THE CHARACTER OF A Modern WHIG, OR An Alamode True LOYAL PROTESTANT.  
HE is a Certain Insect bred in the Corruption of the late Rebellion, and is (for the most part) a Traitor Ex traduce.  
At his Majesty's happy Restauration he lay stupefied without Sense or Motion, but began by little and little to crawl with new life in the warmth of the Act of Oblivion, and afterwards wantonly basked himself in the Rays of Royal Indulgence and Toleration, till the old Poisonous Ferment began to work and float afresh, and furnished him with Vigour, and Insolence sufficient to hiss Venom in the Sacred Face of his Great and Gracious Preserver. And though he be sufficiently Conscious of the black Ingratitude, and repeated Provocations, with which he hath all-along abused and affronted the King's Godlike Patience and Forbearance, yet the Fool hath had the Impudence to flatter himself with Agag, and say, Surely the bitterness of Death is past; little thinking that he is still reserved to be hewed in pieces before the Lord.  
His Aspect is generally Meager and Malicious, as representing on the one side the Puritanical Fool, on the other the Political Knave. His Profession (I cannot call it Religion) is of the Geneva-Stamp; not that his Conscience, or Prudence ever engaged him in a juditions Inquest, or sober Trial of this or any other; or that his Wit and Judgement were ever capable Rationally to discern and choose, (for in Speculations of this kind, Nature and his Education have removed him but one degree from an Idiot) but his Father begetting him in the hot Zeal of this Persuasion, and his Dam all that while fixing her teeming Fancy with Adulterous lust on their able Holder-forth, he was moulded a strong Presbyterian in the very Womb, and so proves a rank Fanatic by the Pure force of Imagination and Extract: Nor hath he himself been since wanting to improve these natural Dispositions, and Exalt the Rebellious Genius he derived from his Sire and Dam; for observing (or rather being told) that the Presbyterian Principles stood in the greatest Opposition to the Established Government, he hath with irreversible Obstinacy Espoused the good Old Cause, and with the Sacred Solemnity of a Sacramental Vow hath devoted himself, Life, and Fortune, to the utter Extirpation of Prelacy, and the Royal Race of the Stuarts.  
To effect all which, and that he may the more safely, and indiscernibly accomplish his porfidious Designs, he lies perdue in the unsuspected Covert of a Protestant; and though that word for aught he knows of the rise and reason of it, may be Hebrew for a Baboon, yet he assumes and affects it upon all occasions, because he fancies that it denotes, and signifies distinction and opposition; and he loves all things, and terms of Separation and Contradiction at his very heart. But farther observing that many wise and honest men have plainly discovered that this Religion of his, and as he manages it, proves in the consequence of Affairs no better than an Antimonarchick-Heresie, therefore the better to supply all its defects, and answer all objections against it, he Palliates its apparent Falsehood and Treachery with the specious Epithets of Truth and Loyalty, and with unparallelled Impudence he once for all roundly styles himself, a true Loyal Protestant. He hath been hatching Rebellion, and working underground the Subversion of Church and State for these many years past, but hath bestirred himself with all imaginable Application since the breaking out of the horrid Popish-Plot; as imagining that he might with more Success and Safety spring his own Mines (which he had carried on to the very Foundations of the Government) at a time when we were wholly taken up in detecting the Trains and Treacheries of the Romish Pioners: And this hath afore-time in all Ages since the Reformation been his Usage, then more especially to disturb and divert his Governors with Petitions, Grievances, Toleration, Comprehension, and a thousand Tricks and Artifices, when he hath seen their Endeavours and Intentions bend and busied another way, and engaged in Rescuing us from the Imminent Dangers of our Popish Adversaries.  
The Plot, Entry, and Arbitrary Government is his daily Outcry, the Common place and burden of his Seditious noise and clamour, and the Pretences of his impertinent Fears and Jealousies; whatever his Factious humour dislikes is Popish, and where the Case will not admit of a positive direct Plea, then Popishly affected doth the business; and any thing that bridles and restrains his Licentious Insolence, and Seditious Practices is Arbitrary, and Tyrannical. But for all the loud Hu● and Cry he makes after the Plot, himself hath proved the chiefest hinderer of its full and home discovery, so that 'tis now almost quite spent and lost in running down a Channel of almost three years' distance from its first Spring and Fountain. He plainly foresaw that 'twould thwart and prevent his Designs, if it had forthwith been Traced to the Fountain head, and there stopped and ended presently (as it might very easily have been) when we were at the near distance of 78, and 79; he rather Chose to Wiredraw it at length with Tricks and Finesses, as having many Stages of devices that were to run parallel with it, and many Plots and Stratagems of his own that he could never Accomplish without this Pretence and Exclamation, that, there hath been, and is still a horrid Popish Plot, etc. That, is Still, doth his business.  
And thus he hath kept the Plot at Bay for these three years to amuse and divert us, whilst all the while he is in the hot and eager Pursuit of other Game.  
He endeavours to Poison the people, and Scare the Nation into Rebellion by Libelling the best King and Government in the world; insinuating malicious and groundless Suggestions of imminent Popery and Tyranny, by horrid Stories of Smithfield Flames, Irish Massacres, etc. by the Villainous Prints of Carr, Curtiss, and a whole Pack of scurrilous Scoundrels, and by a Thousand Artifices daily hammered out on the Forge of Faction by Republican Operators 〈◊〉 their respective Cabals: In a word he hath done all he can to reduce the State of these Kingdoms to present Bloodshed and Desolation, hoping thereby to make his own Markets, purchase his Revenges, and glut his Malice, or at least hid his abominable Head (due long since to Public Justice) in the general Confusion. Again, our true Loyal Protestant to show how highly he Values his Sovereign's Content and Quiet, is frequently tormenting him with his impertinent Petitions, and that about things as much beyond the reach and judgement, as they are beside the duty and proper business of the Saucy Petitioner; especially since he knows how that his Majesty hath Proclaimed not an Aversion only, but a general Prohibition to such Dangerous and Seditious Must●r-Rolls, and Factious Pragmatical intermeddlings: But his greatest Artifice and the Court Bugbear as he thinks, is the perpetually making the King's Ears ring with Clamours about the Succession; so that instead of a Joyful and Dutiful Exclamation of Vive le Roy, he is daily Saluting him with a Memento mori: This was so harsh and grating to Queen Elizabeth, that she returned a sharp Reprimende to such as motioned it, telling them besides, That it was to dig her Grave before she was Dead. Our Modern Whig, I say, would lay these Kingdoms in Blood and present Pesolation, the better forsooth to prevent the imaginary Evils of a (pretended) Popish Successor, and such Chimeras as his factious Fancy only hath Conceived in the Womb of Futurity and bare Poslibility. His tender Conscience can easily dispense with Disinheriting a Royal Prince of his undoubted Right to Three Crowns, upon a supposition only of being of an Opinion different from himself; and yet nothing can serve his own turn, but Repealing Acts of Parliament to indemnify his Scismatical Separation, and that he may neglect the Service of God, and break the Laws of the Land with absolute Impunity: This he prettily Styles, Uniting his Majesty's Protestant Subjects, though in effect and intent 'tis no better than admitting the Trojan Horse (a Magazine of mischiefs) within the Walls, and we should quickly find that a Ruit alto a Calmine would be the Fatal Consequence in our Church. He knows well enough that he hath Blasphemed his R. H. beyond all hopes of Pardon, that therefore his All is at Stake, there is now no Retreat, his Case is desperate, and he must now push it home in his own Defence.  
This is our True Protestants Loyal Behaviour towards the Children of that Royal Father who was so lately Murdered by his Faction; whereas if he had but the least Grain of his so much boasted Loyalty, or indeed of Christianity, he would strive to Expiate that loud-Crying Gild, and show his deep abhorrence of that Fact, by paying strict Allegiance to the present Possessor of the Throne, though he were the worst of Tyrants, and by not opposing his R. H the rightful Successor, though he were a professed Mahometan.  
He hath all along Danced to the Jesuits Pipe, and Steered by his Compass we know, but of late he hath openly professed, and avowed such Doctrines as these: That 'tis lawful to take any Oaths whatsoever with a Mental Salvo for the sake of the good Old Cause. That no Faith is to be kept with the Tory-Party. That the selfsame Evidence in one Case is Truth and very Oracle, in another Perjury, and Subornation; and, that Truth, and Justice may Saluâ Conscientiâ be nipped in the bud by Ignoramus, when Billa Vera would be an ill Precedent, prove prejudicial to the Cause, and of bad Consequence when his nearer and dearer Friends turn comes to be Concerned, etc.  
To Conclude, a Modern Whig is the very. Spawn of Antichrist, the Counterpart to Popery, the Jesuits Bum-Crack, the Shame of the Reformation, and the Scandal of Christianity.  
FINIS.   

LONDON, Printed for John Smith in Great Queen-Street, Bookseller. 1681.