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A25380	A gentle reflection on the modest account, and a vindication of the loyal abhorrers from the calumnies of a factious pen by the author of the Parallel.	Northleigh, John, 1657-1705.; Andrews, John, fl. 1734-1735.	1682 (1682)	Wing A3121; ESTC R9495	25,676	20

may be unquestionable with a City-Rout a crowd of credulous Fools or resolute Knaves But if ever the Countrey has an occasion for a Triumvirate to write Paradoxes Lyes and Forgeries it will wisely pitch upon Mr. Baxt. Mr. H-t and this Person of Quality You are willing to lay a great Obligation on his Majesty from his Act of Oblivion but yet ungratefully forbear to mention your Party so much as oblig'd Then you address your self to the King's Friends and their Friends the Papist together I thought your Lordship could not allow Roman-Catholicks any relation or acquaintance with men that love the Religion of the Church of England and King of it as in common Charity my Lord some of us at least may be thought to do But why must we and they be thought such Intimates It no way appears upon Record my Lord as the Familiarity of your Party with the Jesuits neither has Mr. Oates sworn that they frequent our Churches as he testifies they do your Conventicles therefore without being such Favourites to them if you please we will obey your Injunctions and Consider what Promises Declarations and Engagements the dissenting Protestants had both of his Majesty his Lords and Bishops at the time of his coming over and how they have since been used and with what Submission and Loyalty they have carried themselves And now must tell your Lordship having considered and weighed every jot and tittle of it I can answer you to every Punctilio first that the Promises your dissenting Protestants had have certainly been made good to them perhaps above their bargain and expectation I am sure beyond their merit and desert not only the Laws when in full force against them and such Offenders have been seldom executed but for a while wholly suspended with a general Toleration although that I confess they will by no means grant to have been done in their favour notwithstanding it seem'd extorted by their own clamors and importunity and was the Counsel and Advice of some that are now the greatest Patriots and Bigots of their Cause And 't is very notorious that this dissenting Protestant all the time of that Indulgence resented it as an Act of Grace and Favour though I confess never the nearer won to Peace and Conformity with such a condescention but had their tender Consciences as much harden'd and steel'd with the Lenitives of Moderation as ever they could have been in the hottest flames of a real Persecution But as soon as ever they came to be bridled again by the Law with a seasonable restraint the Wretches that at best but flatter and dissemble when they command any thing in the Government presently arraign'd it as a design of introducing Popery though it truly promoted nothing more than the growth of their own Faction and made the Beast insolent and unruly by giving it the reins whom the curb of a severe Discipline might have made more gentle and tame And now I would have your Lordship tell us a way of satisfying so froward and perverse a Sect that is clamorous till it is indulg'd and then is discontented at its own Indulgence But beside all this your Lordship very well knows that they were not only conniv'd at in their Religious Schisms and sanctified ways of violating the Canons of the Church and the Laws of the Realm but some of them were advanced to Places of Honour and Profit and far'd once altogether as well as those that had more faithfully served the King and dutifully conform'd to the Discipline of the Church But granting these Promises and Declarations were not so punctually perform'd is the Government pretently to be upbraided for it And his Majesty almost told in plain terms that had you thought he would have fail'd you so he should never have got in the Throne so easily and can these grumbling and discontented Wretches be call'd the Restorers of his Majesty that would capitulate with their Prince for his Birth-right stand upon Terms and Articles like Rebels in a Garrison before they will surrender and are now sorry they had not made him compound for his Kingdoms at a dearer rate Your Lordship knows all this to be as true as the Suggestions of their hard usage are false and malicious would you have the greatest Laick of your Faction made the greatest Minister of State too that has been done already and your Noble Peer himself advanc'd to the Mace would you have some Head of your canting Priests preferr'd to be the Head of our Church and a thing put for the Pillar of it that has twice endeavour'd to undermine it why somewhat of this has been offer'd too and we have Mr. Baxter's own word for it that he refused a Bishoprick and now for God's sake my Lord what usage would you your self advise to be shown to such Miscreants whom neither Honour or Profit can perswade so much as to suffer the Government to remain undisturb'd Thus much for our Promises and Usage now my Lord for their Loyalty and Submission which you so vainly extol and magnifie but I wish your Eloquence a more copious Theam when-ever you have a mind to write a Panegyrick or else you 'l want indeed a great deal of Invention or rather another part of Rhetorick plain Hyperbole to make amends for the barrenness of the Subject You talk of the difficulty of finding a parallel Instance but all the while don't instance in one single act of this unparallel'd Submission and you vindicate your own Party just at the same rate as you vilify all others only with general Assertions but your Lordship shall see I will more fairly demonstrate their Treasons and Insurrections than you have done their Loyalty and Submission His Majesty was hardly settled in his Throne before these submissive Villains began to disturb it in 61. Venner and his Crew were plotting on the Government discovered and executed for High-Treason about 62. Phillips Tongue Gibbs and one Stubbs with another were arraigned for a Plot as Hellish altogether as this of the Papists the latter of which confesses the Fact before his Tryal the other four abiding it were upon full evidence condemned and executed In 63. we have one Captain Oates mustring up his Regiment of Traytors In 66. Another little Mutiny and Rebellion of a parcel of discontented Officers and Souldiers lately Mr. Colledge that with his last breath profess'd himself a dissenting Protestant condemned and executed for a more unparallel'd piece of Treason than any incomparable Instance you can give of Dissenters Loyalty and last of all for a head to this Comet this long train of Rebellion out comes the treasonable Scheam of Association and alarms the Kingdom with the fearful Presages of a second War Thus much my Lord for the submission of English Dissenters since the Restoration and now for the Loyal deportment of your Scottish one How many Field-Preachers since 60. have been executed renouncing with their last breath all Allegiance and Supremacy Kid and King

us who they are that make the Nation timorous and fearful and therefore my Lord you might have forborn to have term'd them in such terrible Jargon a Militia we having nothing that can be call'd so but the Train'd-Bands and his Majesties standing Forces unless you have procur'd an Army to obey that major part of disbanded Members The growth of the French King ought least of all to be imputed to us since your own Faction is alway the Promoter of foreign Invasions as well as of domestick Broils and nothing makes a Neighbouring Prince look higher than the Civil Dissentions amongst his Neighbours which will be sure to keep them low the Wars here at home on our Continent made William of Normandy take that opportunity of invading it who had bought his Conquest at a dearer Rate if Harold had not sold a great deal of English Blood before the Footing we once had in France might have been still retain'd had not the jealousies of a Faction at home given occasion for their revolting abroad while Malecontents here were always quarrelling at the Government of the Regent there and our Kings necessitated to leave Forces to keep their Subjects orderly in England when they might have subdued their Enemies in France And to what sort of People now do the French owe their growth But your Lordship has less reason again to take up such a defensive Weapon in the Vindication of your noble Peer when it wounds the Party that wheels it in the Rebound more than ever it does the Adversary in the direct Stroak All the Kingdom knows who they were that perswaded the breaking of the Triple League and then the whole World may judge who nurst up the King of France to this height had that Old one been yet inviolated there wou'd have been no need of this New one of Gueranty The French Conquests had never made up so large a Map or the Spaniards retain'd so little Footing in the Netherlands so that upon Computation my Lord to all that poor Bankrupt Country your own Friends will be the Creditors and all Christendom in your debt for a vast expence of Blood as well as Moneys and well may your Lordship's Party be contented to see a most Christian King lord it over all Europe when they envyed even his Majesties success against the Moors in Africa and those that were so little mov'd at the Siege of Tangier can never be much troubled at the Conquest of Flanders In the next Page you very fairly confess your self a friend to Protestant Dissenters the Confession is somewhat generous and superfluous too because we should have understood that without it but the Reasons you give for it are most absurdly vain and ridiculous First you say because there is not yet found an Infallible decider of Faith the same Logick will afford you an Argument for the befriending Turks and Mahometans who have a sort of Faith too and believe better in their Alcoran than men of your Principles can do in the Creed Secondly because they live soberly and honestly by you but did they do so when they plundred sequestrated and massacred their fellow-Subjects when they deposed fought and murder'd their Soveraign I can assure your Lordship they were as true Protestant Dissenters as any of your Friends and do they live soberly and honestly now when they violate the Laws most immoderately abuse the Government grosly and combine together treasonably I will concur with your Lordship in an Abhorrence if you can bear with that expression of Popery grant that it is a Religion inconsistent with Government and full of rebellious Principles But suppose my Lord that the Alcoran did authorise the deposing and murdering of Princes For as their History tells us there are Fanatical Sects among those Heathens too Would your Lordship for that ever have the better opinion of the Popes Bull that first pulls off their Purple Robes and then delivers them to be crucified Or did the Turks Mufti preach up Rebellion would you think Priests and Jesuits good Subjects The blackness of one Negro will never make another of the same colour appear white And yet my Lord this is the very Case the Popish Councils have allow'd the deposing of Kings and how can you defend our Assemblies that have commenc'd the same sort of Casuists Pope Hildebrand countenanc'd that Arch-Rebel Phocas against his Soveraign yet you are a Friend to Mr. Baxter that maintain'd the Usurpation of Oliver Cromwel their Suarez and Bellarmines no doubt are damn'd by you for treasonable Doctrines and yet you can own your self a favourer of Knox and Buchanan 't is plain my Lord that both these Religions are rebellious and these treasonable Positions have been on both sides defended and some of the very Reformers of our Religion have been so little Friends to Monarchy and so much agreed with the Romanists they dissented from as to tolerate in some Cases the dangerous Doctrine of deposing Kings and there is still but a small interval between a degraded Prince and a Prisoner and then it was the Assertion of our Royal Martyr that died for it and verified the fatal Aphorism in his blood that there is but a little distance between their Prisons and the Grave Your Lordship reflects on the black Transactions of Court-Converts but I can tell you of the blacker Crimes of those that have deserted it and become your own Proselytes such as have been drawn from their Love and Allegiance to their Soveraign with the Sorceries Cunning and Carresses of your High and Mighties that can keep open Entertainments for every staggering Judas and make the Devil and Sedition enter the compleated Apostate with a Sop these are those that are now a days betraying their Soveraign too with a sort of Kiss and with a pretence of discovering his Enemies about him would dispossess him of his real Friends and perswade the Nation they know every evil Minister of State from their having been a little concern'd in the Affairs of it But what does your Lordship think of the Faith and Integrity of these Runagadoes that were formerly nothing but Objects of your Hatred and Indignation Enemies to King and Country And what security have you they will serve you more faithfully than they did their Prince those pamper'd Iesuruns that fatten'd with his Bounty kick at him only for withdrawing his hand and like a politick sort of Table-Brutes fawn no longer than they are fed But can any soul living take the suggestions and insinuations of these discontented Wretches for Gospel-Truths and their discoveries of the slips and failings in the Government which none ever was without for Revelation when these lying Oracles of the Rabble are possest with a Devil of malice and revenge two things that quickly transport any disaffected Creature beyond the bounds of Truth Reason and Humanity it self Will any indifferent person concur with those who thinks the Kings business ill done only because they can no longer solicit it Can