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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25452	Animadversions upon that proclamation of September 13, 1692, entituled, For the better discovery of seditious libellers		1693 (1693)	Wing A3205; ESTC R38496	10,982	4

after this manner to be Re-instated again They are Sinners and Trangresors on both sides Though his Rebellious Subject● are the greater From hence came those Wars and Fightings among us So th●t after the way which they barely accuse others of Sedition and Rebellion Themselves in very deed have been proved guilty of the same In the very same manner it may be Answered as to what they call False Infamous and Scandalous Libels A Libel signifies a little Book Here again they are befo●e hand to term it so in these 3 Epithets which herein are true Proper and Opposite Becavse in what t●ey call such Libels their own False infamous and Scandalous Doings are spoken and treated of So that this Reproach offered by them must a●so cease for it is truly turned upon themselves and it doth not justly belong to the Authors of such Writings but to themselves the Actors of such things Wherein they have Erred and a●e Deceived and they do still go aside from the Way of Truth whereby they are become a Shame and In●amy even to Turks and to the other Nations and they have made the Name of Protestantism to slink Gen. 34.30 among the Superstitious Inhabitants of this and other Lands whilst t●ey have given occasion to both to say Tuese are the Dis●ipl●s of Jesur Christ the Prince ●f Peace and they call themselves of the Pure Res●●ned Religion who break and sa●ifie their O●●●s dis●●nour and dispbey their Parents they kill and murther one another I do hereby enter my Protestation against th●se Deeds of such Nuncupative Protestants They are become a Scandal and Rock of Offence not so much to them who ca●s themselves so but to all Real and Universal Christians such who have respect unto all the Commandments and not keep some and neglect others as the manner of many is Every Libel see Coke's Reports Le case de Libellis famosis is to the Scandal of the Governments and to the Breach of the Peace But when there is an Actual breach of the Peace already in this and more especially in the Neighbour Nations which hath so been for these four Years Those Words of Truth and Soberness which do exhort to fill and compose these troubled Waves Pr●stat m●tes componere fluctus and which shew us the only good and right way how it may be all retrieved and healed and made up again without the farther Less of so much as one Man's Lie mo●e viz. By changing this New and wr●ng Constitution into the Antient and Rightful Government This doth in us wise break the Peace but would Establish it Nor yet doth it widen but it would repair the Breach Only there it Strength and Will wanting to make it close and keep together But then indeed it is a scandal to the present Governour for Governour and Government are two distinct things in that sometimes they take upon them to Govern who ●ave no Right so to do that themselves should not be govern'd by the Law of God That they should so long live and act in the breach of sundry of God ' Commandments whereby they are in real danger of future Condemnation and of going away into everlasting Punishment That Q●e would admire unless they were deluded and deceived by Sathan who holds them Captive at his Will and it is to be ●ear'd that after all the Warning which hath been given they will at last fall into the hands of this Roaring Lion ●ho they can give sleep to their Eyes and slumber to their Eyelids day after day and nig●t after night as they do until they throughly amend their ways and their Doings and unti they throughly execu●e Judgment between a Man and his Neighbour Jer. 7. Ver 5. Lest they should Sleep the Sleep of Death and their Souls should be ●athere● with the Sinners and Transgressors of former Generations By these Words That ye ●hroughly execute judgment between a Man and his Neighbour is or may be understood according to the Meaning and Requiring of the Spirit of God at his Day for the H●ly Ghost in the Penning and Giving forth or the Scriptures hath provided and ordained them for a Law to all Persons Times and Places Generations and Countries That they do righten See the Marginal Reading of lsi● ● Ver. 17 Adjust and Determine the Matter between King James and t●e Prince of Orange according to the instruct on or Wisdom justice judgment and Equity Prov. ● Ver. 3. But until they do this How can they have any peace in their Consciences unless they did act in the Deceivableness or Unrighteousness and had im●ibed in strong Delu●ions But th● Knowledge of t●e Truth would break this inward stupidity in which sense it doth break the peace within which is the most tronolesome kind of any nevertheless it is better so broken than kept And as the same Truth doth ba●ely recite reprove and discover their scandalous Doings and as it doth lay open their Falshood and Hypocrisy They do thus conceive Enmity against and utter Error concerning it Whatever the● now do to prevent and hinder the goings forth of His Eternal Truth because by the publication thereof some few Thoughts of their Hearts are revealed Herein they do provoke the Lord to iealousy Are they stronger than be Or how canth●y help when the Dead small and great shall stand before God That themselves shall not ap●ear also And then all the Thoughts of all their Hearts will be Revealed all the Words of every Tongue will be Declared and all the Deeds of their past Life will be manifested and judged As to the Reward promised by the Workers of Iniquity I have several times thought as I have heard or read that Portion of Scripture When thou sawest a Thief then thou consentest with him Psal 50. Ver. 18. That as there are three sons of Thefts and Robberies so they do use the like Methods There is a little Degree a middle Sine and the greatest of all The first Sort is when a Pocket is pickt or any thing taken away privily or when two or three or half a dozen do Rob upon the High-Way These are Liberal and Bountiful to Oslers Tapsters and Inn-keepers and the others will bribe it off to prevent their own Discovery what they do easily come by they d● as frankly part withal The middl● Size is when a hundred or two do Rob together in a Company as in some parts of Italy the Desarts of Arabia and Sea Pyrates These do not fee altogether so much because they do depend upon their Numbers outward Strength and Force and their Designs are open and Bare-faced to take violently away But as the yrate told Alexander The greatest Robbery of all is W●en Kings and Gen●rals with their Arm●es co s●oil and disposs●ss whole Countries Or when they do take a whole Kingdom or Principality away at once Of this there are two sorts either open Hostility which seems fairest because then Others can stand upon their Guard and Defence The other

Animadversions upon that Proclamation of September 13. 1692. Entituled For the better discovery of Seditious Libellers THE Observation is as true as it is common That when any Breach or Alteration has been made upon the Antient and well Constituted Government of this Kingdom which doth reside in an Uinnterrupted Hereditary and Lineal Succession This being Established and Confirmed by all the Statute and Common Laws authentick Records and Right Precedents either by wrong Invasion upon and forcible Dispossession of it or by subtle Intrusion or stepping in between Hereupon the Tongues and Pens of People have been more open and enlarged than at other Times of righteous Settlement The Reason whereof is so obvious that there is no need to assign it Because here is occasion given for it but there is none then For an Example hereof we need go no further back than the Reign of Oliver Cromwell and that eighteen Years of Confusion and Bloodshed which was then What an exceeding deal of Work was for the Press in those days When any Great and unusual thing is done in the World if People should hold their peace the Stones would immediately cry out according to that Rhretorical form of Speech importing that the most dull and silent of Mankind must be affected with and talk thereof And tho' through the Evil and Depravation of our Nature they do more consent unto and are carried away with a corrupt and wrong Thing especially where it gets Riches and Power and the Multitude on its side Yet the World was never so universally bad That every without one exception should be led away with the Spreading Prevailing and contagious Error But some have all along kept and preserved themselves in their Integrity free and sound from the Disease and Corruption of the Times There have been a Remant and a few as this is always the Lot and Portion of the Right and better Side in whom hath appeared outwords of Truth and Prnciples of Righteousness and Honesty So it will be notwithstanding the utmost Opposition and Persecution as long as God hath a Church in the World Unless all Men should be transformed into wild Beasts or Devils that is until they come to lose all the Seeds and Tinctures of Reason and Religion and they are made up of nothing but Violence and Evil. Here it must be acknowledged that Pride Revenge Envy Discontent and the several Ingredients of Sin and Passion will be apt to creep in and also intermingle with the Right side so that if there should not be a word spoken or written Yet as long as there is a Real and Essential Difference between Good and Evil Truth and Falshood Right and Wrong which is so far ingrasted into the Nature of Men that it cannot be utterly rooted out Every one that hath but common understanding would discern the one from the other It hath been the constant Method that when Iniquity hath been set up on High and it hath intruded and Usurpt it self upon the Rightful Authority They have also plai●●ered and flourished it over with Goodly words But when on the other side Words of Truth do come forth which make to see through or under the Foundation thereof and this doth it more and more that the untempered Morter of the ●ther can no longer Palliate or make it up again Then the last Resort is to Gag the Mouth Tye up the Hand and Imprison the Body to prevent and hinder all going forth of such True and right Words For every one that doth Evil hateth the Light neither cometh to the Light lest his Deeds should bereproved John 3. Ver. 20. Or as it is in the Margin there discovered Here if the upright in Heart God being on their side whilst they act and labour for him would strive against these Devises of the Workers of Iniquity their Foundation would be discovered and at length fall and be consumed Surely their turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as Potters Clay which tho' they can or do fashion to this or that purpose according to their own Will yet it may be all broken into pieces or dissolved into Dirt. Here it comes to pass That the greatest Fool calls Fool first for they do first throw out that Reproach of Sedition and Rebell on falsly upon others to ward off and turn away that true imputation of both which as they are secretly and inwardly Conscious of so it may be justly fastned upon themselves Let them call it what they will Defence of the Parliament and Liberties of England Preservation of Religion c. It was six Years plain down Rebellion foregoing that brought King Charles the First to the Block And so notwithstanding it hath been term ●Deliverance I believe they will not find it so at long run It was plain invading this Realm by a For●●gn Prince bearing Arms raising Tumults all which in Ipsissimis verbis was contrary to that Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy which his Subjects had before token which caused our King to be Deposed At which juncture of Time almost every Sermon from the Pulpit and Paper from the Press ●as a false Infamous and Scandalous Libel For as the Chief Justice Coke had long since Remarke●●●hat Libelling is the fore-runner of Rebellion so it did exactly prove for whereas the King had Emitted forth his Declaration for Liberty of Conscience That all people might worship God according to their several Opinion and Persuasions and they might Preach all God's Word with this necessary Caution Provided than there nothing should be delivered to alienate the Hearts of his Subjects from Him or His Government so as to make them withdraw or cast off their Allegiance for to do that or to despise and falsifie a solemn Oath there is not one Sentence in all the Old and New Testament which can be truly alledged to justify that Because such like a thing hath been done in former Generations and in other Countries therefore that it was lawfully done is a fallacious and wrong Conclusion But our People did abuse the favour of their King unto Evil surmisings and Rebellious Practices as if He had granted this Universal Liberty only to bring in Popery But supposing that should be granted which perhaps was not so for this is the most forcible way of Reasoning when admitting his Objection we can certainly confute if not convince and actually bring over the Adversary Yet God who causeth Light to shine out of Darkness would have Established this to them and to their Generations for ever more upon a righteous sure Foundation what ever designs might lie hid in the Heart All one as the Reformation was somewhat brought on and furthered by the Lust and Revenge of Henry the VIII By which may be seen that there is no such thing as Pure Undefiled Religion among the Princes of this World And tho now they have the same Liberty nevertheless Yet God will judge whether it was not granted by the Political Methods of Iniquity