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The character of a Jacobite by what name or title soever dignifyed or distinguish'd / written by a Person of quality.
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Person of quality.
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1690
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Wing C1976; ESTC R9049
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misfortunes of King James is a wonder having so little Charity one for another there being nothing more frequent among them than Envy Passion Repining and supplanting of each other And yet they are so insensible as to believe that their King James does not see through them unless because they have made him their Idol they think he has Eyes and sees not and that he knows he must satisfie the particular ends and aims of every individual Person or else there will never be peace in Israel They would be the best Marks-men in the World if they could but bring a great Gun as well as a little Text to bear upon any Subject whatever they aim at To prove Episcopacy they baulk all other Texts and take this Sirs what shall I do to be sav'd because the Greek word Sirs signifies Lords therefore they were Bishops that were spoken to Another to preach up Kingly Government chose for his Text Seek first the Kingdom of God Not the Common-wealth of God nor the Aristocracy of God but the Kingdom of God Ergo Kingly Government is the best Government A third to disprove Non-Residence finds out Mat. 1.2 Abraham begat Isaac For that if Abraham had not resided with Sarah he had never begat Isaac Another undertakes to prove the unlawfulness of the Bill of Exclusion from Job ch 36. v. 21. It is not lawful to do evil that good may come of it Another to prove the Excellency of Monarchy picks out Judg. 17. v. 6. In those days there was no King in Israel for had there been a King in Israel Micah had never made a Graven Image nor had the Levites Concubine ever been ravishe'd And thus their Sermons are a sort of Lampoons upon Scripture while they make use of it only to put their Shamins and Tricks upon the People and expose it dress'd up in wrested Interpretation to the Diversion of the worst of Libertines They pray to Heaven as if they believed there were no God or sought at least to make him the Author of their mischievous Contrivances They pray for King James spend all their most servent Ejaculations in their Cups and over their Coffee for King James as if they thought that God were a Favourer of Popery Tyranny Oppression and Slavery and yet would have us think they believe him to be the God of Mercy Truth and Justice But whatever they would have us believe 't is but an ill sign of the good Opinion they have of it to invoke Divine Favour upon the Enemy of their Religion their Laws and Liberties While they had the Power the Hook of recalling the Penal Laws and Test would not take but now they would recall the disappointed Angler and rather throw themselves into a precarious Toleration of a Popish Tyrant than abandon Dominion over their Protestant Brethren And thus they set up King James like the Brazen Serpent thinking to be safe by looking upon him when stung to inevltable Death by the fiery Serpents of Rome Look into their Conversations and you shall find 'em Wine bibbers to excess and frequently remov'd from the Coffee-house to the Tavern to carry on the Elections of Sheriffs and Parliament-men And 't is a shrewd sign they are no less addicted to the Smicket because they love so much as they do to see Religion with her Heels upward When they get into their Pulpits they make 'em roar like so many Matrasses of Aurum Fulminans under the Guard of an ignorant Chymist you 'd think they had been learning of the Fire-chawing Mountebanks to carry burning Coals betwixt their Teeth their Breath is so hot They fling about their Bombs and their Granado's against the Phanaticks as if they were storming a Conventicle every word is a Snap-dragon or a Flash of Lightning enough to singe all the Periwiggs in the Congregation Strange that such fiery men as these should be for Passive Obedience But that 's a Virtue which they only Preach to others never practice themselves They make use of Passive Obedience as House breakers do of the little Engines called Betties to force open the Consciences of all that will not bow to their Baal and rob 'em of their Understandings They are so far from Passive Obedience themselves that never was any Hornets Nest in such an uproar as were they themselves when their warm Livings were in danger The Scripture says Obedience is better than Sacrifice but they cry Sacrifice is better than Obedience for if all their Opposers were sacrific'd there would be no need of Obedience Touch but their Coppy-holds and then instead of Passive Obedience they cry 'T is better to Obey God than Man and let their King de Jure make use of all his Right and Title to Command 'em he shall as soon Command a Cabbin in a rough Sea as get 'em to read any of his Acts or Declarations if they but smell a Rat in 'em to the Prejudice of their Cheese Their vain Hopes perswade them to Obey King James and their groundless Fears to Disobey King William Thus they hope in a Popish Prince and are afraid of a Protestant King abandon the Felicity they may justly expect from King William and hope in the Courtesie which they can never expect from King James like many Men that are afraid of Heaven and place their hopes in the Devil 's future Civility They believe all the rest of the Nation but themselves to be Crows and come with their Cherry-Garden Divinity to prove the difference between a King de Jure and a King de Facto as a King de Jure that has forfeited his Right by Breach of Law Breach of Faith Breach of Oaths Breach of all things by which a Sovereign claims his Sovereignty were any more than a vain Terror of their own erecting Heaven pull'd him down and they would heave him up again Now whether the Ancient Romans or these Jacobite Levites were the wisest must be left to Judgment for the one trusted to a Goose to preserve their Copitol the other to a Cock-match for the Restoration of their Exile Indeed the Cock is the more Martial Bird but the Goose was the more Fortunate But they thought to have been Crowing again upon their own Dung-hills and therefore they preferr'd a Cock-Match Plot before any other Plot. They had cry'd down the Popish Plot and the Presbyterian Plot was of King James's own making and fell with himself but they thought might be Ten to One laid upon the Success of a Cock-Match Plot. However it were by this you may discover the right Genius of a Jesuite and a true Jacobite the one was for Dispeopling the Nation the other for making a Cock-Pit of the Kingdom I would fain exempt 'em from having any hand in the Miscarriage of our Fleet a fatal Blow to the Ancient Honour of the English Nation which all Europe but their Confederate the French King still laments Since they that would betray their Countrey and their Deliverer would betray