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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52460	The parallel, or, The new specious association an old rebellious covenant closing with a disparity between a true patriot and a factious associator.	Northleigh, John, 1657-1705.	1682 (1682)	Wing N1301; ESTC R5814	50,196	36

Laws he gives Life too And must those Immunities and Priviledges he gives them for their Liberty be used by those ungrateful Wretches as Spoils and Trophies of his Prerogative Certainly from such Proceedings as these what other deduction can be made by sober thoughts but that they declare an open defiance to the Government that they will stand to their City Charter and their Arms together and seal it just as the Great one was by the Barons in Blood From those partial interpretations of Guilt and Innocence what can an indifferent person think but that the abused name of Conscience is applied only now to the Capriciousness of Fancy subjects only Patriots and Rebels according to the diversity of thought The King a Nursing Father as long as his politick Sons will think him so transform'd into a Tyra●… as soon as they please to conceit otherwise the naked Hulk of the Sta●…●…l'd by Popish Pyrates when every froward Fool does not sit at the He●…●…nd the Convocation of the Church a Conclave of Cardinals when each dissenting Ass can't commence a Prolocutor I have observ'd the Seat and Empire of the Soul or at least the several Faculties of it by the grave Sages in Philosophy to have been confin'd to such Apartments in the Body as were most adapted for the Faculty that was to be exerted in it and accordingly Reason is circumscribed within the Compass of the Meditullium and Sphere of the Brain the Appetitive Soul placed in the Breast the Sensitive in the Nerves and all Passion in the Heart If these are warrantable conjectures I don't see but I may with as much Reason and Philosophy place some Mens Consciences in their Stomachs because it is disposed by the help of its Fibres to contract or dilate it self according as the more scrupulous or bolder Animal shall direct his intentions oft straining at a Gnat as if it were to take a Potion whilst Camels and Elephants are swallowed without a Grimace and go down like their Sack-posset This helps them to slip down Oaths with a more than Jesuitical dexterity to make an Explanation of a Test after it is in their Bellies or if it will not digest with that preposterous piece of Cookery 't is but playing a Jugler's trick and bringing it up like their pieces of Inkle sometimes imitating the squeamish Maw of a Cormorant taught to throw up all sometimes that of another sort of Fowl which is said to concoct Iron and Stones And all this irreconcilable proceeding carried on without the least Dispensation of Reason or Religion and consequently less warrantable than the damn'd Equivocations of Priests and Jesuits their blind opinion of some Supream Powers Absolution and Indulgence somewhat extenuates the guilt of those perjur'd Villains whilst every Man 's prejudiced Opinion pretends here to be its own absolver the sole Measures of all Guilt and Innocence and the Lawful Standard both to good and bad actions And then what wonder is it if the Proceedings of the King and the Advice of his Council are exposed as light and empty when they must be weighed in the pois'd Ballance of every prejudiced Noddle that has but one grain of Sence more of Loyalty less than his list'ning Rabble the result of whose judgment is Reverenc'd as an Oracle by the silly Rout each Seditious expression treasur'd up as a politick Aphorism and the bold Dictator like a pleasant piece of Pageantry riding Cock-horse on the Shoulders of the Mobile in a confus'd noise of Shouts and Acclamations and all the wild Representations of a distracted People I hope by this Preliminary discourse to have prevented the farther perusal of the rest by any that find themselves gall'd or prick't with the consciousness of their meriting any of the past reflexions for such persons though partial enough to themselves hard to be perswaded especially of any thing that looks like Guilty are commonly a little troubled to be thought so and for such disaffected Readers 't is a kindness both to them and the Author to be civilly nettled in the beginning lest by a gentler stile they should be decoy'd to the end and then rail at him with as much rage and indignation as they use against the Government Christen him for a Popish Dog and Irish Bogg-Trotter when otherwise perhaps he may escape with the gentler Animadversions of a Malicious Ass and Scribling Fool. But the harshest of such peoples Judgment and Censure will be superseded by their own ignorance or prejudice and this Paper allow'd to speak Truth though it don't carry in its Front an impudent Lye or a Vox Veritatis thought to have somewhat of Judgment and Reason in it though not subscrib'd by a Theophilus Rationalis Those Juggling tricks of putting off Lies and Nonsense and making the first Page a Confutation of all the rest And now to begin with this complicated piece of Rebellion smoothly carried on under the specious name of an Association the Method I shall observe shall as much as possible make the Contents correspond with the Title Page and not like some let the first Leaf quarrel with the whole Pamphlet And I. We shall shew the most undeniable agreeableness of this Association with all the old Leagues and Covenants in circumstances of Time and Affairs II. Their affinity in Matter Form and Words and draw the Parallel even to Demonstration with a little Comment on each Paragraph And answering Objections they use to defend it And lastly Shew the disparity between a True Patriot and a Factious Associator and that his expelling the Duke is no such Evidence of his loving his Countrey That this Paper was penn'd at a time when the unhappy Differences between the King and his Commons were in their highest ferment won't be question'd by the very Bigots of the Cause unless they intend to doubt of the Author's Prudence too who without doubt is a person of as politick a Head as ever brooded on the Elements of Treason or hatch't a Rebellion And if not at present restrain'd more by some State-maxims than Loyal Principles could raise a more formidable one than the late Covenanting Banditi dispersed at Bosworth-Bridge So that in the very seasonable Contrivance of it it Parallels the ingenuity of the old Rebellious Scot who drew up theirs in as convenient a Season when the Nation seem'd Unanimous enough to Rebel without drawing up of a formal League of Gueranty of cheating poor deluded Souls into the miserable necessity of fighting against their Prince or being perjur'd for him But this mutual Agreement was thought then most effectual to secure their Designs as if they had distrusted of not being Traytors enough unless their Treasons were divulg'd with a publick Manifesto and a sort of Noverint Vniversi or that the Conspiracy would have look'd more Black and Hellish by being acted under-board and in the dark Whoever was the bold Contriver of this Association certainly had no intent to let it lie long in a Closet only to keep