The ABHORRENCE, OR, Protestant Observations in Dublin, upon the Principles and Practices of the Protestants at London.  
A popish thing und er the mask of a Church of England man.  
Abdicraunt DOMINUM, et Abducerunt Populum ad Nequitiam. 3. April. 1690.  
Published Saturday February the First, 1689.  
IN all Ages some Prodigies or Monsters, have appeared amongst Mankind, that have been ingenious at the peril of the Public, such who compass their ends not by fairness and strength of Argument, but by insinuating themselves into men's affections by all the basest Method of subtlety and adulation, which sort of flattery is indeed a Collective accumulative baseness, being compounded of the most sordid, hateful qualities incident to Mankind, viz. Lying Servility, and Treachery, each of which being detestably deformed singly, must certainly in conjunction make up a most loathsome ugly Gum lt. But not to trouble ourselves to search for Precedents in former Story, we see before our eyes more than sufficient! much more than future Ages will ever credit. We behold indeed so much, that after one Century the truth of these things shall be taken for feigned Hyperboles, or abominable Lies. Who will ever believe this general Defection? Who can imagine that Bishops, noblemans, etc. would ever Harlotize that Sacred Character of Nobilitas est sola atque unica Virtus, and suffer themselves to be engendered with Treachery! Nay, that such Men who bear so great a Character in Church and State, would ever see, nay assist!) so foul a Monster as Treason to deflower their Virgin Loyalty, and at once to Rob the Glory of the Reformation, (the Church of England) of all her pretence to the Beauty of a most Pure and Primitive Christianity. O horrid! O abominable Invitation! Religion (that Sacred Name! that true interest of all Christians Souls) is continually abused to palliate and countenance the most abominable Undertake: And Men of turbulent and restless Spirits will be sure to find, or make some pretences or occasions of Quarrel under the most Just and Equal Government. But as such Proceed stand, in respect to Religion, the Reverend William Sherlock, D. D. (foreseeing what might come to pass, as well as what had happened in the World) declares in a Sermon on Sept. 9th. 1683. Pap. 11. 13. There is nothing more expressly contrary to the revealed Word of God, than Treasonable Plots and Conspiracies against Sovereign Princes: Christian Religion (says he) is the greatest Security of Government, both in its Precepts and Examples; it commands EVERY Soul to be subject to the Higher Powers, and threatens Eternal Damnation against Rebels. And (as things now stand) were there any true concernment for Religion, can We imagine that the most prosest Atheists! the most lewd profligate Wretches! the greatest Monsters, and Prodigies of Wickedness! (as many of our Inviters are notoriously known to be) should be so Zealous for Religion? These two Words (says the Bishop of Ely, in a Sermon, upon the sme day, p. 17.) of the wicked Politician Caiaphas, Venient Romani, are effectual Incentives to stir up the People to Cry, crucify him! Crucify him! Always (says that Reverend Prelate) Popery! Popery! serves the turn of any great Incendiary to break through all Divine and Humane Laws. And John Fitzwilliams, D. D. on that day Preaches to all Christians, That Subjects withdrawing their Obedience from their Lawful Prince, is a denying the Authority of God; a shaking off God's Government from their Shoulders, that even the Almighty should not Reign over them; They have not rejected Thee, but Me, that I should not Reign over them, 1 Sam. 5.7. Treason against the King, (says this Reverend Divine) is a kind of Sacrilege, and Revolt from him, an Apostasy from God, and a Resisting him, an Opposing of God, Rebelling against him, Fight with God; The setting up a Counterfeit Prince against the True One, an introducing a Plurality of Godheads, the Obeying of an Usurper, Idolatry; the slandering his Anointed, and his Footsteps, a Blaspheming of God; the blaming his Conduct, a quarrelling with Providence, etc. To these may be added the Suffrage of many more, the best and most Learned of the Church of England: By which it is fully evident, our Principles, of the Principles of the Church! are for Loyalty: And I will now challenge the most Malicious Abdicator, even Burnet himself, (who has thrust in his black Face to bespot her Beauty) to show me the contrary, otherwise than by the Complexion of his own accursed Actions. And further, the Laws of our Country are in this case adequate to those of our Religion, and do attaint Those that Invited the Frince of Orange of the highest Crime that can be committed (in respect to Civil Government) upon earth, and Condemn for High Treason those that maintain the Invitation. First it is a known Maxim of the Common Law, That the King of England holds his Power from, and is accountable to none but God, Rex Anglia sub nullo nisi, tantum sub Deo, Bracton. And by the Statute Law, 25. Edw. 3. cap. 2. To compass or imagine the death of the King, Queen, or Prince of Wales. To levy War against the King, or adhere to his Enemies to give them Aid or Comfort within the Realm or elsewhere, is High Treason. And by the Statute 13. Car. 2. cap. 1. If any intent to Depose the King, or to levy War against him, or to move, [or Invite] any Strangers to Invade any of his Majesty's Dominions, is also High Treason. Inviolably to keep, and Religiously to observe which Laws, all the Nobility, Lords Spiritual, as well as Lords Temporal, Clergy, lawyers, and the greatest part of the whole Gentry of England, besides most of the Tradesmen, and inferior sort of People, one time or other, (upon some manner of occasion) have Sworn, and upon the Holy Evangelists declared, That it is not Lawful, upon any account whatsoever, to bear Arms against the King, or against any, that are in Commission under him. And likewise, That his Majesty James the Second, is the Only Supreme Governor in all his Dominions: And that They will do their utmost to resist Any Foreign Prince that shall Invade him.  
But alas! When I reflect upon the sad and dreadful Complexion of the Times! when I behold the Monstrous Ingratitude, and Treachery of Some, persisted in with such an Obstinacy as is not to be found, but in Apostate Angel, who cannot, and amongst Traitors and Rebels who will not Repent.  
However I say, some of Us may speak for ourselves, yet I must and will blame Those whose Undutiful Actions made the first Scene in this Bloody Tragedy of Rebellion! Those who have boldly ventured (upon peril of their own Damnation) to streign a point of strict Duty, and dispense with the  Laws of Conscience, and of our Country, having nothing to plead for themselves, but that old pernicious Principle of Doing Evil, that Good might come thereof. Our Church, the Bulwark and Glory of the Reformation! The most Pure and Apostolical Church upon Earth, (who as the Bishop of Ely (in his Sermon before cited, Pag. 33.) says, Never takes the Sword against her Lawful Sovereign; was never in that Danger as now: Now is the time, says our Adversaries, that Heresy is swallowed up in Atheism; Now is that lamentable time, wherein with horror we behold the sad Convulsions of our beloved Reformation: Our Churches are now to be new Moulded into all the sordid and slovenly Methods of the Coventicle, Our Episcopal Rites, and Jurisdictions, into all the Faces of Calvinism and Presbytery. And I tremble to think what Satisfaction must be given to the Divine Vengeance, for that vast effusion of Christian Blood, etc. that is now like to be spilt in the damnable progress of this most Unnatural and Impious Rebellion.  
This Paper shall Weekly demonstrate our Loyalty to the King, whom you have most barbarously Abdicated, to the great Scandal of Chrianity itself. You shall upon all occasions find us Abhorrers of this Rebellion. Our Actions shall speak our Fidelity Sworn to James the Second, whilst You pay your Perjured Allegiance to the Usurper. And we will Now begin to set ourselves hearty to do His Majesty Right, against your Invasion, in order to send the War home to you, who so Wickedly began it.   

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