A Second REMONSTRANCE by way of ADDRESS FROM THE Church of England, to both Houses of PARLIAMENT.  
My Lords and Gentlemen,  
I Hope the tender Concern of a Mother for her children's safety, and the tye of Nature for self preservation, will sufficiently Apologise for this my Second Remonstrance: And I hope if either Piety towards my Children, or solicitude for myself, or both, should make me seem Importune, or, as you may think, too apprehensive, Nature will be my Plea; which cannot hinder the one, and also commands the other.  
Yet I cannot think my Apprehensions Vain, nor my Importunity unseasonable, when I consider what mischief the Basilisk may do if not crushed in the Egg; What Conflagrations have been occasioned from neglected Sparks; and what Countries and Kingdoms have been embroiled and ruined, for not obviating small beginnings.  
I am concerned for You, and all my Children, and You ought also to be concerned with Me, both for Me and for your selves; I am concerned for the King and the Kingdoms good and quiet, and You ought equally to share with me in this concern: For when I see Rebellion begin to appear barefaced, and my Fanatic Enemies flock to an ungrateful aspiring Wretch; I cannot but think, that tho' his and their cry be, The Security of the Protestant Religion, Yet it is not the Protestant Religion as by Law Established; It is not Me they mean thereby, but a Religion composed of all Dissenters: 'Tis not Episcopacy they would secure, but on the contrary I fear pull down, under the Name of Popery Or rather if we look upon their Practices, tho' Religion be in their mouths, we may assure ourselves it is not in their Intentions; seeing they destroy the very Foundations of it by Rebellion. No no, 'tis not Religion, 'tis Ambition and Des … animates the unthinking Tool their Leader: 'Twas not Religion, 'twas 〈◊〉 hatred of Monarchy excited the Republicans to invite him in, and lend him their assistance; 'tis not Religion, 'tis a delight to Fish in troubled Waters, and to enrich themselves by the Spoils of others, causes the Crowd to follow him: And if some be led by a Zeal (no less Criminal than blind) for Religion, they are but like their Leader, Tools in the hands of Knaves, who, should they obtain their ends (which God forbidden) would throw them by as useless.  
When therefore I see Ambition grasping at a Crown; as the last Refuge of Desperation: When I see Republican Spirits lending their assistance to pull down Monarchy: When I see the discontented hungry Rabble, flock together, in hopes once more to enrich themselves by the Ruin both of Church and State: And when I see blinded Zealots cry up Religion with all the other damned crew of Rebels, whilst they all join hands to pluck it down, I think I have great reason to fear my own and my dearest children's Ruin, and to offer up my poor Endeavours towards our common security, from the rage of those plodding Knaves, and Hood winked Fools.  
I know no thinking Persons, who are either zealous for mine or the Kingdoms good and quiet, will ever join with them; For they cannot but see, the Methods these pretended Zealots take to secure Religion, are the only means to ruin it. We find ourselves safely sheltered under the promise of Our most Great and Gracious Sovereign; and we see and experience in this as in all other things, His Constancy to his Promise: But it behoves us to reflect, this promise was Conditional, if we were true to Monarchy; Those therefore who join with or abett Rebellion, against their Lawful Prince, have neither Right nor Title to his Promise, as having broken the necessary conditions required by it.  
Religion is, and always has been the common Cry of Rebels, but what Religion must that be, which takes its rise and its security from Rebellion? I am sure it cannot be Orthodox, which does so manifestly thwart the Gospel, that teaches due submission. No no, 'tis not Religion, but Interest sways such Monsters, as this ungrateful Rebel; And we may assure ourselves also, that those Republicans who help to set up such a Tool, and lead the Rabble-rout by the plausible cry of Religion, intent no other but a Republican Religion as well as Government: And then a farewell being given to Monarchy, we must give a farewell also to Episcopacy, and your Mother the Church of England.  
Can we imagine a Person, who has no Religion but Debauchery, will be a sit Instrument to Protect or Establish Truth and Piety? Can we imagine, He, who never sought any thing but his own private Ends, will have any generous thoughts for the Public? Can we imagine, He who Plotted the death of a tender and a Royal Father, and preferred the Lives of those Conspirators, (who seduced him, before the safety of the King & Kingdom,) has any sense of Piety, Honesty or Religion in him? Can we think, He who declares against all You my Children here Assembled as a packed company of Papists, because you have shown yourselves true and Loyal Subjects to your King, and Zealous for the Welfare and Honour of the Nation, can intent any thing but Your and My Destruction, with the Kingdom's Ruin? In a word, can we imagine He who is a monster of Ingratitude, of Impiety, of Debauchery, and of all the ills imaginable, (as appears by This, and all his late attempts) carries any thing but the Seeds of these Crimes under the goodly Husks of Liberty, Property, and Religion? Or can we imagine those, who abet such Villainies, have either better or more Religious Designs, though they Cloak them under that most specious appearance? It is not an Age since we sufficiently experienced the effects of Rebellion. That Tree, though it may for some time spread and flourish, yet the Fruits thereof are always bitter: It may promise much in the Blossom, but the Fruit, (tho' fair in appearance,) is poisonous in the effect.  
It behoves You therefore (my dearest Children,) to endeavour by all means to defend His Sacred Majesty against his Enemies, upon whom the future quiet and Glory of the Nation does depend. It behoves You to defend Him, upon whom depends my Peace, and my support. It behoves You to defend Him, upon whose Security Your own Lives and Fortunes do depend, and to obviate all those Evils which make haste (to ripen if they be not nipped) in the Bud. This it behoves you to do, if you love your King if you love your Country, if you love Me, or if you love your selves: And when so many Motives excite you to resist those Rebels, and to quell them to secure our quiet, methinks nothing that is conducing thereunto, but may be seasonably represented to you.  
My own thoughts I told you in my last Remonstrance, which I must here again repeat. The only way and most secure is without doubt to procure a Union with those who are undoubtedly the King and Kingdoms Friends, and whose Interest as well as Principles oblige them to be Faithful to Him. We ought to secure all the Friends we can, and not exclude those, who are both able and willing to assist us, by Oaths and Tests, which are so far from assuring us of their Fidelity, that we cannot firmly rely upon their Allegiance who take them. The Romanists have often offered to swear Allegiance to their King in any form, so it thwart not what is due to God, and as we may assure ourselves, that they, who break their Allegiance due to God, under pretence of serving their King, are led by nothing but their Interest, which would bias them to any thing: So those who are known to be faithful to their God, and prefer their Religion and Conscience before their Interest, will, no doubt make a Conscience likewise to serve their King and Country, when the same God and Religion obliges them to do it.  
Our former Christian Kings were for many. Ages secure even under the Roman Religion, when their Subjects were tied by Oaths, no less obliging 'tis true than these, but couched in other Terms. Other Kings and Kingdoms think themselves no less secured than We when such an Allegiance is sworn unto them. And shall We alone endeavour to Fetter the Consciences of those who make a Conscience to serve their King and Country, tho' tied by no other Bonds than the true Principles of Religion and sound Morality? We know 'tis not Allegiance they boggle at, for That they are always ready to pay with the hazard of their Lives and Fortunes, but 'tis their Religion they would not abandon, their Faith, they would not quit, their God, to whom they would not be Rebellious. Shall we therefore, when we know they are Persons will be faithful to a King, who has promised Us His Protection, and under whose Protection alone we can ever hope to subsist, shall We I say, refuse their assistance in these conjunctures? We know many of the Romanists have shown their Valour and their Conduct in Foreign Countries, where they learned Military Discipline by Practice and not by speculation only: And shall We, when we know them to be fit Persons to be Employed, so far injure our selves and the Nation, as to exclude them from assisting us for Niceties in Religion? We cannot doubt of their Fidelity to their own King, who sought so faithfully for Forr●igners; we cannot doubt their Courage, who showed their Valour in the greatest hazards: and we may hope their Conduct will be no less advantageous, having learned it in so great a School. Those no doubt who are either for His Majesty's security, for my safety, or the Kingdoms good, will be desirous to see them employed. None certainly but those who care not if they saw me again pulled down, and the Kingdom turned into a Commonwealth, can be against it? Both They, and I, and all those who are for Monarchy, are concerned in the preservation of His Sacred Majesty, and where our concern is common, why should we not be at perfect Union?  
My Lords and Gentlemen, 
 It depends wholly upon your generous Action to see this great thing effected. We see His Majesty is not willing to infringe the Laws, nor alter any thing without your Council, nor give occasion to the discontented to esteem him Arbitrary: But You methinks should prevent him in this, and before you break up this Assembly; freely desire him to employ any that are known to be his Friends. If you be afraid of Persons who are nor tied by Oaths, either take those old Ones which secured His Predecessors, or frame new Ones with all the ties imaginable to Fidelity, so they touch not upon Religion. Then will you show yourselves true Subjects to your King, truly concerned for me, Your tender Mother, who run the same Fate with Him; true Friends to Monarchy, and may therefore expect His Majesty's protection under Gods. I hope you will be unanimous in this step to our Unity, Peace, and Security, which I shall perpetually pray for in giving you My Blessing.  
God save King JAMES the Second.