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fur’d, and asCand‘i 1y, terprete'd, as may be; an if
there are fuch hard Paﬂages in them, as aﬂbrd jull: matte:

MITQMbIQ‘ Guides, who, it feems, had but too much Credit. with‘thefe
unfortunate Men, whOfe Educatiohfurnilhed them with no great Ad-
vantages,to Examine the Notions of Government,and whole courl‘e of
Life'gave,_no extraordinary Indications of. a Scrupulous Enquiry, into
the Lawfulnels of all their Attions. But their Guider,it feems, refolv’d

to Pawn their own 501115 for themawith Relation to God, as they '

have done their Reputation to the World, in juftifying their-Aftions,
more particularly their lall; Papers. Sir William Perkins’s Paper is
-' Natively Writ, and there is little Reafon to doubt, but that it was
his own Compofrtion. But few who knew Sir john Friend, will think
fo of his, it« has the Air of a Man, that hoped to maintain a Con-
venticle by it, and tho the Cbntexture of iris very 'indiﬁ‘ermt, yet
there feems to be little of Sir john himfelf in it, belides the Hand,
and the Subfcription. .

Thefe Confellors, who by a New Ceremony, would needs give
them Abfolution fo publickly,all in‘a Body, by an Aﬂ‘eé’cation that has
no Warrant, neither from the Common~ Prayer Book, nor the ufual

Praé’cice, and which no Popilb Priel’r ever yet ventured‘on; did no 9

doubt intend by this great Singularity, to let all, the Company fee,
that they believ’d thefe Gentlemen died ina [late of compleat Re.
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eentance. They were Condensin’d for Crimes of a very high Nature;
The one was not only Privy to the deﬁgn of Alfaliinating the King, :
but was fo-great an Undertaker in it, that he was far beyond the

Guilt of a tingle Afl'allinate; He was to have procured Five, who were

to have Attedin it; he had not only his own Guilt, but allrtheirs.
likewife upon him. This he freely 'acknOwledged to thofe Hanan;

table Peribns who were fent to Examine him,and he dues not deny it
here, the he Extenuates it all he can, ,The otheras well as he, was
Engaged in a. deﬁgn of , bringing over a Foreign Army of Papifts,who,
beﬁdes the Ancient Enmity that: they bear 'to our Nation, are the molt
Violent Perfecutors Of that Religion, of whithjthefe Gentlemen pre.
tended to be, of any now in the World. ' They have beenralToforma

ed, as bya Dil‘ciplinc, to a Degree of Cruelty and Barbarity, even,

Where their own Religion is profeﬂ‘ed, that was not known-to for.
' met Ages. Neither the Paying Contributions, nor the taking Pro-
tet’rions, can faveCountreys, which they think it is their Intereit to
Deftroy, or toeiExe‘cme», "a new! Term invented in their late Wars, to
which their frequently repeated Praecices, have given a very deter.
minedsigniﬁcation- The bringing over fuch an Army‘to deitroy or»
Conquer us, "gave this poor miﬂed Gentleman, no fort of trouble no‘
un‘eaﬁnefs in his €onfcienee. .He Triumphs in it, ,h’ecalls it The Carj‘

quM, and of True. Religion; His, ,Minilters perfwaded him, that 1

was f0, they gave him Abl‘olution upon it, or rather for it; for out
of them— toldSir Warming/41m, to deliver his Paper, when allwas?

over; This the Add‘reHEd to him, was no doubt direé’ted-to both’ -

’ They Would have, the Papers to,be delivered as the [alt Arft of their
Liveﬁthat fo it might appear upon what Foundation all their Pray.
ersru'n‘, -'-and'upon what the Abfolution was given, in 1‘0 Publick and

f0 Pompous amanner. ~ g . . _ .
AglMan that is Condemn’d may be conﬁdered, ' either as being In;

nocent of? the Fail, or if Guilty, as 4 having any repented of ' it,

or thoughhe is Guilty of the Fat}; yet as having done well in it,
fo that what Sins foev‘er Beﬁdes he may have upon him, he has no.’
thing to anfwerﬁr,- or to repent of, with relation to that for which
lie is Condemned. The-ﬁrﬂ: of theft: does not belong to this cafe.

The Gentlemen confers the ~Faét in thefe Papers, as well as they .

did it to the Honourable Perfons who Examined them. sit-cannot
be faid, that they Repentedof thefe Crimes: A lineereCon-feﬂion,
a Hearty Sorrow, and an (Amendment as far-as is pollible, make
lRepentance compleat, - Here wasyno Confeﬂion, even- the B-lackeit
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E; ' pat-tails :extennate'dj no Dil'coveryis made of the Deﬁgn they were » -

'in;..,ilor of their way 0f conduéting it : No fort of Sorrow is’ ex...
preﬂédgfor any part of their Guilt ; nor is there any Reparation
E olféredmor any thing towards the fecuring thatLife which one of them . ’

:- had: Confpired againft. Not [0 much as the ﬂightComplementofask-

. ingﬁardon, which is the lowelt Degree of Reparation pollible.-.

E . Eire A'ﬂallinates are left undilcoveted (by him at" lealt) \to carry

,on the Deﬁgn. Here then there is not any one Aét or Branch of '

Repentance, much let‘s all together. It remains therefore, that thefe :-
Minilt‘ersthought that no Fault was done, no Crime was Committed, ‘ .
andthey refolved by To publick an Abfolution to declare to the ;

Nation, that they thought theAﬂ'aﬂinating the King (for the Con-

- fpkiﬂgpto do it is the fame thing in the Sight of God) is an; ‘ ,
Unblameabl'e 'Aé‘tion, for which a Man is obliged to no Repentance“. -_

: yeﬁciﬂ are-outdone by thefe Men.‘ They may teach their Dif—r ‘
ciplegthe Arts of Equivocating, or of down~rightdenying the Fatts:
l tha which they may 'berCondem-ned 5 but they have. not yet ventured:

_fohfar as to own the Blackeit Crimes without {‘0 much as? a Diftin-
ﬁibntovcxcufe them. Game: himlélf COuId not bearthe Flattery Of?"
being call’d a, Martyr when he went tohisExecution, for EtheaGun-»
-powdet-Treafon, but with a heavy Countenance laid to thofe whoEz

, a call’d him-f0, that he had never heard that a Parricide-(he {poke-kin:
Latin )_;was=a Martyr. Thefe Miniltershave- gonemnch further. ﬂ
they.EEnConra"ge the Party to go on .withthe,Awﬂ'aﬁination, by their. '
E .. Intimating in {o folemn a— manner, that they thinkit is (an lean-r):
' no attion to be re - ented of, and have aﬂhred them by this Aétion of-
theirs, that they ll Abfolve themwithont their Repenting of it; ’
. Sir Winiam Perkin: {2137811418 will not Complain oft/Se Hard/hip: 0f_._.
bi: Iryal, nor ofotber Kigali”, put upon him This l‘nﬁnuates; [ha-time:-
thought he had; Caufe givenhim tolmalgefuch Complaintsh» The
Tryals that are already publilhed,. carry in all] the: {tens of themg-v as
fairnefs that former times was not acquainted with: .xln ,‘lth'e-fe the
judges maintain a Characﬂter, that has been always pretended" to, but .
that. never ﬂtewed it felfmore eminently than of late years;- but;
- when ill- Charaéters were to bet-given Of-the Inﬁlcaot theNa—tion, a;
general Exprellion.might-be better ventured on) «than the-Particulars »
themﬁelves. This comes-afterpa Profellion that hawk: in. ﬁguwjtpoﬁ»
tionsto.Cbzzrity, but is no great-:_lnﬂ'.ance,of it; E .
Thelongel’t Article ofhis Paper is:-_with Relation to. the Law:
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isnot touched by what he lays; ' , '”

This leeming iContradié’tiOn lies only tagainft,what‘hehimfelfoncc '
laid, and not-againitthat which the W'itnefs depofed. He does-not; -

e‘tl‘s,‘ifor Mrfﬁl’artei; {wears that he {aid-to him that bee/aw yttrium! ,
t; fetch *a- Cammiﬂiau,‘ he does notzcontradtét that; he does not lawman
he faid no {itch thingto him, therefore the Credit-of the Witn’efs

deny that he: gave itoutfor a'Commiflio‘n to make War enfthePen '

he had laid to Mr. Porter ;' for he had fai‘da the fame to MRI-Gmmdck;
"He trys how far he can go to repair this; he deni'és the—Expreﬂi‘on,
:oi making ”rat upon. the King: Perﬁm; But he ownsa Generalem-i

million to all theLate'King’s .Subjeé’ts to LeVy War," 'Sirin'l‘z‘igin,
. Perkin, who wasrof the Law, could not but know-the difference

-'betviveen a’Cémmiﬂion and 'a Proclamation; The one is- indeed genera;
to all Subjeets,“ but the other is Special, appropriatedto particular.
Phrlons, and; t'o‘theBodies‘in which they are to Command. ' This

could not be a'Commilﬁon of - that kind; ~ He and Sir john F1756“)
“both had Special Commillions,‘foithey coaldanot but be acquainted;

with the Stile of them. But why Was this writ all with theLate

. ‘King’s own Hand? n; was .Swom agaihft him-that he had faid'it'was‘

m,‘ and was "~acktiowledged by him to Dr. Wiﬂiamr, (that at leak)

‘ frhe believed it was his hand, which he had feen {o oft, that’hehad

vr‘eafon to "know it. A Prince needs not give himfelf fo much trouble
*for an ordinary Commilﬁon of Levying Men, or making a fair War.
Therefore lirppofmg all that he lays to be true; here wasa Commiﬂion
$30? a very extraordinary Nature, and itwas given out and‘underftood
among them, as a Commiﬂioir, M‘r’arranting the Attacking the Prince
of Orange and his Guards: Hehimi'elf putthis Confiruttion uportit,‘

candiﬁmade Others underftand it {0. If this was a ”Fraud of his,~ it was

£‘»~3‘V€I‘y black one, and «ought to have been Confelléd and Repeated of;
”but it'feems, his Confeﬂbrs thought the Merit of the Aéiio'n it {elf
'-might'Excu{e all fuch Artiﬁces. ‘ , ' '\ '

He owns that he was Privy «to the Deﬂgn, a very Extenuaring
aexprellionfor one that had iiich a {hate in diredting the Whole,
and wasto fumiih'ﬁve Perform to execute it. The Words are very
loft and gentle tohimielf, he leenis to excufe it, becaufe he was ”not
art) have Aff'ezl in it. David, a true Penitent, prays, Deliver me ﬁom
.B/ooai-gailfirztﬁ, thp’ he aéted no part in the killing Uriah, but he
gave thofe Orders that procured it; and therefore he entitles himﬁﬂf
. . . ' principally

ﬂ»: afar-be P. of Orange: It is very probable he‘. laid thefame thing?" .
~to others,moreipart;icular to the Five whom- he was to 'furti’ilh {that

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' would not put a Man..-fo- hard to it, who proved 1;) ﬁrm to the Par-V

Cy. He fays, be am: full] fatirﬁed, that few 0721mm knew of it, hut]
tho/2 {who undertook to Join ‘He is here. as Caraful of his Friends 3.5--
he could be;~yet the few or ”one imports thatto his knowledge forneg
others might be Privy cg; inns-well as he was. ' '
Afterthis, thine lword‘ffor‘other, intintating his Repentance, might;-
have been well expeaed‘; but inﬂead Of that an implied thﬁiﬁcation
0f it fbllows. He thinks iifor be} Hangar to fa} that, be we: entirely in —
the InteréﬂL of Melting, an that be we: always ﬁrmljperﬁvadedeof Hie
fig/tire of bei‘caeﬂe. If it was ('0, he ought at ‘ leal’r‘ to have
repentedof his tg’king the 04th to the PrefentGovernment, for ﬁe».
ving the. Ofﬁce he had in Chancery. Either that: Was dowmrigl-ta.
{wearing againl’t his Confcience, or he had a diitiné’cion in the mat...
ter, of which his Confeilors approved, for hisfvvearing to one Princes
when!” we: entirely in the Intereji‘ of another. This alone proves the ‘
neceﬂity of demanding ,a further fecurity, ﬁnce even adyingMam .
together With his 3 Ablblver's,.. thought that ,thefé tW0'_‘were.._not.In-.l
eonﬁl’tentr ' . “' . ' ' . 7
The! Argument with relation; toot-lie late King and ithegpreﬁmt -~
Government, is too large'to be entred'uponin a. Paper of this Nae .,
ture. The Affaiiination and the bringing in of a Foreign-Armyj)
are-Crimes charged-on thefe Perfonsr: L'lhr.el§e,_thing;t are here either.
openly; or ‘byinﬁnuation, iui’tiﬁed by the Perfons themﬁlves, and-15:1

very unufually by three of their Minil’rers,' who without? anyunrea- .f ‘
{enable Jealouﬁe, may be", We'll concluded to have acted upon this -.

occaﬁon, by Concert with fome.of»;theichief-xmeneof the Party-tin or»-
about the Town. _ , _ . \ x
He concludes with the Profeﬂion of. his ReligiOn.-« - No Comm-unio .

on, that I know, of Chriﬁians was ever yet in, the World," that iurﬂiﬁed?

Afﬁﬂinations. Even, the Council of - Conﬂmzce condemned them; ,

when done without a previous Profcription. I (Nan expeéieta j‘émeﬁm: «-
S‘udz'czér cujm-cunque.) It is a corruption peculiar to ouerimes, and to
that Party, to Graft the. Doc’trine of. Affaﬂinations upon the Chriiiian :_:
'Religion. God preIErve all Mentfrom either Living on Dying ill
ﬂicha Communion. He ends asking». pardon in. a averyslimited ex»
. premon, Whoever I may an] we] have injure-cl, I heartily ask their Prirdom ..
It feems he thought a deﬁgn tomurder theKingand procuring-i
Men to Act in it, was not an Injury, for-which Pardonwesrto he,-

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(é , .Speech: Great Joy, and much Conﬁdence {hew how far-thisjgll)‘_,_4 a. ,~..
t 1 ’ fters could work him up to ~ be ﬁnished with the Deﬁgn‘ of raging ‘ ‘ ‘

.in an Army of Foreigners,- to .dellroy borh the” Religion hat he ‘ , [(31
.profelled, and his-NativegCountry. ., This proves not in blltslh¢ '
Power of Perfuaﬁon, and the Credit that more wretChedZMen "had
with him Such a Scene of Horror as a. French Armyfmiiiffliave
opened in England, and all that Blood and Deﬁruétion that mult-

\_ have followed upon it, gave neither him ,- nor them, any. fort‘of Irottble. .
It damp’d not hisjoy, nor their Boldnefé'in Abfolving him»; Even . . .2
.a' good Caufe will not juﬂiﬁe fuch-black Methods. ,2 But" how‘lit- '2
tie Tendernefs foever this unhappy Knight had ,for his Countryghe' -&
:expreﬁespa great deal for the Papil’ts. He had argued in ,2 his Tryal; ~
.T/bat‘ the Oat/or of Pepi/tr were not, to be believed againﬂ' Proteﬂgamr,

. ‘ That their Price/h could Abfolwe them from all Oaths; 2Tb»? -
Tryal, Fol. 26. the] ufe Egmz'wcﬂtiom, Mental Reﬁarttmtz'om , and we} 4
have a Diﬁmnfdtion fer ﬁre/a Forfwearing, and 4196771347de
for all Villam'er. Upon this Oceaﬁon, ”his Confcience was fotender,
that he thought’a publick Reparation was to be made. ,What a:

2 Man urges in his Defence-has never paﬁ as- fo heinous a. Matter,»
._ that great Apologieswere tobe . made for it. I will not quite, juﬁiz.
he the Morality of fuch a: Method: But after aall,.a, Nicenefsrhe‘re a , ,
looks like The Straim‘ng at a Great; But a Kindnels' Was to be fhewni v i
to that Party; and perhaps he who Penn’d the Speech, intended . "”7“"
it as an Article of Merit, .when thofe black Deligns-can be compafl ' '
{Ed of2AlTaHination" and Foreign ~Invaﬁon'; which the Ahfolvers, ~ . x
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lea‘l’r. for'Aétions that need nor to be ”repented of. - . FT
.Ihefe poor Gentlemen have carried their Burden along with them' 2
into anorher World, where I am afraid their Ablolution' will ferve . 2
themin no ﬁeadglbut 21 am lure the Circumﬁances ofthis Execu—

- >rion let us all fee in what Danger we are, when we have among us

_.ﬁ1ch a defperate Crew, who have acted luch a Part as thefe Abfol- .
users have done, in {o impudent manner. , _ '

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