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The countries vindication from the aspersions of a late scandalous paper (nick-named) Robert Tell-Truths advice in choice of the next Parliament in which his popish designs are fully discovered and detected / by a lover of his king and country.
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Lover of his king and country.
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1679
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Wing C6573; ESTC R20996
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THE Countries Vindication FROM The Aspersions of a late Scandalous Paper Nick-named Robert Tell truths Advice in choice of the next Parliament In which his Popish Designs are fully discovered and detected By a Lover of his King and Country Respice Cave BY how muâ—h Designs are lâ—id most opposite to Truth and Righteousness to much the more are those workers of iniquity active and industrious to promote those indirect Interests Per fas aâ—â—â—nefas turn every stone never wanting the presence of publick advantage In this art of Legerdemain our old but now most vigorous enemies the Papists are upon their great trial of skill In some Pamphlets they throw off the Plot as visible as it is and in a late Paper â—hey undertake to advise the People of England in their Elecâ—ions of Parliament-men and have made it their business to create Jealousies amongst the Protestants thereby to divide that Interest which is all little enough when intire to resist their devilish and hell-bred Machinations This Sophister tells us There has been Factions in all Ages playing their tricks and that in nomine Domini I can consent with him to our sad experience I can turn the truth upon the Popish faction and by that time I have done lay all the Devilish tricks at their own door In the mean time tell him Turpe est Doctori cum culpa redarguit ipsum Thou that teachest another should not steal dost thou murder and commit Sacriledg thou Hypocrite take out the beam out of thy own eye first before thou undertake the mote in thy brothers and ere you hope to have your Advice to pass let us examine your Composition I find your whole Receipt has dangerous Ingredients Reflections upon Parliaments upon all godly sober men and upon honest Country-men Another part in the mixture are seeds of Jealousies and Divisions thrown amongst us your old stratagems this will not do Mors in olla we find a Snake in the sweet herbs and death in the pot I believe you have had this recipe from Sir George Wakeman skilful in the venomous Art of Poysoning Your design Sir is discovered therefore you cannot hope to succeed your caution against the Godly the sober party nor the honest Country-man will not divide us I can assure you Sir they are no Papists and for those unhappy divisions that are and have been amongst us in the Church we shall demonstrate the Jesuit inforc'd 'em and he must needs go that the Devil drives and to draw a suspect one amongst another he tells us of what tricks and what vizards were worn in Forty-eight by Puritans and others at which time you say they lost their Mask a favour of your own bestowing and now has reassumed it again with which you are playing the Devil in the shape of an Angel of light but what have you to do to rake up our former miseries which I hope God has forgiven and the King has graciously so long since pardoned by whose wisdom and goodness he sits Enthroned in his peoples hearts all your subtilties can not unsettle the favourable apprehensions his Majesty has of his Protestant subjects loyalty after twenty years experience nor any ways bring in question the duty and affections of his People no Sir the resentments of former evils are too fresh amongst us for any Popish machinations to dissolve this union take the holy cheat to your self your Piae fraudes are the best support of your Romish Church and had not your Engins play'd amongst us our Puritan had never separated from the Church of England for I must tell you all the sober godly party and Puritans too were all conformable to the decent and orderly government of the Church of England read and heard Divine service and wore the Surplice and there held steddy till the fourth Commandment was almost expunged the Decalogue witness the Book sâ—t out by the Arch-bishop of Canterbury for licensing Sports Pays and Dancings on the Lords day enforcing all Ministers to read it in their Churches which divers otherwise conformable out of conscience refused for which they were turned out of their Ministry and a company of scandalous debauchees men of any latitude put into their places This was a bird hatcht at Rome sent to be nurst in England knowing well it would bring to pass their infallible design to divide us and from the same counsels came into our Churches those crouds of Trumperies Tapers and Crucifixes Cringings and Bowings that the Service of God was turned to a Popish Antick all in pretence as it was publickly asserted by some Grandees then in the Church to bring us to as near an union with the Church of Rome as possibly the temper of the present time would bear We do not forget what was enforc'd upon the peaceable Kirk of Scotland where the three footed Stools from the old Womens Tayls began the War all these were likely ways to preserve us from Popery contrary to the designs of our blessed Reformers King Edward the sixth and Queen Elizabeth of blessed Memory who by degrees as those days would endure drew us still further off from those Fopperies and we might have expected then when the Nation was become generally Protestant to have kept a greater distance by a further Reformation and as in the Church so in the State men of corrupt minds and pernicious practices to satisfie their avarice and boundless ambitions obtruded several Illegal Impositions as Loan-money and Ship-money against Law for which divers Noblemen and Gentlemen endured long Imprisonments Customs exacted without Act of Parliament with swarms of Monoplies under which the Nation groaned then came in the Scotch with a formidable Army to our Borders with their Petitions A Parliament was call'd who inspecting the Grievances of the Nation discovered those wicked Counsellors and dangerous Influences of the Papists Impeaching and calling to account those contrivers and actors of these Oppressions some whereof fled others for their own protection and the Jesuits the better to shuffle in their designs in the midst of our confusion made the best of Kings suspect his safety amongst his People and drove us into that unnatural War then the Papist not out of affection to his Majesty but having no other subterfuge and to carry on their designs ran in with their Arms got into several great places of Trust Military and Civil contriving and effecting an Act of Pacification with the bloody Irish Rebels after they had imbrued their hands in the blood and murder of a Hundred thousand of his Majesties Protestant Subjects in Ireland all which begat desperate apprehensions in the minds of most men that Arbitrariness and Popery were breaking in upon us though as we are bound to believe never design'd by that blessed Prince and glorious Martyr The Papist joyning unfortunately in this War heightned the confusion and now blood and rapine know no bounds the King is over thrown in his just Cause by the wicked designs of these disturbers
of the World and enemies to Mankind who brought him also to his miserable End and it can and is now prov'd that the Jesuits had in that Trayterous and horrid murder a principal hand Quis Talia fando sustinet a lachrimis After this dismal Tragedy was over and we in the height of distraction and the Land in a Chaos of confusions estrang'd from peace and settlement God in Judgment remembred mercy and by his Miraculous Providence our blessed Prince like the glorious Sun after our dismal Nights and sharp winter of afflictions appeared in our Horizon to our almost distracting-joys receiving his People with open arms of Clemency to which his People ecchoed with all loyal expressions of grateful affections and duty our Government of Church and State establisht and we now in the apprehensions of peace and safety every man expecting to sit down under his own Vine and Fig-tree enjoying the fruits of his labours in which the Papist had more than an equal share through the Grace and Princely bounty of our King not suspecting their designs and they boasting themselves as his most loyal subjects Whilst they were in this unquestionable credit and all the severe Laws against them laid asleep infinite swarms of Jesuits Priests and Friers and all sorts of Orders like the Egyptian Plague of Locusts came in amongst us perverting the Kings Subjects contrary to Law compassing Sea and Land to gain Proselytes in which they have prov'd too successful and amongst those many hundreds seduced to lay their foundations sure they have rob'd our Nation of the most Heroick Victorious Prince next Apparent Heir to the Crown This we may remark as an infallible confirmation of their damnable Plot a Treason of the deepest dye never to be forgiven by any Protestant and a quarrel never to be reconciled they had wounded us in our several Members before but in this they stabbed us to the very heart and now it began to be fair day their designs obvious the ruin of King and Kingdom with all the artifice that Hell could secretly and cunningly contrive and had been as certainly executed had not the infinite mercy of God taken care of us unmaskt their designs and discovered their horrid Plot by the prudent faithful and unquestionable Informations of Dr. Oates Mr. Bedlow Dugdale and others who under God preserved the Life of our most Gracious King and with him our Lives Liberties Religion and all that 's dear to us for which faithful important service they deserve the best of Rewards here and their Names to be written in Characters of Gold Chronicled to posterity and though their serious and most congruous Evidences back'd with many most undeniable Circumstances have past an Examination by His Majesty and Council and by two Parliaments successively and lasty by all the Judges of the Nation in fair full and Legal Tryals confirmed and the Conspirators justly Convicted and brought to punishment yet such is the blinded wilfulness of many and the malicious Impudence of others that notwithstanding all and the Murder of brave Sir Edmundbury Godfrey to boot they would fain wash their hands in Innocency and are still playing their Game in new disguises imposing a belief upon the world that the danger lyes in the Dissenting Protestants but the Devil cannot detect them for one act of Disloyalty since His Majesties Restauration whilest you have been plotting all this while and wrought your designs into Treasonable Acts of all kinds and yet by the help of your Principles special Merits and Absolutions as innocent as the Child unborn But Sir these fig-leaves will not cover your nakedness you cannot catch English-men in Cobwebs nor can you and all your Popish Masquerado's dance in your Nets but you must be seen Noscitur ungue Leo the Devil is known by his Cloven-foot and your Characters are written in the flames of London and in indelible Characters of Blood which cry for judgment to Heaven against you Take heed therefore you that forget God Christianity and Morality lest he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver you 't is not the least happiness that you are known to the world you cursed Jesuits What was your behaviour when you were banish'd Franc when you were expell'd the Venetian Territories and other States where they found you Firebrands that would have destroyed their Kingdoms and Commonwealths Who Murder'd the French Kings No Puritan no Godly party no honest Countrey man Phanatick Priests and Jesuits are principl'd for those Butcheries You are too well known by the bloody Colours and the Noble Cavalier that fought Conscienciously for his King found such ill success with you in the late War you robbing him of his Lawrel and of the due Rewards of his blood and sweat will never hand with you again All your wheadles will never gâ—â—â—â—â—â—n from the Church of England nor make him insensible of the safety of his King nor less carâ—â—â—â— of the Interest of England by well-Elected Parliaments neither shall all your false insinuations prevail to make the world believe That either our Parliaments or People would put down Bishops a Trick to put the design off your selves that you may better without suspicion do the worâ—â— no Sir we honour that Government and by Gods Grace will stand to it and revere our Grave and Learned Bishops whom we look at under God the best Bulwarks against your Tyrannies Popish Innovations The next thing he brings out of his Box is a new Shiboleth or a distinction betwixt the honest Countrey-man and Courtier and indeed there is a great difference for the honest Countrey-man is for the honour peace and safety of the King and Kingdom takes care and labours hard to get money to support the King and Government and this Courtier detested by all and comes under the reproachful distinction is a pernicious piece of Luxury a Drone a too-fac'd Janus that has crept into the Confines of the Royal Palace where he fawns and flatter till he has obtain'd so much countenance as can get him into some Trust and observing how the wind blows turns his Sails so readily that in time he dare attempt with Commendatory Letters an Election in some petty Burrough where he must drink away an honest Countrey Gentleman and by the strength of a publick Purse he is chosen by those pitiful Sâ—ts that understand no other danger or advantage than the profit of the present Carowzing he is now return'd and sits having neither honour honesty nor estate necessary qualifications for the trust of others Lives and Estates his work is then to make up his stake by any device I cannot compare it better than to the practice of some Knavish Master of a Ship who being intrusted by his Owners with a goodly Ship and fraught with a valuable Cargo he having no part in either takes up on Bottom Râ—â— as much money as ever his credit can possibly stretch to and having made up his Market the next best opportunity when