An ANTIDOTE against the Infection of the Jacobites, occasioned by the last Papers of Sir John Friend, Sir William Parkins, Mr. Cranburne, etc. who pretend to die in the Communion of the Church of England.  By a Minister of the Church of England. 
OUR Nation hath as much Reason to take heed of the wicked Principles of these deluded and Jacobite Martyrs, as to abhor their barbarous and abominable Designs and Practices; and the rather, because they are recommended to the Public by that Consideration that Men commonly have for the last Expressions of Persons departing to another State, who in that Moment are not suspected of Hypocrisy, or to conceal the real Sentiments of their Mind when they are to appear before a God of Sincerity and Truth. But we find by old and late Experience, that some Men will continue in the Justincation of their greatest Villainies at the Hour of Death, and proclaim at the Gallows a Vindication of the worst of Crimes. Lest therefore the devilish Mistakes and Delusions of these Traitors should have any Influence upon the Living, I suppose some Considerations may be seasonable to be recommended to the Public to prevent the Mischiefs of a farther Infection, and to oblige us all that are true Englishmen, and of the Church of England, to be steady and faithful to the Cause of God and our holy Religion, in opposition to the Madness of their Diabolical Principles.  
It may seem very strange at the reading of their Papers, That Members of our excellent Communion, instructed in the blessed Rules of Christianity, acquainted with the Transactions and Passages of former Years, of English Blood, of Estates and Birth, should be so much misled by a strong Spirit of Delusion, as to believe the Restoration of a Popish King, a declared Enemy of their Religion, Laws and Liberties, and that by the French Tyrannical Power, to be their Duty, and agreeable with the Laws of our Kingdom; or to believe and publicly to own the treacherous and base Murdering of an anointed and crowned Head in Possession of the Government, nay, such an one who spends himself and Estate, and exposes his Person for the Preservation of our Religion and Peace, and thereby to involve their Native Country in Blood and Ruin, to be the Cause of God and true Religion. Certainly Men must be divested of all Reason as well as Humanity, to suffer themselves to be carried away to such apparent Wickedness. Certainly there is an invincible Spirit of Malice and Error that possesseth this separate Party, that hath divided itself from our Church and Communion: and, as I have taken notice, looks upon the rest with a strong Aversion, being deceived by the foolish Doctrines cried up and encouraged by the sinister Designs of the former Reigns, and which leads them thus blindfolded to such terrible Mischiefs.  
Never Principles more abominable than these which are expressed in these Papers, were ever published by Papists, Turks, Infidels, or the worst of Men: Never any more pernicious to the public Safety either of Church or State. No wonder if such Men make no Conscience of Assassinations, Parricides, Murders, and delivering their Nation and Kindred to the base Tyranny of a foreign Power, who are persuaded that God and Religion, and the Laws of the Realm, do engage them to all this Villainy.  
Pray let every one judge of these Jacobite Principles, which are to be gathered from the Papers and Actions of these Traitors. I shall reduce them to these six or seven.  

1. That Subjects are always bound to Duty and Allegiance to a Prince, though departed to our Enemies, and in an active War to enslave and ruin his Subjects and Country.  
2. That no foreign nor domestic Power can alienate our Allegiance: The Meaning in relation to us is, That no Obedience nor Allegiance is to be paid to our present King that protects us, though the Laws and the public Interest require it.  
3. That it is justifiable, and their Duty, to endeavour to restore the late King by Assassinations, Cruelty, and the visible Destruction of their Kindred and Nation.  
4. That to murder our present King, introduce Popery with King James, and assist foreign Forces to invade us, is the Cause of God and true Religion.  
5. That the Loyalty of the Church of England doth oblige its Members to sacrifice all Interests of God, Religion, Laws and Liberties, Kindred and Nation, to the Pleasure, Dominion and Advancement of one Man, though a sworn Enemy to its Profession.  
6. That this Nation is guilty of Rebellion and Perjury in the late Revolution.  
7. That Hypocrisy, Dissimulation, the Concealment of this Cause of God, and the taking of an Oath of Fidelity to the present Government, is practicable, and may consist with a constant persisting and remaining in the real Interests of the late King.   
These are the Bedlam-Principles which obliged these Men to such desperate Attempts, and hardened them against the Danger of assassinating a Prince in the middle of his Guards. This is the Belief of the Jacobite Party, which makes them plot against the present Government, uneasy and restless until they draw upon themselves and us utter Ruin, and the Calamities of an intestine War.  
In answer to the first. It is generally allowed and owned by Men of Reason and Conscience, of all Nations, that the Duties of a King and his Subjects are Relatives; that the latter supposeth the former; that the Obligations of natural Allegiance, and of our former Oaths, are conditional and temporary, and are not binding for ever; and that in di●●rs Cases Subjects are freed from their Allegiance to their lawful Sovereign, particularly in this Case, where a King hath acted contrary to his Coronation-Oath, to overthrow the Fundamental Laws and Constitutions of the Government, endeavoured the Subversion of Religion, the Worship of God, and to introduce the Abominations of Idolatry, where a King hath endeavoured t● enslave his Subjects to his tyrannical Will, forcing his Judges to subscribe to such Articles as were designed to disannul all Order and Equity amongst us, and chief in this case, when he is departed to our sworn Enemies, and is in an active War assisting them with his Counsel, Troops, and Associates, and is so far from protecting our Persons and Estates, that he breathes nothing but Vengeance against us and our Religion: Witness his Words to one of his Courtiers at Dublin, when a faithful Protestant Jacob●●e was recommended to his Service, that he hated the Name of a Protestant, and chief a Protestant of the Church of England. Pray consider what Protection and Favour the Professors of our Religion are to expect from him, who already hath been so false and ungrateful to the Members of the Church of England. In his Brother's time they would not su●●er the Bill of Exclusion to pass, they put the Crown upon his Head, they supported his Interest against the Duke of Monmouth, they were constant and faithful to him, though of another Persuasion. But in requital of all their good Offices he hath rewarded them with Frowns and Scorn, with Imprisonment of their Bishops with the violent Invasion of the Rights of their Colleges, with the Discountenance of their Persons, and with Threats of greater Mischiefs. And since his Exile he is grown more fierce and unreconcilable to the Members of our Church, though never so sincere to his Cause: Witness the unhappy Fates of Sir James Montgomery, Madam Ashton, and many more, whose Loss of Estates and Country for his sake, could not persuade this bigoted Prince to show them the least Favour, or to admit them to his Service without a public Abjuration of their God and Religion. Never any Romish or Heathen Persecutor was ever more resolved to destroy our Church, and the sincere Professors of it. Never any bore a greater Antipathy, and was more violent against us, than is the late King James; and does our former Obligations to him as Subjects bind us to cast away ourselves and the whole Nation to his merciless Fury, and oblige us to a constant Allegiance to such an one, to an open Enemy? What Methods have other Nations taken in such a case? When Sigismond King of Sweden, a Papist Prince, succeeded to the Crown, he swore to maintain the Laws and Religion of the Country; but when he began to impose and bring in the Romish Superstitions, the States of the Realm banished him, and chose in his stead Duke Charles his Cousin, the Father of Gustauns Adolphus, who warred against him and the Poles his Subjects, and never would admit him again. The French Nation would never receive Henry 4. as their lawful King, but were resolved to elect another, until their Laws and Religion were secured from a Change by an Abjuration of that Prince's former Profession, and a public Compliance with that which was generally professed in the Country. The whole Kingdom, and all Men in it, are concerned by the Laws of God and Nature in the Preservation of themselves from Ruin and Destruction. And Government was not intended for the Advantage only of the Prince, and to gratify his Lust and Pleasure, but for the Benefit of the whole Society that are to look to themselves when a Prince designs to betray them to the Power and Tyranny of their Enemies, no Man by any Obligations of former Loyalty and Allegiance being bound to destroy himself, much less the Body of a Kingdom. And there is a greater Duty that we own to the public Community that we belong to, than to any particular Member, though the Head. And all our natural Obligations to a Prince, though confirmed by Oaths, are always in reference to the Good, Peace, Happiness and Prosperity of the Body Politic, unto which the Prince himself ought, as divers have done in former Ages, to sacrifice himself and Fortune.  
2. That no foreign nor domestic Power can alienate our Allegiance. The Meaning, in relation to us, is, That no Obedience nor Allegiance is to be paid to our present King that protects us, though the Laws and the public Interest require it: That our Governors could not lawfully demand that Security from us, to swear to bear true Faith and Allegiance to K. W. and Q. M. Certainly the Government, as it is now established, aught in reason to secure itself from the Designs of ill Men, and no Method more moderate, nor Oath more favourable, could be contrived, than that which was imposed upon us, whatever Construction is given to it by these Zealots for the Rights of the late K. J. it obliging us to nothing but a quiet and peaceable Behaviour, and ties our Tongues and Hands that they might not plot and conspire against the Government of this present King. And is there any thing more reasonable than this Law? Shall such Men live amongst us? Shall they enjoy the favourable Countenance of the Government? Shall they be protected in their Lives and Estates? and shall they be allowed at the same time to endeavour the Ruin of King and Kingdom? I cannot in so short a Compass examine what Allegiance is due to the Kings of England; how much we are bound in Duty to such a King who hath forsaken us, and joined himself to our Enemies; what Power is in our Parliaments to require a new Oath of Allegiance? Whether it may not be as lawful for the Chieftains of our Politic Body to alienate our Allegiance from him who hath alienated all Duty and Kindness from us, and whose Religion forbids him to keep any Faith with us Heretics, but binds him to destroy us with Fire and Sword. I know some will say, that Men by Religion done't forseit their natural Rights; and that K. J. was thereby entitled to our Allegiance, and had a natural Right to govern us. Grant this, and a great deal more; but now that he ceaseth to govern and protect us, and instead of being our King, he is become a desperate Enemy; shall our former Allegiance to him hinder us from seeking to be sheltered by another? The Self-Preservation of a Kingdom is a natural Law that puts a great Difference between the Rights of a private Man and that of a public Person, whose Right to our Allegiance is not to be allowed to overthrow and ruin a whole Kingdom.  
3. That it is justifiable, and their Duty, to endeavour to restore the late King, etc. This is affirmed in relation to this grievous Plot of assassinating K. W. of inviting over a foreign Power, etc. to vindicate the Justice of the horrid Treason in the Eyes of our English World. Pray let considerate Men take notice how unchristian and barbarous is this Principle. Pray let them see the bloody Disposition of these furious and Apostate Members of the Church of England, how unreasonable and cruel are their Tempers?  
The Restoration of King James in the Eyes of the sober Part of the Nation, is looked upon as one of the greatest Mischiefs that can befall us, and our Christian World, in this juncture of Affairs, and must needs be followed either by an universal Apostasy from the Reformed Religion, together with the Loss of the Liberties of Europe, or an universal Persecution and Oppression of all honest and good Men, who will be forced to yield to the Pleasure of the French Tyrant, and the Romish Cruelty. It is a Folly to think otherwise of the Conjunction of the Forces of these three Kingdoms with the Power of Frame. Besides, it hath been long ago resolved by K. L. and K. J. to drive on this wicked Design together. When K. J. withdrew to Brussels in his Brother's time, he passed from thence to Paris incognito, and was admitted to a long Consultation and secret Council, where the hastening of the Death of K. C. was resolved, who was a Bar to their base Purposes: and immediately followed the violent Persecution of the French Protestants. And the Jesuits were so confident of Success, that they published to the World, that within 20 Years not one would be found in Europe to own the Protestant Name. Some Years before a Nobleman of Provence, of the Reformed Religion, who had been successful in Oliver's time in an Embassy for the Protestants, (his Name was Monsieur Roux, or the Marquis de Marsilli) came over to K. C. to desire his Mediation with the French King, and persuade him to be more favourable to the Huguenot Party. He applied himself to the then D. of Y. who under the Disguise of a Church-of- England-man received the Sacrament with his Brother at Whitehall. He promised him all Favour, Protection, and Kindness, but instead of that betrayed the poor Man and his Errand to Colbert the French Ambassador, who was placed behind the Hang in the Duke's Chamber, with others, to hear the Complaints of the French Churches, which were so far from making any Impression upon the Court of England, that this their Envoy being here threatened to be killed, his Estate confiscated to the French King, he retreated towards Switzerland, and in the Dukedom of Burgundy was violently taken by the French King's Appointment, carried to Paris, and there broken upon the Wheel by the Procurement of the late King, than Duke of York. Pray open your Eyes, ye blind and bewitched Adorers of K. J. so zealous for his Restoration; and see by this Man's Fate what we may reasonably expect from K. James' Faith and Kindness. And do ye judge this to be your Duty, and justifiable, to restore him to that Power which he hath already abused, and stained with innocent Blood more than once, and will infallibly abuse it again, to your Destruction, and the Destruction of our Religion and Kingdom? How ungrateful are you for God's great Mercy in delivering of us from such a Prince? Was it St. Peter's Duty to return into Herod's Fetters when freed by an Angel? Was it justifiable in the Israelites to go back into Egypt, when delivered from Pharaoh's Bondage by the Power of Heaven? And is it justifiable in you to restore an idolatrous Prince to a Throne from which he is excluded by the Hand of God, and by the Approbation of the best of the Nation? Into what Calamities had we been brought, if he had had Power to proceed as he began? What unthankful Wretches are ye for this great Mercy both to God and our present King, who hazarded all for your Advantage and Safety? And what, is it your Duty to restore the late King by basely murdering of such an obliging Prince? The End that you propose to yourselves is abominable, and the Means worse. And can such a black Treason, aggravated by such heinous Circumstances, be justifiable, and your Duty? Never exclaim against the Gunpowder-Traitors, nor Ravaillacs, nor the Clement's. This Act or Design of the Jacobites is more devilish, and a Crime of a deeper Die than theirs ever was. Neither did they justify their Murders and wicked Purposes with the Pretences of Duty, as you do.  
4. The fourth Principle appears as horrid as the former, and bespeaks you to have neither Reason nor Christianity, nor the Sense of Duty or of Interest in you; that to murder our present King, introduce Popery with K. James, and assist foreign Forces to invade us, is the Cause of God and true Religion. Was there ever any such Persuasion entertained by Men? Did ever any judge, that the Overthrow of their Religion was their Duty; that the Destruction of God's Interest in the World, and the Promotion of the De●i●'s, was a Cause that God did approve of; that the Ruin of their native Country by foreign Forces was God's Cause, and agreeable with Law and Equity? Codrus King of Athens offered himself to Death to save his City from the Enemy's Power. Themistocles poisoned himself that his Country might not be invaded by the Persians. And all the moral Heathens looked upon it as their Dut● to sacrifice themselves, to drive off a foreign Power from their native Soil. And do you think it your Daty to deliver your Country and Relations into the Hands of the French? Miserable Wretches! What do you meat? What Advantage do ye propose to yourselves? The Duke of Mantua in 1588., told a Papist and English Commander, that his Sword knew no Difference between a Protestant and a Papi●●. And that Italian General who was in●ited into Mantua by the Guelves, and had a Gate betrayed by them into his Hands, when he plundered without Exception both Factions, they complained of his false Dealing; but he returned them this Answer, That their Persons indeed were Guelves … d Friends, but their Riches, Goods and Estates were Gibeonite, and of the contrary F …. The same Treatment you must expect from your French Friends when they come in with K. James: You must expect to lose your Liberties and Estates with your Country, to be transported and treated at the Pleasure of the Conqueror; and you to be looked upon as the basest of Men by those whom you design to assist to invade us.  
5. For the fifth Principle, it is so ridiculous, and so full of Contradiction, as well as the rest, that I leave it to the Examination of the sober Reader to pass t● the sixth; That this Nation is guilty of Rebellion and Perjury by the late Revolution; for this is the Meaning of that Clause of Sir J. F's Prayer, Deliver this Nation from the Gild of Rebellion, Blood and Perjury. Wicked and uncharitable Souls! I would have you know, that such of us as have complied with, and sworn to support the present Government, are far from being guilty either of Rebellion to K. James, or the Crime of Perjury; for whilst he continued with us, and was our Governor. none more obedient and faithful to him than we were; and though he acted so directly contrary ●● his Coronation-Oath, to his repeated Protestation before the Council, of supporting the Church of England, and maintaining our Liberties and Laws, yet we who are truly Members of the Church of England, thought it our Daty to be quiet, and yield unto him all lawful Obedience; never plotted against his Government, as you do against this, but patiently waited for the Salvation of God, which was brought to pass by his mighty Power. But is our Compliance with this viable Act of divine Providence a Rebellion against K. James? It is a Madness for you to charge us with it. We should be Rebels to the public Interest and Safety of the Kingdom; we should be guilty of the highest Ingratitude to our good God; we should be unworthy of his former Care and Mercy, as well as unthankful to his Agent and Minister, if we did not assist and help the present King with our uttermost Endeavours. But how can you fasten upon us the odd Crime of Perjury, for our Oath of Fidelity unto K. William; whose Person and Government we are resolved to maintain and pray for, being thereunto bound by all the Obligations of Reason, Religion, and Conscience, and shall not be frighted from our Duty by your wicked and uncharitable Censures? But ●ray who is most guilty of Perjury; some of you who know that you are in the Interests of the late King, and yet have sworn, as Sir W. P. did, to be faithful to King William, and nevertheless plot and conspire against his Person and Government? This is Dissimulation, Hypocrisy and Perjury with a witness. This is to act against all Conscience and Morality. And dare such People pretend themselves to be Members of the Church of England? a Church so excellent in its Constitution, so agreeable with primitive Christianity, hating all Blood, Treason Hypocrisy and Baseness, though for the Advancement of the greatest Good, and the Promotion of the best Cause: A Church that practiseth and recommends the Rules of Charity to all Men, Humility, Patience, Meekness and Moderation: A Church that never was stained with the Blood of Princes, though desperate Enemies, nor with Conspiracy and Rebellion, but obligeth its Members to be obedient, peaceable and useful under the Governments appointed by God. You therefore, my Fellow-Subjects, who are really Disciples and Members of such a Church, withdraw yourselves from the Tents and Society of these wicked Men, of these deluded and bloody Jacobites. Let us unanimously associate in the Defence of our Government and King, whom God preserve from Enemies at home and abroad, and send him Victory and Success. Amen.  
M. I   

London, Printed by J. D. for Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lion in St. Paul ' Churchyard. MDCXCVI.