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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47906	The reformed Catholique, or, The true Protestant	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1679 (1679)	Wing L1289; ESTC R20504	23,451	38

represented the King himself for a Tyrant and an Idolater it was but Consonant that they should cast Reproaches upon his Party Touching the Freedom of our Persons and Estates the whole course of the late War was but one continu'd Usurpation upon our Rights to both Noble mens Houses turn'd to Prisons and People Committed without knowing either their Accusers or their Offence Some clap'd on Shipboard to be Transported no body knew whither and others sold into Plantations for Slaves To say nothing of those that fell by the Sword in the Defence of their Country or otherwise past the hand of the Executioner in Justification of their Religion and Allegeance There was no taking of Threescore pounds for Twelve in those days nor of Two hundred for Sixty But they took All for nothing and there was no Living among them for any Honest man that would not Prostitute his Conscience And who are they now but either the very persons or men however of these very Principles that acted these Out-rages upon Vs and yet now complain of being Persecuted themselves When they startle the Common People with the Notions of Cruelty and Slavery as a matter now in Prospect methinks they should Blush at the Memory and upon the Guilt of those Real Calamities which we have both seen and felt wherein our Blessed Soveraign had yet a greater share then any of his Subjects They Abolish'd Kingly Goverment Sold the crown-Crown-Lands Imprison'd and Murther'd the King made it Treason to deny the Supremacy of the Commons turn'd our Churches into Stables Burnt our Communion-Tables and profan'd the very Ashes of the Dead Let but any man read Scobels Acts and say if the English were not in those times and under these Protestant Dissenters the most Despicable Slaves in Nature See their Tax upon the Fifth and Twentieth part their Excises upon Excise their Assessments for the Maintenance of the Army and their Monthly Taxes for the same end Ninety thousand pounds Sixscore thousand pounds Sixty thousand pounds Sequestrations Seizing of Peoples Rents and Debts Appropriating to themselves the profits of Tonnage and Poundage and Compositions for Wards Authorizing the breaking open of Locks and Examining upon Oath for discovery of Delinquents Money and Estates All this is as well known as the very fact of the War it self and if we have a mind to lie down under the same Bondage again let us believe the Stories of Arbitrary Government and Superstition that these People tell us of and they shall just so help us out of it again as they did before There should be something further said to their pretence of being Persecuted for Religion but I find little to be added to what is already deliver'd The Law stands still They press upon the Law and yet cry out that the Law persecutes them We may lay down this I think for a Maxim That whosoever tells us that he makes a Conscience of Complying with the Discipline of the Church and yet manifestly makes none at all of undermining nay and of blowing up the whole frame of the Government that man is most undoubtedly an Hypocrite To Conclude What 's the meaning of this Remonstrating to the People They are no Judges of the Controversie But they do well however in a Cause where Force does a great deal more then Argument to make their Application to the Multitude with whom Clamour and Pretence are of more Value then Modesty and Reason It is a most Ridiculous Contradiction to common sense to believe these men to be in earnest for if they were they would never Defame the Government at the same time that they beg a Dispensation from it Their Demand is Vnreasonable the thing it self only Notional and Impracticable By Liberty of Conscience they mean a Freedom of doing what they please which necessarily implies a total Dissolution of the Laws They offer it only as a Decoy to the People and when they have gain'd Compassion to themselves like Beggers that move Pity by shewing Ulcers of their own making their next business is to draw Contempts upon the Government and after that to enter without more adoe upon the Great Work of Reformation Let me do this Right however to the Independents I do not find that Party to have given the Government any trouble since his Majesties Return but that they have kept themselves clear of all these late Broils And if Authority had the same sense of them with the Author of this Pamphlet they would be found both in their Principles and in their Manners to have the most reasonable Claim of all sorts of Dissenters to a favourable allowance from the Government God in his Mercy open our Eyes that we may know our Friends from our Enemies THE END