upon Protestants Estates to make up the pretended Damages they have sustained their ignorant and blind Zeal for a rooted Superstition are too much to convince us with what Intentions they must invade us and what are like to be the Effects of their barbarous Cruelty In a word it's Papists are certainly to be employed to do this grand Feat who will be sure to give the Protestants that shall be so unwise as to assist them the same Thanks that Queen Mary gave those of Suffolk that the King of France hath given his Protestants and that the late King James did so lately give the Church of England they will find at last to their Cost the Effects of that unalterable Maxim amongst them That no Faith is to be kept with Hereticks But then how is it possible for us without the highest concern in the World to represent to our selves the Consequences of such a Change with relation to their present Majesties and the Princess Ann of Denmark I am very loth to insist too long upon this it s so extreamly Tragical Is this the Gratitude we owe to the most magnanimous couragious and charitable Undertaking that ever was to rescue three Nations out of the Jaws of Popery and Slavery Can we find in our Heart to expose our great Deliverer to so much Danger in his Person and Ruine in his Fortune who so readily ventured Life and Fortune for our Good Can we so willingly deprive our selves of all our Hopes reposed in these Protestant Branches of the Royal Family as for ever to render them uncapable of doing us any further Kindness or affording us any further Protection Have we so little sense of the most steadfast Constancy and the unmovable Fidelity of these great Persons to the Religion and Interest of these Nations which could never be byaffed by the Authority of a King and Father nor shaken by the violent Temptations and Assaults upon their Constancy Who by their fixed Resolutions to adhere to our Interests had the worst of Arts used to deseat them of their just Rights for would they have but complyed with the Designs projected against us I dare say neither they nor we had ever been troubled with a Prince of Wales Can we expect in another Deluge of Misery to have another Prince of Orange so successfully and miraculously to draw us out of it No no it 's to be hoped the Nation will never be prevailed upon to incur the Guilt of such Ingratitude to Persons we owe our Religion Laws and Liberties to We will never do that which will so justly expose us to the Censures of the World and render us unworthy in any Circumstances of any Foreign Assistance so utterly inconsistent with the Safety of those who afford it In a Word we will be so just to our Selves as not to entail Popery and Bondage to our Posterity for if we lose these great Persons where can we fix our hopes of any Relief Can we likewise without Astonishment think upon the Condition of Lords and Commons in this present Parliament in case of any such Change of Affairs without Horror Have we chosen so many worthy Patriots to represent us there only to expose them to the greatest Mischiefs Have they been so faithful to re-settle us into a most happy Condition by securing our Religion Laws and Liberties to be left at last to the Fury and Malice of Popish Vengeance Did the Famous Nobility and Generous Gentry of this Kingdom venture all for the Security of the Nation to no other purpose than to lose Honour Estate Life and all for their Zeal to their Religion and Love to their Country Surely as we cannot but believe that this must be the Consequence of such an unhappy Change with relation to the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom so it 's not to be doubted but that all England will conceive a just Indignation against such Ingratitude and will apprehend themselves obliged to espouse their Interest cordially and unanimously who have so wisely and with so much Courage secured to us all Things capable of our utmost Esteem In a word when we seriously consider the great Danger the Protestant Interest is exposed to all over Europe that nothing less is intended than the rooting out of that vile pestilent Northern Heresy as the Enemies of our Holy Religion are pleased to call it I hope we will think more than once upon it before we contribute so highly to the utter Subversion of the Protestant Religion in general every where as the cutting off of these three Kingdoms from it must necessarily occasion It 's well known that these Churches of Great Britain and Ireland and more particularly that of England have been justly look'd upon as the Bulwark of the Protestant Religion in general and therefore the Papists have used their utmost Fraud in undermining of her and their utmost Violence in raising up their Batteries against her assuring themselves if they could but once gain this Bulwark they would quickly and with Ease make themselves Masters of the whole Fort it 's well known that the French King durst never have used his Protestant Subjects as he both perfidiously and barbarously did if England had had the liberty to have espoused their Interest and it was justly look'd upon as a wonderful Thing that the King of England should be declaring himself so much for Liberty of Conscience here and yet on the other side of the Water the French King should be using all sorts of Cruelties upon those of our Religion wholly to extirpate it and yet King James should never become their Intercessor nor declare to that King his just Resentments of his Acting so contrary to his constant Principles especially when his using his Subjects so could not but strike all his own English Subjects into an Alarm and put them upon sadly divining what in all probability was like to be their own Fate in time Why have the Protestant Princes and States entered into so strong a Confederacy looking upon their present Majesties as the Chief support of it but upon the certain knowledg they had of a Design on Foot to ruin them and thus it may be easily conjectured what must be the Danger of the Protestant Religion abroad if England be rendred uncapable of giving Assistance to its Professors nay more if the strength of England be made use of to promote their Destruction But it s obvious this must be the result of the return of Popery and Slavery amongst us so that upon the whole Matter if ever such a Judgment from Heaven should overtake us as the return of this unclean Spirit of Popery and its Usher Slavery among us we cannot but expect that not only Seven but a Legion of Miseries worse then we have felt must return with it sufficient to make our last Case worse then our first The Case being so plainly thus is it possible that Men can ever be in love with such Miseries as these not only upon
themselves but upon their Innocent Posterity For the Word is Now or Never and Now and Ever And that we may never feel the Mischiefs of the last part of this Sentence I hope we will take Care to Secure the first that because not now therefore they never shall prevail upon us I beseech you Gentlemen who seem to be so willing to bereave us of our present Tranquillity and to contribute what in you lies to bring a Deluge of Miseries upon us in which you your selves must certainly be overwhelmed if ever you be truly Zealous for and faithful to the Truth of God profest in this Nation I pray you to consider with your Selves that if your Desires should succeed and you should be aiding and assisting to it what late Repentance and Horror must seize upon you while you shall sadly then when it is to late reflect upon that Destruction you have brought upon your Country and Fellow-Country-Men and it 's not to be doubted but at last upon your Selves too But if Men will continue obstinate in Mischief and are resolved to use their utmost Endeavours to rush us again into Confusions and to set all in a Flame it 's to be hoped his Majesty will have such a special regard to the Welfare of these Nations in which that of his own and all the Protestant Branches of the Royal Family is so closely wrapt up that he will most diligently inspect into the wicked Practices and most villanous Designs of such ill-minded-Men and indeed they ought betimes to bethink themselves what the whole Kingdom must think those Men worthy of who are Haters of their Peace and Contrivers of their Destruction for what ever Eyes they look with and whatsoever Prospective-Glass they make use of they must pardon us who can see nothing but lasting Misery attending their Projects and Designs and therefore however they may hope his Majestys Clemency which by their undutiful Language bold and ungrateful Speeches and insolent Attempts in the Face of a Nation resolved to continue their Happiness by most constantly adhering to his Majesties Interests they have already too much tryed yet they are Fools to imagine his Majesty will suffer his innate Lenity and Gentleness to be the greatest Cruelty to his faithful Subjects by extending it to Persons obstinately bent upon his and their Ruin nor can they dream that a whole Nation now secured of all that 's dear to them will much longer bear the bantering Affronts and not only undutiful but even Treasonable Practices of such Men who so carry themselves as if they longed for nothing more than our Destruction And just as I was writing this came to my Hands that Paper pretended to be a Declaration from King James the Second to all his Loving Subjects in the Kingdom of England Perhaps there was never a greater piece of Insolence acted in any Nation than dispersing of these in a Kingdom where there is a King de facto upon the Throne and the Resentment the House of Commons has shewed is a sufficient proof of what I have just now said but for the Paper it self it carries all the Marks of Forgery that possibly can be for would ever the late King tell his Subjects of England of his kind usage to his Protestant Subjects in Ireland who are so infallibly convinc'd of the contrary For why should so many of the Bishops and Clergy so many People of all Conditions fly out of that Kingdom even since his arrival there and leave their Estates and Habitations and cast themselves upon the Charity of England for a present Subsistance if this Libel were true Why even at this very Time do they embrace all opportunities of Transporting themselves into this Island with great Joy and Thankfulness If Protestant Persons Fortunes Religion were in so much Safety what makes the Protestants of Londonderry c. rather venture their Lives in their own Defence and endure the Perils and hardship of a dangerous Siege if the Protestants there were in so great Security Surely the Forgers of this Libel imagine it possible to put out our very Eyes and to hood-wink us to Destruction Can we ever think that Protestants will ever be safe or apprehend themselves so where the French domineer at the rate they must certainly be presumed to do in Ireland For it 's very reasonable to conclude that seeing Men Ammunition Money and whatsoever is necessary for War cometh from the French that King will nay must rule the Roast We will therefore believe our own Intelligence much better then this piece of Forgery viz. that the very Papists of Ireland are so apprehensive of the French Tyranny that they begin to wish for the mild Government of Protestant England rather than ly under the insupportable Tyranny of Popish France As for the large Promises made to England upon a surrender these Forgerers invite us to I have said enough already that Popish Faith can never be more truned by Protestants and we are very well assured that if it were possible for the Host of Heaven to come down upon Earth to be Guarantee for the Fidelity of Papists to Protestants in any Treaties made with them relating to Religion they would notwithstanding upon the first safe Opportunity violate them and if these blessed Spirits should take upon them the Desence of the Guarantee and the Honour of it they would presently disown their Patronage and deprive them of the Honour of their being their Intercessors and charge them with being Favourers of the vilest Hereticks for we would desire but one Instance wherein ever Protestants were used kindly by Papists where ever it was in their Power to use them otherwise Go on then Great Sir in the perfecting of that which your Majesty hath so gloriously begun and so magnanimously undertaken and have had the assistance of the God of Truth to the Joy of these Nations to the Despair and Confusion of your Enemies to the Security of the Protestant World your Majestie hath the Hearts the Hands the Purses of your People at your Devotion you have a Parliament who having engaged whatsoever is worthy of Men of Honour of Fortune of Religion for your Assistance will never be wanting to enable you to compleat Yours Theirs Ours nay Europe's Happiness You have the greatest Security of the Protection of that God who is the Disposer of Kingdoms by whom Kings reign who hath hitherto blessed you with Success to a Miracle You have in fine the best and most Glorious Cause even the preserving of these Nations to which God and Nature and a General consent of your People have given you such a close Interest and near Relation from all the Calamities that could befall either the Souls Bodies or Fortunes of Us and our Posterity This I am sure is the hearty Prayer of all that are lovers either of our Civil or Religious Rights and our secure peaceable and lasting enjoyment of them that your Enemies may be clothed with shame but
upon your Head the Crown may long Flourish FINIS Books lately Printed for Richard Chiswel THE Case of Allegiance in our present Circumstances considered in a Letter from a Minister in the City to a Minister in the Country A Sermon preached at Fulham in the Chappel of the Palace upon Easter-Day 1689 at the Consecration of the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum By Anthony Horneck D. D. The Judgments of God upon the Roman Catholick Church from its first rigid Laws for universal Conformity to it unto its last End. VVith a prospect of these near approaching Revolutions viz. The Revival of the Protestant Profession in an eminent Kingdom where it was totally suppressed The last End of all Turkish Hostilities The general Mortification of the Power of the Roman Church in all parts of its Dominions In Explication of the Trumpets and Vials of the Apocalypse upon Principles generally acknowledged by Protestant Interpreters By Drue Cressener D. D. A Breviate of the State of Scotland in its Government Supream Courts Officers of State Inferiour Officers Offices and Inferiour Courts Districts Jurisdictions Burroughs Royal and Free Corporations Fol. Some Considerations touching Succession and Allegiance 4 to A Discourse concerning the Worship of Images preached before the University of Oxford By George Tully Sub-Dean of York for which he was suspended Reflections upon the late Great Revolution Written by a Lay-Hand in the Country for the satisfaction of some Neighbours The History of the Dissertion or an Account of all the publick Affairs in England from the beginning of September 1688. to the Twelfth of February following With an Answer to a Piece call'd the Dissertion discussed in a Letter to a Country-Gentleman By a Person of Quality K. William and K. Lewis wherein is set forth the inevitable necessity these Nations lie under of submitting wholly to one or other of these Kings And that the matter in Controversy is not now between K. William and K. James but between K. William and K. Lewis of France for the Government of these Nations An Examination of the Scruples of those who refuse to take the Oath of Allegiance by a Divine of the Church of England A Dialogue betwixt two Friends a Jacobite and a Williamite occasioned by the late Revolution of Affairs and the Oath of Allegiance Two Sermons one against Murmuring the other against Censuring By Symon Patrick D. D. An Account of the Reasons which induced Charles the Second King of England to declare War against the States General of the United Provinces in 1672. And of the Private League which he entred into at the same Time with the French King to carry it on and to establish Popery in England Scotland and Ireland as they are set down in the History of the Duten War printed in French at Paris with the Priviledg of the French King 1682. Which Book he caused to be immediately suppress'd at the Instance of the English Ambassador Fol. An Account of the Private League betwixt the late King James the Second and the French King. Fol. The Case of Oaths Stated 4 to The Answer of a Protestant Gentleman in Ireland to a late Popish Letter of N. N. upon a Discourse between them concerning the present Posture of that Countrey and the Part fit for those concern'd there to act in it 4 to An Apology for the Protestants of Ireland in a brief Narrative of the late Revolutions in that Kingdom and an Account of the present State thereof By a Gentleman of Quality 4 to A Letter from a French Lawyer to an English Gentleman upon the Present Revolution 4 to Mr. Wake 's Sermon before the King and Queen at Hampton-Court His Fast-Sermon before the House of Commons June 5. 1689. Dr. Tennison's Sermon against Self-love before the House of Commons June 5. 1689. Mr. Tully's Sermon of Moderation before the Lord-Mayor May 12. 1689. A Letter written by the Emperor to the late King James setting forth the true Occasion of his Fall and the Treachery and Cruelty of the French. The Resolution of the Electors and the Princes of the Empire February 11. 1689. Containing the Reasons of their Declaring War against France Together with the Emperor's Concurrence with them in it and approving the same An Account of the late Revolution in new-New-England Together with the Declaration of the Gentlemen Merchants and Inhabitants of Boston and the Country adjacent April 18. 1689. Written by Mr. Nathanael Byfield a Merchant of Bristol in New-England to his Friends in London A Declaration of his Electoral Highness the Duke of Brandenburgh concerning the present War with France Directing his Subjects and Vassals and all other His Dependants how they are to demean themselves in their Trading Negotiation and all incident Occasions during the present War. As also a Letter sent from the Imperial Diet at Ratisbon to the Thirteen Cantons In Switzerland March 7. 1689. Exhorting hem to adhere to his Imperial Majesty and the Princes of the Empire in the present War against France