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england_n	church_n	establish_v	law_n	6,654	5	4.8986	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58249	An answer to a pamphlet intituled, A vindication of Sir Tho. Player, and those loyal citizens concerned with him in defence of a reply to a speech made by Sir Tho. Player by H.B.	H. B., Citizen of London.; N. R.	1679 (1679)	Wing R52; ESTC R10548	1,981	4

AN ANSWER TO A PAMPHLET INTITULED A Vindication of Sir Tho. Player and those Loyal Citizens concerned with him In Defence of A REPLY TO A SPEECH made by Sir Tho. Player By H. B. Citizen of London THe said H. B. for further Answer taken to the Exceptions in the said Vindication answers and says That the said Sir T. P. might as reasonably have taken H. B. for a Jew as a Priest or Papist there being nothing in his Answer from which any such Conclusion can be drawn from the Premisses But it 's observable that any person that asserts the King 's Legal Prerogative and the established Religion must be a Papist without any contradiction whatever And I must also observe That the detecting and suppressing the Popish Plot in the opinion of the Phanaticks cannot be effected by the present Government without their assistance whether requir'd or not But the Water being disturb'd they put in their Hooks Baits and Nets to try whether they can catch the Fish that is to say the Government And 't is observable that there is a Sect of men whose Ambition Jenkisme Faction or pretended blinde Zeal will never be contented with the best of Governments which ours is under a qualified Monarchy unless they themselves be at Helm steering Surely this Vindicator cannot have so little Logick as to suppose it was ever understood that Parliaments or Courts of Judicature could ever be intended as Routs and unlawful Assemblies He would make Sir T. P. leading up his men like these which not being according to Law I affirm may be reasonably accounted so But to make it not so Sir T. P. had two designs in it one to shew his Attendants whom he would have to vouch Jealousies and Fears for him the other to vote for Mr. J. to be a Pentioner-Sheriff so as with that Authority to make his Factious Party the stronger But the true Loyal Citizens not so in title as you title your selves were the greater number I expected to have met with Sir T. P. at the Meeting of the Lieutenancy on the 18th of this Month with half a score of his Men of Sense but because he was prohibited from bringing great numbers with him he thought fit to wave it Or else Sir T. P. and those persons were so employed in writing a Vindication for those Loyal Citizeus that they could not spare time It being better to rail at a Church of England man by calling him Sawcy Jesuit and more ill Names than are yet invented at Billinsgate than to be rendred Idle and Officious I could wish that his Club would consider Law as well as Faction and they might square their actions more discreetly For how impudently doth this Vindicator affirm that the City of London is not altogether tyed up by those Acts c. and that the City have the command of their Militia and instances That Burgers of all Cities in the world have the command of them This is denied for that there are no Cities unless under Commonwealths which we are not under the Tyranny of yet have that command But if it had been so what is that to our Law established Where by all the Acts the Militia is declared to be absolutely in the Power of the King And I am sure no person durst have said the contrary but one that would favour Rebellion so soon as an opportunity offers it self I must make bold once more to assert that the keeping up the Guards of the City is a vast expence to the poor of the City and tends much to the impoverishing of them But our Vindicator says Volenti non fit injuria not considering it 's against Law But if he considered the use of them he might finde them useless and against Reason too But the Patriot as he terms him could once affirm That the King having Guards for his person was against Law Let any man therefore judge of the Vindicator's Principles Ex pede Herculent Not forgetting The good old Cause It 's commendable in Sir T. P. to cloak the old grudge so to place his Revenge under a cloak of Publick Safety and for the good of the City I must declare it 's some reflection upon the City to have made choice of Factious Persons to be our principal Officers in the City and to place them in the Publique Offices But it so hapned it might not appear so to us then But upon discovery the City is ready enough to set such persons aside Neither do I know how to reconcile the matter for one that 's Chamberlain of London to be a Parliament-man because of the unlimitedness of that Priviledge which if made use of may tend to the ruine of many Orphans and other persons that are forced to give credit to this Publick Trust Abundans Cautela non nocet Without that there is any matter or thing material for this Respondent to make Answer unto c. And this Respondent doth demur in Law to the Vindicator for that he being a Freeborn Citizen and one of the Church of England as now by Law established ought not to lye under the scurrilous Names in the said Pamphlet mentioned and hereto annexed but ought to have them expunged and ought to have his Cost and Charges c. N. R. The Scurrilous Names mentioned in the said Pamphlet to which the Answer hath relation Saucie and dangerous Pamphleter Priesthood Scurrilous Libeller Ghostly Citizen of Rome Papist in Masquerade Traiterous Make-bates Popish Butcher Spawn of Judas Infamous Incendiary Impudent His Mother the old Whore of Rome Vnworthy Respondent Daring Pamphleter Incorrigible Libeller and villanous Varlet Scavenger Serpent Rascally lurking Scribler Petty Fogger Popish Ruffin FINIS