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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28432	An appeal from the country to the city, for the preservation of His Majesties person, liberty, property, and the Protestant religion	Blount, Charles, 1654-1693.	1679 (1679)	Wing B3300; ESTC R228069	16,678	32

truth of that very same Evidence whereon the same Judge had hang'd so many before But however my Lord Chief Justice and the Jury had so good an opinion of his Innocence yet Sir George himself had not so as appears by his flying away beyond Sea so soon as ever his Tryal was over These and innumerable other Discouragements hath the Plot met with which being observ'd together with the due circumstance of the Evidence I think no man that is not in the whole or part of the Plot himself can doubt the verity of it Indeed at the first many thought to cast a suspicion upon what Oates and Bedlow inform'd as being two persons of an idle life and conversation but how ridiculous is this As if such Rogues would trust such a Villany with honest men or any but those that had been as bad as themselves you might as well expect a Highway-man should go and acquiant my Lord Chief Justice or my Lord of Canterbury when he meant to commit the next Robbery but a bad shift is better than none at all So that from the nature of the Evidence or credit of the Informants no man can take exception against the Information either of Dr. Oates Mr. Bedlow or any of the rest to whom Mr. Iennison hath lately given no small credit in discovering the four Villains that as Mr. Oates had said were to have assassinated his Majesty at Windsor VIII The fourth and last Argument which may sometimes prevail with the Prince to disbelieve any report of a Conspiracy is taken from the Nature and Interest of the pretended Conspirators but neither of these motives can pretend to influence our Prince into a disbelief of this Popish Plot for first as to their Nature and Principles we all know that in one of their own Councils viz. the Lateran were introduced those two Hellish Tenents of murthering Kings and eating their God But the Papists will tell you that they do not murther Kings for the Pope he first deposes them at Rome and then if they kill him they kill but a private person We all likewise know that 't is held an act of Merit amongst them to murder an Heretick witness their Massacre of the poor Protestants at Paris and to murder a Husband a Brother or any such near Relation that is an Heretick the greater is the Merit by reason of the self-denial and injury done to our selves in the loss of so near a Friend but to murder an Heretick King especially where there is a Popist Successor they hold to be the greatest of all merits even sufficient to canonize him for a Saint by reason of the vast advantage will thereby accrew to the Popish Religion not doubting but that the rest of the Kingdom will Regis ad exemplum soon after turn Papists Having thus therefore shew'd them to be prepar'd with Principles sufficient to undertake any such Villany let us in the next place examine their Interest as it stands at this time where we shall find that their Interest does unavoidably excite them to murder his Sacred Majesty For first They know he cannot long subsist without a considerable sum of Money which he must receive either from their Party or from the Parliament Now for them to supply him with so vast a sum is a Charge that you may well imagine they would desire to get rid of if they could though by the King's Death On the other side for the Parliament to supply him with Money that they know cannot be done but by taking off the Heads of their Faction excluding their Succession and consenting to such Laws as must of necessity ruine them Besides his Majesty hath already permitted the executing so many of their Party as they never can or will forgive it All which put together with the great expectation they have from a Popish Successor will make them vigorously and speedily attempt the King's Ruine unless he suddenly prevents it by adhering to his Parliament and ruining them first If his Majesty would be pleas'd for one Month to think himself Henry VIII and we his Subjects for the same time forgetting we are Protestants do by the Papists as they would do by us were they in our condition what would become of Portugal and Brussels even Rome it self would tremble at us Something must speedily be done and if we will not begin with them they will begin with us for all the favour His Majesty can shew them will not satisfie that greater expectation which they have from a declared Popish King So that nothing does more justifie the Plot than their corrupt Principles and present Interest which will make them being sure to have the succeeding King on their side rather venture to push for it now and run the hazard of the Peoples revenge than suffer any longer the inconvenience of an English Parliament or danger of the next Successor being a Protestant IX Having thus therefore shew'd you the danger wherein His Majesties Person now is give me leave in the next place to inform you Gentlemen wherein is your greatest danger both in relation to your City and your selves First then as to your City the chiefest danger whereunto it is obnoxious is that of Fire for wheresoever the Iesuits Interest prevails they will above all things desire the Burning of London first because it is the only united Force able to withstand Arbitrary Government and without that Popery can never prevail Secondly it is the only place where by reason of their excellent Preaching and daily Instruction in the Protestant Religion the people have a lively sense thereof and doubtless will not part with it to pleasure a Prince but perhaps rather lose their Lives by the Sword in the Wars than by the Faggots in Smithfield Thirdly it is too powerful for any Prince that governs not by the Love of his People which no Popish Successor can expect to do We read in our English Chronicles that Henry the 3d. of England threatened to burn the City of London for their taking part with the Parliament and Barons who at that time made War upon the King for his too great countenancing of Foreigners Also in our great Fire of London in 66. if you will believe either Mr. Bedlow's Relation or the Account which was then given in to the Committee of Parliament appointed for that purpose many were actually taken a Firing it and brought to Authority but all let slip away and none hang'd for it but one poor Frenchman who contrary to the Judge's perswasion would violently accuse himself There is one most eminent great Papist who in the time of that Fire pretended to secure many of the Incendiaries but secretly suffer'd them all to escape who this person was is already mentioned by Mr. Bedlow for a Popish King or a Popish Successor cannot but rejoyce in the Flames of such a too powerful City Secondly the greatest danger accruing to your Persons as well as to the whole Kingdom upon the King