do not wonder at any Wickedness which hath proceeded, or may proceed from the worst of Men: An Episcopal-Presbyterian, a Canonical-Cathedral-Fanatical-Anarchical-Republican, an Antimonarchical- Cromwellian-Shaftsburian-Royalist; an half-faced, whole-faced, two-faced Brother.  
But I and multitudes do wonder from day to day, and think we can never wonder enough, that after so many lesser Criminals have been Hanged, Drawn and Quartered, for fewer Crimes, less notorious than in Print; this Protestant Joiner, in whose Printed Libel Stephen College still lives, is not yet Indicted by any Grand-Jury, for the Sedition, or the Treason whereof he stands charged by Mr. Jenner, (if he is as really as reputedly the Author of the Book, which occasions mine) but still lives wallowing in his many and great Preferments, and slips his Neck out of every Collar prepared for, and due to him; merely by the Verbal Mockery of a pretended Recantation, which cost him nothing but the Pleasure of out-witting his Governors, by a Part acted in a Comical way; besides the Pleasure of being known (by that Side-wind) to have been indeed the Author of that Famous Book, whereof till then he was but suspected. And the Comical Recantation (in but one transient Observator) had this remarkable Beginning: I Daniel Whitby, D.D. Chanter of Sarum, and Rector of the Parish-Church of St. Edmund's, in the City and Diocese of Sarum, having been the Author of a Book, called, the Protestant Reconciler, which through want of Prudence and Deference to Authority, I have caused to be Printed and Published; am truly and hearty sorry for the same, and for the Evil Influence it hath had upon the Dissenters from the Church of England, Establshed by Law, or otherwise, etc.  
Now, though the Loyal and Learned Author, who Penned and Published The New Discovery of Treason, hath proved the Design of the Protestant Reconciler to be nothing but Anarchy and Confusion in Church and State, (pag. 82.) which is a greater Treason than that for which by Law he is to be Hanged, (pag. 80.) Yet so far hath he been from being Executed at Tyburn, or Degraded from his Priesthood, or under Excommunication, or Imprisonment for Life, or so much as suspended from any Profits of his Preferments, that under the Notion of Recanting, he has owned that Libel which was the Joy of his poor Heart, and the Delight of his Evil Eyes; that which made him so dear to the Disaffected of every sort; and lastly, procured him Letters of Thanks from the Anabaptists of Munster, from the New-England Congregations, and from the Quakers of Pensilvania. All Three Printed at London for Benjamin Took, 1683.  
Whosoever shall well consider, what a Judgement was pronounced in the Court of King's-Bench in Trinity-Term, vicesimo nono Caroli Secundi, against Mr. Joseph Brown, merely for Publishing an unlicensed Book, called, The Long Parliament Dissolved; and shall compare the signal Favor which was shown to the said Brown, by the same House of Commons; which the very next Day fell so severely on Mr. Thompson, (now Dean of Bristol) will justly wonder, that our Grand-Juries have been as often in a deep Sleep, as Dr. Whitby, and his Sedition, (supposing it does not amount to Treason) hath been omitted in their Indictments.  
FINIS.