THE CHARACTER OF A Jacobite, By what Name or Title soever Dignifyed or Distinguished.  
Written by a Person of Quality.  
— Licuit, semperque licebit  
Parcere, Personis, dicere de vitiis.  Luc. 
Conscius ipse sibi de se putat omnia dici.  Cato. 
LONDON, Printed for the Author. 1690.   

THE CHARACTER OF A Jacobite, etc.  
JAcobites in general are a sort of Animals sprung from the Corruption of King James' Evil Government; and carry two shapes in one Body, like a Centaur, or the Irish Virgin with a Fish in her tail, half Protestant, half Papist. If they are of the Temporal Nobility, they believe the Glitter of their Honour to be only the Reflection of King James' Favour, and that the Rays of their Grandeur cannot shine with that lustre as they ought, unless like Glow-worm's Tails they may be permitted to glister in the dark of Popery and Tyranny. They are the Mountains of Arbitrary Power and Magnificence, which Tyrants erect to be the Atlases and Colossus' to support Exorbitant Dominion. And many times they owe their Advancement to a Serraband well danced, the activity of their Bodies, or the allurements of lovely Features: And sometimes they are picked out to combat (with Colours flying) all Authority of Law and Justice. They love Grandeur, but little of Nobility, which would teach 'em to ascend to Greatness by other steps than that of their Country's Ruin. They espouse the late King's Interest, as many men, when they grow Impotent, marry their Old Mistresses. But the support and the Interest being feeble alike, 'tis only to make the World believe the Conjunction at last to be honest. Or else they think it ill manners to desert the late King in his Spiritual Amours with the Whore of Babylon, because they know so well the proneness of their own Inclinations to their carnal Devotions: Tho' on the other side, 'tis strange they should have so little Esteem for the Protestant Religion, because the Papists tell 'em, it came out of Henry the Eight's Cod piece. But certainly these Noble Jacobites are the oddest Courtiers in the World to worship a setting Sun; and that in his Winter Quarter too, when he can never expect to rise again, but he must be surrounded with Mists and Fogs, and Storms and Tempests, which his warmth will ne'er be able to disperse.  
These Noble Jacobites are a sort of soaring Politicians, that sin against all the Prospects of Sense and Reason in the Earth. Were they not banded about the Eyes like so many Sons of Venus, they who sit upon the Pinnacle of the Kingdom, and have the opportunity of distant views, could not but with a clearer sight behold the sinking Estate of the rotten Interest which they labour to support: But the Noble Jacobites are more sublime in their Politics than others; they can see into a Millstone not only as far, but farther than other Men; and their exalted and piercing Imaginations make such holes in Futurity, that they can see through it as through a Cullender. Then taking their magnifying Glasses, they fancy they see their Idol King James far more pompous than ever; and conceit themselves perching about his Throne, full plumed with all the Glories and Preferments due to their pretended Merits. And thus, they that flattered him out of his Throne, no less absurdly flatter themselves with Felicities of their own erecting, by restoring him again. All this while, pursuing that abominated Maxim of the King's Interest, and consequently their own, being separate from that of the Subject; they tell the World that they have nothing to do with the People, and thereby teach the People not to have any thing to do with them. The late King conferred Titles upon 'em, but their Titles afford 'em no Honour; for they no sooner are invested with their Honour, but they debase it with pickthank Sycophantrie, and Slavish Adulation: And swayed by the powerful Instigations of a pusillanimous Ambition to be great only in show, betray at once their King, Themselves, and their Country: for instead of advising the King as they ought, they give him such Counsel as they believe him inclined to, and determine of his Welfare by his Desire; which is a kind of setting the Sun by the Dyal; so that the King never knows what time of day 'tis among his Subjects. Therefore it is that set before these Lordly Jacobites, the sight of a guilt Coach and six Horses, or a round Bag of Lovy dors, they are easily persuaded to sacrifice the Welfare of a whole Nation to their own Ease and Plenty.  
In short then, a true Jacobite Lord is a true Jefferies, that is to say, an Abandoned Slave to Despotic Tyranny; a Sejanus to his own Vices, who will humour a Tiberius, to the dispeopling whole Provinces, rather than lose the sordid Advantage of insulting over his Inferiors. A Jacobite of the first magnitude, is one that will take no warning by the fatal Precipices, from which he has seen so many of his own degree fall headlong. The Destinies of Buckingham and Strafford are so far cancelled in his thoughts, that they prevail with him no more than the Fable of Phaeton. It cannot be thought that all who were ennobled by the late King, were of Ancient Descent, from Ancestor to Ancestor, which is the Reason why they cannot be altogether blamed, if like the Statuaries Cat, that would be starting after Mice after she was exalted to Humane Shape, they pursue those base Ends which true Nobility scorns: However we are glad the Moral only can be fixed upon the Jacobite Race. 'Tis true, that some of these Noble Jacobites lay claim to Conscience, and upon that score pretend whole Ounces of Loyalty and Fidelity to King James: But 'tis a Character appropriated to these fort of Jacobites, that they never think; else they could never be so much mistaken in the distinction of Loyalty: For how can ever they be said to be Loyal to a Person that never was true to himself? Nor is it less absurd to believe they may be more Loyal to any one particular Man, than to the Body of their Country in General: For by this means they fall under the severe Character of preferring the Advantages of a single Person before the common Welfare. And then their Loyalty soon discovers itself to be no more than a factious Adherence to a discarded Prince, in hopes to wrest from the Kingdom by his Advancement, the disappointed satisfaction of their Ambitious Ends, which otherwise they give over for lost.  
But what Virtues as well as Vices will not Self- Interest infuse into a Noble Mind? Of a sudden these Noble Jacobites are become the most Charitable and Believing Persons in the World: They believe that King James has forgot to forfeit his Promises and Protestations; they believe that he believes it is for no Byends of theirs, but purely out of Pity and Compassion that they seek his Return: They believe they shall never be Closeted more, but that Sympathy and Antipathy, the Mass and Common-Prayer, will kiss each other upon his coming back, in two Chapels under the same Roof: They believe that his Italian Wife will Forgive 'em, his Priests will Pardon 'em, and that He himself will acquit, exonerate, and discharge 'em for assisting to lift him out of his Kingdom: They believe that young Perkin was truly begot, and truly born at St. James', and that he is lawful Heir to the Crown: They believe the French King, like a Most Christian Prince, will forego all his private Contracts, and never sue neither him nor them with Fire and Sword for all the vast Sums he has lent upon the Mortgage of of the British Dominions. All this, and more than this, too long to be enumerated, the Noble Jacobites believe, to that degree, that if their Faith were otherways employed, there would not be an unruly Mountain in England.  
But after all, this is their unhappy Misfortune, that all this extraordinary Belief of theirs serves only to betray their Weakness, if it may not rather be called a kind of Frenzy; as if their living formerly so near the Rays of a Crown had tanned and Blackamoored their very Understandings; for it is not rational to think these Exalted Jacobites believe these Absurdities, as being in a Station to know better things by woeful Experience; but it shows them however given over to a fond or wilful Credulity, which is a Vice of Judgement, a feebleness like that of Maidens, to be twice deluded; so far from the Prudence of True Nobility, that we seldom find an Irrational Mouse that having once scaped the Bait, will come near the Trap a second time. But there is this Distinction between true English Nobility and Jacobite Frenchifyed Nobility, that the one studies the Welfare, the other the Ruin of the People; one loves his Country, the other hates it; the one walks by the Rules of Honour and Justice, the other values himself upon the Quirks of Policy; the one would be deemed Wise, the other Crafty; the one would be esteemed a good Commonwealth's Man, the other a Cunning Politician; the one asserts the Nations ancient Freedom, the other would be a eringing French Bashaw rather than a Peer of England; the one would redeem, the other sell the Kingdom. This sort of Jacobite Grandees, are the Hedge-Sparrows that hatch King Lewis' Cockatrice Eggs, in hopes that when England is become tributary to France, they shall be rewarded with whole Hesperian Gardens, full of Golden Pippins: Not considering that Princes most affecting Arbitrary Power, detest however a low-spirited Propensity to Slavery, and that all the Reward which the Senate received for their servile Submission to Tiberius, was only to be derided by that scornful Tyrant with the frequently repeated Sarcasm, of O homines ad servitutem Paratos.  
In short, such Noblemen as these are like Barren Mountains, that bear neither Plants nor Grass for Public Use; they touch the Sky, but are unprofitable to the Earth, and when they come to add the Unjustice of their Actions to the Worthlesness of their Persons, their Exaltation becomes the Curse of the People.  
To come now to the Jacobite Clergy, (for may all those of the true Sacred Order of the Church of England, long enjoy the Honour and Veneration due to their Function!) I say then, to come to the Jacobite Clergy, they are such a Generation of Vipers, so envenomed with the poisonous Pamphlets of the Observator, that you would swear they made it their business to swallow those weekly Pasquil's; and that the sayings of that same Charming Author being digested in their Stomaches, has turned to real Nourishment: They are a numerous Gang, and haunt S—'s Coffeehouse in shoals, where they sit Croaking like Frogs in March against the Government. If they are of the Tribe of Levi, the only Reason to be given for it is this, that they are so butcherly inveterate against the Sichemite whigs, upon pretence that they have ravished their Sister Dina, the Church. They cannot Study for harkening after News; and in Parliament time the Court of Requests is so crowded with 'em, as if the Pope's Consistory sat in the Painted Chamber. If they can but get to be a Lords Chaplain, they presently whip on a long Scarf; and than Lucifer was not prouder when he exalted himself upon the Mount of the Congregation in Isaiah: And yet these Scarves are easily come by; for a Man that showed the Puppet-Play of the Creation of the World but t'other day, may lay Title to one, if he can but slubber over a few Prayers in a Lady's Family. They are a sort of mere Divinity Meteors, that run whisking up and down to misguide the wand'ring People, and vent their undigested Conceits, as the wind of their airy Fancies agitates 'em. You cannot perceive 'em to be Cripples, and yet there is not one of 'em but halts most conspicuously between God and Baal. They pretend to be Protestants, but with an extraordinary Inclination to Popery, that they may have two Strings to their Bow, and be ready upon the Return of their Idol, to fall down, and worship his Will and Pleasure. If the Church of Rome would but release the severity of her Pennances, her work were done; for though they are passionately for whipping of others, they do not much care to whip themselves. They are the Pompey's and Caesars of Divinity, that can endure neither Equals nor Superiors, and rather than a Dissenter should get a Living among them, if it were in their Power, they would sacrifice him to Molock; for they look upon the Dissenters as Foreigners that would eat the Bread out of their Mouths. They say that Nabuchadnezzar did very well to throw the three Dissenting Children into the fiery Furnace, because they would not conform to the Church of Babylon by Law established. Had they lived in the time of the Ten Persecutions, what clean work would they have made with those Nonconforming Christians! Or if any thing had saved a Remnant, it would have been their Doctrine of Passive Obedience. They idolise King James as the Heathen did their false Gods, first make the Idol, and then worship it. Tyranny's the Moloch to which they would offer their own Posterity; and their own Native Country the Place which they would make their Valley Gehinnon. They pretend to be true Sons of the Church, but use her no better than a Step Mother, to offer the Price of her Preservation for the Redemption of her professed Enemy. And so doing, while they pretend to avoid their being Traitors to a pretended Prince, they betray not only the People which they misled, but themselves; as if the Church would ever be able to give them suck, when they have assisted her Capital Foe to cut off her Nipples. Whence it is apparent, that they were never well read either in Scripture or Matchiavel, though it shows as truly, that their Inclinations are more for the worst of Politics than the best of Divinity. All this while, how they should be so charitable to the misfortunes of King James, is a wonder, having so little Charity one for another, there being nothing more frequent among them than Envy, Passion, Repining, and supplanting of each other: And yet they are so insensible as to believe that their King James does not see through them, (unless because they have made him their Idol, they think he has Eyes and sees not,) and that he knows he must satisfy the particular ends and aims of every individual Person, or else there will never be peace in Israel.  
They would be the best Marks-men in the World, if they could but bring a great Gun as well as a little Text to bear upon any Subject whatever they aim at. To prove Episcopacy, they balk all other Texts, and take this, Sirs, what shall I do to be saved? because the Greek word, Sirs, signifies Lords, therefore they were Bishops that were spoken to. Another to preach up Kingly Government, chose for his Text, Seek first the Kingdom of God: Not the Commonwealth of God, nor the Aristocracy of God, but the Kingdom of God, Ergo, Kingly Government is the best Government. A third to disprove Nonresidence, finds out Mat. 1.2. Abraham begat Isaac: For that if Abraham had not resided with Sarah, he had never begat Isaac. Another undertakes to prove the unlawfulness of the Bill of Exclusion, from Job ch. 36. v. 21. It is not lawful to do evil, that good may come of it. Another to prove the Excellency of Monarchy, picks out Judg. 17. v. 6. In those days there was no King in Israel: for had there been a King in Israel, Micah had never made a Graven Image, nor had the Levites Concubine ever been ravisheed. And thus their Sermons are a sort of Lampoons upon Scripture, while they make use of it only to put their Shamins and Tricks upon the People, and expose it dressed up in wrested Interpretation, to the Diversion of the worst of Libertines. They pray to Heaven as if they believed there were no God; or sought at least to make him the Author of their mischievous Contrivances. They pray for King James, spend all their most servant Ejaculations in their Cups, and over their Coffee, for King James, as if they thought that God were a Favourer of Popery, Tyranny, Oppression and Slavery; and yet would have us think they believe him to be the God of Mercy, Truth and Justice. But whatever they would have us believe, 'tis but an ill sign of the good Opinion they have of it, to invoke Divine Favour upon the Enemy of their Religion, their Laws, and Liberties.  
While they had the Power, the Hook of recalling the Penal Laws and Test would not take; but now they would recall the disappointed Angler, and rather throw themselves into a precarious Toleration of a Popish Tyrant, than abandon Dominion over their Protestant Brethren. And thus they set up King James like the Brazen Serpent, thinking to be safe by looking upon him, when stung to ineultable Death by the fiery Serpents of Rome. Look into their Conversations, and you shall find 'em Wine bibbers to excess, and frequently removed from the Coffee-house to the Tavern, to carry on the Elections of Sheriffs and Parliament-men. And 'tis a shrewd sign they are no less addicted to the Smicket, because they love so much as they do to see Religion with her Heels upward. When they get into their Pulpits, they make 'em roar like so many Matrasses of Aurum Fulminans, under the Guard of an ignorant Chemist; you'd think they had been learning of the Fire-chawing Mountebanks to carry burning Coals betwixt their Teeth, their Breath is so hot: They fling about their Bombs and their Granado's against the fanatics, as if they were storming a Conventicle; every word is a Snapdragon or a Flash of Lightning, enough to sing all the Periwigs in the Congregation. Strange, that such fiery men as these should be for Passive Obedience! But that's a Virtue which they only Preach to others, never practice themselves: They make use of Passive Obedience as House breakers do of the little Engines called Betties, to force open the Consciences of all that will not bow to their Baal, and rob 'em of their Understandings. They are so far from Passive Obedience themselves, that never was any Hornets Nest in such an uproar as were they themselves when their warm Livings were in danger. The Scripture says, Obedience is better than Sacrifice, but they cry Sacrifice is better than Obedience; for if all their Opposers were sacrificed, there would be no need of Obedience: Touch but their Coppy-holds, and then instead of Passive Obedience they cry 'Tis better to Obey God than Man; and let their King de Jure make use of all his Right and Title to Command 'em, he shall as soon Command a cabin in a rough Sea, as get 'em to read any of his Acts or Declarations, if they but smell a Rat in 'em to the Prejudice of their Cheese. Their vain Hopes persuade them to Obey King James, and their groundless Fears to Disobey King William. Thus they hope in a Popish Prince, and are afraid of a Protestant King; abandon the Felicity they may justly expect from King William, and hope in the Courtesy which they can never expect from King James; like many Men that are afraid of Heaven, and place their hopes in the Devil's future Civility.  
They believe all the rest of the Nation but themselves to be Crows, and come with their Cherry-Garden Divinity to prove the difference between a King de Jure and a King de Facto; as a King de Jure that has forfeited his Right by Breach of Law, Breach of Faith, Breach of Oaths, Breach of all things by which a Sovereign claims his Sovereignty, were any more than a vain Terror of their own erecting. Heaven pulled him down, and they would heave him up again. Now whether the Ancient Romans or these Jacobite Levites were the wisest, must be left to Judgement; for the one trusted to a Goose to preserve their Copitol, the other to a Cock-match for the Restoration of their Exile: Indeed the Cock is the more Martial Bird▪ but the Goose was the more Fortunate: But they thought to have been Crowing again upon their own Dunghills, and therefore they preferred a Cock-Match Plot before any other Plot. They had cried down the Popish Plot, and the Presbyterian Plot was of King James' own making, and fell with himself; but they thought might be Ten to One laid upon the Success of a Cock-Match Plot. However it were, by this you may discover the right Genius of a Jesuit and a true Jacobite, the one was for Dispeopling the Nation, the other for making a Cockpit of the Kingdom.  
I would fain exempt 'em from having any hand in the Miscarriage of our Fleet, a fatal Blow to the Ancient Honour of the English Nation, which all Europe but their Confederate the French King still laments: Since they that would betray their Country and their Deliverer, would betray their Saviour; for Judas might perhaps not know how great a Personage our Saviour was, but no Man can be exempted from not believing in his Country.  
The other sort of Levitical Jacobites, as they are more highly dignifyed, and farther stricken in Years, carry themselves with more Reservedness, and as they have gained a greater Reputation, so they are more dangerous to the Government; yet they walk upon the same grounds, and move upon the same the Principles with the Inferior Crew, who receive their Instructions from them; and when they are fully Lessoned, like the little Spaniels that fall a yelping when the great Mastiff opens, follow the scent with a full Cry.  
These Men being generally of low Extraction, cannot forgo those mean and narrow Notions which their sordid Education infused into their Boyish Years, which makes them admire Advancement as poor Folks adore gaudy clothes; and having once tasted the sweets of Preferment, they so abhor their former Condition, that they place all their Felicity in this World. They study the Humour of the Court more than Women do the Fashions, and if they can but gain the Prince's Favour, they deal by the King as the Filou did by the Country-fellow in Bartholomew-Fair, that tickled his Ears till he picked his Pocket: Only it shows somewhat ugly, that they should rejoice at the Missfortune of our Fleet, and that King William's Victories in Ireland should sadden their Hearts.  
Their Sermons are all Calculated for the Court Meridian, the continual Infusiory of Servitude and Wretchedness into all their Hearers: You might have known what a Clock 'twas at White-Hall by the Chiming of their Pulpits. They took their Text from the Minutes of the Private Cabal, and then fitting a Scripture shoe to it, sent it abroad Apparelled in A Sermon Preached before the KING, By the Reverend such a One, D.D. If the King wanted one to tell the People, That though he commanded what was contrary to the Law of God and Nature, the Subject was nevertheless bound to Obey with an absolute Passive Obedience; there was a Sibthorp ready to bawl it out in his Pulpit. If the King wanted another to prove by Scripture, That he was not bound to Observe the Laws of the Realm concerning the Subject's Liberties and Rights, but that his Royal Will and Command in imposing Loans and Taxes without Consent in Parliament, obliged the Subject's Conscience upon Pain of Eternal Damnation; Manwaring, in his way to the two Fat Livings of St. Giles in the Fields and Stamford Rivers in Essex, does it to a Hair. These sort of dignifyed Jacobites derived their Appellation from Jacobus Primus, who afraid of his English Nobility, caw'd the most supple of his dignifyed Clergy, with his new invented Maxim of No Bishop, No King, for which they gratified him with the Title of a second Solomon; could they have found a hole in the Scripture to have made that Golden Maxim Canonical, they had done it; but the Scripture had been so often Translated before, that they durst not attempt it: However, they went so far, as to make Episcopacy Jure Divino, which was the same thing as to range it coequal with Kingship: And they were so much his Slaves, that they did all they could to make out the Truth of his Apothegm, and their gratitude for his Invention, by making all along the Scripture the Common Voucher and Asserter of Worldly Politics.  
When these sort of Dignifyed Jacobites come to be advanced near the Person of a Prince, they never make use of their Dignity to Correct him when he goes astray, nor to tell him of his Faults, but to soothe him up in his extravagant Courses: They tell him, That Kings breathe not the same Breath with other Men; that they are not of the Race of Adam, but the Sons of Jupiter Ammon, etc. descended from Heaven, Booted and Spurred, to ride their Vassals the People. Moreover, That they are no more obliged by any Coronation-Oaths, than Lovers by their Vows to their Mistresses, but may dispense with the Established Constitutions of the Kingdom at their own Will and Pleasure, and that they are accountable to none but God. For these good Services, and many more of the same Nature, they prevail with the Prince to enlarge their Encroachments upon the Civil Jurisdiction, and having gotten an Unjustifiable Power into their Hands, they call it the Church, no less Sacred than the Ark, have a care how you touch it: if the Lord do not smite the bold Adventurer, they will. A Popish Prince may do any thing but abridge them of this Power of theirs; if he does that, he is an Vzziah, he has invaded their Properties, and must be turned out of the Temple with a withered Arm; and then— 'tis lawful to send for a Prince of Orange to help 'em, 'tis lawful to devolve the Government into his Hands, and humbly to implore him to take Care of their Ark. But no sooner are their Properties safe, and King William by the General Consent of the Nation advanced, in his own Right to a Vacant Throne, but they are offended at his Protestant Zeal, tell him they never sent for him to make him their Sovereign, but their Journeyman only; call him King de Facto, slight his Protection, and rather than acknowledge their Deliverer, would put on their Philistine Yoke again.  
These are a moody sullen sort of Jacobites, that would make all the World believe there are but so many knowing, Pious Men in the Nation; and by an affected Ostentation of Conscience, would riggle themselves into the Honour of having all the Nation dance after their Pipes. They know the ill Consequences of their Example to the Kingdom, and yet persevere in it; but they imagine the Humour will take, and therefore they presume upon it. Nor can they be insensible, that King James takes his Opportunity, and makes his Advantage of their Bigotry. And yet so highly are these Dignifyed Jacobites conceited of themselves, that though the Righteousness of ten Men would have saved Sodom, they believe the straitlaced Tenderness of half the number enough to ruin England: At least they would have the Public Good and Safety depend upon the overweening Reason of a few Obstinate Men.  
These sort of Jacobites cannot but know the danger of great Examples,  
— Velocius & citius nos  
Corrumpunt Vitiorum Exempla Domestica, magnis  
Cum subeant Animos Authoribus—  
From whence we must conclude they are buoyed up, and encouraged by the more Politic Jacobites, on purpose to promote their Darling, King James' Interest. Thus with the Sorceress Circe, these dignifyed Jacobites see better things, but follow the worse— Not out of any Love to King James, for that's impossible, but out of a Picque to King William: Otherwise 'tis certain, that never any Divinity taught them to pretend a Reluctancy of Conscience that threatens the Fate of a whole Kingdom: Nor can Piety grounded upon Error excuse any Man for designing Mischief to his Country: Or supposing a Man's Piety were seemingly well intended, neither will the Goodness of a Man's Intentions excuse the Scandal and Contagion of his Example.  
Others there are who are more Pliable and Complaisam, who being unwilling to come within the Lash of Acts of Parliament, think it their safest way to take the Oaths both to King William and Queen Mary: But these Men have a Trick to save themselves, they are Sharpers at Equivocation, never known among Protestants before, and are able to teach the Jesuits themselves to sing a Note above Ela: Thus the Chancellor of a certain Diocese in this Kingdom, being asked how he could take the Oaths to King William and Queen Mary, and act for King James? Oh! cried▪ He, though I took the Oaths, I never swallowed 'em. And thus you see how near to a Reconciliation the Jacobites and Romanists are, they are linked together against King William, like the wicked against David: But the Jacobites are so unbiased, as not to see that were the tother's ends accomplished, 'tis a Friendship so ill ordered, it would never hold together; their Darling's good Fortune would soon unloose the Knot, and then they must come over the Stick for the Pope, or else not a bit of the Crust.  
The greatest part of these Jacobite Dons were of King James' Promotion, or by his Interest when Duke of York, and fearing therefore to be laid aside, they would make the World believe that the Church of England will fall, should they be discarded; when others more Dignifyed, more Conscientious, more Religious, more Foreseeing, apprehend no such Danger. They would make the World believe, the Reformation of the Clergy to be the Downfall of the Church.  
Hence such a Bustle, such a Clutter, such a Hurry; hence so much Canvasing at Elections, such bawling out St. George for the Church, as if all lay at stake when nothing is in danger. Some of these great Jacobites conform on purpose to do Mischief, and they are the most dangerous; for they are able to give bad Counsel unsuspected, and their Friendship betrays, like Fire that embraces to consume. Some of these there are who are easily persuaded to send about their Diocesan Letters to their Inferior Clergy, upon their Filial Obedience to give their Voices for such a One, as being pitched upon by the Grand Cabal of the County for his Affection and Fidelity to the Church. And many times the same Pretence deludes others that mean better, with the same Hazard of their Reputation: As if it could be any Honour to the Church of England, to imitate the paltry Shifts and wicked Politics of Brent and Graham. But a true Levitical Jacobite cares not whom he amuses, nor whose▪ Example he follows, so he may but have the Honour to stand fair with Antichrist and King James. A true Levitical Jacobite cares no more for the Church than for the Koran, but he Worships the Church Lands; and so he may but lie well and at ease, he matters not whether it be in the Abbey of Glastenbury, or the Parsonage of Simsbury.  
However, these Levitical Champions for K. James draw after 'em some Numbers of the Gentry and Commonalty of the Nation: Among whom of the Male Sex, there are three Degrees of Comparison. Some Sober, some more Loose, some most Extravagant. The Sober part are wheedled in by the specious pretence of the Church's Danger: Men otherwise of Honest Morals, but Credulous Bigotts, that pin their Faith without Examination upon their Instructors Sleeve, and believe that all they say is Gospel, though they should tell 'em that Highgate Hill was made of Marchpane. If they are men not so easily gulled, they feel the Lady's Pulse, and if she be of their Party, Heavens! how the poor Gentleman's Ears are teaz'd between the Wife and the Doctor; and so they make themselves Masters of his Reason, as Poachers catch Partridges, astonished with the din of the Lowbell. Others Ambitious of a Seat in Parliament, or a Magistracy in the County, though they see through 'em, and have perhaps as little Religion as themselves; however they close with 'em, and applaud their Zeal for the Church, to save the Expenses of Canvasing, or Feasting the Corporation: But having studied well neither the Laws of God nor their Country, they render themselves so obnoxious to a more happy Revolution, that nothing can save 'em but an Act of Oblivion.  
None of these are any more than the Crutches of a Crazy Government, which being once restored to a healthy Constitution, lays 'em aside as needless Supporters. Their Devotion is like Meat neither hot nor cold, which frighted the Devil from being a Servingman; and their Loyalty is like a Woman's Affection, generally too much or too little. And for their particular Loyalty to King James, 'tis like an Ill Habit, which when a Man has once got, he can never leave it: However it serves 'em to make a noise with at a Tavern, for want of other Discourse; or else like a cold Neats-Tongue, or a Dish of Anchovies to relish a Glass of Wine.  
They have a pretended Kindness indeed for the Service-Book, and the Liturgy of the Church of England; but they are more for set forms of Oaths than set forms of Prayer, and prefer a brisk God dam 'em, before a sneaking Lord have mercy upon us. They know so little the true value of the Laws and Constitutions of the Land, that they were ready at any time to part with those Jewels for the Barley-Corns of Court-Favour. Tyranny therefore hugs 'em, and makes the same use of 'em as Tamerlane did of his Captive Bajazet, to get up and ride the People.  
The loser sort are Persons wholly addicted to their Pleasure, that measure their Felicity by their Passions. These are Men that live most at ease under the Oppressions of Arbitrary Power, like those sort of Animals called Hog-lice, that breed and multiply under the weight of great Timber-loggs. Under the strictness of Government they are like Fish out of the Water; in the looseness of absolute Tyranny, they are as merry as Summer Swallows in a Chimney. Having therefore experienced the Remissness of King Jame's Reign, like Ivy to a Steeple, they cling to his Misgovernment, as being that which allowed 'em the full swinge of their Licentiousness; and rather choose with Swine to wallow in the Mire of Voluptuous and Libertine Bondage, than breath the Air of Freedom, within the limited Impalements of the Law. They live like Brutes, by Sense and Appetite, not Reason; and having no more Understanding than Dorr-flies, buzz about the Dazzle of a forfeited Crown, to their own Destruction.  
They talk of Religion, as they that never travelled talk of Foreign Countries. However, if you ask 'em of what Religion they are, they will tell you they are Protestants of the Church of England; if you misdoubt the Truth of it, they presently confirm it with a God Dam 'em but they are. Ask 'em why then they side with King James who is a Papist: Because, quo' they, the Papists are better than the Presbyterians:— Ask 'em how so, Because, cry they, the Presbyterians are worse than the Papists. Knock with your middle finger knuckle against the middle of their Foreheads, and you may hear the Concavity sound like an empty Cask. If it were searched into, there would be nothing found in it but the Lees of Forty One Clamour half dried up to nothing.  
In short, what they think is Vanity, what they speak is False, whatever they approve is Bad, and whatever they disapprove is Good.  
The most Extravagant sort are like the Wild Beasts of the Forest, and almost of as many various sorts; Bullies, Beaus, Hectors, Bravoes, St. Nicholas Clerks, Alsatians, Mint-men, Rakehell and Skimm the Devil, and all the rest of the blessed Canaille of broken Tradesmen, Pimps, and Suburb-Roysters, 
Ambubajarum Collegiae, Pharmacopolae  
Mendici, Mimae, Balatrones, hoc ●enus Omne.   
All these are of the Society of Jacobites, that long for King James, as Women with Child long for Coals and foul Tobacco-Pipes. These were the Inhabitants and Freeholders' of all the Towns and Counties in England, that had as many Christian and Surnames as the King of Spain has Titles, to clap to a Loyal Address; and then the acquaint Piece of Eloquence was carried to White-Hall, with a Label of Subscriptions that looked like a Cluster of Bees before the Mouth of a Hive. And thus the Cheaters cheated themselves: They were Rampant then, they are now Couchant, and therefore they Pray for the lost Protector of their Vices; as Women Mourn at Funerals for the Dead, till they make themselves Drunk for Sorrow: When all the World besides rejects 'em, they think King James will receive 'em to his Mercy; as if he needed more Curses than he has already to blast his Prosperity.  
Popery indeed is a Common-sewer for any Vicious Excrements; but these scoundrel Jacobites are so very wicked, that the Priests are afraid to let 'em die 〈◊〉 their Communion, lest the flames of purgatory should not be hot enough to purify 'em.  
In short, they are the dregs and Caput Mortuum of Humane Society, fit for nothing but to be thrown upon the Dung hill: Or if they may be said to serve for any thing, 'tis only to provoke the Anger of Heaven, and to be the Combustiole Stuff to kindle the general Conflagration.  
As for the Females, not to say any thing of the Modest and the Virtuous, who, considering, the weakness of their Sex, may be easily led away by their Jacobite Confessors, the Torrents of whose thundering Eloquence they are not able to withstand; the wonder is, how these Jacobite Infusions come to operate so generally upon the Common Harlots and Misses of the Town, since it cannot be presumed that they have any such familiar Converse with the Jacobite Order. But so it is, that all the Suburb Rahabs, and Daughters of Joy within the Walls, have universally espoused the Jacobite Interest. 'Tis true, there was a Lady said, That she had rather be Mistress to a King, than Wife to the best Noble Man in England. And perhaps the same Ambition possesses our English Lais', that since they cannot all imagine to embrace the Royal Person, they will hug his Interest. They know that King James' Cause is the Whore of Babel's Cause; and then the Whore of Babel's Cause must needs be the Cause of all the Whores in England.  
They know Idolatry to be a kind of Spiritual Fornication; and therefore 'tis no wonder that Carnal Harlots should adhere to Spiritual Whore-mongers. Besides, they are for a General Toleration; and for that Reason favour those by whose means at length they hope to have the Penal Laws and Statutes taken off.  
Others there are who think it a great piece of Ingratitude to forsake a Religion which has been so kind as to Canonize so many of their Sex, and gives 'em so easy an Absolution from their pleasing Transgressions. For a Female Jacobite, cares not that her Conscience should be heavier than her Fan; and therefore chooses that Profession that lays the least weight upon it.  
Yet some there are who think these Gypsies to be mistaken in their Politics, for that though the Roman Courtesans had some Reason for what they did, in stickling and caballing as they did to keep the Sodomite Cardinals from sitting in St. Peter's Chair; yet our Strumpets are the greatest Fools in Nature, for striving to bring in the Italian Abby-Lubbers into England to spoil their Vocation: They little dream what terrible Rates will be set upon Night-Walkers and what an Excessive Excise will be put upon Chamber-practice.  
Nevertheless, There are some who pretend to have a deep insight into succeeding Times, comfort themselves in the Hopes they have in their little Heliogabalus, who was what d'ye called it into the World at St. James'; that when he comes to reign over 'em, he will advance 'em into a Corporation of themselves, make Harangues and Speeches to 'em, and dignify 'em with the Title of his Commilitones, and Fellow Subjects, and be no less kind to them than that famous Emperor was endearing to the Courtesans of Rome. Expectations of consequence, and grounds sufficient for the English Trulls and Misses to plead so hard for an Illegitimate. But such Female Advocates as these for the Jacobite 'Cause do it more harm than good; such Sirens as they being looked upon to be no less clapped in their Understandings than their Bodies. There is no fear of such Amazon's as these, notwithstanding their Attire for the Head, so like the Helmets of Tomyris and Penthesilea; and therefore we leave 'em to their several Cures, and their Diet Drinks of Sarsaperill and Guaiacum.  
However, By such a separation as this of the Goats from the Sheep, it may be easy to give a true Judgement of the Jacobite Cause by the Favourers of it, and to see what sort of Persons they are that seek for shelter under the Wings of Tyranny and Popery. And the quite contrary, it may with no less clearness be discerned who are the Assertors of the Kingdom's Welfare, and the Safety of the True Protestant Religion, under the happy Auspexes of KING WILLIAM and QUEEN MARY.  
THE END.