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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30918	Mephibosheth and Ziba, or, The appeal of the Protestants of Ireland to the King concerning the settlement of that kingdom by the author of The mantle thrown off, or, The Irish-man dissected.	H. B.	1689 (1689)	Wing B76; ESTC R8543	38,543	72

embracing the Enemies of England as their Patrons in imitation of the vile and ungrateful Carriage of the Samaritans to the Jews whom they owned as Brethren when they were in Prosperity and stood in need of their assistance and protection but disclaim'd all kind of relation or affinity to them when they were distrest by other Nations and so either called for their Relief or else supposing that the Enemies of the Jews would proceed against them as their Friends and Confederates resolved to untwist all the Bonds of their Alliance and to side with the common Adversary when it appeared to be for their Interest so to do And something parallel to this is also the demeanour of the Irish toward the Spaniard who in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth were their Catholick Guardians from whom they boastingly derived their original Extraction and Descent Now the Spaniards are their Paltroons and the French their Deity and so as Catholick as they pretend would not stick to make court to the Turk were he in a capacity to invade England and to offer them assistance The premises of this Discourse seem very copious as to the asserting a necessity of extraordinary acts to take off the fears that by the experience of former Precedents may reasonably be judg'd to attend that Kingdom and to give encouragement for new as well as for old Inhabitants Now there seems nothing possible to secure that Kingdom but the extirpation of two Setts of Men among them such as are invested in the greatest Command and Authority over their Bodies and the Priests and Clergy who have so absolute a Government over their Souls For these are the men that have been the great Instruments and Incendiaries of all their Rebellions that have as well forwarded as headed the easie Multitude and without whose Instigation the Populace would have submissively acquiesced under and never appear'd against the British And if our long experience of former Times and Revolutions be deem'd a competent Testimony in this case With what greater shew of Reason have we now cause to be afraid of the time to come especially if we consider the present juncture and Constitution of Affairs For now the French have found the way into that Kingdom and are throughly acquainted with the Interest Situation Strength or rather Weakness of it are entituled to a proportion in it by vertue of the pretended Right of the late King James and in order to that have Livery and Seisin given them This ministers just occasion of fear that they will give frequent Alarums to that Kingdom which never had before a foreign Enemy in the bowels of it the Spaniards seeing but the edges and out-skirts of it whereas the French industriously pry into every corner upon the favour of him that delights in the destruction of these Kingdoms which to facilitate or rather to the utmost of his power compleat gives up the distressed innocent Protestants of Ireland into the barbarous hands of the French King whose Success and Dexterity though not Inclination is greater in the Butchering Hereticks as the good and great King James calls the Protestants of these Kingdoms Now if the common Herd of the Irish be separated from their prime Leaders and from their Wolves in Sheeps clothing there will be none left to blow up the Coal of Treason or Sedition among them or any to head or animate them in it And the progress of a few years of careful Instruction from our Protestant Clergy in the Rudiments and first Draughts of our Profession will initiate them into the more safe Religion and easie Government of the British Besides if the French have no Confederates left in that Kingdom to give them a favourable reception as in this case they would not there would be no great reason to fear them neither would they dare to attempt the Country without that dependence If it should be thought hard usage to dispossess the Irish-men it may be answered that there are Fields of Mercy for the King to extend and this desired for the preservation of the Protestant Interest is but a small Enclosure not one as I said before of Twenty Thousand nor was there ever greater Criminals up to the Elbows in Protestant Blood in the Rebellion of Forty One the very same individual men that are engaged in this found guilty and once Condemned for that and how their Estates after forfeiture were torn from the British Protestants is no secret to the World. Nor is it unknown that upon their Restauration in the year One Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty two above Sixty Thousand Protestants were drove out to seek their Bread and scattered through the World This was nothing But to banish less than an Hundred must be great Cruelty though men twice guilty of Blood and Treason and those whose Estates they are in present possession of stained with neither This is a Compendious as well as an easie way to remove the fears of future Rebellions and gives good assurance for the time to come that the Commonalty will be united as one people with the British when they have neither Lord nor Priest to follow And when they have no Instructers to bear up the credit of their old Superstition they will of course become Proselytes to the Protestant Communion for the people are naturally zealous of their erroneous Traditions instill'd into them by their Priests and are of a Credulous Disposition which shews that the Authors of these being once removed the effects will soon cease and the people for want of their own will naturally resolve themselves into the Reformed Religion We know that 't is a common principle of Mankind to have some Religion or other and then most ignorant and barbarous parts of the Universe adore the most Contemptible Beings rather than be divested of a Deity which mis-application of their Worship cannot be thought an Argument that there is no God as some Atheistically dispute but on the contrary presupposes his Existence to be engraven in such legible Characters in the minds of men which so powerfully inclines them to so firm an assent to that infallible truth as to believe every thing to be a God rather than that there is none at all They can easily from a continued Chain and Concatenation of Subordinate Causes collect one prime and Metaphysical one and tho' they do not understand its Nature they question not its Existence Thus the Academicks and Peripateticks Epicureans and Stoicks in Cicero ransack'd the great variety of Nature some making Fire some water some the Four Elements some Nature it self to be a God but notwithstanding these mis-apprehensions concerning the true Object of Divine Worship few or none questioned a Supream and Independent Being the great Creator of that admirable Fabrick of the World of so orderly an Harmony and Contexture in all its parts as sufficiently denotes the infinite Wisdom and Soveraign Power of that Grand Architect who made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in

which kept the English so much in subjection and was so great a discouragement unto them that hardly any attempted to declare for the Prince till February whereas most of the Rapin and Devastation was committed before This compendious description of Affairs will I presume be deem'd sufficient to satisfie all judicious and impartial men that without the least provocation or plausible pretence of Right the Irish Papists have acted the late Massacres Burnings and other publick Mischiefs and Calamities upon the Protestants of Ireland which if they had been mutual and reciprocal injuries though they that were in a good Cause would have been Sufferers for their Loyalty and Service to the King yet on the other hand there might have been room for the King's Mercy But where the inveteracy of a malicious Antagonist discharged it self in whole Vollies upon a quiet and inoffensive People without any other inducement than that of a bare Surmise that they were inwardly affected to King William seems as irrational and unjustifiable an Argument for those violent Outrages committed thereupon as 't is haply without Precedent if duly reflected upon in all its circumstances and respects that men so habituated to Rebellion and profess'd Enemies to the Protestant Interest and Religion should have a Pardon vouchsafed unto them I now proceed to shew That a Pardon to the Irish cannot properly be interpreted an effect of Mercy but in reality the contrary To illustrate this to you I think it reasonable to affirm That that cannot be accounted an effect of Mercy which is extended to such Criminals as have invaded and usurped the Rights and Properties of others which is consequent to my first Position That Mercy is to be confin'd within the Boundaries of common Right and if this were not so such as live most obedient to the Government could expect no Security from it which would be a Practice as disagreeable to the first Institution of Government in the World as 't is contrary to Nature and the common Reason of Mankind Besides by this means no Government could long subsist because it must necessarily encourage such men as openly violate and contemn its Injunctions and by consequence such as most trample upon must possess the places of Judicature and the greatest Offenders become prime Ministers of State. But to encounter this Argument more closely 'T is a Maxim receiv'd among Princes To manage with a steady and equal hand in Affairs of State and in consequence hereunto a general Pardon is reckon'd to be a mutual Good. But in pursuance to this I presume it will be granted that such as have adher'd to the Interest of King William and consequently have upon all occasions demonstrated their Zeal and Sincerity for the Protestant Cause and Religion may reasonably put in as just a claim to his Mercy as such who have declared their Enmity to both The Justice and Equality of this matter being thus considered it is not to be suppos'd that he who came to rescue our selves and the Reformed Religion from the violent Intrusion of Romish Idolatry and Slavery would transfer our Possessions to those whose Injustice he came to punish and suppress This seems to be an Act of greater severity than was that precipitate and hasty judgment of David to Mephibosheth Let Ziba and thou divide for in this case the Irish are in possession of the whole and are so far from making any Overtures or shewing any Indication of their Submission that they have not so much as the Argument of that unworthy Sycophant on their sides meeting the King on the way Nay so far have they deviated from the least of that Respect which is even owing to a Christian that in their common Discourses they cursed the very name of the Prince of Orange as the Off-spring of that man who was so fatal to the Romish Church in the Netherlands which they feared was an ominous presage of his Posterity's being so to the● And if their inveterate malice against the British Protestants in Ireland was capable of any addition they augmented it for the Affection which was visibly discernable in them to his now Sacred Majesty whose Person and Government the Irish Papists have in so great an Abhorrence and do with the most impious Anathemaes so inhumanly execrate and revile that we may justly account their malice not inferiour to that of the Jews to our Saviour in scourging his Effigies as a meritorious Act in their Devotion But I would not be understood in this place as if the Tenour of th●s Discourse were design'd to restrain the Fountain of the KING'S Mercy but if the Current be diverted from its proper Channel by turning it from his Enclosures into the Common methinks there is a reasonable subject of Complaint against those whose Avarice and too-interested a Regard to their private advantage in prejudice to the publick welfare not perhaps of one but of three Nations carry them beyond the bounds both of Reason and common Equity We have had the most cogent and evincing demonstrations That the Royal Affections of His Majesty are graciously inclin'd to us by that wonderful Condescention shewn to his Irish Protestant Subjects in that he permits nay commands them to speak and since he is thus mercifully pleased to hear them represent their Grievances the effects of their faithful adherence to the Cause he owns they presume to request no more than this Not to be debarr'd from the benefits of His Grace and Favour to them They claim nothing of what in Justice belongs to their Adversaries but desire their own not the Possessions of others but a Restitution of their proper Right and this not to extend to Losses in War which those who outwardly seem to espouse but secretly endeavour to undermine our true Interest would insinuate but for Robberies and other outragious Acts of Violence committed in time of Peace and these of so notorious a nature that had even their own Popish Government and King been in any capacity of asserting but part of the Laws the Offenders would at least in some degree have been constrained to make Restitution Nor do the Protestants of Ireland desire the Blood of any the Principles of whose Religion as well as natural Clemency being such as permits them not to repay their Adversaries in their own Coin but to chuse rather to leave them to God and the King's Justice That which they would pray and intreat for is only that which might be a means of preserving those who have escaped the Irish Cruelty as to their Lives though not in their Estates Namely 〈◊〉 Reparation for their substance taken from them without which they must inevitably perish being in a worse condition than were the Egyptians when they told Joseph that they had nothing left but their Bodies and Lands whereas these poor Protestants who are now most humble Supplicants to His Majesty were never invested in the latter their whole substance consisting in Personal Estates which they were