Second VOLUME OF THE WRITINGS O F T H E AUTHOR O F T H E True-Born Englijhman. Some whereof never before printed. Corrected atid EnUrved by the Author. LONDON: Printed, and Sold by the Bookfellers. 1705. Price 6 s. •f .ii ADVERTISEMENT O F A Spurious Edition of the firft Vo- lume of the W orks of the Author of TheTrueSomEnglijlo‘Man» r lere being a pretended Colledion of fome of thofe Trafts, pnblilhed under the fame Name, ’tis thought fit to give Notice, That there are feveral Things inerted in the faid Book, which vi^ere not his, and thofe that are, being full of Errors, Omiflions, and Miftakes, which in many Places invert the Sence and Defign of the Author. , 2 V. B. The True Colledibn contains above double the Number of Trafts that were printed in the pirated Edition, as is at large mentioned in the Preface to the Second Edition lately pub- lilh’d with Additions. Corrected by Himfelf. Price bound 6 s. THE preface. T H £ fime Reafons which obtain d upoti me to expoje to the World Jbme of the loofe Peices I had formerly publiflod Jingle^ iii a fated CoUeSfion^ and a Book by themfelveSj hold good for my Proceeding to a Second Volume^ viz. that if I do not^ feme Body elfe will do it for me. The feandalous Liberty of the Prefs.^ which no Man more than my felf covets to lee * rectify’d, is fetch., that all manner of Property feems preferated to the Avarice of feme People j and if it goes on^ even Reading it felf will iri Time grow intoUerable. No Author u now capable of preferving thi Purity of his Stile., no., nor the Native ProduB of his Thought to Poflerity., fence after the firfi Edition of his Work has Jhown it felf and per^ haps Jinks in a few Hands^ Piratick Printeri A a ot The Preface. ^ Hackney Ahridgers fid the Wf tUFig ■with fmiotiA and incmreB Copy, and th Uttn^itb imferfea md ahfi^d Re^refenta^ tions, both in FaB, Stile, and efign. ‘>Tis in min to exclaim at theVtUany of theje Pra&ices, rvhik no Law is left to fumfh them. The Prefs groans under the unhappy Burthen.^ and yet vs'in a Straight between Two Mis^ ( The Tyanny of a Liccnfer : This tn all 'Am has been a Method fo ill, fo arbitrary, and fo fubieHed to Bribery and forties, that the Government has thought fit, in Jnfttce to the Learned Part of the World, not to fhfer it, fince it has always been fhutting up the Prejs to One fide, and opening it to the fher ; which, as Affairs are in England often changing,^ has, m itsTiirn, been oppreffve W both.^ a. The unbnd'ed Liberty of invading each other s Property j and this ts the Ejvil the Prefs now cries for Help in. To let it go on thus, will, tn I me, atjcou' rage all manner of Learning ; and Authors will never fet heartily about any Thing, when Twen^ • fy Tears Study JhaU immediately be fyfrific d to the The Preface. the Vrofit of a Piratical Printer^ who not only mines the Author^ hut ahufes the Work. I jhall trouble my felf only to ghe fome Iti-r fiances of this in my own Cafe. I. As to the ahufing the Copy., the True-- born Englifh-Man is a remarkable Rxample^ by which the Author.,, tho in it he eyed no Profit^ had he been to enjoy the Profit of his own fa-* hour, had gaind aboue a I ooo 1 . a Book that bejides Nine Editions of the Author, has been Twelve Times printed by other Hands ; fome of which have been fold for i d. others a d. and others 6 d. the Author s Edition being fairly printed, and on good Paper, and could not be fold under a Shilling. 80000 of the Small Ones have been fold in the Streets for 1 d.or at a Penny: And the Author thus abujed and dijcourag d had no Jfemedy but Patience. And yet he had received no Mortification at this, had his Copy been tranfmitted fairly to the World; but the monftrous Abufes of that Kind are hardly^ Credible: Twenty, Fifty, in fome Places, Sixty Lines left out in a Place, athers turn d,fpoird,and fo intolerably mangled,that the Parent of theBrat could not know his own Child: This is the Thing complain d of, and which A 5 I The preface. If wait with Patience^ and not without Hopes^ to fee reBifyed. , A certain Printer^ whofe PraBice that way s too well known to need a Name, haznng frequently praBifedthe fame thing in Particulars, made the wft printed a Spurious and Erroneous Copy of fundry Things, which he failed Mine, and entitled them, A Colleaion of the Works of the Author of The True- Born EngliJh'Man, ^ And thd the Author was then embroifd with the Government for one of the Pamphlets he coh le&ed, yet had this Man the Face to print among them the famePamphlet, prefuming fo far upon the Partiality of the Publick Refentment, that he Jhould pafs with Impunity for the publijhmg that very thing for which the Author was to be perfued with the utmofi Severity. This, as it was a full Proof, and moft undeni¬ able Tehmony, that theRefentmentJhowd to the Author was on fome other and lefs juftifiable Ac¬ count than the publijhing that Book, fo was it a fevete Satyr on the Ignorance and Vnwarinefs of “that Minifry, ^ho had not Eyes to fee their Jufiice plainly expofed, and their general Pro¬ ceedings banter d by. a petty Printer, in publifi- The Preface. Ing bare^facdand in Defyance of them^that fam& Book for which another Man food arraigtid^ and was to be expojed. Nor was the Injult to the Government aU the Circumfiance of Guilt in this Publication^ but the moji abfurd and ridiculous Mlftakes in the Co¬ pies were Jiich as render d it a Double Cheat: Pirfly To the Author to whom it was a moJl ag' gravated Theft. Firfi-) os it was invading his Right: and.^ Secondly.^ as it was done while he was in Trouble.^ and unable to right himjelf Secondly.^ To the Buyers ; to whom it was a moji ridiculous Banterand tneer picking their Pockets.^ the Author having.^ in his firJi Perujal ofit^ deteBed above 950 Errors in the printings marring the Verje^ fpoiling the Senje^ and utter* ly inverting the true Intent and Meaning. The Author having exprefl himjelf though in Decent Terms^ ^g^lajl the Foulnefs of this PraBice: ThePrinter having no Plea to the Bar* barity of the FaB.^ juflifies f and fays., he will do the like by any Thing an Author prints on his own Account., fince Authors have no Right to employ a Printer unkfs they had frv d their Times to a Bookfeller. A 4 Thu -The Preface. tblsridiculom Allegation feems to to be as if a Mans Houfe being on fire, he had no Right to get Hel^ for the quemhtng tt, of any Body but the Infnrerj Fire-Men. The Inftance of this Cafe was not worth Notice, nor the Man touchfd in it fignifi^nt enough to mention, were it not at the fame time to let the World fee the weak Reafons given for fo fatal a Mfehief, and a thing fo difcou- raging to (ill manner of Learning and Induftry, as this exorbitant Licenfe of the Frefs is. It may be enquired here how will you find a Remedy for this Mifihief? How will you have the Drones, that work none, but devour the Labour and Indufiry of the Bees, kept out of the Hive. ? It u an Vnhappinefs that in anfwering this Foint,there is not Difficulty enough either to ex' cufe the Government in letting it lye fo long neg' leBed, or to procure me any reajhnable Applaufe for the Contrivance. The Road is as plain as the Table of Multi' plication, and that a ConjunBion of Farts makes an Addition of Quantity; two Jhort Claufes ^duid heal all thefe Evils, would prevent fedi' tious Famphkts, Lampoons^ and InveBives ‘ againft / The Prefaced i^gairift the Government^ or at leafl their going mpmijhtd^ and preferve to every Man the Fruit of his own Labour and Induftry, Firft, That every Author Jet his Name to what he writes^ and that every Printer ^ Publijher that prints or publi/hes a Book without ity Jhall be deemed the Au* thor^ and anjwerable for the Contents^ Secondly, That no Man /had print another Mans Copy; or in Englifh, that no Printer or Bookfetter /had rob another Maris Houje^ for it ready is no better^ nor is it any Slander^ notwithjianding the aforefaid Pretence^ to cad it by that Title. I had purpojed to have given a Jhort Edflory here of the feveral Tra&s in this CodeSiion^ and fomething of the Reafon of them^ but I find it too long for a Preface. The Hymn to the Pidory Jeems mofi to re^ quire it^ the Reader is defired to obferve this . Poem was the Author s Declaration^ even when in the cruel Hands of a mercilefs as wed as un- juji Minijiry; that the Treatment he had from them was unjujl^ exorbitant.^ and conjequently iUegal. As The Preface. As this Satyr or Poem^ call it which you pleafe^ was wrote at the very time he was treat' ed in that manner^ it was taken for a Defiance of their illegal Proceedings^ and their not think' ing fit to profecute him for it was a fair Concef fion of Guilt in the former Proceedings J^ce he was in their Power^ (^nd^ as they thought^ not like to come out of it. ^Tis true fome faint Jhew of Refentment was modes and the Authors though then in PrifoUs never declined the Tefi of its fee themfehes in the wrong from the very firft exerting their Cruelty and Treachery upon this Authors and the Interefi of the Party fenjibly decayed from that very Moment of Time. Multitudes of Occajions have Jince that fervid to convince the Worlds that every Word of the Book he fuffered for was both literally and inters pretively the Senfe of the Party pointed ats true in Fa^s and true in Reprejentations and there' fore he cannot but repeat the Conclufion as relo' ting to himfelfs which he has feen made good even to publick Satisfa&ion. Tell The Preface. Tell them the* Men that plac’d him there Are Scandals to the Time, Are at a lofs to find his Guilt, And can’t commit his Crime. / Jhould enlarge on this SubjeBy hut that perhaps the World may in feme proper Seafen be troubled with the Journal of all the Proceedings^ Trials^ Treaties and Debates upon that Head^ and the Barbarity as well as FoUy of their Con- duB be fit in a true light to the World, As to the other piecesthe World has feen them fe lately in their proper Seafens,^ and the SubjeBs are fe plain^ I think Tts needlefs to fey any thing more to them^ let them /peak for themfehes. D. F. The ' THE CONTENTS. A New Difcovery of an Old Intreague: A Sa¬ tyr levell’d at Treachery and Ambition. • P^e i. More Reformation, A Satyr upon Himfelf. p. 27 An Elegy Man. on the Author of the True-born Englifi, p. 65. The Storm. AnEflay. A Hymn to the Pillory. A Hymn to Vidory. The Pacificator. p.90, f. 102, p- 118. ^^ 54 . The Double Welcome. Marlborough, A Poem to the Duke of p. 169. The The CONTENTS, The Diflienters Anfwer to the High-Church Chal¬ lenge. /». 185. A Challenge of Peace, addrefs’d to the Whole Na¬ tion. ‘ P* 224* Peace without Union* By way of Reply to Sir H....... M..’s Peace at Home. 24 j. More Short Ways with the DilTenters. 272. Anew Teftof the Church of EngUrtd^s Honefty, f. 296. A ferious Enquiry into this grand Queftion, Whe¬ ther a Law to prevent the Occafional Confor¬ mity of Dilfenters would not be inconfiftent with the Aft of Toleration, and a Breach of the Queen’s Promife ? ' p- 3 20. The Diflfenter Mifreprefented and Reprefented, f. ?44. The Parallel: or Perfecution of Proteftants the fiiorteft way to prevent the Growth of Popery in Irelandy /'• 37 °* Giving Alms no Charity, and employing the Poor a Grievance to the Nation; being an Eflay upon this great Queftion, Whether Work-Houfes, Corporations, and Houfes of Correftion for employing the Poor, as now praftis’d in Eng- Undi or Parifh-Stocks, as propos’d in a late Pamphlet i The CONTENTS. Pamphlet, entituled, A BiU for th ktter Relief, Employment and Settlement of the Poor, &c. are not miKnievous to the Nation, tending to the Deltruction of our Trade, and to increafe the Number and Mifery of the Poor. p. 419. Royal Religion: being fome Enquiry after the Piety of Princes; with Remarks on a Book en¬ tituled, A Form of Prayers us’d by Kjng William. ^ 45 ?' A A New Difcovery O F A N A SATYR leveird at Treachery and Ambiciod. Calculated to the Nativity of the R.ipp4ree Plot;, arid the. Modefty of the Jacobite Clergy *, defigned by way of Convi(ftion to the CXVII, Petitioners, and for the Be¬ nefit of thofe that ftudy the City Matheniaticks. PREFACE T O T H E One Hundred and Seventeen: 'T 'FiE End of Satyr /aught to bsexpofing FalJhoaJ, in order to Reformation. As all bVarrings are unlawful whofe Aim is not Peace, fo Satyrs not thus meant are no more Satyrs, hni Libels. One great CharaJer, and the Liner of which 1 lihed as tecII as any, is left out here, hecaufe the Perfon is B attoning. The PREFACE. attonxng^ as I am told, for the paji Errors of hh EraBice^ by a future Loyalty to the Government, As for me^ if I am blamed for accotwting the Pe¬ tition refleBed on a Branch of our new Jacobite Plot, / refer to the Letters t^en with my Lord Prefton, and fay no more to any whofe meaning was fort of that^ fas I hope fome were) than that they may here fee and be convinced whofe Tools they have been made, and whofe Work they have been doing. Lor my felf Gentlemen, who I am^ yon mujl excttfe me^ you fall not hnow^ why I wrote this^ I fhall anfvcer only negatively Xy not for Profit, nor make none of it I affitre yoUy and if I thought J could Work on you I would be flow 117 upon you gratis, and lofe fo much for a Reformation ^ not for Ap- plaufe 1 affure you^ for I fhall not fo much as ask how you like it ^ not for Envy or Malice, for I ho~ 7tour your Perfons, and ffiould be glad fo fee you be¬ come Englifh Men again, and, as I hinted above, ffmdd be fo much a Friend to the Work of Converfi- on, (K to leiTve out any other CharsiBer of a Reform¬ ing Brother. If no Reformation follows, 1 mufl do as Provi¬ dence does, let you alone to your own Wills Xy and ^ 17/ever drew my Pen before, fo expeB Tto fecond XltTafrora Your Humble Servant, iffc. d THE L ( 3 ) THE INTRODUCTION. I N Ancient Times when Mcii of Worth were knowii| Not by their Father’s Afiions, but their owrt^ When Honours Sacred Pile could be come at^ But by the Steps to Vertue dedicate 5 No purchas’d Fame our Panegyricks fung. Nor were our widdowed Harps on Willows huri^» Renown by downright hazard was attain’d. And Deeds of Honour only Honour gain’d. Expcnce of Blood the Noble Theme began. And he alone who fav’d a Roman call’d a Mari* No gawdy Heir with purchas’d Honour fate Infulting o’re the Legal Magiftrate; Nor glittering Knighthood ftrtitting with Renowri, •% That from the Father’s well fluft GHelt begun, & Purchas’d by high Mandamus made his own j J But Well fought Vidories did Fame advance,- The old try’d En^lijh way of fighting France. And certain Valour certain Glory won, The honed Bait to Emulation. No tatter’d Hero’s in the Shoulder-Belt, in Age and Poverty their Bruifes felt; By conquering Fortune ftill acknowledg’d Bravc^ Yet go Heroick Beggars to the Grave,- B z Nd The IN T RO DVCTIO N. No mangl’d Cavalier at Seventy Four, With fifteen Wounds obtain’d at Marfton-Moor^ His Scars expos’d to the unthankful Court, The Father’s Champion, and the Childrens Sport \ Whofe Stranger Politicks n^vv Syftems had. And crufh’d the Carcafe to exalt the Head *, And fo the Bafis of Deceit began.- The King put on by putting off the Man. And that the Royal Stratagem might take, Heroick Paths of Luxury they make ; New Ways of Happinefsand Life define. And facrifice to their almighty Wine ^ No Idol Paffoii more Enchantments knew Than this did firft contrive, and that purfue: Nor do the Ages fince Records were known Such Standards of refin’d Delufion own Tn clofe refolv’d Tyranuick ways purfuing By different Means that one great End, our Ruin^ WhileCroudsof thoughtlefs Mob with changeling Praife To their great God the King did facrifice ; Nor hot-Brain’d Zeal to fiery Afoloch paid Inhuman Offerings of the Sacred Seed, (While haplcfs Mothers their own Breafts deny To bribe the God with their own Progeny) With greater Gull than our Addreffors fold Their Liberty for Lull, for Flattery their Free-hold j With eager Violence their Charters gave, Bartring the fhadow Freedom for the fubftance Slave. And thus the new ereded Fabrick throve. And Freedom long with dying Pangs had llrove, The INTRO DUCT ION, Till Fate difclos’d its Reftoration nigh, The Mighty Sound difpirits Tyranny, So darkeft Clouds the Morning brightnefs flye. But ftill the haughty Fadion’s Difcontent, And ftriiggle with the Chains of Government j Reftraint from III is Freedom to the Wile, And he that parts with that will Tyrannize. Kings but by Agents ad illegal Power j No Jailor like a licens’d Prifoner. Who firft his Freedom fells, receives in Pay Licenfe to Tyrannize fome other way. He paid for this who firfi: indulg’d their Heat, Whofe Guile by pious Fraud they firft defeat; Men work for others, but for themfelves they cheat. For when they found Their darling Lufl: Ambition he reftrain’d, That Nero would be Nero by himfelf. That he engrofs’d the Power and eke the Pelf} That all their Recompences were Delay, Or fuch as Tyrants always Tray tors pay; Then their engag’d Afllftance they withdreyv, And with their Lives new Fortunes they purfue. So greedy Traitors, when their Hopes decline. Their conftant Benefadors undermine*. So Wolves, when barren Waftes afford no Prey, Will one another brutilhly dcftroy. A SATYR. &C. modern l^mne which hourly Pacquets bring, And Aftions born of yefterday, I ling : No errant Knights, but errant Knaves I quote. With Prefidents enough, and none remote. No Foreign Lifts our Catalogue fupplies. Some of our own the French have took as Prize j We fcorn Reprifals, Knaves of Foreign Growth Are Contraband: Jielides, the Prohibition barrs the Trade, And none but Knaves of English Stamp are made j And Troth the Stock is fo improv’d for Sale, The Manufafiure is pot like to fail. No Parallels from Hehrero Times I take. And leave the jingling Simily to fpeak j Who faithful Balm to EnglanSs Wounds applies. The Danger Ihows before the Remedies: Some Harmony with Hebrew Times may be, In fotne things differ, and In fbme ^ree. The ( 7 ) The chiming Parallel runs counter more On|i the different Steps than it agreed before. The Sacred Tribes with Heaven it felf convers’d. And thundring Sounds the dreadful Law rehears’d*. Immediate DiSates their Records begun, Carried by Voice and conftant Vifion on ; Human Debates obey’d the Heavenly Mode, And all their Statutes were the Laws of God *, Long Names and Pedigrees cou’d only tell The Hero was the Seed of Ifrael: For different Tribes no different Honour gave. But only mark'd the Hebrew from the Slave ; By Jm Divinnm of the Heavenly Call The Son of Jeffe^ not the Son of Saul The Regal Dignity at Hebron took. And all the Tribes the Royal Line forfook. The Sacred Oil was now as loud a Call As when their Teams were threaten’d by King Sauh No Levite durft in canting Phrafe dilfent, Nor levy War with dint of Argument: Nor did with David any Priefl: abide Whofe dormant Faith attended for the fcrong’ft fide: Even Samuel a due Obedience paid Unto the Monarch he himfelf had made; Proportion’d Grandure for himfelf declin’d T’his proper Work the Ark, and Sacrifice confin’d : No Titles rais’d, nor haughty Palace fram’d. But ftill was poor, and ftill was Samuel nam’d j The Altar ferv’d, a linnen Ephod wore. Was ftill as meek and humble as before; B 4 Re- ( 8 ) Retir’d from Court, in Reverend Vefts array’d. To JfraePs God, for Ifiael’sKiag he pray’d; Had but the Sacred Tribe his Steps purfu’d, What Years of Peace to Ifrael had enfu’d ? How had our flour’fliing Ifle glad Hours enjoy’d. For calmer Joys, and nobler Adtions made? While their dark Councils now embroil the State, Our Feuds encreafe, and Vengeance antedate *, And their unpradtis’d Hands exempt from War All the vafl: Profits of Confufion fhare. Fatal their Skill, too undifcern’d the Fraud, While pafliye Zealots their Harangues applaud \ Their Didtates fwallow, and at Jehuh Rate Swiftly drive on with thcfc hlack^^uards of Statej A Namelefs Hydra crow’d with Jatiw Face, That whifper civil Feuds, and cry for Peace. Domeftick Heroes, whcfe Dragooning Hands Seek out no foreign Wars,while they can plunder Friends. hfptre me Jove^ with Thunder arm my Pen, To lalh the Manners, and delcribe the Men. How their lov’d Tyrant they at firft ador’d, and hugg’d the Romijh Fopperies he rellor’d j How their reciprocal Contrivance met. And Mighty Injury upheld the State : How that loud ecchoing Theatre the Church Burlefque their God, and Sacred Themes debauch, Toud Thanks return for th’ Monfher they had made; A Frct'^flant Body with a Peptjh Head; With humble Pray rs that Chrift would now permit That yitittchriji Ibould take his Sacred Seat^ The ( 9 ) The Body govern, and the Members keep, So Wolves protect the unarm’d and eafie Sheep. Their loud Addrejfes fanftifie the Fraud, \ And his Almighty Violence applaud: Prompt him to Mifchiefs with uplifted Note, As Right and Wrong had been their own by Vote. Vow’d that if ever he his Fate fhould try x With Life and Fortune they would all (hand by, X So afterwards they did at Salisbury: j Nor murmur’d they until difpenfing Art Their well-belov’d Ambition had cut fliort; But early * Thanks for Standing Armies gave, *7^® Ain 11 ^ ^ Ad- And Ihouted home the glorious Charter Slave: drefs. With Mulhrome Joy themfclves Themfclves deceiv’d. And thank their God for what they ne’rej*believ’d “f Triumphant Flames in Hypocritick Scorn 1 A fecond time do London’s * Trophies burn, S Workt While injur’d Heaven does fladi for flalh return. S Yet thefe the fame who when his Fame decreas’d. And all his borrow’d Glories overcaft; Are found Caballing, and in fhort Debate, Qiiitting his Fortunes to avoid his Fate. Naffivian juftice Tiranny fuppreft. The wearied Land for fome few days had reft; A few they were indeed, and very few. Till Difcontents our former Feuds renew ; And did King Jefm Reign they’d murmur too. Some fmallcr Aids to our new Joys they lent. And feign’d to fmile when they could not prevent*. But bank’d of Lawlefs Power as once to Reign, At their own aahrvard Jeft they firft repine j At C 10 ) At Government with padive Fury rail. And their fbrfaken Idol now bewail t • His hopeful Voyage to Irifh Boggs they fing. And his Almighty Thou&nds hither bring: From Month to Month his numerous Hofts they (how. How oft has England been invaded fo ! Of his great Deeds they threaten’d, and of their own. And talk’d of Fights, but always talk’d at Home. So Great Ear as the Royal Fortrefs Mann’d, How oft he fwore, how oft the Prince he Damn’d : With many a battering Curfe, and many a Gun *, Still as he run he curft, and as he curft he run. His willing Bands with wondrous Courage broke. Nor fought he for his Monarchs Caufe a llrokc j But fled e’re yet the diftant Troops appear. And had his Guilt been lefs fo had his Fear. And now for Twins in Craft, obferve the Men Wno early for the Prince’s Caufe began: The rais’d, and with united Bands In Fraud and in Ambition too fliook Hands; For Hoftages their Noble Pledges gave. There needs no Arts to keep him true that’s brave j Once with our Hate fuccefsfully they ftrove. Screen’d by their Vices and their Mailer’s Love \ Blotted by Pride, as they had oft been told. By their ownBrafs, and by the Kingdoms Gold : Their early DiSates of Ty rannick Sway, When we the King, the King did them obey; They ftill maintain, nor can they foon forget To crulh the Subjed and embroil the State ; New C M ) New Fears of UDborn Faftioas do infufb. And threadbare Cries of Forty One renews. Accuftom’d to be jealous even of Light, When formidable Nothings did affright; Vouch that the Votes that William’s Scepter gave Made him a King a Commonwealth to have. That thofe are fitteft to direft his Rule Who meant him that unthinking thing a Toolj Unfetter’d at his Hazard, not their own. Would pay the Switx.er off, and reign alone: And now in clofefl: Councils they prefide. With Friend and Foe an eqnal Spoil divide: With double Afpeft feek their Angle Ends, Aiding King William with King James his Friends } To neither true, but hold the Poife at Home, That both may humble Clients be to great King Tom, And now the Church that Sacred Vizor’s on» And Rome begins to pull down Babylon : Dragooning’s ceas’d, and Pallive Laws declare, They wait to fee the IfTue of the War. Too well the fubtil Statefman knew the^Tribe, To tamper till he found the Soveraign Bribe, Too well he knew they could not long withftand sbtriocX A trifling Oath. De FaUo now at one Diftin£lion gain’d The Mil’tant Thoufands of the Sacred Train, Who long with ftarving Hopes withftood in vain. Four Golden Candlefticks compofe the Van, 4. Non-juting With all their Perfecution glories on. , The C 12 ) The fame that in the fiery Furnace trod For Sons o’th’ Church are all the Sons of God# A fifth nor Clergy, nor the Laity owq. Was Soldier, Bilhop, Lord, and Puritan. Bifli. Blue Cloak, or Caflbck, Troop, or Convocation, And thus he tryes his Skill upon the Nation. In grand Proceflion thus he views the Lifts, His Squadron full four Hundred Booted Priefts; The black Brigade thus for their Church appear’d. And horrid Cries for ^hdyy Harvy^ rear’d: With Notions fear’d, and their own Guilt fubdued, So once before they fled when nonepurfued j But when the Terror of the Church begun. And Citts in Troops of Blew-Coat^Whiags came on, The Martial Zealot in his Cope uprears To Royal Petticoats his Chriftian Prayers; And for disbanding Grace made his Orifons, Which, like his Lordfhip’s Repartees, were wife ones. One purchas’d Prieft, whofe Pay did not mifearry, A very Prieft, for very Mercenary; Confeious of his too tottering Faith, and knew That if he took but one, Ihould perjure two; In Confcience faid he’d never break them both. And fwore by God he. would not take the Oath. But now the gawdy Nicety’s in vain, De F^Bo_ Swearers with de jure joyn. Sworn and iinrworn one common Caufc promote. And private Feuds for publick Good forgot; While ( 13 ) While Doctor Sherlod now the Church haranguM, With that fame Topick Cook had try’d and bang’d. The honeft Levites^ who are poor and few, As they may well be poor who dare be true ^ With Words they wheedle fome, with Gold as many. For Priefts were always to be bought for Money. Room for a Regiment of Bigott Citts, Who lately loft, and lately found their Wits j By wondrous Fate with * forfeit Favours grac’d, f • / im-t By Mighty T— wa’s Almighty Magick plac’d: View them in Arms when our invaded Coaft Some glittering Hopes propos’d that all was loft. How their advanc’d Battallions did appear To fight the Men appointed to come here. Sir William that in Martial Robes did fliine, And Reafon good indeed, began the Line; With many a Rank of Tory Buff and Feather, ‘ That’s now reftor’d, and gone the Lord knows whither; To keep the Peace Precedencies did grant. And here, (if not at Home) he’s Commandant; Tho’ might he choofe Commands, ’twould be agen Ten Thoufand Guinea’s, not Ten Thoufand Men: Ah! 'Tom Papillion, ’twas a flippery Trick To bilk the Mayor, and then to Holland fneak: See now the Martial Magiftrate fi'om far. With all his dreadful Equipage of War; Three equal Halves compofe bis ftately Meen, Halt Lord, half Soldier, half a Gentleman; And three as equal Dividends make out The gawdy Stiles of his Pedantick Rout- ( >4 ) True City Champions Tumults to appeafe. And wifli’d for Conventiding Trophies raife j As Taylors, Porters, Prentices, become Half drunk, half fober, and a half run home. Sir Peter next had Primitive Command, Compleatly fix’d, had but his Boots come on, A Campaign Phys, and as it came to pafs. As much a Soldier, and as much an Afs i In different Stiles his numerous Titles ran. Was Hangman, Colonel, and Chamberlain j Synonimous to that miraculous Store, Was very Rich, and allb very Poor. In later Times he learn’d to domineer. And now moft accurately fwaggers here; His Favourites now his dear bought Trophies fing. And he fues for fpeaking Treafon like a King Enrich’d with lufty Verdift from the * Aflizc, Who at two Marks his over-valued Honour prize. for A third, and fourth, to fill the Cavalcade, With match’d Battallions meet on the Paradej For equal Falfhood equal Fate befel. This dub’d a Knight, and that a Colonel. A fifth, and fixth, with many a fubaltern. Went out with Fools, and juft as wife returm But his Condition juftly we condole, for Pity is a Tribute to a Fool; Who firft difmounted in the hot Difpute, Went out on Horfeback, and came home on Foot j- The unhappy * Shot diftinguilh’d to a Jeft, Pick’d out the Animal, and fpar’d the Beaft: Tho» * A Trooper iliot the Ma;o;'s Horfe as thej* march'd rhro the Sc had two Marks Dama-^ ges. C 15 ) Tho’ fome affirm the Troth did not appear Till he had firfl: be-^t himfelf for Fear ■ Nnr with the Fright did his Misfortune end But firft his Brother Beall condol’d, and next hisFriendi So once the Woodman to the Man of God When the loll Ax funk in the neighbouring Flood Alas ’twas borrowed. ’ And thus the Knights with City Difcipline March’d to High-Park indeed to fee the Queen*, So once the French with Forty Thoufand Men Went up the Hill, and lb came down agen \ So once King Jamei his Squadrons did delude-a. By Storming Hounfiow-He'ath inllead of Bada: Had you the Baggage of the Holl but view’d, Befides the running Campers that purfu’d j Had you beheld the Stores, the Magazine^ 1 The Bread, the Cheefe, the Bottles, and the Wine, C You would have fwore’t had been a Scotch Campaign 5 N That barren Highlands their Fatigues fliould know. Where neither they could reap, nor others fow : Or that Montrofs’s Marches they Ihould take. With fifty days Provifion at his Back. And now the Queen advances to the View, Lord! how the ready Troops in order Ihew, No more a Figure, their diforder’d Files, Butone great Throng the well fix’d Line compiles i To let the Qpeen their Annual Pollures know At their more regular Figure, Lord-Mayors-Show. And now the Royal Chariot’s Ihouted home By that Almighty Monller Captain Tom^ Whofc ( iK ) Whofe ccchoing Shouts when Ihe no more can liear^ Their Pot-gun Volleys charge Her Royal Ear; Whofe regular Noife, had Ihe not known how tame. How unprepar’d, and how refolv’d they came; Some dreadful fcambliiig Combate did prefent, 'Alike confus’d, tho’different in event; And who knows what that day might have produc’d By Wine and Martial Gallantry feduc’d; Had not the wifcr Sex their Votes deny’d, As to the Bag of Bullets by the fide. Wifely the advent’rous Wife her prefence gave. To calm with Frowns the Fop (he came to fave; A Whip’s a proper Weapon for a Slave; So once ScUvonian Mailers did attack. When conquering Slaves came in Rebellion back. And thus the Royal Mailer did conclude. And th’ Holl diflblv’d into a Multitude; Meer 2ldob the Matter, Army was the Form, So Bees go out a Troop, come back a Swarm. So Vapours well compos’d may reprefent Ships, Armies, Battels, in the Firmament, ’Till Ileddy Eyes the Exhalation folves. And all to its firft Matter Cloud diflblves. Mean while the Martial Terrors of the Field The threaten’d Whiggs with juft Difdain beheld,' Th’ unweildy Monller they at once defie. And in their Monarch’s Cares do Peace enjoy; Th eir joyful Aids to his Support lay down. And thankfully his happy Influence own; ( 17 ) Their hearty Thoulands his Exchequer kabwS, And ready Loan their prefs’d Obedience fhovcs 5 No falfe Harangues of late addrefling Age, But thus their Livti and Vortmes they engage \ An as« when How more confus’d, if Impudence can blufl), When fearch’d for boafted Plots-! The Priell, as Priefts are wont, deceiv’d the Throng, And look’d for* Treafon’s prov’d a bawdy.Songj^’APar" And thus the Gallick FiEiories they decRr’d, ken It feven before the haltening Fad appear’d; Corfee- Boafting their Shame,and hugg’d themfelves to findHouf®* Their Ifrad, their own IfraeL flee before the FlnUfiine; juft then when finking Horror did furround, Aud prefent Fears our abfent Hopes confound; The wondrousTrurap his * Conqueft founded ©’re,'^®)"* So once his Afped fav’d the Land before. Moments of Time the vaft Occafion it. To thofe furprizing, and to thefe compleat: Had the great Deed, exadly tim’d by Fate, One weighty Jundure flipr, ’t had come too late j Had he not fought, or had it not been then, Tho’ he had Conquer’d, it had been in vain. So Mighty Naffau^ fo did Heaven contrive That thy great Hand Ihould twice the Nation fave. See now the Hydra-FaElion of the Town . Cry hail^znd bend with auk ward Coucheesto the Throne j The Caufedifown, and cowardly iVirrocurfe, Not that he did no better, but no worfe: And (19) And were they true to their adopted Caufe^ There’s far more danger in their Tongues than ChMi For now with fatal Induftry they drive. And unto one paft Plot two more contrive *, Nor grudge to peri(h in the Storm they raife* So their laft Fall their Country but betrays: So fwift are Men to defperate ills defign’d. To Ill fpontaneous, and in Good confin’d. A Proof the evil Principle is firft. And Guilt has all the Power to Will ebgrofs’d. View next the laft Fatigue of new-born Hopei To fink their Fears, and empty Comforts prop, Exaftly laid, but * God hnoms how let drop. The Words of the Letter In fupplfant Poftures now to Court th6y go, td ^ * /1 • • taken witn And they who once abhorr petition now. LotdP^rjiQii Nor are the Rout of lefs fuppos’d Efteem, Than Sixfcore reprefenting Pcrfons feem: Captains of Thoufands, mighty Men of Valour, From filly Willy to Captain Tom the Taylor i In Mood and Figure to the Houfe made wayi To beg their Prentices a Holiday. And made a moft unconfcionable Prayer, That they might have no Aldermen, nor Mayor i But that the City, as in ancient Troy^ One general Revel-Jubilee might enjoy; That BedUmy Uewgatty ComterSy and Bridewell^ Might with the Common- C . -il now rebel y That Tower Ditches might exclude the Thames^ And Royal truckle to Ring G 2 And (20 ) And that your poor Petitioners may be eas’d, And have a Mayor, or no Mayor, as they pleas’d; Remonftrating that what they did reltorc Had more reftrain’d them than they were before j ’Twas not their loathfome Priviledges they fought, But freedom to do ill. Give them their ancient Priviledges agen, .When they could plunder and deftroy like Men: The lufcious Garlick of the former Reigns, and pin not Freemen up with Polls and Chains: When tbreatning Ballions at the Tower begun. And Guild-Hall Gate became a Garrifon. When Charters were the Tell, and Kings cou’d know What they durll ask, the Subjeft durlt bellow: When trolly Patriots bought Mechanick Sway, Begg’d for illegal Orders to obey. And Compliment their Liberties away •, Whofe * fwifter Grant his Cravings did defeat, ‘ And Tyranny it fclf anticipate.- Shavl Company’s A new Sir Will, this fecend March begun, Sefaway And brought his Blunderbufs., but left his Gun. ‘'cl'- *Twas thought theK. bellow’d hisSpiirsin fpight, wfth hif And fpoil’d a Captain to compofe a Knight; In Whigg-Plot days have you not feen the Beau With Martial Bagpipe to the Main Guard go; With many a Blunderbufs, and Mufquetoon, Compleatly arm d, with Cane, and Pantaloon: Equipp’d with his Hereditary Pride, And his Inheritance of Brains befide: Nature has wifely blazon’d on his Face • . The Efchutcheon of his family, an Afs: From C 21 ) From Ear to Ear the Mantling does extend, Crejled to fhow the Goat’s the AfleS Friend; Accuftom’d to Command, he rais’d in pity This Independant Troop to ferve the City .* And wifely does reinonftrate to the Houfe , How much his Zeal before his Knowledge goes51 And how he had improv’d his Time at School, O Was now a well accomplilh’d Captain Fool, ^ A weighty Blockhead, with an empty Scull. Next him Sir Ralphs in his due order flood, A very Ralph^ a very piece of Wood; By Art they fay his Timber does excel. An artificial Stroke may polilh Hell: Some hid Accomplilhments he may contain. That do for Speculation ftill remain j Or to be known, when th’ Art to underftand. Without the drudgery of fpeaking’s gain’d. At prefent if we judge by what is known, As to the fpecies of a Fool, tie’s one. Alas Tom Durfey thou haft fallen jlicrty p . And now * Drugefim lhall excufe thee for’t, >/’*»-<•«, pag. For he had elfe come next to make us fport •, J ‘ With ruby Face, and old abhorring Nofe, So Copper mix’d with Stone does Brafs compofc. Next Coufin Will-, with withered Face and Foot, In his addreffing Slippers hobbl’d to’t, With aukward Phys^ and a petitioning Band, __ Recants abhorring now, to heal the Land: With many a Sigh the Danger reprefents, And now like the Brother Statefman cants, C 3 Had ( 22 ) Had he a linnca Ephod from the Stall, pa’s Head a neighbouring Sign, he’d be a Cardinal; Were I King James Tdc fend for him to France^ And to a real Hat the Tool advance. ^ Who knows when once become His Eminence^, He may be fitter for an * Evidence. ’HisBlun- Bchdes feme change attends him that he knows, Barr of the Inform’d by his prognofticating Toes. ’ Now if you’d hear fome Loyal City Farce, Hear Bed - -d, heel bid you kifs his Ar— Nor SherrifFs, nor Mayor, nor Common Halls excus’d. But his Pofteriors are alike expos’d: Nay, if Bow Bells for Whiggifh Joys are rung. The jangling Metal muft falute his Bung; The Parliament he hopes will hear him now, If not his common Compliment they know. Some of the fort have Crimes arc Capital, On whom their Brothers Blood for Vengeance callj Tender of thefe, we fay to Roufe and Brough^ Eternity is Punsjhment enough. Take an authentick Terra for your Condition, ’Twas Murthcr ftil’d b^ th’ Houfe you now petition: Petition Heaven, (if it be not too late) And tempt no more inevitable Fate: But note, that they do Penitence pretend, ^bo ftrivc to extenuate, and not amend. And here fome Tears does injur’d Cernijh call, ^ Whom weeping Heaven does annually bewail, > And Vengeance/a7j/t as Fate upon hisMurtherers entail^) ‘ Whofe ( 28 ) Whofe Death will never be forgot, forgiven On Earth by Man,, or unreveng’d by Heaven: An innocent Man by your unrighteous Breath, As a Man before the Wicked fell,'--— To paint the fingle Charafter of all Would fwell the Satyr to a Chronicle: As whipping Langhamy and his Brother Ktnty p With pious Brerewoody Doftot 3 inall-Beer’s Saint, ^ And feme that facrificed Miftrefs Gaunt ; J With one of CormJheSy (that yet furvives) And near an Hundred more Diminutives: One general Charafter the Lift may own. The Hackney "Jurors^ of the drooping Town j The Inquilitors of late Tyrannick Reign, Who now petition for Power to ride again. How vaft had been the Lift, haefnot the Band To Senate Members only been confin’d: Thus Sir J —— Moor they left, and that was pity, Who, fo long been the Genius of the City: Well might the King to his Efchntcheon add The Rampant * Liony w'ho fuch roaring And eat up all the Privileges we had: And fome Affiftants that the Fury fed • Were now become of the petitioned. Not thence the flacker handed to put on, The labour’d Purchafe of Confufion : For if paft Hazards are a proper Teft, Sir * Thomas (hares a Faith above miftruft; Who frigidated by diftemper’d Hamsy Hisfttry Zeal for Slavery proclaimsi C 4 With ( 24 ) With gouty Corps, in Mathematick Chair, To Charter giving Votes did heartily repair. Sir Sy -- Lewis held up t)oth his Paws, To think that he who fmarted for the Caufe, Should now be robb’d of his delight, Applaufe.j And by his quondam Honours loudly fwore, Tho’ jilted oft, was never thus before; Nothing but Time can lay the Fermentation, Or make his VVorlhip fit for Converlation. Not Celia's Charms, not Clara's tender Hours, But raves in Love, and frets in his Amours. Sir - m W- - ms firft the Caufe efpous’d And all his Iputtering Eloquence he rous’d; Foaming with learned Fury, you’d ha’ thought He came to fpew thenkin he once Ipew’d out. Well hir’d to be the Churches Champion, And thus for Btjhops Trial does attone. For Sovereign Fee with eager Note does prate. No Caufe fo bad but has an Advocate. And to make up the Show with Men of Senfe Comes Common Sergeant for an Evidence j With and They\ with Vs\ and Suppofe'% Tells how in Common-Hall he counted Nofes: Tells you how he himfelf with City Power, Decently waited on by Sheriffs, and Mayor^ Does Propria Perfona firft difclofe. And tell the People who it is they chofe. With meagre Face, and true Mechanick Pride, So will th’ exalted Beggar always ride. The C O N C L U S I O N. G Reat Najfau from his envied Throne look’d down And view’d their bnfie Malice with a Frown. Their impotent Fury view’d with juft Difdain, jind ask'd if he had fav'd them all in vain ? Their weak Intreagues with due Contempt he law. And generoufly reftrain’d the Scourge of Law. His conquering Mercy did his Juftice ftay. And at his Peril let them difobey: Reftraints to his own injur’d Paffions gave, Tl^r Folly pitied, and their Guilt forgave. A Proof he ftrove for their meer Liberty, Had Fought to fave, and Conquer'd to let free j Divinely Good, their treacherous Arts he bore. Was ftill as kind, and gentle as before: Arm’d them as Friends, to fortifie his Throne, And fmil’d until they thought he durft not frown. But when their Infolence his Arm defy’d. And wou’d again their baffled Caufe have try’d. And he mull now deftroy or be deftroy’d ; Lets flie at once his Vengeance to devour. And gives a tafte of his miltaken Power: Takes care that they (hall never more rebel. And with juft Thunder drives them down to Hell. “ So Jove when Earth-born Titan's did afpire, “ Pile Hill on Hill, and higher yet came and higher. .. . ' ^ ^ ) ‘ Tin they almoft had fcal’d Heavens glittering Wall, And either they, or he himfelf mufl: fall, * “ Unrein’d his Vengeance, let his Thunders flic, ^ And forked Lightnings fally round the Skie j “ The black Jbyfj is cover’d with their Spoils, ** They float on Chaos^ like enchanted Ifles j d with angry Bolts,from lurge to furge they go* “ Defpair and raving wander in Eternal Woe; J^May all thine Enemies, Great Nafoa, perilhfa. Mare More Reformation, A SATYR upon HIM SELF, THE PREFACE. T H E World hM been pleas'd to manage me fe feverely of latey that if ever 1 prefume to viftt them in Print agdn^ / muf at the fame time make a tediotu jipology^ andfo defcend to tfihat I have always had an uiverjiou tOy I mean the Imper¬ tinence of a long Preface. 'Tis hard, that when by a Mans Writing tis plain enough what he means, yet a poor Author fhould he forc'd to trouble the World with a long Account of what he does not mean too. I confefs, according to the Cufiom of the Times, he that writes any thing which may be mi funder flood, ought to CX- peft to be mifunderftood, and ought to give People leave to believe he meant ill, tho' the Error it in their own Eyeflght, and the Reafon is, becaufe he that knew the Defell of Cuflom ought to have fenc'd againfl it: As when a Man talks foftly to a deaf Man, he ought to expeH the Man f iould think he Curfes when he Complements, and that if he fmiles at a Story, he laughs at him he tells it to, and he cannot blame the Man neither, becaufe he might have fpoke plainer. This is the Cafe with refpell to thofe Di{fenters, who are of the Opinion, That a certain Book, which, *tis too true for mc was of my writing^ was writ with a Deflgn to have all the Dijfenters hang'd, banijh’d, or deflroy'd, and that the Gallows and the Callies flsouldbt the Penalty of going to a Conventicle, forget- The PREFACE. forgetting that at the fame time 1 mufi dejign to have my Fa^ ther^ my Wife^ fix innocent Children^ and my felL pnt into thefam^Condition. ^ t jill the Fault / can find in my felf as to thefe People is^ that when I had drawn the PiElure^ / did not^ like the Dutch Afan^ With hts Man and Bear^ write under them^ This is the Man WThi$ is the Bear, lejl the People Jhould mifiake me. * Jconfefs I did not forefee ah Occafion for this^ and having tn a Compliment to their Judgments flmnnd fo fljarp a Reflect en upon their Senfes^ I have left them at Liberty to treat me like one that put a Vdue upon their Penetration at the Expence of my own. . ^ I have no Occafion further to mention that unhappy Book than on thefe jiccountSy for '*tis plain all othtr Parties underfiand ity and take it as it was me ant ^ and lam like to find it fo. ^ The Liberty the World has taken with my Character in this tin^ of my Retreat has been the Occafion of this Book. ^Tis hard^ that when a Man under the Publick Refentment was obliged to keep out of the way^ the whole World Jhouldfiy at him^ like a Dog with a Broom at his Tail^ reckon up all the Faults of hts Life^ and Ten Thoufand more than ever he com- tnitted^ to be the common places of their general Difcourfe^ ta¬ king the Advantage of his Abfence^ when he was not able to anfwer for himfelf Nay^ fo extravagant was the whole Werld^ that one had Wit little enough^ as well as Manners^ to challenge me in Print^ when be knew at the fame time ther^ was a Reward of Fifty Founds to he given to him that would difcover where I was. This wasfuch a Satyr upon all the refi^ that really inftead of fighting that Gentleman I would thank him^ if I knew who he wasy as a Perfon that was willing to Jhew himfelf a Coxcomb that other People might fee their own Pictures. ^ England is particularly famous for the moji generous way of Fighting tn the Worldj I mean as to the common Peoples pri¬ vate Quarrels^ while the Dutch mangle one another with Knives^ the Scotch Highlanders knock one anothers Brains out with Pole-Axes^ the IviPdfiab with their Skeins^ and Spa¬ niard S with their Daggers-^ the Englifll Men fairly Box it ,oht^ and tn this way of fighting the Rabble fiand by to fee fair Play, The P R. E F A C E. Flay^ as they call it^ which is^ that when a Man is down ^tis connted foul Play^ and the Tricl of a Coward^ to firike him^ but let him rifey and then have at him, Gentlemeny it had been hut kind to have given me fair PUy^ and not fall all upon me when I was down •, let me get up again^ if I can, for 1 much doubt it, and then let us fee whofe Face is blackefi^ and welcome. In this nniverfal Humour of Mobbing me fonie Gentlemen have defeended very mach beneath their own CharaBers^ as well as Honejiy^ to the Difgrace of good Manners^ and the Scandal of their Education, If / was not really very angry with them / fhoald give them feme room in this Book^ but 1 [corn to make ft Satyr the Method of Jhewing my private Re- [entnfent. If I would refent all the fcoundrel Vfage I have met with^ and fome of it from my Frtendsy I mufl certainly prepare to die with ray Shooes on, and therefore I chufe to let it pafsy as that which is really more Shame to the jiuthor of Scand^ than to me. But that the World may fee I am not one of thofc that pro- {life what I reprove^ I began this Satyr with owning in wy felf thofe Sins and Misfortunes which lam no more exempted from than other Men • and as I am far from pretending to be free from Human Frailtiesy but forwarder to confefs any of the Er¬ rors of my Life than any Man can be to accufe me^ I think rr^ felf in a better way to Reformation than thofe who excufe their own Faults by reckoning up mine^ Some that have heard me complain of this hard Vfage have told mcy there is fomething of a Retaliation of Providence in ity for my being fo very free with the Char alters of other Men in a late Satyr calPdy The Reformation of Manners, To this I anfwer, Firft, In that Satyr^ or any other 1 ever wrote^ I have al¬ ways carefully avoided lafhing any Man^s private Infirmities^ as being too fenfible of my own j but if I have Jingled out any Men*by CharaBers^ it has cither been fuch as pretending to reform others^ and execute the Laws againfi FicCy have been the great Examples and Encouragers oj it in their own Exam¬ ple and PraBice, Or The P R E F A C E. Or fueh ds have been trnfied with the executive Power of ^nfiice^ and having been called Hpon by the Laws to reform hSj have been apMick Reproach to the Magifiracy of this Nation^ and ought to he pnnifid by the Laws they have been prote^edby. • Secondly, / have never made any Adores Difafiers and JMisfortmei the SutjeEi of my Satyr, I never reproached any Man for having his Houfe burnt^ or his Ships cafi away,^ or his Family ruind j I never lampooned a Man becaufe he could not pay his DebtSy or for his being a Cuckold. Thirdly, / never reproach'd any Man for his Opinion in Peligionj or us^d him the worfefor differing in Judgment from me. Indeedy if / meet with a profefs*d Atheifiy that after God has given him Life and a Beingy denies to own the being of him that made him j if 1 meet with a Clergy^man that points the way to Heaven to other PeopUy but tells them ^tis not worth while for him to go that way himfelfy a Fellow that Preaches hecaufe he^s paid for ity and bids his Hearers get them to Heaven and be Damn’d to ’em, in fuch Cafes I think I have no Bounds fet me. If therefore the fcandaleus Treatment I have received is juft upon me for abufing other Sy I fnuft ask fuchy Who is the Man ? Where is the Char alter I have given that is not juft ? And whereas the Retaliation of Providence that thefe Men entitle themfelves to in loading me with Falpties and LieSy as a juft Punijhment for my faying the Truth f But a P^-^x on himy faid a certain fober Gentleman, that did not ufe to have fach Words in bis Mouth, he is a Whigg, and what need he have meddrd with his own Par* ty t could not he have left them outy there were CharaBcrs enough d Pother fide. Why reallyy Gentlemeny I mufl own I know no Whigg or To^ ry in Vice^y the y'iciom and the f^ertuous ar^e the only two Par^^ ties I had to do withy if a viciousy lewdy debauched Magi- ftrate happen'd to he a Whiggy what then? let him mend his Manner Sy and he may be a Whigg ftilly and if noty the reft .ought to be aftanPd of him. The PREFACE* Befidesy if they wilt have me be of that Party^I think 1 ought rather to have fix'd on my own Party than not, Firft, That no Man might fay I wm partial and unfair, and Second¬ ly, That thofe I had mofi Kindnefs for might reform firfi, which is the heft thing I could wijh for them. Well, Gentlemen, if thefe are my Faults, you have paid me home for them ; and now 'tis my Turn again, but J fijoU treat you with fome different Candor from what I receiv'd. I do own that I fiiall never fee a notorious fcandalous Magi- ftrate, a whoring drunken Clergyman, a lewd debauch'd Juftice of the Peace, a publick hlafpheming jitheift, but I fijall be apt to have a fling at him my w^ -, but you have done mf this good' that 1 flail always be a publick Penitent for my own Mifcarri* ages, if it he only in meer Pride not to be liable to you Recri¬ mination. And I recommend nvy PraBice to all my Friends, if they toould be Satyr free^ Confeflion will anticipate Reproach, He that reviles us then reviles too much. All Satyr ceafes when the Men repent, Tis Cruelty to lafh the Penitent. And yet, Gentlemen, I defire not to be miftaken, for as / will never hide my Infirmities, fo I am not oblig'd to confefs Sins / never committed', and therefore fpeaking to the vicious, with whom 1 have been fo free, Imufi fay, I was not in their Debt this Acknowledgmentfor tho’ I have been a Man of Mif- fortunes, and one of the greatefi has been to be wrongfully ac- cus d, yet I have the Comfort of this Negative, if negative l^ertues can be any Comfort, That J have not been a Man of Vice, and whatever Malice may have the ill Hature to ftggejt, I venture to fay without Pride no Man can charge me with it. I forbear to fay any thing farther than Thankfulnefs to re¬ fir aimng Goodnffs extorts, for I count a Man no proper Advo¬ cate for himfelj; But if I muff^j^ the Pharifee a little,! mstft begin thus", God, 1 thank thef, Jam not a Drunkard, or d Swearer, or a JVhore-mafier, or a bufie-body, or idle, or re¬ vengeful, Stc. and tho this be true, and I challenge all the " World The P R E F A C f. World to frove the contrary^ yet I mufi own I fee fmall Satis* faction in all the pojjible Negatives of common V~ertHe ; for tho J have not been gnilty of any of thefe Vices^ nor of many more^ I have nothing to infer from thence hut Tq Deum Laudamus. Bat after all^ how can it he true that I have been too free with the Charatlers^ when here are a fort of People almofi rea¬ dy to go together by the Ears about the Char alters ; if there be a drunken Jufiice^ all Men are fond of being thought the Man^ the Lawyers have named me Twenty Men for my ClitUS, and abundance more for Fletumacy, and if 1 have fingid out but one of a fort^ where is the Injury to any Body f fince if they wh^ "are namd^dont like it^ here is fo many People are fond of ta* king it up in their fiead. However^ it feems to be a Di/paragement to the Satyr t6 want fo direEl a Hint at the Perfon namld^ as if the Character was not a fuffeient Defeription of the Party^ and this argued a deficiency of Wit in the Performance, In order therefore to pleafe every Body^ if that impojfible thing be likely^ J have plac'd the few CharaEiers in this Book without any true References^ declaring before hand that the Letters fgnifie no Body^ and the Confequences of this are two, Firft, If any Perfon has reafon to think he is the Man point¬ ed out in any particular^ he is at liberty to difown the Char a- fter^ and by his future Reformation to fhew that it could not be he. Secondly, Thofe that are fond of a rank Char alter need not fall out who was meant by the Author^ but as many as find their Ukenefs in the PiEhure may call it their own^ and fill up th^ Blanks with their Names tf they pleafe. They who expeEt I fhould fay any thing of my own Matters relating to The fhorteft Way, will he rmfiaken^ this is no part of the Defign^ nor hath the Book any thing to do with it \ fo far as that Book has difpleapd the Government^ I have fur-- rendred at Diferetion^ and having voluntarfly committed my felf to the Publick Clemency^ have no more to fay but this^ It is the Qiieea, let Her do what feems good ia Her EyeSi * ASure More Reformation^ S A T Y R. M e that in Satyr dips his aiigry Pciii To lalb the Manners, and the Crimes of Meh | Pretends to bring their Vices oh the Stagei And draw the piroper Picture of the Age ; If he be mortal, if he be a Man^ ''' They’ll make a Devil of him if they can. The meaneft: flip (ball in a Glafs be Ihown, That by his Faults they may excvife their own' So guided by ttteiir Paflions, Pride, or Fate, ^ That they who Ihould reform, recriminate ( And he that firfl: reforms a vicious Town,, Prevents their Ruin, but compleats his own , For if he was an Angel from on high. He cannot ’fcape the general Infamy : They who refolve they never will amend Aflault him firft, their Vices to defend J And when his Lines may happen to^onvince j ,. They mifs the Paflions, tho’ they touch the Senfe.' By fecret Pride, of which we all partake, We’ll hate the Doftrine for the Teacher’s fake i . , , D S^orii ( 34 ) Scorn the InftruQiOn, or with high Dirdain* Tho’ we receive the Hint, abufe the Man-, As School Boys, when correflted for a Fault, Like what they learn, but hate the Man that taught* Ill Nature is confpicuous enough In Mankind’s ftrong Averfion to Reproof, In which their Paffions cohtradifl: their Senfc, While Shame and Pride fhut out their Penitence* For Pride^s the Native Regent of the Mind, And where it rules it ruins all Mankind j He that pretends to ftorra it, may as well Afliault the very Counterfcarp of Hell; Ten Thoufand lefler Devils ftand witVm, To garrifon thei;|,Frontier Town of Sin: Whoni e’rc this fwelling Vapour does poflefs, It never fails their Reafon to fupprefs; To llruggle with it is a vain Pretence, It matters all the Manners and the Senfe 5 But above all things, ’tis diftinftly Ihown, In that our leaft Miftakes we fcorn to own; Go on in Vice, becaufe we hate to mend, And won't acknowledge what we can’t defend; And if the fawcy Priefts, or Poets, dare • To lalh the fafliionable Vice we wear; Nay, tho’ their Language fliould convince th’ Age, They’ll liifs the grave Inttrudor off" the Stage. Shame, Pride’s young Sitter, and her felf a Vice,- Prompts Nature next Repentance to defpife j She talks of Honour, Scandal of the Times,- Blulhes at Reformation, not at Crimes, Meir ( 55 ) Men ihuli be vicious when they have begiiSj The fcandal of Acknowledgment to fliun j The/muft go on in Vicei Becaiife they’re in^ Afham’d t* repent, but not aiham’d io fin t Thefe Mens Dcftfudion no Man can pfevent| Fer Afodejty hat. made them Impudent. The Difficulty in this Riddle lies 5 , ^ The Vertue Ihou’d reform them is their Vice^ bJo proper Language can deferibe the Cafe, Too little tionefly, and too much Grace: . towards, whom Nature too much Courage lehrj •Who dare to fin, but date not to repent; tools, Who unhappily are curft with Wit; And know not how to own what they cominitJ • Thefe Arguments the latent Caufe contain; Why Mankind are fo oft reprov’d in Vain •• Their Modefty’s the new uncommon Evil; ' *Tis bad to fin, but to repent’s the Devil. He that oftends may ha* been Vice’s Tool; But to acknowledge makes a Man a Fool; Buts him quite out of Falhion in the Towri; And he that once reforms is twke undone. Satyr, while Men upon fuch Maxims liiove; Expeft no Quarter, if thou wilt reprove j Ife’reunhappBy thou ftep’ft awry, ^ Thy general Vertue’s all condemn’d to die: With a full Cry they’ll join to hunt thee dovvn^ By th’ univerfal Clamour of the Town. • ' * Then firft examine with a careful Hand, And fearch the ancient Statutes of the Land, D t I (30 And if yon tiiifs the matter on record, See what affiftance Reafon will afford i ^ _ Enquire among the Sages, often try * The Rules of Wifdom and Philofophy, And learn, if pofliblc, from wifer Men, Who us’d to be allow’d our Vices to condemn- If Innocence alone muft Guilt remove. Where lives the Man that’s fitted to reprove? Whofe Life will Scandal and .Reproach prevent, And never had occafion to repent? If in our Circle fuch a Star fhould fhine. Thy Whips and Scorpions Satyr mnfb refignJ He only cou’d a right of Scandal claim, And he alone might honeftly defame- But lince Mankind are all alike fo frail, That Crimes with Life come like Eftates in tail j All have an equal Title to Reproach, Except fome few, who fin a Knot too much/ He that has all his own Miftakes confeft. Stands next to him who never has tranfgreft. And will be ceafur’d for a Fool by none. But they who fee no Errors of their own: For Innocence in Men cannot be meant Of fuch as ne’re offend, but as repent j Therefore of them that Vices reprehend * ’Tis not requir’d that they fhould ne’er offend} But this they always owe to Gods and Men, Not to commit the Vices they condemn; Nor to be quite fubdu’d by general Crihics, Not firfl debauch, and then refotra the Times.; Satyr’ ( 37 ) Satyr is Nonfenfe when it comes from thofc Who praftife all the Errors they expofe^ This is reforming of the World by halves. And all the Satyr points upon thcmfelves*, Diredly tell us their own Names are meant, As if they finn’d on purpofe to repent. Yet is it not thy Bufinefs to defcry . ' The vulgar Errors of Society ? Human Infirmities arc not the Crimes, For which thou art to fcandalfec the Times} Nor is it fit for thee to call to mind. Or banter the Misfortunes of Manlund j For if their Sins and Sorrows mull come in,' Thy Satyr muft upon thy ftlf begin. Since none that ever wrote a Line before Oftbefe^ has had, fo many of thofe^ has more: Malice (hall write thy Charafter in vain. Thou know’ll more Faults than thy Defqribers caAll But let the Man that pens thy Hiftory Correft his own, and firll repent like thee: He’s welcome then his Satyr to advance. And gorge his riling Spleen with thy Mifchance^ *Tis vain againll thy Crimes to raife a Storm, Let thofe recriminate who firll reform: Let them expofe thy Errors to the Town, As freely as if they themfelves had none: , Thou (halt go unreprov’d ’till they repent, But firll let them reform, and thou rt contenti If ever yet thou didll pretend to be from Palfions, Pride, or from Misfortunes free, D 3 ( 38 ) fn this thou haft been guilty of a CrimeJ Biacker than all the Vices of the Time. r- ; .t : • ' ■ •' Nay, if it (hould be thy feverer Fatej That thofe thou haft reprov’d recriminate j And, as iq Malice it is often found. Should forge on thee the Crimes with which themfelves (aboundi Thy Pen (hall never plead thine Innocence, Nor write one angry Line in thy Defence ; Becaufe thy guilty Thoughts can call to mind Mofc fecret Grimes than ever they could find. Yet tell them who their darling Vices love. Thou ftill retain’ft a Title to reprove j For this thy Satyr’s Credit (hall reftore, ']['hy faults are lefs, and thy Repentance more. Nor will Recrimination ever do’t. For common Vices are not in difpute; ' But let the Men who think thou doft ’em wrong. And are fo touch’d and angry at thy Song, Rummage the bottom of thy Chara^er, To find the Crimes which thou haft banter’d there j And if with Truth of Condufl: they can find Thofe Crimes in thee for which thou blam’ft Mankind, Then let them Waft thy Satyr and condemn ' The partial Malice of thy ill-bred Pen, Then let thy Rhiraes be curft, ht not till then, G -.writes Satyrs, rails at Blafphemy, And his next Page lampoons the Deity; Expofes his Darindas vicious Life, But keeps fix Whores, and ftarves his modeft Wife: *Sets .( 59 ) Sets up for a Reformer of the Town^ Himfelf a Firft Rate Rake below LampooUt To fin’s a Vice in Nature, and we find All Men to Error and Miftakes enclin’d. And Reprehenfion’s not at all uncivil. But to have Rakes reprove that’s the Devil. S - fi, if fuch a thing this Age can fhow, Sets up for an inltrufting fober Beau^ An air of Gravity upon his Brow, And "wou’d be pious too, if he knew how; His Language decent, very feldora fwears. And never fails the Play-Houfe, nor his Prayers j Vice feems to ha’ been banifh’d from hb Doors, And very, very, very feldom whores. His Brother Fops he drags to Church to Pray, And checks the Ladies if they talk too gayi ButS-« moft unhappily has fix’d On two Extreams which never can be mix’d t For they will all the Power of Art out-do. Can join the new Reformer and the Beau. * Some-that look out for Wit, and love to read, Are raifing Bully Strephofj from the Dead j His vicious Lines they fay will Vice lampoon. And Rochefier fhall now convert the Town; What tho’ the Bawdy runs thro’ all he writ. The more the Wickednefs the more the Wit. The vileft Senfe which in his Verfe appears Will ruin Lewdnefs by the Drcfs fhe wears; D 4 ( 40 ) !^n4 lame Pretences they revive Thofe Lines when dead he blulh’d at whilft alive» As if Mankind could not difeern their Evil ' IVithput a nakei ViCqn of the Devil. * Like fbme gay Ladies, who, as Authors lay, f irit for the vicious part approve the Play; ’ But threaten they would all the Work refiifc, ^id not the Wit the ley^der part excuie. Thefe, worfe than Rochefler^ prepare to lln« And aft the Follies he left ofFagain; Like him they'boldly venture on the Crime But thiiik not of repenting too like him. ’ vPleas’d with the Lines he wilh*d he had pot writ They court his FoUy, and pafs by his Wit. * Some, Sat^r, make thy lharp Rebukes in vain, Whofe Reformation no Man can explain: The Fault which they re reprov’d for they forlakc. And change of Vices not of Manners make, Tranfpole. their Crimes, which they by turns commit, And manage their Repentance by their Wit. ' Theft from thy Satyr always were fecure, Fenc d by the Mask of Penitence they wore j Bufie to cure the Error of the Times, But Shams of Reformation hide their Crimes. The Courft of Nature does their Faults renew. And when they lay one down, they take op two. Theft are the of Vice, Whofe Reformation in their out-Cde lies; ' Who (40 Who fcift their Crimes about from Hand to Hand^ And Stock-job Sin, as Men transfer their Land; The DeviPs Brokers for Exchanges, who Old Whifton^ HayneSf or lewder Crifp out-do. Thefe are Dijfenters from the Modes of Vice, But hold Occafond Conformities y A general Vertue oj^nly profefs. But as occajion offers can tranfgrefs. a Penitent, his former Days Were fpent in aU the high Extreams of Vice; At Borne, at Paris, and wherVre he came, The Bravoes knew his Face, the Whores his Fame. His Bully Sword he now forbears to draw. Repents of Blood, and murthers now by Law y Reforms his open Lcwdftefs, and begins To mingle fome Diferetion when he fins 5 Has learnt to blufti, and pleads in Scripture Phrafe, And lhakes his Head at his own lewder Days. The outfide of Repentance may proceed. But ftill the Devil and the Man’s agreed: He changes publick Crimes for private Vice, And where’s the Reformation pray of this? K -^’s a Diflenter, and fevere of Life, Inftrufts his Houfliold, and correPls his Wife ; Reproves a Stranger if he hears him fwear, for Vice and he ha’ been fome Years at War 5 But Sins of Inclination’ will remain, EcUpfe the Chriftian, and expofc the Man: For Wine’s the darling Devil of his Wky This reconciles the Antichriftian Strife, C 42 ) Betwixt the Conrert and his former Friends, And for his Reformation makes amends. Religion feems to have polTcft his Soul, But Vice corrupts the parts, and taints the whole, Infeds his painted Piety and Zeal, And fliows the Hypocrite he’d fain conceal. The Bottle conquers all his Reforpation, And makes Religion ftoop to Inclination. Ledures and Sermons he frequents by Day, But yet comes Home at Night too Drunk to Pray j Yet too much Piety is his Difeafe, Thank Heaven! there’s few fuch Hypocrites as thele^ That wipes his Mouth and ads without Remorle, Sins and repents, repents and lins in courfe. All this to true Religion’s no’Dilgrace, For Hypocrites encreafe in every place. The Church may the Diflenters then defpife. When they themfelves are free from Men of Vice ; And Whiggs may Church Integrity decry. When none arc fo but Men of Honefty; For Party Vice can no Religion blame. But Knaves of all Religions are the fame j The Villain in his Heart will ftill be fo, lllo’ he to Church or Conventicles go. The facred Mask put on the Man may come. And joyn with all the forts in Chriftendom. Satyr forbear to touch the hone^ few. Who are to Honour and to Confcience true; Whom no occafional Pretence can bribe. No Byals turn, or Human Force prefcribc. Thefe ( 43 ) Thefc^re the Favourites of God and ManJ Whom Kings need never fear, nor Laws reftrain ^ They never ftudy to embroil the State, Nor mortgage their Religion to be Great. Tho’.Oaths or Sacraments they may decline, *Tis not from fubtil Realbns, but Divine ; The private Scruples in the Confcience fix’d. From Int’reft free, and with Defign unmix'd : And therefore when by Fear or Honour mov’d. Their Native Honefty is quickly prov’d . This with a juft Contempt they can defic, A 9 d that with equal Conftancy deny. « * With fteddy Faith they ferve the Government, In Judgment, not in Charity diflent ; To the Eftabliih’d Church they yield the Hand, For Confcience only they difputc Command ; And thofe few Doubts which force them to divide. Are from Neceffity, and not from Pride: Events or Caufes are not their Pretence, Thefc they reUgn with Peace to Providence: They feek no Place for Profit or Applaufe, Are Friends to Cafar and to Cafar‘% Laws. In Quietnels and Peace is their delight, ^ And always where they can’t obey fubmit: For the Eftablilh’d Government they Pray, To the Eftablifh’d Government they pay. With hearty Zeal Sincerity and Love, Whjch both the Chriftian and the Subjed prove.' The .Crown they chearfully maintain. And wi(h that where it is it may ren^n. The C 44) The Church they can’t conform to they defend, ' Its Civil Power uphold, its Sacred Power befriend^ With Toleration they are well content. And thefe are they the Toleration meant: No Government would fuch as thefe opprefs. Or wifli to make their little Numbers lefs. What tho’ we think their Conlciences milled, Confcience is pofitive, and muft b’ obey’d; And he that’s faithful to its Diftates goes Direa and fteddy to the Truth he knows; And they that find a nearer way than he May blame His Knowledge, not his Honefty. But he’s the Hypocrite who both ways bends, Whofe doubling Confcience ferves his private Ends j To day can from the Eftablifli’d Church divide. Tomorrow can his Confcience fell to Avarice and Pride Alternate Oaths and Sacraments can take. Alternate Sacraments and Oaths can break j On one Hand can the Eftablifli’d Church defie. And when Occafion offers can comply: No Tolerating Laws can thefe defend. To theie no Eoyal Promifes extepd ^ I'he Nation fliould determine this Difpute By timely Laws, left Heaven it felf ihou’d do’t. In vain to Honefty they may pretend, Vain are the Shifts the Practice to defend j He never can be fteddy to the Truth Who builds with one Hand and pulls down with both. They that for Confcience fake at firft diflent, Can nc’rc conform again till they repent; The ( 45 ) The of themfelves fo dUtanl lyei They ftab the firft diflent when they comply t The Scruple’s banifli’d by inftrufting Light, As Day fucceeds the darkaefs of the Night. But fomc to diftant Ages will retire. And of the Church’s Infant Years enquire 5 And there from Apoltolkk Praftice try To back the grand Miftake with Scriptural Authority St. Pnuly they tell us, fomctimesdid refufe. And fometimes joyn’d in Worfliip with the Jews: To day would Chriftian Prolelytes Baptize, To morrow Hehrtw Converts Circumcife. Crowds of Diflenting Chriftians from them draw^ Exalt the Gofpel, and Preach down the Law; Yet as Occafion ofFerM too thought fit • To Synagogues and Sanhedrims fubmit. And this they very learnedly apply To their Occafional Conformity. No Man can certainly be thus miftaken^ But he that’s of his Senfes firft forfaken; . Since he that has but half an Eye may fee The Rcafons differ, tho’ the Fads agree ; The diftant Circumftances foon will tell The lame and in^;»^ent Parallel. For Law and Goff el were the very fame. From one Divine Original they came: Law was but Goff el under Types conceal’d. And Gofpel was thofe Types and Laws reveal’d ; The Sacred Inftitution only dy’d, Becaufe t he thing was come it fignifi’d ; “the Types and Figures could no more rethaiiij ^caufe the Subltance made the Shadows plains The meaning of the Law was not deftroy’d^ Only the Golpel made th’ Occafion void; ,'^c Sacred Subftance ftill remain’d alive, Ja its Eternal Reprefentative. The equal Objeft equally will lalt. That of a Chrift to come, this of a Jefus paft. Thus both in equal Strength remain alive. That Antecedent, this the Relative •, The Circumftances to one Center came; And were not two Religions, but the fame; Their high fuccelfive Order was Divine, Where that determin’d this was to begin; So that the Man who did with this comply, Did not by Confcquences that deny. The Knife with which the Rabby Circumcis’d, The Font in which the Chriftian was Baptiz’d, Were all the fame, the fartie they fignifi’d. And only one another they fupply’d; Both had their Sanftion from the high Commafld^ And the fame thing by both we iinderfland: No Scruple therefore juftly cou’d arife. Whether to cut the Foreskin or Baptize. The fame in Ceremonies holds as tnie. The Jewilh Rites the Chriftian Ddftrincs view; TYitix Atars^ Sacrifices^ Jncenfie, Smoke^ Atonements, Sprinklings, Blood, and Priefis t’ invoke The Temple, Holy-Place, and Mercy-Seat, Eeafts, Pafiovers^ New-Moons for hidden Meat ^ (47 ) All thefc the great Mejftas rcprefent,’ tor him they all were made, and hiin they mcanti Human Inventions were not here impos’d. Where Heaven commands the G^nlcience is foreclos’d; < And all the Scruples that con’d here remain Was but where this Ihou’d end, or that begin; Here was no Civil Power or Military To make indiflerent things be neceflary: Nothing was infignificant or vain, Notlyng was doubtful, nothing was Humane; ’Tivas all from Heaven, and tho’ ’twas near its end^ Its great beginning did their Awe command. If this be all we find to juftifie This modern Hetrodox Conformity, The lame Precedent no Example draws. But leaves the Praftice modern as the Caufe. Befides, if ’twill not thus be underftood, Jewilh Conformity may ftill be goodj Chriftians may when they think it fit Baptize, Or as Occasion ofiers Circumcife; The Talmud ufe inftead of Common-Prayer, Altars and Sacrifices now prepare; We may their Feafts, New-Moons, and Falls divide. And Pentecoft obferve for Whitfontide ; If ^e the Apollle’s Pradice will avow, Becaufe ’twas lawful tlfen, 'tis lawfd now-^ Chriftians their ancient Rites may firft refufe. And then Occajlonally turn to Jews. .. But i; ( C 48 > But if to Scripture Periods we refet*, We find no Myftery nor Wonder there; The Matter’s plain, the Difficulty’s folv’i; The Type was in the Typifi’d diflblv’d: ^ut till the perfeft Union, ’tis as plain. Till one was fix’d the other might remain. How readily a finking Caufe applies ‘To weak and unaffifting Vanities! And how induftrioully will Men defend .The Faults on which their Intereft does depend 1 Satyr, thou may’ft the farther Search refraioi 'And let the latent Arguments remain; He that his baffl’d Confcience can defie Will Arguments and Principles deny; To talk where Pride and Profits are to come; Is preaching Gofpel to a Kettle-Drum. Intereft, like one of Jerehcam's Calves; In all Religions will at leaft go halves j But where it gets a little overfway It hurries all our Honefty away. If Confcience happens to maintain its Ground; And is too long on the Defenfivc found, The vigorous Siege is carry’d on fo faft, ’Tis Ten to One but it’s fubdu’d at laft. But if the Scruple happens to remain, Religion’s twitted up, that Scruple to explain. To this great Idol Confcience lea As to bow, And what was Error once is Or^er now. Satyr, forbear, indoftrioufly refrain The facred Name of Confcience to p opkane ; Innning ( 49 ) Cunning and Craft may take up the Difguire, But Confcicnce muft be under fome Surprize: And, when he’s well recover’d, will raife a Storm,' ’Tis Ten to One ’twiH make them! all reform; He can the ftrongelt Refolution break, And will he heard^ when he thinks fit to fpeak : The ftouteft Courage never could fuftain • The jhoch of Confcietice^ the Attempt’s in vain, The Atheift feels this trifle in his Breaft, jind^ while he banters^ trembles at the Jeft j The fecret Trepidation racks his Soul, And when he fays, »o Cod^ replies, thou Fool, Of Sleep it robs their Nights, of Joy the Day, ^ Makes Monarchs ftoop to Fear, and Kings ebey^ Diftrafting Thoughts in all their Mirth ’twill raife. And ftrange Regret to pleafant Ails conveys. Kingdoms and Governments it keeps in awe. For Confcience is fuperior to the Law, No Adts of Parliament can here conftrain. But Force or Fraud are equally in vain. Difpenfing Power has here a legal force, For Laws to conquer Confcience ceafe ofcourfe-^ And where a Law commands a Man to fin, The Law goes out^ and lets the Libel in. Men never could commit Miftakes, would they 'This'conflant Wakfng Centinel obey^ Would they within this Cabinet retire. And of this faithful Counfellor enquire Of every Aftion, they might quickly know Whether it was an honelt one or no. E Confcience ( 50 Gonfcience rauftbe the only thing thafs meant When we exprcfs our Realons for DUTent j ■They who another Argument can make. Let them ftand up, and bid their Reafons fpeak: For he that can diflent, and yet comply, I Qwn has Icarn’d a Do&rine more than L Satyr ^ with them thy future Portion feek Who ufe no Arts their Gonfcience to befpeak \ But lifteqing to his hpneft Di&ates they With Care enquire, and then with Care obey, Jf e’re thou turn thy Pen to banter thefe May all thy Power of Satyr from thee ceafe*, May Heaven deny thee Wit as well as Bread, Thou ceafe to write, and wife Men ceafe to read. For againft thefe it is in vain to write, will not here find out his Hypocrite, And were we all like thefe there’s none wan’d try’t., Hoadly would anfwer Calamy in vain, pnly to help him baffle him again: SachevreU’% Standard never had been fpread. And Church Spleen would hide her angry Head. The Church her felf would fo much Candour feel. To own their Honefly, and [pare their Zeal: The general Charity would quickly flow, ^nd Chrifiian wou’d be all the Names they’d know : Here wou’d he then no Parties, nor no Strife, The Nation wou’d be ealle as they’re fafe \ The Church might govern, and have no Pretence To crulh the Party in their own Defence, For what have Men to fear from Jnpoeence ? Then they could find no Colour to opprcfs, And if the Hate remain’d the Caufe would ceafe. No Prince, no Church could fuch a Race deftroy, Without the blackcft Brand of Tyranny. Religion, if therms any in the Land^ Would own the Party, and the Caufe defend; And all the Clamour at their long dilTent Mull bow to Confcience which they can’t prevent. Now, Satyr^ all thy Grievances rehearfe. And fo retrieve the Honour of thy Verfe. No more lhalt thou old AfarveWs Ghoft lament. Who always rally’d Kings and Government: Thy Lines their awful diftance always knew. And thought that Debt to Dignities was due. Crowns Ihould be counted with the Things Diviqe, On which Burlefque is Rudenefs and Prophane j The Royal Banter cannot ftand the Teft, But where we fnd the Wit we lofe the Je(l. poets fometimes with Royal Praife appear. And fometimes too much Flattery prepare. Which wifer Princes hardly will difpenfe, Tho’ ’tis a Crime of no great Confequence. But Satyr has no Bufinefs with the Crown, No Wit can with good Manners there be Ihown. He that the Royal Errors will expole. His Courage more than his Diferetion JIjbws. gefides, his Duty Ihou’d his Pen reftrain. And blame the Crime, but not deferibe the Man: His proper Parallel of Vice may bring, Expofe the Error, not expofe the King. ( 52 ) Be faithful, Satyr^ and thy Lines addreft; Sefore Mankind accufcs thee confefs’^ And where thy Pen has thy own Maxims broke Recal thy Senfes, and the Crime revoke: Thy fwift purfuit of Vice a while adjourn. To Panegy ricks all thy Satyrs turn j Let Guilt take Breath, and all the Sons of Sin Have Time with thee to mend their Manners in j C eafe now to lafh the Errors of the Town, And turn thy pointed Satyr at thy own. Thy needlefs Care from Vices to abftain. Thy Vertue and thy Temperance all’s in vain j Since the firft flip of thy unhappy Pen Levels thy Fame beneatli the worft of Men: Unhappy poets] when they ftrive t’ excel, Perifh in the Extreams of doing well. Tromifeuous Gall^ unwarily let fly, May hit the Honefl:, pafs the Guilty by; But when at Soveraign Power ’tjs loofly thrown, ’Tis Treafon in the Verfe, and all the Crime’s our pw4. When thy luxuviant Fancy foar’d too high. And fcorch’d its Wings with Beams of Majefty, Like hafty Icarus^ depriv’d of Flight, It funk bentath the Ignorance of Night. Herein much more than others thou haft Gnn’d, Becaufe thy Lines againjt thy Light offend j Haft broke thy own firm conftituted Laws, Haft been thy felf th’ Effeft, thy felf the Caufey And it muft be the Devil drew thee in Againft thy Senfe and Ciiftom thus to fin. ( 53 ) feince thou haft always own’d that Heaven thought fit Want of Manners fiould fafs for roam, of Wit. Well groiinded Satyr’s Phyfick for the TiiiieSi feut operates on nothing but our Crimes; And turns to rankeft Poyfon, if.let AtVertue, Innocence, orMajefty. Satyr on Kings and Qiieens is all Lampooh, And he that writes it ought to be undone. ^Tis Wits High Treafon, and for Punifhment The Poet ought to lodge tth’ City’s Tenement. Bedlam’s the County Goal, the Wits fhould kndw^ Where all jif olio’s mad Men ought to go ^ The Mufes Bridewell to correft fuch Fellows As merit not the Favour of the Gallows; A worfer Dungeon than thelaft below Where, if Men are riot mad, it rriakes then! foJ por he that woji’d not rather chufe to die. And from St. Bedlam to St. Tyburn flie, Muft have no Senfes left to be his Guides Muft certainly be lunatick and mad. Satyr go on, and fearch the rankl’d Woun(ii For more Mijlahs of thine are to be found j And if thou Ihould’ft not all thy Faults confelsi Mankind will mind reforming theirs the lefs: The Country Juftice may difturb the Peaces The Clergy drink and whore, the Gofpel ceafe^ The DoftorS cavil, and the Priefts contendj And Convocation-Quarrels fee no end; The fjioh and Low-Church Strife embroil the Statfe^ And fubdivide us all for God knows what j E 3 Phvfician And find out Conquefts in their own Defeat; Occafictial Conformity prevail, And loofenels on our Principles entail. Thou art not qualifi’d to lalh the Crimes, Or heal by fearching Verfe the vicious Times; Left in puifuance of thy ftated Law Thy own Miftakes Ihould keep thy Pen in awe. Then firft confefs that with unwary touch Thou lafiieft fome too little, fome too much; And humbly ask the Pardon of Sir John For thinking him too much below Lampoon: Not that he lefs* than others loyes a Whore, Not that he’s lefs than thofe debauch’d, hut more. For when to Beafts^nd Devils Men defcend Reforming’s paft, and Satyr’s at an end.* No decent Language can their Crimes rehearfe. They lye below the Dignity of Vn-fe. But if among thy Lines he would have place. Petition him to counterfeit fome Grace^ Let him like fomething of a Chriftian fin, Then thou’t ha’ fome Pretence to bring him in. Then thou art blamM for winking at a L-d Whofe Rapes and Vices ftand tipon Record, And call’d a partial Coward, for palling by Such open Crimes, becaufe of Quality; But here thy Courage has too much been Proof, And to thy Lofs haft anger’d Lords enough; But ( 55 ) feut if’tis Criminal, my Lord may fee iThy Veneration for Nobility i iSiiicc their fiiblimer Quality might lead To guefs they’re meant when other Names are rcadi Satyr’s imperfeft, and the Title’s lame, ^ill Men may read their Crimes without the Name j And Charafters the Perfons bell explain, When by the Pidurc all Men know the Mari} For if the Picture does the Perfon Ihew^ They’re certain Signs that the Defcription’s true* The Poet is not taken upon truft. For all Men know the Characters are juft; But if the Names arc needful to impart, ^ There mnft be a Deficiency of Art; Like the Dutch Painter with his Man arid Beari Who writes beneath to tell us what they are; As if the Picture would not let Us know Which was the prOpereft Booby of the twri; And wou’dft thottnow deferibe a rHodtirii'tooli TTo wit, to Parties, and himfelf a Fool^ Embroil’d with State to do hiS Friend no good; And by his Friends themfelves imfunderftood ? Mifeonftru’d firft in every Word he faid; By thefe unpitied, and by thofe unpaid; All Men would fay the Pifture was thy own; iJo Gaut Mitrks were half fo quickly knowri; Thou that for Party-Inierejl didli Indite; And thought’ft to be excus’d for meaning righh This Comfort will thy want of Wit afford. That now thou^rt left a Coxcomb on Record; ^ E 4 „ < sS) England hid always this one Happinefs, Never to look at Service, but Succefs; And he’s a Fool that differing Judgment makes- And thinks to be rewarded for Miftakes. forgotten Days, When Men for good Intentions met with Praife’ If in our ancient Records you can find True EngUfl, Men to Gratitude enclin’d. If it has been the Talent of the Land Merit without Succefs to underftand, * Then you might have expeded a Reward, And then ha thought the Difappointment hard. © Endeavour bears a Value more or lefs Juft as ’tis recommended by Succefs; * The lucky Coxcomb every Man will prize, ' And profperous Adions always pafs for wife. Poet take heed of Irony's again. You’ll meet wkh more than Labour for your Pain-, If thinking to oblige them you offend, Tis as they think, and not as you intend ; For if yoii mifs whafhoneftly you meant. The Error’s not excus’d by the Intent; The Cuftom of the Age will fix th’ Offence, Not in your meaning, but your Ignorance. The Reafon’s plain, the Subjed is with-held. The Fad’s exprefs’d, but the Intent’s conceal’d. Nor will this Reafon form a juft Pretence To plead there is no need of Penitence; If ( 57 ) If thdo haft err’d, tho’ with a good Intent, One merits Pity, t’other Punilhment. Deal with the Times as they ha’ dealt with thecj If they miftake, what’s that Miftake to me. Be uncohcern’d at that, and let them know Thou’lt own the Error ^caufe they think ’’tis fo'^ For ’tis a Debt to Sovereign Power due Always to let them think that they fay true^ And lie that ft rives to make the Matter known, In opening firft their Eyes, pats om his own. Dear Satyr, thou wer’t of thy Wits forfaken, To leave them any room to be miftaken; For if a Poet’s meaning is not plain, The World allows no leifure to explain j He dies for the firft Crime he can commit. For want of Cunning, notfonr want of Wit j If double meaning hangs upon his Tongue He’s always certain to be taken wrong. And Mifconftrudtions are his conftant Fate, Which he in vain correds when ’tis too late. Then Satyr juftifie thy felf no more. Thou wilt be only where thou was’t before j For till the World thy meaning underftood They ought to think thy meaning was not good. To b’ unintelligible is a Crime Almoft as bad in Profe as ’tis in Rhyme. An Author who we cannot underftand Is like a Refiy Horfe., at no Command j And ’tis convenient in a Land of Peace With Gate to caufe Difturbances to ceafe j Eefides, CsS) 4 St/tte Emgpta put iu print Has Ibmething reaOy ieditious in’t. ilnlefs the Expolition fuit the Times, For Negatives in Authors pals for Crimes; Then let thy Penitence for this be known. And when thou writes again thy meaning owiij Or honeftly declare that thou haft none. He that dares write and leave the World to guefi Will fall like ihety and he deferves no lefs y •Yet be not lullen, Satyr, iadgive d’/Cy Ent never trnfi *em with thy meaning more. For if thou but a Hypocrite delcribe. The Clergy fearch for him among their Tribe ; If one Sir Harry in thy Lines appear. All the Sir Horry’rthiak themfelvcs are there. If to deferibe a Blockhead we intend, The Beans take Arms, and think they’re all defign’d j iEaeh Man takes up the part that fuits him beft, And ftrives to knock thy Brains out for the reft. There’s not a drunken Juftice in thefc Lands But for himfelf thy Fwrim underftandSj Becaufe fo much Similitude appears Betwixt the Praftice and the Gharafters. How many has thy Fletnmacy own’d ? Of his fupine Accomplilhments how fond? How fetisfi’d to be from Bedlam free Pleas’d to be thought as rich and blind as he ? The Ladies who in Fops and Fools delight Wou’d all be Diadersdi for hef Wit; Wkf ( 59 ) What tho’ Ihe ftands a Whore upon Record, They’ll never baulk the praftice of the Word^ They’d gladly be as much a Jilt as (he. To get a Cully half fo blind as he. ’Tis ftrangc, that Men fo forward ihould appear. Fond to be thought more Wicked than they are* He that to fuch a pitch in Vice is brought. Is quite as wicked as he wou’d be thought. B - -s an Atheift, and fo angry’s grown. That Blackhourn’s Charafter is not his own. Dear Satyr, if thou doft not do him right. Be cautious how thou goeft abroad by Night. In Impudence he cannot be outdone. Thinks, if there’s any Gods, himfelf is one-. He raves to fee our Verfe Ihould be fo blind, To fearch for Atheifts, and leave him behind. In Wickednefs he is fo nice and odd. He will not fwear, left he Ihould own a God: Corredls his Vice, for fear the Crimes Ihould tend. To prove the Deity which they offend. Beau P —II Ihows himlelf in TunbriJ^e Walks, Of ftrange Amours and numerous Adions talks j His Levee’s crowded up with Billet Deux, He haunts the Court, the Play-houfe, and the Stews Eternal Tattle dwells upon his Tongue, Eternal Bawdy fills up every Song -, Whores are his daily Confortsand Delight, Is lewd all day, but very chafte at Night. Fate may a Stone upon his Grave bellow, Tho’ niggard Nature has deny’d him two ^ ^is ftrange that Vice on Nature fliou’d prevail^ To fill the Head, and yet forget the Tail. Supply his want of Lewdnefs with his Wit, And make him boaft of Sins he can’t commit. But, Satyr^ that which moll concerns thed now Is what, if Heav’n prevent not, feelingly thou’lt knowj That when a Z.f4>W Afc«f/?’s'defcrib’d by thee L'—- of all Mankind (hould think ’twas he! Without Difpute the Charafters were tnie. But that ’twas —-’s none but«- knew. What tho’ to Likenefs he might make Pretence - Similitude Cannot be Evidence. But, Satyr, of his Anger have a care, Or Ipeedily for Martyrdom prepare j For if within his reach you chance to come ^ p Tou vefung your lafi , a Fool may read your Doom, > Tho’ no more Poets liv’d in Cbrifletidom. S Grave Inuendo in his Forehead fits. Able to banter Fools and punilh Wits. From his Refentmcnt, Satyr, flee amain. Like Death, there’s none returns front him aga'in; ’Twill be in vain to make a long Defence, In vain ’twill be to plead thy Innocence *, His Breath concludes the Sentence of the Day,- He kills at once, for ’tw his fhartefi way. Satyr, go on, do Pennance for thy Crimes^ And own thy rhyming Errors in thy Rhymes? Blulh not thy Native Folly to make known, The Pen that has offended muft a'ttone ; Buf i 6i y But if thou Poet fliouldft be obftinate^ And load thy Satyr with thy Vcrfes Fate, His Blood will certainly be on thy Head, And haunt the Poet when the Poem’s dead; With Whitneys Horfes ’twill in Judgment rife, And all thy later Penitence dcfpife. Kneel then upon the Penitential Stool, And freely tell the World that thou’rt a Fool, Which from thy Mouth, if they will not believe, Thy Verfe (hall lafiing Tefiimonies give 5 A Fool indeed to advocate for fuch. As load thee daily with unjuft Reproach j A Fool, as by the Confequence appears. To put thy own Eyes out to. open theirs: A Fool to tell the Nation of their Crimes, And knock thy Brains out to inftrud the Times. From hence oH Rawleigh’s cautious Rule obey^ And ne’re reform the World the JhorteJl way j Reproof, the grave Reprover, will undo. They’ll always hate thee if the Matter’s true. the Grave thy Labours has condemn’d. And wifely fays he knows what w^ intend. Two fam’d Harangues the Orator has made, Tho’ Talking’s not his Talent, but his Trade: Yet has his Wit betray’d him to thy Fate, For no Man underftands what he’d be at; And as his firft Difcourfes feem’d to fail, For being all Head, but born without a Tail, So thefe were Damn’d again, as has been faid. For being all Tail, indeed, v.’ithout a. Head. Vnjsappy / ) Vtthappy Satyr, now review thy Fate, And fee the threatning Anger of the State! But learn thy finking Fortunes to defpife. And all thy Coward Friends turn’d Enemies. Before thee ftands the Power of Punilhraent, In an exafperated Government. Behind the vacant Carpet fairly fpread. From whence thy too well ferv’d Allies are fled. At a remoter diftance there they ftand, And mock thy Folly, but thy Fault commend \ Freely thy former Services difown. And flily laugh to fee thee firft undone. Of thy plain AEtion wou’d invert the Senfe, And rail, and counterfeit an Ignorance, As if ’twas poflible thou fliould’ft intend, Jn one Point-Blank two Oppofites offend. Thefe feem’d provok’d, becaufe they will not know Thy eafic Senfe, and thofe becaufe they do. Satyr, ’twoifd certainly appear a Crime, Not to applaud their Policy in Rhime, Who, when poor Authors in their Quarrel write, Can to their Safety facrifice the Wit. Wait for the fafe Event, and wifely try. Whether with Truth or InPrefi to comply. As Profpecls govern, and Succefs direfts. Their Cunning this approves, or that rejeEls, Blulh for them, Satyr, who thy Name abufc. And by Reproach wou’d Gratitude excufe. And tell them as thou may’ft be pnderftood. Their Temper’s wicked, tho’ their Caufe is good. Yet (^3 y Yet never thy jail Principles forlake, For that won^d be to fin becaulfi thy Friends mifidke^ Put bid ’em tell thee, if they can tell how. What are the Crimes for which they treat thee fa What horrid Faft, what capital Ofl^nce Could bar thee from the Priells Benevolence, That they their Bencdiftion Ihould deny, And let thee live unblefs’d, Hnpray'dfor die. Thieves, Highway-men, and Mnrtherers are fent To Newgate for their future Punilhtnent, But all Men pity them when they repent Religious Charity extorts a Prayer, And H -Ihall freely vifit Whitney there*; Yet three petition’d Priefts have faid thee nay, ' And vilely fcorn’d fo much as but to Pray ; Refus’d the weighty Talent of the Tribe, And let their Heat their Piety preferibe; Strange Power of Fear upon the Minds of Men, Which neither Senfe nor Honour can rellrain. Ask them why they’re exafperated fo. To baulk the cheapeft Gift they can bellow. Satyr, it mull ha’ been fome mortal Sin, Some Ilrange Apollacy of thy unhappy Pen, That has the Reverend Fathers fo perplex’d. And diioblig’d the Mailers of the Text. What tho’ the feurvy Humours of thy Head, In Houfe of Tribulation made thy Bed, And Fate, which long thine Enemy was known. Had Cloath’d thy Tenement in Walls of Stone? I know the Learned Orthodoxly fay. That after Death there is no room to Pray; C«4) |iut yet no Article I ever read. Has counted Men in Newgate with the Dead. Satyr, look back, and former Days review. How flood it once betwixt the Tribe and you. In prolperous Days their confeious Pride muft know Yon fed thofe Priefls that fcorn to own you now. With conflant Charity reliev’d their Poor, For which they’ll flone thee now ’tis in their Power. With jufl Contempt look back upon their Pride, And now defpife the Gift which they deny’d j But let thy Charity their Crime outlive. And what they feldom praEiife now forgive. For Heaven, without their Help, upholds thee here. He only claims thy Thanks who hears thy Prayer, He can the Royal Clemency incline. For Human Grace is center’d in Divine, A N A N E L E G Yi O N T H E AUTHOR OF THE True-born Englijh Matt- THE PREFACE. T H 0’ thcfe Sheets have been wrote fcveral Momhs^ arid in a Time that feem^d to make them fomething mere fiiitable than now^ yet the Occasion renewing it felf every day^ who can refrain from fpeakit/g ? Had the fcribbling IVorld been pleased to leave me where fhejf found mtj I had left them and Newgate both together and as I am metaphorically dead^ had been ejfeilaally fo as to Satyrs and Pamphlets. *Tts really fomething hardy that after all the Mortification they think they have put upon a poor abdicated Author in their fcurriloHS Street Ribaldry^ and Bear-Garden Vfage^ forne ^ri Fftfcy and fame in thofe terrible Lines they call f^erfe^ they cannot yet be quiet y but whenever any thing comes out that does • F not The P R £ F A C E* fiot fleafe thew^ 1 come in for a Jliare in the Anfwer^ whatei/er I did in the Queflion ^ every thing they think an Author de* ferves to he ahns^d for mnfi be mine. Several plentiful Showers of Raillery I have quietly fubmitted to^ and thought I had a Talent of Patience as large as might ferve me in common with my Neighbours • but there is a Time when a Man can bear no longer^ and if the Man is in a little Paffion he thinks he ought to be born with, 1 tried Retirement^ and banifh^d my felf from the ToWn^^ 1 thought^ as the Boys us^d to fay^ ^twas hut fair they fhould let me alone while 1 did not meddle with them. But neither a Country Recefs^ any more than a Stone Dou* hlet^ can fecure a Man from the Clamour of the Pen, In the foliowing Sheets I endeavour to fate the Cafe in order toaTruce\ for Shame^ Gentlemen,^ let him alone^ why the Man’s dead *, ^tis a cowardly Trick to bent a Man when he is down^ but to fight a dead Man is the Devil. And with Submiffon^ Gentlemen^ the Allegory is jufi'^ for if being tied under Sureties and Penalties not to write^ at leajt not to write what fame People may not like,, be not equivalent to being dead,^ as to the Pen,^ I know not what is. But how do thefe People treat Mankitid,^ that they pretend to indiSh a Man for every thing they pleafe,^ as if they had Pow* er to read his Countenance in Letters,^ and fwear to a Stile as they would to his Faces' ^Tis cafe to prove the Authors of Books^ and no Man can he concealed in Juch Cafes ^ but for a Man to be charged with other Mens Faults,^ who has too many of his own, is a Me-^^ thod newly prad^is^d^ and more upon me than upon any Body^ and yet the Grief of this Vfage does not flick fo deep upon me^ hut that I may tdl my Antagonifis^ if any think themfelves deferving that Name, that they are very welcome to go on their own way^ and ufe me as they pleafe^ 1 Jlsall always be rea^ dy to reply., or by rny Silence let them fee J do not think it worth while. A N A N E L E G V. AT Y R fing Laehrime^ thou’rt deid in Ldwj o Thy fatal Hour draws on, The Lines of thine own Exit draw. And tell how thou’rt undone. Send for the Prielt, and asfe Advice, Refleft upon thy Time mifpent •, When Wit upon its Death-Bed lyes ’Tis high time to repent. What canfi thou fay old Tluto to appeafc 1 Thy Hymns in that dark World will never pleafe Silence, Eternal Silence is thy Lot, And all thy Rhymes and ad thy Hymns forgot; Bury’d in dark Oblivion, there thou’lt lye For fcven long Years, a Wit's Eternity ? Little thou thought’ll in Verfes palt Thofe Songs of thine would be thy lall. ’Tis hard thy vigorous Mufe Ihould lye In all her ftrength of Thought condemn’d to die; F z ( 63 ) ’Tis hard to have her perilh in her Prime, And moft Men think (he dy’d before her time. With Patience, Satyr, to thy Fate fubmit, And Ihow thy Courage can outdo thy Wit; With Calmnefs meet the Sentence of thy Death, And yield with Temper thy Poetick Breath. What tbo’ to Silence they condemn thy Rhymes, Even that Silence ihall condemn the Times. The World Ihall blufti when e’re they read. And thou be ft ill a Satyr, tho’ tbon’rt dead. When Malcfaftors come to die They claim uncommon Liberty: Freedom of Speech gives no diftafte, They let them talk at large, becaufe they talk their laftj ’Tis hard thy dying Words Ihould give offence. And neither pleafe in Language nor in Ssnfe; He that muft never open more. Dearly attones for what he faid before. Departed Sityr ! let thy Ghoft appear. To keep the vicious Towm in fear; Verfes Ihall from thy injur’d Allies rife. And Satyrs always pointed at their Vice: No Man Ihall fin in peace. And Vertue only (hall thy Shade appeafe. But fince, dear Satyr ^ ’tis thy Lot Thus to die upon the Spot, In fofteft Notes fing thine own Elegy, Be filent dead, but never filent die. ( «9 ) The ELEGY. Circled in Newgate's cold Embrace, And reconcil’d to Death by fuch a place, I from the horrid Manfion fled. And, as concervinr Poetry^ am dead: Tofeven long Years of Silence I betake. Perhaps by then I may forget to fpeak: And thus 1 dy’d, and yield Satyrick Breath, For to be dumb in Poetry is Death. If you demand a Reafon of my Fate, Whether it came too foon, or came too late; Whether wife Heaven did this permit For want of Manners, or elfe for want of Wit; Whether I faid too little, or too much. Or loaded any with too juft Reproach, If you would know the latent Caufe, Go fearch the hidden Secret in the Laws. Let not my Verfe my Verfes Crimes debate, Go ask the powerful Engines of the State. Befides he mult be void of Senfe Who dare Hand up in my Defence: Behold that Power, which Men call Law, Can keep even Innocence in awe. Let it fuffice this Elegy to read, And tho’ you fee the Man, All his Poetick Fancy’s dead. Nothing but Carcafs can remain: The Shadow of the Poet may appear. No Subftance can be there: F 3 A ( 70 ) A walking SpeBrum^ with his Fancy fled. And he that rais’d the Devil, the Devil has laid. Yet I have realbn to complain, I cannot "quiet in my Grave remain: The World’s difturb’d about my Memory, 'I'hey’ll neither let me live nor let me die. If an ill-natur’d Mufe Attempts the Nation to abufe. If fome unhappy Truths they tell. Which might have been conceal’d as well, Afy Ghoft's arraign and I arn laid Already to be rifen from the Dead. The Mob of wretched Writers ftand With Storms of Wit in everjr Hand, They bait my Mem’ry in the Street, And charge me with the Credit of their Wit j 1 bear the Scandal of their Crimes, My Name’s the Hackney Title of the Times j if fome new Wit in Satyr lies conceal’d. And lately in Lampoon reveal’d. My filent y^Jhes are difturb’d to know Whether it’s dated from below 5 Whether it’s mine or no. ^f fome in Pafquinades aflront the State, And tempt their yet unpity’d Fate, ynwilling to be cautious till too late. The fubtil Mimicks to this Shadow fly. Conceal their Guilt, and fay ViV I; No Man can fatyrile a Man of Fame, ihut daily Curfes rife againft my Name, Hymn, (70 Hymn, Song, Lampoon, Ballad, and Pafquinade, My recent Memory invade j My Mofe muft be the Whore of Poetry, And all Jfollo'% Baftards laid to me. If any Poet has but writ With an Exuberance of Spight, Has he the mighty Vices of the Age And mighty Men too brought upon the Stage i As who can with his Pen forbear To drefs the S-sM-n in the Robes they’re fond to wear? They fearch the deep Recefles of my Grave^ Liften to hear the fleeping Genius rave; Such is the Folly of their Hate, That Death cannot their Jealoufies abate j Such is the force of Guilty they fee Such Reafon to expcA Reproach from me. Their Fancy harbours the Miftake, I dream in Death, and fend my Ghofl: to fpeak. Yet undillurb’d I fafely fleep. And calm as Death my Silence keep*, I laugh at all the Anger of Mankind, Who, loth to bear tlie T-, my Pen confin’d: I fmile at Human Policy, Who always Hop that Mouth whofe Words they can’t Yet let them not their Crinaes conceal, (deny: New Satyrs will their Crimes reveal \ More Poets from my Monument (ball rife. Who (hall like me their Power defpife. Who (hall condemn a vicious Court, And make the Nation’s Knaves the Nation’s Sport. F 4 Naked ( 7? ) Naked as Nature’s firit Original Vice IhaH before the Bar of Truth appear Keen Satyrs fliall to J udgment call, ’ And Power fliall not protedf them there; Satyr fliall mighty Grimes rchearfe, ^ 1 ? Rognt s ai>pve the Quality of Ferfi. Satyr fliall keep thofe Knaves In awe Who are top cunning for the Law ; And flidll at leaft expofe the Cheat Of thole that think themlelves too great. Fleets fliall not Ipend a Seventeen Months Advance To take the Air upon the Coafl: of France ; No fliam Defeents fliall e’re be made, The Money fpent, gnd Majefty betray’d, Put lafting Verfe fliall make the Matter clear, And what the Nation feels the Wqrld fliafl hear, Nor will there e’re be wanting to this Age Poets to fpread their Errors on the Stage j Ppprefipn makes a Poet j Spleen indites. And makes Men write by force, as G -« fights. Was e’fc fuch broken Voyages made ? Was ever War fo much a Trade ? |f Fleets to Italy fhall go. And hardly tell the Foe Whether they haye been there or no: Come back to let us know the Money’s fpent, And hardly kpew for what they went j TN Natmq ne’er can want a Poet long f 9 JugsMog into Song. When ( 73 ) When Traitors creep into th’ Afiairs of State, Poets will always prophefie their Fate-, When Villains fervc the Q.ueen by halves. And fleece the Nation to enrich thetnfelvesj Her Majefty may ftrive in vain. Make Peace with Portugal^ and War with Spaia, Fit Armies out, fend Fleets to Sea, The Money’s all but thrown away: llnlefs the Heroes who Command Would learn to do as well as underftand. When the new Leagues with Portugal All honefb Men rejoyce j But had they been fccur’d before the War ’T had been at half the price: Had not the Nation been betray’d Lisbon had long ago embrac’d Madrid-^ The Bourbon Lawrels had abandon’d Spdn^ And Jnjou’% Triumphs been in vain. Were I alive again, and could but hear The Hopes we have of this Algarvim War^ My Satyr could no more forbear * To pay the due to Wiltiarrti CharaBer\ The early Meafures of this War he laid. But ’twas his Fate to be betray’d j He form’d the League the Queen has now retriev’d. And had he been believ’d The Qpeeq had not been now embroil’d with Spain^ And forc’d to purchafe Portugal again. Spain had long fince an yiuftrian Monarch known. And rightful Princes had poflefl: their own. C 74 ) If fome bold Satyr does not foon revive To let them know that Honefty’s alive; If we mull always be embrac’d by Knaves, And all the Nation’s Work be done by halves 5 , Be every Year endeavouring to be poor. Be always mending what we marr’d before; Have always fomething to retrieve. And always doing fomething to deceive; Vaft Navies fitted out to fight A Foe that’s always out of fight; And yet the French in flying Squadrons reign, Infult our Trade, and Bully all the Maw, And bravely dare our Ships to fight in vain: If our Sea Captains when they run away Shall only forfeit three Months Pay ; If no new Genius rifes up to fhow. And let the injur’d Nation know By whom they’re thus betray’d, and how; I fear, in fpight of all that has been faid, I fhall be forc’d to fpeak, altho’ I’m dead. Mean while let mercenary Poets ftrive To make their Malice my Deceafe outlive. Let them reproach my Memory, And write, for now they’re fure of no Reply: Let them their true-born EngUfh Temper Ihow, Men in Diftrefs are always treated fo: Let them with wretched Satyrs glut the Town, Expofe my Morals, and forget their own; This (hall ray Quiet never difcompofe. Contempt’s a Cure which prefent help bellows; Silence ( 75 ) Silence (hall anfwer their Reproach, For Silence is a Debt to fuch. But If fome Satyrs (hall aflault my Hearfe, And raife m,'j frighted Ghoft with their more frightful Let fuch revengeful Wretches underftand (Verfe, I’ll anfwer when they’ll fatisfie iny Bond; If they my Pledges will defend I’ll from this Grave arife. I’ll reaffume my Satyrs, and Leave off thefe Elegies; The World (hall have their Errors plainly (hown. I’ll blaft their Vices, and reform my own. Of all the Men that ever dy’d before Mine’s the fevered Cafe, The Grave till now was always taken for A place of Peace; But I, as if fome fecret Power I had. Give Bond to be at quiet when I’m dcadj My Enemies are not content to kill. But take Security that I’ll lye dill: Jealous, it feems, my bufie Head Should make me talk when I am dead. Here’s all the Reafon I can make them give. That tho’ the Poet’s dead the Mms alive. To which as gravely I have faid. That tho’ the Man’s alive the Toet's dead. He’s bad indeed who when he dies Has none to mourn his Obfequies; And of the Vertnous find me one Blit fome rejoyce when e’rc he’s gone*. So ( 7 « ) So I have Mourners who lament my Verfe, And fome Triumph upon the Satyr’s Hearfe: Some think I die without a Crime, Some like my Fate, and think ’twas time. But this juft Calculation I can make. And there I think I can’t miftake. The Wife and Vertuous Sorrow’s Tribute pay. And Vice alone keeps Holiday j This docs my Judgment fatisfie. For fo would every wife Man die : So let the Cenfurc of my Works be paft, So let me die, when I muft die my laftj Let wife Mens Sorrow be my Choice, And let the Knaves and Fools rejoice. ’Tis true there is fome Reafon in the Cafe, Vice now has room to fhew her Face j For now my walking Ghoftis laid. The grand Contagion may the Nation fpread \ Reproofs may ceafe, And all Men be as wicked as they pleafe. Cities may Magiftrates eleft. That may the Crimes they praSice there proteft j That all their D --Men may out-fwear. And with exalted Drunk’nefs grace the Chair, No more departed Satyr can reproach. No more the Crimes or Perfons touch. S -may blaft the Root from whence he came. And load his Family with Pride and Shame. The high exalted Wretch untouch’d may live. Rids in his Coach, and make his Father drive: And ( 77 ) And Icaft his Infolence fliould ever fail Has laid his own Progenitor in Goal- Let future Poets blame the Law, That keeps lefs Villains more in awe; But fufFers fuch a Wretch to brave the State, And fin above the reach of Magiftrate: My Satyr^ filenc’d by the Times, Win ceaie to check the molt unnatural Crimes. Degenerate ^ -- may now difown Uif Mother^s Senfe, in hopes to fllOW his own. But fure the Devil mult be in the Cheat, To tell him he could make it pafs/«r And make him prove with fuch excelfive pains. His want of Manners by bis want of Brains. The young unnatural Fop has Itrove too long. With empty Head, and inconfiltent Tongue. Nature to make amends for want of Senfe, Has throngM his Head with clear Impertinence. His gay outfide’s a Satyr on the Fair, And lets us know what’s molt obliging there. The Ladies who in Beaus delight. Make Ihift by day, fo they’re but pleas’d at Night. The Charms which pleafe a vicious Bed, Lye fomervhere elfe than in the Head’, And if the fuited Blockheads Parts will hit. They’ll always bear v?ith want of Wit. His own dear Jelt he labours to enjoy, And ftudies how to live and die a Boy. Nature that left th’ unfinilh’d Fop too foon. Juft lent him Senfe enough to be undone •, And now he keeps a mighty pother. And for Hereditary Wit indids his Mother; Rails that he’s of his Brains bereft. And yet pretends that flic has little left. Bedlam fome Title to him had. But Fools, they fay, are never mad. Were not riiy Satyr lately dead. His julier Charafter fliould here be read; idean time would but his Mother take Advice, The vile unnatural Monfter to defpife: Nature the viperous Wretch would foon difcatd. And in his Vices fliow him his Reward. G -may his weighty Senfe prepare. For G - j an Elbow of the City Chair. He boafts himfelf the Churches chief Support, I think the Church her felf fliould thank him for’t: Tho’ moft Tuppofe his Notions were but wild. To fetch the Jew to Gofpellize his Child. The Hebrew Rake from Synagogue difmift, ^ Came in to Circumcife the Feaft, S And made the Godfather, but fpoil’d the Jeft. j Some fay ’twas look’d upon as a Reproachj And interloping on the Church i But others fay the Jew was rather A better Chriftian than the D —■ Fatherj And all agree The Babe well taught may be the beft of all the three.' Let the uncircUmcis’d alone. The IfraeUte and he are much at one; Both their Religions now they (hew. The Hebrew Chriftian^ and the Chrifbian Jew. Some fay my former Satyrs (how, 1 he Ebb of vicious CharaSers run low 5 But C 79 ) But if they’ll pleafe to think agen,' They’ll find I never Tyth’d the Men, Nor ever throng’d my Verfe with One in Ten. Why elfe (hould 5— and T— efcape, This for his Parricide^ that his inceftuous Rape. How came prodigious D -to be unnam’d, For Crimes unheard of lately fam’d. Of all the Beaus and Brutes that croud the Town, My modeft Satyr chofe but one. And he to all Men but himfelf unknown. I never touch’d great M - Whofe Follies have not been a few j Nor told the World of half the Crimes, Which a fine Houfe can harbour from the Times. L -and W - 1 in fpight of me, Have been as lewd as . and D~—* . I fpar’d them for their Modefty: Becaufe their Vice was fomething new, And made one Whore between them ferve the two. Old lying B -ne’re met with ray Reproof, Tho’ he gave always room enough. My Satyr ftrove to whet her Pen Againft the Crimes, and fpar’d the Men : But now the fafhion of the Times, Makes Poets damn the Men without the Crimes. If I have been too backward here. To make the Vices of the Times appear, If e’re I come to rife again, 77 / make ye all amends-^ and name the Alert, Young S - 1 fliall not the Houfe of God debauch, And meet with neither Cenfure nor Reproach. (80} If e’rc my Satyr fhould revive, They ihall reform, or be afliam’d to live. But now my fleeping Satyr quits the Stage, And leaves untouch’d the vicious Age. The eager Rakes may urtreprov’d fin on, There’s time enough to be undone. No more my Satyr fhall thofe Follies touch, No more the Grimes, no more the Men reproacb< A f " may hug the jhortefi way^ And for its Execution pray: Next to the facred Books he plac’d the Scheme, And lov’d the Praftice better than the Theme* He always for his SoVeraign pray’d. But ’twas to have her be a Tyrant madej To have her dip her Hands in Blood, And ruin all the Nation for their Good. But when the hair-brain’d Zealot found The Plot lay deeper under Ground j When he fir ft felt the Satyr bite, And found ’twas writ t’ expofe, and not excite, He chang’d his Ecclefiaftick look, And damn’d the Author, tho* he lov’d the Book. My Satyr has the hardeft Fate, Her Book’s the Contradiftionxjf the State. Riddle Enigma double Speech, DarkAnfwers, doubtful Scriptures, which Puzzle the Poor, and pole the Rich: Are pla'n explicite things to thefe. Who punifh Authors when the Subjeds pleafe. ( 8i ) Kothiag but this can fuch dark Steps explain % They like the Doftrine, but they hate the Man. Grave Authors now may write Eflays, That with one Face look feveral ways. Of Peace at home, and War abroad. And damn the Subject which they wou’d applaud. Banter the Qpeen with Dedications, And can that Peace which will embroil three Nations. S may new Harangues indite. To fet Conformity in clearer light: Learned Quotations bring by rote, J Wife as the Nations he thought lit to quote, ^ Whofe Laws he knew, but had their Names forgot. ’Twas his ftrong forecafl: which forefaw. To damn Dillenting by a Law, Would make our fatal Quarrel ceafe. And bring the Nations all to Peace. Ye Sons of Vice advance your Wit, ’Tis now your turn to reign; S/if^r’s fubdu’d, and muftfubmit. And never like to rife again: My Fate will didate to the reft, In me, they know how they (hall be oppreft: My Doom will learn ’em to be wife. And ne’re attempt Impoflibilities. The Magiftrate may now be lewd. The fawey Satyr fliall no more intrude: A vicious Clergy may the Church fupply, Debjuch the Gown, and give their Text the Lie: G Smother ( 82 ) Smother their Morals in the Vine^ And prove the Bottle’s Origine Divine. Religion may be in a Blanket toft, From Hand to Hand, ’till ’tis as good as loft: ’Till Fate reftore fome Juftice to the Times, Satyr lhall leave ’em to grow old in Crimes. Athcifts may, unmolefted, now blafpheme. Slight Human Power, and banter the Supreamj Almighty Drunkennefs bear Imperial Sway, And Mankind be debauch’d th’ Jliortefi way. The Poor, alone, find in their Crimes their Fate, And mock the Duty of the Magiftrate^ They fuffcr for the Crimes the Rich commit, For want of Money, not for want of Wit. Guilt may in Splendor thro’the City ride. With all the Court of Elders by her fide; Thofe true Reformers need not fear, A filent Satyr can do nothing here. Their Sham of Reformation they may print. With much of canting Nonfenfe iu’t ^ Cajole the People to believe they care, WhatTewder Scenes are drawn in Smithfield Fair. For having damn’d Prophanenefs firft. Then they proclaim the Fair,and bid them do their worft. In grand Proceffion to the place they go, Was ever God Almighty banter dJo t Let ’em go on, abfurdly adf, Firft Vice condemn, then Vice protefl*. My bury’d Satyr can no more reprove. Leave them to Jufike from above j Refer Refer them to their Orders for the Fair^ Prophanenefs finks beneath the City Chair j But rais'd by Proclamation lives again, And every Booth’s a Libel on the Men. Yet let young Poets reverence the Chair, For God’s y'lce^erem’s Deputy fits there: With annual Pomp, and Majefty enthron’d, But how does Vice conniv’d his Seat furround t What tho’ no Perfonal Crimes there could appeat| To foil the brightnefs of his Charader: His weak purfuit of Vice the Law defeats. For Negatives are Crimes in Magifirates. Yet from my Ghoft take this Prophetick Curfe^ The next the City chufes lhall be worfe. Let ’em exped thofe days to come, When Vice lhall be embrac’d, and Satyr dumb. My Verfe beneath this Tomb contented lyes, Reproof’s a Bleffing npne but Fools defpife, aind they that hate it never will be wife. Ye Men of Might and muckle Power., Who rule Mankind, and all Mankind devour j If you would have my quiet Ghoft remain, Lock’d in the Laws too mighty Chain, Obey the Nation’s Interefl: and your own. Learn to proted, and not betray the Throng* Witnefs ye Powers! I promife now, For ever Sacred be the Vow! As long as Magillrates forbear, In Crimes they punilh to appear; G 2 Wh ( 84 ) While Parfons ccafe to drink and whore, P._, to be proud, debauch'd, and poor: While Lawyers ccafe to talk Mankind to Death, And murther Men with mercenary Breath. W^hile C - rs Promifes regard. And Princes Men of Faith reward. My Satyr ihall in quiet fleep. Her fentenc’d filence keep^ With-hold her Rage, No more difturb the Age ^ No more the mighty Vices of the mighty Men engage. When Soldiers haften to difpatch the War, Their Countries Service to their Pay prefer*, Ceafe to give Thanks for Vidory when they fly. And give Almighty Truth the Lie. As long as Navies, Fleets, and Men, Come (batter’d home, and hallen out again: While they proteft our Trade, defend our Coatt, And bravely fight, what e re it colt. While Actions good or ill have due regar , The Coward Punilhment, the Brave Reward. While all our Publicans are juft. And faithfully difchargc the People’s Truft *, Receivers due Accounts give in, Andduly pay it out again. While needful Charges are defraid. The Navy mann’d as well as paid. And no Com miflion Officers prefume. To take the Nation’s Pay and flay at home. When e’re thefe happy Articles appear, There’ll be no Bufmefs for a Satyr here. I ( 95 ) I may lye ftill without Security, There can be no occafion then for me j I fliall have nothing left to fay. For this would flop my Mouth the jhorttfi rvay. I was in hopes with this Poetick Death, Slander would die, and let me take fome*Breath: But Envy never fleeps. Report begins To charge my Memory with my Neighbours Sinsy As if they had not known I have too many of my own. They tell me now, the Party diA combine To bear my Charges, and to pay my Fine. Malice is always retrograde to Senfe, A nd judges things without their Confequence j Willing her mifchievous Intent to Ihow, She always goes too fait, or elfe too Qovir. They that this empty Notion rais’d. Not me, but all the Party fatyriz’d. Since all Men that know how to judge by Rules, Know that the Men they mean were never Fools. And their worlt Enemies would never try. To brand them with the blame of Generofity. But to remove this modern doubt, 111 give Five Hundred Pound they’ll make it out. Thus like old Strephon's vertuous Mifs, Who, foolilhly too coy, Dy’d with the Scandal of a Whore, And never knew the Joy. So 1, by VVhigs abandon’d, bear The Satyr's unjuft: Lalb, G 3 Die ( 86 ) pie with the Scandal of their Help^ But never faw their Cafli. No Man of Crime that fufFer’d Death Was ever us’d like me. In Thefts and Treafons, Rapes and Blood, All Men have leave to die. No Sentence fure was half fo hard as mine. That could not die till I had paid my Fine. Rethinks to make me poor had been enough. For when they had my Pelf, Perhaps if they had given me time I might ha’ ha^:g’d my felf; But this, and I fliould think they needs mufl: know i Is not the jhortefi veay to kill a Poet. In vain they fpend their Time and Breath To make me ftarve, and die a Poet’s Death: In Bntlerh Garret I {hall ne’er appear. Neither his Merit nor his Fate I fear, lieavens keep me but from Bullet, Sword and Gun, I’m not afraid cf being undone; I’m fatisfy’d it never lhall be faid, Bat he that gave me Brains will give me Bread. Some People ask if 1 was fairly flain? Tho’ I think not, 1 (han’t complain Till I ha’ flept my time, and rife again. But they that are concern’d at this Are freely left to guefs y Vhy I am doom’d to write no more. If fomething wan’t too true I wrote before. (S7) 'Why {hould they thus deny To let me write my truer Hiftory ? Why leven long Years of Silence now impofc. If I had nothing to difclofe, Nothing to make appear. Nothing to fay they cannot bear to hear. But ’tis enough I loft my Life by Law, And ftill by Rules am kept in awe. The Manner all exaft and regular, Whate’er the Confequences are j Never demand if it were juft, For if the Forms are rightthe Matter mafi. Law is a great Machine of State, With Hooks and Screws to make it operate ^ Which, as they are wound up by Art, With cafe perform the fatal part^ Exaftly anfwer to the Workman’s Skill, This way ’twill work to favc, or that to kill. Crime in this Management has no concern. No Mpn can Right from Wrong difeerni The Movement is fp fubtil and fo fure. And does fuch certain Fate procure. The Mathematicks are in vain, Defenfive Study ufelefs does remain. This Monfter whom it pleafes will devour. For harp is but a Heathen Word for Power j A Metaphor, invented to confefs The Methods by which Men opprefs-. By which with Safety they deftroy Mankind, While Juftice ftands before, and F. and behind, G 4 Tbeufands (88) i Thoufands of little Wheels, and unfeen parts Of per jur’d Promifes, and wheedling Arts, This mighty Thing compofe. And no Man half its crooked Turnings knows. The wild Meanders none can trace. And no Man knows it by its Face. It learns to change w ith every Turn of Times, ylnd rings the Time ’tis fet tOy like the Chimes. ’Tis by this Engine 1 thought fit to die. And fo has many a wifer Man than I; And by their broken Promifes betray’d. Satyr is thus upon its Death-Bed laid. If e’er I come to Life again, Coleman for that, I’ll put no Faith in Man: I that did on fair Qiiarter yield. Laid down my Arms, and left the Field, Did from my own Defence withdraw. Thinking that Honefty was Law, Have loft my rhiming Life by this Deceit, And I deferve it for my want of Wit. Had 1 remembred Days of Yore, When we complain’d of Arbitrary Power, When Lawyers were the Tools of State, And hurried Men to hafty Fate. When the great Engine was fcrew’d up too high. And Men were bang’d they knew not why i Had I remember’d Scroggsh Fame, And known that Lawyers are in every Reign the fame, I ne’er had ventur’d to believe M n, whofe Profeffion’s to deceive. Memento Memento Mori here I Hand With fiient Lips, but fpeakingHand; A walking Shadow of a Poet, But bound to hold my Tongue, and never Ihow it: A Monument of Injury, A Sacrifice to legal T ——y. I beckon to Mankind to have a care. And pointing, tell how I was loft, and where j I fhow the dangerous Shore, Where I have fufier’d Shipwrack juft before. If among Poets there remains a Fool, That fcorns to take this Notice for a Rule, But ventures the Fidelity Of thofe whofe Trade and Cuftom ’tis to 1—, Let Men no Pity to him fliow; Let him to Bedlam, not to Newgate, go. ( 90 ) X H E STORM. A N E S S A Y. ¥’M told, for we have I^fews amovg the Deadj Heaven lately fpoke, but few knew what it faid j The Voice in loudeft Tempefts fpoke, And Storms, which Nature’s ftrong Foundations fliook, Jfelt it hither^ and I’d have you know I heard the Voice, and knew the Language too. Think it not ftrange I heard it here. No place is fo remote, but when he /peaks they hear, Befides, tho’ I am dead in Fame, I never told you where I am. Tho’ 1 have loft Poetick Breath, I’m not in perfedt State of Death: From whence this Popljlj Con/cquence 1 draw, rm in the Limbus of the Law. Let me be where I will I heard the Storm, From every Blaft it eccho^dthm., R E FO R M\ 1 felt the mighty Shock, and faw the Night, When Guilt look’d pale, and own’d the Fright *, And C 91 ) And every time the raging Element Shook London’% lofty Towers, at every Rent The falling Timbers gave they crfd REPENT. I faw, when all the ftormy Crew, Newly Comrniflion’d from on high. Newly inftrufted what to do, In lowring cloudy Troops drew nigh; They hover’d o’er the guilty Land, As if they had been backward to obey; As if they wonder’d at the fad Command, And pity’d thofe they fhou’d deftroy. But Heaven, that long had gentler Methods try’d. And faw thofe gentler Methods all defy’d. Had now refolv’d to be obey’d. The Qiieen, an Emblem of the foft fiill Foice^ Had told the Nation how to make their Choice; Told them the only way to Happinefs Was by the blelTed Door of Peace, But the unhappy Genius of the Land, Deaf to the Bleffing, as to the Command, Scorn the high Caution, and contemn the News, And all the blefled Thoughts of Peace refufe. Since Storms are then the Nation’s Choice, Be Storms their Portiots^ [aid the Heavenly Voice: He faid, and I could hear no more, So foon th’ obedient Troops began to roar: So foon the black’ning Clouds drew near. And fill’d with loude/t Storms the trembling Air: I thought I felt the World’s Foundation {hake. And look’d when all the wond’rous Frame would break. I trembl’d as the Winds grew high. And fo did many a braver Man than I: For (92 ) For he whole Valour fcorns his Senfe, Has chang’d his Courage into Impudence, Man may to Man his Valour Ihow, And ’tis his Vertue to do fo; But if he’s of his Maker not afraid. He’s not courageous then, hut mad. Soon as I heard the horrid Blaft, And underftood how long ’twould laflr, View’d all the Fury of the Element, \ Confider’d well by whom ’twas fent, > And unto whom for Punilhment; 3 It brought my Hero to my Mind, William^ the Glorious, Great, and Good, and Kind, Short Epithets to his juft Memory; The firft he was to all the World, the lafi to me. .The mighty Genius to my Thought appear’d. Juft in the lame Concern he us’d to Ihow, When private Tempefts ufe to blow, (fear’d. Storms which the Monarch more than Death or Battel When Party Fury Ihook his Throne, And made their mighty Malice known, J ve heard the fighing Alonarch fay^ The Publick Peace fo near him lay, y It took the Pleafure of his Crown away, j It fill d with Cares his Royal Breaft. Often he has thofe Cares Prophetically exprefs’d, That when he Ihould the Reins let go, Heaven would fome Token of its Anger Ihow, To let the thanklefs Nation fee How they defpis’d their own Felicity, This ( 93 ) This robb’d the Hero of his Reft, Difturb’d the Calm of his ferener Breaft. When to the Qiaeen the Scepter he refign’d. With a refolv’d and fteddy Mind, Tho’ he rejoyc’d to lay the Trifle down. He pity’d Her to whom he left the Crown; Forefeeing long and vig’rous Wars, Forefeeing endlefs, private, party Jars, Would always interrupt Her Reft, And fill with anxious Cares Her Royal Breaft. For Storms of Court Ambition rage as high Almoft as Tempefts in the Sky. Could I my hafty Doom retrieve. And once more in the Land of Poets live, I’d now the Men of Flags and Fortune greet. And write an Elegy upon the Fleet. Firft, thofe that on the Shore were idly found, Whom other while better Men were drown’d. They may thank God for being Knaves on Shore, But fure the Qr^-n will never truft them more. They who rid out the Storm, and liv’d. But faw not whence it was deriv’d, Senflefs of Danger, or the mighty Hand, That could to ceafe as well as blow command. Let fuch unthinking Creatures have a care. For fome worle End prepare. Let them look out for fome fuch Day, When what the Sea would not, the Gallows may. Thofe that in former Dangers ftunn’d the Fight, But met their Ends in this difaft’rous Night, Have C 94 ) Have left this Caution, tho’ too late. That all Events are known to Fate. Cowards avoid no Danger when they run, And Courage Tcapes the Death it would not fliUn j ’Tis Nonfenfe from our Fate to fly. All Men mull once have Heart enough to die. Thofe Sons of Plunder are below my Pen, Becaufe they are below the Names of Men; Who from the Shores prefenting to their Eyes ' The fatal Goodwin^ where the Wreck of Navies lyes, J A Thoufand dying Sailors talking to the Skies. From the fad Shores they faw the Wretches walk. By Signals of Diftrefs they talk \ There with one Tide of Life they’re vext. For all were furc to die the next. The barbarous Shores with Men and Boats abound^ The Men more barbarous than the Shores are found j Off to the (batter’d Ships they go, And for the floating Purchafe row. They fpare no Hazard, or no Pain, But 'tis to fave the Goods, and not the Men. Within the (inking Supplaints reach appear, As if they’d mock their dying Fear. Then for fome Trifle all their Hopes fupplant. With Cruelty would make a Turk relent. If I had any Satyr left to write, Cou’d I with fuited Spleen indite, My Verfe (hould blall that fatal Town, And drowned Sailors Widows pull it down 5 No ( 95 ) No FootHeps of it Ihould appear^ And Ships no more call Anchor there.' The barbarous hated Name of Beal fliou’d dicj Or be a Term of Infamy j And till that’s done, the Town will ftand A juft Reproach to all the Land. The Ships come next to be my Theme, The Men’s the Lofs, I’m not concern’d for them j For had they perilh’d e’er they went. Where to no purpofe they were fent, The Ships might ha’ been built again. And we had fav’d the Money and the Men. There the Mighty Wrecks appear, Hicjacent^ ufelefs things of War. Graves of Men, and Tools of State, There yoH lye too footty there you lye too late, ButO ye Mighty Ships of War 1 What in Winter did you there ? Wild November Ihould our Ships reftore To Chathamy Tortfmouthy and the Nore^ So it was always heretofore 5 For Heaven it felf is not unkind. If Winter Storms he’ll fometimes fend. Since ’tis fuppos’d the Men of War Are all laid up, and left fecure. Nor did our Navy feel alone The dreadful Defolation; It fhook the Wails of Flejh as well as Stone, And ruffl’d all the Nation, The Univerfal Fright Made guilty H .—expeft his fatal Night) C9^) His harden’d Soul began to doubt,' And Storms grew high within as they grew high without. Flaming Meteors fill’d the Air, But A- -./ mifs’d his fiery Chariot there; Recall’d his black blafpheming Breath, And trembling paid his Homage unto Death. Terror appear'd in every Face^ Even vile Blackboitrn felt fome Ihocks of Grace \ Began to feel the hated Truth appear, Began to fear. After he had hurlefqu'd a God fo long, He fhould atlafl: be in the wrong. Some Power he plainly faw, (And feeing, felt a flrange unufual Awe;) Some fecret Hand he plainly found. Was bringmg fome ftrange thing to pafs. And he that neither God nor Devil own’d, AFufi needs he at a lofs to gttefs. Fain he would not ha’ gueft the worft. But Guilt will always be with Terror curft. Hell fliook, for Devils dread Almighty Power, At every fliock they fear’d the fatal Hour, The Adamantine Pillars mov’d. And Satan’s Pandemonium trembl’d too \ The tottering Seraphs wildly rov’d. Doubtful what the Almighty meant to do; For in the darkeft of the black Abode There's not a Devil but believes a God. Old Lucifer has fometimes try’d To have himfelf be deify'd ; But Devils nor Men the Being of God deny’d, Till (97) TiU Men of late found out new way^ to fin, And turn’d,the Devil out to let the Atheilb in.' But when the mighty Element began, And Storms the weighty Truth explain. Almighty Power upon the Whirlwind rodcj And every Blaft proclaim’d aloud There there is^ there a GOD. Plague, Eamine, Peftilence, andWUt^ « Are in their Caufes feen,^ The true Originals appear Before the EffeSs begin; But Stortiis and Tempelts are above our Rules^ Here our Fhilofophers are Fools. The Stagit-ite himfelf coUld never Ihow^ From whence, nor liow they blow. ’Tis all fublime, ’tis all a Myftery, They lee no Manner how, nor Reafon why ^ Sovereign Being Is our amazing “theme, ’Tis all refolv’d to Power Supream*, From this firfl: Caufe bur Tempeft came. And let the Atheifts ’fpight of Senfe blafpheme^ They can no room for Banter find. Till they produce another Father for the Wind. Satyr, thy Senfe of Sovereign Being declare, He made the mighty Prince o’th’ Air, And Devils recognize him by their Fear. Ancient as Time, and elder than the Light,' E’re the firft Day, or antecedent Night, E’re Matter into fettl’d Form became. And long before Exiftence had a Name; H Beforl Before th’ Expahee of indigfefted Space, While the vait No-vfh&e‘^Vd the room ofplace* Liv’d the fir ft Caufe, the fo'ft great Whtre and Why, Exilling to and ft'm Et'el'Hity, Of his Great Self, and of Netejftiy. This J call God, that one great Word of Fear» At whofc great Sound, When from his mighty Breath ’tis eccho’d round, Nature pays Homage with a trembling Bow, And confeious Man would faintly difallow •, The fecret Trepidation racks the Soul, And while he fays, no God, replies, thou Fool. But call it what we will, Firft Being it had, does Space and Subftance filii Eternal felf-exifting Power enjoy’d. And whatfoe’er is fo, that fame is God. If then it (hould fall out, as who can tell, But that there is a Heaven and Hell, Mankind had beft confidcr well for fear fhouldhe too late when their Miftakes appear*. Such may in vain reform, Unlefs they do’t before another Storm- They tell us Scar/rtwe/’fcap’d the Blaft j No Nation elfe have been without a Tafte: All Europe fure have felt the Mighty Shock, ’T has been a Univerfal Stroke. But Heaven has other ways to plague the Scots, j4s Poverty and Plots. Her Majcfty confirms it, what (he faid, I plainly heard it, tho^ Pm deadt (99) “Irhe dangerous Sound has rais’d me from my ^ee^^ I can no longer Silence keep ^ iJere Satyr's thy Deliverance, A Plot in Scotland^ hatch’d in trance'^ And Liberty the Old Pretence. , Prelatick Power with Popilh join. The Qlicen’s juit Government to undermine J This is enough to wake the Dedd, The Call’s too loud, it never fliall be faid The lazy llept too longi When all the Ndtions Danger claim’d his Seng j KKt Satyr from thy Sleep of legal Death, And reaflume fatyrick Breath ; What tho’ to leven Years Sleep thoa art confin’d/ Thou rveH inay'jt wake with fuch a Wind. Such Blafts as thefe can feldom blow^ But they’re both form’d above and heard below. Then wake and wain us now the Storm is paft, Left Heaven return with a feverer Blaft. Wake and inform Mankind Of Storms that ftill remain behind. If from this Grave thou lift thy Head, They’ll furily mind one rifen from the Dcad<^ Tho’ Mofes and the Prophets can’t prevail, A fpeaking Satyr cannot fail. Tell ’em while fecret Difeontents appear, There 11 ne er be Peace and Union here^ They that for Trifles fo contend, Have fomething farther in their End j But let thofe hafty People know. The Stortiis above reprove the Storms helow ; H i And C lOO ) And ’tis too often knowni That Storms helm do Storms above fore-run i They fay this was a High-Church Stormy Sent out the Nation to reform j But th’ Emblem left the Moral in the Lurch, For’t blew the Steeple down upon the Church. From whence we now inform the People, The Danger of the Church is from theSteefla And we’ve had many a bitter Stroke, Fro m Pi nacle a nd Weather-Cock v From whence the Learned do relate. That to fccure the Church and State, The Time will come when all the Town* To fave the Churchy voill pitll the Steeple down. Two Tempefts are blown over, now prepare For Storms of Treafon and Inteftine War. The High-Church Fury to the North extends, In halle to ruin all their Friends. Occafional Conforming led the way. And now Occafional Rebellion comes in play. To let the wond ring Nation know. That HiglrChurch Honefty’s an empty Show, A Phantofm of delufive Air, That as Occafion fefves can difappear, And Loyalty’s a fenfiefs Phrafe, An empty Nothing which our Intereft fways, A nd as that fuIFers this decays. Who dare the dangerous Secret tell, ThrJ Chnrch^Men can rebel. Faction I ( lOI ) Faftion we thought was by the Whigs engrofs’d. And Forty One was banter’d till the Jeft was loft. Bothwell and Pemland-Hills were fam’d. And Gilly-Cranky hardly nam’d. If living Poets dare not l^eak, We that are Dead muft Silence break j And boldly let them know the Time’s at hand. When Ecclefiaftick Tempefts fliake the Land. Prelatick Treafon from the Crown divides. And now Rebellion changes fides. Their Volumes with their Loyalty may fwell. But in their Turns too they rebel Can Plot, Contrive, AlTaflinate, And fpight of Paflive Laws dillurb the State. Let fair Pretences fill the Mouths of Men, No fair Pretence Iball blind my Pen i They that in fuch a Reign as this rebel, Muft needs be in Confederacy with Hell. Oppreflions, Tyranny, and Pride, May form fome Reafons to divide i But where the Laws with open Juftice rule. He that rebels mufi be both Knave and Fool. May Heaven the growing Mifchief foon prevent, jind Traytors meet Reward in Pani^menti H 3 A ( 10 ? ) H y'm M T O T H E P IL L Q R Y, T TAIL! HPro^lyphicJt State Machin, Contriv’d to punifli Fancy in: Men that are Men in thee can feel no Pain, And all thy Injig/nficants difdain. Contempt, that falfe new Word for Shame, |s without Crime an empty Name. A Shadow to amufe Mankind, Put never frights the wife pr well-fix’d Mind: Vertuc defpifes Human Scorn, And Scandals Innocence adorn, pxalted on thy Stool of State, What Profped do I fee of Sov’reign Fate; How the Infcrutables of Providence, Differ from our contracted Senfe j Here by the Errors of the Town, The'Fools lookout, the Knaves look on. Perforts or Crimes find here the fame RefpeCt, ' And Vice does Vertuc oft correct. The ( 103 ) The undiftinguifh’dFury of the Stjre<;t, With Mob and Malice MMifld greet; No Byafs can the Rnbt'l.edrajw* But Dirt throw s Dirt wUhoutto Merit or to aw Sometimes, the jiir of Scaptial to tofilntainy Villains look from thy lofty Loops in vain; But who can judge of GrUnes by PoniJhment, Where Parties rule, au4 L--'S.fubfervient. Juftice with change of Iflt’rejB: learns to bow. And what was Merit once is Murther now; Aftions receive their Tindure from the Times, And as they change are Veitues raade, or Crimes* Thou art the State~Trtp of the,Law, But neither canft keep Knares nor honefl; Men in awe *, Thefe are too hard’n’d in Offence, And thofe upheld by Innocence. How have thy optnini Vacancies receiv’d. In every Age the Criminals of State ? And how has Mankind been deceiv’d, When they diftinguidi Crimes by,Pate ? Tell us. Great Engine^ hpw to UE^e.rftacd, Or reconcile the Juftice of th,e: Land ; How Bajlwicky Pryn^ Hant^ EJoUingshy. P)'#, Men of unfpotted Hoaefty j Men that had Learning, Wit, and; Senfe» And more than moft Men have had ftPCCji Could equal Title to thee claim. With Oats Fuller^ Men of later Fame ^ Even the Learned 5f Wen iaw, A Profped of thee tVi,ro’'the Law : H 4 He i 104 ) l^c had thy lofty Pinnacles in view, feut fo much Honour never was thy due: Had the Great Selden Tfimhph’d on thy Stag^ Selden the Honour of his Age; No Man wou’d ever Ihun thee more. Or grudge to rfand where Selden ftood before. Thou art no Shame to Truth and Honefty, Nor is the Charafter of fuch defac’d by thee, • Who fuffer by opprellive Injury. Shame, like the Exhalations of the Sun, Falls back where firft the motion was begun : And he who fbr no Crime (hall on thy Brows appear. Bears iefs Reproach than they who plac’d him there. But if Contempt is on thy Face entail’d, Difgrace it felf lhali be afham’d; Scandal ihall blufli that it has not prevail’d. To Waft the Man it has defam’d. Let all that merit equal Punilhment, Stand there with him, and we are all content. There would the fem’d S --,// ftand. With Trumpet of Sedition in his Hand, Sounding the firft Crkfado in the Land’.' He from a Church oi England Pulpit firft All his diflenting Brethren curft ; Doom’d them to Satan for a Prey, And firft found out the fmtefi- way\ With him the wife Vice-Chancellor o’th’ Preft, Who, tbo’our PrintMs Licenfes defy. Willing to Ihow his forwardnef?, Blefs’d it with his Authority; ( 105 ) He gave the Church’s Sanftion to the Work, As Popes blefs Colours for Troops which fight the Turk, poftors in Scandal thefe are grown, For red hot Zed and furious Learning known; Profeflbrs in Reproach, and highly fit. For jKm\ Academy, BilUngJoate. Thou like a true-born EtigUp Tool, Haft from their Compofition ftole. And now art like to fmart for being a Fool: And as of EngUjh Men ’twas always meant. They’re better to improve than to invent; Upon their Model thou haft made, A Monfter makes the World afraid. With them let all the States-mcn ftand. Who guide us with unfteddy Hand: Who Armies, Fleets, and Men betray; And ruin all the fiwrtefi way. Let all thofe Soldiers ftand in fight, Who’re vyilling to be paid and not to fight. Agents, and Colonels, who falfe Mufters bring. To cheat their Country firft, and then their King: Bring all your Coward Captains of the Fleet i Lord ! What a Crowd wiU, there, he when they meet ?. They who let Points ’fcape to Brefi., Who all the Gods of Carthagena blef^. Thofe who betray’d our 'tso-key Fleet Or injur’d 'talmajf) fold at Camaret. Who mifs’d the Squadron from Thonlon^ And always came too late, or elfc too foon j All ( I05 ) All thcfe are Heroes, whofe great A&ioas claim Immortal Honours to their dying Fame; And ought not to have been deny’d. On thy great Comerfcarp to have their Valour try’d. Why have not thefe upon thy fpreading Stage Tailed the keener Jullice of the Age j If ’tis becaule their Crimes are too remote, Whom leaden-footed Jullice has forgot? Let’s view the modern Scenes of Fame, If Men and Management are not the fame j When Fleets go out with Money, and with Men, Jull time enough to venture home again? Navies prepar’d to guard th’ infulted Coall, And Convoys fettl’d when our Ships are loll. Some Heroes lately come from Sea, If they were paid their due, fliould Hand with theej Papers too Ihould their Deeds relate. To prove the Jullice of their Fate: Their Deeds of War at Port Saint Mary’s done. And fet the Trophies by them which they won: Let Or ^—dh Declaration there appear. He’d certainly be pleas’d to fee ’em there. Let fome good Limner reprefent. The ravilh’d Nuns, the plunder’d Town, The Englijh Honour how mif-fpent*, The lhameful coming back, and little done. The P'igo Men Ihould ne.xt appear. To Triumph on thy Theater j They, who on board the great Galoons had been, Who robb’d the Spaniards firll, and then the Qpeen: Set c m ) Set up the Praifes to their Valour due^ How Eighty Sail had beaten Twenty TwoJ Two Troopers fo, and one Dragoon, Conquer’d a Sfanijk Bey at TamyaUne^ Yet let them Qrm j i .wA Conduft own, Who beat them firft on Shore, or little had beeadonei What unknown Spoils from thence are corae. How much was brought away, have Uttle Home. If all the Thieves IHould on tby Sct^oU Hand Who robb’d their Matters in Command: The Multitude would foon QUt-do, The City Crouds of Lord Mayor Show. Upon thy penitential Stools,, Some PeopleIhould be plac’d for Fools: As fome for inttance who, while they look on, See others plunder al], and they get none. Next the Lieutenant-General, To get the Devil, loft the Pc’il and all; And he fome little Badge ftiould bear, Who ought, in Juftice, to have hang’d ’em there: This had his Honour more maintain’d. Than all the Spoils at f^i£e gain’d. Then clap thy wooden Winos for Joy, And greet the Men of Great Employ \ The Authors of the Nations difcontent. And Scandal of a Chriftian Government. ’Jobbers, and Broiers of the City Stocks, With Forty Thoufand Tallies at their Backs-, Who make our Banks and Companies obey. Or fink ’em all the Jl^ortf/r tray. The Xroe ) Th’ intrinfick Value of our Stocks, Is ftated in their calculating Books j Th’ Imaginary Prizes rife and fall, As they Command who tofs the Bail ^ Let ’em upon thy lofty Turrets Hand, With Sear-Skins on the Back, Debentures in the Hand, And write in Capitals upon the Poft, That here they lliould remain. Till this ty£mgma they explain, How Stocks Should fall when Sales furmount the Coil:, And rife again when Ships are loft. Great Monfter of the Law, exalt thy Head, Appear no more in Mafqucrade, In homely Phrafe exprefs thy Difcontent, And move it in th’ approaching Parliament: Tell ’em how Paper went inftead of Coin, With lut’reft Eight per Cent, and Dilcount Nine. Of Irifs Tranfport Debts unpaid. Bills falfc endors’d, and long Accounts unmade.. And tell them all the Nation hopes to fee. They’ll fend the Guilty down to thee. Rather than thofe who write their Hiftory. Then bring thofe Juftices upon thy Bench, Who vilely break the Laws they Ihould defend; And upon Equity intrench, ( 109 ) Let none fueh BrUeweU Juftices proteft. As firft debauch the Whores which they corre^i Such who with Oaths and Drunk’nefs fit, And punilh far lefs Crimes than they commit; Thcfe certainly dcferve to ftand With Trophies of Authority in either Hand. Upon thy Pulpit fet the drunken Prielt, Who turns the Gofpelto a bawdy Jeft j Let the Fraternity degrade him there. Left they like him appear: There let him his Memento Mart Preach, And by Example, not by Doftrine, Teach. Next bring the lewder Clergy there. Who Preach thofe Sins down which they carPt forbear^ Thofe Sons of God who every day^o»»» Both to the Daughters and the Wives of Men ; There let ’em ftand to be the Nations Jeft, And fave the Reputation of the reft. j4 -//, who for th6 Gofpel left the Law, And deep within the Clefts of Darknefs faw *, Let him be an Example made. Who durft the Parfon’s Province fo invade j To bis new Ecclefiaftick Rules We owe the Knowledge that we all are Fools; Old Charon Oiall no more dark Souls convey, y! has found the (hortefi way: Vain is your Funeral Pomp and Bells, Your Grave-Stones, Monuments and Knells; Vain are the Trophies of the Grave, ^ - U fnall all that Foppery lave; And ( t TO j And, to the Cicrgifcs great Reproach, Shall change the J^earje into a p^y Coach: What Man the ItaMed Riddie c'ah receive. Which none can aflfWeff, and yet none Bellevfe^ Let him recorded od % lap remain. Till he ftiall Heav’n by hiiow^n Rure's obtain. If a poor Author has embrac’d thy Wood^ Only becauie he was not underllood. They punilh Mankind but by halves. Till they ftand there, Who falie to their dwn Principles appear: And cannot underliand themfelvts. Thole NfitiJJntesy whO with furious l^eal drive ori^ And build up Kome to ptill down Babylon •, The real Authors of theprtefl way;^ M^ho for Deftru(flion^ not Converfion Pray; There let thole Sons of Strife remain. Till this Church Riddle they explain 5 How at Diflentersthey can raife a Storm, But would not have them all conform j For there their certain Ruin would come in, And Moderation j which they hate^ begin. 6 omc Church-men next fhoiild grace thy PewS, Who talk of Loyalty they never ufc i Paflive Obedience well becomes thy Stage, For both have been the Banter of the Age, Get them but once within thy reach, Thou’lt make them praefife what they us’d to Teach. Next bring forhe Lawyers to thy Bar^ By Inm:di> they might all Hand there 5 P There ( ) There let them expiate that Guilt, And pay for all that Blood their Tongues ha’ fpilt j Thefe are the Mountebanks of State, Who by the JliglA ofTongne can Crimes create. And drefs up Trifles in the Rvbes ofFatti The Maftives of a Government, • To worry and run down the Innocent; The Engines of Infernal Wit, Cover’d with Conning and Deceit i Satan\ fublimelt Attribute they ufe, For firft they tempt, and then accufe; No Vows or Promifes can bind their Hands, Submillive Law obedient Hands; When Power concurs, and lawlefs Force Hands by; He’s Lunatick that looks forHonefty. There fat a Man of mighty Fame, Whofe Aftions fpeak him plainer than his Name; In vain he ftruggl’d, he harangu’d in vain. To bring in Whipping Sentences again: And to debauch a milder Government, With abdicated kfnds of Pttnifnnent. No Wonder he fhould Law defpife, Who Jeftts Chrifi himfelf denies; His Adions only now dired. What we when he is made a J-~e exped: Set L - Jl next to his Difgrace, With Whitnefi Horfes flaring in his Face; There let his Cup of Pennance be kept full,’ Till he’s lefs noide, inlblent and dull. When all thefe Heroes have paft o’er thy Stage, And thou haft been the Satyr of the Age; Wait II3 ) Wait then a while for all thofe Sons of Fame^ Whom prefent Pow’r has made too great to name: Fenc’d from thy Hands, they keep our Verfe in awe; Too great for Satyr, and too great for Law. As they their Commands lay down, They all lhall pay their Homage to thy Cloudy Throne i And till within thy reach they be* , Exalt them in Effigie. The Martyrs of the by-paft Reign, For whom new Oaths have been prepar’d in vain 5 A’s Difciple firft: by him trepan’d. He for a K ■ - and they for F—:— s ftiould ftand. Tho’ fomc affirm he ought to be excus’d, since to this day he had refus’d; And this was all the Frailty of his Life, He damn’d his Confcience to oblige his Wife. But fpare that Prieft, whole tottering Confcience kne# That if he took but one he’d perjure two: Bluntly rcfolv’d he w oil’d not break ’em both. And fwore by G--d he’d never take the Oath j Hang him, he can’t be fit for thee, For his nmtfkid Hofiejly. Thon Sfeahng Trumpet of Mens Fame; Entet in every Court thy Claim ^ Demand ’em all, for they are aH thy own. Who Swear to Three Kings, but are true to nond Turn-Coats of all fidcs are thy due, And he who once is falfe is never true : To day can fwcar, to morrow can abjure,- For Treachery’s a Crime no Man can cure r Such ( ) Such without fcruple, for the Time to comej May Swear to all the Kings in Chriftendom j But he’s a mad Man will rely Upon their loft Fidelity. They that in vaft Employments rob the State, Let them in thy Embraces meet their Fate ; Let not the Millions they by Fraud obtain, Protea ’em from the Scandal, or the Paini They who from mean beginnings grow To vaft Eftates, but God knows hoWf Who carry untold Sums away. From little places, with but little Pay: Who coftly Palaces erea. The Thieves that built them to proted j OardenSj Grotto\ Fountains^ Walks, and GriviSf Where Vice triumphs in Pride, and Lawlefs Loves i Where mighty Luxury and Drunk’nefs reignM, Profiifcly fpend what they prophanely gain’d; Tell ’em their Adene Tekel’s on the Wall, Tell ’em the Natiot^s Adouey paid for all. Advance thy double Front and Ihow, And let us both the Crimes and Perfons know i Place them aloft upon thy Throne, Who flight the Nation’s Bufinefs for their own $ Neglea their Pofts, in fpight of double Pay, And run us all in Debt the Jhortefi jr^. Great Pageant, change thy dirty Scene, For on thy Steps fome Ladies may be feen', When Beauty ftoops upon thy Stage to (hoW She laughs at all the humble Fools below. 1 ( II4 ) Set Sapho there^ whofc Hasband paid for Cloaths Two Hundred Pounds a Week in Furbulo's: There in her Silks and Scarlets let her (hine^ She’s beauteous all without^ all Whore voithin. Next let gay V RA NI ride. Her Cdach and fix attending by her fide : Long has fhe waited, but in vain. The City Homage to obtain; The fumptuous Harlot long’d t’ infnlt the Chairs And triumph o’er our City Beauties there. Here let her haughty Thoughts be gratifi’d. In Triumph let her ride. Let DIA DORA next appeal*. And all that want to know her fee her there. What tho’ (he’s not a true-born Englijh Wh——re ? French Harlots have been here before j Let not the Pomp nor Grandeur of her State Prevent the Juftice of her Fate, But let her an Example now be made To Foreign Wh——s^ who fpoil the En^lijh Trade. Let Fletumacy with his pompous Train, Attempt to refeue her in vain v Content at laft.to fee her (hown, 1 et him defpife her Wit^ and find his own: Tho’ his Inheritance of Brains was fmall. Dear bought Experience will inftruft us all. Claim ’em, thou Herald of Reproach^ Who with uncommon Lewdnefs will debauch 5 I et c —— upon thy Borders fpend his Life, ’Till he recants the Bargain with his Wife J And And till this Riddle both explain^ How neither can themfelres contain V How Nature can on both fides run fo high As neither fide can neither fide fupply: And fo in Charity agree. He keeps two Brace of Whords, two Stallions ihei What need of Satyr to reform the Town ? Or Laws to keep our Vices down? Let ’ein to Thee due Homage pay^ This will reform us all the Jhortefi vpoy. Let ’em to bring all the Knaves and Foolsi Vertue will guide the reft by Rules; They’ll need no treacherous Friends, no breach of f ailfei No hir’d Evidence with their infeSing Breath j No Servants Mafters to betray, Or Knights o’th’ Poft, who fwear for I^ay 5 No injur’d Author ’ll on thy Steps appear. Not fuch as won't be RogutSy but luch as ara The firft Intent of Laws Was to correft th’ Efle(ft, and check the Cauib i And ail the Ends of Punilhment, Were only future Mifehiefs to prevent; But Jiiftice is inverted When Tholb Engines of the Law^ Inftead of pinching vicious Men, Keep honeft ones in aWej Thy Bufinefs is, as all Men know. To punilh Villains, not to make Men fd; Whenever then thou art prepar’d. To prompt that Vice thou Ihould’ft reward, 1 2 And ( ii5 ) And by the Terrors of thj^rijly PMe't Make Men turn Rogues to fhun Difgracc *, The End of thy Creation is deftroy’d, Jullice expires of courfe, and Law’s made void. What are thy Terrors ? that for fear of thee. Mankind Jhould dare to fink their Honefty ? He’s bold to Impudence that dare tom Knave The Scandal of thy Company to fave: He that will Crimes he never knew confers. Does more than if he knew thofe Crimes tranfgrels: And he that fears thee more than to be bafe. May want a Heart, but docs not want a Face. Thou like the Devil doll appear. Blacker than really thou art by far: A wild Chiraerick Notion of Reproach, .Too little for a Crime, for none too much: Let none th’Indignity refent. For Crime is all the Shame of Puailhmcnt. Thou Bugbear of the Law Hand up and Ipeak, Thy long mifeonftru’d Silence break, Tell us who ’tis upon thy RUge Hands there, So full of Fault, and yet fo void of Fcar^ And from the Paper in his Hat, Let all Mankind be told for what; Tell them it was becaufe he was too bold. And told thofe Truths which Ihou’d not ha’ been told. Extol the Jullice of the Land, Who punilh what they will not underHand. Tell ( ) Tell them he ftands exalted there For fpeaking what we wou’d not hear; And yet he might ha’ been fecure. Had he faid lefs, or woo’d he ha’ lad more. Tell them that this is his Reward, And worfe is yet for him prepar’d, Becaufe his fooli/h Vertue was fo nice As not to fell his Friends according to his Friends Advice; And thns he’s an Example made, To make Men of their Honefty afraid, That for riieTime^to come they may More willingly their Friends betray; Tell ’em the M—~ that ptac’d him herc^ Are S o - —Is tathe Times, Are at a lofi to find his Guilt, And can’t commit his Crimes. H y"m N victory: T O T HE queen. M Adam, The Glories of Tour Hafpy Reign Are (eard pom Heav’n, a»d Hell reftfis m vasn; Xo^re dpubly Weft with ftrange exalted Joy^ At Home with feace^ Abroad with Viftory. If this is but the Earnefi of Tour Fame^ To what firange Heights wiU Heaven exalt Tour Name, And what Seraphkk Thoughts mufi fill Tour Mtnd^ When Xou refie(t on Glories ftill behind ! Your Mighty Predecefor firove in vain this very happy Moment to obtam: through Fields of Blood and faughter*d Armies fought, £nt always tnifs^d the happy Vriz.e he fought.^ His dreadful Sword in numerous Battels try’d. And ptf d at hard, but H^av’n deny’d. C 119 ) In vain he might the difiant Nymph purfue \ The Cafe is plain, fti’ has been referv’d for You- Jf, Madam, Heav'n Jkou'd now go ip the mighty Spirit herey She felt new Hopes, and quite forgot to fear. With Joy flie Joflght new Refnge in Tour ThronOf And found You joyn’d her Safety to Your own: With Sacred Zeal (he fi^d Tour Royal Breajl^ To refcue Kingdoms ruin'd and opprefi : She fir'd Tour Soul with Motions fo Divine^ 'Twas fhe that font Tour Army from the Rhine. Trom Tou to glorious high Afeents Ihc filew^ Vp'here (he the mighty AElions kept in view^ And brought thofc Triumphs back that arc Your due. The Humble Mufes now their Tribute pay^ And fing the Joys of this Triumphant J)ay, And now^ the meaneft of the infpird TraiUy Suppreft by Fate^ and humbl’d with Difdain^ From all the Joys of Art and Life exempt^ Pebas’d in Name^ and cover'd with Contempt, VKith Chains of Injury and Scandal bound In dark Recefs, Tour mighty Influence found^ So ftrong the powerful Charm^ fo fierce the Fire, The Mufe muft fing, or in his Verfe expire. He fings the Glories of Tour happy Reign^ And humbly then retreats difconfolate again^ Vnder the Blafi of Perfonal Pique to die. Shaded from all the Blefliogs of Your Eye. ( «3 ) A H Y M N, &C. T_T Ail Vi&ory ! Thou Stranger to our Land ; Thou coy long-courted Miftrefs of Mankiodi, pebauch’d by Tyrants, ravilh’d by the Strong, Where haft thou abfcnt been fo long? Why ha^t thou fled from EngUfh Arms, And why abroad fo lavilh of thy Charms ? Thou beauteous Wanderer from tbefe Ifles, Where haft tbon laid thy dear-bought Spoils? How haft thou fled from Juftice and our Caufe, Abandon'd Honefty and Laws, EncouragM mighty Injury and Guilt,' And joyn’d thy Triumphs to the Blood they fpilt! Thy Chariot has with wonted Fraud Allur’d our Champions to Attempts abroad: We thought we had thy Meaning undcrftood; And courted thee thro’ Seas of Enghjh Blood: But when we thought thy Friendlhip fure. More tempting ObjcSs does thy fickle Mind allure: Jilted we faw thy Shadow fly. And court the Squadrons of our Enemy: Yet all thy Errors thus we overlook, Freely thy Bamlhment revoke. Welcome ( 124 ) Welcome thee with our open Hand, Hail Viftory! Thou Strange to our Land. Thou art a fulten airy Wight, On ev’ry fmall Affront thou tak’ft thy Flight, For ev’ry Trifle wilt be gone. And hardly art with ftrong Entreaties won: A partial Nymph! that icorns to flnile but where The unrelifted Baits of Power are; Thy mercenary Favours dolt divide. Not to the belt but Itrongelt fide. Invading Numbers are thy Bait, Too oft on potent Treafon thou canlt wait. Bellow’ll thy Favours without fenfe of Right, And bafely ftoop’fl: to fawn on Men of Might. How often have we feen thee try’d ? And Rebels get thee over to their fide ? How often have thy Banners been difplay’d. O’er abjeft: Truth, and Right betray’d? How have oppreffing Legions rais’d their Fame On thy abus’d deluded Name ? And Tyrants boldly ruin all Mankind, Becaufe thy partial Name’s their Friend. Thou formidable llrong Pretence, That ffand’lt for Law, and fery’lt inltead of Senle ; That mak’lt the ftupid World content To take thy Word inltead of Argument. We make our Reafon to thy Rules fubmit, Thou can’ll fupply the want of Wit, In thee the widell Coatradiftions hit. ( *25 ) No Words againlt thee can prwaH, Thy Arguments can never fail: Conqueft the worft of Treafons fandifies,’ And where Vitoria fpeaks the World complies. Thou haft the ftrangeft Charafter^ ^ Thou art the Caufe as well as End of War! So many Contradiftions blind thy Sight, Thou’rt always wrong, and yet art always right. What Villanies are afted in thy Name? How do thy Conqu’ring Troops the World inflame What ravag’d Towns in Flames uppear. Excus’d by Rules of ViSory and War? How do the Monarchs who debauch fhy Name, Value themfelves upon thy ill-got Fame! Call themfelves Great, Immortal, and Divine, When all their , wild Idolatry is thine! Had Viftory to Vertue been but true, Lewis\ thy Triumphs had been few: But Viiftory, debauch’d by Art, Makes Fate comply, and feem to ad a partj And by her mighty Influence With Fraud and Force ufurps on Providence 5 Gives vaft Succefs where there’s no Vertue due. And makes the Shades of Valour pafs for true. In former Times thy Fame was known; Before thou waft fo mercenary grown, Thy Favours were impartially beftow’d To Men of Valour, lefs to Men of Blood, Then £w^/Wlhar’d thee in her Wars, And her Black Frince engag’d thee to be hers. At Crefeyy j^ein-Coart^ and at Poiilitrt. C *2^ ) *Twas then thy Vertuc might be cill’d thy bwli j By Battel only to be won 5 By dint of Sword and Etiilijh Valour fought} By Englijh Valour hither brought. And had our Vertuc not decay’d. Perhaps thou tnight’ft till now ha^ ftaid* Now thouVt become the U'hore of War j Strowling with Bully Mars and Coward Eeter^ Thou tak'ft the vile degen’rate part, A Prollitute to Stratagem and Art; Submitt’ft to Treafon, Avarice, and Blood, And art no more for juftice underftood. By modern Methods art procur’d, The longeft Purfe fubducs the longelt Sword* Trich, Shanty Contrivance, and Sarpriae, In thefe thy new Acquirement lies j i Number, dot FaloHr, now prevails, jin wins, and Courage oftner fails: He Conquers foonelt that’s the molt afraid •, The Camp’s a Market, and the War’s a Trade. Tell us, returning Nymph, the latent Caufe Why thou thy Fav’rite England do’ft forfake? Where thou had’ft always juft Applaufe, Could always Heroes find, or Heroes make* In Civil Broils the Goddefs took the fide Where trueft Valour could her Chariot guide, . Quite unconcern’d as to the Caufe of War j ’Twas Fighting only that contented her. When Battail joyn’d, and furious Squadrons met, She hover’d o’er the bloody Spot Without ( *27 ) Without examining the Caufe j Beftow’d her Lawrels by her Martial Laws: But when (he came to fee How ill they us’d their dear-bought Viftory) Afhara’d ofthofe (he had carefs’d before. She fled for Forty Years, and came no more. To Germany from hence (he fled. With Plcafure there (he us’d to tread; At Leipfick^ Lutz^n^ Nordlingen^ and TragnCy She triumph’d o’er the Mftrian League: There (he the Tomb of great Cuftmus faw. Who chain’d her to his Saddle-bow, Who made his Valour be her Law, And her Amazement too. So fwift his Conquefl, fo fecure his Hand, Not Viaory her felf could him withftand. Had (be the Lawrels for his Foes defign’d. Had (he been partially inclin’d; So clofely and fo boldly he purfu’d, Ev’n Viftory her felf was there fubdu’d. The angry Goddefs, loth to be con(in’d. Strove to bellow a Lawrel from his Head: But his impetuous Valour fcorn’d the Deed, And ravifh’d Viftory againft her Mind. The haughty Nymph with his new Fame opprell. The mighty Conqu’ring Kingaddrefl: Here's Viaory and Dtath^ laid (he ; If you will Conquer yon muft die. I voill^ th’ undaunted Prince reply’d j So Conquer’d Viftory, and dy’d. ( tsS ) To Fraftee the Goddefs went from hence j They dcify’d her there, and call’d her Providence: Pleas’d to be thus carefs’d, Ihe pitch’d her Tent j And with their Annies always went. Young NafsK courted her in vain. The Dutch would not defray the Charges of her Traini She lik’d the Youth, his Valour pleas’d her much. But fomething out of Humour with the Dutch t Yet Ihe agreed their finking State to fave, Joyn’d the young Prince at Naerden and the Graven Bravely ihe led him on. At FFordeity atSeuefy and Bom^ But, baulk’d by Germany and Spairty She left him, and return’d to France again: ' Then flay’d fb long upon the Rhincy .*Twas thought fhc had been married to Turenne t Conde enjoy’d her once or twice. But left her to poflefs his meaner Vice. And Litxemhurgh employ’d her fo. He hardly gave her time to go. Schomberg her fickle Favour won. But could not keep her for his braver Son. At lall Britannia call’d her o’re. To land with FFiBiam on her FF;Jtern Shore. She came, to brighter Clifts, (he came j Traytors and Cowards ftartled at her Name: And when they heard ’twas FFilliam brought her o’rc. They never fhew’d their Faces more. His ftrong advanc’d Battalions (he led on, And Armies fled like Mills before the Sun. Tyrati" < 129 ) tyrannick Legions at her Name fubniit j Like Provuience, the Work was all compleat;' WhereVe the Hero went, Ihe led the way, Where’re the Hero went, llie got the Day. Conqnefl: out-rid his Troops, and Fear Gave Vidory without a War: Twas then the Goddcfs made her Dwelling here. She plac’d her Image up in ev’ry Street, She led our Armies, nay fhe led our Fleet: For then we faw no Cowards there. And Vidory had left no room tor Fear. She led our glorious Legions on. And follow’d FFilliam to the Boyne: Nay, when Britannia call’d him home. She let him come. She ftay’d behind to propagate his Fame, And Conquer’d Ireland in his Name. Tell us, returning Nymph, theCaufes why Thy Bleffing did from England fly ? She went with William from our Land, We thought fli’ had been at his Command 5 And doubted not but Ihe’d come home again: But ah! fhe left him at Landen. Thro Seas of Blood he thought to fetch her horrie^ But the too partial Nymph would never come; At Namare once, by Force, he made his way. And fetch’d her home, but could not make her ftayj And feeing he in vain purfu’d. He let unfcttl’d Peace the War conclude. Now K ( * 3 ° ) Now tell us, Nymph, and yet forbear ^ The Caufes of thy Flight, Of which fo many blufli to hear. So few will dare to write. Was it that Traytors dwelt at home. And Cowards went to War, Some fold the Fleet, the Army fome. And fome were Rogues for fear. Some ftay’d at home our Councils to betray. Some bravely went abroad to run away. The few that had fome Courage brought, Firfl: damn’d the Caufe, and for the Money fought. The aukward Heroes made the War a Trade, And Fought as dully as they had been paid: And Thoufands, which was werft of all. Receiv’d their Pay, and never Fought at all. Britannia ! What was in thy Fate, That always found thee Ra.-s to pawn thy State? Thy Noble Sons regard no Camp or Fleet, But Bully France in Chocolate; Beg Places to betray the Land, And fteer the State they cannot underftand. Thefe are the Men that banifh’d Victory, That made her abdicate and fly j Thefe made the glorious WHUam fight in vainj Shew’d him the Lawrels he could ne’er obtain; Thefe made him weary of the War, And fill’d bis Royal Heart with anxious Care, Made him content with meaner Terras of Peace, And Ihort’ned all our Happinefs. Thefe ( *3* ) Thefe are the Men that held the Nation's Hands; That thwarted his more juft Commands j That funk the Money, and the War delay’d, The fatall’ft way of being betray’d. Hadjis SucceObr been abus’d like him. Not Heav’n it felf con’d ViQory obtain. He never form’d a proper Scheme, But they unform’d it all again. If he Commillion’d them to fight. They kept the Enemy out of fight; But if the Money was in the Command, They’d always be at hand. No Wonder Vid’ry ne’er return’d again j No Wonder William fought in vain j Nothing but Miracle can fave a Land, Where Knaves mull execute what Fools Command. Thus Vidory from England fled. And pale Mifcarriage manag’d in her ftead; Abortive Vapours on our Councils fate. Untimely Devils hover’d o’er the State. The native Vipers of the groaning Land, Eat out the Vitals of their Parent Ifle j And while flie fed them with her open Hand, Abandon’d her to Rogues, and lhar’d the Spoil. Had not the fatal Charm diffolv’d at lafl. All our Deliv’rance had been pail. Not changing Hands could break the horrid Frame, B-o—s of all Parties are the fame, From crafty to empty N -- ( 132 ) Not rntnamh Death, nor fucceeding Power, Before the high appointed Hour, Cou’d loofe the Witchcraft of our Fate, Open the Nation’s Eyes, or fave the State. In the old Road of Mifrhief we went on, And made our wonted Hafte to be undone: Mifcarriages from every Corner come. Knaves aft abroad as Fools direft at home. Wonder no more, ye Men of Senfe 1 Mifcall not our Misfortunes Providence! Twas not Difafter made our Voy’ges vain, ’Twas all Contrivance and Defign. The bufie Statcs-men juggle and debate. And make a Jeft of England^ Fatct Parties decide the Nation’s Doom 5 Fighting abroad’s a Jeft, TLf War’s at home„ Mavies and Armies may themfelves defeat. It all concurs to form the gen’ral Cheat. The embattl’d People now in fides appear. And all’s embroil’d in Party-War. Where will Britaunia^s Mifthiefs end ? Who Ihall her ancient Glories now defend ^ While Parties, Prejudice, and Pride, Froth Peace and Honefty divide. 7\rmies of Tookites intercept our Peace, And too much Law’s the Nation’s known Difeafe. Occafional Contention leads the way. And Zeal defigu’d Religion for a Prey: But they that fav’d the Nation got the Day. The fatal Blaft confounded all their Powers, Blew —-r and r out of Door's ^ C 133 ) Andi't/—-OT, when his Supporters fell, Alas, what Pen the fatal News can tell! Sunk Soul-lefs, down the mighty Bubble fate, Like the meet Tool of State: And lip that us’d his Honour like his Whore, Was juft as fenfelefs now, as ufelefs long before. His Cotifcio fibi flar’d him in the Face, And by his Silence Ibew’d his Guilt and Grace: For tho’ his ftruggling Paflions might be ftrong; This made him blolh, that made liim hold his Tongue Old 5 -r govern’d not his Spleen fo well, But like a mighty ftrong Coloffks fell: He thought his Int’reft ^x’d, and kept his Seat, And knew his Merit better than his Fate: Tho’ had his Senfes been in exercife, His Fall cou’d ne’er ha’ been the leaft Surprize ; Since any Man that had but half his Crime, Muft needs approve his Fate, and own’twas time.' The tott’ring Engine, by his Pride oppreft. Fell all Mens Scorn, and ev’ry Wife-man’s Jeft. The Breath of Royal Juftice blew him down. And plac’d him at a fafer diftance from the Crown. Envy fo fwell’d his guilty Breaft with Rage, Nature cou’d hardly bear his Prieje and Age: Oppreft with Madnefs, and oppreft with Years, He mixt his hearty Curfes with repining Tears. So Cowards, by their Guilt and Fear furpriz’d, Want Courage but to fee themfelves defpis’d. Old R -with equal Guilt and Shame, Shunn’d the Diforders to prelerve bis Fame: fC 3 The ( 134 ) The haughty Chit, tho* fwelUng with Difdain^ Cou’d better his high Difcontents contain, And in fedater Terms his Griefs explain. With fteadier Thoughts did his Difgufts engage^ Neither with F ~—’s Spleen nor S——’sRage, ^ Rallies his Mafter-PoUticks to try Another Caft for Government, or die. In vain the fubtil Wretch embroils this Ifle; In vain he’d Whig and Tory reconcile: He courts th’ Extremes of Parties, and in fpighl That he may more divide, wou’d fome unite: Such humble Thoughts his Policy creates. And ftrives to League with thofc we know he hates. But common Heads his lhallow Thoughts explain. And all his vaft Contrivance is in vain. The Royal Blaft the Party overtakes. The deep Contrivance breaks. The Queen to Peace the willing Land perfwades. And with that Word their deep Defign invades: The willing Lords clofe with the Royal Word, And damn’d the Bill as cruel and abfurd. ’Twas now that Viftory return’d: The Flame of Civil Strife too long had burn’d. The Queen too plainly faw the vile Defign: Her Majefty blew up the Mine. And now her P^iStory is fo compleat. No Tookite dare the Royal Word debate. Well may our Armies fight abroad. Well may the World their Services applaud j From hence the Springs of Gonduft come. Courage Abroad^ Fidelity at Home. The C 135 ) The Qiieeo at Home a greater Conqueft gains, Greater than this on the Bavarian Plains: There flie the German^ Foes has overthrown, But here Ihe vanquiflies her own. The I|^dy, falfe, and furious Statefmcn fall, And Moderation rules us all; A flowing Calh, a quiet State: Can fuch a Nation fear an adverfe Fate, By able Statefmen guided here. And able gallant Generals guide the War. This Conqueft nobly flie has gain’d. And Viiftory’s come home. That Stranger to our Land. Hail Goddefs i Welcome to thy old Abode! Be thou the Guardian r)f the Nation’s Good. Let Civil-Strife and Party-Fire Under thy weighty Hand expire: Under thy Banner let us always Fight j Conquer Abroad, at Home unite. Let all that would our private Peace moleft. Be by thy folid Arms foppreft. Then to the Field our Legions may advance. This is the only way to Conquer France. ’Tis done! The glorious News is juft come o’re j She Conquers there that Conquer’d here before. Hail Vidory! the welcome Blow ! How great, how mighty, is the Overthrow! So fhall he Conquer that for England fights; So lhall the People Conquer that unites. *Tis done! the Sound of Victory was heard As foon as MarHrro’s Conquering Troops appear’d. K 4 Soon '-r?. I ;i! :!l ^3S , ''0 M'- ( ) Soon as he drew the £nilijh Sword, And gave Queen jiNN for the FiElmom Word^ ViEloria let her Face be known. And gave him Earneft that flie was his own. At Schdhtnberf thz fcattVed Troops took Flight* Vdour it felf to Viit’ry mull fubniit; And Erglijl! Banners there, thro’ Seas of Blood, To Pamv’s Stream the routed French purfu’d. Panuhiui joins her willing Streams, to fave The vanquilh’d Troops, tho’ conquer’d. Brave, Safely Ihe landed them on t’other Shore, But bid them tempt her Waves no more: She wou’d not promife them to join Againft thofe Troops that once fiibdu’d the Boyne, Flulh’d with Succels, the En^lijh Soldiers fly “ToBattel, ontheWingsofVidory; Their own intrepid Courage leads them on j Tfcf Omen’s good^ they know the Day’s their own: PoTeft with fecret Joy, the Conquell’s fure: They only fight to make it piore fecure. An Englijh-man has fomething in his Blood, Makes him love Fighting better than his Foody He will be fullen, lay him down, and die, Unlefs he can tome at his Enemy : • But, let him loofe^ you fill Ills Soul with Joy, He’s ravilh’d with the Thou^giits_Qf VtEiory, Let htm hut fight ^ give bat his V alour vent. And if he’s beaten h/s as mil content, fie [miles and dies., wilhes the Vidor Joy, Pleas’d with that Valour does himfelf deftroy. The 'i ( 137 ) The Guft of Battel fo his Temper hits,’ He s never out of Humour when he fights. From whence bis Foe’s of this Advantage fure, A Word will generous Articles procure. The Enemy he Conquers he’ll defend. And will for ever after be his Friend. But while he fights for Life and No ^frick Lyon^% half fo fierce as he: No Bounds his native Vigour can reftrain^ He’s more a Fury than a Man; With fuch intrepid Headinefs of Mind, As Nature has for Viftory delign’d. Battel was always Englijh.men\ Delight; They’d always Conquer if you^d let \m fiaht. And if by Coward Captains they’re reftrain’d, They hate the Men as much as the Command. Their own fuperior Courage lets them know. They Can and Dare what no Man clfe will do. Great Tallard^ let thy Soul no more repine y ’Tii no Reproach to yield to Englijh-men Advife thy Mafter, e’er it be too late. Never to prompt their Rage, nor tempt his Fate, They always Conquer’d, ’/« their due hy Blood', If they ha leave to fight they ne’er can be wtthfiood. Bid him look back to all the Ages paft, As far as Memory or Books can laft; Let him the Nation’s Valour but compare. He’ll find it mufi not be a Fighting War, If he will Englijh-men fubdue, He muft his way of fpinning War renew. Fateaguing ( *38 ) Fattaguing Marches^ Harafs^ and Surpriz.ej Long Camfings^ Dodging^ and Delays-^ Thefe baulk an EngU^-man, and make him mad, Make Valour droop, and hang the Head. They’re fo impatient and uneafie there. The very Nation’s fickofWar. Would France but with this fghting War go on. She’ll quickly be undone; In Art, in Bribe, inConduft, and Surprize, Her proper Talent lyes. There we mufl: own flie manages Mankind, Sees with their Eyes while they themfelves arc blind; Hoodwinks the World, and plays her Game fo fure. Princes her willing Yoke endure; She makes her Neighbour-Kings fiipport her Throne By the DefiruElion of their own. She Tricks the World in Arts of Governments, And thofe Ihe cannot Conquer, Circumvents. By this (he’s made a Match for all Mankind \ And this way ftill Ihe may her felf defend: But if fee comes to Fighting on the Square, She’ll quickly finife all the War. Two more fuch Battels wou’d undo her. And fink at once her wild extended Pow’r. Tell us, Great Tailor and your mighty Train, That made the vaft Attempt in vain j ( You faw th’ amazing Sight) Tell w how Engliih Armies fght. You have the mighty GermaA Squadrons broke. The fear’d and took j At C *39 ) At Landau and BrifacJt yonr Fame is known^ And Hejftan Princes your high Conduft own J In Honour now the noted Truth confefs; To your own Honour you can do no left; ■Do your too happy Vigors Right, TeB m hom Englifh Armies fight ? Is there not Ibmething in an Englifh Face^ Something peculiar to the very Racej That carries Terror out in ev’ry place ? Are they not Furies ? fomcthing more than Men? Something beyond Humane ? Let your amaz’d Battalions tell their Tale, What made their wonted Courage fail ? To whom did Ninety Enfigns yield ? To whom did Thirty Squadrons quit the Field ? Could common Men the Royal Houjhold fright ? And make them court the Waves to Ihun their light? Thofe Troops that rais’d the Gattick Fame, * And purchas’d Lewis his immortal Name; That made the Germans ftoopto his Command, And always fought with Viftory in Hand; That pafs’d the Rbwe^ the Danube^ and the Po^ That made the ftubborn Nations bow. And always were invincible till now ; Innumerable Battels they have fought. Innumerable Vidtories ha’ got; Witnefs the Thoufands of their flaughter’d Foes Whofe Valour only help'd their Overthrows. AtF/frw, at Marfaglia^ and London^ ThzMaefe^ the Mofeilcj and the Rhine^ They ftrew’d with Blood the fruitful Shore And never had their Fatne eclipsed before. Can Can thefe be Conquer’d? Can,the mighty Line,' That with fo many Conquefts Ihinei That never could by any Force be broke. Nor ever felt the Conqu’rors Stroke; Can thffe to equal Numbers e’er fubmit? Can thefe the Field of Honour quit ? ' The Flow’r of Germany and Spai»j Have often made the great Attempt in vain.' They fcorn your Cojfach^ Croats^ and Hujfars^ Phantomes and Scare-crows of the Wars; The Ignis Fatnus of the Field, 'And hardly worth the trouble to be kill’d s They always ftruggl’d for the nobler Prize, And chofe the Dangers of exalted fize. The Saxon^ Brandenbnrghy and Hefftan Horfe, Have often fled from their fuperior Force: Whole Armies have at once defy’d; Bully’d the Swifs, the Italian Troops deftroy’d: Trod down the fatal Grenadiers, And broke the brazen Troops of Cuirajfters, So much they fcorn’d the gen’ral Rules of War, Such Strangers to, fo unconcern’d in Fear, They’d calmly fland the fierceft Shock, Delay the fure returning Stroke; Thro'fc by the ufelcfs Engines of the War, The Sword’s their Bullet, and their Name the Fire: The Piftol and the Carabin difdain’d. And carry’d all before ’em Sword in Hand, if thefe to equal Numbers e’er fubmit. f h If thefe the Field of Honour quit, M Where ( *41 ) Where is the Nation who muft lead them on ? They muft be Engltfh-men^ or none! See the ftrange Fate of Humane Things, How Nature cv^ry Day new Wonders brings! See how thefe Capitals of War Are in a Moment taught to fear! How from the Englijh Troops they learn to fly I Afraid to fight, while not afraid to die. Soldiers are always Slaves to Fame, Where they could ftand the Men they’ll fly the Name’^ And there are ftrange diflieart’ning Charms In the bare Reputation of Mens Arms. See how the trembling Honflold Legions fly J The ftatter’d Squadrons how they lye ! Soon as the EngHJh came upon the Spot, Some Devil fure went with their Shot. No more the Royal Standards dare advance, * No more difpute the Gallantry of France. Confufion feizes the unhappy Bands, They lofe their Feet as well as lofe their Hands. Betwixt the wild Extreams of Rage and Fear, What ftrange ungovern’d Wretches they appear! They rais’d a high amazing Cry, Afraid to fight, and yet difdain’d to fly ; ’Tv!&%fo unknown a thing tO them to yield^ So aukwardly they quit the Field: They loft their Moment by the wild Delay, Now they ve no time tofight^ nor room to run away. Surrounded by the Conqu’ring Englifl Bauds, They lofe their Hearts, and that's to lofe their Hands. Grown C *42 ) Grown mad and furious by Defpair, For Death and Defperation they prepare: In vain againft their Fortune they exclaim. In vain blafpheme the EngUJh Name; Clofe at their Heels the Conqu’ring Troops purfue, Trevdling Death appears in view. The Englijh Terrors quite confound their fight, And yet they Ufs know how to fly than fight. Fate ne’er abandons Man in his Diltrefs; The Shapes of Death have vaft varieties: And he that fcorns to Itoop to Vidory, May always find fome way to die. , Th’ inviting Streams the defp’rate Troops allure, There they have room to die fecure; There they can gratifie their Rage, and die. In fpight of the infulting Enemy. Danubim flops their raging Breath, With all the kindefl Courtefie of Death; To her deflruftivc Waves they fly. Their bold purfuing Conq’rors they defie: Forward the mighty Squadrons throng, Carfing their Fortunes^ and the War, By the Ft5toriotu Englijh pufh’d along. But fafter preft by Rage and wild Defpair. What flrange Extreams has Nature in her Womb! From what wild Fountain do they come ? The Conquer’d Troops by various Methods ftiew More Fury than the Vidors that purfue; But with this difTrence in their Wrath, This is the Rage of Conqueft, that of Death. From C 143 ) From vaftly wide Beginnings they appear The Fire of Joy and Fury of Defpair: Life finds no room among thefe wild Extreams • Contempt of Death both Cdes enflaraes- ’ The Viaors kill, the ranquifli’d fcorn to live • They fcorn to aei what thofe refufe to give. ’ Headlong they leap from the relenting Shore Wtth the fame Fury that they fought bef^e • ' The dreadfbl Waves more willingly embrace, Lejs dreadful than an Englilh j^rmys Face. The willing Stream conceals their Shame And buries all their Glories with their Name! So fell the GalUd Glory! So may all The Enemies «/Englandy»//; Trampl’d by Englijh Valour down. And help’d tofuU Defiruaion by their own. On Danow'% Banks the glorious Vigors ftand * ’Twas on that fatal Strand ’ The mighty Tallard did his Sword refign. That Sword that fought fo bravely on the Rhine. He faw his Mafter’s Pride and Glory loft The Hopes of llniverfal Empire croft. He faw funk down the Life and Soul of War • The fight oppreft his Thoughts with wild Defpair In vain his Mafter’s Glories he’d invoke ; Fate had the ftrong Enchantment broke: Not all the Fame of former Battels won. At Spirebach^ at Landau, or Bon, Could comfort him in his approaching Fate, He faw his Ruin fo compleat. Too ( H 4 ) Too well he found the differing Cafe appeaf,^ ’' yind a new way of making War, The Germans he had oftentimes o’erthrown. Too well to them his dreadful Name was known t But his inverted Fate inftruds him now. He mufi to Engliffl Fortune bow. With firong Reluftance he’s oblig’d to yield Himfelf his Fortunes^ and his Troops the Field. To Marlhro\ Name the Hero muff: fubmit •, So Fate and Viftory appointed it. At his Triumphant Feet the Vidims lyc; From his triumphing Face the Legions fly; And they the EngUjh Mercy now implore. That, to their Colt, had try’d their Force before* Now the furrounded Regiments comply; They fee ’t’s alike in vain to fight or fly: The GatUck Enfigns they lay down, Superiour EngUfh Glory own ; At Marlhroh Hands their Lives receive, And ask’d what they were always us’d to give. Te Heavensl WhaFs God a~doing in the World ! How is the Face of Providence difplay’d! The Good and Evil fo together curl’d, ■ Nature it fell’s difmay’d. He has the Horfe and Eider overthrown, '' And by their want of Pow’r difplafd his ownJ ’Tis He has England magnify’d. As Inftruments to cruih the Gallick Pride. He fingl’d out the Nation for the Deed ^ No Wonder ail the Fewer of France comply di Great ( 145 ) Great Marlhro'! Let our more impartial Verfd Some of thy gloriotu Deeds reheurfe: But bear the Poet when he makes it known ’Twas all thy Maker’s doing, not thy om. Nature her humble Thanks to Heav’n prefentsi But Heav'n admits our Praife to Inftruments : Nor lhall we lefTen the Almighty’s Name, When we in Songs of Triumph fmg thy Fame. And yet our Mufe, that fcorns the flatt’ring Flight, Shall raife thy Glory to the greateft Height, As made to the InfinitCi With Pedant Praifes thou can’ft ne’er be pleased, Thy Judgment’s not fo much difcas’d: And when in Arms we give thee Victory, ’Tis Nonfenfe to alTault thy Modefty. We praife thee as the Man that Heav’n thinks fjf Should make the Nations Happlnefs complcat^ But ’tis to Heav’n it felf we pay The high original Glory of the Day. This needs mult thy Ambition i'atisfie. And pay for all the Toils of Viiftory. To double height It mull thy Glory raife. When for thy APlions Heav\ chains the Praife. Of all the Panegyricks, Odes, and Layes, Which flatt’ring Poets ling to mortal Praife ; None can afford thee fo much true Content, As thofe that for thy fake to Heav’n are fent. How Heav’n and Thee together all Men blefi! Thee for the Atlion, That for the Succefs. Tho’ Chance and Mother Ido! may Throw an unlook’d-for Vidory away ^ L Y5 (14^) Yet Battel flics on Nature’s Wings^ And Vidory obeys the Courfe of Things. Handfuls fometimes (hall numerous Hofts fubdue, When fuited Conduct backs the Mighty few: And Art fometimes gives eafie Viftory, When Craft the place of Courage may fiipply. But when two vaft collcfted Armies meet. In Condud both, and both in Art, complcat; Equal in Courage, Qiiality, and Fame, Their Arms, their Numbers, and their Hearts the fame 5 When Vidory fliall view th’ embattl’d Line, And knows not to which (ide fhe (hail incline j So well the Merit of the Troops appear, ^ So fuited to the Arguments of War^ ^ Tis Heav’n alone decides the Matter there. J Nature direds no more by dated Laws, There feems no room for Confequence or Caufe j Reafon can make no Guefs for either fide*, Bellona can no more the mighty Caufc decide: ViBoria tofles up for Crofs or As Arbitrary fate is pleas’d to fmile; Heav’n takes the Cafe into its proper Hand, And binds th’ Event of things to his Command. The gen’ral Circumftances here agree. But let us fearch the Marks of Vidory: We had pfefaging Tokens of Succefs, Tho’ theirs the greater Force, and ours the left. What tho’ in Numbers they exceed. And their extending Line pretends to fpread j Thcfe fcorn that ufual Sign of FiElory\ With Engllfh Valour all the Intervals fupply j And C 147 ) , And thus this Riddle they explain. That thefe mare Soldiers have, and thoft more Me». ‘OldEn£liJh CoHUge fcorns thofe trifling things, ^ The higher Ground^ the rBed-flank'd Winas ; He that will Conquer whatfoe’er it coft. Scorns the Advtmtage of the Pofi. This Wing the Wwds may flank, the CaflU that 5 They leave it to their Swords and Fate: And ftill the Advantages are equal found, e e higher Hearts^ and thofe the higher Ground; ^eak, Fame^ and tell us how we (hall divide^ The Leading Hero’s Worth on either lide. Never were Armies in the Field before, ^ With greater Leaders, or with more. The Flow’r of Europe on this Stage appear,^ nd all BelUna'i Favourites were there. Equal m Valour, Conduft, and Succefs; nulh t With Fame^ and former riFlories. There flood Bavaria., once a Name mi Belov’d by Europe, and by Fame: ^ Bdis Courage flill., tho’ not his Caufe, the fame. ^ ^senna's Plains his youthful Valour try’d. In Turkif) Blood his early Banner dy’d: There his young Sword, enrag’d with Vidtory, Defends that Empire he wan'd now deflroy. There the young Hero learn’d to fight, _ nd rais d his Fame to a ftupendious height; Thoufands of vanquilh’d Turks before him fly; And thirteen Battels yield him Vidory. L ^ At C *48 ) At Buda^ Belgrade^ and at Gratt^ }ie anA fame’s Darling, Great Lorrattr, The TTioit'ph^ of their Valour fhar d. And gain’d immortal Names for their Reward. In Flanders next he drew his Conqu’ring Swo^, And Namarii Walls new Triumphs there afford. But Fate and his miftaken Caafe Robb’d him not of his Valour, but J^fUufe. Refolv’d the Hero Hands, rcfolv’d to try, And court his former Miftrefs, ft^ory. His old unconquer’d Squadrons brought. By Viftory and his Example taught. And juft as when he hs’ d to Conquer fought. Tallard, the (7«rWs Terror, led the Right, As much inur’d to Conquer to fight Fluffi’d with Succefs, he knew not how to fear. Proud of a Battel and in love with War^ His own fuperior Numbers knew, And his fuperior Fortune too, ■■pleas’d with the juft Advantages he faw, , Eager bis Conqu’ring Sword to draw, The ftiil too forward Enemy invites. Aid, fare of ViBory, with Pleafure fights. BefiUnt, fame, no more the Names repeat Which help to make our Via ry more compleat. D’ Jrco was there, there was the Great Marfin, Of Hero’s Blood, to m’ry near of Ifif. Bocroy conveys his Anceftors to Fame, And Perfonal Merit fliews him worthy of the Name. fiefOvS C H9 ) Heroes that never were fubdu’d before. Follow’d by fifty /even GeneraUmore. Men bred to War and Viftory, But ne er had been fliew’d how to fly j Men that ev’n War it felf defy’d : Never was Caufe fo bad fo mil fitffly’d. Should we the Gallant Troops difplay. Our Lines mull Ihine as bright as that more glorious day. The dreadful Splendor of th’ embattl’d Line, With what ftrange Martial Terrors did they fliine! What Troops of Dangers threat’ning Hand, IcTomfHch an Army under fitch Command. Never was Battel better fought. Never was Vift’ry longer kept in doubt •, Never was Courage longer kept on fire; Never was Conqueft more entire: Never was Vidi’ry more compleati Never was braver Arpy better heat. / Now Fame be juft, and let us fee Where are the Sons of f'^iclory. If fuch as thefe are from the Battel fled, IVhat Lawrels wait the yiBor's Head f Vain is the Impotence of Words, To tell the Labour of their Swords. Vain is the Poet’s Study to relate The Bloody the Valonr^ and the Tarns of Fate^ ‘ The mighty Struggle, the intrepid Rage, Where Men Ube Beafls., and Bealls Uh Men engage j The furious Wings of mighty Horfe, Like Mountains, moving with an equal Force; L 3 How c I$® ) How they with Valour brighter than their Fire, With equal Fury meet, with equal Fate retire j Renew the Shock their Strokes renew, Alternately retreat, and then purfue •, Till Itrong Triumphant Death comes on. And both are ruin’d, both cut down: Both ftoop to their immediate Fate, And leave the Vift’ry in Debate. See, on the Right of the Triumphant Line, Where all the Roman Eagles Qiine, With War and Terror in his youthful Face, His Glory brighter than his Arms of Brafs, FM^enifUf from the Banks of Po, appears. Crown’d with more ViBories than Tears, ?Tis he vvhofe wond’rous Conduft has fo long Furnilh’d European Bards with Song. And ev’ry Youth that wiih’d for Viftory, Wifii’d but to be as Brave and Fortunate as he. The Troops of Mahomet his Valour knew. There he Two Hundred Thoufand turis o’erthrew ^enta, renown’d in Story, knows it well, ’T'is there the flaughter’d Tboufands fell. But Fame, as not content with this. And left their want of Skill Ihould leflen his, Prepar’d more formidable Foes, His more fuperior Conduft to difclofe: Carpi, Cremona, and the Banks of Fo, Chiari, Mantua, and husurra too. The hloody Footfteps of his Valour Ihew. ( ISI ) Bred up toMars^ and born to Arts of War, Nature the Flaming Hero did prepare; And riElory^ that lovM to have him by, With fuited Lawrels always did fupply: Nor cou’d he fuch another Captain find. But mighty Marlbro^ to whofe Fame he join’d. My Mttfe^ lay by the Arts of Verfe j No Art his brighter Glory can rehearfe: See how Britannia leads him to the Field! Valour his Guide, and Providence his Shield! See on his Right fTs^loria ftands. Receives his high Commands j She fervcs Cadet and VoUmtier: Attended thus, What Ihou’d the Hero fear? Calm and fedate, the mighty Man Spreads with his dreadful Troops the Plain. The Martial Fury of his Face Began to rife, and (hew it felf apace: But all his Soul was calm, ’twas all fedate \ Secure of Conqueft, unconcern’d at Fate. Tailord ! Thy Reafoo might fuggefi: thy Doom, Had’ft thou but feen Great Marlbro' come Circl’d with Englijh Heroes; feen him rife With Englijli Valour in his Eyes: Had’ft thou his Troops of Enelip^men furvcy’d, Thou’dft not thy Reafon fo betray’d; Thou might’ft ha’ feen Invincible writ there. And Prudence wou’d ha’ taught thee to retire. I 4 CON- To the Duke of Marlborough. SIR, TN Ancient Time a far lefs Fame than yours Tranfpos’d their Heroes into Heav'nly Powers: The forward People, who no Rules contain, Forgot their Gods, and Sacrific’d to Men. But, as more Honour, SIR, becomes your Due, So we, by better Rules, our Thanks purfne. Our Praife to Heav’n exalts our Praife of you. That you’re a Son of Great Britannia^s Race, An Heart beneath an Englifo Face, A Martial Soul, and a fucccfsful Hand, Back’d by the faithful Genius of your Land j This is to place your Image in the Skies: Their Gods knew no fuch Titles, S I R, -, M. -, andiV-, To fend their Aid, and fave him from Defeat,- But their united Council was Retreat, Referve your Fortunes for a better Day; So Sailors, when the Ship’s a finking. Pray. Thefe are the Sages who prefide o’er Senfe, And Laws to all the Common-wealth difpenle, But Wealth and Eafe anticipates our Fate, And makes our Heroes all degenerate. The Mufes high Preferments they polTefs, And now their Pay’s fo great their Pains dccreafe; So R -fought, fo //_. too fell on. Till Lords of — ■* made and T —— . Afld \ 1 ( *59 ) And now the Wits their Vi^ory ptoclaim; Loaden with Spoils of Scnfe, and fwelj’d with Fame • Their Plunder firft they carefully beftow, ’ And then to fpread their Ck)nqueft farther go. Their Troops divide, their Terror to extend* And God knows where their Ravages wiU endi commanded the forlorn of Wit, A llifFpolitilh Critick, very fit The open Country to over-run. And find out all Mens Errors but his own j His Steny-Stratford Mfirefs read his Fate,* A Slovens Fancy, and an empty Pate. But now CoramilTion’d by the Jingling Train, He has his Thoulands, and Ten Thoulands flain: He, like the Tartars^ who fore-run the Turks^ Eafie to be diftinguilh’d by his Works, With equal Havock, and deftrudive Hate, Leaves all the Land he treads on defolatc; He roots up Scnfe, and fows the Weeds of Wit, And Fo^s and Rakes^ Ten Thoufand ftrong, fubmit. -f and D. H —— f and M~ and Everlafting Fops, and Beaus, Led up the Battel Fifty Thoufand ftrong, Arm’d with Bombafi^ andW^/K-^w^i FluQi’d with Great C. -.'s Slaughter they led on, Shouting Ftnoria, ijie Day’s their own. No Bounds to their licentious Arms they know. But plunder all the Country as they go. Kill, Ravifh, Burn, Dellroy, do what they'pleafe! 1 he French at Swamerdain were Fools to thefe. The (i6o) The Cruelties they exercis’d were fach,' u4mboyna’s nothings they’ve out-done the Dutch j- Nevcr fuch Devaftation fure was known, A Man of Senfe cou’d not be lecn in Town. T- - w, even Hackney T —wou’d not print, A Book without Wits Imfrimatur in’t j And as in Revolutions of the State - Men ftrive the prefent things to imitate. So when the Wits and Fops had got the beft, Men acquiefc’d, and took the Oaths and TeftJ Few wbu’d be Martyrs for their Underftanding, But all went over at the Prince’s Landing; So Story tells, in Crook-bad’d Richard’s Time, Folks wore falfe Humps to make them look like him. News, hafty News, the Poll is juft come in, Nokor has rally’d all his Troops again; In a pitch’d Field he met the haughty Foe, And gave them there a total Overthrow; The Slaughter’s great, the Soldiers ftill purfue, For they give Quarter but to very few; IVit^s touted^ all the Beaus are quite undone, Their General’s flain, their Army’s fled and gone. Sec the uncertain Fate of Human Things 1 Change lays its fickle Hands on States and Kings; This bloody Battel has undone us all, Wit from its glorious blazing Throne will fall, For all the Flower of Gallantry and Wit Was lifted here, and overthrown in it. The florid G- — h was General of Horfe, And loft bis Life and Fame too, which was worfe; ..The ( 1^0 The Credit of this new Commander brought! With Hopes of Plucder, many a Coward out, Who hitherto had very wifely chofe The Name of Wits, but had declin’d the Blows; ’Twas difmal to behold the Field of War, What Defolation Wit has fuffer’d there. Whole Squadrons of Efick A/or/r appears^ Trod down by his Heroick CuiralTiers, G ——loft his Darling Satyrick Dragoons, And two Brigades of Light Horfcj call’d Lxrnfcm^ Old Soldiers all, well beaten to the Wars, Known by their Z)glinefs^ sLJid Scars Fellows, the like were never heard nor read of, “ Wm'd bite fometimes enough to bite ones Head off "j Nor cou’d their Swittnefs their Eicape procure, For Nckorh Fury nothing cou’d endure: Enrag’d with former Lofles he fell on^ Refolv’d to Conquer^ or be quite undone. Whole Wings of Foreign Troops he overthrew^ Whom G—h from France to Wits AHiftance drew,; Something the Matter was thofe Troops betray’d ’eiri^ He ill procur’d them, or he had not paid ’em; ’Twas a dull Fancy in him to think fit To polifli Englljl) Senfe with Foreign Wit. Among the Foot the Battel was fevere, For Wits belt Troops were wifely planted there; Led up by old experienc’d Commanders, D - c . .. .f, ji —and S The Grenadiers were knotyn by their blue Bonnets; For they had been in making Sonnets; Pun-Mafter-Gcneral D - y led them on, And with his chattering Tunes the Fight be^^an M ( 1^2 ) His Orders were to Charge, and then retirev And give the Body liberty to fire ^ Ten Regiments of Plays ftood on the Right, Led on by General D-■« to the Fight ^ The Tragedies had made forae fmall Pretenecf To Mutiny, and fo revolt to Senfe. For D——» had fome Senfe, till he thought fit To dote, and lately deviate into Wit *, The Reafon’s plain, and he has found it true. He follow’d Wit which did toofafi purfue. The Left was form’d of feven large Brigades, Of Farces^ Opera's., and Mafqtierades, With feveral little Bands of Dogrel Wit, To fcowre the Ways, and line the Hedges fit. Between thefe mighty Wings was rang’d in fight A folid Phalanx of compounded Wit, Ten Thoufand Lyrick Foot, all gallant Beaus, Arm’d with [oft Sighs, with Sengs, and Billet-doux, There was Eight Thoufand Elegiack Foot, By briny Tears and fallen Grief made ftout; Five Paftoral Bands, lately bred up in Arms, By chanting Glorianas mighty Charms, ‘ And thund’ring out King William'^ loud Alarms. Pindarick Legions, feven I think appear’d Like Frandenhurghers, with the enchanted Beard, For Lions Skins, and Whiskers late fo fear’d. Thefe were led up by able old Commanders, AsC._f, H - — Soldiers bred \a Flanders, With!?——J, T) - y, T -dull Af- ( t«3 ) Dull T —— - f, and Pious B -Old T — G- - w, Tom B -», and many a Subaltern j Some flying Troops were plac’d in Ambufcade, Mock-Witsy BeatfWlts and Wits in Mafqueradcj Some Amazonian Troops of Female Wit, For Oftentation, not for Combat fit; The witty -r appear’d there too, Whofe Wit’s in Profs, but all incognito. There was one Caledonian Voluntier, With fome Hibernian Wits brought up the Rear j The whole, as by the Mufiers may be feen. Was Ninety Seven Thoufand fighting Men. All thefe drawn up, and ready to Engage, Old General D -«, with a Pious Rage, That the Great Work might with Succefs go on, Firft facrific’d to the Emperor d’il ' Moon ; The Poet and the PrieR alike in Fame, “ For Friefis of all Religions are the fama When Nokor’s Conquering Troops began t’ appear^ They found a very warm Reception here. He had invok’d the Gods of Wit before. And vow’d to make their Aitars fmoke,once more. With bloody Hecatombs of witty GorCi Swifter than Lightning at their Holt he flew, His Word was D - D - M _ His Squadrons in Poctick Terror Ihonc, And.whifper’d Death to Wit as they came on: The ftrong Brigades of his Heroick Horfe, Dreadful for Senfe, for pointed Satyr worfe. Wing’d with Revenge, in fiery Raptures fle w, And dipt in poifon’d Gall the Darts they threw: U'Vnj ( '^4 ) Nothing cou’d Nokor^i furious Troops withftand. Nor cou’d he check them with his own Command. The Troops of Wit diforder’d, and o’er-run. Are (lain, difpers’d, difgrac’d, and overthrown; The Shouts of Triumph reach the didant Sky, And Nokor lyes Encamp’d in the Field of ViStory. Thefe are the doubtful dark Events of War, But who Britamiii^ Lofles (hall repair ? For as when States in Civil Wars engage. Their private Feuds and PalTions to alTwage, The Publick fuffers, harmlefs Subjefts bear The Plagues and Famines which attend the War. So if we this deftruftive War permit, Britain will find the Confequence of it, A Dearth of Senfe, or elfe a Plague of Wit; For Wit, by thefe Misfortunes defperate, Begins to arm at an unufual Rate, Levies new Forces, gives Commifllons out, For feveral Regiments of Horfe and Foot, Recruits from every fide come in amain. From Oxford^ Cambridge, and Warwicklane The fcatter’d Troops too, from the laft Defeat, Begin to halt, and check their fwift Retreat; In numerous Parties Wit appears again. Talks of another Battel this Camfatgn^ Their ftrong Detachments o’er Pamajftts And meditate on nothing but Revenge. To whom flial! we apply, what Powers invoke To deprecate the near impending Stroke? Be Gods of Wit and Arts Minds infpire With Thoughts of Peace from your Pacifick Fire C 1^5 ) Engage fome Neighbouring Powers to undertake To mediate Peace, for dear Britanmu^i fake j Pity the Mother riffl’d of her Charms, And make her Sons lay down inteftine Arms. Preliminary Treaties firft begin, And may (hort Truce a lafting Peace let in, Limits to Wits unbounded Ocean place, To which it may, and may no farther pafs; Fathom the unknown Depths of fullen Senfe, And purge it from its Pride and Infolence, Your fecret Influences interpofe. And make them all difpatch their Vlenifds^ Appoint ParriajfHf for a place to meet, Where all the Potentates of Wit may treat *, Around the Hill let Troops of Mufcs Hand, To keep the Peace, and guard the Sacred Land j There let the high Pretenfions be difcufs’d. And Heaven the fatal Differences ad juft. Let either fide abate of their Demands, And both fubmit to Rcafon’s high Commands, For which way ere the Conqueft fhall encline. The Lofs Brit ami A will at laft be thine. like a hafty Flood, may over-run us. And too much Senfe has oftentimes undone us; fVit is a Flux, a Loofenefs of the Brain, And Senfe-abfiraSi has too much Pride to reign; Wit-nnconcoEl is the Extrcam of Sloth, And too much Senfe is the Extream of both j JhfiraSled^Wit ’tis own’d is a Difeafe, But Senfe-abJiraBed has no Power to pleafe: For Senfe^ like IVater^ is but H^it condenfe^ Aid If'ifj like Air^ is rariffd from Senfe: Aieer Meer Stnfe is fulkn, and Unpolite, ^'F/V is Apopleftick, thin, and lights is a King without a Parliament, And Senfe a Democratick Government: IVit^ like the Frfw^, where’er it reigns deflToys, And Senfe advanc’d is apt to Tyrannize: If it -wit bent S.'nfe is like the Laughing-Evit^ And Senfe nnmix’d with Fancy is the D —/. IVit is a Standing-Army Government, ‘And Senfe a fullcn ftubborn P- 1 : 7F/> by its hafte anticipates its Fate, And fo does Senfe by being obftinate: IVit without Senfe in Virfe is all but Farce^ Senfe without Wit in Ferfe is all mine A- ~ — Wit, like the Fnenchy performs before it thinks. And thoughtful Senfe without Performance finks 5 without Wit is Flegmatick and pale. And is all Head, forfooth, without a Tail: TiVIt without Senfe is Cholerick and Red, Has Tail enough indeed, but has no Head. Wit, like the jangling Chimes, rings all in one, Tii? Senfe, the Artift, fetsthem into Tune: Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will Jflarve the Members, and diflraft the Head. W‘t is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive, Senfe is the F'ital Heat which Life and Form muft give ? \V,t is the Teeming Mother brings them forth, Senfe is the Aciive Father gives them Worth. Vnited: Wt and Senfe, makes Science thrive, if iyided: neither Vft nor Senfe can live •, for ( 1^7 ) For while the Parties eagerly contend. The Mortal Strife mufi: in their mutual Ruin end. Liften, ye Powers, to hfi Britatjniah Prayer, And either fide to yielding Terms prepare And if their Cafes long Debates admit. As how much Condefcention fhall be fit. How far Wits Jurifdidtion lhall extend. And where the ftated Bounds of Senfe fliall end. Let them to fome known Head that Strife fubmit, Some Judge infallible, fome Pope in Wit, His Triple Seat place on Parnt^M Hill, And from his Sentence fuller no Appeal: Let the Great Balance in bis Cenfure be. And of the Treaty make him Gtutrantee, Let him be the Diredor of the State, And what he fays let both fides take for Fate: j4pollo^s Paflord Charge to him commit. And make him Grand Inquiftor of Wit, Let him to each his proper Talent Ihow, And tell them what they can or cannot do. That each may chufe the part he can do well. And let the Strife be only to excel: To their own Province let him all confine, Doftors to heal, to Preaching the Divine ^ j. - —n to Tragedy, let C———h tranllate, ^ D - y make Ballads, Pfalms and Hymns for T -e. Let P—>—r flatter Kings in Pancgyrick, ^ R -•/’Burlefque, and IT-jbeLyrick: LetC——»« write the Comick, f——« Lampoon, W - • Uy the Banter, A/'- n the Buffoon, And the tranfgrefling Mufc receive the Fate Of Contumacy, Excommunicate. M 4 . Such ( i6B ) Such as with railing Spirits are pofTefsy, The Mufts Frenz.y, let them be fupprefs’d, Allow nq Satyrs which receive their Date From Jurio^ Academy, BilUngfgate' No Banters, no Inve&ive Lines admit, Where want of Manners makes up want of Wit, buch as are hardned in Poctick Crimes, J ^himesi Let thosfe Eternal Poets be condemn’d To be Eternal Poets to the end; ’ ^ ^ ^till continue unpolite And no Man read what DuU M _wm. ^ed,cehimtohkLe«er.C=fea„dwi;ot "" Let all Men Ihun him as they did before. ' defend. And banter which he ne’er con’d mend j Let all the little Fry of Reft as they are, with neither Senfe nor Manners, Forfaken of u4poM% Influence, ’ WKh want of and with want of Pence: What Fools indite let none but Blockheads read, , ad may they write in vain who write for Bread No Banters on the Sacred Text admit. Nor bawdy Lines, that Blafphemy of Wit • To Standard Rules of Government confine Xne Rate of every Bard, and Worth of every Line And let the Rays of their Ambition burn Thofe Phaeton-Wits who this Subjeftion fcorn* If th<;y afpire to invade the Government Bring them before the APufes Parliamm * No Univerfal Monarchy admit, ' A Comnor.^y,eM', the Government for Wit. ( i<59) THE Double-W elcome. A Poem to the Duke of Marlborough, My Lord^ E Mufe that by your Viftory’s infpir’d Firfi fung thofe Conquefis all the World admir’d* Now fings the Triumphs of your Native Land, Where you ohv Hearts as well as Troops Command: Her Debt of Praife is yours, but ’tis her Due, That welcom'd ViEFry^ now to welcome you. And tho’ her Verfe, too mean to fing your Fame, Injures the Hefo by the Poet’s Name j Abjeft and low, and fcorch'd by Party-Fire^ Whom neither Name invites nor Hopes infpire: Yet this Ihe claims, Ihe can your Fame rehearfe, "Unbiafs'd ip your Praife, Impartial in her Verfe, This Charafter Ih’ has kept, and this file brings. She always fcorn’d to flatter, tho' Jlse fung to Kings. Satyr has been her Talent^ Truth her Song, Truth wigo can bear it! fung too loud, too long. Bright Truth! that Stranger to the Jingling Train, Makes all their Praifes Satyr?, all their Satyrs vain, While Trufh can neither this nor that explain. Th’ Vnfpotted Standard has been all her Aim, For this Jhe has felt her Fate^ and funk her Fame: For this they’ve damn’d the Poet and his Rhimes, And flain th’ unhappy Mufe for want of Crimes. Adapted thus to Sacred Truth and Fame^ J^jie never fung but they were both her Theme. Stranger ( 170 ) Stranger to Panegyrick and to Praife,' It mufl: he feme Sublime tnuft her jnfl: Fancy raife.' To Truth and Merit (he was always true, She never could the flattering Flight purfue. And never prais’d but IVi/Uamy Sir, and Teu. C And Ihould (he, fpight of Nature, (train her Thought Should (he his Lawrels (Ing that never fought. Should (he make Gallo Chafte and Talus Wife,* And prai(e Immortal Blockheads in DKguize, Or feign a Hero, * ’Twou’d be fo forc’d, fo aukward, and fo dull, Gallo would feem more Lewd, Talus feem more aFoolt Truth thro’ the Lawn of Flattery would (hine, And in Mock-Praife the Satyr mull be feen. * Should we Eternal Trophies feem to raife. And flying Chamo’s doubtful Vid’ry praife. Difputed Honours partially decide. And grant that Fame Bellam has deny’d; To Vi(S ry’s Statue new Mock Honours pay. And fay they Conqu’red there that ran away; ’Twould with fuch incoherent Nonfenfe (hine^ The blulhing Hero mud the aukward Praife decline: The Jli'oug Collateral Banter would appear Courage fo fung would read like Hymns to Fear. The Painters thus by Contraries prefent The Allegorick Devil like the Saint, But by fomc faint Reflection (how their Care The Cloven Meaning Ihould not fail t’ appear. The Poet, Sir, to plainnefs thus enur’d, Thus from the Charge of Flatt’ry fird fecur’d, An honed and unbyafs’d Freedom brings. And all the FJation lijietts while he (Ings j C »7I ) In his inviting Confort freely joyn, Jufl: fo they did when firft he fung the Boyne ; Juft as when H^amurh Conquer’d Walls he fung, Britannia own’d his Harp Divinely ftrung. Vfef SubjeSl makes a Poet, and the Verfe Muft be infpir’d when William we rehearfe; His Mighty Name Poetick Force procures. And next to him the Infpiration’s Yours. From Foreign Fields and wiU Danuhian Shore, Where English Armies never trod before. Fruitful of Bangers^ long enur’d to War, For Great Gujkavstsxii^d to Conquer there; Herculean Labours faft, and Hazards run. Unheard of Marches made, unlook’d for FiWries won: From Battels/<>«^^f in earnefi^ and the Field Which none but thefe could win, where thofe muft yields’ From unexampl’d Conduft and Succefs, That ne’er had been fo great had 77;w been lefs; From Deeds too Mighty to be fpoke by Words, Printed in Death, engrav’d toith EngUfh Swords^ Confefs’d by humbl’d France^ and loudly told By Valour dearly bought, by Valour dearly fold: From fcatter’d Enemies and refcued Crowns, Which Envy nor Difputes nor Pride difowns’^ You’re welcome^ Sir^ to this unthankful Shore, Where Men of Worth were never own’d before. If in the future Glories you purfue You find the hateful Scandal happen true. The Names of Schellenburgh and Hockfied lye Buried with Namure and the Boyne in wild Obfcurity, Let not your Vertue in fufpenfe appear, ’T has always been the Fate of Merit here; A C 172 ) A ftcady Glory ever has entail’d The Grin of Envy, Envy never fail’d To ad the high refind’d Extream of Hell, How William found it, hlujh my Maft to tell Shall any Foreign Bard defire to know Why Britain can fo few like William Ihow ? Say angry Poet, tell ’em ’tis becaufe Ingrateful Devils grudge them due Applaufc. The Nation’s Genius afted from below Rewards no Service, will no Merit know. Fame’s empty Record none but Marihro' fliows. Would EniUnd'% Work on England’s Terms efpoufe But he, like Wnliam, Heavens their Fame regard, Purfues true Vcrtue for its own Reward. Welcome Immortal Hero’s to that Shore, 'Where Men of equal Worth were never feen before. Yxom fam’d Breda fet out the Mighty Train, William too oft fet out from thence in vain. Advance my Mufe, and view the embattl’d Line They pafs the Maefe, the Mofelle, and the Rhine! France in fufpenfe the mighty Storm forefaw, The Conq’ring Squadrons for the Battel draw. And Mars Rood blindly hov’ring o’er Landau. Laugh at the guilty baffled God of War, Ye Sons of Arms, the Scene’s prepar’d afar; Not Lewis now, not Mars himCdf could know Where EngUjh Jove his Thunderbolt would throw: No Traytors brib’d by France could lead the way, Not Hpll it felf the Projedl could betray. Nor fell the Nation, as in William’s Time, for Pay. The Troops amus’d with Halts and Feints of Way The juft Surprize inftruds them what to fear; ( m ) When you to Bannheh Banks in haft* advance^ A Length unlook’d for, unforefeen by Francf. Swift, as the German Eagles led, you fly On Gufts of Hope, and Wings of Viftory *, Your Pafles o’er the Swabian Rocks appear Like Hannibal\ with Flame and Vinegar : And when the diftant Vales their Profpeft Ihow, You threaten Conqneft to the Plains below. Before your powerful Troops Savaria’% fly. And Schellenberg gives way to Viftory. The fam’d Afcent had thirteen times and more Been Storm’d, and ne’er was won but once before. Once did the great Gufiave Bavaria here purfue. He Conquer’d here becaufc he fought like you. From hence thro’ ravag’d Towns and conquer’d Plains The Monument of Viftory remains, uingsharg and Munich trembl’d at your Name, Tho’ not inform’d of your approaching Fame: 'To BUinheim^ ha^fy Blame! the Scenes advance. There gathers all the Thunderbolts of France. ^ A Lea(b of Armies on thy Plains appear, T Each fancy’d able to fuppoi t a War, ^ And free a Nation from the Vanity of Fear. 5 We that at diftance faw the approaching Day Knew the Deflgn, and faw the bloody Way. Blame not,Great Prince, the Doubts we own were true: Our anxious Thoughts for England and for You. We knew your brave refolv’d and fteady Mind, But who dnrlh hope for what remain’d behind j Who durft foretell the Glories of the Day, That faw the dreadful Dangers of the Way t Not Heaven it felf, had we the News receiv’d From Heaven it feif, woo’d here ha’ been believ’d. ( 174 ) when firft the Tidings thro’ the Nation fiewr We pauz’d to ask if ’twas a Dream or true- ’ Amaz’d almofl: as much as they that fled. While thofe with Fear, and thefe with Joy, difmay’d. Speak all ye Sons of Rkmcy the Day rehearle The Theme’s too high for my too humble Verfe: Apollo muft your Heads at once infpire. For needful Praifc with Emblematick Fire. He that in fuited Verfe to Marlbro’ writes. Should feel that very Spirit by which he fights. Yet ftill the raeaneft Poet of the Train Keeps on, nor Ihall his Tribute come in vain: Not all are trails to Mecma/i come, Yet all huzza’d u4ugHfttis back to Rome j When from the lefler Honour of the Day He brought the ^gy^tian Lover’s Crown away. And thus while Ccefar’s Glory you purfue. The Nation’s Praifes are your Native Due: The Llniverfal Suffrage fpreads your Name, And all Men blefs the Poet in your Fame. Poet, a large Parenthcfis allow. Say here be Conquered -leave the mighty How J The valt Particulars let thofe explain, That ling in Numbers fuited to the Man • Let Mdifon our modern VirgU ITng For he’s a Poet fitted for a King • ' ’ No Hero will his mighty Flight difdain The firfl, as thou the lafi of the infpir’d Train • has his modern Fancy ftrung, ’ And fix’d his Penfion firlli or he had never fung • Thou unregarded pay’ll thy Debt to Fame, Oppi efs d by Fate, and too obfeure to Name. Envy C 175 ) Envy and Party-Spleen h’ has never known, No humbling Goals has pull’d his Fancy down* The Towring Youth with high Succefs afpires And lings as one whofe Song the World admires’ Yet fay he Conquer’d, tho’ the mighty How * For Mdifon thou may’ll in large Parenthefis allow 5 Trace him from Sleinheim and Danubian Plains The Gallick Captiv’d Heroes in his Chains; ’ Trace him to Phili^sburgh and to Landau, And tell the French ’tis true as they forefaw • He would the mighty Ballions there pull down, Tho’’ not before their Army’s overthrown. * Attend the Hero to the ancient Saar, And fee him threaten Native France with War * Surrender Treves that fatal Town to France, * Their Troops abandon it at his Advance ? ^ Remind them of old Holfiein and Crequi, There France^ as now at Bleinheim, learn’d to fly. Tell us no more of Conquefts, Fameh ofj>refs% The Breathlefs Mufes claim fome time to reft; Saarhruck and TraCrback will biit fpoil our Verle So harlh no Numbers can their Sounds rehearfe j ' So Nimeguen didraStcdi foft Boileau, The Subjeft lofty, and the Poet low, Made his juft Numbers halt, bis Verfes lame, For want of Rhimcs to the Exotick Name. Thus from a vaft Variety of Scene, And lix huge Conquefts fix’d in one Campaign, Bavaria Conquer'd, fettl’d, and fubdu’d, The flying Prince Four Hundred Mile purfu’d •, From Nineteen Towns f,rrendfed, and the Field With llaughtet’d Heaps and vanqr.ifli’d Legions fill’d From C 17^ ) From Captive Princes in your Train brought hom^/ iSo Cafar led the Kings of Gaftl to Rowe; From Trophies nobly bought, and fetched from fafy From boldly finifhing the Jeft of War, Tou're welcome^ Sir^ behold the approaching Throng Of Three great Nations lift ning to my Song. How has this wife pretending Age till now Talk'd big of Fighting, never yet knew how,* Our Soldiers tir*d with ftrange fatcaguing die, And in the Ditch not Bed of Honour lye; Starv'd with the Cold and Terror of the Nighty But never fliow^d the how or where to 6ght. The weary Land the Trade of War refents. For what the End deligns the Means prevents. The Miferies we to this day endure They caus*d thalt always have have been paid to curA Plunder s their Battels, and the Pay s their End, They fhun their Enemy and rob their Friend; Peace would fuch Soldiers Livelihood deftroy, And fo indeed they'd for their Country die. For Fightings juft the way to be undone, j4nd Conquej} would conclude a War too foon; Good Husbandry, as Wo-^~ly told m hoWy Had made the Irijh War ha’ held till now; But Fighting Ginlle ftruck the Stroke too foon. And fo the Nation s fav’d, and all the R—s undone/ But you inftrufted for your Country s Good, The Cheats of War have all at once fubdu'd: And they that thought the Field was but a Play, Where all might cheat the Nation for their Pay; With Lace and Feathers bluftering a Campaign To all the Nation but themfelve^ in vain; Grow rich upon the Plunder of our Lands, And raife great Fortunes out 6f low Commands; Tliefe found the Banter on themfeivcs made goody While you the proper End of War purfued. Our Campaign-Beaus no more fhall mock thsField And none take Arms but thofe that dare be kill’d j The powder’d Wig, theSnulF-Box and Perfume, will court no more the Mufquet and the Drum, I And Beaus go Rakes to War, come Bullies Home. . The very Words a different Accent bear. Fighting muft not be underftood by TVar ^ Battle and Death’s Synonimous in Name, And Wounds and Blood will only purchafe Fame j Cowards muft lay their bought Commiffions down. Their Camp s the Pit, and their Campaign the Town j There they may bully, fwagger and repeat 1 The mighty no Engagements they were at, ^ And Fight the French in Tea and Chocolate. J But he that follows Marlbro to the Field, Muft all his Fame on dangerous Merit build, Muft look for Blows, and fairly ftate his Cafe, Shame at his Back, and Death before his Face j A General that Can fhow him how to die. And pufh him on to Conquer VilTory. Shame, makes a Coward brave, He Fights to lofe the Life he dares not fave j Fear makes him bold becaufc he dares not fly, ^ It wants more Heart to run away than die, C For who dare turn his Back when Adarlbro% by. 3 The English Arms groWn dull with Ruft and Peace, tarnifli’d with Luxury and ftain’d with Eafe, You have new pointed, Sir, With Hearts of Steel, And France COnfclTes What lire can’t conceal: 0«r .H«w«r clouded with Contempt and Time, Sullied with long Difufe, and funk in Crime; N Buried f I7S ) Btiried fo d£Cp allow the Aittfe to grieve, William himfelf could not her Name retrieve j Tho’ thro’ Ten Thoufand different Dangers fought,’ Tho’ thro’ Ten Thoufand Victories he fought : The tranf-migrated Phantofme you obtain. And in your Fame revive her once again; Our Heroes Few, and long ago forgot, The Breed extihft, behold the Barren Spot ^ Stiril in Worth, and Poor in Sons of Fame, Crime taints the beft Recoird, and blafls the worthlefs ( Name. William's the Fifft, for Thifteerf Ages paft. And Fate pOrtends that Marlbro will be Lad; How fhall the Strength of Nature faVe the Breed, Who fhall to William's Fame and Youis fucceed ! And now from all the Dangers of the Field, Which Gods and Men with equal Joys beheld 3 Which all our widdowed Harps has newly ftrung, Which Heroes fOught, zThoufanJ Poefrfung. To Britain^ crowded Shoars your Triumphs come, And all the wond’ring Nation flmtsycu Home : A Double Welcome you at once po'frefs, Tor Double Conquefts crown you with Succefs: With Double Joy we fhout, and twice Applaud Councils at Hothe, and ConqUefi from Abroad. Intereft in all our Praifes will appear, Your welcome, Sir, becaufe you're wanted here 3 We want fou here to Calm our wild Debates, And ballance Bmiet as you ballanee States 3 ( ^79 ) To check Infulcing Fadtions, and fupply Immoderate Heat With forc’d Humility ^ Con—-datOi'S to Coftfolidate, An’d Tfock dor T—~cts to their own dear Fate j To calm the Churches Sea, and keep it ftilJ, And Hx the Nation’s Peace a^ainfi berim. Thus whett fiom fighting Aritiks, Sir, you come, You muft engage with De^ih nearer Home. Armies of Hell-born Monfters mud appeafe, The Titans Heaven attack'd were Fools to^thefe * Tlie(e Mountains threw, and Hills ereiSl en HilU:, The Mountain Bl.-s Confolidatc to Bi _ The mighty ParaikI agrees in Parrs, From Hell thp fetch their Strength as thefe Arts, Heaven’s high Power with borrow’dPower invadci Thefe Heaven’s Vicegerent Queen afiaulc bv Ijer own »-I . ( Aid • Like them they bll, Heaven has decreed it fo, * ^ndyou mufl A N ^\~lmmortal Thunder know. See how tnc embarti d Troops of Strife appear, Words are their niifiive Weapons, Noife the War, With Higb-Cburch Zeal and Party Spirits fir’d, \^ith Hells immorral lia^e of Peace inlpir’di A PulpitkZarl whence fiiould Sedition come? Our Soldiers fight Abroad, our Prk/ls at Home j Arm’d with vaft Helms of ConiradiPlifsg Trutb^ With Plumes of lncoben And of the Nation’s Peace by Confequence. 3 '•*" ' ’ ‘ ■ On V lU) j On this the mightv Publick Weal depends, Coni^uefi the Nation from her Foes defends, Complcat if, Sir, and fave us from our Friends. Thus, Sir, the Nation’s Guardian you’ll appear. Abroad fuppixfs, at Home prevent the War: Anticipate our Fadfions in their Grov.'ch, And fmofhcr Feud beneath the Arms of Truth: And this your double Via’ry will create, Tou’/l heal Religion and preferve the State. Whenever Heaven fliall thus at once encllne One Agent two luch vaft Events to ioin, The Nations muft concur the General Voice, Will blefs the Man to crown the facred Choice. The T>ijfentcrs Jnfwer to the High- Church Challeme. ^ A s it is the Charadfer of the Devil to bring a Railing Accufation, fo no Alan of Senfe or Manners cares to imirare h5in • oil From ( I§(J) From this Principle, the Author of a iare Pamphlet* with a Title as long as a Book, and call’d, Tie Wolf Stripty muft notexpeft a Return of Dirt for Dirt 3 and while he calls every Man by his Name, and yet is aftam’d of his own, calls moll Men out of their Names, and fills his Book with the Exuberance of his Hypoehondriack Vapours, he ought to be look’d up¬ on as an Author not worth while to meddle with j if a Gentleman fliould fight with a Chimncy-fwecper, he may beat the Man, hut he will daub himlelf fo much, will (link of the Soot, and foul his Cloaths, that the Vidlory is not worth the Diforder ’twill put him into. In like manner, he that will deal with this Author in his own Way, muft foul his Mouth with fo jiiucil Bear-Garden Language, fuch rude unmannerly, and unfchollar-likc Behaviour, that he muft be tainted with the ungrateful Savour of his Enemy’s Malignancy, and look like the Man he meddles with as not worth any Man’s while. . Upon this Account I /hall not meddle with his Vo¬ luminous Traft it felfj but as he has made a fair Challenge in the Eighth Page of his Book to all th^ Diflenters, I am willing to enter a little in the Cafe; not fo much expelling to filence a Tongue pointed with Raillery, but to let the World know that the Dif- fenters are not unprovided with ftrong Arguments to defend a juft Caufe. The Challenge that this Gentleman has made to die World, and of which he (e?ms fo very confident, js as follows. The Diflenters make a Heavy Noife, That the Church willmt Purcha/e a Reconciliation, with the giving up on¬ ly of a few Indifferent Things^ which Offend their Ten¬ der Confciences. And the Low-Church lay the Blam,e upon the High- Church, ( with very fevere Refiedlions ) That they art Obftrufilers of this Bleffeff Unioii. C *87; ^Ojv Ut none of theft be Judges in their oum Cauk: Therefore let the DilTcnters giw in to the Prefent Con¬ vocation a Lift of fuch Indifferent Things, ■which, if Granted, they wili Promife Conform, and Heal the Schilin. The Scruples Theirs. Therefore they mufi make the Propofal. Tfone others can tell what wiU 4 tisfie them. If they ^iS Jo this. Let them flop their Clamours, and Njer more fay. That nothing will be Granted them} Church of England has no mind to Heal But if they will do this, then it will appear. Whether the nT • M. Cow-Church will go Fartheft to Purchafe t>eu Defir d KtCOncnniion -, and which of them do, in good Earnef, Wsfjit, and not rather to keep open the Breach to Jerve otbcjr Defigns/ ^ ^ ^ H(xt, If thofe of the Convocation, ovho were former¬ ly hn Joy d tn this Grand Projea: of Reconciliation, (of which they have mjefmh Boafls ) lay before the Houfe the Grounds, and the Terms of it that it may appear they were none Jt lnMci tm Things, which were to be Given np to tj Djffcn^ers. Otjrwife, let Them too Ceafe their Railing at the High-Church, Men of Violent Spirits, Surpefens HiglvChuich That they, and the Low- LUUiCh, and tbfi Dt.Tcnters too may be Try’d by their Aftions, and not by the Clamours on either Side. And Md whoever this, and cannot Propofe a more Rationa and a)nvincmg Way, for the Clearing of TheiDfelves, let Them he Guilty. ^ ^ Had this been a new Challenge, this Author might have had fonie Reafon to have expefted it fhould have been accepted, and replied to. But finpe 1 find his Reading as Ihort as his Cen- iurc IS hafty, I think the propereft Method is to re- ytfe what of this Kind has been already done, and to put c 188 ) put him in Mind that all he has faid only ends in this Abfurdity of arguing, wz. The Diffcnters have al¬ ready been challeng’d to this, have accepted the Chah lenge, undertaken the Defence of their Doctrine, and of their Dilfcnting, have cffcflually vindicated theni- felvcs from the Charge of Schifm, given Reafons for their Scruples, and made Propofals for Conformity j they have challeng’d the Church to Union and Peace,^ they have defended themlclves from the Charge of Difloyalty and Rebellion, and offered the Church to to bring their Loyalty to the Teft with them^j and none of thefe things have ever been Aniwer d, or ibme of them not lo much as Reply’d to. r t- o. Now, as this Gentleman fupplies Matter of Fact with Indecency and Railery, I fliall not need to follow him there j he begins the very firft Page of his Book with Three pofitive Fallities, neither of which he can jn the leaft tollerable manner make out, Firft, That they have a Society of Writers. Secondly, That the Diffcnters find themlelves wor- fted in Argument. 1 ] c .1 In the fame Page he tells us, Tts the Method of the Bifenters not to mind any Answer^ bttt to refeat and re- teat their own Objebiicns ad INFINITUM. ■ ’Tis far from my Delign to Reply to a Book as full of Abfurdities and Contradiftions as it is Verbole and Malignant, and therefore I Ihall content my lelf with thefe Three Inftances. r itt • .. r. As to the Diffenters having a Society of Writers, 1 am fo well fatisfied of its being a Forgery of his own, that I Challenge him to make appear that there is fo much as a Correfpondence among them of any Two together that have ever Wrote in the Behalf of the Diftenters j and as he is mighty forward to print Names, and to abufe them by Name too, he is wel¬ come to fet down their Names if he can: In which, if he purfue his ufual Method of prefuming things are fo, and then affirming it as pofitively as if he con d prove it, he will certainly Enfoare and Expole hiw- C *^9 ) felf as much in the Particulars as he has done now in the General. Had the Diflenters fo much Unanimity amonj^ ihemfelves, as he pretends thev have, they would have too great a fliare in the Publick Regard, to let iuch a hard-mouth’d Author Treat them in fo Scur¬ rilous a Manner as he does; the Government would fupprcfs the Spirit of Raillery in the Mouths of thefc Enflamers, that they lliould not have fuch a full Liberty of Traducing and Abufing their Brethren, in order to keep open the Breach, which ’tis every True EffgliJI/ Proteftant’s Delire and Intercft to fee heal’d. No, Sir, the Dilfenters have no fuch Societies; the "Spirit of Union, tie more Unhappy for them, is not fo much among them; they are all forward enough ro have any Body ferve ihcm,but it'Vnuft be at their own Hazard, and at their own Exptnce, which a'late un¬ happy Author of theirs very lately had Experience of, enough to warn any Man from venturing to ferve them again. But therefore. Sir, is it plain that this Book is far from being Wrote as a Delign of the Party, but with the Sence of Truth, which every Houeft Man has a Right to Vindicate. At the fame time. Sir, I alErm yoiir Party has, and ever had, a Society of Writers; and whenever you defire it, I am ready to gratifie you with fome of their Names; iho’ I am not forward of printing Names, as a piece of Rudenefs unbecoming an Au¬ thor : But a certain Weekly Paper now in Courfe is Publickly own’d to be fo wrote ;* and I know Perfo- nalJy that the wretched Performance has occafion’d fome Confiderations among People of greater Ca¬ pacities, to provide a Set of Men to do it better, and to gratifie them for the Service. Bur, Sir, I lhall not enter upon the tedious Work of Recrimination, as a thing in which there is fo much room for launching our, that the compafs of this fmall Trad would be too flraight for it. a, You ( 19 ^ ) i. You tell us, The FaBion^ which is your Civil Term for the DifTenters, find tbemfelves worfted in Argument. It had been time enough to have boafted thus when you had put your Armour off, and w'^en the many Trails wrote by the Diflenters in their own juft Vindication have been Anfwer’d. But this Gentlemen has the Misfortune fo to be blinded by his Palfion, as to cry ViBoria before the Battlers ended j and not to trouble you. Sir, with many Negatives, I wifh you would let us fee one Time whenever by any thing but Railery you worficd the Diflenters. We confefs. Sir, that at ill Language you have the better of us 3 whether you have any Profelfors of the Scolding Talent among your Students we know not, for you will not fuifer us to be Taught in your Univerlities j but we affure you, that in thoie Schools where we are fain to bring up our Youth, we Teach no fuch Science. But as if all you had laid dowm on that Head were crue, and you Were very certain that you had worfted the Diflenters in Argument, you give them a home Charge. 3. That 'tis their Method not to mind Anfwers, hut. to Repeat and Repeat their own OhjeBions ad Infinirumi Now, Sir, This may or may not be true, according as you can or cannot give a Genuine Anfwer to the following Account ot Anfwers given, and Books written, by Diflenters in their own Vindication, which you, nor any of your Church, have ever yet thought fit to venture an Anfwer to, and when pu can you may defend your Church, from unfair Treat¬ ment of the Diflenters in point of Argument on this Head. And not to go too far beyond the Memory of thofe we are talking to, I think there ftands Two Books of the Learned Mr. Clarkfon yet unanfwered, the one Entituled, No Scripture Evidence for Diocefian Bifijops, and (190 !ind the other, A Dlfcourje of Liturgies, ’Tis true, there is a 'long and learned Difcourfe of Dr. Comhtrh then Precentor o[ Tork, wherein with fomc of our Author’s Spirit, Treating the Memory of Mr. Clarkfon neither like a Gentleman nor a Scholar, tho* all Men know he was as much of both as ever the Nation bred j and tho’ a Diifenter, had the Honour to be Tutor to the Learned and mod Excellent Dr. TiUotJcut late Arch- hilhop of Ganterhury. After this Author has pleafed himfelf with fufficient- Iv reproaching his Deceafed Antagonift» he goes on ro rummage Antiquity, to prove that Liturgies were in ufe in the Primitive Church, This was no pare of the Difpute • and had not the Doflor over-look’d it in his had, Mr. CUrkfon had Anticipated his whole Dif- courleinp. . ‘ Whether Liturgies, or Forms of Wor- ‘ fliip and Adminiftration, were in ufe in the Primi- ‘ live Church or not, is no part of the prefent Dif- ‘ pute. ‘ But whether thefe Liturgies were Preferib’d and ‘ Impos’d, asTerms of Communion, this is the Queftion, Now, to this Queftion the Dr. is not pleas’d to fay one Word, as I can obferve, in his whole Book, but goes on to prove that to be true which Mr. Clarkfon granted, and lets that alone which he deny’d. Nay, fo Ridiculous was this Anfwerer in the Ma¬ nagement of himfelf, both in the Search of Antiqui¬ ty, and in rendring thofe Authors he Quotes, that a Learned Minifter of the Church of Efsgland., meerly with a refpeft to Juftice and Learning, Reply’d to him, and made it appear that the Dodlor did not fo much as underftand the Language of the Quotations. This was Mr. Samuel Bold, Redlor of Steeples in Dor- fetflure. This, I fuppofe, is fome People’s Way of Anfwering the DilTcnters j and if this may pafs for Anfwering, they are Anfwer’d indeed: Bur I muft take the Free¬ dom to fay, jit has yet remain’d unprov’d, that ever a ftri^t C ^9^ ) ftria Literal Compliance to any Prefcrib’d Form of Worfhip and Adminiftration of Sacraments, was Im¬ pos’d as the Term or Condition of Communion in any Branch of the Chriftian Church, for above 400 Years after our Saviour’s time; nay, ’twould be hard to prove it ever done in any Church in the World but" ours to this Day j and they are ftill welcome to make it out if they can j and till they do, the World may judge whether the Diffenters are v/orfied in Argument^ That there were Bifliops in the Primitive Church has alfo been defended with a great deal of Skill; but as totheirDiocefan Royalty and Jurifdi£lion, they have always, in Prudence, thought fit to let the Difpute of if alone; and I would advife them to do fo ftill, for they muft find Tome other Book to defend it from than the Scripture, and fome other Ages of the World fo fearch for the Praaice in, than that of the Primitive Church. Bur I muft confels the DilTenters were worfted a- nother Wav, in the Cafe of Dr. Calamy and Mr. De- lawf y of which remarkable Story this is the ftiorc Ab- ftraa. , , . Dr. Calami preaching a Sermon at AUtrmanbury Church, Entituled, A Difeourfe about Scrupulous Confet- enasy makes the Diflenters this fair Challenge, p by his printed Sermon, Page .... appears in thefe Words; Could we but prevail with the People diligently to examine the Merits of the Caufe, our Church would every Day gam Ground amongfl all wife Men 3 for we care not how much Xtnovrledge andJJnd‘’rjlanditigcur People have, fo they be hit Humble and Modefi with it : Nor do we defire Men to become oar Profelites any farther than we give them Sertf- turefor it. And in another Place he goes defre of the DiJJenters is, that they wotdd equally hear both Sides 3 that they would weigh and confider the A^umentt that may be propounded to them 3 and being indifferent to cither Part of the ^se/lion, would think it no Shame to change their M.nd when they fee good Reafon for it. Mr. Delam, a Man whofe Learning and Temper were Confptcuous to all the Learned World, and par¬ ticularly in the Book he wrote, accepts this Challenge, and writes down his Reafons for Nonconformity j and as the Do6l6r had printed his Sermon, and thereby ap¬ peal’d to the World, ail Peoples Mouths Were fill’d with tire Fairnefs of the Propofal, and every Body ciy’d out, the Dillcnrers were worfted, Mr. Delaun therefore rlioughc himfelf oblig’d to print his Reply. But as tire Victory confided, as it dots ftill, in Boafts and Rhodorhontades, fo they were as loth to be over¬ come, as fciifible that they fhould be fo, and took im¬ mediate Care to fupprefs the Book, by feiaing the Co¬ py at the Printer’s j and this was follow’d, by feizing the Author for w'riting a Seditious Libel, put him in Prifon, fin’d him tJltya Temwentem, and were hardly prevail’d upon tovouchfafe him the Favour to excufe Iiim the Pillory, Which they at laftto'd him in Court was only remitted in rcfpciS to his Learning. Here was a true Church-Conqueft, and this Gen¬ tleman was peifecuted with fo much true Church 2ieal, that he lay in f^fu-’gate for his Fine, till he, and 4 iis Wife arid Children, diedthere^ to the Eternal Scandal both of the Church-man and the DilTentcrsj the on<“, that he liioLild firft challenge a Difpute, and then fo bafely Treat the Man that accepted it; and the other, that they Ihould nOt contribute yj/. to fave a Life fa- crific’d for their .Defence j and fuch a Life, as, fo,r real Merit, deferv’d infinitely more Regard in a Nati¬ on of Humanity and Religion, as we tancy our felves to be. The Book, for which this Gerttlcman was thusT handl’d, rertiains ro this Day unanfwer’d by thefe Peo¬ ple, that boaft fo much of worfling the DiJJ'entert, and they would do well to look back upon that Book, and nlake fome rational Reply to it, before they tell os We can fhew no Reafons for our DilTeniing. In like manner they proceed ftill with the Dilfenters Upon otiier Points-'of Arguing, as particularly by Re- O feallng- C If)4 ) pealhg and R(f eating In Infinitum tke Charge ot Rebeh ■■ lion and Faflion, whereas they have been over and over Challeng’d to make out their own Loyalty of Principles or Praftice, to exceed the Loyalty of the DiOervters. And De Foe's Tefi of the Chursh of England’^ Loyalty has receiv’d yet no ocher Anfwtr than his Shortef ■ Way, by a Fine Ultra Tenementem, and the reproachful A nlwtr of the Villory. If this be your Way of anfwer- ing Arguments, Gentlemen, ’tis no wonder you can \Vorfl tlieDiH'entcrs. To proceed in iheir ufual Method, fi-worthy Memr ber of the Hoyiteof Commons has publiflr’d a Book to vindicate the Occafional Billj and, like thofe who t,ake Things upon Truft, has affirm’d, that all wd(e Nations in the World have thought it necejfary to en- triift the Adminiftrafion of Publick Affairs in the Hatrds of fuch Perfons only, as are of one and the fame Pcrfualion in Matcers of Rcligioii. A very handfome Way of calling all the Chriftian Vv odd . Pools: Fori defie him tofhew me one of thofe wife Nations, and to prove it-by one Inftance, ttnlefs where there has not been any Toleration of o- ther Perfuafions, the Turks only Excepted. _ Thus, Gentlemen, we arc worfted by Forgeries and Falficies, not by Arguments; we are challengd to Difpuce; and then ruin’d for Difputing; askdQiielu- oris, and then fetch’d up for Anfwering them. But fincethis Gentleman has found an Adveifary capable to deal with h.im, Power and Vr~^ — r^ts excepted, I Iv-ave him to fay the Diflenters are worfted, when he proves it by a fufficient Reply. • We are now challeng’d to prove that wc diflent from the Church in Points fo far from being cflen- tial, as that the Church cannot be juftified in Refuhpg ro abate them; and we are defir’d to give in the Op* itdfions to the Convocation. What Authority their Author has from the Conw- cation to make this Offer, I know nor, and do not lee ( I9J ) bow I /hall know itj or whether the Convocation will receive fuch a Lift of the indifferent things, or no; but fiace this bold Challenger would be anfweied, ancf will not be fatisfied with a General Reply, but this rnuft be fpoken to by it felf, I cravC;leave to accept his Challenge,as far as the following Particulars reach. - Firftj I do affirm this has been done already by the whole Body of the Diffenting Minifteis infuch a Man¬ ner, and^with fuch modeft Reafons, as fevcral of the Epifcopal Clergy were fo fatisfied with, and did fore- pre/ent to Km^ CharUs the Second, that their Concef- lions w'ere a fufficient Ground of a Union: What, and who, hindred a Union when the Diflenrers made luch Concefftons, I leave to this Gentleman to tell us, if he cares to expofe his Friends fo much. Secondly, I do affirm, that if the Church of E« would think fit (o far to ftoop to their Diflennng Bre¬ thren, as to abate fuch things onljy and all fuch, as ara acknowledg’d by theinfeives to be Indifferent j if ic would not reduce us all to fuch a perf. before I dtfccnd to the Particulars, ’tis nccefTary to make fome Enquiry into what I call Indiftcrenr. T call thofe Things Indifferent which aie not Ef- fentiJ plts of DoaTine, without the lielicf or PraC dee whereof a Man cannot obtain Salvation. , ATl thinsB inti-oduc’d into the Church of ; j either in Worfhip or in Difciplinl, by Humane iTzJo. io be fojnd ebherby Com- maid, or by Prefident in th^ Holy Sc. iptuies, wbuh ari ^^‘oi^JinstleSoflnditrcrentTlVmgs^ I join IfTue with our Author^ and if he thinks fit to prel^ent lliuewun oui 5 Convocation, that they ““li Xl-dtolke fudrAba,e,T,4„c to Ae Indiffe- Will 1 api perfuaded fuch Multitudes CburcH as May very well deferve the Name ol a Union, tho not of an U miverfal Conformity, and the Number ot Ivcmammg Dilfcnters would be much the fmalkr. n i. - 11 «« f tfurcieSm wc dciiic, lincc it is aii fesssf? rV»e PtaSticc of the Priniun ^^ Church. Sndiy, We defe ftrib^d bftheS of d,e Book, but may have Li to- ty to ExpVs himfelf at large m m” Exigence of the Cafe may require, and his own Abi- ^^‘Sy^'w^defire the Ordination of Minifters by PrSyter^may be allow’d, benng Juftifiable by Senp- tnr<--^and that our Minifters may be admitted into Holy Orders without the Re-ordination, andlmpofing W= 2c Ae Kneelmg a. Ac Saaamen, BoS af theName ofJefus, the Croft in Baptifm, the Ufe of the Surplice, and all thofe things ovra d by thcGreateft Mafters of the Difpute, .to be * ( *97 ) may either be wholly left out, or fo left ai the Difcre* tion of the People, as that they may not be impos’d upon them without their Confcnt. Fifthly, VVe dcfire the Epifcopal Hierarchy to be Reduc’d to fucha Pitch of Authority, as may be ju- ftified by the Scripture, and to no other j and we are ready to enter into an Examination with them, what that Particular of Power amounts to, and how iar ic extends,. I do not fay thtfe are all tlje Heads which I fuppole the Dilfenters require, but I fay thcfe are foir.c of them, and the moft Confiderable ; and it the Chuich w'ould give fuph Goncedions as were Rcafonable on thefe Heads, the Controverfic would foon be decided. Whether the Dilfenters Separated from the Ellablilhed Church on frivolous Gi'ounds, or no. Firft, As to Altefations in the Liturgy, ’tls the A- vow’d Opinion of the Church of England^ that no Church in the World is infalliblci and aboyc all, our Church does not pretend to the Title. If then we are not Infallible, but fubjeel to Err and Miftake, why fiiould flic refufe to enter into the Caufe, whe¬ ther it is convenient to make any farther, or more perfeit Reformation, or no j but tho’ the Contldcrati- on Were nor on a farther Reformatiop, yet if it were only giving up fume fmallcr Matter for the fake of Chriftian Peace, it were not Comn]endable only, but a due requilite Temper in a Chriiiian Chuich. ' As to them that blame the Dillentcis for Separating, let us enquire of them, if they are uncapable of a grea~ ter Light, and confrquently of knowing better what they ought to do, than they did before ? If then they w'ill fupprefs this Light, and refufe to Amend Things, tho’ the Light of their own Confcience directs them to it, where lyts the Charge of Schifm.^ Surely not at their Door, who would only purfue a pet fed Re¬ formation, and think it their Duty to ferve God in the^ Way moft agreeable to his Revealed Will in the Scriptures j but at theirs, who would oblige them ; r\ . 9 ( ) to Worfilip him according ro the Inventions of Men, by Forms and Methods, for which they have neither Warrant, Command, or Fxample, either in the Scrip¬ ture, or the Primitive Prafticc of the Church j I Ap¬ peal to all the World, that as well now as before it is not pur Faults that they bring the Liturgy upon the Stage qf Difpute, but the bold Challengers of Men that can never make good their Arguments: And they ought firft'to have Anfwered what has been faid already, before they had Challeng’d us to fliovv New Reafons. ■ ' ‘ Wherefore in the Senfe, firfl, of the Irrefiftable Force of what has been faid already, and fecondly, of my Incapacity of faydrg more to the Purpofe, at leaft in fo fliort a time, 1 make the Propofer? this fair Offer, and they aie at Liberty to carry it to the Convocation, for ’tis their Bulinefs, not ours. I. When they will pleafe to Anfwer Mr. De Laun's Tha for the Notf-conforr/iifs, and the Subftantial, yet Unanlwcrable, Reafons there given for our Dilfnting. • 2, When they will pleafe to Reply ro ihe Concef- fionS of the Diffmtersin the Conference at the Savoy, and proVe they vvere not fnffident Grounds of an Union. ’ \ When they will Confute the Scriptural Autho¬ rity of Bifhop Ujlier’s Model of Church Government, which Was much the'famt with the Scheme the DilTp- fers prcfc't d to King Charles the Second, and give thcReafonswhy theBifhopsrefuftdit, Baxt. Lfe,czp. 8 . 4. If they pli'afe to' Reply ( a little more to the Pur- pofe than Mr. Osfey and Mr. Hoadly has done ) to the Grounds and Reafons of Non-conformity, in the loth Chapter of Baxters Life, j^brldgd by Mr. Calamy's and to fome ytt Unanfwered Thii gs in Mr. Calamy's keply to Mr. Hoadly, 5. If they pleafe to give a Rational Anfv/er w the firft. Second and Third Vpls., of the Confotmifs Plea for the Non conformijh, wiote by a Member of their own Church, and to Gillefpy’s View of Engirt Pcpijh Ciremcnies. ■ ■ > WhentVei .. ( 199 ) Whenever thefe things are Soberly and Judicioufly Anfwered, and as Dr. Calamy propofed good Scrip¬ ture and Reafon brought for it, affure your felf Si? manner of need to Dung an Occalional Bill to pre- S of DilTc-ntcrs; ^’tis S cnme^^"’ ^ Number of them Will come in and become your Chriftian United Bre- Ann?.’/ tbefe Things, Gentlemen, we Appeal to all the World, who are the Caufers of the chifni you fpeak ot, ihofe that all along offered to Reafonable Conditions, or thofe that InftLrSnf?^^' T Jiot complying with Humane nRitutions, which arc no whereto be found in Scrip¬ ture, n^/jick is the cnly Rule of Faith. ^ fhpfe"r??f uow the World may fee with what Truth die e Gen Icmcn blacken the Dillenters with -their R,. WhirhT?^^ rV ^vfwers. Which I here fairly return upon them, and aO'ure them Mf p'Z the Objeaipns'in ol rh.'r^V and Canon nLSr f ngland, and prove the fame to be neceOary fiom Scripture and Rtafon, I will certainly Conform for I believe, and own it my Duty to S ^ '■efiftOonform- D r '^'bich IS prov’d to be my Duty from Reafon and Scripture. j' nom of my own, after luch Men as thefe have appear’d, and gone olr the btage with no Reply- neither can I fatisfy my (elf to luch exalted Learning, till I can fee fomething New' hf?rfom^?h- ^b<^be Heads, and unlefs thefe Gentlemen i than has bjcn (aid before in Learning to tlumlelvts: What they now advance favours of an Arrogance pe- eare L,“m — ‘ I care not to imitate. O 4 I fhalJ £ zoo ) I flialj therefore think it more than fufficient, thus to tell them what has been faid already j and if they have any thing to fay by way of Reply, that detiiands an Anfwer, they may not want what is needful to jufti- fy the Prafttcc and PHnciplcs of the DifTcntcrs, to be fuch as neither the Charge, of Fadlion or Rt bullion can be laid at theiir Doors, and it Icems by tliisChal- 1 . ng: he would let the World believe that the Church of England would not fland with the Ojllentcrs for final! Matters j and I cannot but wonder with what Face he can publifh to the World thefe following Words, which I am perfuaded he has no Authority for from his Superiors. TVe jhould have little Quarrel with the Diffetiters oheut alt the OhjeBiom they make as to Habits^ Ceremonies^ Li~. turgy, and even the Grand Point of Ordination by Presby¬ ters in Cafes of Necejfty } if it were not for that Fulfme Word Schifm^ if they did not gather Separate Congregations^ andfet them up its Oppofstion to the Church, and fo form Schifm, they would be no Difenters, notwitbfunding their- different Sentiments as to the Points before mention a. All thefe are his own Words, P. 3. Thoii Hypocrite, out of thine own Mouth Jlsalt thou be condemn'd ; If you had not Quarrell’d with us about Habits, Ceremonies, Liturgy, and Qsdinaiion, there had been no Schifm j no feparate Congregations ga¬ thered, no breaking off from the Church, no fuch thing as Diffenters, at leaft bat few among us; and ro impofe this upon the World after fuch plain Evi¬ dence as has been given to the contrary, delcrves 4 courfer Title than I care to foul my Paper with, and evidently (hows the Method of the Party who run down the Diffenters by Falfities and Forgeries. And that I may do what thefe People feldom coai- cern themfeivcs about j I lay it down as a Truth, chat when King Charles the Second was Reftored to the Crown, the prefent Diffenters being then dcfired to Conform to the Church of England, and their Mini- fters having very good Inducement fo to do, vi^. the ° Pofleffion ( lOI ) PolTeffion of their Livings and Benifices, they were Commanded by the King to give in their Propofals, upon which they would Conform. And ‘tis needful to give a fhort Abftraa: of the Proceedings in that Calc, in order to let the World fee what occafion’d the Schifm thefe People cry fo much out of, and to place the Guilt of it where it really lies j for as the Moralitv, fo the Immorality, of every Adlion conlifts in the Principle from whence it proceeds, and the End to which it is defign’d. At the Reftoration of King Charles II. to pur the Diflentersin Hopes that a Reconciliation was intended. Ten or Twelve of the Principal of them were made his Maiefly's Chaplains j and thefe deligning to irn- prove that Opportunity, waited upon him, introduc’d by the Earl of Manche^evy and humbly recommended to his Majcfty the Happinefs, and the Opportunity of a Union among his Proteftant Subjedts in Matters of Religion,and begging of him that ONLY NECES^ SARY THINGS itsi^ht be the terms of Union. The King declar’d himfelf very favourable on this Head, profefs’d that the Propofal was exceeding a- gretablc to him j and promis’d them to do his utmoft to bring it to pafs. Telling them withal, That this A- greement coud not be exptefed but bj abating fometbing on both Sides, and meeting one another in the Mid-way, and that if they were willing to do their Parts, if it was not effeSied, it Jhculd be their own Faults, and not bis. Here it may very well be oblcrv’d that the Schifm lyes direaiy at the Door of the Church, if the King's Words are true. For the Dilfenters did make Offers of meeting half Way, and more than half Way, as lhall prtfently be made out j and if our Brethren , of the Church can make out one Step offer’d bv them in the moft indifferent Circumftance, than ours is the Schifm, and not theirs. If not, Vee vobts Hypocrite. Job 1^.6. Thine own Mouth condemneth thee, and not Ij yea, thine o'lvn Lips tef ife againjl thee. The ( zbt ) The King after this directed, T^at they Jhould hrln£ in Vrofofals of thetnmojl they could yield to', and they in return befought his Majefty, That at the lame unit i/oat they offer’d their Conceffm to His Majefiy^ the Bre¬ thren on thf other fide might alfo bring in theirs, containing iheuthioff they would abate and yield to in order to Concord, and the King promis’d them it fhould be fo. tal. ah. tinct's Life, p. 144. According to this Direfition of the King they met and agreed upon a Paper, with a moft Humble Ad- drefs to Hi^ Majefty; they'make Four Preliminary Re- quefts to the King, and then offer’d their Propofals, an Abftrad of which you have in Mr. Calamf s Abridg¬ ment aforefaid, j. 145. and for the Faithfujnefs of the Rotation the Reader is referr’d to’ the Original, which is to be feen in Print. Firft, They requeft, That ferious Godlinefs might be iotfntenahced y a Learned and Bious Adinijler in each Va- fipj encouraged j that a Perfonal, Tublkk, owning the Bag- iifmal Covenant might precede an Admijfion to .the Lord’s table, and that the Lord's Day niight be firiSly fanciified. They offer to alloW of the true, ancient. Primitive Pre¬ cedency in the Church, with a due Mixture of Presby¬ ters, in order to the avoiding the Corruptions,Partiality, Tyranny, and other Evils, Which are incident to the Adminiftratioft of a Angle Perfon; the Things which they principally blamed in the Englifl) Frame, were the great Extent of the Bifiiops Diocefs : Their depUtin^Ctmmif. (liries. Chancellors, and Officials, to all in their Stead, Tiseir affuming their foie Tower of Ordination andJurifdiHi- on, and aEiing fo arbitrarily in Vifitation Articles', bring- ihgin new Ceremonies, and fufpending Minifters at Plcafiire'. Arid for reformingthefc Evils, they propoied, that Kffog Ufber’^ ReduSion of Efifcopacy Unto the Form of Synodical Government received in the ancient Ctsurch Ihould be the Ground-work of an Accommodation^ ahdtbdt Suffragans ihould be chofeii by the refpeaiVe Synods; The Affociations be of a moderate Extent; cK'-''f.luiift£rs to be under noOaihs, or Premifes ofO- bedience C ^03 ^ bedience to the Bi/hops, as being refpon/ible for any T'ranfgreflion of the Law ^ and that the Bifliops go¬ vern not by Will and Pleafure, but according to Rules, Cannons and Confticutions, that fljould be rati¬ fied and eftablifb’d by Aft of Parliament. As to the Liturgy, they owned the Lawfulnefs of a preferibed Form of Publick Worfliip, but defir’d that fome Lear¬ ned, and Pious, and Moderate Divines of both fpifs might be employed, either to compile a new Liturgy, or to reform the old, adding fome other varying Forms in Scripture Pbrafe, to be ufed at the Minifter’s choice. As to the Ceremonies they humbly reprefenred, that the Worfhipof God was perfect without themj that God hath declared himfelf in Matters of Wor- fhip a jealous God; th^t the Reformed Churches a- broad, mOlt of them rejeaed the Ceremonies that were reclaimed here j that herein England they had e- ver fince the Reformation been Matters of Contention andDifpute; that they had occalioned the (ilencing of many Pious and Ufeful Minifters,'and given Rife to many Separations from the Church ; That they were at beft but indifferent, and in their own Nafuve mutable; and therefore they begg’d that kneeling at the Sacrament might not be impofed, and that" the Surplice and the Crofs in Baptifm, and the bowing at the Name of Jefus, rather than Chrip, or Em.inutl, might be abolifhed, and that C^re might be taken to prevent future Inriovat ions, contrary to Law; that fo the Publick Worfhip might be free not only from Blame but Sufpicign. Does this look like a Propefal from Men ih:t did not dilfent, but upon Faaious and Politick Prir.cipLs? Tis hard there fhou’d be any'OccafioA to revive the Dilcouife of thefbThings, at a Time when we vvifk for that Peace and Unkn which pRr Mai.'lfy has fp earneffly invited us to. But thefe Men of‘Storms and Heat, who are wilfully ignorant thcmfelves, are vvil- ling other Men Ihould be blindly fo;. and ther.fj 'c: Vis necellary a Jictle to refreih their Memorv, and tit - ' IheW C ^04 ) flicw to the World that this Schifm and Separation of the Diflentcrs was wholly occafion’d by the Church refufing to give up indifferent Things, and impoling thofe indifferent things as Terms of Communion upon the Confcienees of all the People. The King upon the Minifters delivering in the Pro- pofals and Addrcis 'Treated them 'tmry refpeBfully, fays the fame Author, Trou ffions of bis earneft De¬ press of an Accommodation of the Differencestold them he was wed pleas'd that they agreed to a Liturgy, and yielded to the Ejjence of Epifcopacy. Here is an Acknuwle%ment froni the Head of the Church, that the Diffenters were for an Accomoda¬ tion, agreed to a Liturgy, and to the Effence of Epif- copacy, and yet our Modern Meq of Peace will throw all the Breach upon the Diflentcrs. Now, Gentlemen, let us examine your Chrifiirin- High-Church Temper thefe yielding, complying, Dif- fentersmet with, that we may fee whether they W'ere out, or were driven out from the Church. The Diflentcrs that w'erc to be, for Tet they were not foy expedled according to their Requeft, and His Majc» lly’s Promife, to be met with by the Divines on the o- thcr Side, and to fee their Propofals, but none ap¬ pear’d } and after long expeding their Condcfcenfions and Compliances, at Jaft they receiv’d a Satyrical An- fwer by w'ay of Refft'i^ion to. their Propcfals, but not one Word of Condcfcenfion and Compliance. ‘ As to Church Government, they declare for the for- ‘ mer Hierarchy without any Alteration 3 andinvidi- ‘ oully infinuare, that their Reffc£lions on the Confe- ‘ quences of a Angle Perfon’s Adrainiftration in the * Church, was as applicable to the Civil StaEc. The Ex- ‘ tent of DioceJJes they declare fuitable enough to the ‘ BifllOp’s Office j and the Adminifirathn of Epclepafiical ^ JurifdiElion by Chancellors, ^C. Regular in the Main. * Bifhop Ufher's ReduBion they rejefil as inconAffcht ‘ with Two other of his Difeourfes, as being at belt ‘ hut a heap of Private Conceptions. The Liturgy they C iOj > applaud as unexceptionable, and think it can’t be faid to be too Rigoroufly iinpofed, when Minifters are not denied the Exerciie of their Gifts in Praying before and after Sermon j which Sort of Praying, they declare hovvever, is but the continuance of a t Juiloin of no great Authoiiiy, and grown into Com¬ mon ufe by Sufferance only, without any other Foundation in the Laws and Canons. The Reviling the Liturgy nevcrthelcTs they yield to, if his Majcfty thinks fit. As for the Ceremonies, they' could not part with one j not being able to think that the Sa- lisfa^lion of feme Private Perfons was to be laid in Ballance againll the Publick Peace, and Uniformity of the Church. Nay, were any Abatements made^ they arc fatisfied 'unejuiee Spirits would be thereby encouraged to make further Demands. Ecce Jignum, here’s the Foundation of the DilTentcn Schifm in Three Heads. Epifcopal Hierarchy is’ithout Alteration. Liturgy Uisexceptknable, and impojfible to he too Rfgo~ Tonjly Impos'd. Ceremonies, not one to be parted with. Pray, Gentlemen, how long have ye alter’d your Minds, that you can now fay you wrmt quarrel with us for Habits, Cerensonies, or Ordination^ and when we offer’d to agree with you in every thing elfe, yo\i would have your Ordination without Alteration, yoU would not part with one of the Ceremonies j and thought yodr Liturgy XJnexeeptionable, and that it coud not be too Rigoroujly Impofed? How long is it firice thefc Gen¬ tlemen have been of a better Opinion } And W'hen all is done, how fhall we be Cure their Propofal is Genuine, while wc have experienc’d fo much Fanity and ill- grounded Paffion, as before ? Here now is the Pifture of a High-Church Chal¬ lenge, to which we may very well Anfwer, wc arc the fame that we were when we made the Propofals to King Charles the Second, and we have a great deal of -Reafon to believe you are the fame roo. Ill Nature fel- iicfft ( zo6 ) ^om turns Changling. ’Tis true, , you did promife us fine things, you promifed tdcorii^to a Temper with the Diflenters, a'nd declar’d ’twas your Principle ro give aft Eafe to Confciences truly Scrupulous j and upon this Foot you obtain’d upon us to join with you in the Revolution: Now you talk of Honefty, pray. Gentlemen, do us the Favour to let us know in what you ever perform’d that Promife, and when wc are to expedt it ? Now you fliall be put to Trial of your Honefty and Juftice, what Commillioh you had from the Convoca¬ tion to tell us you would not Differ about Habits,. Ceremonies, Liturgy and Ordination, I know not, and be¬ lieve you will be puazicd to produce it: But 1 venture to fay to you from abundance of the Diflenters,. then you (ball differ with us for nothing ^ Remit, US fhefe, and vve will Conform to you, and be ail One Church and One People. ’Tis about thefe Things Chiefly you Differ With us j you have no Pretences but thefe upon u?: The Arti¬ cles of Rebellion, Forty One; the Rye-ffouje Plot, Ca- fiares’s Evidences, and more; We can allow you all thefe, and many more than is true, and yet prove that your Principles are as Difloyal, and your Praflices have been as full ot Rebellion, as ours; you have made as many Infurredtions againft the Eftablifti- cd Governors of the Nation as we; you have made as many Fadlions againft the Princes and the Laws, took' up Arms as often, kill’d as many Kings, or endeavour’d it, as we; and how often have you been Challeng’d to come to a Teft of your Loyalty with us? But you are Proof againft Argument; and without taking notice of thefe things, or of any thing elfe that ftands againft you, you Refeat and Repeat your Raillings, and fuffer your Tongues to Launch out in a fenllcfs and infigntficant manner In Infinitum, And to help load the Diffenters with Infamy, you Charge them with all that has been done in Scotland^ where the Arbitrary Tyranny of State Miniftersoften¬ times ( ^07 ) ■cimes made the people Defperate; No wooder if from fuch Principles you can Charge them with burning the City of London. One Would think thefc GenrleTr mens PalTions flioiild not make them forger their Rea- fon fo much, as Will ye keep your Words with us? Then here is your Challenge anfwer'd. C/et the Convocation to pafs it int® an AS, that the Church will nor tjuarrei witii us about Habits, Ceremo¬ nies, Liturgies and Ordination, the Schifm be upon US if we do net Conform. If you can’t do this, then make us no more Chal¬ lenges, never xvrite to us to tell you upon what Terms we will Conform • we are ready to Conform upon yonr own Terms j we rake you at your owm Words; do but perform what you have voluntarily propos’d, W'e are your own. Not but that We have great Reafon to fay, we know very w'ell that this Offer isneither in your Power, nor in your Nature; notin your Power, as private Men; notin the Nature of your High Church, as a Party, Nor is it any Breach of Charity to fay fo, becaufe we have had fb much Experience of your Temper on all Cccafionsin this Matter; and in particular, in the Conferences at the Savoy, where the Diflenters made all the Concelfions of Charity arid Obedience that they were able to do with any Safety to their Confciencb j P they C 110 ) they went through the Common-Prayer-Book, and propos’d only fuch Amendmerit as they found abfo- Jutdy nectflary to make it tollerable to them, and tbeir Hearers j they offer’d to difpute upon the Amend- ments they had made, and to juftifie all their Objeftions by the Scriptures. In a Word, they offer’d to Conform fo far as they, wore able to anfwer it to God, their Confciences, and the World j and he that requires Men to offer more, or elfe rejeiSs them, and ftuts them out of their Com¬ munion, wou’d do well to tell us who are the Authors of the Schifm. But after all, thefe Gentlemen, by what I can per¬ ceive, are as ignorant in the Thing they call Schifm, as they fcem to be in othef Thingsj and we have the Tefdmonyof theHoufe of Lords, in which there concurr’d moft of the Bilhops of the Church of Eng¬ land, that the DiJJenters are not Schifinaticks. See the Reafons of the Lords againft the Bill to prevent Occa- fional Conformity, And had thefe Gentlemen bethought themfelves when they charge us with this Schifm, for Separating from the Church, they would have refledled a little on Mr. Hales, of Eaton, a Sober and Judicious Divine of the Church of England, who, in his Trcatife of Schifm lets them know, that feparating in Commu¬ nion from any particular Church is not a Schifm, if the Perfons are not feparated from the whole Body of Chriftans3 but he that holds the Head, holds faft the Faith, and does not divide in Faith and Doftrine, can¬ not be faid to be guilty of Schifm for his refufing to join in Communion with this.orthat particular Church. The Church of Chrift is that whole Body of Chriftians, however difpers’d all over the World, who are united JO him by Faith, and are the Members compofing and join’d to his Myftical Body, profclfing the fame Do- cfrine and Faith, tho’ divided into never fo ma- liy feveral Communities, Societies, and other Parts. If ( XU ) Ifthisbe tobe^hifmaticks, ’ds plain tbc Dinenrcr* are no Schifmatrcks; and thus we have theTcfiitnony ^ c ^ ^ Minifters, we have the Vote of the arda Maiority of the that the Diir^ntcrs are no'Schthoaticks.. fenf'" Schifinaticksi and ,Y the houle of Lords concur in the Vote; and if you will not quarrel with us for Habit, Ceremonies, Liturgy or Ordination ; Pr^yht thefe Authors tdl us what Is the D^rcnce^^mong us? The People may foon be ur.ittd. for here is inile leic to difpiueof. louTlt'-l'.'lfVr” “”''=."."'‘'3 for in iach , SorJa- lous JVianner? For what is it ^ c are coh’d bv Sir N m ncm mI? li "*7 T t!ic Gove, n- »iicnt_? In what is itunfafero truft us? Why Te are ■ Enemes to Monarchy always plotting againft the Government, fays thefe Learn'd Ind Pailioi.te Authors" ay you fo, Siis. Vi e will come to an Account of Plots againft Monarchy and Government wh?n you ^ But you have given us a long Lift of Difieh'ei-s Plots, as you call them, and of People executed fnt them Fi,« of all, I belicve^vvooldXhaY ,o „ovc the Ehftenters w'ere in a Plot every time fome of^hem were bang’d for it; And we have fecn fome Churcii of Parliaments Unhang them aill Rebel. _ But one thing, we mull tell thefe Gentlemen, they differ from their Brother Rebels in; that they have plotted and rebell’d with half the Opprellions and Ty- ranny as others have done before them. And if ever thele Gentlemen pleafe to compare the Sad and Doleful Sufferings of the Epifcopal Diflenters in Scotland, of which they have made fo much Noife^ with the Miferi«, Murthers, Plunders, and Barbarous Ufage of the Diflenters in Scotland for 50 Years be¬ fore, it will be eafily feen which had the moll Caufe to cry OUtoli Flejh and Blood being able to bear no longer ^ and whenever they pleafe to enter into the Detail of thefe Things, we are reqdy to join Iflue with them on this Head. ' The Author, or Authors of this Wolfifh Book would have done well to have taken Ad vice from a Gentleman of their own Party, and who writes on the fame Sub- jcil, who has faid much more to the Purpofe, and in Language much more fuitable to common Civility, and good Manners; I mean the Author of a Book, Entituled, Union to the Church of England Freely Offer'd, and Earneflly Recommended, to the Dijjenters from it, of all Per(waftons'f but particularly to the Occafional Con- formifis. Now, tho’ I am of the Opinion that the Arguments that Gentlemen makes ufe of may be anfwer’d, yet 1 ( XI9 ) I muft acknowledge to his Honour, that while on tlie one Hand he difeovers himfelf to be of High- Church Principles, yet he fliews himfelf a Man of Temper, a Scholar, and a Gentleman ^ and if ever he is replied to, ought to be treated accordingly; the Candor with which he treats the Party he writes againft, at leaft deferves this Acknowledgment, that he is the* firft of that Side that has ufed them civily, and is thereby juft fo much the harder to be confuted, for railing is much larger anfwcr’d than Argument. 1 leave Dr. Davenant and 10 anfwer thofe Parts of the Scurrilous Invedfives relating to them, which ’tis not fo much a Queftion whether they can, as whether 'tis worth while for them, or any Bo¬ dy elfc, to reply to fo much Railery. Nor, indeed, had this been wrote, but to repeat to the World how willing the Diflenters are at ^1 times to enter into the Merits of the Caufe, to let the World fee the Reafons of their Diflent, and how wil¬ ling they are upon Ibch Conceffions, as Reafon and Gonfcience calls for, tO come to a general Union with their Proteftant Brethren, notwitbftanding all the Mif- reprefentation of High-Church Malice to the con¬ trary. ( 220 ) A Challenge of PEACE. Addreis’d to the Whole Nation. WITH Enquiry into W AY S M E A N S>- him. zng it to pafs. To the O^LIEEN. MADAM, r A ^ whole Nation are happy in the Things You Doy fi particularly Attentive to what You Sayi The Speeches jour Maje[iy is pleased to make in Parliament^ are look'd upon as Words fpoken to all the Kingdom, and thek influences are accordingly Univerfal, Of all the Kxpr^ons that ever pafs'd from Your Royal LipSy 1 humbly prejume, none ever founded in the Ears of Tour Troteflant Subjeas with fo General Applaufe, as Tour Royal Invitation to Peace and Union among them- felves. Your Majeftyhas, by this one Step, let all the World knoiv^ that Tou not only Seek^ but perfedlly underftand, the General Good of your People, and the Only way to make them Invincible, It Q %zi ) It remains to your SuhjeBs^ to Accept your Royal Pr^- pojal, and look upon it as the mofi binding Obligation^ (ince when Princes /loop to Invite their People to what was be^ fore their Duty^ it carries with it the double Force of a Command, Tour SubjeBs^ Aladam^ who wi^j for Peace^ are Encou^ rag d to feek and purfue it^ while they are now fatisfiedy that fo long as they follow the Natural DiBates of their own Reafon^ they alfo Concur with the Judgment^ and obey the obliging Commands of their Sovereign, Thoje unhappy People^ who either from the Severity of their Principles, or really for want of Principles, are otljertotfe CncKn’U, that are for Snpprefing their Pro^ te/lant Brethren for Opinions in Religion, or for OppreJJmg their Neighbours fur Interejl and Parties, may now be fa* tisfied, that while they purfue that Unchriftian and Impolt* tick Method, they not only weaken, but difoblige your Ma* jejly-i and Your real Interef, An^ by this your Ma jefiy will plainly fee who are Your befi SubjeBs, thofe who willingly embrace the Peace, and General Charity cf Chrijlians and Englifh -according to your Majejiies obliging Exhortation^ or they, who, by keeping up the Differences of your SubjeBs, and by continual Reproachings and RefleBions, endeavour to Reprefent Your peaceable People as Enemies to your Perfon and Gouemmenty tbol they are, and ever have been, as Dutiful and Loyal ar themfelves. Such may fee their PraBices difeourag d, by your Maje^ files healing Example, and would do well to confider, that their peculiar Duty to your Majefiy lies not in Recrimina- ting upon the Infirmities of others, in CorreBing their Own, Your Mapfty has this cempleat SatisfaBion concerning all your SubjeBs, that the principal part of their Contention is, which Party are mofi Loyal to your Government, and among thofe who Dijfent from the Church, None of them Dffent from your Interefi ^ and thofe Gentlemen who would fain perfwaae the World, that Thofe who Dffent from the Ecclejia^ick E/lablifhmenty are alfo Enemies to the Civil, i C ) haw been Jrlven to ~4 Necefity of a ftippos'd Extending the Civil Po-wer beyond the Limits of the Laivs, to bring thofe People they would Expofe, to fo much as a Temper of Ob- jeSling againfl it. —— This is a Method fo grojly Injurious to your Majefy, as well as to your Subjeels, that it has been long earnejtly wiJhdTou would, on fame Occafon or other, let them know how illpleafng it was, and how ill it Cor- rejponded, both with your Majefys Principle as well as Prachce, in all the parts of Your Government. 'Tis an unhappy Violence thefe Men offer to Your Majefiies Charalier, that they would be content to have your Majefty become a Tyrant, fo they might hut he capable to prove the Diffenters Dlfoyal to your Government. But as we hlefs God that your Majeffy has refolved to regulate your Government, by the great Foundation of alf Government, the Laws; fo we cannot think we offend your Majejiy in faying, that in a full Obedience to your Government, .and the Laws, none of your Subje^s have ex¬ ceeded in Loyalty more than thofe that have, at the fame time, Diffented in feme Point of Religion from the Eda- bliff'd Church. . ^ And among thofe who thus Diffent, they whofe Principles are Honeff, have always regarded the Church of England, with a Temper both of Charity and RefpeSl ; and 'tis to them a matter of no difficulty to entertain a Vropofal of Union in AffeSlion and Interefi, and to give all the Difference and DifiinSlion in Government, to the Effablijh'd Church. From whence, and your Majeffy s moff Generous Invita¬ tion to Peace, which, on all oecajions, they moff readily Em¬ brace, they humbly hope the Heats and Animofities of thofe Gentlemen, who Charge thfm with Difloyalty cf Principles, will, in Obedience to your Moff Gracious Speech to your Par¬ liament, be Buried and forgotten, that they may Enjoy, together with all your Loyal Subjebls, the publick Favour. tsndProteHim of their Sovereign j till they give your Maje¬ ffy feme juff Caufe, which God forbid,' to withdraw it from them. And if this cannot be obtain d, your Majefty, and all the World will be Witneffes to their (mcere Defires, and forward ■ Enaiavottrs' ) Endeavours after the General Union of your Sabjeearnertly Recommended. 1_ To Repeal or Contrail the late A6}: of Tollcrafion. is not the Way for this fo much wifh’d for Happim fs; to have Laws reviv’d that Ihould fet one Party a Plundcri ig. Excommunicating and Unchurch- mg' anorherj that /hould renew the Opprellions and Devaftations of late Rdgns, this will not, by any means, Contribute to this Peace, which all eood Men delire. < . New Aflbeiations and Propofals to dived Men of their Free-hod Right for Di.ferenccs in Opini¬ on, and take away the I ighr of Diflenters Voting in Eledl'ons of Members j this is not the way to Peace and Union. Railing Pamphlets, buffooning our Brethren as a Parry to be fupprefs’d, and dreffing them up in the Bare’s Skin for all th- d.igs ji* the Street to bait them, is not the way to Peace and Union, Railing Sermons, exciting People to Hatred and Con¬ tempt ol their Brethren, beraulc they Differ in Opi¬ nions, is not the way t j P ace and Union. Shutting all People out of Ernplovmert, and the Service of their Prince and Count: y, uni fs they can Comply with indifferent Ceremonies of Religion, i4 far from the way to Peace and Union. Reproaching the Sucedfion, fettled by Parliament, and Reviving the .Abdicated Title of the late King James^ and his f jppos’d Family, cannot tend to this Peace and Union. Laws agai.illOcf Harder to Ruh in Times cf "Peace than War: Now feems a prevailing JunSure to reduce us to^ a Temper of Peace; forreign Wars, tho’ w'e feel them not in our own Bowels, yet one would ihitik they have prefented a Field fpaeiou? enough t6 vent all our Gall and ill Temper in,' tho’ the War has not been fo Confi- derable, as to put us out of our Selves for tear, yet it has not beenfo incontidefable, as not to afford us fuffici- ' ent Reafon for Unity, Union of Councils; Union of Purfes, Hands and Hearts, are all littk enough. But ’tis in vain to taJk of Union, till the Jemper of Difunited Parties is brought over to' defife it; we may (^f t?nite ( ^io ) Unite in Words, but we fhall never do it in AffeSlioh till all People arc willing ^ Pretences of Union tend but to the widening the Breach, and is like Hypocrify in Religion, Repreltnted in Scripture, hy Drawing near to God with the Mouthy when the Heart is far from him. He that prefleth his Argument for this Temper ftould diredl his Speech to all Parties, and to all fuch I freely fay, they who have not this Temper of Peace, who do not encline to Union of Intereft, and Union of Affeftion, are blind to the publick Benefit of their Na¬ tive Country, Enemies to the prefent Government, Difrefpedlful and Difloyal to her Majefty, and Under- miners of their own Poftcrity. It may be expeaed very rationally, that I ftou’d enter into the particulars of Parties, and Examine who have moft need to be Exhorted to Union and Peace j j and tho* I would not be Partial to Parties, yet 1 cannot help advancing this general Head, that the main Arti- \ cle of Diflention, Strife and Contention, lies now on thofe Gentlemen who call themfelves High-Church- Men. Who can the Invitation to Peace mean, but thofe People who ovant the Hint. *Tis plain neither the Mo¬ derate Church-men, nor the Diflenters, can be meant. For they are defirous of Peace j it is their Intereft, their Principle, and their Inclination j the Temper feems to be plainly feen there. The High Church-men fay, they are for Peace j but they arc for Peace without Union 3 they arc for the Peace of Subjeftion 3 they would have all be Peace, that is, their feet on the Necks of their Enemies: But tis Peace and Union the Queen has Spoke for, and ’tis to thefe Gentlemen the Speech is direfted, for they Chiefly ftand in need of the Exhortation. Thefe are the Men who carry the heat of their Ar¬ guments out to the Extream gf Reproach, and the In¬ decency of Co-ntempt 3 thefe are the Men that Print, Preach, and Crie up all Modern Difeontents that ftrive to blacken their Brethren with Marks of Diftinfilion 3 tiicfc are they that have Stigmatiz’d all the Men of Moderation, ( ) Moderation, with the Brand of Low-Church- mcni and all other Writings Reprefent them as Tray tors to their Friends, to the Church, and to their own Princi¬ ples, worfe than Dili nters, Fanaticks or Schiftnaticks j and yet all I Gentlemen Charg’d with, is that they arc not for tearing Veefh to pieces for Re/;- gion, and ruining their Difenting Brethren the.Shortefi Thefeare th: X}entlenten who have lifted up the Bloodg Flag againft their Proteftant Nmghbours, and declared,, that all the True Church tt^ n are bound to Lift in the New CrufaJo of the Church. Thefe are the (ientlemen who are tor Confounding, and not Converting, their Friends the DilTenters, and inftead of defiring them to Conform, are for preven¬ ting that Occafional Communion they can comply with, in order to keep them out of Places j fo that jhey had rather keep up the Schifm in the Church, than obtain a Union at the Price of their ternporal \dvance- tnenr, difeovering a true Chriftian Spirit, in bdng neither vttUing to let as Dijfcnt, nor Conform. Thefe are the Gentlemen that have the moft need to learn the Doftrine of Peace and Union, line , if the}' pleated, we might be foon temov d from the moL Contentious divided Nation in the World,^to an uni- Verfal Family of Love and Chriftian Ch arity, endea¬ vouring to win and engage one another by Mildnels and Temper, and ftrugling to fortifie our Opinions by the Chriftian Emulation ot Love and good Works. •The Charge feems great, but might eafiiy be made out, that this Party only are the Aggieflors in Conten- **°The Low-Cbarch’Men, as they call them, are Men of Moderation and Peace, and hated by thefe becaule they are fo; they are neither for opprcfling the Pro^ perty, nor Impofing upon the Confcience 3 a large Cha* nty for their fellow Chriftians, averhon to Perlecunon, tendcrnels of roperty and the Laws, are then>pecunar Charailer. a* Tothefe there is no occafion of fpcaking a Word tor they are, with her Majefty, Heart and Hand for Peace and Union. - ; To thefe Wt owe the Aft of the Tolleration, and the quieting the uneafieConfciences of (he People. Tothefe we owe the Reftoring of Parliaments to their due Power, and that Power to its frequent exsreife. To thefe we owe the Difarming the Ecciefiaftical Harpies, and paring the Talons and Claws of the Church Vultures, who were always tearing to pieces and preying upon their Neighbours. T3 thefe we owe the Currency and Supremacy of the Laws, and the Juft Conceffion of Right made to the people. To thefe we ewe the late Revolution, Depoftng the \ Dnpenfing Arbitrary Will of approaching Tyranny. To. thefe we owe the fecuring our Pofterity in the ' poficllion of their indubitable Rights, under a Pro- | teftant Succeflion, and removing the Nation’s Fears from a precarious unfcttled futurity. What have not i thefe Men of Peace done for us } 7hefe are the Center to which all Parties, if they will have Peace, muft encline. To thefe the Diffenters freely and chearfully remit the Truft ot Government, and the Conduft of Conftitured Right. Thcfe^ are the Men whom the Diflenters are univer- I Tally willing ftiould Reign over them, and from among whom, if it was in their Choice, they would demand a King. ^ iVith thefe Liberty, Property, Confeienee, Law, ' JulHcc, and all the, parts- of the Conftitution are fe- curc j. their end is Pbcc', and their mean Jufticeand the Laws. # The Diflenters and thefe have but One Intereft, and there never was a Man of thefe in Poll of Truft or Honour in the Nation, who kept clofe to this Honeft ■ iTinciple, but the Diflenters lov’d him, flood by him, 1 V occ-d for him, and in all Cafes needful Vindicated and I r.courag’d him. Mqi. V ■y ( ‘ 3 ? ) Nor do the Diflenters ftand in fo much need of this peaceable hint relating to thePublick j for they have ne¬ ver been found cmbroyling the S^ate, or breaking the publick Meafuresj they have been mifreprefented as Engrofling and Poffeffing the places of Truft and Profit in the laft Reign, but the Cafe remains unprov’d j and In all the black Roll of Mifmanagemcnt reprefented to her Majefty, in the Addrefs of the Houfc of Commons, I fairly Challenge any Man to fiiew me the Name of ©neDiflenterj they have fuffer’d in the Calamities Occafion’d bythofe mifs-ConducSs, they have born the fhare of Taxes mifapply’d, and Deficiencies of Funds; but they can never prove upon them, that any Diflen¬ ters were either Pcrfonally or Occafiohaily Inftrununtal in thofe Defeats,your your Sr. John M -•, Sr. R—set. G——, -and J -, were none of them Diflenters, the Frauds and Treacheries of the late Reign cannot be laid at their Door. All their Grievances are, that they fulFer by other Men’s Knavery, that they are tiheatned wiiii the Repeal of the Tollcraiion, blacken’d with Slanders, and bullied with bloody Flags, Defiances, and Billmfgate Lan¬ guage, from the Prefs and from the Pulpit; their Mcet- ing-Houfes reprefented as Houfes of Sedition, and the World asks thisinfolent Queftion in Print: Whether is worfe, or more pernicious to the ^over:nment, a Meet' ing-Houfe^ or a Flay-Houfe? They are daily fuffer- ing the Indignities of hair-brain d Priefts, buffoon¬ ing Poets, and Clubs of infolent Pamphleters; and ’twould be endlefs to quote the Bear-Garden Language thrown upon them in a rapfody of Prints, which they fu/fer with Regret, but have always born with pa¬ tience, Thefe Things being remov’d, the Diflenters are na¬ turally ateafe; the Liberty of their Perfons, fafetyof their Properties and Birth-right, and the Tollcration of their Confciences, are the full of all their demand; and thefe being fecur’d, we may faftly defy* all the Power of Malice to charge upon them the breach of »34 ) ' the Publick-quiet, or any Encroachment upon the Go¬ vernment, their Neighbours, or the Laws. The Aflaults of their intemperate Adverfaries may have fill’d them with Juft Apprehenfions, that the fub- verfion ot their Liberty is defign’d, and they will perhaps be ready to (ay they have good Reafon for it; but as her Majefty has always comforted them- With the full Aftlirancc of her Royal Word in that Cafe, they have always behav’d with Duty and Defe. rence to her Majefty, and every part of her Govern¬ ment; and let thole who have fo openly attempted to prove the Diflenters fatal ;o the > nglifli Conftiturion, and confequently hav e piopi f d to have them depriv’d, of their Birth right as Frce-holders, f t them give an Inftance of One A6t of Difloyalty which they have been Guilty of to her Majefty, to merit fo much her Royal Difpleafure. The Diflenters therefore do not come in as the im¬ mediate Subjects of this Exhortation to Peace, their Circumftances, their Inteiefts, their Number, their Eftates oblige them to Peace, and they cannot be i Tomenters of our Breaches and Divilions, without ^ being Fools and Mad-men, blind to t' eir own happi- j • hefs, and Thieves to their Voflerity. If this biefled Motion of Peace affedls the Diflenters at all, it mull be as it refpe6ts the ConduS of them-- felves to themfelves the infinite Feuds, Divilions and Animolities harbour’d among their feparate Parties, ] and daily exprefs’d again!! one arioiher, is too much a ] Scandal upon them as Chriftians, and too much re¬ proaches their Morals as Men; And here’tis to be ’ acknowledg’d they deferve reproof, and cannot defend ^ thenafelvcs, wherefore they are moft juftly call’d upon j by her Majefly’s Speech, and by the whole Nation, to ^ hearken to Peace. Their Charadler as Chriftians, their Pretences of i more than Common Reformation, their Intereft as a i Party, their Profelfion, their God, and their Queen, all \ call upon them to Peace and Union; Unjpn of Atfec- 1 tioiT, ■ ) tion, if not Union of Profeflion j Union of Pra^icc, if not Union of Principle. Having thus run through the Parties who are con¬ cern’d in this matter, it leads me to repeat to my Reader, that were the temper of Peace, were the propenfity to a general Union, fix’d in the Breads of thele Parties, there might be fome hopes that a farther progrefs might be made j but there muft firft be an inclination to Peace, before there can be any real Foundation to hope for it; 1 know nothing in the World could have been a greater ftep to form this inclination in the Minds of all Parties, than the vehemence with which her Majtfty has been pleas’d to recommend it in her Speech j ’Tis a Call from Heaven by the Mouth of the Queen, and doubtlefs her Majefly was infpir’d from thence, to move that particular Article of her Speech with fo much uncommon eavneflnefs, that ihofe whoever en¬ tertain’d any thoughts of her Majefty’s being byaft by a Party, might fee their miftake j that the Pax'ty thcra'- felres, who began too much to depend upon her tronage in their ill Dtfigns, might bedilcourag’d,afld that all her People might fee her Maiefty was entirely engag’d in the general Intereft of her People’s good, without refptft to Parties, to Faftion, or the privat# PrOjefts of defigning People about her. For my parr, Iconfefs my fclf furpris’d with Joy, to find her Majefty’s Eyes open to the general Happi- nefs of her People, and Ihould take it for a judgmenr upon the Nation, if the Peoples Eyes Ihould remain Ihut to their own felicity, and that Feuds and Parties ftould have run us to that extreme, that even a healing Monarch cannot Unite us. It has not been a common thing for the Nation, to be Summon’d to Unity and Peace from the Throne^ evil Princes have been (bye and jealous of the Union of their Subjects, and maintaining and keeping up the jealouiies and Animofitks of Parties, has been thought a needful policy to protect the Crown. But this Practice lAs been a juft Satyr upon thofe Princes that I C^i6) that allow'd it, as a certain Demonftratioft they had \ fomething to impofe, which nothing but the pri- ’ vate Feuds of Parties could bring them to con- fen t to. The Union of Subje6ts is the Dread of Tyrants j for no People in the World would bear the Infults and Cruelties of Encroaching Arbitrary Princes, were not the People themfelves divided in Interefts, Parties, Fadiions and Defigns. It is a Token for good to the People of England, that the Queen, however by a fort of Men flie has been mifreprefented and abus’d, has yet this Teftimony to give the World of her Juftice, and the Integrity of her Defigns, that fhe covets that i Peace among all her People, which fome of her Ar¬ bitrary Anceftors have been afraid to bring upon the Stage. Infiead of being afraid of the Union of her Subjects, /he is of nothing more defirous than to bring out that blcfled Article, to fee all her Subjedls pra6liung Cha¬ rity and Kindnefs one toanother. The Reafon is plain, her Majefty having regulated her Condufl by the Laws, and confin’d her Defiresto the Happinefs of her People, /he can give no Teftimony of it like this, that flie covets to fee them United in the Bonds of Love, and walking Hand in Hand in her Ser¬ vice. None but Tyrants covet to be fear’d, Juft Prin- ces value themfelves upon the Love of their Peo¬ ple. The Hearts of SuhjeSs are the Strength of Kings, Now ’tis imprafticablc to have all the People joyn in Duty and Alfe£lion to their Prince, while they arc cmbroyl’d with heat and paflions one with another^ univerfal Lo-tre, makes univerfal Loyalty: No Subjects arefo true to their Prince, nor fo hearty to his Caufe, as thole who are United among themfelves^ and Unanimous in their way of Living. While C 437 ) While therefore her Majefty invites all her SubjeSs to Union and Peace, *tis a certain Indication ot her rcfolv’d Defign to Govern this Nation by the Laws, and prefervethe Rights and Liberties of her Sul j- 6ls; She would elfc be very unwilling the People fhould have any endearing Converfation among themltlves, leaftonetimeor other they fhould open their Eyes to fee the way to Liberty, and caft off the Yoak of their intended Slavery. But if her Majefty calls us to Peace, file calls us to Freedom, and lets us know Sheis far from encouraging the mifehievous Defignsofthofcwho ftrive to bring in Diftrudlion at the door of Contention, and who are willing to keep up the ftrife of the People, that they might not agree in their own deli¬ verance. I confefs my felf furpriz’d at this difeovery of the Royal Intentions to Peace and Union, and that I ex- pcdled not her Majefty had yet feen far enough into the malicious Defigns of that Party, who dclign’d to engage her on one part of her People again!! the other, and have had many a melancholy Prol’pedl of the Confequences of a Nation divided again!! her felf: Nor do 1 know any way in the World to have given that hot Temper fo Univerfal an cvertlirow, as her Majefty has now taken, viz. To let them know that what ever they may expedl from her, how much foever they may fancy they plcafe Her in running down One Party toraife and eftablifli another, ^er Majtfly is not of their Mind. The Queen knows a better way to hold the Ballance of Parties, than to eredt any One upon the deftrudlion of another; whatever the Opinions in Religion are, they are all her Majefties Subjcdls, they have all a Title to her Protcdlion, while they behave themfdves Dutifully to her Perfon and Government j reconciling their P.incipks is none of her Majefty’s Province as Queen, and if it were, feems but too impradticable 5 but to reconcile their Perfons, make them ulcfultoher felf, converfibletoone another, quiet and obedient to the Lavys and her uo- . vciiiineiit ^ ^38 ) ] Vernment, this her Majefty profefles to Defire, is Her Refolution, and all her People’s advantage. J In Concurrence with this Dcfign, ’tis our Bufinefs ^ to ftrive who is the forwardeft for Peace, that her Ma- lefty iTiay be convinc’d who are the Incendiaries of ' the Nation j Adark fuch as fow Divifions : let US Mark bur felves for Vifible Healers of Divifions, and the 1 Contrary will mark the Wideners of Our Breaches. i As I have Undertaken to advance in the behalf of ^ the Diflenters, that they are the forwardeft to Embrace ' this Univerfal Peace, fo I hope I (hall not be afham’d 1 to affirm, That both their Intereft and their Principles i Concur to prefs them to it, and I yet hope their Pra- filice will not let me, nor any One who Undertakes ^ the Vindication, of their Caule, be a/ham’d of being ^ their Advocate. j They cannot be Enemies to this Reconciliation of i Parties, unlels at the fanoe time they have loft their < Senfes, and are qualifying themfelves for Bedlam ^ apd I aril of the Opinion, that had a General Aflembly of ; all the Diflenters in this Nation been met together, to Confider what they would Defire her Majefty to do for them, I mean for them particularly as Diflenters, they could have thought of nothing more material to them, ; and the whole Nation, than a Ceflation of this Party- Strife, and a Civil Union with all the reft of her Ma¬ jefty’s Subjedfs. j , What eife had they to ask ? their Properties are fecur’d by the Law, their Religion by the Tolleration, and both reaflur’d by the Qaeen’s repeated Promifes to Continue them. They could have nothing more to ask, but that her Majefty would do what in her Wif- I dom flie fliould find conducing to a general Peacej and ■ Union of Affc£iion, between them and thofe People, ^ from whom they were oblig’d to Difleni in point of ; Religion. . This her Majefty has done without their Appliea- ! tipn, and I think the Diflenters cannot anfwer it to the Senfepf their Own Iniereft, if they do not make pub*' belt ( ^39 >> * Wick acknowledgment to God and Her Maiclly for 10 remarkable a Mercy. J Had we beaten ihe French Fleet at Sea, or had any t more than Ordinary Advantage over the Nation’s Enemies ^en Obtained j We Ihould, and reafon good, I have made a Day of publick Rejoycing and Thankf- i! giving to God for fo great a Blelling, and bv Addref- i fes of Congratulation Complimented her Maieftyup- t on that head. j ^ f £ This is a Vi^ory over the worft Enemy the Nation i has, an Enemy the moft Fatal and moft Formidable of li any in the World j Contention is the Devil’s Gene- } ralilfimo, that has always ltd on the Infernal Troops “ 1 ° Peace of this Unhappy Nation; Her ij Maiefty has giving an Overthrow to the Grand Army or Hell, and Oifpers’d the Numerous Squadrons that } were tmbattding tlv mfelves again!! the general Quiet i and who verily thought they had the Queen on their i iide. It remains for all Her Subjc£ls to purfue the living Troops of thts Defeated Army, and to deftroy 'and remove all the little Foundations of Party Feuds Fears, Jealoufies, Reproaches and Raillery, that blovv up the Grand Flame of Difeord in the Nation. Would all Parties fall in heartily with Her Maieftv’s Command, a General Kifs of Fricndlhip and Reconci u/T three Kingdoms, the' • ^ 1 Lamb would lye down togerhen Peace would fmwhtr all the remains of Enmity, and the Seeds of Diffention would Dye in the Earth, and fprine up no more. ® And that I may not feem to prefs my Readers to think of what I canr ot direa them h w to do. I think k not improper to fay, this work is not Dif- hcult, tis eal:e to agree than to fall out, if Alcr. were all cnciifid ro Pe xe, .1 fhalln.,t < cr in the fhort Compafs of thefe bheets, to dia.v fuli -icheem of a Prujeif of Peacea- inong the General Panics, nor unlefs l .werc Directed, ' ■ ■ ' • • ’ W0UI4 ( 24 ® ) would I engage in any thing fo Nice, having no need to fell the farther Refeniment of thofc who may no more be pleas’d \»ith the Projedl, than they are with the Perfon, But I will Venture to touch the Picliminaries, and tell the People of England how they may begin j Tie put them in the Road, in which, if they pf ale but to go on firaight forward, as they fay, they cannot fail to arrive at the Port of Peace. Not at all to concern matters of Religion, and O- pinions about worlhiping God with our Civil Affairs, and common Charity, leaving all People freely, asjiow the Laws do, to the didates of the Spirit, and the con* dud of their Confciences. Religion is a matter of Peace, the ways of God are ■ways ojf Fleajantnefs, and all bis Paths are Peace, which rho’ it means fpeculative Peace, yet I may .apply it herej there is nothing in Religion which has a ten¬ dency to fowre our Tempers, ruffle our Converfation, or diforder our Lives. As to Converting one another, the Scripture is full of Rules to dired us to ad in that by the Power of Perfwafion 3 even Reproof is to be done with the Spirit of Meeknefs, fays the Apoftle and Rebuking one another in Love, and provoking one another to Love,and to good Works 3 and if the Scripture were filent in the cafe, the Rea- fon and Nature of the thing feemes to imply, that all coercive Methods arc vain as well as unlawful, as to Confcience. Experience might convince thofe Sons of Violence, who are for Perfecution of their Neighbours, that it has been a fruitlcfs War 3 and if we were to examine how many Converts to the Chnrch have been made by fuch Meafures, I doubt they can give but a flender account of the Fruit of that Method whereof the whole Church is now afham’d. 1 fay alham’d, for that in the Preamble to a late Bill for the preventing Qccafio- nal Confo mity, ’tis there own’d, That Perfecution for Confcience is Contrary to the Principles of the Chrifian Re¬ ligion, and to the Djo^rine of the Church of England. ( X4I ) I avoid all the juft Examples I could give, of the Ir¬ regularities and Oppicflions the Diffenters have fuf- fer d under on this head j that I may begin with my »elf, and bury the remembrances of Violences and ill Ufage, in this new Refolurion of Peace which we are all invited to by her Majefty, and which 1 hope all the Diffenters in the Nation will be the moft for¬ ward to accept. But as to future Condudl let matters of Religion be things of ferious Choice, but not of Violence and De¬ bate; we may Differ, but not Quarrel; we may Diffent, without Cenfure and Dncharitablenefs; they may Conform, without Envy and Repraach ; Honed Men ftiould agree with honeft Men, of whatfoever Opini¬ on they may be, and not with Knaves whatfoever Par¬ ty they take. A little Charity Jown on good Land would produce a hugbCrop of Peace And even Grace it felf, planted in a foil barren of Charity, fours and grows morofe. What has Religion to do with Politicks? Honeft Men of all Perfwafions are honeft Men, and Knaves are the worfe, the more pretence they make to Reli¬ gion; we fliould not have a tenth part of the Diffe¬ rences in State-Affairs, did not Church-matteis and State-matters mingle fo much together. The Law has plac’d the Adminiftration in the h.inds of the Church, andtho’ there has been a thonfand re¬ viling Pamphlets that have accus’d the Diffenters of repining at it, yet not one Diflenter can be charg’d with a Defign to alter it; let but Peace and moderate Principles poffefs the Men of TJovcrnmenr, the Ditiln- ters were always content, and ever will be pleas’d to nave the Power reft in the hands of the Church ; and where this Peace and Moderation is nor, I believe all men will grant me that the principal Qiialilications , ffO'’^rnment are wanting. ’Tis nothing but the want of this Peace and iilode- Wtion, which has made the matters of Religion and Govcinmcnt Ciafti, and the whols Nation fail out a- / R bout ( X41 ) bout them; and if any Man ihall attempt to prove that this contentious Spirit has been on the fide of : the Diflenters, I think I may not be tax’d with Arro¬ gance, if I fay I can caGly confute him. But however it has been, fov Peace neveY Recriminates, 1 /hall adventure in the Name of the DilTcnters, pre- fuming upon their univcrfal Confent, and with the Confenr of fome of the moft Judicious among them, to make their Adverfaries this fair Challenge. Let the fincerity of the peaceable Spirit be try’d by the Confequence ; The Queen has made a general Invitation to Peace and Union, and we accept it; let her Majefty now fee who are her moft Loyal Sublets, who are greateft Friends to the general Intereft, and the trueft Lovers of their Country, by diftinguiihing among them who have moft regard to her earneft Re¬ commendation, and who are really and unfeignedly of peaceable Tempers and Principles, and w&) are not j who arc moft for Peace and Union, w'ho readied to obey their Soveraign’s Command, who honefteft to their own Pretences, the High Church-Men, or the Diflenters. If this Challenge w^ould be accepted, if Perfons de¬ puted by both Parties were to meet, how cafie would it be to fettle Conditions of mutual Society, agree¬ ment of Parties, and general Charity in the whole ■ Nation, which whoever would break, /hnuld be hift ! out of all Converfation, contemn’d by all fidcs, and no body care to fpeak to him. All this might be done, and Religion never be con- ; cern’d in the matter, rhe Concerns of Confciencc would be a Clafs by it felf, and never make a rupture in our Civil Society j Men would be Gentlemen as well as Chriftians, and the Union of Converfation and Intereft would make a little Heaven in the Nation. We fhould no more be cutting of Throats about Religion, and fending one another to the Devil for not going to Heaven our own way. t'his would be the Shorteft-Way with the Diflenters, and S-^rc/fs bloody Flag would be a Fool to it. This J r i45 ) This would ir^ke u«i be Ciflenters and ro DilTenters, and there would be a Conformity in Civil Ctremo* nits, tho’ there was ntroe in Religious. This would bring the Cl rifMan ar.d the Enghj!) Man to uiiderftand one ai.other, who have been a long while at variance. This w'ould make the Devi! out of Love with the Climate, ard People Would get to Heaven with the Lfs interruption. In a word, 'twould be a Strength to our Millira-jt Power, a Glory to our Civil, rtOd a Luftre ro our Re¬ ligious. ’Twould make the Nation InV'Cibl , the Lawv Impregnable, Trade EncreaG, Religion fiouri.Ti, the Queen Vidtorious, and the People Happy. PEACE without UNION. Bv w.iy of Reply, to Sir PEACE at H O M E The PREFACE. not little SatisfaSion that on a review of thefi X Sheets^ and comparing them with what has been (tnce ohjeihd'^ lean fee nothing needful to be alter 4^ nor much to he added. * U'bat feme Gentlemen have thought ft to fay cH this Heady has amounted to fo littky that when the ill Language R 2- they ( 144 > ^hej^iVty the VaJJtott, the Reproach and Seurility is abfirac- ted from the Argument^ the naked Skeleton will appear too jhaplefs a SpeSre to fright any Man s Reafon from the Truth. As to ill Language, ’tis none of my Talent, and if it were, the Argument is too good to be Debauch'd with the Fraclice. The Gentleman I have to do with in thefe Sheets Merits to be wed Treated, and Underfunds himfelf too well to Treat any Man unlike himfelf. They, who ufe Raillery in his Defence make a Satyr upon him, and his Argument ; as if the latter wanted . the Eloquence of BilJins-gatc, and the former wanted the Affifiance of a Second in his Caufe. fayj ^tis Quality places him above the ObjeBor^^ is to piy jor bim^ that he is too much a Scholtar^ and too much a a Gentleman to fay for himfelf : He knows^ that in writing he Appeals to general Truths and no Man is above the Dig-- nity of Reafoningy he is more a Gentleman^ than to value an Argument the lefs for the Authoryfince ftrenuous Truth lofes nothing of its value^ for the quality of whatever mean Injl rument Jljc pleajes Jhall ufher her into the World. Truth is the Mijirefs every wife Man Courts^ and who has . obtain d the mofi of her Favours in this Argument^ 1 freely appeal to Sir H, M. to decide^ knowing that the fame Can* dor which oblig d him to an Alteration in his Dedication^ 7vill always oblige him to give a due Deference to unanfwe- ruble Truth, Something has been endeavour d at^ to bring the Difpute of OccafionaI Confcrrmtyy ZS £\XcW into this Cafe^ I have more than once dedardmy Thoughts on that Heady and 1 fee rwthing in this Book that Contradifis ity and their Colled- }hg what 1 have (aid on that Fointy does no way Mortifie me y for in this Caafe ^tis plain^ that difpute is not concern dy for it does not follow^ that becaufe 1 have exploded the pradice of fucb, who Conform meerly as a Qualification^ therefore Imufi not Argue againfi a Bill for excluding fucb iis have Occafionally conform d on other Terms^from the Ad* vantage and Birth-right of Engliftmen. Tbofe Gentlemen who affirm for Sir Humphry, that in Huilund all the DiJJenters are firjl Tolleratedy and thenab- jolutely folutely excluded from all Civil Employments and Offices of Trufs^ themfelves too much, and woud do well to tell us whether three fifth Parts of the Ojficet s in their Cufioms and Revenue are not at this time Remonffrants ^ that is^ Dijfenters from their National Church, befides all their Mi^ litary and Naval Employments, Captains of Men of War, Governors of Frontier Garrifons, and the like, equally and promifcuoufiy committed to Papiff and PrctefiantRemonfirant and Contra-remonfir ant without DifiinBien. If 1 had no other Infance but this, my Argument was Efiablifis d too fafe to be overthrown, and therefore I make no other Defence for it, it has been Buffeted by the Furies of the Party, has flood a Deluge of ill Language, and a tem- pefi of Words, it appears again in the World back’d with its own Truth and Plainnefs, and he that can fairly Confute it is Welcome. De F O E. PEACE without U N10 H. By way of Reply, to Sir H-.M- h's PEACE at home. I Cannot without fome Aftonilhment obferve, that a Gentleman of fuch Extraordinary Reading, Mafter of fo much more than Ordinary Knowledge, fo much an Orator, and fomuch a Statefraan, as this Author, Ihould begin a Difcourfe of fo much Confequence as this, with a pofitive Alfertion, for which there can be no manner of Foundation in Hiftory. Atleaftthe general Praftice of all Nations, both Antient and Modern, ever fince there lias been Divcr- fity of Religions in the World, Hands diretflly contrary to what this Gentleman has advanc’d j and I wifli he had been pleas’d to quote thofe few Inftances, which he can find in Story, to make out what he lays down. All wife Nations in tbi World, fays this Gentleman, have been convinc'd by Reafon and Experience, and do a- gree at this Day, and have for many Ages faff, that R 3 there C J.4« ) - tkrl » «» ^hff'ute Ntcefaj ./ m EjIMifJ SJ/W«, end a Nidticnal Church. ’ niay have foinc Truth in it, il'.o’ net without ; ^ift Exceptions, which I avoid; becauk, I would not Dilpute with him for fmall Matters , but then heroes on. And that fur the Peace and fVelfare of every Govern- ^0 preferve the Admm'firaticft of ' pubhek Affairs in the Hands of Perjens of one, asd the fame Pcrjwaffon in Matters of Relf loti, that there may be Uni- ty andXJn/fi mUy in the Church and State. No W onder, if from Pivmiies fo ill Grounded, wrong Cor dulions are drawn. If all the Gentlemen in England believ’d 'histo be true, they had the erea- teli Realon in the Whor'd to Vote for a Bill, not only to prevent Occafionai Conformity of the Diflenters, b;it abfoltitelv to fore-dofe from any ftare in the pub- hek Adminihration, any one that had but the leaft Taint or Ink'dtion of Diflcnting Principles, that are, or had been Diflenters, or were Favours-rs of thetn. W hat could the Dillcnters pretend to objed againft wch Proceedings, if it were to be proved they were abfuluttly Nr cellary for the publick Peace, and for the ' good of the Cor.flitution ; and that it was the Prad ice of all Nations in like Cafes. No true Er.glfh Rcprcfent^iive could fatisfie them- , leJvcs, wAntwericto their Country, not to fecurc' : the n inXuchCafcs. It w'ould be unreafonable to expert, that we Ihould be made Icfs fafe than other People, but > if two Opinions in Matters of Religion be incoinpati- ble with the publick Adminiftration ; if ’tis necelTarv i have the fame Intereft in the State, and I the fame Zeal for the Service of their Prince, and the *< fame Love to their Country, inuft have the fame Opi- j nton m Points of Religion, or that t' e leaft Difference W Religious Matters, iho’ in but iddifferent Points of ' Ceremony and Difeipline, fhould fu Marr, and Spoil i all the other Beauties of their Cordufl, that they (hould ;! not befit to beTruRed or Employed; if thefe Things r arc true, cither from the Nature of the thing, or from ^ the 147 ) the general Praaice of all Ages, then a Bill of Exclu- fion of Diflenters with all our Hearts. . But if upon Examination, it ihall appear, that this Maxim, which (lands as theArgunient and Frontifpiece ofthewholeWork, be ill Grounded. ^ If it (hall appear that in feveral ■''■ations, and thoje fome of the willft in the World, the Admtniaranon of their publick Affairs, has been frequently commit¬ ted to the general Care of all lorts of Subject, and able Minilkrs ofthofe Nations, have been d without refpea to their Opinions in Religion, and that Come Princes have equally Trufted and tmploy d Peo¬ ple of differing Opinions in Religion, in the molt be- cretand Critical Pairs of Governmeno If thefe Things appear, the Foundation of this fine . Spun Trick of State muff fall to the Ground, ^d an Anfwertd this one Paragraph may v«y ^ full Reply to the Book, lince it the be o r- thrown, the Ufes and Application fall of 5 >. naturally as a Houfe will follow,when the Foundation is undermin’d c j Let us look a little into Hiftnry to find out the Truth of Faa, and tho’ it would be too Remote to Examine the Hiftories; yet tisnot arailsto o - lerve-, that we find the Chriftiansofceri times trufted in the Armies, and in the State, cfpeaally in the Int^- val of Perftcution, and afterwards, in the Weft^in Em¬ pire : we find even Julian, the Apoftate, had fe tr of his chief Captains in the Aimy that w^re Chriftians - and we find feveral Martyrs who were Officers of the State, and in the Army 5 we find a whole Legion of Chriftianstrufted with the Arms of the Commonwealth, to whom they not only were faithful aod Valiant Sol¬ diers, but to the Glory of the Chnftian Religion, chofc rather to Sacrifice their Lives for their ^^^hgion, than to defend thcmfclves againft the povernmen wh^h employed them j And as this Loyalty of Ptrinaple has not a little beenboafted of by the Advocates of a la e ab¬ dicated Dofitrine,call’d,tho’wrongfully, (148 ) It feems fliange to me it fhould Co Coon be forgotten. 50 go from rhefe Ages of the World, which afford fo great a Variety of Example, that ’tis toomucb u^t ^ refer to the Hiftories of thofe Days, which are very plain in the cafe Examine the more Modern Example of theChriftian Princes and Nations, and as to their Wif. dom, 1 1 leave that to the Cenfure of Sir H _ M _ Charles V. Emperor of Germany, may be allow’d to be the fir^ftgreat Enemy of the Proteftant Religion in top he Perfected the Diffenters in Bohemia and Saxony with the utmoft Severity j and yet both in Bohemia, Hungary and Tranfilvania, at all times of Peace rhe Proteftants were admitted to an equal Share in the aS miniftration of Civil Affairs to rhe Government of Ci- tics, and Command of Armies, And as in this fliort Tra£l, I cannot pretend^to cite Perfons and Particulars, I choofe to refer my ReadS li 'he Peace, made between the faid V.andhisSubjcdlsofAo^eww, and be¬ tween Ferdinand K. ^ Hungary, afterwards Emperor,and his H^«^m^« Subjefts, in both which Capitulations he flail find j as I doubt not our learn’d Author well knows that the Proteftant Subjects of both thofe Kingdoms’ obtain d as a rcafonable Conceffion, the Governments of Provinces, their Places in the Councils of State, Af! femblies of Burghers, and the like. To come a little nearer home, the Treaty of Weflpha- ha and Munjier, which are the Settlements on which the whole Cherry of Germany depends, the Foundati- on of tl^ <>der and Occonomy of the Roman Empire and the Confirmation of the Golden Bull, by this Treaty’ the Prmeftani Princes and States are not only reftorc^ to the Government of themfelvcs, but to their due In- tereftin the Mutual Government of the general Body they have their Seats and Suffrages in thi Colleges of Princes, and in the College of Eltftors: neither Peace without them, they make up the Imperial Diet, joyo in Councils, and joyn their Forces:. ( M9 ) Forces. The Grand Councils of the Empire arc full of Protcftant Statefman, and a!l the Jwpem/Armies ful{ of Proteftanc Officers, nay, fometimes wholly Com¬ manded by Proteftant Generals. For I think *tis gene¬ rally obfei v’d in thofe Days, as well as now, that they were always willing wefhauld fight for them, but not willing we fhould get by them In feveral of the petty Governments and Principali¬ ties, where their Governours are Eledlive, the Conftj- tution is fo careful to prefervc this Union of Parties, that the Government is alternate, one Prince muft be a Roman Catholick, and the other a Proteftant, as in the Bifliopricks of HiUiefheim, Ofnabruck, and others j and if the Government it felf is fo, I believe we need not fearch the Hiftory of thofe places, to Examine whether their Minifters, Councellors and Statefmen are promif- cuous or alternate, as the Government. The late Duke of Neuhourg, being a Reman Catbu- lick, came by Inheritance to the Government of the Pa¬ latinate, a Country wholly Proteftant j the old Prince being a Man of Tern per and Policy, in his Speech to his Council, declar’d himfelf to this purpofe; That he would make no Innovation in the Religion of the Country, nor make any Difference or Diftindtion of any of his Subjedts upon the account of their Religi¬ on ; whoever were Faithful and Loyal to his Govern¬ ment, ftioukl be equally Entituled to his Services and Favour, and this Promife he pundlualiy obferv’d to the fatisfadlion of all his Subjedls, and the happi- nefs of his whole Country j and bad his Son, the pre- fent Eledlor Palatine, thought fit to have maintain’d the fame Ballance and Equality among his Subjedis, the Proteftant Princes had not made fuch loud Complaints of the Infradlions of the Treaty of Munfitr and Ryf- wick, nor have been backward in the prefent Aifairs of the Empire, for want of due fatisfadiion on thole Heads. In France we find Charles IX. employing proinif- cuoufly the Hugonot Princes of the Houfe of Bwrbonue, the ( z$o ) 1 Ac King of Navarr, the Prince of ConJe, Jafper Colhny I made High Admiral, the Prince of Conti Govcrnou^of ] Campaign, Mr. Le Defgulres Governour of Dauphine, and abundance of Hugonsts admirced into PlaCiS in the Court, in the Parliament, and in the hiiiancei. Henry III. com/nittcd himfelf to the Protc6lion of ' th. King of Navarr, and the Ha^oncts, from the fatal Confpiraciesof rheCatholick Leagu-jolr<’d ihc Roma?} Catholiclc Army to the Proceftanc, aad as he foinid .them both Zealous and Faithful to Idm, .admitted them to all his Councils. And when afterward that Prince was barbaroully | AflUffinated by a Jacobine Fryer, the Roman Catholiclc I Princes and Army Joyn’d fnca-dy with the Prottfianr, . 1 and ferv’d the Great Henry IV. tho’ a Pioedfant, againft J the Army of the League, tho of then* own Religion. . 1 AfterwardsIV. turn d Caiholickywh.en' 1 he maintain’d the fa.me Communication of Favours | ro all Parties, and from the Peace at Tuvins, which 1 put a final end ro that War, and finifh’d rl^e Catliolick J League to theVear iVVh.en the prefent French Kinn- ^ aboli/h’d the Ediftof Hants, the Protoftants were unH i* verfally admitted into Governments, Places, Prefer- | ments and Employments, even fro.m the Prefence and ^ Bed-chambers of the Prince, thro’ all the niceft and d molt dangerous parts of the State, as the Parliament, • j Finances, Court, Armies and Fleets. Amon^’’ thefe •! Men we find thcMarlhal DeBiron, the Duke of 5/?w j Weymar, UonUcm Di Guebriant, Le Marefchal ^le Ma- \ rillac, Monfieur Fou^uet, the great Tureme, Monficur ^ tht Quejne^ and Count de-Scombtrg^ vv'ith innumerable ^ others, ^^ho Were not only Employ’d, bur w'ere real- • Jy the Piilars of the Houfe of and the Rai- I lers of the French Power, to a great part of its prefent Greainefs. Nor indeed can I fuffer this part of the Matter without a Remark, that thisfeems to be the on- ly Inftance of a Nation that has luppreft one Par¬ ty, for Eftabiifliing another, on the bare pretences of Religion. During ( ) During all the time thcfe Protcftant Princes and Gcntl’ men were in Employment under the Kings of Frame,ibe Rcmijl) Religion was the Lftablifli’d Chuich, and the Government was all in their Hands j neither Were the Hugonots under any legal Eftablilhment, other than the Edift of Nants, all their Power was broke at the Siege, and taking of Rochell, and they were wholly in the Hands of their Enemies, and yet the King of France all along thought fit to employ them both^ in the Civil and Military Matters, till the prefent King began to turn them out of all Pablick Employments, in order to extirpate them wholly from the Nation, as he has now elfcdfually brought to pafs. If a like Extirpation of the Diflenters in England is the real Dcfign, the rcraoving them from all the Pri¬ vileges and Advantages of their Native Country, is the very belt ftep they can take to it: Nor is this the leaft Reafon to make us believe that is in the defign, for to what purpofe elfe fhould this Gentleman bring fo Scandalous an Example on the Stage, 1 can find but onp of thefc tw'o Reafons pofiible to be given for it. r. Eitherthat as the'Frewc/i King began the Extirpating of the Proteftanu by firrt difmiiling ihtni of all pubiick Employments, fo Ihould it be here. Or, z. That in all his Reading he could not find one Example in Hifto- ry that would fuic the proi'cnt Cafe, and I think I may fairly challenge him to fiiew me any Nation in the World, that ever fo far fiipprefs’d a part of their own Subjedls, as to deprive them of the Favour of their Prince, and the Truft of Government, but with a de¬ fign either to Perfecute, or totally expel them. If this l-.:rned (kntitman can think to convince us, t’; 3 r thus to humble the Difienters by a Law, and to otfer them the Reflraint. lie Propoles, is the way to Peace at Home, he cannot at the fame time but fup- pofe that the Diffonters .ire. very blind, ignorant People. Nor can he fuppofe that this will tend to the Peace which Her Mijefty has propofed to us, Veact r^nd Tvitb XJniony the French King has brought about the l^c- itrudtioa nrudtion of the Proteftants in France with a full Peace but not with Union. ’Tis Union is the matter, which! as It IS the EiTence of Peace, fo ’tis the only thing can make this Nation happy, and I would be glad to fee how the leaft Profpea of an Union of Paities can £ fcen in the Scheme he has drawn. Let us next examine the Government of our Neieh- bours the where, if I miftake not, the CalvinWi nT^r Church, yet have they no Teft or DifabhngL^vsj but as the Government is Proteftant the Roman Catholicks have their Freedom j not by a hmited, reftram’d, precarious Tolleration, butbv Na- nve Light, and a Claim of Title, the States approve and Confirm the Provincial, and the Miffions of the Catholicks enjoy the Liberties and Privileges of other Subjefts, and ferve in their neTlTberty^ promifcuous and unexceptio- ion where the Roman Catho- Iicka arc Mailers, and that ever had any other Reliaion among them, but what Rill accepts the Services of the™ Submits of whatfoever Religions. In Spain, Italy and Tortugal, the Inquilition has elFcftually Damn’d all Re¬ ligions but^ their Own, and in this Cafe they are ftill but Examples of what fome. People arc willing Ifiould come to pafs h^ere. But if we go back, even among the Spaniards themfelves, in the Days of HiUhthe Se cond of Spain, the Nobility and Gentry o/the ,7 Provinces, had many of them Embrac’d the Proteftant Religion, and yet were continued in great Employ- ments m the State, as the Prince of Orange, Count Horn, Coxim Egmont, and multitudes'of others; And tisobfervable,that the Breach afterwards did not begin upon Account of difoiffing them their Employments but upon a Defip of rooting out the very Name of Proteftant from the Country, by bringing in the In- qui^ion upon thofe Provinces, which, together with of the final Defcftion of the Provinces, and the Eredling the (” 153 ^ \ the prefent poweiful State of the United Province*. >1 Thefe are the blefled Examples of latter Ages, J when People have been Depriv’d of the Birth-right and I Privileges of Snbjefts on mecr Account of Opinions t in Religion. One was a ftep to the utter Extirpation of the Party fo depriv’d, and the other drove them to all Extremities, and being Joyn’d to other intole- i rable Oppreflions, caus’d a General Diforder, made 2 I vaft Chafm in the Government, and made a Civil War I of 42 Years, which ended in the Univerlaj Revolt and I Alienation of the Seven Provinces. Let us now look back a little to our own Country, and defire our Brethren of the Church of England co remember the Time when they where DilEmrers them- felves, when they were obnoxious to, and leparated from the Efiablifh’d Church, they were not treated in this manner, no, not by the rhehifelv.es; in the K)ays of King Henry the V^lllth. the Lord Crormrely Queen ^nne, and abundance of the Nobility and Gen¬ try were Proteftants and Lollards, and yet continued in publick Trull, and in the Services of their King and Country. And had not in Queen Ellz^ibeth's Reign, the many reftlefs Defigns of Spain appear’d fo bufy, and the Eng- li(lj Catholicks been fo weak to Embroil themfolves with the State, and againft her Perfon, they had cwj- tinued in Employments and Places to the laft j *twas reafon of State, and not of Religion, wliich t^b- lig’d her to treat them fo roughly. Thus I think 1 have taken a Ihort View of H-iftory, with Relation to this Gentleman’s advanc’d Maxim, That all wife Nations have thought it ntcejfary, to pre[ervo the Adminifiration (fTubUck Aff airs, in the hands of Ver^ fans of one, and the fame Verfu'afions in Matters cf Reli¬ gion ; Which I think is fairly Confuted 3 if he thinks not, on a more narrow Search, I fhall be content to give him many more Particulars of thefe Things, the Places wliere. Time when done, and the Authors Where the Accounts are to be fomid. StraJay if )i«r’ ti l! vtr took a Sacrament any where till it became Keceflary as a Qjalification, and wh * have fo much Hon- ftv as to owm they know lit¬ tle of the Mat'er, and dO:,’t trouble their Heads about , it, wl'o are of any Church j and, as for Religion in general, have r.o manner of occalion for it. Thefe Gentlemen are fafe, and no Ciaufe in the Bill can touch them j Athcifm was never charg’d as an Enemy to the Chu’^ch a^ d .State, ’tis not the Men of no Religion, but the Men of too much Religion we are afraid of But to the C^eftion It may be fafe to commit the Truft of Publick Etnployments to Men of different Opinions in Religion. I. Becaule Men of different Opirions may be Hon- eft, and it cannot be ui fafe to Truit an Honeft Man, whatever his Opinion be in Riatiers of Religion j now if this Gentleman will ftil us, that a Difftntcr cannot be an Honeft Man, then let us teii Moles, aitd fee (^63) fee who have the moft Knaves, the Church or the ^^z^^Beeaufe it has been done without Danger, both here and abroad j and is done to this day among al. the ■wife Nations he fpeaks of. Except as befoic excepted. But I own here does lye one Negative apmft me, and that is about its being Inconfiftent tne Dc- fign of the Tctt and Corporation Aas i and theiv. I ae- knowledge him to be in the right i but then I mud add, thaf thofe Aas themfdves lye Crowded with fuch iuft Objraions of Parties, private Intcrefts, and Principles deftru6live to the true Imeicft of tt\e Pip- Ktta« Rdigion, and the Nation in Oeneral * I am perfwaded this Gentleman, wuh all his sUnl, is not able to defend. . , j r .u If this Bill does more fully Anfwer the end of 5 ^^ it ihis Jbia aoc^ luiy : T r a Tcft, and Corporation Bill, if any thing m thofe Ads are to be prov’d Unchiidian and Unrealonahle, tis e CO oe prov a , It little for the Reputation ot this Cafe, that ir tends fulfil thofe Defigns for which they were Defign d,bat but to] To luftify theReafonablencfs of this Bill, lis alledg d, thattlfe Church cannot be fate without it. I would be glad to join ilTue with thisGentlcman up¬ on that Head. As to his canvalmg jhe Reafons given bv the Lords laft Selfion, I do not meddle with it, as a thing too long for this Trad j at the fame time afluring him, it is not but that .thofe Heafons arc ea- filv to be Defended. / . . , But the proper Work before me, is to bring it to this fhort Head, the Pains are Extraordin^y which arc tak¬ en to poflefs Peoples Minds, that the ger from the Diffenters, and cannot be fecur d biu t^y this Bill. And why in fuch danger from the DiiL i-. tecs? Our Author owns they are fuirounded with Deifts, Papifts, Socinians, and Occafional Conforrnills, and 1 could add with Atheifts too, and yet all ihefe, the Papift excepted, arc Occafional Conformifts alfo, but no Law is requir'd agamft them. By his Deih nrrl ,■ r ^. , Arlans uetjrs and with which the Church of fZ' land now abounds; all thefr rhr.* c • ^ ■■-™ ■» .heir Ru1ertc’cifn..rr-®”‘T’* “'L‘"“>'’ flill by’hU ed in HgM Places o'} 1he®r’ ^“‘"“*■ n .. I the Govcrnmenr with of RdiSi bn “an 0 ?}'’“” '’’®"“ " rdc„.icl ,Ko“he“be netXlS.SMhisl't gn" gcious Man, and it cannot be f^fe fhr rhf* r*u i_ have fuel, a Man empIoyU * "■ rtJchnih nf'’.'-“T f"'’ ]“i'l.hisC5entlenian bring rnay be lcrvdbyKna'ves, but dare not trufti/fl»<.j? Men- that Men of no Religion are fit enough for herEmDlovl ments, but Men of Charity and Confcience are nor^' ^ whether I am pleadino- for Occafional Conformity, 7 freely Anfwer £ approve ofitin i, felf bur ihe^ made ufeoffor ar^ere ^Km il Tr' ’ Che Perfons Kut this Uw IS not at all the more to be iufnfl^n froni the Unjuitifiabiencfs of that praaice,'becaufe this deprives thofc Men of a juft Liberty, whofe^on- fcicnces, by theplcrationAd, have that very thkic^ allow d them, which now will be reftrain’d ^and^n that Matter, if in no other, isan Infraft oTof thatlff The Toleration Bill fays, that the Penalties ofti tain Law's are taken off from the Diifenters cn aL counts of their not Conforming j here are new PenaK bec^S"^' in p?rt, DtCaUfe they cannot conform wholly. ^ But fays this Gcntleman, they may quit the Offices and then there is no Perfecution. To w hich I AnfweT is Pe.fccuclm^^ is Puniffiment, and Puniffiment ’Tis ( ^6s ) 'Tis not the Qucftion, whe-her a Diffenter can jufti- (y his Occafiondl Conformity to his own Confcience, but whether he can juftify it to the Law ; if he can do the laft, then is the cafe no Crime, and to have a Law madeagainft that which is no Crime, is what this Gentleman has not yet undertaken to meddle with. The whole ftiain of this Argument, and which this Gentleman lays a very great ftrefs on, is. That the Diflcnters are Enemies to the Eftabli/k’d Church, and therefore Vw mtfafe any part of the Adminiflration of Publick Affairs Ihould be in their Hands. That this is the fpecious Pretence, is very plain j but as 1 have already noted, this is a Foundation wrong laid, and can never be prov’d, nor made outj and if thefe Gentlemen would come to a fair Examination of Circumftances, they could not prove they have any juft Grounds for it. As to Principles of Rebellion, and Enmity to Mo¬ narchies,and to the yusDi'vinum of theCrowi),how often have the Church been challeng’d to come a Ballance of Loyalty with the Diflenters, nay, tho’ we were to thro’ in all they can fay of the Days of 41 into the Scale. Even this Gentleman owns, Fol. 9. what I affirm, they arc his owrt Words, and deferve remark. The Befi of the Dif enters defire not Tower and Dominion^ hut Liberty of Confcience, and Exemfition from Penal Laws, Say you fo, Sir, then what Occafion of the Law, if your next Words which arc thefe are true? TheTrut Members of the Church, Defire no more than to fee the ^Adminiflration of publick Affairs in the hands of fucb, as are wed affePled to the Eflablijhed Government. J-Iow to bring thefe two together, ibofe DilTenters who defire not Tower and Dominion, cannot be Un- fafe in the Eftablifh’d Government; w'hy then Ihou’d the Church be fo eager to ftiut them out of the Admi- nifttation ? This Argument lyes diredlly againft him. As to the Teft A 61 , I wifti this Gentleman, w ho fo often brings it in as a thing fo Sacred, fo Eirential to ‘he Cbutcbes fafety, and fo needful tu he enforc’d, ■ wou’d r i66 ) wou’d have been pleafed to have Undertaken the De¬ fence of the Morality of that Aft in its own Nature, i and a little examin’d the Method of procuring it, and the Defign of the Reigning Parties of thofe Days ^ let ' him tell us whether that was made meeriy to fe- cure the Church, or whether thofe People, who ho- neftly meant the fecuriiy of the Church, were not afted by another fecret Party, who only defign’d to ■uphold the Divifion between the Church and the Dtf- fenters, in order, at laft, to deftroy both. Let him tell us, if he can, from what 'Princifle^ or in what Na¬ tion but ours, Divine and facred Ordinances are ex- pos’d as the Tc'ft or Qualification for Secular Ir.tereft, and be made the Hand-maid of Parties, the Badge of a States Man, and a Mark of Diflinftion. Let him tell us what Unaccountable Prophanation of thofe facred Infticutions of C/iriy? Jejus, have been Oe- calion’d by Compelling and Obliging fuch to receive ^ the Sacrament, who had no more Religion than a Horfe, and who made a Jell of the Matter, whofe pradlice amounts only to that oi Ratcliff's Souldier.^ To be Godly awhile, and then as ye were. Let him defend the Policy of that Adi too if he can. i Let him tell me, if Men’s honefiy rather than Opini- 1 ons of Indifferent things in Religion, is not the more needful point to be examin’d as to Employments in j the Statej for here a Knave fliall be employ’d if he will take the Tcft, and the more Knave he is, the le(s he will fcruple it. But the honeft Man Hiall he llmt our, becaufe his Confcicncc pei'mits him not to comply. if the Nature, the Morality, or the Policy of that Adt cannot be defended, then all the Arguments drawn from that Aa fail to the Ground, and then I think his three great Foundations anfwer’d and overthrown. ! I. I believe to have prov’d. That wife Nations in all Ages have thought fit to entruft the Adminiftration of pub ick Affairs in the hands of Perfons of different Perfwaitons in matters of Religion. , z. That ufeful and honeft Men may fafely be employ’d. (^^7 y of wbatfoevcr Perfwafion or Opinion, as to Religi¬ on, and Knaves are unfafe of any Opinion. 7. That no National Church in the World excludes out of the Adminiftration of publick Afeirs any Per- fons of fuch Opinions, as by Law at the fame time are Tolerated in the Nation. To Tolerate a Religion or Opinion, and yet count the Profeflbrs of it Intolerable in the State, feems^to have fuch Incongruity of Circumftanccs, as no Nation in the World can Parallel. In HoHand the National Church are Calvin Jis, yet the Remonjirants, and the Roman Catholicks, are Tolkrattd. But let this (ien- tleman tell us, how many more Calvinifts than Remon- firants are among the Burghers^ of AmfierJam ? If I am rightly inform’d, the Council of the Town are a- bove two thirds of the Dificnting Remonftrants, and in their Armies and Fleets, the Roman Catholicks are equally Advanc’d, are equally capable of Serving, and have Coromilfions granted them without any Teft, Qjalifeation, or ochir Obligation,, than an Oath of Fidelity to the State, which, in ail Countries, is eftee- med a fufficient Tye to an honeft Men. In Scotland, where fo much outcry of Perfecution is made, tho’ with fo little reafon, the National Church is Presbytsvian, yet2 \tt\oR ill the Offices and Adminillra- tion is in the Hands of the Ejufccpal Diflenters, with¬ out any Teft, or other Qualification, than their Oaths of Allegiance to the Qjecn, and Recognition to the Government. Upon the whole, ’tis plain the Defign a' leaft of thhi,. Author fccms to be not to keep Men out of tl .e Govern¬ ment for being Knaves, but for being Diff nters j for by this Law he that will take the Sacrament, and go to a Meeting, ffiall not be fit for a Place of Truft^ but he that will go from the Sacrament to a Bawdy-Houfe, re¬ mains as well qualified as before. A Diflemer, tho* of never fo much Honefty and Prirciples, fhall be made uncapable of the Service of his Country, and rendred jfufpe^cd to the Government, while ( z68 ) P“«ciplcs at all, that will take i i>3Giament in the Morning, be Drunk, and jar at Afternoon, that will rtffc ®l“" ■''“s’""' B-ffoon at the fame time, be angry to be told they defign the red, is Impofing things upon the World too grols to go down. Wherefore I cannot but repeat it, that either the de- figh is the total Dedru£lion of the Diflenters as a Pat ty, T a ot ( i76 ) or their Priming ismeer Marketting, their Difcourfe Banter, and ihcir Preaching BufFoonry. For one of them to Treat us with good Words, and fay this is only to fecure the Government, and there IS no harm meant the DilTenters that are peaceable they are only excluded Preferment i and the other tell their Schools docs pot Affea the (yillcnters, they may ferve God accord¬ ing to Che Tolleration their own Way, it only pre¬ vents Pofterity following their Method: this is fiich jeftmg with the DilTenters, and fuch a civil way of tc ling them they are all Fools, that it can hardly be allow’d to pafs without a little Satyr upon the Non- fence of It. The Reverend Mr. mjly. Author of two Pamphlets, Calculated to blacken our Education in the Accad^mies of the Diflenters, Ingenuoully confelfes himfclf Guil- ty of many Crimes in his Youth, and is the willinger would lay ’em at the Door of Diflenters and their Schools, among whom he was educated j tho, I humbly conceive, it is no more a Proof of the Immorality of the Diflenters in their Schwls^ that be'Was a little rakijlj among ihem^ or that he found others among them like himfclf, than the Hanging five Students or Cambridge in a veiy Ihort compafs of time for Robbing on the High Way Jiou d prove that Padding is a Science taught in tha! Univcrfiry. Fk take.? a great deal of pains alfo to prove, that in thofcAccadcmieswere, or are taught Antimonarchi- cal Principles, the Author of thefe Sheets happens to be one that had what little Education he can pretend to, under the fame Maft: rthat Gen leman was Taught by, Mr. Charles Morton of Newington Green, and 1 have bow by me the Manuferipts of Sci¬ ence, the Exercifes and Actions of his School, and, an^ng the reft,- thofe of Politicks in particular, do that Learned Gentleman’s Memory wut Jufticc to affirm, that neither in his Syftem of Po¬ liticks, C X77 ) litick?, Government and Difcipline, or in any other the Exercifcs of th it School, was there any thing Encoiirtg’d, that was Antimonarchical, or elrrufliye to the Government, or Confticutior. of EtjgUna-, and pirticularly among the Performances of that ^hool, I find a Declamation relating to the benefir of a fing|e Perfon in a Common Wealth, where¬ in It IS declar’d and prov’u from Hiftory and Reafon, that Monarchy is the beft Government, and the brft imted to the Nature of Government, and the Defence r • j j which Difcoui fe, together with the laid Manufcripts, Syftem of Politicks and Government, as Read in that ‘'Choji, and which are now above if Years old, are left at the Publirtiers of this Hook for any one to perufe, as a Satisfadion of the truth of Facf. Allow then this Gentleman fell into ill Company af¬ terward, allow we had, and Hill have worfe Rakes a- mong us than himfclf, does this prove rtiatour Schools t^^each Men thus, and that the Diflentersin general pro- fels Principles Deftru£five of Monaichy. Friend, and Sir TViUiam Parhlns, Were Hang’d for Conniving to Aflaflinare the late King mniarn, and thefe Gentlemen dy?d Church of Eng¬ land men, and Proteftants, does it foUow that the Church of England therefore Owns or ProfelTes the DoFlrin of the Dagger, teaches AlTalllnation of Princes, and the like. The Schools of the Diflenters are not fo private, but they may be known ^ they are not afham’d of their Performances, but that any Gentleman of the Church, or any Man of Letters, may be admitted to fee and hear what they Teach, and what the Pulpits A6l there. Or if they are Sufpe^led, you may make a Law for a General Infpedlion, and if any be Guilty, fup- prels them that arc fo ^ but what fort of Juftice is this to Supprels them, becaufe, for ought we know, they are Guilty,without Examining the Truth of Fa«3 • T j an^ i ( zyS ) and if it w«re True in one, or more, fupprcflinc all the reft-Bur thi5 is Ch-ch juftic; ;this is rhf ef* fedt of our Men of ronper, and thcif Civility to their Neighbours. And it the Deftru6lion of the Dilfenting Inttreft was nor in this Defign, why is' nor the Examination direaed, the Guilt prov’d, the Guilty /ingl'd our and Expos’d, Or the Slander ftlenc’d ? ^ And \vhen all is done, Getithmen, why do we e- redt private Accadeniies, and Teach our Children by rhemfclves, even for the fame Reafon that we don’t Communicate w ith you, •viz,. Becaufe you ftiut us Out. and Exclude us, by Impoiing unreafonable Terms, Open a I>oor to us in your Univerftties, and let our Youth be fairly admitted to Study thercj without Impoiing Oaths and Obligations upon them, and it ftall no more be faid that we ered Schools in op. ponrion to you. ’fis confefs’d, we wou’d ask you to Reform the Univetlity Morals a lirle, as to the Tri¬ fles of Drunkenn.fS' and Leudnefs, if it might be; bur upon a Freedom of Study without Unjuft and Unfair r rms, and Oaths Impos’d, we wou’d venture th'^ir M.jrals, and it ihou d not be our Faults, if your IJniverliiics bad not tooo of our Children always there. Or if you refufe us this Liberty, give us leave to Ereci Foundations of our own there, and to Endow them our fclves • give our Youth leave to ftudy there, fubjtdl to all general Olfices and Rules of the Univer- ftty, and only Free within Doors, and you /bail foon fee we wjll i cither injure your Univetlity, nor fet up others of our own. But while you fliut our Children out of your &hools, never Cuarrcl at our Teaching them at &hools of our own, or fending ’em into Foreign Countries to be Taught, lince wherever they are Taught ihcy generally get a fltate of Learning, at leait qual to your lelves, aisd, w hope, partake of as njuai : o- fififly i and as to their Ftiformances Mate/It them, and Out* r X79 ) . Out-preach them, if you can j 1 wifh that was the on¬ ly ftrit’e between us. ^ ^ ,, ^ Upon this Article Mr. 5-rc^-of Oxford blow'n his fecond Trumpet, to let us know he has not yet ta¬ ken down his Bloody Flag, and that he was real Author of the Shorten Way, tho’ another was Puniih d for it, and we fee he has the face to let them know, he is ftill of the fame mind. r n/t o n 1 confefs I am a little furpriz d, to fee Mr. Sa rcB 1 conrcis 1 ain a iiniw : » j begin his Sermon with a Tcnent long expl^.^ by the Church, till they found thcmfclves a little hmbaiiafs d with it. In Ihort, ’tis a Whiggilt Principle, and I am glad to have his Voucher to Confirm it, this man owns, in the wry firft Lines, ihai the Regular M ntinijlration of Jufih e, is the Grand End and Defign both of Government and Law. P. fiilL j ■ i • ^.r ^ If this be true, it follows, that Juftice v-wco is the End, is Superior to the King that Executes, » the Means, for the End is always Superior to the Means, and if this be true, Depofmg Tyrannick evil t dmi i- ftrating Princes cannot be Criminal, bev.ao.lc they Over-turn and Deftroy the end of Government, and the thing it felf rauft fall to the Ground. . ... We thank him for this Concelfion, and hope he w ill not take it ill if we upon this occalion, in order to Confute ftich Apthors who will ftill have it bethe Ooaaac of to fubmit (he Laws and Admmiftration of juftiee ab- folutelv to the Difpofe of the Crown. I am ftill farther in his debt, for a Declaration a- gainft a per fecuting Spirit, V. 5- “ Whoever is Guilty of an und;.fcrv • Aft of Rigour, muft be prefum d to have a raahci “ To tc"t£"l am forc’d to have rccourfe to the Preamble of the firll Occahonal '«bichjran thus. “Whereas Perfecution, mecrly “ fcience,is contrary to the Principles of th . -Religion, and J.ho D^lnne oMhe Choich of i: ■ ^ (z8o ) ^'England/ This GentJeinan confirms if, for if Per¬ fection ^ IS contrary to the fjl.riflian RcJigion tis certainly an undeferv’d, unwananrabl-^ Rigour tion P'^oceeds from a malicious IncJina- wholh/kfr our in the fe- cond Bill, I know notj nor will i affirm I believe it wa? from what fome have had Charity little enough tofuggeft, 'VIZ., 11131 the Bill being to contain the Vc- ry eflence of Perfccution, they were loth it ffiou’d be Condemn d by its own Title. As to that little part of tins Gentl man’s Difeourfe which he calls Sermon, or that has any Divinity in it’ I fiiall wave any Debate, his extraordinary tloquerce lacknowledge with gall r.ot a little, an^d pSudice to extremity, tho Haranguing againft it. ^2 «• iJe.mon, the Farce in the Kay, the BuHoonery of it, I muft take it a little a- reducing his Difeourfe to the Article SLEfT- ^?iV concerns Parties and Intercft, he ^ ^ Mad man a little and Banter Occaponal Cnnfotmityi&xVt moft h'ideous Monfter that ever appear’d in this parr of the World • for Anfwer to which, I think kis enough to referr him back to the reverend Biffiop of SdUhury's Speech in ihcHtmfc of Lords, where he proves kwai thepra- «ice of C^eew Eltz>abeth, to , admit of Perfons of Dif- Jrent Religions into Places of Truft ^ if the Cafe rfu.r''' tin/mll I^i^courfe into Lampoon upon Ae Bifhops, and Taxes thofe Revennd Ger.rlciien, with Breaking their Oaths, betraying the Churef, they pretend to fupport, and with favouring the Churches implacable Enemies the DilTcmers * ‘cannot but ob- ferve, how cunningly this Gentleman has hook'd them in, firft, he Taxes them for breaking their Oaths, and thep C > then bewails the Infufficiency of our Laws in punilh- ing Perjury i and Exhorts the Judges, to whom he preach’d, to promp the Executing the utmoft Severi¬ ty in Cafes of Perjury j and to endeavour to have the Deficiency of the Law fupply’d. What is it, fays he, that the Infatuation ofVrejudice Vfill net ■perfwade Men to do: If it can prevail even upon the}}, who pretend to fupport our Church and Go¬ vernment, in fpight of their Oaths and Obligations, to betray them, P 32 . Then running on in a fcurrilous Invcflive on the Dilfenters, he concludes, Are thefe the Wolves in Sheeps Cloatbing, that are to be Invited and Complimented, even by cur fuperior Pallors into Chrili's fold to worry and de¬ vour it. Page ibid. The Man raves. Firft, Sir, can you prove that any of your Superi- our Paftors have Invited and Complimented the Dif- fenters. Secondly, Can you prove they have Invited them into Chrift‘s Fold re Worry and Devour. If neither of thefe be true, then thefe are two of the pofitivc Untruths, I am loath to fay L—s, of which 1 ie prove, you have in this one Sermon debauch’d the Pulpit with about Fourteen, to the Scandal of the Minifterial Funaion. the Reproach of the Coat you wear, and theopenDifeovery ofyourHoneftv and Tem¬ per: As to the reft let my Lords, the Bi.ftiops, Anfw^er for themfelves, and, indeed, I think tuy Lord of Salis¬ bury has effedlually done it in his Speech to the HOufc of Peers. As to the Dlflcnters, Sir, we expefl no good Lan- guage from you, fir it is not your Talent, but Truth we expeft, and if you W'ont fpeak it, we muft lee if we can at leaft expofe your Falftiood, and the Puniftiment will be Deteifing your Prevarication, and pofitivc Fal- fities of which no Sermon fure was ever fo full. ^ From your 31 ft page to jd. your Difeourfeis an en¬ tire Inveftive againft the DilTcnters, w'hcrein forget¬ ting all the Rules of Decency, you Treat them with worie ( z8x ) worle Language than, in good Manners, wou’d be thought fit to give to Pagans^ Indians^ and Worfliipers Of the Devil. *ris fuppos’d yon dont defire we /hon’d be at the pains to prove that by Phanatickiy you mean all the fe- veral forts of Diflcntcry, and by Phr,natic!jmyi\y\i Opi¬ nions arc the terrible things you mean, an-' -is I take tor granted, both from the Scope of your -.er- mon, which fcemstobe aMafs of Gail, mixc up to a Gonfittency with Prejudice, Fnvy, Pride, a..d un¬ govern’d Paifion. And, indeed, Sir, on thefe Accounts the Zeal of the Lord having fo eaten you up, as hardly to leave you your Senfes free from the Taint we had never thought it worth, while to reply to fo much Uallery, and fuch Abufive Language, as ilungs not fit for a reafonablc Man s Notice, but for the fake of thofe honeft Gen¬ tlemen s Names, who you put in the Front. Now, as you arc pleas’d to Dedicate your Book to therri, and to tell us it was at their Command you publilh’d it, ’twou’d have tended mu^h to the re¬ moving fome doubts in oar Thoughts, if you had ob¬ tain d, from thofe Gentlemen, a fhort fignification of the true Reafons why they ordered the puDlication, fome People, who have the honour to know fome of them, being of Opinion that they did it mcerly to banter you, anf to'let you give the World the Charaacr of your fell; Others think thofe Gentlemen might think iwis a Compliment you expeaed, a:.d that fince they knew you had prepar’d it for the Prefs, they were un¬ willing to deprive you of what ’tis known you are excreamly fond of, I mean the appearing in Print to the World. Their Lordfliips the Judges, ic feems, are the only two who had Kindnefs and Charity enough for you not CO prompt you to make your fclf fo fcandaloully puDhek, and therefore wc do not find my Lord Chief tiixonIVard cou’d be perfwaded to be fo far accelTary to the txpofjpg you. But ( ) J3ut to enter upon the Matter I ask your leave, that laying afjde al! other Debates about your Sermon, and not troubling myfelfwith the foulnefs of your Lan¬ guage, and the bitter Inveftivcsagainft the DilTenccrs, as things which do you little good, and your Argu¬ ment Icfs, I lhal! only cell you. Sir, the Cafe in difpute betw'eenthe Church and the Difltnteis on your (ide, is fupported very much by R'^nefs andiil Manners,. Op- probious Language, but on our fide needs it no(. I fiiall therefore leave you to go on in your ulual ft ream of Raillery and ill Words, and only inform the World how the Pulpit, which claims a due Reverence to Truth, and a needlul caution as to Matter of Faft, has had the misfortune to Patronize you, in Affirming a great many things which you cannot make out to be true. . . , r • I. You Affirm this Vhanaticifw^ that is, thele Opi¬ nions of iheDiffenters, is nothing elfe hi*t a mofi Full anJCowpreben/ive Combination of all V/ayward and Diabollical Vrejudices^ F* 3 ^, Now, Sir, allowing that our Diflenting from you were ill Grounded in fome Points, which, neveithe- lc(s, I do not grant, fince wc agree with you in ali^ the Fundamentals of Doflrine, and Sign to ot your 39 Articles ofFaith, how will you do to prove that Our Diffcnting, which you call Phanatidfm^ is no¬ thing cife but a f^ull Combination of all Prejudices ; how you Compliiricnt Thirty Six of the Church Arti¬ cles in this Cafe, to be part of this ComDtnation I leave you to Defend at your Ltifure. You have been taught. Sir, in that fountain of Learning, where you make your prcftTit figure, a better kind of Lo- cick then Affirming without Proving jfo that till vou prove our Principles to be Noihin^ dfe bi*t a Cembma- im of all Prejudices, we inuft Crave leave of yon to kt this Affirmation of yours down, as a Falfhood, and fi¬ gure it in order Nt/, 3 . . - 1 r n ; . Then, Sir, 1 demand you to prove that the*c Preju¬ dices of the Diffcntcri ate Diauolical. 4 It { 184 ) you I ZlLny’^f all ownCh„ch. wh/have ilfpufed wh u^o' " a;Hl?=^HS£ the oSJers sS K Chriftian Man may jud-e ^ T' eyProitf the fame Doarine, the fame Faith rh^ trifTp-^- ■'" witM'Ou? Selves uav a i' ■? ^ which isone and e^ lifJers iiiVkhS Me"'- ° W'^'* and b^. b«effea,,al tofave^the Orte?“ ^ O"'- tbe’^cl^nwn-^brttTatLran^^^ “1 r^rncTd^"'"^'”1 -n maSts:! -d\:i"SS££SHf Si“ ^ cve^yTine aboCds®wS faltoTTo",-? f™” “““ “ ss our Right bv / aw, and vv[i4 her Sdfv rn"’ ” gieatcrPtfappoiivmcw,has pwmisVus^o SS ■ 9n4 , C and continue, for which you very fairly Unchurch’d her, and d dared her no other Friend to you in another invedive of vours formerly printed. *We own alfo, the clefign of maintaining our ju(i Rights and Privil^es as E»0, men, and by all lawful Means to oppofeand fupprefs all forts of Tyranny and Op- prelTion, as well Ectkfiaflical as Civil As to all other defigns. Sir, we Challenge you toi prove them, or any other of them. We have always been upon ^the Defenfive with you j we have ever been attack d, and have only reliAed your Violence ? Yoii are the daily Aggveflbrsi we Aa nothing, or Say no¬ thing, till you f(;rcc us by your furious and open At¬ tempts upon our juft Freedom, which you will always find us willing, and, I hope, able to Defend. We can prove your Party Guilty of Plots and Em¬ broiling Deligns. We defy you to ftow us one Dif- fenter, either in the late viiJanous Plot to Aflalfinatc the Nations Deliverer, and the beft King that ever fat oii the Engl.'JI, Throne, or, in the prefent Confpiracy. But we are ready to give you a Black Lift, when you pleafe of Church of England Proteftants, in both Leaguing with Frame to Embroil the Government of their native Country, Murther, and Depofe their Lawful Prince and Introduce a Popifh Sacceflbr. ’ To call upon you therefore for a Proof of the Em¬ broiling defigns of the DilTentcrs, is but a juft return to your Invidious Charge, and till you produce it let that Hand for a double falihood. No. j. 6. ’ To fill up that one Page of Scandal, and make it pals lor a tr ue Libel, you go back to the never to be forgotten Tear of 41 . j i And why. Sir, never to be forgotten her Majefty in her Speeches ro excite the Nation to and UnUn ' recommends Terhper, and generous Principles, all the Menot Temper m your own Church tell us, the only way to Peace is to lay alide former Annimofities, and Kemembrances of paft Mifehiefs. If they muft never be forgotten,pray, Sir, are you willing to recriminate, did ( ) did we fuppofe we were the Meit, do sny thing ro King Charles I. but what you did ro his Son j has nor a no¬ ble Lord vouchfafing to turn Author, and write the Hiftory of that Rtbellion, has he not told us in the firft Part of his firft Volume, that the ill Conduct of that Prince brought all the Calamities of Civil War upon his Head ; had you done kfs for his Son, if he had ftaid and fought you as his Father did ? And did you dolefs when you fought him in Ireland} How often have you been Challeng’d ro bring your Lovahy ro the Teft with us, and fee who has rais’d more Rebel¬ lions againft the Eftablifli’d Government, or Murthcr’d more Princes, You or We. Let us look upon your prefent Proceedings,-you fay your poor Fpifcopal Church in Scotland fulFers Bar' barous and Bloody Ufage there, and that wc never gave the Church any (garter when we had her in our power. ’ris a misfortune to you that your Paflioh fo out¬ goes your Reafon, that when you happen to be in, you will be in, and not content to pals the Truth in one particular; you forget it in all the particulars, for nei¬ ther of thefe Cafes happen to have any lhadow of Truth in them. The Harbarifms and Bloody doings us’d with the E- pifcopal Parry in Scotland amounted to fo few, that when thev reprefented their Sufferings in an, Addrefs ro Her Majclly, all the fume of the Matter was fo Trivial, that her Maicfty faw otily Reafon to Admo- nifh them to more Love and Charity with the Mi- nifters of the National Cluuc , and to a due Sub' million to the Eftabliih’d Government. To Rate this wonderful Grievance ’ti> to be ob- ferv’d. That the Great prefent Quarrel is at the Scots Eftablifhmcnr, and the Depofing Epifcopacy. This the Scots have an undoubted Right to, the Vresbyterim Eilablifhment. being the Original Proteftant Settknaent oi that Nation, into which they immediately Enga¬ ged at their firR Reformation. Epifcopacy EpifcDpacy is an Ewf/i/Jj Encroacliment upon therti, and was firft attempted by King James the Firft, a- bout the Year itStf, and fince that, with great re- luSiancy, had been fobmitted to in tHe Reign of King Charles the Second, but was Abolifh’d by Aft of Par¬ liament at the Revolution, (lands now Expell’d, and her Maiefty knows too well the Rights of her People, to attempt its Rtftoration againft the Conflinuion of that Nation. In which the juft regard her Majefty has to the Na¬ tive Rights o( her People is Gonfpicuous, and Mode¬ ration know'n to all the World. But tt'ou’d this Gentleman be willing \ve (hou'd in¬ form the World of the Patience with which theft? fufferers bear the Expulfion of their Hierarchy ; whtt Infults of theprefent Incumbents ^ what Tumtihs and Breaches of the Peace; what Clamours and Threat- nings do the prefent Eilablirhment there bca*' with e- very day ? For which we refer to the Letter from the general Aflcmbly there to her Majefty, and the Ac¬ counts of Affairs daily tranfmitted by Impartial Hands, and made publick. As to the Bloody ufage of the Diflenters there it h all Forgery and Malice, and thofe Severities that have been us’d w'ith them, would have been much lefs, had they firft fubmitted to the Conftinnion, taken the Oatlrs to the Government, and made the Difpute mecrly Re¬ ligious. And yet, confidcring the Bloody and Barbarous u- fage of the Diffenters’formerly in rlrat Kingdom, tie Truth is, they had reafon to expeft little favour, (ince I believe’tis eafy to make it out, that more People have been Murther’d under the Epifcopal Tyranny In Scotland^ at their Religious Meetings onjy, than the Bloody Reign of Queen formerly facrific’d hereon account of Popery and Tranfabftantiaiion. Thcfe therefore are pofilive untruths, your Church has fair Quarter now in Scotland, the Profeliion of ic without Teits, SacramentSr Of any Obligation?, but that ( zB8 ) ^at of the Oath of Allegiance^ enjoy the advantage of Places and Preferments, a thing we arc denied here and all this Clamour, Sir, is fo diredlly oppofite to plain and demonftrated Truth, that we can Appeal e- wn to the Queen’s Majefty her felf, to teftify for us I .«*■ millaken, and confcquently encreafc the Lift of Falfities to No. 7 and 8. I purpofely omit your bitter InveStive zt Occafonal Conformity, and at your own Friends, for rcjeaing the Bill againft it, let the Bifhops you have Lampoon’d, and the Houle of Lords you have Arraign’d, An- Iwer you,as thanks be toGod they have effectually done. Then, Sir, you come in with another Forgery of your own Brain, P. 3 Thefe Defgning Men, by the falfe Pretences of Moderation ferve themfelves in a Two¬ fold Way, both upon the Church to Amufe and cafi it into a Deed Sleep, and then like Dalila to let in the PhiliftinSj by widening a Breach in her Conjlitution: Ftrf, to weaken, and then to overthrow it, and then on the Diffenters, to en¬ courage them in their Sins, by mitigating Theirs, and the Churches Differences j and which is more Afonijhing, by *beir damnable Schifm, and tllis bleffed Speech you bring to this fhort Conclufion, what have thefe Men to do with Peace and Union ? Thus, Sir^ you have lift up your Banner of Defiance a fecond time, and in the Name of the Church you tell us, we fliall have no Peace nor Union with you ■■ ■■ We arc forty for it, and if all the Church of England was of your Mind, we know what he had to expeCl j but blelTed be God, this is the Language only of one mad Prieft, a Fury made up of a Complication of Maliccj intollerable Pride, bigotied Zeal, and bloody Hellifti Unchriftian Principles, to whom I fliall Reply, in the Words of our Blefft d Saviour, to thofe high fpirited paffionate Difciples that were for Calling for fire from Heaven on the Jews. Te know not what Spirits you are of. But now, that the Diflenters may not ftand alone, this angry Gentleman, lets his Paflion loofe at all the Men " — ( ^S9 ; Men of Moderation in his own Church, and this laft Paragraph is a whole Satyr upon thofe vit call Low- Church-men. Thefe, he fays, under pretence of Moderation, caff the Church into a dead Sleep, in order to over throw the ConffitUMon. No. 9 . This (lands plain to be reckon’d a Notorious Impofition upon 1 Millions of honed Gentlemen, who nor only are now, but at all times have been the Bul¬ wark of the Church of Etigland, and it muff remain to me as a pcrfe£l Forgery, till he proves one Aft, which the Moderate Church men ever did to over-throw the Conftitutioh of the Church. In the mean time w'hile I leave this Gentlentan to prove his hafty Affirmative if he can, I fhall prove ano¬ ther Affirfnative, out of which the Negative to his alTertion will be plain by Confequence j and this I take m be a fair way of Difputing, if he can tell me a fairer, I am ready to join IfTue with him. Firft, Then I can prove that thefe Men of Modera¬ tion have, when the Church has been reduc’d to the laft Extremity, been the only Refuge, Deliverance, and Reftofers of the Church. To go no farther back than the Bidiops who were lent to the Tower in King the Second’s Reign, who, when you Gentlemen cf the Tribe of Tchu had foolh’d up that abus’d Prince to believe you fpoke as you meant, when you u\k'dipf ?a[five Obedience, and Non Rejifianct, and upon that Prefumption lud tr- cqurag'd him to lay the Plan of the Churches De- ftruftion, vvho' were the Men that fled from In's Au¬ thority to the Proteftion of the Laws, but tlie piefcnt Bifliopof London, who fiift broke the Icc by refufing the Illegal fufpenfion of Dr. Ttnnifn, then Incumbent at St. Giles % in the Fields, arid afrer this the Biffiops, who went to the Tower, becaufe they wou’d not confent to a' Surpcnliori of die Lawe; ^d yet, at the fame time, declar’d the Modera¬ tion df their Principles and Charity fur their Bre- U tferen, ( ^$0 ) thren, in promifing to come to a Temper with the Diflcnrers. ^ And, with thcfe WortlivPrelates, ioyn*d all tlie No¬ bility and Genrrvof England, who (et ihei; Hards to the Invitjii in given the Prince of Orange, and who join’d wifh him tort (cue this Church from the De- liruftion that then threatned her, Thefe, Sir, are the Men of Moderation, mod of them are En' mks to your Fiery Temper, and have ho- •ncftly appear’d againft youx Occajional BHL ’lis to thcfe Moderate Church-mtn you owe, next to Divine Pro¬ vidence, the Reftoration and Eftablifliment of your Church, and in particular, Sir, o^ Magdalen College in O^erd, of which, if you write your fclf a Fellow, you ought not to be fo ungrateful as to turn upon your Deliverers, and charge them with Overthrov ing your Conftitution, by whofe Courage, Honefty and Tem¬ per, you now enjoy your Fellowlhip, the Coll ge her Foundation Settlement, the Church her Eftabiilhment, and the Nation her Liberties. Thefe are the Men of Moderation, who gave Peace to the Diifenters, and while thofe Gentknieri Live, the Church of England mull flourifh, and will do fo, and ' her Diflcnting Brethren under their Protection enjoy the Peace they wifh for, and with which they al ways declar’d themfelves fatisfied and content. _ Many Inftances more could be given you, in which *ris plain to prove the Church owes her prefent Settle¬ ment under a Proteftam Queen, to the Juftice, Candor, and Courage of the Moderate Church-mcn, when the Fury of fuch Hot Spurs, as we are now talking to, have brought it to the Door of DellruCtion j but I think this fufiicient to deteCl this horrid ^uggeftion, that the Moderate Men are the Over-throwers of the ConlKtu- tion of the Church. The Moderate Church- men there, fays he. Miti¬ gate the Differences between the Church and the Diffenters. . Do can a^like Chriftians r whether is the Spirit of Modtration, or tlnu of Perfccption, the moft like a Chriftian. ■ But if you mean by this they have mad" the r?(fe th^fa^m ^ V rciilly are, I muft call that by the fame Name wuh the reft, bccaufe it is impoHible you ftou d pretend to prove it. ^ But then you come with two pofitive Contradi'^i- ons in one Sentence, which including the former brings the Account up to No. t z. rormer, ^ The moderate M.-n fooih the DilTenters, by iuftify- mg their Damnable Schifm. ^ ^ Aftonifhing Language! Firft, 'tis impoffible to prove they juftify this damnable Schifm, becaufe, fcc«ndly damnable Schifm among us * cie ihcfc Gentlemen to beanfwcr’d bv Arguments or Auchortties^; were they to be convinc’d b> Proofs, by Demonftra-ior.s by any way of Arguing, ,lly have been told, , ( , by the whole Houfc of Pcer^ Including ^“'^^^/hemf lves, that the DilTenters a J / Hales oi Eaten, aChurchof £«(y- unanfwcrable Argu- ments, from the Charge of Schifm. ° Ifthefe are nor fulficient, we fairly Challenge our Adverfary to Anlwcr Mr. Delatme, the Proteftam Re- concur, the Conformifts Plea for the Non-Conformilts Mr. Ml. T^ongue, and multitudes more, who have clear d up this Point, and make it very oiaia, that our feparation from the Church is no Schifm at all Jl>n Charitable Epethet ofDatnna^ He beftow d upon it by this palfionatc Gentleman Je Accufation.'.’and yet a^nnd with as much Front as the reft Chat the Dijfenters never fail'd to betray tbe Church Church) trufied tketn (the Dil^ I think my icif very civil to the Gentleman in Ict- t'* calling it No, r ■>. be- feaufe I am perfwaded he cannot tell usj tbJ we can, V i vvnin f A ( apt ) '''’hen ever the Church trufted the Diffenters with any thing, as well as that he cannot prove when ever the DilVcntcrs betray’d ’em. But without putting him to prove whenever the Diffenters betray’d them, it is I'ufficient to prove the falfity of his Argument, if I name him a time when the Church did truft the Diffenters, and they did not betray them, and when they had it in their Power to have reduc’d them below the probability of an Efta- bliffimeot. And becaufe I purpofe fliortly to vidt them with a full Draught of the Treaty between the Diffenters in this Cafe, and fome Truths which I perceive this Author knows nothing of, I lliall be the fliorter on this Head. When in King James the Second’s Time his MajeJty found, that in oidei to reduce the Church, it was his bufinefs to Carrels the Diffenters, and accordingly pLiblifVd an Immediate Indulgence, a great many of the Diffenters made warm by their former fufferings, clos’d eagerly w'ith the Propofals, and would willing¬ ly ba''c fet their Hand to the woikj but when the Men of Temp- r, /er li'e do mt dtvy to have fome too vlolnt Spirits among us, came lo confidtr the Cafe, they found the defign ffruck at the wholeBody of the Church of England, they conlidered them as Proteftants and Brethix-n, tliey confidered the Methods uling with them as Deffrui^ive to the Laws, as to the Church, and a Plot as well on Liberty as Religion, they imme¬ diately ifopt fhorr, and tho’they cou’d not but accept of Liberty as- their Right and Proper due in matters of Religion, yet they could not confent to enjoy it as a Ruine to the Law, and therefore vigoroufly op¬ pos’d the taking off the Penal Laws, tho’ they them- fclves were to reap the .benefit of it. In this juncture the Church finding the Root of her Conftitution ftrook at, and that if tire Diffenters were brought over to ioyn in thar Attempt, /he Ihould be undone without Wmedy, immediately apply’d to the Diffenters, repre- (^ 93 ) ent to them the defign as aim’d at the whole PrO' ^eftanr Body, call upon them with a Vrox'mus and tell them of Polyphenms’s Courttfie, call the Decla¬ ration of Indulgence a Trcjnn Horle, and talk to them as Brethren and Fellow Chiiflians all United in one Faith, Do^frine, Baptifm, 1 ope of Life ar.d Saviour, and at laft come to the Point, that if they would joyn with the Church to refill Invading Popery, they vvould call in the Prince of Oravge^ and fight for their Li¬ berty and Religion j and as to DilFirrenCiS, they would call a healing Parliament, eftablifh Induigci ce by Law', fix an eternal Liberty of Confeimee, and Irom tliis time forward we fhould be all Brcthrtn- If you doubr. Sir, the Truth of this, cither of the Churches danger at that time, or the DKlentcrs ejiiitiing their Revenge, and the Prontiltsof their Ptince, l x- amine the Colfi ge, of which you write Fellow, fome of your worthy Conte-mporaiies cun juftify all this, and more. Thus, Sir, you trufted us, and we ne ver betray’d you. Thus, Sir, We trufted you, and you have betii-y’d us 3 our Indulgence, indeed, you have perfoi m’d, ai d we acquit you of that, tbo’w'cknow what we c)wc in that Cafe to King IVilUam, but wheie-’s the iuture Correfpondence of Brethren, where iltc promis'd Temper? All this is forgot, and now, when we fay, is there Peace, you Anfwer, with Jthu^ Whdt Pc^ce Jo long as the IPboredcms of your Mother JfZabcllc conimuc^ you cry, vohat ba've we to do w th Peace and Union r Thus, Sir, I think your AlLition is Efficiently prov'd falfe, by provifig wc have been Trufted, and have not betray’d you, I wilh you Could defend the Tr- -che-ry of your Church from as plain an L-xample. By the By, Sir, I mull note a vay Cbrifiiaa-way of Arguing in your 35 th Page, when you come to ju¬ ftify your perfecuting Spirit, As to Perfccutkn of tend(r Confcientes^ fay you, I appeal to the Hi forks,of our King¬ dom^ whether ever they gave the Church the ieaji pav^ur or when they had her under their Power- I ( i94 ) Dfcoir-rcvVi vo-iuDon >•- -«p c;r;d^ To what degrees of madncfs do.-, the unbounded fury of ^^:n;s PalHons lead them ; is this, .Siryout Cniifiian Religion, is this Church of E^/eW Religion I have noted in the beginning of this Boilc rinr in Wor£^?" Ayou will find .h.fe Words, ,f tend.t Ccn^cuncs is contrary to the contrary to the Chrifiian and the Church of England Min, yet you Will do It, becaufe we never jhow’J you anyFav -ur or Q^sar- tCT when we ha a you in our Power, Excellent Chriftians! you will Rcvmge your felves tho you a-2 againft the ChriiUan Pi incipfes, and the Doctrine of your own Church. Bur aft. f all, Gentlemen, the excufe for this Marter happens to be falfe too, for when we had you in our Power in K. James, s time,we did fhow you favour, and give you Quarter, for we chofe War for your fakes and quitted all the Promifcs and Advantages W'e had ^ j j']m ir, by your Adverfary, and are re¬ warded like yoiii Selves. In this Cafe your Clamours are fo Unjud, that we c^not but let you know that lye are preparing an cx- adter Hillory. both of our Treatnv nt of you, and your Treatment of us, which you Ihall have a Monrh- Jv Prolpect of, in which all your Barbarities and In- jufiices, as Well as Ingratitude to the Diifenttrs, lhall at large appear. ^ And as we are forced to this Method to undeceive the World, to whom fuch hiCendiaries as you Mif- reprefent us, fo you are notoriouiJy the Aggrtffors in your - — - ^ (190 vour conftant Endeavours to blacken us to Poltentv, ^ _ r _inn- Vinnir^finn. vour COniTani rnuckivuuia Lvy ^ - and farce US to rxpofe you for our ovnjuft Vindication. Wl had much rather live in Peace, and Bury the Iniquities of our, and your Fathers, in filence with their Arties; but fmee you are always raking up the Adlions o the Dead, and valuing your fclves upon the Days of ir, we rtiall trace you back to your On- ginal, and bri jg you to an exa'St Ballancc, as to Rebel¬ lion, Loyalty, killing of Kings, Perfccution,Principles, Honefly and Charity, and we declare our felves con¬ tent to (land by the Foot of the Account with you. In the mean time we have been Advertizd in Print of a Black Lilly preparing for publick view, of all the Sufferings of the Church of England Clergy m t^hc Re- bfdion of 164.1. and that all wcll-wirtiers^to the Na¬ tion’s Feuds rtiould fend in what Materials they have to raife the Bulk. 1 take the freedom to giv' the Au¬ thor Notice that we will giv“ them time to fimrti their defgn, we will abate them all Mr. CaUmy-. jeh Chap¬ ter of Mr. Baxters Life, and 3000 Miinfters hlencd and turn’d our; we viill, perhaps, add fomething for them to the Lilt of their Sufferers, we w'lll throw them in cooooo/. Staling in the Account of Damap; we will Quit them 3 Tun of Diflenters Blood, and abate Jhem aU thcuBc they take to Muftcr up chdr E»i- dences, and, in the rtiort fpace of 14 days after their Publication, come to a fair Account of Perfccution with them, and the whole caulc rtiall turn upon the "this Challenge be not fair, let them Anfwer this, and I’le make than yet a fairer. _ . , And as I defign once a Month ro give a panicular of the Mif-reprefentations and bafe Treatment the Diffen- ters receive from this Party, till I have gone thro the whole Hiftoxy, fo I fhail produce fuch utian.wcrable Proofs, fuchjuit Authorities, and plain Matter o. Fudt, that I have no Apprehenlion of bcing difprov d, having nonecd to help out our Caufe with fo weak and Uilad- vaAtageous a Ihift as the refuge of Lyes. ■ A New TEST O F T H E CHURCH of ENGLAKT>'s HONESTY. I T is nor many Months fince the World was Enter- Pamphltr,EmituJed, Ley Ity ^ wherein Vis but too plain! made out, ihar, indeed, as to Loyalty, Obedience fo Fnne s. P<.lJivc Subinilfion, and the like, AaSroflflt nr Unhappintfs. to thofe Gentlemen f-iri''* very forward to at¬ tack the DilT nters upon all Occafions, that they have forgot to fortify this w.ak part of their Caufe j but while they have been very bufy Abiding the Enemy, ^ rV‘ 'hey have left them to N^ed to the nfdlts of thf ir Wi., on this Article, that abfoiuieiy De- 1 *Tis ( *<97 ) *Tis true, they have made ufe of Power for want of Argument, and fupplied the place of an Anfwer by finding the Author a Lodging in Newgate : And he that own’d that Pamphlet to be his, has found the Truth of that old Verfe which ends with Acberenta Moveho. Which being Interpreted, may fignify.That if Argu¬ ments cannot anfwer him, the P/i/or^ and a Fine, Ultra Tienementum fhall. That unhappy Author forgot the old Maxim of Macbiavel, That when Men argue about Relmon, if One Side cannot Anfwer, it certainly ends in a Battle : For it is moft Natural, when the Tongue has done its utmoft, to fill to work with the Hand. Thcr^-forc I would advife that Gentleman, whofe only Misfortune is to have too little Caution, that he fiiould never clench an Argument fo very fall, as not to leave the Adverfary one corner to creep out at j for they then immediately fall on him with their heavy Cannon: ’Tislike Coop> ing-up a ftrong Enemv, and forcing them to fome de- fperate Attack to break out ^ in w'hich they often fuc- ceed, beyond all the common Rules of War. Our Modern Champions of the Church, who have Stock enough to make good the Front of their Caufe, and every day Bully the Dilfenters in Print 5 have alio Wit enough to omit all Notice of this terrible Defeat in their Rear, and pulh on the Battle, as if they knew nothing of the Matter. Sa — rel, the CeneraliJJtmo of the Oxford Squadron, hzs fpread his Bloody Flagagainlt the Dilfenters, and long before de Foe's Book told us the Shortefl iVay with them, has loaded them with Rebellion, with killing of Kings,- deftroying Monarchy, and fetting up Anarchy, and Schifmatical Power: Never taking No;ice, that the Church of England Men have kill’d as many Kings as the Presbyterians j have been Rebels oftener than the Diflenters; have Set-up Schifmatical Conventicles upon weaker ( ) weaker Grounds than the Whigs, and have bcli. d the very Dudr-OvS they themfcivespr-ach’dio the People, 'Ti< Something to be wonder’d at, that when the Au;h 1 of 2 he Shortefh Way with the DiJJenters, was cha'^^^’d wi'h Sedition, he did not ft to tell the World,rhatrUswasChurch of £»^/<«»’d by (he Vice-Chancelior of Oxfordy 1 know not what Others might do, but lam fure no EngliJljJuixy wou’d ha’ brought him in Guilty, But fince this Vidory over the Churches Loyalty is fo very con'plcut, and there needs nothing further to be ftid about it 3 let us now make another Arrack, and f c if th< y can deEnd their H O N E S TT ary bett r than their Loyalty. If then Uf-on the Whole Matter it can be Prov’d, That theii ILmJly has run the fame F^te with their Loyalty-y that they are a Pared (jf K — as well as Re~ itls y tha’ th V are oo more Bound hv their Common Integrity to One another, to their Ndghbouvs, nor to Th mf-Ivts, than they are Bound by their Allegi¬ ance to their piinc s- then an> body may guds at the rdl ot their Pri ciples, and all the World may exped to be ti-eaied by them accordingly. before we defend to the Particulars of this Black Charge, wluch, as Black as it is, fiialJ efftdually be made out upon thofe People it reaches, ’twill be nc- Ctfla-y to fete the Point as to ihefc two Articles: Firft-y What it is I mean by the Hunejly of the Church of England Men. Secondlyy Who thofe are we call the Church of England. As to the Firft, I muft premife, That I do not mean Perlonal Honefty, as to Healings between Man andl Man j or Honefty of the Fltlli among the different Sexes, ( 2-99 ) Sexes, in which Cafes poffibly, they may have a Gene¬ ral Proportion with other People: But I mean their Ecclefiaftical Homfiy, their Honefty as a Church in Gc^ neral, the Honefty of the Clergy and Members of the Church, in Matters relating to the Religious Polity, and their Dealings with their Chriftian Neighbours. By the Church, now I muft be allow’d to underftand thofc who call themjelves the Church j thofe Bifhops and Clergy of the Church, who have fo carefully Diftinguifli’d themfelves, as to Condemn all the Low- Churchmen, as they call them, for Traytors to the Church, and Betrayers of her Dofitrine and Difci- pline: In a word, thofe Gentlemen who have under¬ taken the Defence of fome of her Extraordinary Pro¬ ceedings, and all thofe who Paffively Aflent and Con- fent by not Declaring their Opinions to the Contra- xy y for he that is not ^gainjl them, is With them,^ ^ I cannot but judge that Dofttine, or that Opinion, to be the DoSlrine and Opinion of the Whole Church, which being preach’d in the Pulpit, and handed to the World from the Prefs, by a Church Clergy-man, is not Exploded and Condemn’d by the DiMeJa», 2nd the Perfdn oblig’d to Recant, or be Cenfur’d for it. If this be not the Aft of the Church, then nothing can be call’d an Adt of the Church of England, but what is adlcd by the Convocation, or a National Sy¬ nod : And indeed this has been a Hole at which abun¬ dance of People have crept our, in fome Things they were afham’d of j Difowning them as the Adis of pri¬ vate People, and not of the Church. But in the Sence here premis’d, I think ’tis juft, that what One Minifter Preaches and Publifties, the Diocefan Licenling, or not Difapproving, lliouldbecfteemcd the general Adi of the Church: And if this lhall not be al¬ low’d, we/hall never arrive at a certainty, when the Church may be faid to do this or that j but all the Mi- ftakes of her Doftors lhall lie at their own private Doors, and the Church, as a Church, ncy« r be charg d with it: And this is an Eftedtual Method to w aid olf all manner of Reproach, C 500 ) But flrice all the Sons of Lew are under the Sacerdo* Authority of their Diocefaa, I cannot but make Them Accountable, and charge the Church with all the Errau of her Inferior Clergy, as her own Aft and L/ecd; becaufe iris in her Power always to Reprove every Thing Ihe does not Approve j to Cenfurt what IS not Agreeable to her Canon, Principle, or Pfaaice - or atleaft, to Declare her Diflent or Diflike. ^ And tho’, if I may be allow’d to fpealc impartially Oft the Behalf of the generality of Erglifh Pmefiam Coiforming to the Church, I (hall freely own. That much the greater parr, both of the Nobilitv, of the Gentry, and common People, are really bleft with a Moderation of Principles, and a Temper of Charity to¬ wards all Men, and towards their Dilfenting Neieh- bours and Brethren in particular; Yet lince by the Writing and Maxims of thefe Gentlemen of the Church, this Spirit of Calmnefs and Moderation is Condemn’d and Exploded as Trayterous to the Church as a Parricide on the common Parent, as a Ripping- up’ rtie Bowels of the Church, and the like^ and all the Gentlemen who pradlife fuch Moderation, Declar’d to be Pzmes toJEbIggifm and Fanatkifm-, and notwith- ftandjngall their Aflcnt and Confent, Oaths, Commu¬ nion, 2 nd all neceffary Teftimony of their Conformi¬ ty, areblackned withworfe Titles, if worfe Can be than the mofi Obfiinate Dijfenters, Since all the Mode-^ ra'e Gentlemen are thus Unchurch’d and Anathema- tis d at once, I think 1 do no Injullice to that Parry who have taken upon them the Title of the Church of Eugland , Abdrafted from the Incumberanccs of Charity, Temper, and Moderation, and to Join with them as far as for the fake of the Argument is nced- rul, in Unchuiching all the Moderate Men: and in the Words of the Famous Sa-^rel, Licenfed by the Univerkty of Oxford^ conclude. That ad Men who W/ih the IVelfare of the Church, ought to Lift up the Eloody Flag againjl their Vrotefant Brethren the Difenters j or, X 301 ) ia plain Englifli, proceed againft them th Shm 4 Way. This being premis’d, T think I am Juftified jn th^ Method of this Book j and I clam., That wherever J mention the Church of England, I may be underftoou of thole People who own the Principles of Mr. Sa^^- vrel, thofe Diftinguilh’d for fuch by the Author of tht Charaiter of a Low-Churchman j thofe who have been content to be the Heralds ot VVar againft the Latg: Reign, who will have the Tolleratkn Branded as a Phs- natick Plot, and Rail at it btcaufe they cannot have if Repeal'd. Thefc I am content to call xHxcChurch of Evgland for the Time being j and if the Oiiirch thinks her feif /in¬ jur’d in the Denomination, as indeed I think (he is, the Scandal however is her Due; fo far, as file has not thought fit to Condemn the Doftrine, and Cenfttrt^ if not Punijh, the Authors. I am further Juftified in Arguing againft thefe Men, in the Name of the Church of England, for thefc lowing Reafons. I. Becaufe they have Aftum’d to Themfelves a berty of Advancing their Bloody Defigns in tlie Name of the Whole, and have call’d Themf-lves th Church of England. 2. Thofe Moderate Mcm.bcrs of the Church, who, tho’ they do not comply in their Judgment or Pra- aice with thefe Sons of Jehu, yet quietly and patiently lutfcr the Church .her lelf, and Themklvts, fo Bare.- fac’dlv to be impos’d on; do, by that quietnefs, Juffc- ly biing upon the whole Church the Scandal of Prind^ fles and PraSHces, which both her Canon forbids, theii Confciences abhor. ... . Where’s the Church of England Clergy-roan, tnai has either Preach’d-up, ot in Print bore his Teftimony for the Moderation of the Principles of his Alothcr the Church; but if he has noifaUc.nin with the Heat and ^ Vn9 f 30 X ) Fire of his Brother Sa-^rd has vet a>u fc the Ifc,- and look m J Whfch of the Law, is an Abetting the Fafl. And iheretore' wirtfchuJi “P»" note ^nurcb, thefe GcntJemen oueht to hlamti t^hemfelves as Acccflaries to the Sca»Jai, by their ra t/rft Practices of thtitHotleadtd Bre- Much more might be faid to i'lftifif u^- l charge of Di/honefty on the whole aLch-'bSr‘^*r finc/as a Church.leS^rclear her tLf^ M-n!h5 ^ P“*^giog her Society from tnole Members that have abus’d her Charafter* rfe F-"»' P*“‘" Cafe flie n,«i,s iheSi/ agamft d>e Church of England V Ho ftefty, refpeas the Ad of Tolleratim. ‘ ^ ° ^ The prefent Settlement both of Church and State the Foot of theLate RevoIutionfTSl think I need not fpe nd Time to prove. If the Church oi England Men will claim a finele the Revolution, that they a 1^! Ainilanceor CoLur- tence of the Diffenters. invited in the late King fet him upon the Throne, maintain’d him there and’the hkej and as a meer Aft of undeferv’d bounty be flow d upon the Diflenters .* Toleration of their mrlhip - becaufc, during the War, they were nor wi ling & wade uneaue: If the DilTcnters had no Handin the Work, nointereftm the Prince of Orang-e no Free, holds to Vote for Members of the Parliament or Coni vention, no Money to contribute to the Publick Poor, and no Inte- reft m the Qovernment of thofe Times • Then in GlffofPh of meer’ Charily a Gift of Chutch-bounty, and, in Gratitude to the Giver ma?d^ Diflirnters at dS ha.4^r.hc'’i77/orrfo’i:i:^ Bat ^ C 305 ^ - But if the DifTcntershad a hand in all thefe Tranf- i aclionsj if the Very Peifor.s who Treated with the \ Prince cf Orange, Capitulated with him for fuch and I luch Ar icics, relating to Liberty O'Confeic nee j if the I Church pf England Men, to eng ge the Diflenters to | concur heartily in the Work, net only confented, but 5 promis'd to come to a Temper with the Difli nters, and, made it a Claufe in the Memorial given in to that I Prince j and if the Declaration of that Prii ce was 3 founded upon fuch Vofiulata, and Agrctinents as were | before made, tp which rhe very Primate of the Englifh Clergji fet his Hand in the Name of the whole Chuich: | If thcDiflentersdid afterwards unanimoufly f.illin with i the Chuich-men, to the effecting the late Revolution, ^ and both depended upon the Declaration of that Prit ce* as the Foundation of all their Proceedings. If thefe ^ Things be true, as they are too flain to be denic d, then Gentlemen of the Church of England, we are not fo much your Debtors for the Toleration as voii pretend to: ’Twas not a mecr Act of your Charity given us/vr Ga/i ’(vvas not a Condefcenlion, bur a Concellion of Right, a folcnin Ratification of a former Agrtenicnt, and only a palling that into a Law, which you had covenanted before to have pals d into a Law, of which Covenant the Prince of Orange was Guairantec: ’Twasan AClof Honefly, not an Aft of Charityj twas paying a Debt, not ma- king a Loan. We arc bound indeed to own your Jufticc in it, but nor at all to thank your Bounry, *rill you can make it out, that cither it was not our Due- or that we have Forfeited ii to the Laws. * What then will thelc Gcutkn.en fay for their Hone/fr who would have that taken from the Dillenters which was their own of Right, which they bought with their Money, and were ready to ha’ done with their Blood ; which they did enough for to Merit, and have never Iince done any thing to Forfeit ^ which they Capitu- lated for with the Prince, and which the Parliament tnougntht to Confirm, and to turn into a Law. i I <"304 ) I have the juft Satyr on the Modefty and Good Manners of thofeCiergy-Men, who have both Preach’d and Printed againft the Morality of what the Par¬ liament thought reafonable to pafs into a Law, and the Queen has thought fit to give her Word to continue. , The fcandalous Terms they have been pleafed to beftow upon the Adi of Tolerntm, have been juft fo' many Satyrs upon the Queen’s promife to Maintain it V And the fame Breath that has fliewn their Wanf of Charity to the Adi of Toltration^ has Ihewn theif want of Manners to their Sovereign. This the famous Mr. Sa—.rel calls, Complimenthg a Teople into our Church and Government, who are /worn Enemies to Both ; and at no lefs an Expence,. than the hazarding our Eternal Safety and Prefervation, our An¬ cient Faith, Conftitution, and Form of Worftip. Po¬ litical Union, Page yp. If the Reverend Author would have us think he means any thing but a Reproaching the Government with Tolerating the Diflenters, and the Queen with promifing to continue it. Jet him funher Explain it: For, as it ftands, ’ris too plain to bear any other Comment. When he tells us. Every Man that wijliet the Welfare of the Church, ought to hang out a Bloody^Flag, and Banner of Defiance againjl the DiJJenters, as open and avow'd Ene¬ mies to its Communion, Page 59. What Can any Man fuppofe he means, but the Shortefi Way ? What’s the difference between Mr. Sa~rel's Bloody Flag, and de Foe'%Gallows Galleys ? Only, that one is an Oxford Modern Dialcdl, and the other put into downright’ plain Englijh : One is a Church Phrafe, and rhe other a City Comment. Now, pray, Gentlemen; where’s the Incendiary all this while? Who is the Honefi Party} How can the Church anfwer this Language to the Great Judge of the World, who Commanded, that our Moderatied /hould be known unto Ail ? ’Tis ( ) ’Tis moft plain, That the A61: of Toleration is a fuft Debt to the Capitulations of the late Revolution,* due to the prcfent Settlement and Peace of the Nation, claim’d of Right by the Diflenters, as the Conditions upon which they Embark’d in the Common Caufe of Liberty with the church, when both were Invaded in the former Reigns: And as the Queen’s Majefty, and* the Government, have thought fit to confirm this Truth, by adding the Royal Word to the Sanction of the Law j tho’ it does nor make it more a Law,- yet ’tis an abundant Satisfadlion to us, that Her Majtfty is fo fully convinc’d of its being the pro¬ per Right of her Subjefts to Enjoy the Freedom of their Confciences, that flic has taken all Opportu¬ nities to Afline them She will Preferve them in that Right, ' Nc5w, as ibis Toleration Hands upon the Foundation’ of an Adi of Parliamem, and that Adi ofPairtamcftc was the ffftdl of thd Agreement bbtWeen the Church andithe Difllntcrs, in their Memorial to the Prined of Orany^^e, and produc’d as an Eflcdl' of his Dtcidraticit-; It,r.emains to enter a little into the Hillory of the late I^^ution, and examine how it came, to be Fxprefs’d, either in the firft Memorial to the'Prince, or afterward infiiS'.OfccIsratioh. , The D^r-exiations made upon the People’s Liberties in the Reign of the lace King were carried on with more AHurance than Ordinary, upon two De¬ pendencies, which the King’s Party had flatter’d them- fclvesinto: Borii which fail’d them, and the Confe- quence was their Ruine. Eir/f, They had Cajol’d the Diflenters into an Accep¬ tance of Liberty of Confcience, by the Djfpenfinj Power of the King, without an Adi of Parliamcnc. SeconM/, They depended upon the Ghurch-D -ferve them to the laft. The The Second Artifice was to tell them, That if they would open their Eyes, and fliake Hands with, rht ir Proteftant Brethren, they would unartimocfli' io'n to Supprefs Popery j and they fhould be affuied or the fame Liberty of Confcience from th.ir Proteftant Bre¬ thren. and with an Honefter r^efgn. And ’lis here to be noted, That as now, in their Prof- perity, their Pulphs arc founding w-ith rothi g but CrHifaJo\ and Bloody Flags againft the DifT i tf rt • fo then we were.always wheel’d with C arity and fen^ dernefs for one another : Generous Principles forget¬ ting and forgiving former Grudges, laying afide An¬ cient Quarnis. and the like. The Diflenters, willing to embrace any Opportunity to weaken the Power of Pipery, and more willing to enjoy even their Livery-, on a Tre.'.ty w th their Friends, than as thejCiift of their Enemies, fall in w ith the Church men upon their own Terms; and Unani- moufly concur in the Memorial prefented to the Prince of Orange^ Inviting him to come and Refcue them from Toftry and Arbitrary Power, (n this Memorial, ’lis par¬ ticularly and exprefly ftipulattd. That a due Liberty of Confcience be granted to Proteftant Diffenrers: And accordingly the Piince of Orange, at his commg over. Engages to fettle this Liberty by Parliamtr.c; ar.d on the Succefs of the Affair, and his'cording to the Crown, be very honcftly Perform’d it. The Article of the T)ec Urationxvir.s in theie W^orcls : * This Otsr Expedition is intended for tso other D fign, bnt '• And that fo the "Twe Hottfes snty Concur in * the preparing fuch Laws as may Efablijh a good Agree- * went between the Church of Engl ;nd, and all Prete~ * jlant Dijfenters ; as alfo for the Covering and Securing of ‘ adfueb who litft Peaceably tender the Government, as be-. X 2 * comes i; . . < 3°^ > ^ * comes gfiod SuhjeSSi) from all Verfecutlon ufonthe Account ‘ of their Religion. The Preamble alfo of the Firft Occafional Bill, tho’ for private Reafons left out in tho Second, Confirms the Divinity @f the Thing : * Whereas Terfecution of Tender Confciences is contrary ‘ to the Trincifles of the. Chriftian Religion, and the Do- * Brine of the Ch urch of England, 6t'c. If then this 7o/fr4f/ow be a League with the Diflen- ters j if it be the Conti aft between them and the Church of England j if it be the elFeft of a f()rmal Treaty,^ and executed as a Branch of the late King William's Declaration j it ought to be kept Sacred. The Church-men can never break it without the black- eft Mark of Diflionefiy in the World; and as Intentio¬ nal Guilt, in the Eyes of the Scripture, is the fame with Aftual, ail thofe People who would willinglv break fuch a League, are as Guilty of the Aft, as if it were brought to pafs. Such are Knaves in the moft intenfe Degrees of Knavery. Never let fuch brand the French King with Breach of Honour, Difrcgard to his Word, with In- fraftions of Leagues and Treaties: For as no,Treaty can be plainer liian this, lb no People ever did lefs to Fo.fcit the thing they enjoy’d. Where then can the Church find room for her Ho¬ nesty, while Ihe Ihews her feif defirous to break down the Coutraft and Capitulations of fo famous a Treaty, ffi and ,to Rob the DilTcnters of their Native as well as I Purchafed Right. I' B.fides, there are unhappy Circumftances in this ■^1 Cafe, which very much aggravate ihe'DijhoneJty of it: ^ As, Firft, The Diflenters were lure of their Liberty under King James j they had not only the fecurity of his Word, but it was really his intereft to continue it to them. And in the Senfc of this, the Church- Party m ( 399 ^ Party cajoles and wheedles them to quit the Faith of the King, though back’d with his own Inte- reft, and to join with them, on the Promife of making an equal or a more large Conceffion of Liberty, and to confirm it by Law. Now, to bring them off from a Privilege they were fure of, and to bring them to Join with what thev were not fure of, any farther than by the Word of the Party, to execute the Con¬ ditions of the Bargain or League j and after this, withr out any Provocation, or any thing done to Foif-it the Privilege, to attempt to take it awav again: This is the the mofi 'Difltonejb, Unjufl, Knavifh Thing Can poflTibly be! And no Church in the World can be Guilty of a worfe. They who can do this, ought ne¬ ver to make any further Pretence to Honefty, oaoPrin^ ciple ; nor never to blame their Neighbours with Breach of Faith. No wonder Men of fo little Honeftv as this, can Preach up a Dofirinc to Day, and Preach it down to MOrfow. No wonder fiich Men can be for Paf/ive Obedience one day, and abjure their Prince the next. I am free to fay. That the Premiles confider’d, and no Man can prove them Unti'ue, there is not a Man in the Church of England, who can fo much as with the toleration to be Repeal’d, but ought to blufh at his own Knavery, and make no mote Pretences to tlie Title of an Ilonei't Man. The Second Article of the Church's Honefty re- fpefts the Matter of their Reproaching the Uiflenters about Sebifntj Separations Occajtpnal Communion^ and the like. In thij,’tis plain to me, they ad a Part, a mcer Farce, and only carry on the the Politick JeJt, fof the Intercft of the Party y to run down the DilTenters with a Full Cry, for being Diflenters, and yet, at the fame time, would not have them Conform I ( 310 ) I^hinka few Arguments may fufEce to prove, that this Fxared Chuich, this High-flying Party, as they an fftd tf being caW Cannot be chargeable wiih any Symptonsof a delire to Convert the OifTcntf rs tobtirg thrm over, or draw them to the Cluuch! My Rt-afons are ihtfc: Frjh, They either Induflrioufly avoid, or very w akiy manage all Argument, Confennee, or Dif- pjte ^ tn order either to Defend the Caufts in Con- trov rile, or (Convincethe Gain-faving Diflt nn r. But all the Hflays of this Nature, which the World has lately feen, amount to norhing but Raillery and BiUinf. and that without Reai'on orjufticci Charging all the Crimes of the Ages paft, to the Accompt of the Prtfent Dilknters, and Loading them with the Ini¬ quity of their Fore fahtr», as if 'iwas a Grime to be^born of a Soldier, becaufe that Soldier fought a- gainft tie King: Not collide ring, that the Sons of ^oie So:dii rs, who then Iboght for their King, have liner that fought againft the Son of that Kir g, and T'.a ed him a/ hud it not wtr/e than they cid his F-thtr. T1 ii is the Dpnefiefi Thing in ‘he World; and I wonder with what face, and how fiee from Bluflits, Dr. S—— could in a Kailirg S rmon fay, “ the Dif- “ enrtis were not fit to be fult; r’d in Chuich or State, “ bedaufe they wcie the Spawn of Rtbtls, and a Vi- “ prous brood of King-k'llers and Commonwealihs- irtep, J w'^en _thc Doctor’s own Father was both a Found-h-ad in the Army, and an Lidcpcndant in the F-J.jit If ’tis a Crime in the DifT ntfrs, that ihtir Fathers were Rtb Is, why ihtn, GsnJrmcn, all thofc Sens of whodrg. ncrating Iron ihui Faihus hav, Ince Co he irto vctit cannot, alter Ihe Faint of BlOod, which is Charg’d upon them from theii lathers. 4 , And ( 31* > And if we deferve to be thus treated, becaufe our Fathers took up Arms againft their King; cf how much Sorer Tmi^hment Should they be thought wonhy, wh fe Fathers, being Men of Loyalty and Zeal, Died Fighting for their King, and Defending him againlt % his Pem>le? And thcfe their Degenerate Children, have follow’d the very Steps of our Rcbellious An- ceftors; and, in Spite of the Loyal Blood, which ’twas hop’d might be Infus’d into their Veins by Ge¬ neration, have taken up Arms againft their Lawful Sovereign, and Abjur’d his Pofterity. Not that I am of the Opinion what was done was Unlawful in it fclf, becaufe the Invafion of Right, Law, and Liberty, by the Unhappy Councils ot the late betray’d King went before; But where was the Ho- Ttefif of the Church of England? Either iwas a bafe- nels that can never be Juftify’d, to Reproach Diflen- ters with it, or a double Crime in them to put it m PraSilb themfelvcs. Where now is your Honefty, Gentlemen The World would be glad to fee you defend it in this Ai^- tide; And if you can’t, ’tis hop d, fif^ce we are no more Rebels than your felves, you yviU forbear giving us any farther Occafion to Recriminate. ■ As now the Church has left off Argument, and fallen to Raillery, how can any Man fay they defire the Convcifion of the Diffenters? And if they neither En- deavour nor Defire the Converfion of the Dilunter^ How can they Reproach them with their Diffent, and blame them for whatthey neither wifii nor defirethem to alter ? Where’s the Honefty of Reproaching a Diilen- tcr with making a Breach in the Church, and yet nei¬ ther Wifhing, nor Endeavouring, nor, indeed, being Willing, he Ihould return, and make it up ? Seeondlf, Your nor defiring the Return of the Dif- fenters to the Church, appears in the Publick Averuon you have declar’d on allOccafioi.s to the Men of Tem¬ per and Moderation, who arc in the Church alte.idv; X 4 Thele Thefe are reprefented to be worfe than Phanaticks Sect' r tneraies Nurs’d in the Bpvvels of their Mother \V.hich they bettay, Diflenters in Mafquerade Now tAS -pi .in you cannot dcfirc ihe DilTentcrs /hould all Coniorm to the Church, unlefs you are all btlidc your '°S«her with your loft >oci Underfiandmg, unlefs you have forgot your own * Nanv a, arc ficter for Bedlam than the Pulpir, and to be taken horn the Altar, and fent to an Hofpital, For, by fome Ipccial and miraculous Work of Providence, Gonform ^ the Church, and all this Schifm, as you call it, ftiould ceafe at once; I would be glad to have an An- Iwer from any or all the Divines of our Ckurch Ram- J>ay% What fort of Church men would they be^ VVould they Join with you, the Men of the Steeple, or With the Maernte Tarty ? In ftiort, Would they be Hiob QhHTch-meti^ Or Loiv Chutch men ^ 1 anfwer Negatively, Not of the Uft ? If fo, then let any Man but txaminc your Cha- raBet^of a Lew Church-man, tXxa general Opinion all your Party has, of what we call a Moderate Church- man, and judge whether you would be one Jot the better pleas’d with them. ’Twould be tndiefs to name the Numerous Authors, the Pamphlets, the Ser¬ mons, the pifeourfes of the prefent Ruling Party of the Church of England -, and to fet dow^n the Reafons given to prove thele Low Moderate Church-men to. be worfe than Tresbjteriam, to be Traitors to their Fnends, Betrayers of the Church, and Enemies to her Peace. Nq Man then can believe the Church-men lb mad as. to wift to have Us Conform, -and fo become worfe Enemies to them than we were before. ’Tis plain, they covet not our Converfion as Chriftians, our Con¬ forming as Members of the Chuich, unlefs we would Conform too, as Members of a Party. A politick Con- verfion they might polfibly wifti for; expeding, that as C ) a Renef ado U a n>orfe Patron than a Turk j fo if We ef- pous’o their Quarrel as a Parry, they might the eafier run down the Moderate Church-men. But as to a Reli¬ gious Converfion, it is impoffible they fliould defire it, without concurricg in the deftru6iion of thetn- felves, as a Party, and confequeutly be forfaken of their Scnfes. 2. If all the Diflenters in England fliould Conform to the Church, and i.s ’tjs moft certain they would '-n fuch a Cafe Join with the Moderate Church Party.;, ine High Church-Party would be immediately fupf ’H, biown-up, and dilpcrftj the Mini/lers of the Chmh would have no more room to call upon us in ?fie Language of Hone/l Jehu, and fay. Come fee cur Zeal for the Lord'- Sa -: 7 /’s Bloody Flag and Banner of Defiance would be taken down j Peace, Charity, and Chriftian Moderation, Things whiOli thefe Gentlemen feat and hate, would flourifli and fpi;e^d through the whole Nation. ’Tis impoffible the prefent Church of England, Di- fiingufjh’d as before, can without Sufpicion of Lunacy, wiffi or defire the Annexing all the Diifenters to the Church j for it would certainly be their Ruipe. What then is the Meaning of all this Clamour at the Diifenters? What is to be done with us, Gentlemen, if we muft neither Conform nor Diflent, and your Bloody Flag and Banner ef Defence is fpread againft US ? What is to be done? Truly, there is nothing we can fee before us but the Shortef Way. Alas, Poor De Foe ! what haft thou been doing, and for what haft thbti fuffer’d? When all things are Examin’d, either thefe Gentlemen arc guilty of the Filef Di(lionefy, are all Cheats.itid Ilfyocrites, or elfe the Shortefi Way is at the Bottom, and Mr. De Foe has done them no Wrong j and if he has done them none, fome body has done him a great deal. But Om) But how will our Church of England come off with the Honefty of thcfe Proceedings? How will they defend iheir Morals, to fix their Arguments of SchiCnt, upon a Party of Men they would not have comply ? And why is this Great Out-cry rais’d againft the Diflcnters for their Oceajional Ceptmunion ? ’Tis indi’ed a moft evident Prpof of what has been faid. Thefe Gentlemen are Exafperated at it, as it lets the Di^n- ters into the Publick Exercife of the Government, and joins them to the Low Church-men y and what a fate Reverend Clergy-man,and no lefs a State-rman,faid of this Cafe; ‘The S^ramental Teft was not Con- * triv’d In order to Rejoin the Whigs to the Church, * but to keep them out of the State ^ like the Gallows, * (<* hlejfed Comparifoni ) which Was not Erefled, in the * Senfe of the Law, to Hang Men, but really to keep * them from being Hang’d. 'Tis a Thing needs no Demonftraiion: The Laws againft the Dilf-nters were not properly made Laws a- gainft them, but againft the Roman Catholicks. They who found it convenient to turn the Edge of them their way, did not do it with a fuppofed Profpefl, that thole Laws would bting the DilTenters to the Church j but in Hopes, that they, being refolved not to com¬ ply, would be thereby kept out of the State. That this is a known Truth, I appeal to a known Speech of the late Famous Member of Parliament for in C'ty of London^ who moft vigoroufly oppos’d this Sacramental Teft; For what, lays he, u this Tejl made ? To Convert us you cannot p^etendy the ?apifis are the Vre-‘ fence: But that is Expos'd, hy refujing to Confine it to fuck j and if it be againfi the Difientersy *tis to Exclude them from their Birth-rigbty and Rob the Government of their St rv ee. Nj.v that the DhTenters, by complying with this Tcf, hive boffd fcaced th? End and 3 e!ign of it, and alf) viifv ve.**d it.' is plain from the Exceeding Clamour rail’d at them about it: FOr fo what End do’fheG'm- tIcmen ( > tlfwen of theChurch of England clamour at our Ofw- fi nal Conformity? They cannot allow, tlS unlawful for us to conform, that would be to condemn them- Mvrs: as to our Diffenting again, that can be of no Damage to them: But the Bufinefs is, by thus con¬ forming to the Communion of the Chuich, the^Trick of this State Ceremony is defeated, the Trap is dif- cover’d, the Snare is broken, and the Bird is efcaped ; the Diffcnter lets himfelf into publick Employments, in the Coties and Corporations where he lives, from which they had Hopes, his Scruple of Conformity would have kept him out. . , , , Upon the Difeovery, the Church clamours and cries out Hypocrites! Vretenitrs to ReligUn! For God, or. for Bual, and the like. No, Gentlemen, 'tis you arc the Hypocrites, who make a]-aw w'iih a Face of Reli¬ gion ; a Law which in its own Nature enjoins us to conform to the Church on fuch and fuch Occafions: And now you fee we are willing to do it, cry oat up¬ on us for doing it. Is this your Hcnefly ? If we DilTent, we are Schijmaticks j if we conlorm, we are Hypo- Is this your Sincerity.? , r . ^ Let me fay. Gentlemen, whether thole whoOcca- fionally conform are Hypt criits or no, is a difpute by it felf; but you cannot bat own your fclves tt) be Hy- pocrices (O ibt laft Dtgicc> uho having a Law* prcrtendirig bring us to the Chuich, plainly now difeovtr. ’iwas orly a Flam, to keep us out of the Ser^ viceofourCuunpy, on a Suppofixion that we would uot Comply. r /I It this be the Church cfEfjghftiPs Hovtfyy for iname, Gentlemen, ntva charge the Di^rnters v^iih Hy^ccriJIe in Occarion l CenfitnsUy, ’(ill you reform ihis Dtftciion fiom your o\^n httgruy, and orly in'llihc your Rtpcntanctbtiox^ God> and ihe World. And to not^i g learns plainer thdothe Difhonefty and un¬ fair Dealings i f thofc (jcivlcm-n, who rail at xbe X)*]/- jenitr* tor _ {^ 16 ) Name of all the relt of f? ft Authors, tell us, It cannot be fafe to f't ^*i*^ a't of.the publick Adminiftration with Pcr» Tons who do not conform to the National Church I cannot blit wonder with whar Face that Gentle- ^an, who IS a Member of Parliament an FmW*/? ^eprefeniative,couldiinpofe that upon the Wo ld,wh^ he htmlelf, and wtrh him moft of tho/e furious (ien tieraen, thought it fafe to Venture our whole Admini' ilrarion m the Hands of a Popifh King. . .. beenhoneft, and us’d but the Tame Arguments with ihemfelvcs they now iife with «s, they had never been againft the BiJl of Exclufion Sn? ^‘’5* Revoiud^, this cMef/h"^ expenfive War, and a thoufand worfe Mif- , chiefs, had been prevented tndcmorelTAf ^ tuae more had been fav d ; and I wonder no Bodv ever put them m Mind of this before. ^ fl eur Sifter In the D^y when What /hall we fay for, zJvn L Jlf5iw^ !i Thoufands of thofe honeft Gentlemen tht Multitudes of ModerateChri/^ians in the Church of EnglanJ, whofe Candor fpeaks them to be Gentlemen and whofc Charity fpeaks them to beChriftiansi who neither Envy, Defpife, or Perfecute their Diflenting Brethren but receive them with Kindnefs, and iudge ConcJn'hem Thefe are the Genuine Church of England; Thefe are her Charaiaer, and the Pillars of ber very ^mg in thefe Nations, and are only blame- able for the Eafinefi and Calmnefs with whkh they bear the Infolence of their Hair-brain’d Clergy, nefe are they vtho, however the Priefts may fancyTo impofe upon them with Flouriftes and Fictions when it comes both thoir Religion S their Proper^, their Religious, and their civil Liber- ties; , r 317 > ties j and fuffer neither the Clergy to deftroy one, not their Kings to devour the other. To tbefi the Diffenters willingly give the Right-hantJ, and had rathef the Government were in their Hands, tlien in their own. If we were to 'choofe a King to govern us, all Parties would Vote for one of their Number. Thefe Gentlemen are the Nation’s Security agait>ft Popery, Slavery, and all forts of Tyranny, whether Eccicfiaftick or Temporal: Of Thefe, no part of this Book is to be underftobd; they are no Branch of the Family,of the Furhfos, no kin to the Sati/if Nlmjhi. .: Thefe are they who, when the hot Men, for want of Diferetion at any time, pur Governments into Con- fufion, and bring the Nation about their,Etirs, are faiti w fet all to rights again. To Thefe we have all recourfe in Timeot Exigence y artd Thefe alone are the fafety of all Governments in the World. No wonder the Hi^ Church-men fly out at thefe? Moderate Men j for Temper, Prudence and Modera¬ tion, are fatal to their Defigns, and at laft will moll certainly, ruin them j and the fenfe of this Truth, makes them hate a Moderate Conformifi worfe than a DiJJenttr, How foon might we be all One Nation, One Peo* plej and if not all of One Mind in Religion, be uni¬ ted in AJFedlion, in Intcreft, and in Government; were the Spirit of Mo Juration, Charity and Peace in the Chair of the Church. 1 So far as the Autliors of the prefent Difeord widen the Breaches between the Church, and her Difenting Brethren, fo far they Embroil the Nation, Difturb the Peace, Encourage the Enemy, Dethrone the'Queen, and Expofc Religion, But BklTed be God I Every ftep they rake, they leflen themfelvcs 3 they cannot fee a Foot forward in this fatal Work, but;t treads upon their Honefiy t Their Morals fink, as their Malice rifes j and while they throw Dirt at their Brethren, i\\t DiJJenters, n flies back. ( 3iS ) back in their own Faces, and reproaches them with the Hypocrifie they charge upon thca Neighbours. This Temper muft be laid afide, if they will ever bring to pals the blefled Peace, Union and Harmony, which Her Majefty, and the late Glorious King fvil- Ham, has alwavs preft us to. How many Speeches has the Queen made, to E- ctitc^ jbyd this Ih^dow for a Coveting, Let them en~. t ( fi t) jey thehr Toleration on GoT s Name^ and No-bo Jj meiilei ivitb Toleration^ New Aflbciation. p. . . Now if ihefe Gentlemen will tell us, how a Law againft Otca- fional Conformity can be pafs’d, and yet the Tolerati¬ on Maintain’d entire, then I (hall give up the Caufe. The bell Argument that ha'> been yet brought, to prove the Rcafonablenefs of a Law againft Occalional Conformity, is, That the DiJJknttrs have made ufe of it to ejualifie tben^elves for Tuhlick Employments, Thatihe DiflcnrersthinkOccafional CommunionT.aw- ful in it (elf, has been publickly declar’d, and whe¬ ther it he or not, does riot feem any part of the Difpote. But the declar’d Defign and Intention of thofe who contend for an Occafiohal Bill, as we cad it,, is more Effectually to keep the Diflenrers out of Offices, and Publick Employments in the State. Whether either of thefe be Lawful, whether a Dif- fenter Occafionally may Conform to the Church of MngUnd j Or whether it be juft, that a Diflenter, as fuch, ought to be Excluded from the Publick Truff, and made uncapable of Serving the Government, tho* they are great Points, and well worth Confideration, arc yet no part of the Queftion in debate. But whether it be reafonable, that the Dilfentcrs fwud either way he forc’d, be Excluded from Commu¬ nion with the Church, or with their Private. Congre¬ gations, under the Penalty of avoiding all Publick Employments, being rendred uncapable to Serve the Government, and of the Advantage of their Fellow Bnglifhmenyla the Service of their Native Country j This is the Cafe before us. If any Man is to ferupie the Lawfulnefs of Confer- j jnity to the Church, it is the Diflenter, and not the ! Church-man j the ConformiS cannot pretend ’tis Un¬ lawful to Conform, he would then become a Difllnter himfclf. But if the Diflenter not Agreeing in all things, can yet Conform in fome, why fhould he be ob¬ liged, as by fjcb a Law he would be, either to Con-* form wholly, or not Conform at all, and this under a fevers Penalty? It < 3^3 > it may be anfwer’d, the Tfft was made to keep the Whiggs out of Place, and they Defeat the end of that Law, by taking the Sacrament; and ’tis abfolutely neceflary, not to Trull them with Employments in the Government, and therefore this Lawfis abfolutely Neceflary. This would be the Natural way of exprefllr,g it, if the High Churchmen would fpcak their Minds hear¬ tily i and this may pafs for a true Expolition of what they have othevwifc exprefs’d, and as it may eafily be prov’d to be their end, fo it may eafily be prov’d. Firs}, That 'tis an Unjuft Defigrt. Secondly, that bis an tJnreafonable Method. I. ’Tis an Unjuft defign to deprive the Difler.tersof publick Employments, and unqualify them for the Ser¬ vice of their Country, without any Offence Committed, the Law fuppofes every Man a good Man, till fome- thing appears to the contrary; now Diflenting from the Communion of the Church of England, is no Ofence a- gainTi the Imw, but is, by a fpecial Law, Fermittedand made Legal j no Man therefore can juftly be made Un- capablc of the Service of his Country, till he is foundl Guilty of the Breach of feme Law. II. , No Law can juftly be made to deprive a Man of any Right, for an Adlion which is not unlawful, cither in it fell or Circumftances. Laws made agabsjl Right and JuHlce are Unjuft Law's, Oppreffions are Tyran¬ nies upon the People j and tho’ we muft fubmir when they are made, becaufe they are made by a Lawful Au¬ thority, yet they arc not the more Juft in their own Nature. ’Tis therefor e an unjuft De.fign to deprive us of our Birth right, as Engli[Jmen, for Our Difagreementin Mat¬ ters of Religion j cfpeciaily while this Difagreement is Legal, and made fo by an Aft of Parliament. But after all, if it were to be Granted, which yet no Wife Man will Grant, that it is abfolutely NccelTary to T » the , c 3 M ) the S ijcty of the Government to keep the Diflentcrs out of Places, a thing no Man could ever prove-.- yet the Method, which h Profefs’d by thofe Cjcnticmen.who' are of that Opiniorr, is very Unrealonable and Unjuft j and this is the Argument I hove undertaken to make good. f have no defign hereby, to fay any thing relating to the Bill lately depending in the Houfe'j or to the Debates between the Two Houfes on that Head j nor fliall I concein them in this Difcouife any farther, than to .Quote Matter of Fa6t from them j which, I hope, may be d-one without Olfence. But I have numberlefs Authors to bring upon the Stjige, to prove the thing I alledge, of which this is the Abftra6f, That the High Churchmen have, and for many Tears have bud, a DeJjgn, if poffible, to procure an A3 of 'Par¬ liament, to prevent the DiJJenters from Holding,Peffe(Jing, or Enjoying Places,'Offices, or Employments in the Govern- men, by obliging them to a Strict, Total and Abfolute Con¬ form! ty totheChurch of England. N iW, tho' Occafional Communion is not hereby Coridemn’d or Dcfendi-d ■, yet, ’tis plain, that a Law' to Oblige the DiiTcnlprs to a Total Conformity, or elfe to fuffer fuch and fuch Penalties, is unjuft and Unreafona- blc in its own Nature. I. A[\ EerceupoTf the Confcience is Unehrifiian andUnrea- fvnable ; to compel any one to aft againft their Con- fctences, is Unrealonable and Unjuft j bccaiife the Scrip¬ ture fays ’tis moil reafonable to obey God rather than Alan ^ 1 think’tis a Matter fo long ago decided, even by the Church of England it felfi lhat the Laivs of Map have no Sovereignty ever the Confeitnee, that it Would be a needlcfs Vanity in me, to mention any thing of it • and the Martyrs in Queen Marys Reign, arc my Pr cedents to back the Argument. If then ’tis Unlawful to compel me againft my Con- fcience to comply, *tis Unlawful to Punifli me tor not complt ing j for it cannot be lawful to Punifh me tbrre- fuliog what you have no Power to Command me to do. The ( ) The A£^ of Parliament which oblig’d the Didenfers to qualify thcmfclves, by taking the Sacrament, niuft imply, that it was lawful for them to take it, or clfc it had been an Unlawful Aft in its own Nature ^ for a Law Commanding a Sin, is a Contradiction in its felf, and no Law, but a Lib<.l i but fay fomc, when wc made this A^, *twas believ’d the Diffenters would nor have complied with it, and fo have been kept out. Very good j So that’twas a Trick put upon them, prefuming upon their fcrupulousConfcience* j this may be true, but Was never the honefter in the detign j and this is the occafion of the New Method now in Hand, and is a farther Proof of the Matter alledg’d, that ’tis not Conformity, or Non-Conformity j ’tis not conftant or Occaiional Conformity is the Queftion, but the keep¬ ing the Diffenters out of Offices, that they may get in : ’Tis SuppUniing their Neighbours, and Incapacitating their Brethren , This is the Matter in hand. Total Conformity then being a Sin, in the Opinion of aDiffenter, tocompcl him to it, is forcing him to Sin, which is direClIy againft the Scripture. But,fays the Objedtor, This is not compelling them, for they may let Places and Preferchctus aloh.*, and then they may let Conformity alone, and Welcome. This is aChriftian-Iike Argument, indeed,and makes it plain, that ’tis neither the Advantage of the Church which is fought, nor the Good of the Diffenter ^ not the Advantage of the Church, by bringing over Profe- lites to her Communion j nor the Good of the Dillen- ters, by bringing them off from their Miftakes j bur ’tis the Profits, the Honours, the Emp.loymenis in the State, which are the things 3 And all the Strife is plainly to he feetty To get feme Men f ut out, and feme put in. And this is the handle to the fecond Head. ll. That'-tis downright Perfecution. To Punifh on Ac- count of Confcience, is Perfecuting in the mqft Intenfe |[( degree. Y j Shall ( ii6 ) Shall thpy tell us we arc not compdl’d to Conform • and that he re is no force pot on the Confcience, bul Punifli us If we do not ? Incapacitate us forthe Service of our n and Conntry j Ihut us out from a Ihare m the Fav .irrs of our Prince, and in the Rights and Privileges oiEno/^r^ Men? ThisisPuniftment for Non¬ conformity j Puniihment for Confcience fake, is Per- "J* allow’d wi,hou, contradi-^ion, by al* rh • Proteftant Churcbesin Europe, or Confci ence fake, is Unchriftian, that Perfaufion f.-- ^ and confequcntiv Ui.rrafoi;able and Unjuft The Wtfdnm which is-fvom ok high, irifome Tranfla- tions oil d the Spi. 'i of God, is dclcribed in Scripture to be hi d, ^ure, then Puicc,-.ble, Gentle, and eafy to be entreated ', oy the .Cyiric of God here, Commentators agree, IS meant, not iie PtolyGhoft. frequently in Scri- pture, call d the Spun or God, or God the Spirit: but j Temper, A^rought by the Spirit of God ; and if this Temper be of the Spirit, a Temper of Crucl- ty> ^i^ce and Peifccution, muft not be of the fame Spirit, and confcqutntly Ur.juftand Unrcalbnable. "This is an fnfraBlon upon the AB of Toleration, and therefore an Umeafonable Law j that AB being founded itpontbehighefi Reafonin theM'orld. The Reafonablenefs of the A£l of Toleration, is founded upon tw'o Principal Articles. I. Its being every Man’s Native Right to enjoy the Benefit and Liberty of ferving God, his Maker, in that way or Method, which in his Confcience he believes to be moft agreeable to his reveal’d Will, and which’ he alio finds to be moft Beneficial to hiinfelf. It h^ been a controverted Point, w hether it be Lawful to compel any Man to be a Cbriftian, or ro lerve God at all j I think ’tis needlefs to be concern’d an this Dilpute j for he who fuffers, becaufe he will have no Religion at all, cannot be perfecutcd for his Religion, but his AthcUni and Irreligion. Bur ( 3^7 ) ® But that in Matters relating to the manner of Wor- b Blip, and the different waysofferving the fame God j St. Peter has left a Memorable, and moft Decifive Pre- b cedint in Mh 5.19. when they charg’d them, that i!i they Ihould Preach no more in that Name, that was, »• the Name of Chrift i they fo much the more Proclaim’d ff the Gofpcl in all the parrs of Judea. nt 'Tis remaricable in this place, who it was charged fii them j ’twas the Eld. rs, the High Priefts, and the Rulers a, of the JeTvs 3 the Great Sanbtdnm : 'Twas a Vote of their Parliament, and their Anfwer was in Ihort, “ ’Jha fijame *' pu jheuld pretend to countermand what God has Corn- : ‘‘ manded j no Human Power can pretend to be Obey'd in “ in fucb a Cafe : JVe defire you to put it to the Vote in piain ‘‘ words^ whether we jhall Obey God or Tost. OnthisAccount theAft of Toleration isfounded upon the moft realonable confideration in the World j ’tis a conceifion of Natural Right; ’tis an Acknowledgement that we ought to obey the Didlates of Confcience, ra¬ ther than an Aft of Parliament i ’tis a Law made, that we may obey God rather than Man, as it was our Na¬ tive as well as Chriftian Right to do before ^ ’tis in fliort only an Aft of Juftice, not an Aft of Grace; I ’tis an Aft, by which the Church of England is clear’d from being of a perfecuting Spirit, which they were ^ut too Guilty of before. 2, The Reafonablenefs of this Aft of Toleration ap¬ pears, as it is a purchale of the Diffenters, and con- fequently their own, their due ; ’tis a debt to the Capi« tulations, made in the Name of the whole People of England^ with the Prince of Orange^ which has been fu^iently prov’d in another place. The Aftof Tolerationbeing thenanAft ofthe h^h- ’ eft Juftice to the DilTtnters, and built on Foundation* of Reaftn and Right ; any Subfequent Law made in Pret judice of the Liberty, Granted by the Toleration, i| highly Unjuft Voieafonablc. ^ I ( ) Tf remains to this Head, That a Law agalnft Occa/i- onal CQitormiry, beprov’d to be an Infradlion of the Tolerarion, The of Toleration is a Liberty given by Aa of ParJiament, That aii fuch, whofe Coniciences will not LTm' S” » 'he Church of Engi^nJ, mjy Worft'p G'^, acco ring co ihrit hveral Jude- menrs and Opiniors, without Diftuibance, and Ex¬ empting them/rom all f^nAiks and Puniflimems for the lame ; to wt^ich we refer them to the Ad it fdf Now as there are fcveral kinds of Diffenters, as wc'lJ as fcvcral (brts of Contormifts, (Sire DilTent eniirdv f rom^heCahuich, and own neither her Dodtine nor oribip^ fomc Citi conform to fbmething, (<»mc to n me at aJl^ h feenis a conttadidi- n to Rcafon, and refl ds upon the Church-Mens Ur.dcrftanding, as Well as Honeflv, that they ftould make the Law to Punjffi thofe wl o c.!n C'jnform in part, and let thofea- looe who will not CO form at all j this is far from a Chnftian Endeavour, to br ng the DilT-ntcrs home, into the Bofom of the Chuich, a d U. ire the flock under one Sht pherd ; for it Encourages thofe who are the fartheft off, to Corrinuc where they are, and thofe who are neare(i,_ and in part brought in, ard by Oc- CafionJ coiTpIyi g. are in a fair way to a total Con- formitv, / ret in thi?rfclyes, in their Po^erity v^itfocut jyh ihsf- arc fobe piinifh’d for what they do, and either comp lied to conform fai ther than they can — Commanded not to C' nfo^m at all, or Punifh’dfor the middle w av, ihi ir oa n Inclinations Didate, to them. Tis molt Ccirain, the Nature of the thing, even them aoing of the Word Toleration, vx,.a Permifficn tor fueb ^ cannot confirm. Implies all forts of UilJcnt- ingj aid if any ar. to be thought exclad d in the m. ti.ihig. of ihe Ad, it muli be (uch as are widcltin ilKtr .ctuplcs, and at jSc gfsaiell didanc from Con- torinuv, CO,, r cb as Dili i»( bui in lew imoU njat* teis, and Can Lonfoim inibt Points. Bur ( 319 ) But this Law is prepared toPunift fuch as can ,c<»n- form in part, and encourage them, and all others, ro a farther and a totol Non-Conformity ; and is therefore erprefly contrary to the intent and meaning of th? Aft of Toleration, and initsfclf abfurd and unreafo- nable. As the Aft of Toleration is an Exempting the DilTcn- ters from all P nalties and Punilhments for Diflenting, xhis lays a Fo. f- iture or Penalty on their Diflenting again j and I know not, for my Life, what to call that, bat a repealing part^f the Toleration. I wifli fome wifrr Body, would And me oat another Name for it. IV. 'Tis againfi the general Right of Cbrifiant j for as the Sovereignty of Conference hath been fulficienr- ly Afleited, and cyen the very Aft of 7 'oleration ac¬ knowledges it ro be fuperior to Law, Independent ro all Human Power, and ought not to be either forc’d or reftrained, foit can no more be juft, to compel me not to conform in part, than it can be to oblige me to a total Conformity, I call that compelling, forcing, and the like, which how’ever plaulible, the pretence of leaving it in my choice, may be, makes a Depriving me of any thing which I Enjoy’d before, and had a Right to Enjoy, rhe penalty of my purfuing the Diftates of my Con- fcience; This is forcing me, as far as it is in the Pow¬ er ofany Man to force another, for no Man can force another any farther than by Inflifting a Puniflimthc for nor complying j The Law docs not force a Man not to Murther his Neighbour, only tells him he lliall be Hang’d if he does ; If lam obliged totallv to con¬ form, or totafly to dilT nt, when myConfciencc di- refts me to dtflent in fome things, and to Conform in all things I can^ this is as much impoling upon my Confeii nee, as comp fling me to a total Conformity would be j this is t orce, and Force is Pcrfccution,and both arc Unjift and Unteafonable. V. ’7». ag‘.infi her Aiajrfies Gracious Tromifes of the Tolerutien tQ the Vijjenters. The Koyaj ! ( 330 ) 1 Veracity of the Queen, more than once repeated on J thii Head, is a fatisradlion to the Diflenters, thatthcv I ftall Erj >v the full Benefit of the Aft of Toleration • | her Mayefiy in her late Speeches to the Parliament has I redoubhd herAffurances on thisHead, anditfeems ta me, that the Safety of the Diflenters has a greater dependarce upon this Head, than upon the Act of Toleration it felf. Afts of Parliament depend upon the Opinionsofdif ferent Men,^ whofe Breath, like themicives, is Frail and Uncertain j they are frequently chang’d, and fre¬ quently change their Opinions ^onc Houfe often re¬ peals what a former Houfe ena6ls, they very often al¬ ter and difannul what they have enadted themfrlves but if forty Houfes attempt to alter or diflanm.! the Toleration, (o as to Deprive the Diflenters of the be¬ nefit of it, we are aflui’d her Majcfty will never pafs ■ fuch a Law; for fhe has given us her Royal Pro- . mife, thas fhe will continue her ProteSion of the Dif- i fenrers in their Enjoyment of the Toleration Ella- i blifh’d. Now for any People to defire to deprive thcDilfcnt- ersof their Liberty of Confeknee, to deprive them i of the benefit of the Toleration, or of any part of it, is it not to defire the Queen to bieak her Word ? Is it not to defire Her Mai fly to leflfen the Lib-iry given us i before ? And I wonder thofc Cicntlemcn who are fo Violent for fuch a thing, do not fee, oraileaft confider, What it is they arc driving at. Can they think that her Majefty can weaken or limit the Toler-tion, and not fee that ’tis an Aflault iipontheHonour. f her Parole; has She not told them that they (hall alw ays find her have a Sacred Regard to her Promifes.? H^ve they nor fetn her Majefy Prof eft a Spgtlefs Veracity ? Can they fiiid her injuring her own Honour, or her Subjeds Oinfidence in this cafe ? And why (hould they imagin fo VUely of their Sovereign ? Does it not feem a want of Manners, as well as a want cf iheii Confidence in the Queen ? ... ^ : ft ( 331 ) It isobjefted, but this is not an Aftagaintt the To¬ leration, but only Explanatory, to tell the World what was, and was not meant by it j and it has always been granted that the Houfe of Commons arc the proper Expolitors of the Law. In doubtful Cafes, ’tis true the Houfe are the Ex¬ plainers of their own Meaning, but Toleration is an Ex~ f licit Term, wants no Explication of its Meaning, and the Conditions of it are exaftly Exprefs’d in the Aftof Parliament, its Extent is limited to Proteftant Dilfen- tors, only to fuch, amj to ail fuch. Now the defign Bm upon, is not an ExpoGtion, but a Limitation; and to Limit the Extent of the Tole¬ ration, is to Repeal part of the Law j and confeejuent- ly to Intrench upon her Majefties Promife. The Queen has not given her Word to the Diflcn- cers, to preferve part of the Toleration, but the Tole- ratton, which muft be underftood of the whole, or clfe by the fame Rule they may obtain the Repeal of all or any the Enafting Claufes in the Bill, and yet pretend the Proraifes of the Queen remain untouch’d. This would be making Her Majefty Equivocate with her Subjeas, which is below her Thoughts ^ and as She has told us, we lhall always Gnd her a Religious Obferver of her Word ; I cannot Imgine Her Mai^fty can ever aflent to Limit the Toleration, without offering a horrid Affront to the Honour of Her 'Word, and making Her a Deluder of Her Some People have taken upon them to ftate the Mattel of the Queen s Promilc, and to diftiOguifli Nicely between an Adt of Her Majefties Will, and a Conceftion to an Adi of Parliament j and tell us from this Head, that Her Majefty will not fail to be as good as Her Word, as far as concerns Her Self, but that if it be done by an Adi of Parliament, that is a general thing, is the Adi and Deed of the People of England, that ’tis their own doing, not Hers j even the Diffen! ters thenjfcives do it, for they arc properly faid to Adi in / 55 ^ J iir iheir Reprefentaiives. Now, tho’ the C^een did prooiife to maintain the Toleration, yet She did not promife to do it againft the Diflenters Will, and if they come and ask Her to do it, She is by that Requeft ab- folv’d from HerPromifc, and free to Grant what they Defirc. This is a way, by which any Body may dvftingui^ theinfelves out of their Promifcs, but an ho .-ft An- fwer put? an End to it, The Queen’s Promife is not Negative, that flie wilt j^of taie away the Toleration, but^is pofitive, that5i^ will preferve it., and Proteft the Dilfchtcrs in the En¬ joyment of their Liberty, As to the Parliament Dejtring it tO be taken away, which is as if the Diflenters did it, their Reprefenta- tiveS being in Parliament; I Ahfwer, this is a Sophifm rn Argun^ent ^ 'tis true the Diflenters are Reprtfented Jn Parliament, as EngHp-Mcn, but not as Diflenters j and therefore the cafe differs, had the Diflenters chofen a Reprefentative ot ihemfelves, as Diflenters, andrhefe in the Name of the reft, had come at. . told Her Maj > fty,they defircd the Tollcration ftiould be repealed; I grantiniuch acafe. Her Majtfty wascl ar of Her Pro^ mife ; but for a Parliament, th^y Reprefent the Difleft- ters in their Civil, but not in the*irRchgious Capacity; this Promife is made to them as Diflenters ; at fuch, they are no where reprefennd, and therefore cannot be fuppofed to ASt in a Repeal of fuch a Law, nor caii the Aftions of any Houfc difengage Her Majefty from Her Promife. For if aSubjedl may nOt Interpret the Q^ieen’sPro- mife, yet a Subji.6t may fay, how he underftands it ; and when Her iVlajofty Gtacioully fays, we fball al ways find Hera Religious oblerver of Her Word : If I underftand, what we are to Believe Her Majefttes Meaning lO'bc, it is tnus, that ivhat ever Her Majefly ' Solemnly Premifesto any of H r People, they may Depend upon it, Jhall be panilttally Perform 4 ; and that it Jhall not ( 333 ) not he in the Tower of any Human ^cl, to make Her fcrg^. oriifcwnit, ^ I hope this Explication can be no Detriment to the Honoin* or Veracity of the Queen ; fince no Body can bavc the Impudence to fay. She has yet ^one any thing to Infringe this Sacred Aflltrance, nor can any of Her People, without having fcandalous Thoughts of their Sovereign, Imagine She will break Her VVord. Howt then, can our Church of England Brethren, look Her Alajcfty in the Face, when they arc every day expofing the Tol^ation, as a thing not fit to Jbe continued ? The telling us, ‘ That this is Complimenting the ‘ Diff nters into our Church and Govornmenr, who ' are a People that arc (worn Enemies to both, to the ‘ hazarding our Eternal Safety, and giving up our ‘tunt Faith, Conftitution, and Form of Worfhip : Sac/uverel's &‘rmon, y. 59, 60. and again p. 49. ‘ la ‘ order to break down the Fence, and Land-Mark of ‘ the Church, all its worft Enemies muft be Tolc- ‘ rated. What is this, but branding Toleration, as fcandalous in it felf, and dangerous, to the Church, and confer- qucntly the (^ecn, with doing things which .dtlery.e that reproachful Tide. When the fame Author has deferib’d the Diffentersv in the beft Ox/tfK/Rheforick he could, he adds, p. 59 , yigainfi ovhom every Man that wifhes the Churches wel^ fart, ought to Hang out the Bloody Hag, and Banner pf fance. To make a fhort Comment on this worthy Text. Every Man, otevery one, for the Queen is a Mafeu- line in Her Politick Capacity, every one that wiflief the Churches Welfare, Ought, &c. Mark, From hence I draw this Argument. The C^een has not Hang out the Bloody Flag of Defiance j what then, one of thefe two Things fol¬ lows. f, Elcheir <'334 ) I. Either the Queen does not do as fte ought to do II, Or the Queen does not with the Welfare of the Church. If any Man can make another, or more proper In- i ference from the Words, he is Welcome to do itj for I my part I acknowledge I cannot. If this be the Opinion, this Worthy Gentleman has ofherMajefty’s Condudlj If the Vice C-r of ■ Oxford thinks to Liccnfe fuch Language as this to be I Printed on the Queen j Never let the Pillory be Ered:- ed for an Author, for AfFrontit^ her Majefty again. If this be not the Shortefi Way j k this be not a Method by it fclfj If ever Queen was thus Bantred before j Let them tell us the Time. Her Majefty has promifed to proteft the Diflenters, continue the Toleration, and bids them not be appre- henfive of any Danger j but here comes Mr. S - U With a Voucher from a whole Univerfity, and fays, that if her Majefty wiflies well to the Church of Eng¬ land^ She muft not Tolerate them, but hang out the Bloody Flag and Banner of Defiance againft them; that is, the Queen, if Ihc wifties well to the Church of England, muft breakher Promife with the Diflenters, and confent to demolifh the Toleration-Afl j Deprive them of their Liberty, and proceed againft them the Shorteji Way. In fliort, according to the beft Judgment I can ' make of this matter, This way of Treating the Dif- fenters, is the grofleft Abufe upon the Queen, as can poflible be put upon her j and they mult fuppofe her Majefty to be fomething, that I have more Manners than to mention, if She docs not take fome more than ordinary Notice of it-~. ' I think, I may Challei^e them all to fliew one In¬ fiance, when ever the Diffcnters, thofe Spawn of ReheU, and Vermin not fit to Live, as the Worthy Dr. H- - b Calls them ^ when ever they oflFered any fuch Affront to her Majefty. But ( 335 " ^ But thcfe Gentlemen, prefuming upon her Good- nefs, at the fame timeabufe cither her UnderHandinc or herjuftice. Either they abufe her Undcrftanding, as if her Majefty could not fee when ftc was Bantrcdj or they Impofe upon her Juflice, as if her Maicfty would allow the fame Infolence in a Church Clergy- Man, which in another Man /hall be Puni/h’d with the Pillory. To fum up all, it feems clear to me, that her Maie- ftycan pafsno Law, that /hall klTcn the Di/fenters Li¬ berty of Conforming, or not Conforming, as they now enjoy it, by Vertue of the late Adf of Parlia¬ ment, without Intrenching upon her Royal Promife, morc^ than once made to the DilTcntcrs, without le/Tening the Opinion the World has entertained of her Roy^I Word, and the Honefty of her Main¬ taining it. And whereas Duty, as well as Charity, obliges us to believe, that her Majefty will not fail to Maintain that Religious Regard, which /he has told us /he will ! have to her Word, we may at the fame time conclude, 'tis impolfible /he /hould ever be brought to Pafs a Law, that in the lead OiFers to Infringe, or Intrench ; upon that Sacred Promife /he has made the Dilfcn- ters, of Maintaining the Toleration. ’Tis impolfible her Majefty can Alfenc to any j which /hall lelfcn the Liberty given the Dilknters, by the A6t of Toleration j ’tis impolfible She can agree to Limit the Term of that A£l, for that would be to Repeal part of the Aft, and confcqucntly break her Promife. However, fince ’tis plain there is a Party in the Church, who are fo eager to pulldown the DilTcnters, who are for Bloody Flags, and Banners of Defiance a- gainfi them, who havc jBeat Hudibras's Ecclcfiafticlc Drum to Raife the Mob again/} them, and who are ' willing 10 Mortgage the Honefty of their Sove¬ reign, If ! ii i; •1 i m ( 33 « > . If I might be allow’d to give Advice to the Dif- fcnters, it fhould be t( jefty’s Royal Feet, and Terms like thefe. May it Pleafe your Majefly, Y our MoI^ Dutifttl ami Obeditftt SubjeSs, the Prote-* flaut DijJenterSy who Qjietly and ChearfuHii obey four Royal Commands, willingly Submit tQ your Govern- rhent, and heartily Depend upon your Truth j f ; to the Baith and Honour of your Maje^y, Gracioujly Exprefs'd, and Solemnly E?tgag'd to them in your Royal Promife, for the Continuing to them the Toleration of ybeir Religion, and the Ifiberty of Serving God according to their Confei- encet, and the Divine Command j humbly ajfuring them- fefves, that according to the Exprefs R.efolution of youf. Majedf, fignify d in your Mof Gracious Speech, at th^ ia/1 Prorogation of the Parliament, your Majefty will freferi/e the faid liberty entire, and not Paft arty or Bills, which Retrench, Limit, or Leffen ity they the mean while continuing in a Dutiful, Quiet,: and Peaceable Behaviour to your Majejty, and your Gor i/etnment. Nor can the Diifenters be blam’d for taking her Majefty at her Word the Queen had certainly never made fuch a Promife to us, but that (he intended thefe two Things; I throw themielves at her Ma Humbly ask her Protection, in t. Punctually to perform it. t. She Intended the Diftenters ftiould believe, and depend upon it. The Diftenters can never Acquit her Majefty of this Promife j ’(is a folcmh Engagement to them, and in Jbftice to their Pofterity, they can never quit ihcir' Qaim to the Performance of it. VI, 1 ( S37 ) ‘ ‘ .. . . j . . VI. I tome now to Aigue, that , this way of limit; ing of Toleration, by, a Law to prevent Occafional Conformity, rs agair^ this Intertfi oj tha Church of En^and. ’Tis certainly the Inteteft of the Church, as a Church, to bring back all her Children into her own Bofotn, that we fhould have all one Difcipline, as well ii poftrine; one Mode of Worfliip, as,w€ have one Ob- jeft of Worfliip i and therefore all LaWs which tend to drive People farther from the Communion of ihe Church, are againft her Intereft. They who are for Eftablifliihg the Church, by heep^ ing all the Dilfenters out of her Communion, are cer¬ tainly the moft Impolitick People in the Worlds The Strength arid Qlofy of a Church, a^ of a GOr vernment, is the Number of its SubjeAs, Profelytes and Converts^, and to make a Law that (hall ihut out of her Proteftion, fuch as are Conforming to them, is the moft Impolitick thing in the World.. , I. ^TU contrary to the General VraUice of alt Churches in tbeWdrld * All are for bringing over Peo¬ ple to conform to their Way of Worfhip ^ if they can¬ not conform wholly, they are willing to have them Conform as far as they can, in hopes to bring them up to higher degrees and at laft to cbmpleat Confor- Some Churches have ufed l^iolence, to bring People to conform to their Way of Worfhip, and perfecut^ them for not doing it i and where they could not force: a thorow Compliance, have accepted a Compliance for a time, or in part ^ but the Church ot England is the only Church in the World that punifh’d. any becaufe they would not wholly conform, by a Forcing thens not to conform at all. ^ 2. 'Tis contrary to Humane ’Policy ; for in all proba¬ bility the Pofterity of thofe People, whom now con- form in part, will be total Cont'ormills; and to pro- Z mor)d fubjefls the Work of the Miniftry to a Scandal of State-Lrick PrieJICraft, and all that’s Villainous and Bafe. . As if any Chriftian Minifter of the Church of Eng- /W could be fo vile', uo wiHnhiD^enters not to be United if pollible to the ’Churchy to Iwifh the Number of Orthodox Catholick Chriftiasis not to encreafe, or the Peace and Union of thefe Nations in matters of Religion, not to be brought to pals, and all upon a‘ defign of State-policy. And yet this certainly feems to be True, fince thefe Gentlemen pufk at a Law to bring them to a total Conformity, or exclude them from any Conformity at all. Tor {fill I infill upon it, that divefting them of Pla¬ ces, unlels they do totally conform, is forcing them to a total Dilfent, as far as Force is in the power of the Parties we mean. To this blefled Pafs is Religion brought: when Priejls turn States-Men, 'tis always thus ; the Policy of thefe Gentlemen prevails over their Confciences, and they are now fettling their Intereft in the Govern¬ ment, at the Expence of their Religion f in Ihort, they are Lifted in a Religious Plot, and are a Party-making, not a Chriftian making. The Cure of Souls mull give way to the fettling an Intereft, and they fufpend the Qergy Men to put on the States-Men j ’lis not 'he ( ?39 ) Diffenter they would Convert, but ’tis the Whig they would Convert; If the Occafional Confbrmifl would leave off his Party in Politicks, they would Embrace him, they could ealily bare with his Conformity ^ but they cannot bear with his being a Whig: Thus Religi¬ on is made the Pimp of a Party and the Sacred Initi- tutions of Chrift Jefus, are Proftituted to ferve for Marks of Diftinftion, between Faflions in the Stare. If this be not the Cafe, ’tis Impoflible for any Man to affign me a Reafoo, why the Church of England fhould not defire to bring all the Diflenters in to her Communion, and, as far as in her lies, to Encourage them to come in. It can never be Anfwer’d, why they fliould not ac¬ cept of fome as well as of all, and Encourage Confor¬ mity in all the Particulars ; We they who can Con¬ form in part, may in time be brought to Conform in the whole. He that defires,a Reformation, defires all the degrees of Reformation ; and it cannot confift with a true de- fire to bring over the Diifenters to the Church, not to Encourage thofe who are in part brought over ^ fince if they had any Regard to Poiierity, ’tis more than probable, the Occafional Conformity of the prefent Diflenters, is a great ftep towards Reconciling their Pofterity Abfolutely. Thefe Arguments would certainly be moving, were not the whole a Stare Trick, a Machine of Govern¬ ment, to prevent a Union between the Low Church- Men and the Diflenters, which the other Parry Jndu- ftrioully avoid, left fuch a Conjun£lion ftiouId prove fatal to them, and they Ihould by that means be out Voted in EleUions. The Author of the Nea Ajfaciation, a Pamphlet, fuited to the very bottom of this fcandalous Delign, has explained this in his worthy Scheme oi depriving the Diflenters of their Liberty, of Voting as Free Hol¬ ders, a ftep none of the Party had ever yet the Impu¬ dence to take j but tho’ it was always in the defign. . 340 ) they carefully kept it as a Secret, till this Imholitick ' ^utlior thought the Cafe was Ripe for a Difc6vefy and fo Midwif’d it into the World before its timfe. ^ fn the lecond Volume, he is wonderful Angry at be* ihg Charg’d with having difcover’d The Shortefi IVav and Ruffles the Author of the Explanation upon that Head. _ Alas, good Mari, he Would not be Guilty of fuch at bioody Doarine, he only defires that the Diflenters might b-^ unfranchis’d as EftgHJh Men, and not only, not beMagiftrates, or Members df Parliament, but have no Power to Vote for fuch as are; What does this Gentleman think of the Diflenters tha t they fhould be fo Blind, as not to fee The Short- ejt R «/y, thro’ all this; but fince fuch People muft be charg’d Home before they will Confefs. Let any Mah butExamine, what InReafori muft hi the Confequence, when all the Diflenters fhould bd thus Difafm’d of their Civil Rights, and fitch Men chofen into all Places of Magiftracy and Legiflature. as are fiiitable to the Teth'perof Mr. Sacbeverell^ and of this Author ^ let evert tb'emfelves tell us when this is perfedfed, and the Bloody Bldg Hung ^?«/^what ought the Diflenters to expedl ? Will they tell us, this may be done, and Oiir Tole¬ ration not injur’d ? Are we to fit ftill under it all, and own this is no Petfecution ? Are we to carefs the Church, and fay. Peace, Peace, are we to own they go on with the Queen’s Peace and Union ? Are we under all this to fay. That the Lenity and Mercy of the Church is confpiCuous, in granting us Leave to go to our Meetings and fetve God our own Way; and grant, that Suffering theLofs of Civil Rites to obtain or to maintain this, is no Suffering for Reli¬ gion, nor in the Impofer is no Oppreflion ? When we are thus paflive, it muft be own’d they do us no Wrong, who tell tis^ we are of the Tribe ofiljfa- ibar^ and give us for orif Coat of Arms, an Afs Cou- fehaiit under a Church Rafnparif. The HP r 51 C 341 ) f The Diflenters may indeed have the Misfottune p he opprels’d, and oblig’d to beat thefe thin^ i hut it (hall never be faid they did not forefee it, and com- 5 plain of the Wrong-, they rtjall not be taxt with Blind- » nefs, tho’ they may with Weaknels. The Os^ord Gentleman they fay, has again appear’d a in the World to advance the Rites of rhe Church, in B Anfwer to a late Pamphlet, call’d The Rights of the fi DiJJenters. I As to his Arguments, I leave him for the prefent to his proper Adyetfary.-So far as he treats me with I ill Language, I fay nothing to him, for a Railing Ac- cufation is the Part of the Devil, Bear Garden Lan¬ guage is his particular Talent ^ and they that would have a farther Charafter of him, are refer’d to a cer¬ tain Reverend Bifliop in England^ who when he de- nyed^ him Orders, not for want of Learning (b much as his want of JA*nnert and Morals, gave him a|fo the Title deferved, by which he will be known to his Friends, and to us, he is known in his Books, as a Pulpit Inqepdiary, the Churches Bloody Standard Bearer, the Trumpeter fent out by High Church Au¬ thority, in fpightof the Queen and her Summons, to Preach againji Union, to Proclaim open War between parties, to Hang out Flags of Defyance, and ^0 tell her Majefty, fhe cannot have a true Zeal for thq Church, unlels flie pleafes to break her Wo/:d^ <^4 da fo too. . f^ow among the Rights of the Church, if they can bring it out, and prove to u^ the Church of England has a right of Cwr/w/rupppConfcience, has a right to perfecutc their Diffen.tipg Brethren, they gain their point. If they have a right to Compel us to come in, and to force Qur ConfclenciK^ j then *tis certain we can have no right to the Toleration, and the Queen in her Pro mifes tomaintain i?, Invaded the rights of the Church . for we can have no right to that Freedom, which the- have a right to Limit, or Prefctibe, and the Qucva Z 3 cannc,-. ^ C 341 •) cannot promife to Maintain us, in that which they have a Right tO reftrain and prevent,-- Thus as the Diflenters are brought in. Claiming a Liberty, they have no Right to, the Queen is alfo brought in, Eftablilhing arid Promifing us to Maintain that Liber¬ ty, they have a Right to take away, and by confe- qucnce invading the Rights of the Church, And thus the Right of preventing Occafional Con¬ formity, will be prefently decided-, and I am free to Challenge, all the Advocates for it, to enter into the Argument, of which this is the Abftraff. Jf the Church has a Right toperfecute jor Confcience ^ Then the Diffenters have no Right to Toleration. But the Church has a Right to Rerfecute > Ergo. E CONTRA. If the Church has no Right to Rerfecute for Confch ence Sake ; Then the DiJJenters have a Right to the Liberty they now Enjoy, by the Toleration ; But the Church has no Right to Rerfecute., as it isi prov’d from the Apoltles Words, whether it be Right to Obey God, rather than Man, judge ye. Ergo - • -The Dijfenters have a Right to Li¬ berty of Confcience, znd Toleration. If the Church has a Right to Perfecute, then the Queen can have no Ri^t to Tolerate -, for two Con¬ traries, cannot be Ereded upon one Foundation of Right. • If then the Queen had no Right to Tolerate the Dif- fenters, by promifing to do fo, She promifes to do what She cannot Legally perform and that Promife ought not to be kept. • But if the Church has no Right to Perfecute, then had the Queen a Right to give them a Toleration j and What it is Lawful to Grant, it muftbe Lawful to Con¬ tinue j and therefore Her Majefty’s Gracious Promil^ mull be a Sacred Security to us, becaufe She had an Un¬ doubted Right to make it, ‘ " '' So So that the whole Argument muft Turn upon this, whether the Church, has a Right to force the Confci- cnce, or in plain Englijb^ to Pcrfecute for Confcience If they can get over this,the Argument is at an End, and we muft fubmit to any thing they pleafe to In- flia i they haying an Undoubted Right to InfliU it.^ All the Diflenters dependance therefore^and all their MoralSecurity isplac’d.not in the AU ofToleration,for that may beMortal,but in HerMajefty’s SacredPromife. And the Cate Her Majelly has taken, to make us Ea* fy on this Head, is very Remarkable •, and ought to Difcourage the Party from the Attempt. We have a Promife, within a Promife ^ The Queen, as if her Ma- jefty had feenOccafion for more than ordinary affu* ranee, has given us firft a Promife, that She will pre- ferve the Toleration, and ProteU tlie DifTenters in their Liberty of Confcience^ and She has Clinch’d this En¬ gagement, by another as Solemn,wherein She Promifes, to be always a Religious Oblerver of her Word. What hopes then can any Party of Men entertain, of making the leaft attack upon the DifTenters Liberty, without a barefac’d Prefumption, that they (hall ob¬ tain upon Her Majefty to break her Word ? Upon this Account it is, I would have the DifTenters Eafie 5 thofe Endeavours which have been made ufe of to Ruine them, have been in Vain-, Her Majefty has kept her Promife hitherto, and there is no need to fear, but She will keep it. Some People perhaps pretend to fay, when Her Ma¬ jefty made this Promife, She did not expeft to be ta¬ ken in fo large a Sence ^ I can fay nothing to that, further than that I don’t believe them. But I believe, before the Late King’s Death, had we told thofe Gentlemen, the Queen would have made fuch a Promife, they would have faid, vie were vtijia- ken^ when She did make it, they found themfelvcs miflaken. If the Queen thinks they like it, Her MajeJly is mijiaken.zn^i if ever Her Majefty breaks it, we'Jhall be all miftakert. Z4 THE T H £ PISSENTER MrSaEPRESENTED, T' AND ^EPRESENTEQ; tis obfevaMs, that fome Gentlemen of the ^hrnch ot Efiglmd are much better quali-' fied to blacken the Charaaer of the Diflen* ters, than to vindicate their own. By this means they have not only laid themfelves two open to Reenminauon, but have unhappily flune that V'ery I>it at the Diffenters, which fiyin./direa* ly back in thetr own Faces, they have never been able to wain oir. . - Thofe Gentlemen therefore, who have fliown the Redundancy of their Wit in lb many Pamphlets and bermons, and amonglt them Mr. S .//,and Dr. S- s. in particular i are humbly defired to think of Vindi* eating the Loyalty of their own Church from the scandals of Perjury and Rebellion, before they pro- I reproaching the Diffenters i iell the World fliou d take up this Charafler of them, ^ vr better at Writing th?n Anfwering. > ^0 Mao IS bound, indeed, iq anfwer arailine Ac- ^ufation; and to flight a Reflexion that cannot be \vip 4 off is^a prudential piece of Art: But then, Me- thipks the Policy of it iitr^petfeflly hid, and ’tis bard ■ 1.;; : • la ( 345 ) to account for the Difcretion of raifing that very Duft that muft put out our own Eyes, to cry out at the Diffenters for Schifmaticks and Kcbells, when they may anwer with the Text ^ Thou that preachejl Men Jhould abhor Idols, doji thou commit SacrHedge. It is now about Forty Years that the piflenrers have been treated by the Clergy efpecially, and as much as in them lay, by all the World, with the fcandalous Titles of FaQious Rebels, Traitors to Monarchy, Sub- verters of Government, and favourers of Anarchy and Confufion, and abundance of fuch like Stuff, till the Scandal began to be ftale, and the Authors being Seff- Guilty, began to be Self Condemned ^ and then, that they might change the Crime, not the Temper j they fell upon them for Hypocrify. Now Occafional C^munion is made the general Brand of the whole Body of Pi(|enters, as if it was their received Do^rine, their general Pra£lice, and ftated receiv’d Qpinion. This being the Foundation, they rup ayvay with the Miftake, as if it was an undoubted Truth, and fo have nothing to do byt tq examine the Praftice and make'it as black as they can. Now to me it feems to be nothing to the purpofe, whether this Practice is to be vindicated cr nor, and tho* I am ready to grant that it is not ^ yet are the Dif¬ fenters maniteftly Imur’d and Mifreprefented in ha¬ ving a general Character faften’d upon them for that which very few of them Pradice, and fewer if any of them prolefs. Thus from Malicious Premifes, ’tis manifeft how they draw falfe Conclufions, and fix that Reproach upon the DilTenters, which, *tis plain, they have no Reafon for. In the doing this they are fo hardn’d againft Argu¬ ment, that even Demonfiration has no EfFeft upon them. If all the Diffenters n England (hou’d teflify their dillike of Occalional Cptnmunion, fines a few ' ■ • hav^_ \ 1 i f J ( 34 ^ ) have praftis’d it, tisnot enough to convince fuch Peo¬ ple who are lefs from Reafon than Defign. But ’tis abfolutely neceflary to crie down the Thing, in order to make it the Ground of an ASt of Parlia¬ ment, which under the Shadow of fupprefling an Unjuflifiable Praftice, (hall be extended in fundry and fecret Branches equivalent to a Perfecution. ’Tis very plain, an A 61 : of Parliament barely to pre¬ vent Occafional Communion wou’d do no Injury to the DilTenters, but difappoint their Enemies of their Malicious Deligns, and it needs no farther Teftimony to prove it, than the Care fome ha’taken to get other Claufes added to anfwer thofe Ends which the bare preventing Claufe wou’d not. But not to examine into the Bill lately depending, or to quellion what theHoufe of Commons are pleaf ed to do, I wou’d ask thofe Blefled Authors who have fo doom’d the Diflenters to the Devil for Hypocrify, what Analogy the Punilhment they have laid out for ithem bears to the Offence? that becaufe fome of them can conform to the Church, fuppofe them tempted by the profits of Places and Offices of Truft, that therefore all thofe who cannot, (hall be divefted of their Civil Right as Free holders of England^ or Free¬ men of Corporations. The hardfliips of fuch Ufage are fo unjuft and fo unaccountable, that no Apollogy can be made for them, unlefs the Diflenters were a People with whom no Faith nor Meafures were to be obferved. Therefore to make fuch Unchriftian Dealings go down with the World, the next Work is to blacken them with all the Marks of Reproach that Virulent Tongues, bleft with more Wit than Manners can invent. Gentlemen of the Church of England, you that call your felves Minifters of Chrift, is this the Duty of your Office ? Is Railing at thefe People the Work of the Pulpit ? Is this fuitable to the Sacred Charafler and Holy Profeffion ? Is this tlie Imployment of the Ser- ( 347 ) Servants of Jcfus Chrift, under his immediate Call, and guided hy his Infallible Spirit ? The Miflion of OUT Lord Jefus, whofe Servants ye fay ye are, was to Difciple Nations, to win by Meeknefe and Charity j the Character of his Bifhop was, to be no Striker^ no Brawler^ i Tim. 3. 3. You have no DircQion from him to pcrfecute your Brethren, much lefs have you to Bander and miffeprefent them, when the juft Cha* rafter of your prefent Spirit (hall be drawn. What wou’d our Blefled Lord anfwer, if it were fltown him with this Queftion ? Vide an hue fit Tunica Fi- lii tui. If you have real Defigns to fubjeft your Proteftant Brethren to an infupportable Yoke, confider of fome Method more for your Reputation, than a Refuge of Lyes and Scandal The Occalional Conformity of the Diflenters, you fay, is a Teft of their Hypocrify. Firft, Gentlemen, Nine Parts of Ten of the Diflen¬ ters proteft againft it, and never practis’d it: It can then be a Telt of No-body’s Hypocrily, but fuch as are Guilty. Several ha’ been tempted with Places, and made to fine for refufing to ferve Sheriffs (a lAo- dern Church way of picking Pockets) nay, fome have been Chofen two Year together, on purpofe to Fine them 5 a Villainy equally Meriting the Gallows, with Breaking up a Houfe, and yet thefe Gentlemen have refus’d to wrong their Confciences, and cou’d not qualify themfelves neither for the Money they were to get, or that they were to have ; And yet have I not found in all the Infamous Pamphlets and State Sermons, lately publifh’d, the leaft Juftice^ done to the CharaSler of fuch, but all are Involv’d in the Ge¬ neral Storm. Scandal, like Death, fpares No¬ body 5 and the Church, which fhou’d be the Center and Pattern of Charity and Juftice, becomes the Infa- mou^Herald of Slander and Reproach. As to thofe Gentlemen who are of Opinion, that they rhay Occafionally Conform to the Church, they - , ^ . fay C 348 ) fay in rheir own Vindication, that you have not vet Ptov’d It Unlawful for them to do fo,- and Wof ' their yet Unanfwer’d Books, > merits is not your Talent^ ftand as a Challenee to you to prove the Affirmative. ® If then the Fafl: be not finful in it felf (tho’ I da not grant that neither ) and if it be but a Very your Honefty, your Jufticc yo^j^Chanty, to puniffia Party for thV MifdoinTof . DifTenters in EndianJ are not a Body, neither in a Politick, or any other Capacity ^ if they were the whole might be anfwerable for the Parts ^as ha- vtng Power to call them to Account. How then are the Innocent Many to be Cenfur’d for the Guilty Few i And why tnen ffiould your Furious Champions condemn them all in Print, to lofe their BirtH-IUght, zshngltJhMsn j becaufe fbm? among them do what you lay they fliou’d nor do ) 4 nd why. Gentlemen, all this ftir about Places i >Whep t,3 but a very ffiort while fince fome of your fnoft Eminent Friends branded all P^plc in Places, as Enemies to the Liberties of England, and und« Temptations to betray us j People not fit to be ttuft- ed in the Legiflature, Bond Ifaves to Arbitrary Pow- er, perfeaiy fubjeaed to Court Piaaices, and Ene- mies to the Safety of a Free Nation, Vx VobisHypo- m/.f/ We Piflenting Hypocrites have liv’d to fee you Church Hypocrites poffeffing the Places and Pen. c IT ^ Difcourfes of a beU denying Ordinance are quite Droptand Forgot¬ ten : fe eager to engrols all tothemfelves, that now Court Party and Country Party are laid afide, ' the Matter is come about, qnd the Truf Born Englijh A-Ln? appears in the right, - * v ? That all the Strife is plainly to be feen, • get fome %n put out, and feme pift. in, ■’ ■ This ( 349 ) This is very hard, the Church-men can preach tip * Paffive Obedience one Year, and take up Arms againft their Prince the next} fwear an Abfolute Allegiance ‘ to the King and bis Heirs to Day, and fwear to a ^ New Government to Morrow} Preach and Print a- gainft Schifmaticks and Diflcnters, and King Jamesy and feperate from their own Church, and fet up J private Schifmatical Conventicles under King tVil- • iiarlii Their Statefmen cry doivn Courtiers, and Penfio- '• hers fet up for Patriots, and fcorh Places as things Fa¬ tal to Liberty under King W'tUiam^ and ftrive to en- t grofs all the Places they can get under Qjjeen il»w, and cry up Laws to keep all hut themfelves out: They can pretend, that no Man having an Office un¬ der the King, fhall lit in the Houfe of Commons un¬ der King William^ and yet are wUling both to fit in the Houfe, and enjoy the principal Offices in the King¬ dom under Queen Ann *, and yet thefe are the People I who cry out upon Two Millions of their Brethren aS Hypocrites, becaufe lefs than a Thoufandth part of ! them have been guilty of Occafional Conformity, t What Juftice, what Equity, can there be in this i way of Dealing with the Diflenters ? Nothing eaft ! juftifie it that 1 know, but their being a People fit to be extirpated from the Face of the Earth: And as I fome have very piotlfly mov’d it, you have nothing I more to do, but to fet about it the fliorteft Way. Tis hardly worth while to mention the unufual I Exorbitance of ohr Church Mob, againft their Bre- I thren the Diflenters. Some are fo hot, they can’t I ftay till this Bill may be paft into a Law, and Other Opportunities may happen further to fupprefs them. : But they are for depriving them of their Right of Vo- : • ting for Parliament Men as freeholders; to which I 1 wou’d add. Let them go on, and take away their Freeholds too, a thing every jot as juft, and rhe.n the B- i cis wou’d be over. And another Lite Atithor I tniorm’d the World, that he has found out a t er. 550 ) ter Way than the fhorteft Way: Not that thefhorteft Way did not pleafe him, but that ’tis unhappily llcmn^ and grown a little too much out of Credit • and this New Invention of his is, to have all theDif’ renters Children educated in the Church of Englani whether they will or no. So firft we are to have our Birth-right taken away, and then our Children taken away, and fo on to the fhorteft Way. I wonder thefe Gentlemen are not aftiam’d to fo- fter thefe things upon the World, as their own Con¬ ceptions, when really they ought to quote the Author from whence they borrow the Method, viz. Lewis XIVth, the taking away firft theCharaaer, then the Privileges, then the Employments of the Proteftants were the previous Steps to their Deftruaion. When this was done, the Bufinefs was ripej then they took away their Children to put them to Popifh Schools, and nothing remain’d but the Coup de Grace, the laft Blow Banifhment, and fo the Work was done at j once. This is the Pattern thefe Gentlemen walk by, ■ who yet are fo affronted at being told, that they in¬ tend to proceed with us by the fhorteft Way. Thus thefe Gentlemen begin with us, by mifre- prefenting the Diffenters to Mankind as Hypocrites, .1 falfe in Principle, and falfein Praaice, Ambo-Dexters ’ in Religion, Cfc. becaufe fome among them have . been fo As well might the Church of England be | branded with the Jefuitical Doarine of King Killing, \ becaufe Sir John friend and Sir William Tarkins ' were guilty of the Affaflination ; who were not only Members of the Church, but receiv’d Abfolution without Repentance, from the Hands of the Minifters : of that Church. Really Gentlemen, the Diflenrers aa abundance of Charity to you, whatever fcanda,lous Returns you make them, that they do not rectiminateon you fuch fcandalous Praaices of yours as would fo blacken | your Church, that Foreign Proteftants wou’d hardly j reckon ; reckon you among the Members of the Reforma¬ tion. • The Rigour you are now ufing to your Religious Brethren, and the fcandalous Lenity you (how to all manner of Criminal Converfation in your known Members, the known Diftance between your profeff Doftrine, Canons and ProfelTion, and the Practice of your whole Body render you fcandalous to Religion it felf, and are you the Men who cry out of Hypo- cniy } Fhy/icians heal your/elves. When your Clergy are lefs Vitious, your Magi- ftrates lefs Prophane, your Statefmen Honeft, youc Officers faithful, then we’ll be content to be Cenfur’d for Occalional Conformity. But lince ’tis thus with you, any body (hou’d cry out of Hypocrify, Difloyalty and Rebellion, rather than you. You ought to be the laft Men that (hou’d tax us, and (hou’d lay your hands on your Mouth, with a juft Refie£lion upon your own DifhoneHy and Dilloyalty inftead of fearch out ours. The Diflenters are further mifreprefented, as Per- fons who Orignally made the Separation from the Church, from a Native Spirit of Divifion, from an Obftinate Averfion to Order and Government, where¬ in their Enemies forget that their Clergy loft near three Thoufand good Benefices, and their Laity many good Places, becaufe they cou’d not in Confcience comply with what the Church men impos’d upon them. They forget, that af terwards at a Conference with the Clery of the Church of England^ they made fuch large Concefiions to the Church, in order to Uni^ tyand Peace, that Bifhop Juxton himfelfand fevcral of the honeftert Party of the Church declar’d, they (hew’d a True Chriftian Temper, and that their Pro- pofals were a fufficient Ground of a Union. But all thefe Steps were ab(blute!y rejeUed by fpe- cial Order from the Court, rvhere it was a receiv’d Maxim in their Politicks, to keep open the Breach, and not to fufter the Church to come to any Agree¬ ment . , i. ^ ) hient with the piffenters, for fear they {hoh '6 all Ihi the^op^ Intereft, which was all along Jhe Mitlrfi ^3sk’t with k i ^ P? Supporting the Church, and ex- VnSA^'j ^"’‘"'pous Phrafe of/he Religion efla- F f r England J fy Uw ffto^ore'l Signification, that tis no more a Douhr, but that they thereby always meant the Church of icoy aiwajs Schifm only from a Sph ' Fnnkf Obftinacy, they muft pafs for gratifie their PaflionS j that fuffer’d the Lofs of their fortunes, and the Ruine of their Families, blind TO their own Advantages, that quitted good Livings and large Benefices to depend upon Naked Prov^- vidence and Srarvihg Charity 5 and all this without Conference, or any folid Principle. If me Dillentere ate all Hypocrites that can conform for Preferments, and Good Livings. Why did they Pot confofm to keep them as others did ? XT Principle, but d Religious Ncceffity of GOnfcifcnce, that fo many Men loft their Livings, ruinM their Families, and quitted their Em¬ ployments : Unlefs they wereall f ools, and that is a Charge they never were yet tax’d with. In this Cafe we come to a Parallel with the"^ Church again upon thelateRevolution,and’twou’dbe neceflary to examine a little, if the Church-men them- relves did not make a New Schifm in their own Church upon lefs and wbrfe Pretences. _ Upon the Revolution, the Government exafled a Allegiance to the late King and Queen, their old Oath, as lome conceiv’d being yet in Force, their other King being yet alive, feveral of the Bi- inops, and many of their Clergy, from a Principle dr Confcience, as they fay, cou’d not comply with fh;s Law i and following the Example of the DilTen- C 353 ) ters they had hated fo much, makes a New Separa¬ tion, and fet up private Schifmatical Conventicles and Meetings of their own. ^ If thefe were not Diflenters on a Principle of Con fcience, ’twas worfe with them than with us; for they declar’d themfelves averfe to the Government, fcrupl’d their Debt of Allegiance to the Crown, and openly acknowledg’d another Sovereign. Thefe things the Diflenters cou’d never be charg’d with, for they always acknowledg’d the Civil Power, and only de¬ bated their Sovereignty in Point of Confcience. The Church men will find infuperahle Difficulties before them iirthis Article of Non jurant DiJJenters : For if ’twas Lawful for the Church to fwear Allegi¬ ance, and acknowledge and fwear to King William^ then down comes the Doflrine of Paffive Obedience, like \iagon before the Ark. If they cannot defend it as Lawful, then the indelible Blot of Perjury and Re bellion, things the Clergy of the Church oi England ha’ been very fond of charging on the Diflenters, lies fo clofeto them, as I know not how they will wipe it off J From this ill Ufage of the Dilfenters, ’tis plain, that all this Storm threatning them, is the Effeft of a Civil Juggle againft the Diffenters, to fttip them of the Places others gape after; and to prevent their poflefling them for the future, not fo much for the Safety of the Nation, as to engrofs the Profits to themfelves. Well, Gentlemen, as for the Places vve can’t help it: If the Government won’t employ us in Places we muff go without them. But this does not make it juft, to unqualify us by Law from being capable of Service. Is it not enough, that the Powers are bent againft us not to employ us ; that we are render’d fufpe^^ed to our Sovereign, as Perfons not fit to be trufted ? But we muft be fo captivated, that it muft be made Criminal in us to accept of Employment, if Her Majefty fhould be willing to truft us ? This has Three ill AQ)e£ls. A a I. It ( ?54 ) 1. It looks as if you were afraid to depend upon the Steadinefs of the Queen’s Refolution j but were doubtful fhs might be brought over one time or other to out fide, and be induc’d to try our Fide* lity. 2. It looks as if you were Jealous of our Merit that it might one time or other appear, that the Queen has been abus’d into an ill Opinion of a great Number of Her Subjefts: And that being convinc’d of it, file Ihou’d with an e(^al Refpeft receive and admit us with you to a rromifcuous Enjoymentj both of her Favour and Employments. Or, 3. That you are confeious or fome hard and extra¬ vagant thing you arc likely to put upon her Majefty. which you apprehend the Queen may diflike, and refent fo highly as to difmifs you her Service, And you are willing to deprive her effeftually of the Loy¬ al Endeavours of her Proteftant Diffenting Subjefts, by obliging them under fevere Penalties to refufe their Afliftancej that file may be under a Force to employ you. If I judge too hard, I ask pardon ^ declaring it is rot for want of Charity; But 1 confefs, I can lee no other Confequence can be drawn from it. For if they had a full Confidence in the Queen, either in her Majefly’s Judgment or Refolution, they wou'd acqui* efee in her declaring that Ihe will be ferv’d by the mod ^'Calous Members of the Church of England', but from their Diffidence in her Majefty, they are for bringing the Diffenters to a Force, that if her Maje* fly Qiou’d be brought over to truft them again, they fhall either ceafe being Difl'enters, or refufe their Duty to their Obliging Miftrefs, when her Majefty in her Royal Bounty lhall think fit to employ them. I fliall not here dilpute the Right the Diffenters have to a Share of their Prince’s Favour, till forfeited by Mifdemeanour. I think it favours of lefs Man¬ ners, C 355 ) j hers, and lefs Paffive Obedience, than thofe Church ‘ Zealots us’d to profefs; to limit their Queen that I (he (hall net employ whom flie thinks fit: Or that ‘ file fliall employ them and truft them, dnd No*body . elfe, let their Behaviour be how and what it Will. Nor is the depriving us of the Favour of our So¬ vereign, and the Opportunities of ferving our Queen, , the only thing you endeavour 5 but you envy us the ‘ Opportunity of ferving God too, and tho’ you have not dat’d yet to attempt our AQ of Toleration in a ' Legal Way, yet you have fnarl’d at it, ihown your Diflike or it upon all Occafions. With what Con¬ tempt have you treated the late King Wi/liam, for I taking you at your Word, and prelSng you to per¬ form the Promifes you made in the Days of your Affliffion, of coming to a Temper with us ^ With ivhat relu£lant Hearts do you fee us enjoy our Liber- I ty,by that Law which you dare not attack ? How has ’ it grated on your Minds, to think the ^ueen fliou’d, give us her Royal Promife to maintain this Aft ? How often has your Impudent Pamphleteers damn’d that Aft as Antichriftian ? And confequently the ' Queen muff ftand very fair in ycur Thoughts, tor ' obliging her felf to maintain it. We come now to fee how the Diflenter are Mifre- ^ jjrefented, as to their Management in Publick Places; ‘ fvhere they are at once branded with all the Diforders' ' and Misbehaviours of the former Reigns. One would : think, by the Odious Reproaches with which the Hot-fpurs of the Church load the DiflTentefs, that all *' the Favourites, Minifters of State, Lords of the Ttea- • fury. Receivers and Commiflioners of all forts, in ' the lalf Reign, were Diflcnteis. “ The Diflenters, ’ fays a late Pamphleteer of the floe Party, main- “ tain’d their Reputation indifferently well' till, by ** the Connivance of the laft Reign they goc theMa- • nagement of the Publick Matters into theif hands, ■ *. and then they got the Knack of telling all Offices ■ *' and Preferrtients to Profligate Rogue^ of their Own' ^ A a 2 Pirtyi ) ’» i '! li {-.I ( 35 ^ ) “ Party, embezling the Publick Treafure, and Cheat-1 “ ing the Nation-, that ’twas plain, they out-did I “ all that ever went before them. Author of a flior-1 ter Way, This is a Black Charge, and all Men muft allow, if it be not true, the Dillenrers have a great deal of Wrong done them. We fliall examine the Truth of it afterward, and in the mean time examine what is the life made of the Slander. Firft they are cried down as a fort of People not fit to be trufled with any Place of Profit, or Honour in the Nation: Eve^ Saucy Scribler, as one Curt brings all the Dogs of the Farijh out, is upon them. We^l let them enjoy their Efiates, lays one Icanda- lous Beggar, that has none of his own j but never let them be trufted in Places again, ’tis time for us to have a Seafon to get Money in, that is, to Cheat the 'Nation in ; for that was what he had been Talk¬ ing of. The late Reign is refleiled upon, for bringing them in, and King William czn hardly efcape the Name of a Presbyterian for employing them. Nay, one has had the impudence to bring in King William and the Diffenters, confpiring and confederating together to fupprefs the Church of England, and let up a Syno¬ dical Presbyterian Government. Twould be endlefs and intolerable to quote the Bear Garden Language, and the bafe Treatment the Diffenters meet with in Famph/ets, in Sermons, in Common Difeourfe, as the publick Harpies, and Thieves of the Nations Trea¬ fure, the Engroflers and Mercenary Brokers for Pla¬ ces and Preferments, Penfioners to the Court, to get great Summs of Money given, and then to cheat both King and Country. Now if after all one Word of this fliould not be, true, what mult the World fay ? Generals prove no-; thing, and Negatives prove nothing, but to confirm the Reputation of our Protelbnt Diffenters as to 0-1 h'jdience to Laws and Faithfulnefs in Employments, aedi and that if they are Guilty, a fair Proof of the Fa£l may appear, and thePerfons be known, that a whole Body may not fuffer a Scandal for a few, and thofe few not be Guilty neither. We challenge all the Ene¬ mies of the Diflenters that bring this mighty Charge, jI; hI ---- Stand f orth andfievo * 1 - The foreskins of the Fhilijlines^ ye Jleic. ih Let the World know who are the Men, let them ft charge the Diflenters with one Difloyal, Difrefpeft- iM ful Aft to their Sovereign; or the leaft Tendency, a either in their Praftice or Principles, fince the late Re- k volution ; either to Evade, or Oppofe the Laws ol the s! Land, or to difturb the Publick Peace, or to injure t the Trade, or Publick Intercfl of their Native Coun- i: try : Nay, we challenge them to mtke it appear >1 when the DiflTenters have been backward to promote i the Publick Good, or to advance their Mony, even to the Ruine of many Families, by lending their Cafli on r the Deficient Bankrupt Funds of late Parliaments, ! which they have in vain expeftsd Redrefs lor fince. t But to go further, and come clofe to the very Ar- : ticks charg’d upon them by this hafty Humour; let 1 me rake the Freedom to obferve, no brib’d Members f of Parliament, no corrupt Miniiiers of State, no Re- i ceivers of Publick Mony unaccounted tor, no falfe : Endorters of Exchequer Bills, no Counterfeiters of ‘ Bank Notes, no Milappliers of appropriated Funds, noObtainer of Exorbitant or Surreptitious Grants, no E Commiflioners without Accompts, Pay mailers without Vouchers, orTreafurers without Cafti, no Betrayers of our Fleets, or Revealers of the Cabinet Council of c the Throne, have been found among the Diflenters ^ they have lent their Mony to the Government, and loll their Mony for the Government, but have gf t no- thing by the Government, theit Liberty ofConfcience is all the Gain they have made us Diflenters, and- they ate not thooght worthy of that. A a 3 A C 358) A Httle further, Upbn the Search I can find hut Two DlfTenters that were in Places of great Truft in the late Reign, but Two in whofe Power it vm to have been Guilty of the Crimes which are thrown up. on the whole Body of the Miniftry, and Offices of The late Reigt), and who can with any Face be call’d piflfenrers. And to the Eternal Glory of the whole Body of Diflenters, I challenge all the Sons of Slan¬ der, to fhew me Two Men either in that Reign, or in any Reign, who difcharg’d their places with more Integrity, and with unwearied Diligence, and a fpotlefs Honefty j carryed an untainted Reputation tq their Graves. Thefe, for I am far from being afham'd of their Names, were Old Thomat PaptUan, Efq^ Firft Com- miffioner of the ViElualling Office, and Mordecai Ab¬ bot in the Exchequer. Thefe were both profeft Diflenters, they enjoy’d Places that had as great Opportunities of frauds and ill Praftices as any ^ they continued in them thpro’ fhe vyhole Reign of King William, and both died in the Service, and neither of them has left room for the feali Reproach upon them after their Death •, Envy eould never blacken them Living, nor Slander touch them now they are Dead ^ and all Men that under- ftand the Bufinefs they went thro’, and that have Ho¬ nour enough to fpeak impartially, do own that never Prince had two better Officers. ' Where now are thefe Diflenters who behaved them- felves fo ill in the laft Rei^, that Her Majefty is as it were, warn’d by our hot Party not to truft them hi this. • if they are to be found any where, one would ex- them in the Addrefs of the Houfe of Commons to the Queen, where the mifapplication of the Pul^ lickMony, and Mi^anagements of the laft Reigq are very particularl)renumerated, and many of the chief Inftruments are expos’d, by Nhme i let us cn- iiuireifapy of them qrs Diflemeis, C 359 ) And firft, for the Right Honourable the Earl of rielagh ; will they call him a Diflenter. Tis not to be denyed but a great part of the many Millions un¬ accounted for, by him, was paid by the Diffentersi and fo they come in as Sufferers by your Church of England Knaves; but here is no Diflfenter in the Cafe ; all Men that know the late Noble Pay-mafter of the Army, know he was no Diffenter; and thus 1 dare fay of him, that were he oblig’d to change his Reli¬ gion, if he has any, and niuft of neceffity be a Papilf, a Presbyterian, or renounce all Religion ; Pie Jud^e no farther, but he would certainly be no Presby¬ terian. The Treafurer of the Navy, the Auditor of the Ex¬ chequer, Sir Robert Howard^ Sir Charles. Duncomby Sir Rowland G/zt/r, Sir John Manwaring > none of thefe will be angry with me for faying they were no Presbyterians, no Diffenters •, no, nor not one named or pointed at in all that Tedious Addrefs; who are then thefe Diffenters in Nubibus, that have cheated the Nation of fo much Mony, that all their Brethren inuft be branded for it, as a People not fit to be trufted ? Gentlemen of the Church of England^ will ye come to a Ballance with us > Will ye pay us Diffenters all the Mony we have loft by the knavery of the Church of England Officers, Receivers, Fay mafters, if fo-, we will undertake to make good all the lofs you can pretend to charge upon Diffenters in the like Of¬ fices. What a fliame then is it in a Country of Chriftians, that any Men fliould be thus abufed ? ’Tis ftrange we are all Thieves, and Rogues, and not fit to be trufted, and yet not one of us to be found ; not one to have his Name put in the Parliaments Addrefs, not one to be voted Guilty of high Crimes and Mifdemeanours, not one to be pofted, and made an Example of. Par¬ don us, if we think that the Pay mafter General, or A a 4 any C ) any of the particular Perfons concern’d had been Dif- fcnters, we mould have heard of it. Really Gentlemen, this is hard ufage, what all of US to be hang d, and yer none of us Guilty > Have we but two ptofeft Diffenters among you, and both of them owud to be the bed Officers ever you had , and yet muI^U theReproach due to your own Church of Oncers lie at our Door How can you but bluffi ! This is the beginning of the Shorteli Way ; How can you be Angry at that Author, and pretend ^.'"^l^^-utlng and Deftroyingus, why to kill our Reputation, and that by Slander, and falfe Accufation, is the word kind ofMurther. Thus far all Men mud own we have been Mifre* prefented, and are in general Abufed. If this be fo, then I would enquire of thefe Gentle¬ men, 1. What they can fay, why they wou’d fo far unhinge the Nations Peace, as to Reftind the Aft of Toleration. 2. Why at this time, when the Qpeen and tbe whole Nation has their Hands full of u Foreign Ene- my, they fhould endeavour to make fo many of her Majefties Subjtfts uncafy, ^ 3- What have the Diffenters done fince the Aft of Toleration to forfeit the Favour. As to that C^edion, Why they would Repeal the Toleration, being not to anfwer for them ^ I fliail leave it for them to anfwer if they can, and only tell them why in my Opinion they fhould not. I. Becaufe in all the Afts of their Lives, they can. 8 ot Ihew one more for their own Reputation, than a pnaflion of Charity to the Confciences of their fel- low Rrotedants. -- - ( ) lii 2. Becaufe, in the Addrefs to the late King James^ and in the Application they made to King William to ii refcue them from Ruin, they declar’d themfelves Wil- in ling, and promis’d with ufual Death-bed Sincerity to oi! come to a Temper, a Chriftikn Temper, fuch as fliould give Bale and Liberty to tender Confciences i i and fince, in their Diftrefs they promifed, ’twould be )'j fomething fcandalous for them to go back from their j: Words, and we fliall have a ftronger Charge of Hy- tl pocrify to lay upon them than they will ever get over. i 3. Becaufe we had an equal (hare in the Revoluti¬ on with them, had an equal Intereft in fetting King ‘ William^ and confequently Queen Ann upon the Throne, and ought to have a Proportion of the Ad¬ vantages of that wonderful Performance, by which as they were fav’d from Popery, and Tyrants of all forts, fo we were with them fet upon a Foundation ! of Legal Liberty j and ’twould be highly unjuft that i we (hould be deprived of that Liberty we purchas’d with our Blood and Elfates, and they left entire in the PoffefBon both of our jpriviledges and their own too. 4. Becaufe both among the Clergy and the Laity, [ five Parts in fix of their own Church are Friends to Moderation and Charity, lovers of Peace, and defire [ to have Union and Love prefetv’d, and no Men to be Ruin’d fbr meet Principles of Confcience j thefe how¬ ever Reproacht by a more Zealous Party, with the i Title of Low Church-men are the fubftantial Majo- ! rity both in the Church and Nation; thefe are con- ftant Friends to Mercy and Toleration. ’Twas by their faithful Difcharge of the Truft the Nation re- pofed in them, we owe the obtaining it, and thefe fee yet no reafon to rifle us of it. If you can give better Reafons than thefe, why we (hould be Perfecuted, Ruin’d and Undone j they that have them would do well to let us know them, pof- fibly fomething may be brought to Light to convince us. ( 3«0 US, but as yet, we ean fee nothing material, nothins I that favours either of Jultice, or Honour, or Advan tage ro the Church of England it felf, much lefs for I the Reputation of her Charity and Candor. H wfc> have forfeited the Favour of our Prince or our Right to the Laws, what was the Crime, and when was it committed? wc have met with Clamour indeed, but no real Crime, no fair Charge. If a few have offended, let the few be punifhed, that vye may know who they are j but to punifh half a Nation for the Misbehaviour of a Few, is a niece of would be very loth to fubmit to^ tibi Fieri non vis AUeri ne Fecerif. On the other hand, the Diflenters, as Diflenrers are not capable of any Aft or Deed that can forfeit this Liberty 5 for they never afted as a Body, as a collecled Head or Se£f of People joyn’d together for their mutual Intereft j if they had had Wifdom to have done 10 ,1 am of the Opinion they had long fince had better Terms from their Prince, and from their Neigh¬ bours. ® The Hugonots in France had always their National* Synods, and general Meetings of the Gentry and No¬ bility of their Party, in which Meetings they concert¬ ed the Meafures of their common Security, and as a Body, they made their Addrefs to their Sovereign; Ileceiv’d Anfwer, and Direftions, and made Stipula- ! tion for their Security. The Diflenters in England have not fb much as a general Cowefpondence one with another j no Man any thing in the Name of the Diflenters. Indeed they have not a Unity in AlFeHi- on, enough to produce a Unity of Intereft; themrft that is their own \ but this alfb is one Advantage in Juftice they ought to recite from all the Difadvanta- f es of it, that no Crime, which is not their General raflice, can with Reafon be charged as the Crime 1 of the Party. 1 I ftiould defcend now to reprefent the Diflenter, ac* " ccrding to the intent of the Tide# ' And ' (563 ) And nothing hinders me, but that any Perfon will think me a Party, and Impartiality in fuch Cafe, may look like a Panegyrick. I had much rather infill upon the Aflertions pall, V in which, I think, ’tis plainly enough proved, that * they have been bafely Mifreprelented, loaded with w unjutl Reproaches, and charg’d with Crimes they are not Guilty of-, if any Perfon will trouble himfelf ra¬ te! ther to make it out that they are not injur’d in this uii Nature, than fummon up his Chriftian Charity to d amend the Praflice, I lhall be glad to fee him prove li it by fuch Demonftrations as are equally Honell and True with thefe I have inferred here. J If it cannot be made out, I tWnk ’tis but jqft, while i we are equally Loyal to our Prince, peaceable under ! the Government, alfiftant to the Occafions of the State, II chearM in our Taxes, Dutiful and Willing to prch I! mote the publick Benefit, we fliould be fliarers in the li Publick Safety, and ’till we offend the Law, we I- ought to have the protcflion of the Law. And not of the Laws only, but of the common !• Charity of Mankind which we have yet done nothing > - to forfeit jwhen we do,and cannot julljfy our feU’es by f good and warrantable Reafons and Etemonll^ations, ’tis then time enough to be reproacht. ' As to what has been done in former Ages, we think i our felves not at all concerned in the Pifpute, but to them that continue to brand us with Dilloyalty to Princes, Enemies to Monarchy, and Dillurbers ol Go¬ vernment ; We refer them to anfwer a late abdicated Author, vi-z. D. F-rS New Teji of the Church of Eng¬ land 'Loyalty j and we do, as aa Addition to it, vent- I ture to fay ; both we and our Forefathers are, and al¬ ways have been, as Loyal and as Faithful to the Kings and Queens of this Nation, as our Accufers, and the DilTenters have been lefs Guilty of Rebellion than the Church of England j and let them prove the contrary if they cap, . THE Urn i THE PARALLEL; OR, PERSECUTION O F PROTESTANTS The Shorteft Way to prevent the Growth of Popery IRELAND. () 4 T O T H E QUEEN Madam, Y Our Majejiys mofl hoyal^ Dutiful, and always faithful SubjeSs, the Protejiant Dijfenters in Ireland, could never fo well demonjlrate ei¬ ther their profound Duty to your Per Jon, and Regard to your Repo/e, or their own mejl heavy Prejfure Mind under the melancholly Confideration of being incapacita¬ ted for your Majeftfs Service by any Method, as by the Dutiful Silence and Entire Submiffon they have al¬ ways fhown to your Government, and the Laws. They have no more been Clamorous with their Com¬ plaints, than difobedient in their PraHice, although un¬ der the terrible, and Pardon them, Madaon, if they think, undeferv’d Mortification, of being joined with your J^iajefifs Capital Enemies, the Irilh Papifts ; and enaSed againji in a Bill for the Publick Security of this Kingdom. As nothing could have been more deftrable to them than to fee Tour Majefiy’s Crown and Government fe- cur^d by an intire fuppreffing Popery in this Nation, fo nothing could have been more agreeable to them than to hear of a Bill depending in your Majeftfs mofl Honou¬ rable Privy Council, prefented by your faithful and Dutiful Commons of Ireland, for the more effetlual Se¬ curity of Tour Mjefiy, and this Nation, by preventing the Growth of Popery. And. Madam, as it mufl needs be the remotefi thing in the World from their Thoughts, that they could be ary (3fi3) any way concerted in fuch a Bill, other than to reap in Common, with the rejt of your Majefty's Loyal Subjells, the Securities and Advantages of it ^ jo nothing could, be more furprizing, as well as affliHing, than to find themfelves rank'd with thofe People, whom, they pre¬ fume, your Majefty is well affur'd they have always been earneji to oppo/e -, and at the Expence of their Blood and Eortunes have ajfijied your Majefi/s Rtyal Predecejfors againji upon all Occajions. It cannot be that your Majefifs Protejiant Dijfent- ing Subjells o/lreland can be guilty of any thing to en¬ title them to fuch fevere Mortifications, fince tho' they have the Unhappinefs to differ in fome Opinions from your Majeft/s Sentiments, and the EftablijhedChurch-, yet as they value themfelves upon the Tejlimonies gra- cioujly given them by your Majefifs Ancejiors of their Ready and unjhaken Loyalty to the Crown of England, and your Majefty's Royal Family, fo they humbly pre¬ fume to appeal to their Profejfions of Faith, in Matters of Religion, as well as to their Conftant Prallice, to determine whether they have always adhered to Prin¬ ciples equally Orthodox in DoSrine, and equally con¬ trary to, and inconfiftent with, the Errors and Abfur- di ties of the Clmrch of KomQ. As Your Alajefty's Royal Refolution to protea the Proteftant Intereft without Diftinllion is known to the World, fo your equal ConduB to all your Subjells gives an univerfal SatisfaHion, that your Royal Judgment knows perfeUly to execute by the moft proper Methods zibat your Goodnefs hath firft determined to be reafon- able and as this is the Joy of all your People, ft M.'.dam, your Proteftant Dffenting Subjells Ireland are too fenfible of the Blejfing, arid know too well both their Duly and Intereft, to do any thing to forfeit their Share in it. Isior can they doubt, but as Your Majefty's equal Re¬ gard to all your Subjells is your Glory, Jo it will be their Advantage always, enclining your Majefty to hear, and redrefs the Preffures and Complaints of any C 3^9 ) !(' Vart of your Government^ cruJVd by the Weight of k Another •, and humbly laying tbemfelves and their Cafe [a at Tour Royal ¥eet, they mllingly wait the time when (t GodJhall move Tour Royal Heart to that Goodnvfs and )iji Tenderneft which the true Mother extended to the ^ Child, when the Dreadful Arm was JJretcht out to di^ (fe vide it. 8 ^ In the Confidence of this, they heartily fray for Tour Majefiy's unvaluable Life and Prof ferity, and earnejl- ly wijh and defire the whole Body of Proteftants in thefe ions, for the, Security of their Inter ells, and of Tour Majefy's Government would obey the Glorious [r.)i ■ Invitation to Peace and Union, which Tour Majejiy has fo often made to all your SubjeQs, by which we might p.. all joyn in your Service to the Glory of the Protefant juf. Religion, the entire SatisfaSion of your Majejlyfand jjj the Peace and Pro/ferity of th^e unbaffy divideit^a* jji tions. C 370 ) I t fi E Par. ALLELj T Hole Gentlemen who wrote with fo much Vigour in the Cafe of Occafional Confor¬ mity, had niblf effeftually clench’d their Arguments, and overthrown all the Pretences of the Dilfenters againft an Occafional Bill, could they, aS they undertook, ha’ made it our, That in all mfi Nations it has been the Vrailice to exclude all fuch as are not of the NationalCf)urch from any jhare in the Adminijiration of Publick Affairs. But as the good or bad EfFefls of Exclufive Laws may be moll clearly difcovered in Cafes where the Scalons, Methods, Perfcns, Interells and Circum- iiances, run in the moll exa£l Parallel, I fllall beg leave to pals by the exploded Arguments, . drawh from Ihcpraftile of Nations abroad, lor exclhding from the Management of Publick Aftiiirs all who are not of their National Churth, and bring up a Precedent near home in the Kingdom of Ireland., where the Kelem- hlance of a Bill again!! Occafional Conformity, in its charitable Expedients and ttourilhing Confequences, may teach thole who defire the like in England., to look over among their Neighbours, and fee the Con- icqdcnces of it upon the Diffenters. ’ fis very probable the Gentlemen concern’d in that Projetl for Irtland., would never have pulh’d at it if they ( 371 ). they had not thought at the fame time fometbing equivalent in England have part-, fpr they would not have been fo acceflary to difcovering the real Defign, they vVpuld not have been willing the cloven Foot fliould have bcenfo fooii. Unhappy Ireland / Thou art always bound to he ruin’d to &ve thy Neighbours; How was thy Mafla- d:e in Foirty-one a flaming Beacon to illuminate the World, ahd tell England what was coming upon her/ Giving her timely notice to take qire of her fell, and leading the way to her Safety with the Blood of 200000 innocent betray’d.Prdteftant^.. In our laft, unhappy Pppifli Reign how vvas this Kingdom fwallowed up with Tyranny, and made a Sacrifice to sniRomi^ Politicks j , entirely dor vour’d and over* run by the Arbitrary, Methods of that Time ? How was Tyranny and Popery hand in hand ihtroduc’d, and the Laws and Liberties of Proteftanr? trod under Foot, at a fair IntroduSion to finte Method putting forward //x England, but not lb eafi- ly brought to pals, and cohfcquently as a fair Notice to the Englijh People to fortifie themfelves againft that Flood of Deftruftion which they had feen over¬ flow their Unfortunate Neighbours. Now thou an fct a third time as a Mark, a Buoy bri the cover’d Rock, a Notice of concealed Mifchiets, a warning Piece to all the Proteftant World, but par¬ ticularly as a Plan of a Defign laid for the Detiru- Uion both of the Liberties, Civil Ki^ts and Religi¬ ous Privileges bf thy Proteliant Dillenting Neigh¬ bours. , K r ■ In all Cafes, and on all Occafiohs, when the Ruin and DeftruSion of England has been defign’d, Ire¬ land has thus gone before her y fome that are wifet inPoliticksthan l ean pretend to, give, this for a Rea- fon. That the Proteftant Intereft being weaker, in, this Kingdom than in that, the encroaching. Party has not been obliged to fuch Cautions^ and fuch niceMeafures were as they have there, and the ProjeSl has been B b' 2 foonti ^ . . ( 372 ) foonet npe; but they have been very happily defeated in their grand Dehgn, by their own Forwardnefs in that part of it, the firft Execution in that Cafe open* ing the Scene fo early, that Nation has always been aliarum d hence, and found occafion to remem- Accidence, F^lix quernJa- And thus in the fatal Inftances given, England zV ways took warning from her Sifter 164! when the bloody Papifts Maffacred fo many thoufand Proteftants in it immediately allarm’d the vvhole£’;7^///& Nation, and told then in Charaaers too ^7 themeaneftUndetftanding, whatE/?^///» Men were to expea from the Predomi* nacy of the fame Partyj and confequently that it was high time to Arm againft the Encroachments of Po* ^ryat home, to prevent the fame Deftruaion they to their Neighbours here in Jr/- Methods of Arbitrary Power, and the Popifti Defigns went on fo faft in Irei/nd, that the whole Kingdom appeared in a manner fubjugated to the Power of rbe Princes Will, and prepa^l to he either PapiHs or SUves, or both. *6 forward K^uin ot their Liberties, and the vifible Deftruaion of the Proteftant Religion in Ireland, like the Drum to the ^tnle, awakned the Englifh Nation to their own Deliverance, and rou2’d them to confider. That the only Reafon why they were not reduced to the fame Condition with their unhappy Neighbours was, be- caule the Enemies Power was not yet arrived to a ^ P^^'^y» 2nd that the Defign was the fame, tho tb^\bnd was remoter there, as their Work had more Difficulty. . The Third Article is now before us, equally Ruinm in Its Confequences and equally Exemplar \ and in this they k^p ftill to the former Meth^, That we ate always Ruin’d a ftep before England, Til C 3^3 ) ’Tis confeft the Contrivers of thefe' Religious Di- flurbsnces tnsniiged their Matters fo as to have the Blow ftruck in both Kingdoms at theliimc time, and fo have prevented the Mifchief in one Place, being a Warning to the other; But Providence that has ever watch’d over the Protellant Intereft broke the Snare and unravel’d all this knot of Mifery, and ftill poor Ireland is the Beacon to warn us, the Allarm to rouze us, and the Example from which to beware. Tis therefore worth fome Remark here, that the fpccious Pretences made in boch Kingdoms to cover and conceal the real Defign, have been equally con¬ triv’d, tho’ not equally fuccefsful. In Ireland a ruine the Proteflant Diflenters, and in Protelfant Interell, by dilcouraging and difeontenting a great part of the Proteftants in that Kingdom, comes introduc’d under the Title of an AU to prevent the Gromh of Fopery. Tis not material to enquire bv whole Application H^"3jgement this Mifchief was accom- plilhd 5 nor is it the Defign of this Paper to make Perfonal Refleftions. But it cannot but be obferv’d, that it feems fotne- thing hard, and very unkind, that the Diflenters in ^eland^ who were known to be one of the chief Bulwarks in that Kingdom againft Popery, and who were in general a People who at the Price of their Blood defended themfelves to the laft Extremity, and kept a footing in Ireland till Relief could come from England, fhould by the Artifice, and for the private Ends of a Party, who have not yet told us ‘ what they drive at, be rank’d in the fameCiafs with the Introducers i/rte they laid down thsit Lives to oppofe, and be cou-pled with the moft dan¬ gerous Enemies of the Kingdom. At beft it favours of a moft fcandalous Ingratitude, the very People who drank deepeft of the Pc- piih fury, and that were the moft vigorous to fhew both their Zeal and their Courage, in pppofing Ty- B b ; runny C 374 ) iipnjr and Popery, and on the Foot of whbfe For* wardnefs and Valour, the Church of Ireland reco¬ vered her fell from the low Condition Popery ha 4 reducM her to, Ihould now be requited with fo in¬ jurious a TTreatnieht as to be link’d with thofe very Fapill$ they fougljt ^gainft, and be enafted againft qnder tlie'Head of the Growth rf Fo- At the fame time that thisBill was palling in Ireland^ gfeat Bpafts were made by fome People, of a Billon' foot in England^ for the further enforcing the Teft Aft, by p'reventing t}a€OccaJional Conformity of Dif ^'enters. The Advocates for this Bill have had a great deal of trouble to defend it from fome Scaqdals tlirowri upon it by other Pens. As that it was a Breach of Tolerdtion^ a Defign of Ferfecution^ and an Encroach¬ ment on Civil as well as Religious Kight. Whether It has been clear’d of thefe Charges is not the Bufi- nefs of* this Paper; and yet if my Opinion were m be ask’d in this Cafe, I believe I fhould fay, that both Perfecution and Encroachments on Civil Liberties, was aftually exp-.fted by fome that built their Hopes bh'the Suedefs of this Bill.' ■ Why fome Gentlemen took care to put out of the Preamble to the feco'nd Bill the Declaration jgaiqft Perfecution, is a Myftery ’I wont undertake to ex¬ plain j but that it afforded various Speculations to us withpdt Doors is as certain, as that after it was fo left put, fome People began to leflen their Diligence in Exploding Perfecunng Principles.' ’ ' ‘ The Lartghage of thofe Gentlemen without Doors, ’ who at fiffe were only for reftraining a vi- CaiTandra. Pia£tice' as they call'd it, was foon opchevrd.. jjjg Puipit and the Pref? uirong’d with Inveftives at'the Diflenters. 1 fhafl iipt diieft the World to judge of onp thing by another, 'hut where Parallels are drawn very e^aft, s' hat fhall we lay when two things ateafted at the V - . ■ ■- ’ ' '■ - fame 1 fame Time, by the lame Perfons, in the fame Me- ^ thods, and the Subjeft exattly the fame, who (hall ® doubt the famenefs of the Defign. Never let our New Affociation Men talk any more > f oFDiffenters ^ Aflbciating, the Aflbcbtions , ^ . are againft them, what elfe are fuch vnu- faal Methods, fuch forgetting of Services, fuch making Laws againft the Innocentj fuch brand¬ ing them with odious Characters, «! What can any Man cxpeCi when the peaceable !« part of the Nation are called + Bloody, thofe that fpent their Blood againft Po- Oxford Serffioft* if pery Enafted againft fo prevent the Growth of Popery-^ they that frood to the Defence of their Country, when Ibme of them that applauded *>i this Law ran away and deferred it, made uncapable f and thought unfit to be trufted with the Civil Ad- t miniftration in that Country they fo bravely de- a fended. if- What can the largeft Charity think is in the hot- M tom of all this, when we fee a Party m Travel with if a monftrous Birth ? In England the l oleration Aft s, to be kept inviolable, yet fevere Penalties to be in- ja flifted on DifTenters. In Ireland^ to prevent the Growth of Popery, the DifTenters muft be treated as !k Men moft dangerous and fufpefted, notwithftanding sif their Zeal for the Proteftant Interefr, fo confpicuous *■ in the defence of that Country. When Men ftrain ti! their Reafon to reconcile fuch Contradiftions, we i may ex^ft the Birth will difclofe fomething which B at prefent they would be loath to own as legitimate. No Men ftretch their Reafon, and aft beyond the « common Rate of Creatures, but on extraordinary Oc- i cafion i fuch prepofterbus Dealings as thefe vyould jj not have teen praftis’d with any People in the ^ World, if there were not a Figure, A JSleqfn in it^ fomething more Intended than is Expiefs’d, I ?.M [j ff it (B76) It cannot be that the Diflenters in WW, who of People of that Nation ventur’d with the grea- tefcObftinacy andRefolution to defend their Coun¬ try, and the Proteftant Religion againfc Popery, can be concern’d in a Bill/i; tie Growth of fuch Contradiftions muft be big with fome ocher Birth i there muft be fome Plot^gainft the Dilfenters as fuel, and the hedging them into an Aft lor preveraiag the Growth of Popery, muft be either a meer Indignity put upon them to render them Odious and Contemptible to the World, or a Fraud a Con^ cealment to blind the Eyes of the Diflenters that it might pafs without their Notice, fmee no one could imagine it could be poflible an Aft to prevent the w it that could aftea the DiflTenters, than whom none were mors violent againft Popery on allOccafions, or more mady to expole themlelves for the defence of their Country and the Proteftant Religion. But however unkind or myfterious this Matter is. 10 It appears; and in order to lay open the Cafe, fo TT World judge of it, and to make out the idardinips, which with Submlflion to out Superiouts we think the Diflenters in Ireland lye under, ’tis ne-’ ceflary, . ^ . T.’ To enter into the Particulars, examine the tatt,. and fee what it is that is done to the Diflen- rers in Ireland, with the Manner and Circum- ftances. f Enquire into the Behaviour of the Diflenters in Ireland, and fee what they have done to deferve fuch Treatment, and what Reafon they bad to expe£)i 3. Examine whether the prefent Ufage has not been againft the real I^fign of the Church of Ireland, and what has been dbne by them to fhew their Concern t ir, or their Forwardnefe to give them an Equi* 4. Exa* C 377 ) N 4. Examine what natural Confequenccs may be. p expe£ted from fuch a Treatment of the Diffenters, ® and what the Detriment to the whole Nation. S! h 1. As to the Matter of Fa£l, the fhort Abridgment w of it is as follows. tk The Proteftants in Ireland had many Years labour- id ed under the Encroachments of the Papifts, they had ti been once moft horridly Maflacred to the number of Ki 200000, and the reft Plundred and driven from their Settlements and Pofleffions in the Year t In the laft War they ran a Fate equal to the firft, i fhe Majfacre excepted^ and as mil he farther ohjerved^ k in thefe Extremities, the little City of Derry was the jt only place of Refuge for the Proteftants, and a San- e Suary which the Papifts could never drive them out « of with all their Force, and where they found fuch 11 Refiftance as gave all the World reafon to knovo^ that the averfion between the Diflenters and the Papifts •• s; was as conftant as great, and as irreconcilable as pof it fible, and lerved to encreafe the Wonder, That the 5 J)iflenters fhould, of all People in the World, be s, look’d upon as Perfons in the fame Clafs with the Pa¬ st pijls , and Enacted againft in a Bill to prevent the Growth ^ Pcpery, In order to fecure the Proteftants from the like E- 4 ruptionsof Popery,.feveral Bills had been offered in \ Parliament, to prevent the Growth and Encreafe of ; that Power that had been fo dangerous, and had ftruck twice at the Root of their Liberty and Re- ii ligion, £ ' But it had been the Misfortune of this Country to i have fuch Bills, thro’ one unhappy Accident or other, always to mifcarry, either at home among them- ; felvfes, or at the Engltjh Court, where the Native 5 Ertfh always cultivated fuch an Intereft as was too £ hard^ for the Proteftants, and has been a means to * p deprive them of the Bleffing of fuch Bills. u. I 'I The late Glotious King William^ wfio, at the ha- ; zard of his Royal Perfbn, was the fpecial Inftru* ; ment of their fecond Redemption from the prevailing , Power of the Irijh, had fuch a peculiar Love for this - Kingdom, as the Triumph of his own immediate Con- du£l and Valour, that he always ftudied its Welfare, ; and was ready to give Ear to any Propofal for its ad¬ vantage. But as that Prince, who had ppon his Thought the univerfal good of Mankind, had no fooner reco¬ vered one Kingdom from Deftruftion, but he had another upon his Hands j (his whole Reign being embarrafs’d with the perpetual Cares of fetving Un¬ grateful Nations,) fo the Proteftants found the Set¬ tlement of Affairs in \rela,nd fo perplex’d) and the Reaffumation of Grants ready to bring a new Diffi¬ culty on the Stage -, and in all this time they found no Opportunity to offer at the Settlement and Secu- fity of their Intereft and Religion, as they expefted and deiir’d. But when they fayy the Elifprders pretty well over, and the lofs of their glorioqs BeqefaUot fo happily fupply’d, by the Acceffion of (ter prefeni Majefty Queen Anne. When to their great Comfort and SatisfaUion, they faw the early Care her Majefty took of all her Pro- teftant SubjeUs, her Zeal for the Proteftant Reli¬ gion, and the ppwprful AffiftanV? ffis prepared to give it in all parts of Europe where fhe faw it opprefs’d. When they fjw themfelves blefs’d with luch a Lord Lieutenant, who by reafon of his great Poffeffion^ ^mong them, bejidei the Nativ<^ Inclination^ his Grace the Duke of Ormond always difcovered to 4 ^s of Qe- nerojity^ (lad powerful Qbligations of Care and Re- fpeU upon him for the Kingdom of Ireland in parti- pular fuch a Governour ag the People of Ireland ah ways lov’d and long’d for, and than whom, rjorie pvet was, or could be ^nt thither more endin’d, or better . ^epa»ed to impVov'e all her MVjefty's gracious Ifiten- sc ( ?79 ) fo jlons of Good to the Kingdom, in the higbeft manncs ill her Majefty could defire or the People expert, i This, of all the critical Junflures that ever hap, Ck, pen’d to this Kingdotn, Teem’d the happy opportunity^ put into their Hands’ by a fpecial Providence, to ob- jl tain the Settlement ‘^pd Security ot the Proteltant Re¬ ligion, which they and their Anceltors had fpent fo w much Blood and Treafure to procure, and the want » of which had been attended with fo many fatal Con- mi feq^uences. w In order to this, among the feveral Bills prefented > by the Parliament to his Grace the Lieutenant, in the a. fecorid Year of his Government, to be by him tranf- 1( mitted to London, apd to be palled in the Council I theic, according to. fhe Sett/emnt, there was one par- ticular Bill, Entitpled, An AS to prevent the Growth j. of Popery. 5j That the greater folemnity might add to the Value pfit, and th^t it might apprar of what Confequence , the Parliament of Ire/and thought this Aft, the Speak- er, attended by the whole Hppfe, waited on the Lord I Lieutenant of Ireland to prefent this Bill, and in a par¬ ticular mian'net recommended it to his Care •, at the ^ fame time acquainting his Grace, that the Houfe had I,; fufficient Grounds to believe the Iriph Papilis had rais’d a Sum of Money in the Kingdom, to manage , their Sollicitations againlt this Bill, in order to pre- vent its return out cn the contrary they contributed to the utmoft “ of their Power, and made no diftinftion of Se£l:s j “ many Difienters Contributing liberally to this good “ End, which ought to be remembred to theirHonour. i; Archbifhop .R/>^’s State of page 231. It cannot be denied but that this is an Authentick Certificate of their Charity to the Church, as the o- C c 3 ther ( 59 P ) .ther of their Loyalty to their King, and how it has ^ been rme'mbred to their Honour^ is left to all impar- 1 tial Judgments, who pleafe to give themfelves the y trouble to review the Conlequences of the Bill lately | pall; by which they have rank’d their Charitable Brethren amongft their worft Enemies, and chain’d them to a Compulfion as a means to prevent thegroxatb oj Popery. And being brought by this Article to the late War, arter the Confeflion of fo eminent a Branch of the Church of Ireland^ with refpeft to their Charity, it is fit a little to examine their Behaviour in the late Siege of Derty^ and the feveral Anions at Innis- killing. To make out this : Was this Paper confin’d to Ire- land) and were we writing to none but our own Country men, it were eafie to appeal to the knowledge of thoufands yet alive, in whofe Memory it muft yet be vepr frelh, with what undiftinguilh’d Charity and Alacrity the Diflenters join’d with their Brethren of the Church, in the mutual defence of Religion and Li¬ berty, how rhey went Hand in Hand into the Field, and Hand in Hand to the Grave, fighting for one ano¬ ther, and their dear Families and Religion. What tho’ they have not the Arrogance to enter up¬ on any diftinguilhing Circumflances, in which they might go beyond their Brethren, yet hnce the Church 1 themfelves will not aflTume a pretence to have out¬ gone them, we hope their Modefly in that Cafe can¬ not tend to their Prejudice. We therefore ayoid fo ungrateful a firife as it muft : be, to find out and fix the Particulars in which one ' Party excell’d another •, Yis enough to both their Ho- j nour, that they ftrove to out-do themfelves and one ' another, as they^ plainly did all the reft of the King¬ dom in 'A£is of Gallantry and Courage, in a free open I handed contributing to one anothers Wants, and fup- J plymg all Peo- Je concern’d in the defence of theNati- ’ on, and in the Pcrlbnal Bravery in the defence of the (590 Nor are we afraid to enter into a Lift of the Num* ^ bers of the People of either Ibrt flain in that Siege *, if they are two Diflenters to one Church-man, they cannot take it ill that we do not boalt of it. ^ The feveral Magiftrates of the City of Derry^ now ^ turned out of Commiffion by this A£V, as not lafe to *■' be trufted, are too Modeft to furnifh us with an Ac¬ count how much Money each of them expended in ^ ProviBons, Stores, and Charity f or the Defence of the ^ Town-, and the Editor of this is forc’d to boaft for ^ them, without Reflexions on any, that fome of them ® have disburft greater Sums than many of their Suc- cefTors arc in Condition to fpare, if there fhould be the like occafion. The Teftimony given by Authority to theirBeha- ® viour, in the defence of their Country, and the Pro- ’ teftant Religion, is an unqueftion’d Proof of the juft * Claim they have to the Title of Loyal, and Faithful Valiant SubjeXs, and is a perfeX ContradiXion to f the Notion of obtaining Security againft them as a- f ' ainft Papifts, and coupling them with the known inemies of the Nation. The late Queen Mary^ a Natne both Nations have an equal Veneration for, and which we cannot name ? without a Sigh, had fo true a Senfe on her Mind, of the Courage and Fidelity of the Diflenters in “ that fhe gave them a Mark of her Royal Favour in !'• Money, to be employ’d to rebuild their Market Houfe, and to ereX a new Meeting houfc in that City. if: Nor let us do Injuftice to the Church and Gentryi »; or Clergy of the Church of Ireland ^ ’lis moft certain it never enter’d into the Hearts of the Conforming r Proteftants of this Kingdom, to impofe thefe Hard- 'c (hips upon their Brethren, much lefs did they imagine to have it included in their Bill to prevent the Growth Dw of Popery. f C c 4 I Nothing ( 39i ) Isothing fo hard, nothing fo ungrateful, could en- 1 :er into the Hearts of the Church in this Kingdom, i who could not but remember what the Diflenters had , d 011^ to deferve, and from whence they might expeft better Ufage. ^ ‘ 5 They could not but have it frefh in their Memo- i nes, how they had relieved their Clergy in diftrefs: harboured their banifh’d, diverted their Forces of the Enemy, and defendi^ the remnant of the Kingdom againft Popery. They could not forget the Slaughter made of the Iri/J) Army under the Walls of Derry^ and how that hold (land, madp by fuch a handful of Men, aw’d < the Enemy, encourag’d Friends, and made way for ■ the Conquefts of King WiUiAm^ by fecuring to him i alf the North of Ireland 5 by which means he had leifure to March direflly to the Boyn^ and there put the whole Fortune of Irejand upon one decifive Bat- ; fel ; and by beating the Irijh there delivered this ■ Nation, which he could not have done had the Pro- •|j Vince of Ulfter been at his back poflefs’d by his Ene- . mies, who would have cut off bis Provifions, and ■ exceedingly ftraitned his Quarters. ’Tivould be endlels to reckon up all the brave A* ^ aiohs done in this War by the DilTemers, own’d by the King himfelf, ackn Arehbifhop of Dublin^ and charge all the Clergy of i i Ireland with very much Ingratitude to treat thofe \ 1 Men foill, who by the Confeflion of the laid Archbi- j (hop deferv’d to have their Charity and Kindnefs to ! their Brethren rememhred to their Honour. It can therefore lie no where but among the Fne- ; mies of the Diflenters, who for the Gratification of j their private Malice, or for the carrying on of fome ' private Defign, have mifreprefentM them at the | Court of England., and caufing all their Submiflions ; and paft Services to be forgotten, prevailed to have them treated as Enemies and dangerous Perfbns> to that Government which they Iiad fo often and fo i faithfully defended. If the E—— of N -had been pleafed to remen^ . her his Imprimatur to the Book of his Grace of Dub¬ lin, as in Honour moft Men think he was bound, he would certainly have made a generous Reprefenti- tid.n of the Qiflenters Cafe to the Engli^i C^urt. ■ - '■ An4 ( 59^) ( 397 ) And we hope we cannot he guilty of Prefumption in faying, that whoever they were that promoted this Claule, and whatfoever their Reafons might be, they cannot pretend that in it they purfued her Majelty’s true Inrereft, or indeed her own genuine or glorious Defign, which appears from her own Royal Mouth to be the Good, the Peace and Profperity of all her Protellant Subjefts, fince to opprels a Party of them, and perfecute them for their Religion, at a time when her Majefty has declar’d her Royal Intentions to the contrary, can never be agreeable to her Ma- jefty’s Pleafure, nor could ever have been obtain’d without fome Mifreprefeutaiion of her Majefty’s Loyal and Faithful Subjeds. Farther, ’tis our Opinion that the Church of Ire¬ land^ as before defcrib’d, cannbt be the Agents of this ill Treatment, becaufe ’tis apparent the Senfe both of what the DifTenters have done and fuft'er’d, for the Se¬ curity and Prefervation of that Church, would havq given all its moderate Members fuch Satisfaftion, and made them lb eafy with the DifTenters, and the Dif- fenters with them, that the Peace and Union which her Majefty has fo earneftly recommended to her Sub- je£ls m England^ feem’d to be arrived to a Perfeftiori in Ireland. To the PapiftS in particular there appear’d no diffe¬ rence, Proteftants were always treated alike as Ene¬ mies, and always heartily concerned themfelves fof one another in their mutual Defence. ’Tis no Vanity to fay, the Church men could not have defended themfelves againft the Papifts without the DifTenters j and we need appeal to no body but themfelves for the Truth of it; we need ask none but the Church men, whether the DifTenters did not both in their Perfons and Purfes heartily join w'ith them, and if they Ihould be fb dilingenuous as to de¬ ny it, the Papifts themfelves would confefs it for them. r ..e mmmm ( ?98 ) The Diflentefs afl*ifting them, and relieving them, N#.U T -.1_- a ‘rx«o ij both Clergy and Laity, in their Flight and Diftrcfs, is fairly and honourably own’d by the Church, and by one of the moft eminent of their Dignified Clergy, * his Grace the Lord Archbifhop of Dublin^ as has been already noted. Nor can we forbear to mention, to the Honour of the Church of Ireland^ that they have been lb fenfible of this, and fo far from expreffing any Heat, or Breach • of Charity, fo far from inclining to a perfecuting Temper, or from envying, or molefting the Diflenters in their Confcientious Liberties, that they have en* joy’d a perfefl and entire Liberty, tho’ without any Toleration by a Law, and this Liberty, to the Honour of the Church of Ireland Proteftants, was found free from all thofe Heart-burnings, Infultings, Lampoons and Reproaches, which their Neighbours have been treaty with on that account; they liv’d together in Charity, good Neighbourhood, and fettled friendly ! Correfpondence. And as the Church of Ireland of their mere Inclination gave to the Diflenters an undifturb’d Liberty of Con- fcience, fo on the other hand the Diflenters manifelt- ed their entire Confidence in the Chriftian Temper and Moderation of the Church, and never foUicited the Obligation of a Law to the Toleration of their Religious Worfliip; they knew they had oblig’d the Church to the heigbth, and always frankly joyn’d Heins and Hands to defend them, and as they found no ungrateful Ufage they fear’d none \ and thus they lived together in full Confidence of one another, and as they never expeHed this A£f, fo we firmly believe it was the remoteft thing in the World from their Thought to put any fuch thing upon the Publick, as the joyning the Diflenters with the Nation’s Enemies, and ranking them with thole they ought to be a- fraid of. If any Man Ihould ask now what will be the Effe^ ©fall thisHardlhip and ill Ufage. which it the Fourth Head, a n C 399 ) Headf the Author of this anfwers, there cannot be Place in ne Compafs of thefe Sheets to enumerate all the unhappy Confequences of this Matter ^ nor may it be fit to fuggeft what we ought to fear on this Ac¬ count. But as far as may coofift with Reafon, wc anfwer I. Negatively. Nothing Tumultuous, nothing Difobedient or Un- dutiful to her Majelty, whofe Inclination we have abundant Reafon to know, is entirely let to promote the Peace of all her Dominions, and the general Uni¬ on of all her People. We Ihould not prefume to quote the Addrefs from the Presbyterian Minifters of the HoxthoiIreland^ and how they boaft to her Ma- jefty in thefe Words, According to our known Frinci- pies of Lcyalty^ were it not known to her Majefty, and even to the Diflenters Enemies that nothing has ever been able to lhake their Fidelity to the Englijh Crown; 2nd that their Principles have never been Tainted with Dilbbedience or DilaflPeflion, either to the Perfons or Government of our Proteftanc Princes. Therefore as the worft of the Diflenters Enemies , cannot fuggeft any thing Undutiful of them, with the leaft Shadow of Reafon; fo they will be effeftu- ; ally difappointed in their Expeftations, that any Hardftiips put upon the Diflenters, of what fort, or : by what Weans, Contrivance, or Procurement foever, I will drive them, either by Word or Aflion, to ex* prefs the leaft Difrefpe£l to her Majefty’s Perfon or Governmenr, much lels to Ihow any Undutiful, DU fturbing, or Fadious Refentment. Nor can the Appeal made to all the World in the Publication of thele Sheets, in Behalf of the DiflTen- ters, fignifie any fuch thing, being no other than a fttting the Cafe in a true Light j that, if poffible, the Eyes of tfce Nation’s Reprelentatives or Governours being open’d, they may become Advocates for them, and humble Petitioners with them lo her Majefty, ( 400 ) to tcpeal that Part of this A£t that treats them in fucH | a manner, that they may no longer, without any De- ^ fert of their own, lie under fo heavy a Burthen, as | being mifreprefented to their Prince, and being coun- |' ted Dangerous to that State they fp zealoufly and ar- I dently fought for, and engag’d their Lives and For- tunes to fave. . ' 2. Not Peace anJ Union. For as fucha Law can¬ not but Sower and Difcompofe the Parties, and make one fide always r(^ret the Wrong they think done , them; lb on the other Hand, it rouzes the Evil Spi- ] lit of Malice and Envy in thofe, who had before no Inclination vo infult their Brethren. The LordFd//^- ; land., in his Speech to the Parliament, tells them, that’ the Church had deftroy’d Union under Pretence of Uniformity. Rujh. Coll. Vol. 2. Fol. 1342* ’Tis ! plain, that there was no Strife of Parties before, but ; i Veace and Union v?ere their Pleafure and theil . E Boaft. , ^ If any fhall attempt to tell us what a Learned Au: a ihor advanc’d in England., that this would eftablifll I Peace and Union, it muft be referr’d to the Example ^ f. of the North of Ireland, where this Law is likely to ' ii fill a peaceable Nation with all the Conftant, but Fa- ft tal Attendants of contending Parties, to the Breach ’ i of that Union, Peace, Charity, and, Temper which ji! reign’d in the Hearts of all her Majefiy’s SubJeUs, of ‘s wlrat Perfwafion foever. . ^ . - f Certainly Oppreflion of Confciences, or Depriva- t tion of Benefits tor the Sake of Confcience, can never t be a means of uniting Parties. ’Tis impoffible any f party can be eafy to lee known Loyalty of Principles : fufpeUed, unbroken Duty and untairited Affeftion |ft treated with Doubts, and PnaUed againft as dan- j gerous. , ■ , ' Either the Diflenting Proteftanfs of Ireland art c dangerous to the Goyernment, there is fomething to \ be fear’d from them, or the Atl would be prepofte- 5 foas. and there can' be no Realbn affign’d for the ma n king C 4°*) . king it j and joyning them with the Enemies of ihe Nation would be barbarous and unchriftian. But the worft Enemy they cannot charge them tvith one A- Sion, either in Memory or in Hiltory, in Modern or in Antient Time, that can make them fo much as look like Men dangerous to the Government, or from whom fomething is to be fear’d. Er^o If then this Aft has divided thofe Proieiiants intp Parties who were united before, has fill’d them with Heats, Animofities and RepiningS atone another that were in perfeft Peace before, will any Man lay we arc in the wrong in faying among the Eft'efts of this Bill negatively, Not Teace and Vnidn. Difcontenting any one Ibrt of People to pleafe ano¬ ther, lupprefling one Part to raife another, letting one Party above another ; thefe can never be made vie of as Arguments to prove that Peace will be the Efteft; and above all it is plain it will never bring it to pafs. Peace and Union are the Native Produce of ealy Laws, Plenty, and Profperiry} People are apt to bd )leafed when they are eafy, when they enjoy their lights, and when an Equality of the Government : ways all Parties-, bilt if there is a Byals in the ru¬ ing Powers again!! ot for one Party more than ano* ther, ’tis natural for the opprefs’d Parry ro euvy or repine at the other. It breeds ill Blogd^ it boils in tile Breaft of the Patty, and ’tis impolTible it liiould be otherwife and therefore 'tis not ro he expefted tliat any of the Confequences of this Aft can be Peace and Union. ■ 3. Ei'ot the l/j&eitfe of Trade. This Is apparent, for that the People of all Governments Trade frOelt ivhen they are ealy. Trade always declines in Go¬ vernments where the People are not ealy ^ and any one might fee it in Lo/idoa, during a certain time when a particular Bill was on foot in the Houfe • Stocks, Publick Credit and Aftions of Companies al¬ ways rofe and fell as that Bill did, or did not go for- Pd ward frr:i I (402) ward in the Houle: What Joy in Trade, what Rile of Stocks, what a Hux of Credit was in that Nation | at the Demile of that Bill 1 , I We have indeed no Banks, Eaji India Companies, f ' orPublick Stocks in Ireland to feel the fenfible Injury ] done to Trade •, but if any Man will ask whether the ^ Di^nters, who are fome of the principal Traders in ; that Kingdom, will launch out the farther, and em- | bark the more heartily in Trade for being Difhonour’d, , Disfranchis’d, Dilheartned and Supprelt; itisaQue* j liion that needs very little Anfwer, and what the j meaneft Underftanfing in the World would give a ; Negative to with little or no Helitation. * Can it be, that the Diflenters Ihould wilh well to ■ that Country, where notwithftanding^ their conftant Ready Loyalty, their univerlal Engaging in its De- ; fence, the Expence of their Blood and Eftates in oppo- , ling Popery, they Ihould be now fufpeaed as ^nge- rous to its Welfare, turn’d out of all Honours, Trufts or Profits in the Neighbourhood, and look’d upon as ■ Ferfons unfafe to be trufted in any Publick Employ* ^ menr. Su h Treatment can never be attratfive of the j AfRaions and the Love of the Diflenters ^ they can¬ not ttudy the Profperity of a Country where they are us’d with fo much ungrateful Diltinftion. ; If then their AlfeEfions to the Place may juftly be , chang’d by unkind Treatment, the Tranfpolnig them* -■ fAvfcs, their Stocks and Families into ocher Parts is a j Confequence we may fay more to afterwards j but ! the Trade following the Traders, by Confequ^ce the j Coumrv will link in its People, Wealth, and Trade. There are more Negatives which might be inlilted ^ here, when we are enquiring into the Confequen- ; J f C 403 ) be no Reputation either to a Party or Church, any j more than to a Angle Perfon ^ and' though the Pro- T teftant Diflenters of Ireland do acquit the Church as I fuch of contriving this Hardfhip, yet the Scandal will " for ever lie on the Church of Ireland^ fo far as they [ dip their Hands in the unhappy if rigorom Execution ^ of it. ' Nor will this ever tend to the Reputation of the !j Govern— of Ireland. —To fay they were impos’d upon any where is to fay nothing •, for though ’tis not a Man’s Fault that he is impos’d upon, ’tis a Difrcputa- * , tion to him to be impos’d on: And the farther thofe H Arguments are true which acquit the Gentry and the I Church of Ireland of dcfigning this Mifchief to the Proteftant Diflenters, the farther this Difreputation T of their Conduft will appear. T If they had no hand in the Contrivance of this ‘1 Claufe, if it was fent back with that Claufe incerted ^ without the Privity or Knowledge of any of the Go- € verning Party in this Kingdom, either in Church or I State, this may acquit them of Ingratitude to the Dif § renters, but it can never acquit them of being impos’d % upon fomewhere .* And if they had furnifh’d ihem- ® felves with Courage and Honour enough to have re- * prefented back the Services, the Fidelity and Loyalty I of the Diflenters, and their Debt of Kindnefs and f' Charity to them ; if all this had been laid before her Majefty, we cannot doubt but fuch Orders would f have been given by her Majefty’s Gracious Dire£]:ion, I as are fuitable to that Tendernefs (he has always ex- ;| prefs’d to her People in General, and as we know to ^ be the Innate and Hereditary Quality of out Sove- ' reign. Nay had our Clergy reprefentcd to the Right Ho¬ nourable the E-— of JV— then Secretary of State, and ; through whofe Hands this Law, with this unhappy additional Claufe muft pafs, had they reprefented to his Lordfhip the Kindnefs, Charity and Goodnefs which the DifTenters fhew’d to their perfecuted Bre- Dd 2 thren, ' ( 404 ) thren, recorded, as is noted, by the Archbifliop of | DuHin •, had they reminded him that his Lordfhip’s 1 hnprmatur is to the Book, and that himfelf pals’d it f' into the World ; that his Lordfhip has thereby own’d ! to all the World x\v 3 iX it ought to be remember'd of theW< Dife/iters to their Honour, that they reliev’d the ClerJ gy ot the Church in their Suffering without DiftinQi* ^ on-- had his Lordfhip been, referr’d back to this Te -1 ftitnony, under his own Hand, he is a Gentleman of; too much jtrifice and Honour ever to have forwarded j luch a Bill, without humbly laying it before her Ma- jefly, that to his Knowledge they deferv’d better Treatment. It can therefore never be reckon’d up to the Honour and Reputation of the G-1 or Clergy mlrelandy that they fhould feprelent the Cafe to the Court of England, ufe their Interell to obtain fuch a Remiffion as, in Gratitude for Service done, and Love exprefs’d, they ow’d to the Diflenters. And all we can lay for them on that Head, is the great Concern they were in for the Lofs of the Needful Security againlt Popery,’ together with Refolinion.s to make the Dilfenters fome luture Amends, which may Ibmething extenuate the thing. 5. Another Negative may be thus exprefs’d. This ' Will certainly he no Encouragement to the Diflenters j to joyn with their Brethren in their mutual Defence : , the next time the Papifts fliall pleafe to take Arms, and attempt their Throats. ; '■ Not but that perhaps they may he Fools enough, , as they always were, to Band in the Gap, and^tis ' plain they have aftnally fav’d the Church of Ireland • from Ruin ; hut it cannot be tl)at they have any At- i guments to move them to it from this Bill. If they ' had no other Inducements, they could never be thought s, to be mov’d to it from this Law. I If ever the Papifts in Ireland fliould rebel and com- fftaice a new Maflacre, as ’ris known they have god Will enough to do, and the Proteftants of the Church of 1 K 405 ; ll, of Ireland, taking Arms to defend themiclves, fhould % fay to the DifTenters, Come help the Lord againjl the % Mighty-, and the DifTenters Ihou Id fay, “ No, Gen- “ tlement, we are not fit to be rrufied, we were not ^ “ fit to be Mayors or Juftices, Cuffom houfe or Ex- •*; ci(e Officers, Aldermen or CoiT^mon^Councilmen for ^ “ fear of the Growth of Popery, pray take Care of it your felves; we-were not to be truffed with “ Commiflions in your Army, or your Country Ali/i- J . “ tia, pray fight by your feh^es ^ we were not to be “ intruRed myour Stores, pray be your own Gunners; j « we’ll have no Hand in it; you are able no doubt to beat the Injh without us, pray don’t trouble us a- “ bout it, ’tis none of our Buhnefs, you took it out “ of our Hands by Aft of Parliament. We are content to appeal to all the World whethe? fuch an anfwer as this would not be Lex lalionk, would not be fair and juft in the DifTenters ; and ^ whether indeed, all things confider’d, they ought not f to a£l thus, and anfwer thus, if ever the Cafe ame ^ Crifis, and they fhould be tried as they have f been already— Would not all the World call them i Fools, to do any thing again that merits to be remem- y her d to their Honour^ — If this be the Church’s Me- / th(^ e>\ retnembring Favours, if this be their Returns of Gratitude, let them fight for them next lime that k dare truft their Temper, I there appears fome fn- # confiftency in the yery Aaitfelf; and the Confequen- ■; ees of this Bill ftill as to Negatives will be really. 1 6. No preventing the Growth of Popery. Will i any Man in the World tell us, that To divide Prote. the further Growth ofPopen ^ 1^’ J” ^ Ship to drown the RaK-— i like Cutting off the Foot to cure the Corns, to di- videProteftants is to weaken them, or elfe our Savi- > our was a falfe Prophet; and can weakening the Pro- Kffant IntereR be a way to prevent the Growth of . Popery < 3 This C 406 ) This would merit feme Satyr if the Cafe was not s really too fad and ferious to bear a Banter. If thefe : gre Church of /rf'/WPoliticks^forShame Gentlemen | never reproach the Native Irtjh for winking when they i fhoot, for never Marks-men took fuch Aim as this, i ’Tis fuch a Tale of a Tub the very Ir'tfh themfelves • rnuft of Neceflity laugh at it •, and whereas we have -1 been told they were in Hopes this Claufe would > break the Bill, divide the Houfe, and fo the Bill b? i loft, we are of Opinion they ought to have acquiefe’d | and forwarded the paffing the Bill for the Sake of this | Claufe •, for what could be of mote Service to the | Popifh Interett in that Kingdom than to fee thePror | teftants thus divided, perfecuting, difturbing and dif- j obliging one another.To fee that Party fupprefs’d, \ trampl'd on an* diffatisfied who were always the | dead Weight againft Popery, from whom they re- ceived the moft Powder and Shot, and^ by whom | they were always worft handled- -This certainly ought to have comforted them, made them hope for | a Reftoration of their Affairs with more Probability j than ever, and might be thought a fuSicient Satisfa- I aion to them for all the other Difappointments of j that BUI. . r o. . I How can it but be an incxpreffible Satisfaction and j Pleafure to the Iri/b Papifts, who wilh all the E/r£/i/b | Proteftants out of the Kingdom, to fee a great many | of the richeft and moft trading Inhabitants draw in | their EffeCfs, remit their Money to other Places, fol- 1 low it with their Families j and a Law made by their ; Fellow Proteftants, which making them uneafy is the ] Occafion of it all. ] If it be anfwer’d, the Church Party are ftrong e- nough to take Care of the Irijh without the Diffenters, this opens the Door to a very unhappy Argument a* gainft them, TI?e/i what need of the A 3 5 if there was no Occafion for it, Why was it made? And this would caufc the Church of Ireland to run the Rifque of be< Ing charg’d with fome fpecial Malice, to make J ( 407 ) foBtievous to their Brethren, fo unkind, and Toother* wife ill circumftanc’d, without any manner of Occa- fion for it •, wherefore we choofe to difmils that An- fwer as a vain Pretence, and bring it to matter ot ^^That there is Occafion in the Kingdom of Irelanl to prevent the Growth of _ , , That the united Force of all the Proteftants in Ire- lani is neceflary to difcourage and keep it down, and all little enough. , And if fo, then ’tis a great Encouragement to the Growth of Popery to divide and difunite the Pt^te- Hants; and confequently, the Aft difagrees with it felf it pulls down in one part what it builds up in , another i the Whole is inconfiftent with the Parts, and incoherent with the Titl& , ’Tis time to have done with the Negatives, i ne Affirmative Confequences of this matter are many, • and time may make them appear to be more than yet > they feem to be j fome of them have been toucht in V their Contraries. ^ , ,. , , 1. Perfecution for Confcience Sake, which what-- ver may have been pretended, has been in all Ages al* low’d to be contrary to the Principles ot theChnltian Religion, and is Publickly difown’d and difapprovd by the Church of England^ which is allow’d to be the Parent and Nurfing Mother of the Church ot ireland. To perfecute for the Sake of a Confcientious Dirte- rence, as it has no Scriptural Authority, fo it has no Humane Authority to give it any Colour of a Law, or to make it agreeable to the Minds of Men ' --Ana therefore when we call it Perfecution, we find none of the Church pretend to juftify the Article of Perle- cution as lawful \ but they would come off here by proving, that this is not Perfecution ♦, becaule, lay they, we allow vou the Liberty of all ReligiousWor- fliipyour own Way. , The Anfwer to this is fo unhappily phm, that lad and tnoft pitiful Shifts are made to evade it. ^ Dd 4 Per ( 4o8 ) I Perfecution, if we underftand it right, is pufiifliing any Perl'ori or People for not complying with, or con- ^ terming to, foitie Particular of Divine Worfliip, or i forne Article of Religion which that Power that per- i fecutes demands a Conformity tq. ■ Now if ihofe Gentlemen, who will not have thefe things go under the Title of Perfecation, will tell us ? that to turn all the Diflenrers out of Places or Ho: I nour, Truft and Profit for not complying with theSa- crament, is not punifhing them for not complying with fome Particular of Divine Worfhip, they will come to a Necellity of proving One of thefe Two things. 1. That inflidling Penalties i^no Punifhment. Or, 2 . That the Sacrament is no Particular of Divine Worfliip, or no Religious A£t. Any Man would be glad to fee either of thefe Two points fo anfwer’d, as that thisCaufe might be clear’d |rom the Scandal, and the Church of Ire/and be ac- Quitted' from prafHting tMt Psrfecurion which her i Principle difowris. ■ ] 2. The fecond 'Confequence, which any wife Man i may forefee muft follow i^is Matter is Divi/ion——~ ■ The Effefls of that capacious Word are too many and ■ too long, to be deferib'd. 1 Divifions have too long affl iffed thefe pnhappy Nati- ? onsjto leave us in' any Degree Strangers to their ill Con- lequences* " The Queen’s Majefty, in all her late moft Exceiienr Speeches to her Parliament, has «iven us i jrue Ideas of the fatal Elfefi of Divifions^ and Breaches ' in the Ilniori of a Nation j and fiifficiently warn’d all her Subj[e£fs, were they a People capable of Wamiug, igairiif all the Circumftances that lead to fuch an Evil. ■ The Union of Proteftants in Ireland, tiU now, was very remarkable ; fome hints Mve been given of it in this Tra£f, and much more might be faid on that p’^eafahrSubieU y but the tMfcontehtS that begin alrea¬ dy to (hew their' U 1 A.fpe£\s, and cloud a.id eclipfe I I'he u. i the Beauty apd Luflre of that Light, how many, how *1 numberlcfs ate they / and what a black Profneft have 4 we ftill of thofe behind / W To divide the Proteftant Intcreft is to weaken it, to weaken that is to ftrengthen its contrary, Popery ^ \ and what can be a mor? fatal Blow to the general 4 ; (Good of that Nation. Capt. haixrence^ a Learned and a Senfible Gentle¬ 'll man, who wrote of, and very well underltood the In- t?! tereft of Ireland^ has this very .apt Hotion of the Inte- feff of Ireland j and with that we fhall end this DL 3 ‘ fcourfe. (' “ Rut that which would, above all other Expedi- >(, i, “ ents, tend to the ftrengthning the Englijh Intereft B ; in Ireland^ would be to endeavour a right Under- “ ftanding and charitable Union between all fober pi- w i “ ous Proteftants in matters of Religion, the \Vant fip of which increafeth groundlefs Jealoufies of each “ other, and ftrengthneth the Confidence of the com- bL “ men Enemy of the Proteftant Interefr,^at they I “ are eafily run down, as in the Mailacre 1(541. !!i| “ when at firft they declar’d their Defign was againfc "I the Puritannical Party, then againft the Engfifh^ ufif “ notthe^ftf/j; But I fuppofel need not inform you “ howfoonall Proteftants became equal Objefts of i-l “ their Fury and barbarous Cruelty. Law. lint. Ire- i»' land.pz^.^f. port CONCLUSION,; ; f __-— ■ ■■ ■ ^ . . • p . ’ I To the Church of Ireland, h Qentlemen^ J Y Our Proteftant Brethren, the Diflenters of this ^ i Kingdom, tho’ not pcrfonally acquainted with i f the Publication of thcfe Sheets, are here reprefented i ( your humble Suppliants for the Teftimonies of Loy- J i alty and Peaceable Behaviour, due from you in Ju- I ftice to Truth, and Honour to your felves. ^ ' j Thefe Innocents allied to you in Blood, united to! you in one Faith, Doflrine, and Redeemer, often • i your Companions in Sufferings for the fame Religion, ; ■ the fame Liberty, and the fame Country} your Fel- J lows in Arms for the Defence of this Kingdom, and ; Sharers with you in the Joy of the fame Conquefls; i your Partners in the many BleflTings of the Revolution, | and interefted with you in the Favour and mighty Pro- | te£lion of the fame Defender King William, always thought they fhould, with mutual Satisfa£l:ion, enjoy ^ with you their Share of the immortal Bleflings of ' ■ Peace, purchas’d under the Valour and Conduft of that Prince, by the joint Concurrence of the Protell- ant C 4 ” ) ant Power, undiflinguifli’d as to Party, Profeflion, ot Opinion. ^ t ’Tis with infinite Regret they fee the Endeavours of their Enemies to render them fufpefted to you, too fuccefsful ^ and thofe Laws, which were intro¬ duced for the Security of this Nation, pointed at them in Company with the Capital Enemies of Ireland. They cannot believe the Church of Ireland as fuch could entertain a Thought fo deftruftive to the gene¬ ral Welfare, as the loading the Diflenters with Crimes, which, by God’s Grace, they never were, or will be guilty of; or be fo unkind as to ena£t againft them as Criminal, while under the authentick Teftimonies of Loyalty and Good Services done to your whole Bo¬ dy, as well as the Government, they have an Acknow¬ ledgment of their extraordinary Zeal for the Safety of both. They are therefore rather enclined to fuppofe they lhall meet with Eafe and Redrefs of this Burthen from your Hands, than that you will Ihow your felves fo much as enclin’d to lay any Hardfliip upon them and the Defign of thefe Sheets is but in an humble Manner to expoftulate with you on their Be¬ half, that from the Senfe of their Merit, their part Services and known Loyalty, you would become humble Interceflbrs with them, and for them, to their Sovereign, that fuch part of this Prellure as, your own Juftice and Honour (hall difhte to you they have not deferv’d, may be taken oft'; and that the Church may not lie under the Refleftion of ha¬ ving enjoy’d the Advantage of their Sufferings and Faithful Services, without fuitable Returns to the People, who have, by your own Acknowledgment, merited to,be remember’d by you to their Ho¬ nour. Next, and immediately after the Arguments in this Cafe, drawn from the Principles of Charity, Neigh¬ bourhood, Chriftian love, and the Senfe of Merit, ‘ ’ known ( 412 ) known in feme Countries bv the Nim^- nf Gratitude. ,he Author in the Name of the whole Body of the DiflCnrer/5 n that all thofe Gentlemen of the Church of Ire^d, who may be enclined to acquiefe in the Hard, furrefhon of the Native Irijh, whether back’d by Fo¬ reign Alliance, or not, they are able of themfelves thk dangerous call d piflenters, to oppofe fight, conquer, and duce the faid Native Infi. >t > « K^’ ** ^ Native Irijh and Papifts,* by common Calculation are Eight to One- againft the Bn/r/J and Proteffants in that Kingdom, fpeaking inclufively of all forts of Diflenters ; The S:ud &c. wouM not be above Sixteen to One, in Cafe all forts of DifTenters are excluded from eve! ly Part of the Defence, and laid by either as Neuters or as Enemies. * Whether, allow thel;-,;? to be worfe Cowards and bcoundrils than they ever yet appeared, whether ^hey tinnk it poflible to fight them with the IhequalU ty of One to Sixteen. ^ 2. Jufiia.mQther it be reafonable to, expea the piflenters, who, in time of Peace, and without Pro- vocation, are enaaed againft as dangerous Enemies, and not thought fit to be trufted with Ports of Profit fliould be concern’d in Cafe of Rebellion and War to accept of Places of Hazards, a^d embark iii the De¬ fence of thofe People vvho ^reati^d them fo ua- [ 5- Aftions. Whether ever the Church ofirr- F knd, when opprefs’d or infulted by the Irijlh, were I able to defend themlelves againft them, without th» Help of their Diffenting Brethren ? 1 4. Whether they found them backward in fuch ^ time of Diftrefs to venture their Fortunes and Blood i for the general Prefervation ? And whether iy right i of War they have not an equal Claim to the Privi- L leges of that Peace they helpM to obtain. » I If we might be allow’d here to expoftulate with , the Church of Ir^Mnd, it fliould be to ask them \ Gentlemen, do you think the Papifts are likely ever f to renounce their old Principles of Hatred again!! the f hng/i/h^ as a Nation i or that upon every Opportu^ nity they fhould not be very forward to put in Pra- ; Slice the former Rage againft the Proteftant Intereft i in general; whether, when they find an Occafion to ^ Praftice, either by InfurreSlion, General ■f Maffacre, or any other publick or private Method I they will diftinguifh Church Proteftanrs from DiiTen’ I ting Proteftanrs. ; We defire, with all Modefty and poflible Kefpea-, to ask whether you do not leein to exprefs a greater ; Confidence in the DiiTenters on one Hand, than is con- f. fiftent with the Diftruft and Diffidence on the other Hand, which muft be fbppos’d to make it rational, that they ffiould be enaded againlt in the fame Law with the Papifts and Enemies to the Government;} and whether you do notfeem hereby to own, that we ^ ■ are more Loyal to the Government, and True to the P^^otcftant Intereft than your felves, in that you veU' ^ ture to put the higheft Indignity, Reproach and Af- > wont upon us, and thereby prelbme we are by no ill Treatment to be provoked fo much as to (land Neuter wlien C 414) when you? Defence requires our Affiftance, much lefs i . that you fliould think, we (hall on any Terms be j ^ brought to joyn with the Papifts in your Deftru- ] L ftion. I We would be glad you would reconcile thefe two } ^ palpable ContradiftionSi and would willingly know, ' whether, if after all this Treatment, the next time i ’ the Papifts of this Kingdom Ihall think fit to infult ^ you, and the Diflenters fall in, and with the Hazards ' of their Lives, Eftates, and all that is dear to them, defend you, whether you will not blufti at this Bill, and enter your Acknowledgment upon Record, as It is already, that thefe Things ought to be remembted to their Honour > . . - It cannot be defended by the Rules of Charity,Chri- ■ : Ilian-Love, and Good Neighbourhood, any more i than it can from the Rules of Juftice or Policy, that ; the Diflenters fliould be thus treated j fince they, efpe- ^ cially thofe of them who now inhabit the Northern Parts of the Kingdom, came to you as Fellow-Plan- j ters and Settlers of Colonies, in the Beginning of the ; Peopling this Nation by the Britijh Proteftants ^ and conlequently, have equal Right of Liberty and Settle- j ment as your felves •, or elfe came hither as Auxilia- ^ lies, as indeed they have ever fince prov’d, and as your Affiftants againft your Enemies; and have there- " by obtain’d a Right of Settlement and Liberty by ^ Treaties and Capitulations, which ought not to be . violated or invaded. Upon all thefe Confiderations, and many more, of i which they fave to themfelves the Liberty of re¬ minding you, as Occafion requires, they defire to lay 1;; before you calmly and fedately *, and in all Tender- i nefs and Charity the Hardftiip, and, as they think, Injuftice of thole Gentlemen, who think they merit fuch fevere Treatment. _ , J They humbly appeal to your certain Knowledge in f their conftant Behaviour, and in the Truth of every -i Article i C 415 ) / Article ihfifted on in this Book : And the Author of this Traft is not afraid to take upon him the Demon- ‘ ftration of all the Particulars 5 and to recommend them, in Behalf of the Diflenters, to the Gentlemen of the Church, as their Fellows, in all polfible de- * grees of Right to the Peace of this Nation j and moft ^ earneftly to defire their ferious Confiderations of the, i Indignities, Injuries and Opprelfions they already fuf- 1 fer, and are likely yet farther to fuffer on this Ac- I count. T And thus they ate you humble Petitioners, that f from a Sence of Juftice, Gratitude, and Chriftian ! itoarity, as you know the Diflenters innocent of any .,,^ng to merit being treated feverely, from a Sence 1 of Intereft, Prudence, and Civil Polity, as there is more than ordinary Occafion of a firm Union among allProteftants for the mutual Defence of themfelves ' K and- the Nation ; and as you would encourage the “[ Diflenters, andexpeU of them toaffift you in Cafe ^ of any future Dangers from the Publick Enemy, and T ftom a Sence of the Chriftian Obligation of Charity f| and Forbearance, which in all Cafes declares againic I Coertion or Punilhments in Cafes of Confcience, ^ and from many other Reafons, as well Civil as Reli- ; gious, too long to be here enumerated, Tou would be I f leafed to become humble Interceflbrs with her Ma- ^ jefty, and the Parliament of this Kingdom, for the I Repeal of that part of the Claufe, and Remiflion of ‘ that part of this AU, which they have juft Reafon to I complain is grievous to them, as Proteftant Diffenr I tersj and againft the Honourable Remembrance of I their former Loyalty and Services; and that they may no longer be reckoned among the Nations Ene- \ mies, and enaUcd againft as People dangerous and \ fufpeUed, at leaft till by fome difloyalor difaffeUed I Behaviour, which they truft will never be found on t them, they (hall have done fomething to forfeit the ! Title of, as well as the ProteUion, which all Govern* ments C 4 *^ ) ments think due to, &uhful and peaceable Sab Je^. Thus you will efteftually fecure this Kingdom a* , gainft the Growth of Popety, by firmly uniting the Hearts and Hands of all her Majefty’s Proteftant Sub Jefts, in the vigorous Defence both of her Petfon and Government; and in that blefled Peace and Union, which her Majefty has, on all Occafions, declared to be her pious Defire, and has fo often recommended toall her SubjeUs. billing ^IntiSt no Cttatitp, And Employing the POOR A Grievance to the NATION. BEING AN ESSAY UPON THIS ©tteOton, Whether Work Houfes, Corporations, and Houfe of CorreUion for Employing the Poor, as now pra-' ftis*d in England j or Parifli Stocks, as propos’d in a late Pamphlet, Entituled, A Bill for the better Belief Imployment and Settlement of the Poor^ gtc. Are not mifchievous to the Nation, tending to the Deftru£lion of our Trade, and to Enaeafc the Num¬ ber and Mifery of the Poor. E« T# •i 5 ■::) ■j' s the Knights, Gtt^ens and geffes in Tarltament Ajfembled, Gentleme^^ H e that has Truth and Junice, and the Interel^ ot England in his Defign, can hav; nothing to fear from an Eng/i/b Parliament. This makes the Author of thefe Sheets, however Defpicable in himfelf, apply to this Honourable ; Houfc, without any Apology for the Prefumption. . Truth, Gentlemen, however meanly dreis’d, and in whatfoever bad Company (he happens ro come, Was always entertain’d at yout Bar; and the Com¬ mons of mulf ceafe to aft like themfclves, or which is worfe, like their Anccftors, when tiieyceafe to entertain any Propofal, that offers it felf at their Door, for the general Good and Advantage of the People they RepreCmt. I willingly grant. That ’tis a Crime in good ^^jn- hcrs to interrupt your more weighty Couiitils, aUd difturb your Debates i with empty naufeous Trifles in Value, or mihakeri Schemes, and whoever ventures to Addrefs You, ought to be well affur’d he is in the tight, and that, the Matter fuits the Intent of yout meeting, viz. To di/patch the mighty ^j['ai:s bf the Kingdom, And as I have premis’d this, fo I freely fjbmii: tO 3 hy Cenfuie this Honourable AEembly ihall thihk i E e i ( 420 ) ^ iefcrve, if I have troke in upon either of the Partfrj^ culars. . f n , I have but one Petition to make with refpea to the Author, and that is, That no freedom of Expreffion* which the Arguments may oblige him to, may be conftru’d as a want of Refpefl, and a Breach of the due Deference every Englifi) Man owes to the reprS' Renting Power of the Nation. ■ It would be hard, that while I am honeftly offer¬ ing to your Confideration fomething of Moment for the general Good, Prejudice Ihould lay Snares for the Author, and private Pique make him an Offender for Without entring upon other Parts of my Charafter, ’tis enough to acquaint this Affembly, that I am an Freeholder, and have by that a Title to be concern’d in the good of that Community ot which I am an unworthy Member. ^ This Honourable Houfe is the Reprefentative of all the Freeholders of you are Affembl’d fw. their Good, you ftudy their Intereft, youpoflefs their Hearts, and you hold the Strings of the general ^To you they have Recourfe for the Redrefs of all their Wrongs, and if at any time one of their Body, ran offer to yout Afliftance, any fair, legal, honeft Ld rational Propofal for the publick Benefit, it was never known that fuch a Man was either rejected or. ‘^‘^Ahdo^n this Account I crave the Liberty to affure vou That the Author of this fecks no Reward ; to him’it lhall always be Reward enough to have been capable of ferving his Native Country, and Honour enough to have offer’d fomething for the puWick Good worthy of Confideration in your Honourable ^^^uper ubiquejacet, faidour Famous ^ucenf/is^ beth when in her Progrefs thro’ the Kingdom fte Lw thevaft Tlirongs of the Poor, tiocking io lee and ]! ' blefs her; and the Thought put her Majefty upon a continu’d ftudy how to recover her People from that I Poverty, and make their Labour more profitable to I themfclves in Particular, and the Nation in Gene- i ral. _ k This was cafie then to propofe, for that many ufe- fill Manufaftures were made in foreign Parts, which i our People bought with Engltjh Money, and Import. ed for their Ufe. „ vt J The Queen, who knew the Wealth and vaft Num- t hers of People which the faid Manufactures had it brought to the neighbouring Countries then under the « King of Spairt^ the Dutch being not yet revolted, nc- ; ver left off endeavouring what fhe happily brought to pafs, vis. the tranfplanting into England thofe 1 ! Springs of Riches and people, it She faw the Flemings prodigiouUy Numerous, their il Cities Rood thicker than her Peoples Villages in fon>e parts; all forts of ufeful Manufaftutes were found in e their Towns, and all their People were rich and bu¬ ll fie, no Beggars, no Idlenefs, and confequently no it want was to be leen among them, i She faw the Fountain of all this Wealth and Work- manfhip, I mean the Wool, was in her own Hands, V and Flanders became the Seat of all thefe Manufa- i Ckures, not becaufe it was naturally Richer and more s Populous than other Countries, but becaufe it lay i neir England^ and the Suple of the Englijh Wool |j which was the foundation of all the Wealth, was at Antwerp in the Heart of that Country, r From hence, it may be faid of Flanders^ it was not the Riches and the Number of People brought the « Manufactures into the Low Countries, but it was the j Manufaftures brought the People thither, and Mul- 'i titudesof People make Trade, Trade makes Wealth, 1 Wealth builds Cities, Cities enrich the Land round ahem, Land enrich’d rifes in Value, and the Value of Lands enriches the Government. E e 3 Many ( f Many Projects were (ec on foot in Englani to ereft the Woollen Manufatturer here, and in fome Places [ ic had found Encouragement, before the Days of this Qyeen, Specially as to making of Cloath, butStufe j’ Bays, Says, Serges, and fuch like Wires were yet f tyholly the Work of theF/m/>^j. ’ At an Opportunity offer’d perfe&Iy unlook’d i for, viz‘ The Perfecution of the Proteffants, and in- ■ troducing the Spanifh Inquifition into Elunders^ with ■ the Tyranny of the Duke'D’ Aha. 1 It cannot be an ungrateful Obfeivation, here to take \ j notice how Tyranny and Perfecution, the one an Op- ;, preflion of Property, the oth::r of Confcience, always i j Kutne Trade, Impoverifh Nations, Depopulate Coun- | tries. Dethrone Princes, and Deftroy Peace, Jf. When an Engtijh Man reflets on it, he cannot |j without infinite Satisfaaion look up to Heaven, and |( to this Konourable Houle, that as the fpring, this as 1 the Stream f.rom and by which the Felicity of this m Nation has obtain’d a Pitch of Glory, S^perior to all J, (he People in the World. Your Councils Specially, when bleft from Heaven, l! /is no6) wejriijl ' they are., with Principles of Unani- T jnity and Concord, can never tail to make Trade flou: '% tiih. War fuccefsful, Peace certain, Wealth flowing, - , Bleflings probable, the Cilyeen Glorious, and thePeo- I pie happy. ' ' ■ Our unhappy Neighbours of the Loud Countries k were the very Reverie of what we blefs our felves “ ^or in you. " 1 Their A'irrgs were Tyrants, their Governours Perfe* > cutors, their Armies Thieves and Blood-hounds. i Their Pepple divided, their Councils confus’d, and j their M’Rries innumerable. ' I ■f>’ Aha the Spanijh Govefnour, befieg’d their Ci- i i^ies, decimated the Inhabitants, murther’d their No- j bility, ptoferib’d their Princes and executed iSooo | '[^ en' by the Hand of the Flang-man. I .... ■ . . ‘I C 4^3 ) Confcience was trampl’d under foot, Religion and- ^ Reformation hunted like a Hare upon the Mountains,, $ the Inquifition threatned, and Foreign Armies intro- i duc’d. Property fell a Sacrifice to Abfolute Power, the Country was ravag’d, the Towns plunder’d, the Rich 'f confifcated, the Poor flarv’d, Tfade interrupted, and ; the 10th Penny demanded. Tlie Confequence of this was, as t/t all Tyrannirs ■ and Per/ecuthns it is, the People fled, and fcatter’d themfelves in their Neighbours Countries, Trade lant ^ guifli’d, Manufaftures went abroad, and never re- ^ turn’d, Confufion reign’d, and Poverty fucceeded. -i The Multitude that remain’d, pufh’d to all Extre- ' mities, were forc’d to obey the Voice of Nature, and in their own juft Defence to take Arms againft their Governours, 4 DefiruSion it /elf has it ujes in the World, the Afhes of one City rebuilds another, and God Almigh- >1 ty» who never aSs in vain, brought the Wealth of F and the Power of Holland mio the World ^ from the Ruine of the I'lemijh Liberty. p* The Dutch in defence of their Liberty revolted, re% ‘f nounc’d their Tyrant Prince, and profper’d by Heaven i and the Affiftance of England, erefted the greatett Common wealth in the World, Innumerable Ubferyations would flow from this 5 part ef the prefent Subjeff, but Brevity is my Study, ^ 1 am not teaching ; for I know who I fpeak to, but ’ relating an.d obferving the Connexion of Caules, and ; the wondeious Births which lay then in the Womb of Providence, and are fince come to, life, s! , Particularly how Heaven directed the Oppreffion, and Tyranny of the Poor, fhould be the Wheel to. i turn over the great Machine of Trade from planders ' into England. \ And how thq Perfecution and Cruelty of the Sp±- I fjiards againft Religion fhould be direfled by the le- ; cr^t over-ruling Hand, to be the Foundation of a Peo- B § 4 ^4^4) pie, and a Body that (hould in Ages fhen to come | one of the chief Bulwarks of that very Liberty ? and Religion they fought to deftroy. | In this general Ruine of Trade and Liberty, Enf. J land made a Gain of what Ihe never yet loft, and of is what (he has fince encreas’d to an inconceivable Mag. , nitude. ° | As D’ Alva worried the poor I'lemings^ the Queen i ot England entertain’d them, cheriftj’d them, invited l! them, encourag’d them. Thoufands of innocent People fled from all Parts 1 1 from the Fury of this Mercilels Man, and as England \ i to her Honour has always been the Sanftuary of her > diftrefs’d Neighbours, fo now flie was fo to her fpecial |i and particular Profit. fi The Queen who faw the Opportunity put into her !: hands which Ihe had fo long wifh’d for, not only re* •' peiv'd kindly the Exil’d Flemings, but invited over all Ji that would come, promifing them all poffible Encou* «■ i xagement. Privileges and Freedom of her Ports, and I: the like. I This brought over a vaft Multitude of Flemings, I Walloons, and Dutch, who with their whole Families I fettled at Norwich, at Ipfwich, Colchefter, Canterbury, ^ Exeter, and the like. From thefe came the Walloon j Church at Canterbury, and the Dutch Churches AV* | tvicb, Colcheter and Yarmoufb j from hence came the i True born hngUJh Families at thofe Places with Fo- 5 reign Names; as the De Tinks at Norwich, the Re- ' bows at Colcbejier, the Fapilons, &c. at Canterbury, ' families to whom this Nation are much in debt for the firft planting thofe Manufaftures, from which we have fince rais’d the greateft Trades in the World. This wife Queen knew that number of Inhabitants aie the Wealth and Strength of a Na tionj fhe was far from that Opinion, we have: of late (hown too much bf in complaining that Foreigners came to take the 'Bread out of out Mouths, and ill treating on that ac* count the Ptoteftants who fled hither for Re* Juge m the late Perfecution, • Sof»e ( 425 ) Some have laid that above 50000 of them lettlefi if ; here, and would have made it a Grievance, tho’with- I out doubt ’tis eafie to make it appear, that 500000 it snore would be both ufeful and proBtable to this « Nation. Upon the fetling of thefe Foreigners, the Scale of Trade vifibly turn’d both here and in Jt'lan^rs, 5? The Flemings taught out Women and Children to k Spin, the Youth to Weave, the Men entred the Loom to labour inftead of going abroad to feek their For- iR tunes by the War, the feveral Trades of Bayes at C?/- 4 chefier^ Sayes and Ferpets^ at Sudbury, Ipjwch, Jcc. k Stuffs at Nortoich, Serges at Exeter, Silks at Canter- nl hury^ and the like, began to flourilh. All the Coun- r ties round felt the Profit, the Poor were fet to work, is the Traders gain’d Wealthy and Multitudes of Peo- pie flock’d to the feveral Parts where thefe Manu- 4 faftures were erefted for Employment, and the Grow th »: of England, both in Trade, Wealth and People fincc d that time, as it is well known to this Honourable \ Houfe i fo the Caufes of it appear to be plainly the ji: Introducing of thefe ManufaSures, and nothing elfe. k Nor was the Gain made here by it more vifible than ^ the lofs to the Flemings, from hence, and not as is iis vainly fuggefted from the building the Dutch Fort cf Lillo on the Scheld, came the Decay of that flourilh- s ing City of Antwerp. From hence it is plain the Elem- ings, an Induflrious Nation, finding their Trade ru- i. in’d at once, turn’d their Hands to other things, as f making of Lace, Linen, and the like, and ths Dutch i ytf) the Sea Affairs and Fifhing. [i From hence they become Foor, thin of People, and weak in Trade, the Flux both of their Wealth and Trade, running wholly into England. I I humbly crave leave to fay, this long Introdufliorv (hall not be thought ufelefs, when 1 fhall bring it home by the Procefs of thefe Papers to the Subjeft now is hand, viz. The Froviding Jor, and Employing the Fo0r. ' •' • ’ ' Since (426) Since the TiraK of ^ueen Elizabeth this Nation has gone on to a Prodigy of Trade, of which theEn- creafe of our Culton^ from 400000 Crowns to two Millions of Pounds Sterling, jj a Demon-' ftration beyond the Power of Argumentand that this whole Encteafe depends upon, and is principallv OTCafion’d by the encreafe of our Manufaftures is fo' plain, I (flail not take up any room here to make it our. Having thus given an Account how we came to be a rich, flourifhmg and populous Nation, I crave leave as concifely as l pan, to examine how we came to be Poor again, if it mull be granted that we atefb. By Poor here 1 humbly defire to be underftood, not that we are a poor Nation in general j I (hould un¬ dervalue the bounty of Heaven to England, and aft with lefs Underftanding than moft Men are Mailers of, if I ihoul 4 not own, that in general we are as Rich a Nation as any in the World j but by Poor I mean burfhen’d with a crowd of clamouring, unim- ploy d, unprovided for poor People, who make the Nation uneafie, burthen the Rich, dog our Parifhes and make themfelves worthy of Laws, and peculiar Management to difpofe of and direa them how thefo came to be thus jn the Qyeftion. And firlf, I humbly crave leave to lay thefe Heads down as fundamental M<>xims, whicli I am ready at ■ any time to Defend and make out. r. Tbero is in England more Labmr than Hands to petr | form it, and con/equently a want of People, not of -A fimpJoyment. 2. No Man in England, of found Limbs and Senfes^ can be Poor meerly for want of Work. 3 . All our Work-houfes , Corporations and Charities for \ ^ - employing the Poor, and feiting them to Work, a/ ■ now they are employ'd, or any A3s of Par It men t to empower Qwrfeers of Parities, or Parishes theta^ . fehgf, to employ the Poor, except ai.fhdl be hercr ■ ' aftcK. ( 427 fifter excepted, are, and will be publkk Nufances, Mi/chiefs to the ^Nation which ferve to the Ruin of families, and the Encreaje of the Poor. 4, That ’tis a Regitlation of the Poor that it wanted in England, not a Jetting them to fi'or^'. i I." r k[,' V f If after thefe things are rpade put, I am enquir’d of what this Regulation fhould be, I am no more at a lofsto lay it down than I am to aftirm what is above; and (hall always be ready, when call’d to it, to make fuch a Propofal to this Honourable Houfe, as with their Concurrence (hall for ever put a flop to Poverty and Beggery, Parilit Charges, AlielTments and the like, in this Nation. If fuch offers as thefe (hall be flighted and reje£l:ed, I have the Satisfaffion of having difeharg’d my Duty, and the Confequence muft be, that complaining will be continued in our Streets. Tis my misfortune, that while I ftudy to make eve-r ty Head fo concife, as becomes me in things to he brought before fo Honourable and Auguft ap Aflem- bly, j am oblig ’4 to be (hort upon Heads that in thei? own Nature would very vyell admit of particular Vo¬ lumes to explain them. I. I affirm, That in England the^e k niorehabour lhan Hands to perform it. This I prove, 1. E’rom the dearnefs of Wages, which in England out goes all Nations in the World j and I l^now no greater Demonjiration in Trade. Wages, like Ex¬ changes, Rife and Fall as the Remitters and Draw¬ ers, the Employers and the Work-men, Baflance one another- The Employers are the Remitters, the Work-men are the Drawers, if there are more Employers than Work men, the price of Wages muft Rife, becaufe the Employer wants that Work to be done more than the Poor Man wants to do it, Vf there are more Work¬ men than Employers the price of Labour falls, be- ^ ' ctufe ( 4 »? ) } caufe the Poor Man wants his Wages more than th* | Employer wants to have his Bufinels done. || Trade, like all Nature, moft obfequioufly obeys f the great Law of Caufe and Confequence j and this v is the occafion why even all the greateft Articles of l! Trade follow, and as it were pay Homage to this feem* ingly Minute and Inconiiderable Thing, The Poor Man's Labour. 1 omit, with fome pain, the many very ufeful , Thoughts that occur on this Head, to prefetve the Brevity I owe to the Dignity of that Aflembly lam ji writing to. But I cannot but Note how from hence p it appears, that the Glory, the Strength, the Riches, : the Trade,and all that’s valuable in a Nation, as to its |< Figure in the World, depends upon the Number of its It People, be they never Ib'mean or poor j the confump- | tion of Manufaftures encreafts the Manufacturers; Jl the number of Manufacturers encreafes the Confump. tion; Provifions are confum’d to feed them, Land Im* : proV’d, and more Hands employ’d to furnifli Provifi- ^ on: All the Wealth of the Nation, and all the'Trade is produc’d by Numbers of People j but of this by ■ the way. The price of Wages not only determines the Diffe- rence between the Employer and the Work man, but j it rules the Rates of every Market. If Wages grows i high, Provilions rife in Proportion, and I humbly i conceive it to be a miftake in thofe People, who fay : Labour in fuch parts of England is cheap becaufe Pro* j vifions are cheap, but ’tis plain, Provifions are cheap J there becaufe Labour is cheap, and Labour is cheaper | in thofe Parts than in others j becaufe being remoter j; ’from London theit is not that extraordinary Difpro- ■ portion between the Work and the Number of Hands; | there are more Hands, and confcquently Labour ^ | cheaper. ^ ’Tis plain to any obferving Eye, that there is an I equal plenty of Provifions in leveral of our South awi J Weftern CountrieSj as i« Tor^^e^ and rather a | greater, ; C 429 ) greater, and I believe I could make it out, that a poor labouring Man may live as cheap in Kent or Sujfex as iri iheBiflioprick Durham; and yet in Kent a poof Man (hall earn yr. 10 pt, • Week, and in the North 4 s. or perhaps lefs ^ the difference is plain in this, that in Kent there is a greater want of People, in Proportion to the Work there, than in the North. And this on the other hand makes the People of our norther Countries fpiead themfelves fo much to the South, where Trade, War and the Sea carrying off fo many, there is a greater want of Hands. And yet ’tis plain there is Labour for the Hands which remain in the North, or elfe the Country would be depopulated, and the People come all away to the South to feek Work ♦, and even in Tork/hire, where Labour ischeapeft, the People can gain more by their Labour than in any of the Manufacturing Countries of Germany^ Italy oiYrance^ and live much better. If there was one poor Man in England more than there was Work to employ, either fome body elfe muft ftand ftill for him, or he muft be ftarv’d; if an¬ other Man ftands ftill for him he wants a days Work, and goes to feek it, and by confequence fupplants an¬ other, and this a third, and this Contention brings it to this \ no fays the poor Man, That is like to be put out of his Work, rather than that Man fnall come in ru do it cheaper ^ nay, fays the other, but III do it cheaper than you) and thus one poor Man wanting but a Days work would bring down the Price of La¬ bour in a whole Nation, for the Man cannot ftarve, and will work for any thing rather than want it. It may be ObjeSked here, This is contradiCled by our Number of Beggars. lam forry to lay I am oblig’d here to call begging an Employment, lince ’tis plain, if there is more Work than Hands to perform it, no Man that has his Limbs and his Senfes need to beg, and thofe that have not ought to be put into a Condition not to want it. So U C 450 ) I So that begging is a meet fcandal in the General; I in the Able ’tis a fcandal upon their Intfiiftry, and in | the impotent ’tis a fcandal upon the Country. I Nay, the begging; as now praftic’di is, a fcandai | Upon ourCharity, and perliaps the foundation of all' I Our prefent Grievance-— How can it be poffible that any Man or Woman, vvho being found in Body and Mind, mav, as ’tis apparent they may, have Wages ^ for their Work; ihould be fo bafe, fo meanly fpirit- j ed, as to beg an Alms for God-fake — Truly the fcan¬ dal lies on our Charity ^ and People have fuch a « - Notion in England of being pitiful and charitable, ■' that they encourage Vagrants, and by a miftakenZeal i do more hatm than good. j This is a hrge Scene,and much might be faid upori i it -, I ihall abridge it as much as polfible—. The Po- verty of England does not lie among the craving Beg- I gars but among poor Families, where the Children are numerous, and where Death or Sicknefs has de¬ priv’d them of the Labour of the Father; thefe are the Houfes that the Sons and Daughters of Charity; - if they would order it well, fhould feek out and re- I lieve; an Alitis ill direfled may be Charity to the 3- particular Peribn, but becomes an Injury to the Pub- 1 , lick, and no Charity to the Nation. As for the era- 3 Ving Poor, I am perfwaded I do them no wrong when | 1 fay, that if they were Incorporated they would be 1 the richeft Society in the Nation j. and the reaibn why i fo many pretend to want Work is, thdt they can ’J live fo Well with the pretence of wanting Work, they would be rhad to leave it and Work in earneft ; and I ^ affirm of my own knowledge, when I have wanted a Man for labouring work, and offer’d px. per Week J to ftrotiling Fellows at my Door, they have frequent- ly told me to my Face, they could get more a beg- J ging, and I once fet a lufty Fellow in the Stocks for , 1 making the Experiment. ? I (hall, in its proper place, bring this to a Method < of Tryal, fince nothing but Demonlhation will afted ] tit *^''3 Ji tl at ^ (430 US, tis an eafie matter to prevent begging in. England, and yet to maintain all our ImpotentPoor at ht lefs thaxge to the Pariflies than now they are oblig’d to bear. • When aueen Elizabeth had gain’d her Point as to Manufaftories in England, flie had fairly laid the Foundation, fhe thereby found out the way how eve¬ ry Family might live upon tlieir own Labour, like a wife Piinccfs fhe knew ’twould be hard to force Peo¬ ple to Work when there was nbthing for them to turn their Hands to ^ but alToou as fhe had brought the matter to bear, and there was Work for every body that had no mind to ftarve, then fhe applied her felf to make Laws to oblige the People to do this Work ind to punifh Vagfant?, and make every one live by their own Labour j all her Succeflbrs followed this laudable Example, and from hence came all thofe Laws againft flurdy Beggars, Vagabonds, Stroulers, Vc. which had they been feverely pht in Execution by our Magiflrates, ’tis prefum’d thefe Vagrant Poor h^d not lo upon as they have. And it feems ftrange to me, from what juft Ground we profceed now upon other Methods, and fancy that tis now out Bufinefs to find them Work, and to Em¬ ploy them rather than to oblige them to find themfelves Work and go about it. ^ From this mirtaken Notion come all our Work- houies and Corporations, and the fame Error, witH lubmiflion, I prefume was the birth of this Bill now depending, which enables every Parifh to ere£f the Woollen Manufafture wirhin it fclf. fot the employ* ing their own Poor. 'Tis the miffake of this part of the Bill only which lam enquiring into, and which 1 endeavour to let in a true light. ; In all the Parliaments fince the Revolution, this Matter has been before thL-m, and 1 am iultified in this attempt by the Houle of Commons having ffe- q'-iciuly ( 4ji > . ,, quentljr appointed Committees to receii^e Propolala 1 upon this Head. , ^ As my Propofal is General, I prefume to offer it to ?] the General Body of the Houfe; if I am commanded | to explain any part of it, I am ready to do any thing ,} that may be lerviceable to this great and noble Defign. As the former Houles of Commons gave all poffible j Encouragement to fuch as could offer, or but pretend j to offer at this needful thing, fo the iraperfea Effays i of feveral, whether for private or publick Benefit. I j do not attempt to determine which have fince been made, and which have obt?un’d the Powers and Con- ' ditions they have defir’d, have by all their Effefts de- monftrated the weaknels of their Defign j and that h they either undcrftood not the Difeafe, or know not j thepropetCure for it. ^ |; The Imperfeaion of all thefe Attempts is acknow- | lodg’d, not only in the Preamble of this new Aa of | Parliament, but even in the thing, in that there is yet |j occafion forany newLaw. ^ r aa i And having furvey’d, not the neceflity of anew Aa, |( but the Contents of the^ft which has be^ propos d as | "a Remedy in thisCafe ^ I cannot but offer my Objfr f. aions aeainrt the Sufficiency of the Propoftl, and | leave it to the Confideration of this Wife Aflembly) Js and of the whole Nation. . 1 ’ I humbly hope the Learned GenUctnan, under | whofe Direaioa this Law is now to proceed, and by | Whofe Order it has been Printed, will not think him- f felf perfonally concern’d in this Cafe, his Endeavoure | to prosnote fo good a Work, as the Relief, Employ- ^ nient, and Settlement of the Poor merit the Tlunks and Acknowledgment of the whole Nation, and no Man (hall be more ready to pay his lhare ot that ^ Debt to him than my felf. But if his Scheme hap- = pen to be fomething fuperficial, if he comes : the number of thofe who have not fearchd this Wound to the bottom, if the Methods propos dare , hot liick as will either anfwcr his own Defigns or the i Nations, C 433 ) Nations, I cannot think my felf oblig’d to difpence, with my Duty to the Publick Good, to preferve a Perfonal Value for his Judgment, tho’ the Gen tleman’s Merit be extraordinary. Wherefore, as in all the Schemes I have feen laid for the Poor, and in this Aft now before your Honou¬ rable Houfe i the general Thought of the Prbf>ofers runs upon the Employing the Poor by Work-houfes, Corporations, Houfes of Correftion, and the like, and that I think it plain to be feen, that thofe Propo- fals come vaftly ftiort of the main Defign. Thefs Sheets are humbly laid before you, as well to make good what is alledg’d, viz. That all thsfe Work- houfes, Tend to the Encreafe, and not the Relief of the Poor, as to make an humbl# Tender of mean plain, but I hope, rational Propofals for the more of- feftual Cure of this grand Difeafe. In order to proceed to this great Challenge, I hum¬ bly defire the Bills already pafs’d may be review^, the Praftice of our Corporation Work-houfe, and the Contents of this propofed Aft examin’d. In all thele it will appear that the Method chiefly propofed for the Employment of out Poor, is by let¬ ting them to Work on the feveral Manufaftures before mention’d; zsSpinning., Weaving^ and Manufafturing our EngUJh Wool. All our Work houfes, lately Efefted in England., are in general thus Employ’d, for which without enu¬ merating Particulars, 1 humbly appeal to the Know¬ ledge of the feveral Members of this Honourable Houfe in their tefpeftive Towns where fueh Gorporations have been erefted. • In the prefent Aft now preparing, as Printed ^Di- reftion of a Member of this Honourable Houle, ic appears, that in order toJet the foot to Wor/^, it Jhall beLavafttlfor theOverfeers of every Town, or of one or more Towns joyn’d together to occupy any Trade.^ Myftery^ 8cc. And raife Stocks for the carrying them on for the Jetting the Poor at Work, and for the pur^ T f ehajing C 4?4 ) ^ ' tharingWool tro», He>Hp, Vlax, Thread, er other Ma¬ teria/s fof- that Vurpofe. Vide the AU Vubliflfd by Sir Humphry M^lckwonhi _ And tlutChatities given fo and fo, and not exceed** ing’200/. per Annum for this Purpofe, ihall be Incor¬ porated of Courfe for thefe Ends. fn order now to come to the Cafe in hand, it is ne- cejary to premife, that the thing now in debate is not the Poor of this or that particular Town. The Houfe of Commons are ading like thetnfelves, as they are the Reprelentatives of all the Commons of Eng¬ land, ’tis the Care of all the Poor of England which lies before them, not of this or that particular Body of the Poor. , . In proportion to this great Work, I am to be un- derftood that thefe Work houfes, HoufesOf Correai- on, and Stocks to Employ the Foot may be granted to leffen the Poor in this or that particular part of England-, and we are particularly told of that at Bru flol, that it has been fuch a Terror to the Beggars, that none of the ftrouling Crew will come neat the City. But aU this allow’d, in general, 'twill be felt in the main, and the end will be an Enereafe of out The Manufafturcs that thefe Gentlemen Employ Poor upon, arc all fuch as arc before exercis d in ^^I'^'rhjy are all fiich as arc manag’d to a full Ex¬ tent, and the prefent Accidents of Wat and Foreign Interruption of Trade confider’d, rather beyond the Vent of them than under it. Suppofc now a Work houfe for Ewiploy merit of Poor Children, fets them to fpinning of Worft^.-- For every Skein of Woifted thefe Poor Children Spin, there mull be a Skein the lefs Spun byTome poor Fa¬ mily or Perfon that fpun it before; fuppofe thema- nufaaure of making Bays to be ereacd in Bijhopjgate- jjrert, unlcfs the Makers of thefe Bays can at the lame time find out a Trade of Confuroption for more Bays than I that! were made before. For every piece of Bays to made in Loado/t there muft be a piece the lefs mad#' at Colchefier. I humbly appeal to the Honourable Houfe of Cotri* inons what this may be call’d, and with Submiffion, ! think it is nothing at all to the employing the Poor, fince ’tis only the tranfpofing the ManufaSure from Colchefier to Lo/ido/t; and taking the Bread oat of the . Mouths of the Poor of ^x^toputit into the Mouths of the Poof of Middlefex. ^ if thefe worthy Gentlemen, who ftiow themfelyeS lO commendably forward to relieve and employ the poor, will find out Ibme new Trade, fome hew Maf- ket, where the Goods they make fhall be fold, where hone of the fame Goods were fold before •, If they will lend them to any place where they fhall ndt irt-i terfere with the reft of that Manufa^urcj or with fome other made in England^ then indeed they Will do fomething worthy of themfMves, and may erfipldy’ the Poor to the fame glorious Advantage as Queen Elizabeth did, to whom this iSation, as a Trading Country, owes its peculiar Grearnefj. If thefe Gentlemen could edablifh a Trade fo Muf- tervy for Eaglijh Serges, or obtain an Order from the Czar^ that all his Suojefls fliould wear Stockings who wore none before, every poor Chtld’s Labour in Spin¬ ning and Knitting thofe Stockings, and all the Wool' in them would be clear Gain to the Nation, and the general Stock would be improved by it, becaule alt the Growth of our Country, and afl the Labour of i Petfein vvho was idle before, is fo much clear Gain to the General Stock, ■ If they will employ the Poor in fomeMahufaflufe which wds not made in before, or net bought With fome Manufaflure made here before, then they offer at fomething extraordinary^ But to fet poor People at Work, on the fame thing which other poof People were empLoy’d on before,' and dt the fame time net increafe the Cdnfuffiptibfi,- F f 2 is' is giving to one what you take away from another* enriching one poor Man to ftarve another, putting a Vagabond into an honeft Man’s Employment, and putting his Diligence on the Tenters to find out fome other Work to maintain his Family. As this is not at all profitable, fo with SubmiJJioTi for the ExpreJJiony I cannot fay 'tis honeft, becaufe ’tis ftanfplanting and carrying the poor Peoples Lawful Employment from the Place where was their Lawful Settlement, and the hardftiip of this our Law confix defd is intolerable. For Example. The Manufafture of making Bays is now eftablifli’d at Cplchejier in EJfexy fuppofe it (houid be attempted to be erefted in Middle fox, as a certain Worthy and Wealthy Gentleman near Hackney once propos’d, it may be fuppos’d ifyou will grant the Skill in Work¬ ing the fame, and the Wages the fame, that they muft be made cheaper in Middlefe:tx\izv\ in Ejfex, and Cheapnefs certainly will make the Merchant buy here rather than there, and fo in time all the I^y maWng at Colchejier dyes, and the Staple for that Commo¬ dity is remov’d to London. What muft the Poor of Colchefier do, there they buy a Parochial Settlement, thofo that have numerous Families cannot follow the ManufaSure and come up to Imdon, for our Parochial Laws impower the Church-wardens to relule them a Settlement, fo that they are confin’d to. theit own Country, and the Bread taken out of their Mouths, and all this to feed V And are there npt abuiv dance of \Vork-raen and Mallets too removd to ^ ff ^it be fo at Korzwh, Canterbury is yet more a melancholy Inllance of it, where Houses hand empty, and the People go off, and the Trade ^'e, be- eaufe^the Weavers arc following the Manufaaure to Londojt; and whereas there was within fevv Yea s aoo broad Looms at Work, 1 am well affurd there mentofthe Poor, unliinges their hands from the La K, and tends »brtngont Hands to be fuper.or to been a v«/confiderable Itlannfaauie tor Stocking^ at Okk^r and Srftoy/oi of the Wool thefe Countries ufe is bought at and carried down into thofe ^"t Ilf Vllf Goods being Manofaftufd are S' i^n to Market { upon tranfpoljng Lfore all the poor People and all the caitie lynu toSotereemVy?> ately disbanded by their Country, the inkee^K on thelloads malt P«^y>S„a TS^ments p?tbV RMds," 4 'f?''°^''l Pependencies fink la Valuf. Ff 4. ’Ti? . ( 440 ) ’Tis hard to calculate what a Blow it would he tn Trade m general, fhould every County but Manufa aure all the feveral forts of Goods they ufe throw our Inland Trade into Itranl 2''= a Manufaaure, and every £ilh S a Ware houle. Trade will be bi„henr,^,h rations, which ate generally equally deBniffive^ Monopolies, and b, this MethJ will eaCly li 3 the Diteaion of TuRices of anriiJr^llitluil ? "? Manufafietcs, and httw i]i,i!l all ufeful things be made, and all the poorer fort ot People lhall be aw’d or byafs’d to Trade theteonly Thus the Shop-keepets, S pai Ses and are the Support of our Inland Circulation wtll immediately be ruin’d, and thus we /hall beggar the Nation to provide for the Poor. * As this will make every Paiilh a Market Town thLT// ^ Store hou|e, fo in and Wnn^ n M ^ Cfuantities of the WooILn Manufaaure will be thus tranfplanted thh num;. Tho’ the fettled Poor can’t remove, yet /ingle Peo- ple will Itroul about and follow the Manuffaurer- ?r^ ‘5 numbers will be drawn ipnr inconvenient to the Govern- n.ent, and elpecially Depopulating to thofe Coun- cnes where the numbers of People, by reafon of thefe Manufaaures are very con/iderable. An ernment In/fance of this we have in the prefent Jiade toy>l^>^^, which howevet delign’d for an Im- p ovement to the E;:g/i/h Nation, and boafted of as fuch, appears to be converted into a Monopoly and proves injurious and de/fruaiveto the Na?fon. S removing arid carrying out our Peo- ^ ' . pig C 441 ) pie to teach that unpolifh’d Nation the Improvements they are capable of. If the bringing the Flemings to England brought with them their Manuf'afture and Trade, carrying our Peo¬ ple abroad, efpecially to a Country where the People work for little or nothing, what may it not do to* wards inftruaing that populous Nation in fuch Ma- nufafturcs as may in time tend to the Deftrudlion of our Trade, or the reducing our Manufafture to an Abatement in Value, which will be felt at home by an Abatement of Wages, and that inProvifions, and that in Rent of Land ; and fothe general Stock finks of Courfe. But as this is preparing, by eminent Hands, to be laid before this Houle as a Grievance meriting your Care and Concern, I omit inlifting on it here. And this removing of People is attended with ma¬ ny Inconveniencies which are not eafily perceived, as 1. The immediate fall of the Value of all Lands in thofe Countries where the Manufactures w'ere be¬ fore j for as the numbers of People, by the Confump- tion of Provifions, muft wherever they encreale make Rents rife, and Lands valuable- fo thole People re¬ moving, tho’ the Provifions would, if poffible, fol¬ low them, yet the Price of them muft fall by all that Charge they are at for Carriage, and conlequently Lands muft fall in Proportion. 2. This Tranfplanting of Families, in time, would introduce great and new Alterations in the Countries they removed to, which as they would be to the Pro¬ fit of fome Places, would be to the Detriment of o- thers, and can by no means be juft any more than it is convenient ^ for no wile Government ftudies to put any Branch of their Country to any particular Difad- yantages, tho’ it may be found in the general Acfount in another Place. If it be feid here will be ManufaAures in every Pa- rifh, an^ that will keep the People at home. IS- I humbly ( 442 ' ) I humnbly reprefent what ftrange Confufion and pat’ ticular Detriment to the general Circulation of Trade ■ mention d before it rtiuft be, toh4ve every Parilh mak*’ its own Manufaftures. 1. It will make our Towns and Counties indepcn- ■ dent of one another, and put a damp to Correfpon- dence, which all will allow to be a great Motive of- Trade in genera}. 2. It will fill us with various forts and kinds of Manufaftures, by which our ftated forts of Goods will in time dwindle away in I^epntation, and Fo¬ reigners not know them one from another. Qpr fe- veral Manufaftures are known by their refpeSive Names} and our Serges, Bayes and other Goods, are bought abroad by the CharaSer and Reputation of the Places where ihey are made j when there fliall pome new and unheard of Kinds to Market, fome better, fpme worfe, as to be fure new ^ndertakers yvill vary in kinds, the Dignity and Reputation of the )£nglijb Goods abroad will be loft, and fo many Con* fufionsin Trade will follow, as are too many to re- 3. Either our Parifh-ftock muft fell by Wholelale pt by Retail, or both j if the firft ’tis doubted they will forry Work of ir, and have other Bufinefs of their own, make but poor Merchants ^ if by Retail, then they turn Pedlars, will be a publick Nufance to Trade and at laft ^uite mine it. 4. This will ruine all the Carriers in En^land^ the Wool will be all Manufactured where it is ftieer’d, every Body will mahe their own Cloaths, and the Trade which now lives by running thro’ a Multitude «f Hands, will go then through fo few, that thou- fands of Families will want Employment, and this is the only way to reduce us to the Condition fpohenof, to have more Hands than Work. ’Tis the Excellence of our Englijb Manufacture, that it is fo planted as tq go through as many Hands as ’tis poflible j he that contrive^ to have it go fewer, oueht at the fame time to provide Work For V„.. - ’ . ^ i. ; ^ ( 443 ) thp reft-—As it is it employs a great multitude of people, and can employ more •, but if a confiderafcle number of thefe People be unhing’d from their Em¬ ployment, it cannot but be detrimental to the whole. When I fay we could employ more People in Efig- land, 1 do not mean that we cannot do our Work with tbofe we have, but 1 mean thus: Firft, It Ibould be mote People brought over from foreign Parts. 1 do not mean that thofe we have (hould be taken from all common Employments and put to out Manufa flure ; vye may unequally diljDofe of our Hands, and fo have too many for fome Works, and too few for others; and ’tis plain, that in fome parts of En^andxt is fo, what elfe can be the reafon, why in our^outhern parts of England, Kent in parti- ^pular, borrows 20000 People of other Counties to get in her Harvett. But if more Foreigners c^me among us, if it were 2 Millions, it cpuld dq no harm, bepaufe they • would cpnfume opr provifions, and we have Land enough to produce much more than wf do, and they would confume our Manufaf^ures, and we have Wool enough for any Quantity. _ I think therefore, with Submiffion, to ereft Mana- faftutes in every Town,to tranfpole the Manufa£lures from the fettled places into private Parifties and Cor¬ porations, to parcel out our Trade to every Door, it muft be ruinous to the ManufaQurers themfelves, will turn thouiapds of families out of their Employ¬ ments, and take the Bread out of the Mouths of di¬ ligent and induftrious Families to feed Vagrants, Thieves and Beggars, who ought much rather to be compelPd, by Legal Methods, to feek that Work which it is plain is to be had and thus this A£l will inftead of fetftlng and relieving the Poor, ertcreafe their Number, arid ftarve the heft of them. It reniains now, according to my firft Propofal, Page 5, to conBder from whence proceeds the Pover¬ ty pf oat People, what Aaidcnt, what Decay of , . , » Trade, C 444 ) Trade, what Want opmployment, what flrange Re-^ volution of Circumftanccs makes our People poor and confequently Burthenfom, and our Laws 5 more and other Laws requifite ^ and the Nation concern^ to apply a RemedyTth^ 1 growing Difeafe. lanfwer. ^ I. Not for want of Work 5 and befides what beenfaid o^t^at Head, I humbly defire thefe two i things may be confider'd. ^ rhnf’ J''?' ifoneMan, Woman, o.” Child, can hy his, or her Labour, earn more Money i than will fnbffl ons Body, there muft confequemfi^i be no want of Work, Cnee any Man would work fJi a juft as much as would fupply himfelf rather"iban ftarve -;-What a vaft dii^rence then muft there be J I - u Vj7 1 V men mult there be f between the \\ ork and the Workmen, when ’tis now I known that in Spittlejklds, and other adjacent parts ii of the City, thwe is nothing more frequent than for k a Journey man Weaver, of many forts, to gain from j cmI* Week Wages, and I appeal to the : Silk Throwftei^, whether they do not give 8t, ps, ; Cripples, to : Wor^ **Jeaneft and moft ordinary I Cur Moriatur Horn, &t. ^’’efe Men ftarv’d, and ^eir^Children in li^ork houfcs, and brought up by Charity : l am ready po produce to this Honourable Houfe the Man who for feveral Years has gain’d of fne by his handy Labour at the mean fcoundrel Em- ploymenr of File-imaking from i 6 f. to 2 oj per Week Wages, and all that time would hardly have a pair of Shoes to his Feet, or Cloaths to cover his Naked- nefs, and had his Wife and Children kept by the Pariih. ^ ^ . The nwan^ Labours in this Nation alFord the Workmen fut&ient to provide for himfelf and his Family, ?llr fiB iiii •£wc ■k C 445 ) : Fajiily, and that could never be if there was a want, 1 of Work. j 2. I hurohly defire this Honourable Houfe to confi* ^derthe prefent Difficulty of Raifing Soldiers in this : Kingdaro *, the vaft Charge the Kingdom is at to the : Officers to procure Men; the naany little and not over honeft Methods made ule of to bring them into the : Service, the Laws made to compel them; Why arc : Goals ruroag’d for Malefaftors, and the Mint and Pri- fons for Pebtors, the War is an Employment of Ho- 1 nour, and fuflers fome fcandal in having Men taken iirfrom the Gallows, and immediately from Villains and Houfe-brcalters made Gentlemen Soldiers If rMen wanted Employment, and conlequenily Bread, lathis could never be, any Man would carry a Muf ? uet rather than (larve, and wear the Queens loth, or any Bodies Cloth, rather than go Na- ■ ked, and live in Rags and want j ’tis plain, the Nation is full of People, and ’tis as plain, our Peo- [:(,ple have no particular averfion to the War, but they are not poor enough to go abroad; ’tis Poverty makes Men Soldiers, and drives crowds iato the Armies, and the Difficulties to get EngHJh vti&^ to Lift is, becaufe , they live in Plenty and Eafe, and he that can earn 20 per\^sek at an eafie, fteady Employment, muft be Drunk or Mad when he Lifts for a Soldier, to be knock'd o’th’Head for ; j. 6 d. per Week ; but if there was no Work to be had, if the Poor wanted. Employment, if they had not Bread to eat, nor knew not how to earn it, rhoufands of young lully Fellows would fly to the Pike and Mufquet, and choofe to die like Men in the Face of the Enemy, rather thaa ' lie at home, ftarve, perifh in Poverty and Diftrels- From all thefe Particulars, an innumerable unhap¬ py Inftances which might be given, ’tis plain’, the Po- ; verty of our People which is fo burthenfome, and in* creafcs upon us lo much, doss not arife frorn want of proper Employments, and for want of Work, or Em- : ployexs, and confequently. Work- 7 ^ C 44« ) "" Work-houles, Cotporatious, Parifli Stocks, and like, to fct them to Work, is they are Pernicious to Trade, Injurious and Impoverifliing to thofe already employ’d, fo they are ncedlcls, and will come fhort of the End propos’d. The Poverty and Exigence of the Pbcif in Enijafii’ is plainly deriv’d from one Of thefe two parttcnlai Caufes, Cafudlty or Crime, .If By Cafualty, I mean Sicknefs of Families, loft of Limbs or Sight, and any, either Natural or Accidental Impotence as to Labour. _ ^ Thefe as Infirmities meerly ProVideiifial are not at all concern’d in this Debate; ever were, will, and ought to be the Charge and Care ot the Refpeaive Pa- Aj rifhes where fuch unhappy People chance to live, not is there any want of new Laws to make Provifion for them, our Anceftors having been always careful to do at. •; i The Crimes of our People, and from whence their’ ^ Poverty derives, as the vifible and dircfl Fountains ar^ . 1. Luxury. a’ 2. Sloath. • Pride. -IJU Good Husbandry is no Englijh Vertue, it may have been brought over, and in fomc Places where it has ^ been planted it has thriven well enough, but ’tis a Foreign Species, it neither loves, nor is belov’d by ari ^ •ynA n/M-Viirtcr ic fo 11111VCT" - Englifh nan} and ’tis obferv’d, nothing is lally hated, nothing treated with fuch a general Con¬ tempt as a Rich Covetous Man, tho he does no Man any Wrong, only faves his otvn, every Man will bpe an ill word for him, if a Misfortune happens to hirn, hang him a covetous old Rogue, ’tis no matter, he’s Rich enough j nay when a certain great Man’s Houfe was on Fire, 1 have heafd the People fay one to ano¬ ther, let it burn and ’twill, he’s a covetous old miferar bh Dog, I wo’nt trouble niy head to help him, he’d be ii! •tt! ‘It .1 C 447 ) ;* be bang’d before he’d give uS a bit of Bread if we 1 wanted it; j Tho’ this be a Fault, yet I oblcrve from it fome- “ thing of the natural Temper and Genius of the Nati- on, generally fpeaking, they cannot fave their Mony. ■ ’Tis generally faid, rhe Engtijh getEftates, and the 7, Dutch wve them; and this Obfervation 1 have made ■> between Foreigners and EngUJh-men^ that where an Engl'\(h-man earns 20 s. per Week, and but jufi lives, j as we call it, a Dutch-man grows Rich, and leaves ! his Children in very good Condition 5 where an Eng- ® lijh labouring Man with his p i. per Week lives ^ wretchedly and poor^ a Dutch-man with that Wages will live very tolerably well, keep the Wolf from the I Door, and have every thing handfome about hitUi 'i In fhort, he will be Rich with the fame Gain as makes |:'the Engltjh-man poor, he’ll thrive when the other goes in Rags, and he’ll live when the other ftarvesj "pbr goes a begging. The Reafon is plain, a Man with good Husbandry, T and Thought^ in his Head, brings home his Earnir^s honeftljr to his Family, commits it to the Manage* f ment of his Wife, or otherwife difpofes it for proper Subfiftance, and this Man with mean Gains lives com- J^ fortably, and brings up a Family, when afingleMan “ getting the fame Wages, Drinks it away at the Ale- '' houfe, thinks not of to morrow, lays up nothing for Sicknefs, Age, or Difafter, and when any of thele ; happen he’s ftarv’d, and a Beggar. This is fo apparent in every place, that I think it 1 needs no Explication; that Englijh Labouring People : eat and drink, but efpecially the latter three times as ^ much in value as any fort of Foreigners of the fame Dimenfions in the World. I am not Writing this as a Satyr on our People, ’tis i fad Truth j and Worthy the Debate and Applicati- ; on of the Nations Phyfitians Aflemtyled in Parliament', thCprofule Extravagant Humour of our poor People tn eating and drinkine, keeps tliem low, caufes rheit • Chii- C 448 ) Ghildren to be left naked and ftarving, to the care of ' the Parifhes, whenever Sicknefs or Difafter befalls the Parent. The next Article is their Sloath. We are the moft hazy'Diligent Nation in the World, ’ vaft Trade, Rich ManufaQiures, mighty Wealth, u- niverfal Cortefpondence and happy Succefs has been conftant Companions of England, and given us the Title of an Induftrious People, and fo in general we are. But there is a general Taint of Slothfulnefs upon our Poor, there’s nothing more frequent, than for an ' Englifh-man to Work till he has got his Pocket full of Money, and then go and be idle, or perhaps drunk, S till Yis all gone, and perhaps himfelf in Debt; and : ask him in his Cups what he intends, he’ll tell you honeftly, he’ll drink as long as it lafts, and then go * to work for more. I humbly fuggeft this Diftemper’s fo General, foj Epidemick, and fo deep Rooted in the Nature andj Genius of the Englijl), that I much doubt it’s being eafily redrefs’d, and queftion whether itbepoflible to i- reach it by an A8: of Parliament. ^ Th]s is the Ruine of our Poor, the Wife mourns) Ihe Children ftarves, the Husband has IVork before him, but lies at the Ale houle, or otherwife idles away his time, and won’t Work. ’Tis the Men tha.t wont work, not the Men that can get no work, which makes the numbers of out Poor ^ all the Work-houfes in England, all the Overfeers Pet¬ ting up Stocks and Manufaflures won’t reach this Cale^ and I humbly prefume to fay, if thefe two Ar¬ ticles are remov’d, there will be no need of the other. , 1 make no Difficulty to promife on a fhort Sum¬ mons, to produce above a Thoufand Families in Eng-^ tand, within ray particular knowledge, who go in ilag^ and their Children wanting Bread, whole Fa¬ thers can earn their 15 to 25 r. />frWeek, but will sot work, who may have Work enough, but are too Idle ‘ idle to feek after it, and hardly vouchfafe to earn a- 1 ny thing more than bare Subfiltance, and Spending I Money for theml'elves. I can give an incredible number of Examples in my ^ ownKnowIcdgeamongour Labouring Poor. I once ^ paid fix or feven Men together on a Saturdjy Night » the leaft lOf. and fome 50 x. for Work, and have f feen them go with it direftly to the Ale-houfe, lie ^ fpend it every Penny, and run ( in Debt to boot, and not give a Farthing of it to their Families, tho’ all of them had Wives and Chil¬ ^1 From hence comes Poverty, Parifh Charges, and # Beggary, if ever one of thefe Wretches falls fick, aft K they would ask was a Pafs to the Parifh they liv’d at, and the Wife and Children to the Door a Beg- I gjng‘ It this Honourable Houfe can find out a Remedy for this part of the Mifchiefj if fuch AftsofFarlia- f raent may be made as may effedually cure the Sloth ® and Luxury of our Poor, that (hall make Drunkards if take careof Wife and Children, Spend-thrifts, layup for awet Idle, Lazy Fellows Diligent j and Thoughtlefs Sottifh Men, Careful and Provident. If this can be done, 1 prefume to fay there will be ' no need of tranlpofing and confounding our Manufa- Hures, and the Circulation of our Trade ^ they will i- foon find work enough, and there will foon be left ' Poverty among us, and if this cannot be done, fet- • ting them to work upon Woolen Manufactures, and j thereby encroaching upon thofe that now work at them, will but ruine our Trade, and confequently i increafe the number of the Poor- I do not prefume to offer the Schemes I have now t drawn of Methods for the bringing much of this to pafs, becaufe I fhall not prefume to lead a Body fo fo Wife, and fo capable as this Honourable I Aflembly. Gg I hum- ( m ) I humbly fubmit vyhaf is here offered, as Reafon^ to" prove the Attempt now making, infufficient ; andl 4oubt' not but in your Great Wifdom,' you will find* out Ways and Means to fet this Matter in a clearer ^ |.ighr, and bn a right Foot. - -i ■ And if ihi$ obtains on the Houfe to examine fartherjj into this Matter, the Author hunably recommends it 1 to their Cpnfideratipn to accept, in behalf oj all the% foorof this Nat tan, aClaufe in the room of this ob-l jefted againft, which fhall anfwer the End' without! this terrible Ruin to pur Trade and People. “ J t... ■ ‘ . T.. • ' <> ^ £ ROYAL y ROYAL RELIGION: Being fome E N Ct U I R Y AFTER THE Piety of Princes. With Remarks on a Book, Entituled, 4 Form of Prayers us'd by King William. G S a (4SJ ) R OYAL-RELIGION! fays the Firl) Min that looks on the Book, what d’ye mearf by that ? Did ever Man write a Book on fo empty a Subjeft ? This is like my Lord Rochc/ler's Poem upon Nothing, or the Niceties of Entity and Non Entity. Royal-Religion! A Demonftration of a Vacuum in Nature, a Salamander in the Fire, L Firft, prefentcd himfelf the likelieft Objeff; for if a p M an can give a greater Demonftration of his Love to jS Religion, than Dying tor the Church, we arc mifta- ;1 ken i and therefore we cannot forbear affirming, that Ij certainly we have found the firft of the fort at # home. . An 111 Natur’d Calves Head Dijfenter, ftept in, and k obje£led Three Things 5 the Book of Sports, Executing L. Straford againft his Confcience, and taking a Pray¬ er ii er out of the Romance call’d*' and putting it bj into his Book of EiAon Bafihke. «j As to the firft and tljp laft, they appear to be none \ of his Aflions, the One put out by A. B. L. and the )« other put in by and as to the Cafe of the Lord Strafford^ he publickly Repented of it. ' s Great Ciaim has been put in for thisMatterj on be- fq half of the Two Crown’d Sons of the laft Mention’d I P*"“*“Ce« M As to the firft. If above Fifty B—dfi with Innume- !s : table Inftances of Lewdnefs j if pretending ail his Days to be a Proteftant, and at the fame time being a Jutfuppofed P— j if thefe things will not bar him from m the Claim to Religion, he fhall have my Vote. 1^ His Brother without doubt, has a much better !! It Claim, and there is no queftion, bat when the Hun- t dred Ywrs are Compleat, fhall receive a Badge of ;; Saintfliip fromRm^i meantime, this muft be own’d, ^ let his real Religion be what it will, he Suffer’d as much for it as any Man ofhis Charafter in the World, but his Memory won’t go down with the Englifh ; i and if 1 fhou’d Dy, he was fhe Man, no Body would If believe me. jif If any Man Charge this as a Banter on Crown’d- heads, and on Religion, I tell’em they areMiftakenj 4 and as Acre is too much Matter of Faft in the Hifto- V, ry of it, fo I muft tell them, ’tis lefs than a juft Re- ' turn to thofe hot Mouth’d (^ntlemen, who have he¬ x' flow’d a Plentiful ftorm of their Wit, as they call it , upon a Manual call’d, A Colleftion of Prayers, ufed f ‘ by Ring William, J . I know nothing, but the general Scandal on the 31 Rt^gion of Princes, which can be a Handle for thefe li Gentl^ens Railery j and becaule, perhaps few of ■ the Kings of Eurape^ tsti troubl’d themfelves with J Private Devotion, therefore the late King muft be fo too. I* ■. . ■ r- I Princes C 4^2 ) . Princes perform the Duties of Religion, as a ter ot State, and common Court Ceremony appoinfs^ the Ch^lpUins in Ordinary to attend at their Seafon; f) the Hours of Prayer, are Regulated as the Hours of ' Elay, and the Clerk of the Clofet has his Work al- foj thefe are handfom General ways of treating God i Almighty Civilly, and the Prince vouchlafes to be ‘ prefent, as often as he pleafes; and we are very wil- ’ ling to cry up the Devotion asrd Piety of thole that ^ do lb. ; But as for Clofet Secret Devotion, Private Serious 1 prayer, Hearty Application to the God and Maker of ; us all, committing all to his Condufl, feekihg the ' Fate of the Almighty, his Favour, Proteftion, Coun- fel and Bleflingj we Challenge Hiftory of Times paft, or Experience of Time within Memory, to match the Inlbnce before us. As to the Matter of Faft, which fome have the Im¬ pudence toQuellion, I appeal to the Teftimony given by the late Reverend and Learned Prelate Dr. Tilht- fon^ late L. A. B. of Canterbury j which jeftitnony, as I have had the Honour to hear him Exptefs, fct there are many living Witnefles of it. 1 fet this in the Front of the Debate, becaufe, even thole who are willing to believe the heft of his late - Jvlajelly, and would glad to have it true, are yet forward to ask, of the Book of Prayers Publilh’d in his Majellies Name, Do you really believe the King made ufe of thou. I confefs, the Novelty of the thing, the rarity of a Praying Prince, may make the Queftion the more Ex- pufab^ l^uc I proceed to confider, his late Majefty in his Solitudes, and to Examine, what Authority we have to believe, tha^ thefe Prayers Publifti’d as his, are G/r- nuiae, ' ■ ■ Firft, I affirm the late Dr. Tillotfon., has often Ex- prels'd himfclf of his Majefty, thus, That he was a very IJIS >'• at very Devout Perfon, and a conftant Obferver of RelU gious Duties, both in Publick and Private. Secondly, I Appeal to his Lordftiip, the Bilhop of AoruiicPj and to his Preface to this Manual j where* in he gives an Account of the conliant Solemnity his Majefty obferv’d, in the Receiving theSacrament, and the extraordinary time of Preparation, which he Se¬ parated for himfelf, from the mod preffing Affairs ^en in the very Camp ^ which I give you in hisLord- mips Words, thus ^ here is plainly the Piaure of i Serious and Devout Chriftian King, and the Authori* ty of 3 Chridian Bifliop to confirm it. I THE ^ PREFACE I T O T H E 1 PRAYERS.: '^HefePra 7 ers are faithfully Printed without the ^ “ J. leaft variation from the Original Papers, which ' his Majefty conftantly ufed. _ Although they were admirably luited to the Cir- |r “ cumftances of his Majefty’s Royal Condition, yet J: *• the matter of them is chofe with fo much Judg- i ment, that they in a manner comi»ehcnd all the ^ *■ things for which a Chriftian Man ought to Pray 5 |u “ and may aflPord great Affiftance to veriuoufly difj^ “ fed Perfons of all Ranks and Qvialides in their Re* * ligious Exercifes. j, By their being made Publick, Men will fee die -** high Regard his Majefty had for the Duties of the “ Chriftian Religion, and how well he employed him- | “ lelf at the Lord’s Table j where his Behaviour was ever moft Grave, Humble, and Devout. u|,j “As As often as his Majefty received the Sacfanacnf^ which he never failed to do lour times in theYeax, ‘‘ he always fet a part two or three Days to preoara “ himfelf for it. “ When he was in the Camp, if urgent Affairs ptft “ him by the Seafpns he ufually allotted for his Prepay ration j he ordered theSacrament ro be deferr’d till “ the Lord’s Day following, that he might have Op- “ portunity to fit himfelf worthily to partake of thofe “ Holy Myfteries. “ There is alfo very good Reafon to believe, that he ** made ufe of fome of thefe Prayers, every Morning “ and Evening, when he retir'd into his Clofet to Pray 5 “ in which daily Devotions, they, who had the Ho- “ nour to attend his Perfon, well knew, that he was “ moft Conftant and Regular. It is therefore hoped, that fome Right hereby “ will be done to the Sacred Memory of that excel- “ lent Prince, who was the Glorious Inlirument of “ preferving the pure Religion, the Ancient Laws, " and known Liberties of this Kingdom. “ Which Invaluable Blcllings, he hath alfo perpe- “ tuated to us by eftablilhtng the Succeflion of the Crown in the Proteftant Line, and leaving the im- “ OiCdiate Poffeffion thereof to her prefent Majeliy, “ our moft Gracious Sovereign Queen A N NE. Here’s a living Teftimony from an Unbiafs’d Pen, and from an Unqoeftion’d Authority, to the Piety and Religion of a Devout Prince. If his Lordlliip the Bifhop of Norwich, had any need for me to give the World his Character, to add to the Reputation of his Teftimony, fomcthing might be expefted that way. But as he is a Perfon eminent in Piety, as well as in Office, of a known and unfupported Integrity, and a Prafticer of that very Quality which he applauds in his Chriftbn Sovereign, there can lie no Objeft/on a- H h gainft (460 : ' ■ '•'W i;ainft the Truth of ic, but what will be a Satyr upon | it felf. I 1 lis Lordfhips Defign too, muft be plainly and up- J rightly, whnt heprotefles, viz. to do right to theSa- | cred Ivlemory of that Excellent Prince, w'ho was the I Glorious I nftrument of preferving the Pore Religion, |' the Ancient Laws, and the known Liberties of this | Kingdom. I This w.is not a Time for my Lord to expe£l much 1 from the World, for either preferving the Memory or 1 recommending the Example of King WtUiamy when j fo many value ihemfelves upon III treating him on 1 1 both Accounts. |' My Lord of Norwich therefore, Hands fo much the |i clearer in that Point, by how much there is no room | to imagine, his Defign could be any thing elfe than he I ! expreffes. ’ 1 1 Thirdly, I appeal to his Menial Attendants, whofe ji Teflimony, will Hill Confirm the particular, as to J'! the Time which his Majelty every Day let apart for |t Private Devotion V and without breach of Charity, I I! can lay, 1 do believe few about him fpar’d fo much | time tor the Solemn Occafion of Private Prayer, as the 11 King himfelf. _ . |1 Fourthly, i Appeal to the Eye-witnefles of his Ac* ji; tions in the Field i and there are Thoufands of Gen* |r tlcmcn, who Declare, they never knew him Enter ‘ ; upon any Great Aftion, but that immediately before ; he adventur’d himfelf, he recommended himfelf to -n the Divine. Proteflion; as particularly at the great i Battle of Landcn^ where the Night before the Bat- tel, his Majeffy Lodg’d in his Coach, and in fhe Mor- ;; ning had his Chaplain call’d into the Coach, to pray f with him. H I need not tell the World, with what Undaunted- f nefs of Refolution he adventured into theFIottdt Ac- ;• tiOHj C 467) Hort; how Fearlefs and llHconcern’d, he look’d in the Face of Danger j after having thus prepar’d him- few for Deaths Hiftory is too full of his Prodigious Aaions, and the Minds of Men have too great an Idea of his Exited Memory, to require any |uch Excurfi- on of my Pen. But I muft fay, I firmly believe, it was the conftant preparednefs of his Condition, that fettled and fix’d his Temper, in a perfeft Refignation to the Sovereign Difpofal, and caus’d him to be per- feftly Hearty and Unconcern’d, in the greaieit Dan¬ ger .* Since no Man can be fo truly bjave^ as the Man whofe Confcience fpeaks comfortable things to him, in the Minute of Danger. After all thefe particular Inftances, 1 appeal to the Manner of his I^ath ^ with what Compofure o{ Mind did he prepare for it; with what Ealinefs did he talk of himfelf, and of the Affairs of the King¬ dom j with what Freedom did he quit all the great things of the World 5 how did he lay down the Scep¬ ter as a Burthen, and refign the Crown with a Wif- lingnefs, too great to be Counterfeited. We are apt tofufeSt the Solcmneft and mod Pub- lick Appearances of Living Devotion j but at the Hour of Death, it’s another thing, he that can Dif- femble then, is arriv’d to a Degree of ha'rdnefs, be¬ yond what the worft Enemy could ever fuggell of him. And I wifli, forne good Pen were admitted to Print,? what a certain highly Dignified Prelate, has often been pleafed to relate, of what paffed between his late Majefty and himfelf, in the laft Moments of his LifCj after his receiving the Sacrament, and during his other Preparations for Death. ’Tis known, his Majefty was not furpriz’d with Death on a fudden, but had fome days Nociea, and Time and Strength fufficient to declare himfVl! freely, and did fo. The, Jl h ( 463 ) The chief End of renewing thefe Melancholy Parts ol his Aftions, is to make it appear, that it is not fo improbable a Story, that thele Prayers Publilk’d by the kifhop of Norwich^ and faid to be ufed by the late King, were Genuine^ and were really his own. The Affirmative, the Bifliop of Norwich^ whole Hand is to the Work, has made folemn j and ss Negative can never be proved, I think nothing can defire a greater Confirmation. Probability Gear, Proof Poftive, Circumflancet Concurring \ he that would not bang a Thief on thofe Three Heads, ought to be hang’d himfelf ^ he that will doubt after thefe Heads thus clear’d up, will Doubt for evtr, and ought to have all Men doubt, both his Honefty and his Underftanding. And after all, what can be the Reafon, and who the Perfons that make ufe of them, againlt the Me¬ mory of his Majefty ? P/>/?, ’Tis remarkably vifible, all that are Enemies to theprefent Eftabliftiment, hare his Memory, vili- fie his Name, and endeavour to Icffim his Glory, and d contra, generally fpeaking, all thofe who reflea on the Memory pf King William, hate the prefent Go¬ vernment ; Would you have the Charaaer of a High Church man painted in little, his Prologue is Praver, his Epilogue is Anathema's and Curfes, Pajfroe Obedi¬ ence and the Church is the Introduaion, and Railing atKing(f/7/w«istheConclufion. Show me a Pamphlet, a New AJjoctatwrt, a WolJ Hript But as the Danger of the Church is the Pre¬ tence, Railings, wide Refleaions upon King Wtlliam and his Memory, arc the Means. To whofe Charge do they lay the horrid Crime of eftabliftiing Schifm by a Law and introducing the damnable Aa of Toleration ? ’Tis all neap’d up to the Repioach of the Memory of King William, fcl W':;' ft! ' Mt 4 !Kfr tliok, ±> ii jt ^ :4 f W «!i r id;- & - Uf n f 4«9 ) Who do they charge with filling the Ecclefiaftick Preferments with Enemies to the Church, and put¬ ting in Presbyterian Bifhops ? 'Tis all laid at the Door of King William. ’Tis to King William they Pretend to owe the turn¬ ing out their Lawful King, and abjuring his Po- fterity, 'Tis at King William^ door they lay the Crime of a pretended Settlement, and transferring the Nation to another Dutch Governour. ’Tis to King William’s Charge, they lay the Crime of Acknowledging the Superiority of the Laws to the Kingly Power, debafing the Monarchy, and demo- lilhing the Standard-Cheat of the Church, call’d Faf- Jive Obedience, ’Tis to King William's Memory, they lay the Blame of a Partition Treaty, whole Conditions, ’twill be well for us, if we can ever come up to. ’Tis to King William’s Condu0:, they lay the vail Increafing Power of the trench; whom, now he is gone., they have found it fo eafie a matter to fub- due. ’Tis King William they call an Ufurper, and yet pretend her Majefty is not concern’d in the Matter j as if the Queens Title did not depend upon the Validi¬ ty of the Revolution. ’Tis to him they lay the fubjefling the Divine Au¬ thority of Princes to the Bondage of Laws and the Slavery of Parliaments, and making the Majeftv of Heaven, reprefented in his Vicegerent the King., ftoop to the Supremacy or Original and Colle£tive Power. ’Tis this Man’s Memory they curfs for depriving them of the f.veet Revenues railed out of the Perfe- cuted DilTenters, and the whollome Advantage of Plundering thuir Neighbours. ’Tis the hated Memory of Kw^Wilham they blame for interrupting the Succeffioii in me IVight-Line, and ^ ^ Hh3 P*«' ( 470 ) preventing a general Union of EngliP) and french Frinciples as well as Power. In fhort, All our french Wars, our Dutch Settle- inent, our Whiggifh Lords, all our Taxes, our'Dcbts and Deficiencies, the Danger of the Church, the ter¬ rible Encroachments of Diflenters ^ it’s all King Wil- pain i he was an Occajional ConformiJ}, a Lutherany a Presbyteriaa ; nay, the Author of this has a rallying Letter Lent him from a Clergy-man of the Church of Englandy who calls King Wiitiam a Papijiy and a /<»- cobite. ’Tis ftrange to me, they never charg’d him with a Defign to bring in the french Army, and reftorc King Jarnes, No wonder thefe Gentlemen won’t believe the Prayers we fpeak of, were ever made ufe of by him ^ if he is as certainly us’d thofe Prayers as they con-i ftantly pray’d for his Confufion, they are certainly genuine. J look on it as a Angular Providence, that thele Prayers came ufhcr’d into the World under the Pa¬ tronage of fo Reverend a Hand -, after whofe Name put to the IntroduUion, the Authcniick Copy can ib^ye no ObjeUion. His Lordlhip is fufficiently curs’d for giving his Im¬ primatur to the Work, and has already had the Op¬ portunity of hearing himfclf call’d a Thoufand frec- byteriansy Ifh/gSy and Traitors to the Church. Had the Book come out without a Name, it had met with forty Ridiculing Banters in Print before, now; it had been call’d a Fanatick Plot, a Sham of the Party ; and J- Tuchin and William iullery had been quoted for the Authors: In fhort, it had been condemn’d to the Hang-man, and all theDiflen- tersbad been baited with putting fuch a Sham upon iho World. ■ . Mr. L. alias W. who never fwore to this Govern-; ment, and fwears he never will; would ha’ made a- -li! k i i rn . 471 ) nother Wolf Jtript of jr, and have call’d it a At’w Ajfociation from whence his fligmatizing Pen would certainly, according to his ufual Ihare of Hrafs, have told the World the Party were plotting to king King William to Lite-again, and depoling Queen ' 10 fet him up again. The Voluminous Gentleman is humbly ckfn’J, the next time he is pleas’d to rcHedf on the Memory ot King William^ and his Title to the En^liJ}} Crown, to let the World know how he can make that out not to be an Inve£live, a meer Satyr upon the Queen. Alfo, he is defir’d to tell us, how he can have the Face to compliment Her Majeity, and Her fitting on the Throne of her Anceftors, and yet rsfufe to take the Oaths, and recognize her juft Title > And, whe¬ ther if any Man (hould let Her Majefty know it. She wou’d not believe he had the Impudence to Banter Herf . As to the Memory of King William, it needs no Addition from my Pen j it lives with a profound Efteem in the Mind of every True Englijh man, that has a Value for the Proteftant Religion, and the Peace of his Native Country; it lives abroad in the Hearts of all Nations, where he has made good the Saying of our Saviour, That a TrophcEs Honour is not in his own Country. _ I confels, I am at a lofs how to imagine, any Fro* ■ teftant can refteft upon King William^ if a Roman Catholick does not refpeft his Memory, or did not love his Perfon ^ I can neither wonder at it, nor blame them j for I cannot cenfure any Man for being Faithful to what he profefles: But for a Church of England Man, who aftually join’d in the Revolu¬ tion, as they in general did lor him, to turn upon the Kiiw, I would fain ask fuch Gentlemen, What vvQuld they have had ? Hh 4 If r 47^) « If they did not join in the Prince’s Expedition,' ‘-a they could hardly be Church-men ; for the whole Church was in the thing, and King James own’d it to he fo to the lafl •, and when the Mob took him 1 at feverfiam^ and he faw a Clergy-man in the M Crowd, he call’d him to him, and defir’d him to M fpeak to the People to be quiet, and with Tears in his Eyes told him, Sir^ ^Tis the Men of your Coat have brought me to this j and repeated it twice with 'great Earheiinels and Concern. :i3 Now the Churchmen being wholly concern’d, I .fa don’t fay only concern’d but wholly, in bringing in a 1 Foreign Power j and this they carried on till the lare | King went away. What is it they would have had i I could never fee one of their Books or Writings that i propos’d a Medium ^ fince they did not approve of i King William's being fet up, what would they ha' \ done ? ; What is it they would have had ? A Proteflor j would never have pleas’d them, the Word would have fmelt too rank : I wifh they would tell us what ; Articles, what Conditions would they have made with | their Angry Prince, to have reftor’d him, and recall’d. him, and how would they have oblig’d him to keep -1 them. Moft People who are difeontented at the prefent 'i Condition, can tell, how it might be made better-, -i but thefe People cannot preferibe a Method, what . J elfe at that lime they could have done, and how a they could have been fafe in their Property and Re- , | Jigion. I We demand therefore a Ceflation of their Tongue * as to Billingfgate, and Reproach upon King W'llltam | and the late kevoluiion, fo long at leaft, as till they ^ tell us what Medium could have fupplied the fil- 4 ling up the Throne with the late King William and | Queen and how Property, Liberty, and the | froteRanr Religion, could have been fecur’d. ; % fi f ii ;■ 31 if k i t C 479 ) If they cannot reply to this, what have they to fay to King IVMam > And why all this ill Language and reproach upon his Memory, that they will notallow him to be a King, nor a Cbriftian. As to his ASions in the Field, or on the Throne they are far from wanting my Pen to defend them • but as to his Perfonal Piety, his Real Religion, 1 nke the Freedom to affirm, from unqueltionable ■Witnefs, juftifiable Authority, and fome little poii- tive Knowledge, He was a Prince of the greateft Pie¬ ty, Sincerity, and unfeigned Religion, as either Hi- ftoty relates, or Memory informs of in the World ; and 1 am not convinc'd, that I need not except any Crown’d Head that ever Reign’d, except, and only except his Royal Conlbrt, and her Glorious SiRer. If he was not a Prince of Religion, let them fhow me a Prince in the World that ever was! And ’twould take up^ a large Volume to run back the Parallel to the beginning of Hiftory. I confefa, it would too much reproach the Englifk Calendar, to ranfack our Throne, to find a Prince equal to King William ; and ’tis a Misfortune, that the Charafter of our Kings will not bear a Secret Hi¬ ftory : We have not above two or three Crown’d Heads that England can pretend to, before King William, whofe Chara£ler values it felf upon that Article, call’d The Religion of Princes j it has been fo remote from their general Pra£Hce, that really it has not been much in the Pretence ^ and indeed, 1 have never read over the Scruples King Henry the Eighth made, about putting away his Wile rinc oiSpain^ without my Thoughts fill’d with the utnioft Contempt both of the Perlbns and the Times, to hear them call’d Scruples of Confcience j and Bifliops, and ail forts of Ecclefiafticks, were fum* moa’d together to fatisfie the King’s Confcience, a Miflion to Rome ^ and an Examination of Matters in the Points of Confanguinity in alltheUniverfiries iii ■ Eutopd C 474 ) Europe, were carried on with all polTible Vigour and all for the fatisfaftion of his Majefty’s Confcience. Had fome of the Srates-men ot that Age, found out ways to have fatisfied another importuning Aftair in his Majefty’s Conftitution, they might have taken much lefs Pains about his Confcience; for if it may be guefs’d by the reft of his Conduft, if the After-ma- ragement ol that Prince may be the Teft of his real Tendernefs, no Man in the World fticw’d lefs Con¬ cern for Religion, otherwife than it ferv’d to cover the Defign of his Luft, his Covetoufnefs, or his Ty- rannick Temper. Indeed, we have had fo much of this Royal Banter in former Ages in England, that a Prince ought to have more Religion in him than ever King had before him, before he can expeft the World fliould believe he has any more-Sincerity than his Anceftors. Tis confefs’d, we owe the prefent Reformation to the Reign of King Henry the Eighth ^ and without troubling the Reader with the Particulars,?which he may read in the Bifliop of Salisbury^ Hiftory of the Reformation at large, 1 readily allow, he gave a great ftroke to Popery and Idolatry in England. But, what (hall we fay to the Inftrument ? God Almighty was pleas’d to (how the Sovereignty of his Government and to let us fee he can fanflifie the De- Cgn, in any Work, without fan£l:ifying the Agent ; and had the Abbeys and Monafteries in England been poor and empty Cells, had the Lands, and not the Monks and Priefts, been out of the way, had he not had more occafion for the Revenues than the Rcfor- , mation of the Church ; I believe I make no Breach upon my Charity, when I fay, that in all probability they had ftood to this Day, that is, at lea ft from any difturbance they might have found from the Confcience of that King. Confcience ! What a" firange Play thing did that Iving ihake of his Conlcience! ( 475 ) . 1. In putting away his Wife after he had liv’d eighteen years with her •, and as often as he had a mind to a New Bed-fellow, putting away or putting to Death feveral others after her, 2. In deftroying the Abbeys and Monafteries; which, however we are pleas’d with the matter who are Proteftants, in him that was a Papift, could be nothing but a Sacrilegious Robbing the Church, alie- irating the Charity of the Dead, and Robbing other Men of their Due. 3. In his Cruelty and Thirft of Blood ; who at the fame time put to Death Proteftants for denying the £.eal Prefence, and Papifts for denying to acknow- I tbge his immediate Supremacy. If King Henry the Eighth lop’d off the Branches of popery, King Edward the Sixth laid the Ax to the Root of itj he gave it the Mortal Wound, and it died under his hand ; And ’tis the Glory of our Re¬ formation, that God, who had defign’d in his Pro¬ vidence, to build up the Prorcftant Religion in Eng¬ land^ tho’ he permitted the Devil to contribute to the Deftruftion of his own Interefr, yet he referv’d the Publick Work for one, in whofe young Heart he had planted the Seeds of Early Religion. What that Prince would have been, if be had liv’d to have fhown himfelf in the World, no body can tell; but he died early enough to prevent all poflible Scandal upon his Morals, and liv’d long enough to fhow more Sincerity, and more ^eal to Religion, than any Prince that ever fat upon the Englijh Throne, or any other Throne in the World. The peculiar Quality of the Royal Religion we are upon, is exprefs’d very much in the Book we are now in Debate about. 7 And what is the Title of this Book? A Book of '^rt^ers, When Kings pray, it may well be put m C 47S ) a Book. And ’tis remarkable to all the World, that in all our Lift of Kings, from the Conquelt to King William, is not one word of Prayer recorded, " no, not in the moft Flattering, Fullom Hiftories of. their Lives, except of King Edward the Sixth and King William. I omit Eikoji BaftUke, and the Martyrdom of King Owles^ the Firft in this cafe, becaufc one is liable to Exception j and the other, a Cafe without Example, which does not reach our Cafe. 1 come now to the Credit of the Book we afe up¬ on i for, with thofe People who are not willing to have this Book genuine, and who have affaulted it with Banter and Ridicule, who will have King Wil¬ liam have no Religion, becaufe they have little themfelves, or becaufe he did not pleafe them j after they have done with their incoherent Raillery, and find it infufficienr, then they aflault the Book it Itlf. Bedlam is hardly ftrong enough to hold them, when they refleff, that this l)dmn'd Vrayer Book, as one call’d if, fhould be Vouch’d by a Bifhop. This has hook’d ’em in fo, and cramp’d them, that all the Defign of making it a Presbyterian Sham, is knock’d on the Head. They can’t run about now, and call it a Whimfie of the DilKnters, to magnifie his Memory. Here is the Church Signature, that Church which his Ma- jelty own’d, conform’d to, protected, and would ha’ Reform’d, if fome, who the Devil employ’d to pre¬ vent it, had not always hindred him. And the Honefty of thofe Fathers of the Church, who were lenfible of his Integrity, ftriff, and con- ftant Endeavours for their Good, as a Church, is ve¬ ry confpicuous, and deferves this Teftimony for their bearing Witnels to his Memory, when the Sons of bury, and Men of Malice, would load him with Reproach, ‘ ‘ •t f Here’s ( Ml ) Here’s the PiSure of his Soal •, all the Clouds of Envy, all the Smoke and Duft of Slander and Evil- fpeaking, cannot cover, eclipfe, or fully hisCharac-, ter: Thus he pra/d, thus he (erv’d his Maker, Daily, Weekly, Yearly ^ thus he CommunUated, and thus he Prepar’d himfelf to do it. And here’s the Sacred Teflimony given by a Bifhop of the Church of Eng¬ land^ whofe Ears have been witnels to the Truth of it, and who hasHonefty enough left to own it amcwig the Cloud of other-Witneffes who ate afiiam’d of the Truth, and (how their Malice, iy withholding the juft Teftimony, Honour and Conlnence would ob¬ lige them to. ’Twould be needlefs, rfter his Lordfhip’s Teftimo¬ ny, to fubjoin thole of Meaner Servants, who attend¬ ing at his Majefty’s Clofet, have been Eye-wirnefles of his Retirement, and his fetting apart a fufficienc Time, Morning and Evening, for his Private Devoti¬ ons-, or, of thofe other Perfons, who yet mote near to his Majefty, have been often prefsnt, and affiftant to him in his Performances, lefs retir’d. There are above Thirty Living Witneffes who can attell, not only the General Pra^ice of this Immortal Man, but who can alfo give Witnels to the Particu¬ lars, that thefe were the very Prayers his Majefty fre¬ quently uled ^ always giving himlelf (iich a Juft Li¬ berty of Exprefiing himfelf, as Dilated to his Tongue from a fervent Spirit, and an Infpir’d Devotion. But I chule to (land by the Authentick Teftimony, ofhis Lordlhip the Bilhop of Norwich fuch Enqui- rers as are willing to be fatisfied, may have full Sa- tisfaftion from fuch of his Majefties Menial Attend¬ ants, as are yet alive ^ and fuch as are neither wil- ling it (hould be true, nor refolv d to believe it ii it were ; that Atteftation ofhis Lordlhip. whofe Name is fairly affix’d ro the Preface, is a fufficieni rortiti- cation againft all they can pretend to lay. But * . ( 47 ®) But where will Clamour ceafe? Envy hunts all the Avenues of a Man’s Reputation, to Impeach hisCha^ ' rafter j and when (he finds it fo well Fortified and ; Guarded, that fhe can break in no where, ftie ne- i ver fails to raife Duft and Smoke, to blind the Eyes ©f thofe that wou’d keep them open to a juft ; Merit. If thefe Prayers were us’d by the King, fay they, ; ’twas only a Show of Religion without any Sincerity; • for when he came to die, he would not fay he died j in the Commudon of the Church of Englani, ] He that can undertake to fay, that when he fees i a Man Worlhipping God, he is or is not Sincere, muft j ha’ better Eyes than I; God has rcferv’d this Know-* ] ledge of the Heart wholly to himlelf. ; But the prelent Subjeft of our Difcourle, his late : Glorious Majefty, at his Death, gave convincing ’ Proofs, that he felt the Compofure of a calm Con- ! fcience i and I know no greater Teftimony of a Sin- ? cerity in Religion. - As to his dying in the Church of England, ’tis > plain he died in the Communion of that Church, in ; that the Blefled Sacrament was Adminiltred to him, ■ by the Archbilhop of Canterbury, not many Hours j before his Death -, and which he Receiv’d with extra- i ordinary Marks of Devotion. 3 As to his Anfwer given to the Queftion, which he < has been fo much reproached for, he anfwer’d, He j Died a Chriftian, and in Communiw with the Re- ■ form’d Proteftant Church, according to that Glorious I* Principle of Charity, which his Majefty always re- t tain’d for all Societies of Sincere Chriftians, and ■, which, as far as in him lay, he always Promoted and ■ Encourag’d, both by his Commands and his Royal Eixample. May the exceeding Candor of his Temper, the Ex- ; teniivenefs of his Charity -, and the Healing Principle, which on all occafions appear’d in hina, be the Pattern : lor this whole Nation to Imitate. May , 479 ii: E- fucceeding Princes, who fliall fit on the . Enghjh Throne, Acknowledge, Serve, and Pray to « their Great ^vereign Maker like him; let him be fo far their Pattern, let them fliow the King and the Chridian like him. I i , n wheneyer this Nation is bleft again with a 'fk Praying and tighting Monarch-, may they treat him better, betray him lefs, and love him more j leaft J 5 Heaven ferve them then, as he has done now, and J I take him from them when they have moft need of FINIS. Advertifements # Newly Publifh’d, the following Books, HE State of the Cafe between AJhby and White, ^ 1 in the Houfe of Commons, relating to the | Atleshury Eleftion. With the Arguments made ufe of , by Sir Humphrey Meckvoorth, impartially Examin’d and Confidered. 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