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The cloak in its colours; or The Presbyterian unmasked, and proved as dangerous as papists to the Church of England Together with a brief and seasonable ansvver to their late unseasonable queries, and list of the pensioners, humbly offer'd to all true Protestant conformists.
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Government and true Protestant Religion and under these specious pretences and that Usurped Title God with us not onely Sacrifice his Sacred Person to their Fury but also to multiply their Villany endeavour to destroy his Fame and Reputation for ever And though this execrable and unparallel'd Murder has been unexpectedly pardon'd through the excessive clemency of our present Sovereign which graciously extended it self not onely to the seduced Multitude but even to the sparing the unworthy lives of some of the grand Pilates themselves yet so far is this favour from working its due effects upon these ungrateful Miscreants that like Spiders which suck poison out of the finest Flowers they grow daily worse by his Majesty's gracious condescensions to them always watching an opportunity either by secret Contrivances and Conspiracies to subvert the Government as the Fanatical Rabble of Cromwel's Adherents in Ireland conspired in the year 1665 to murder his Majesties Lord Lieutenant there and surprize his Castle and City of Dublin or to draw whole Armies into the Field in open Rebellion against his Majesty as they have lately done in Scotland not onely in the year 1677 but also this last Summer immediately upon the Proroguing the Parliament here And to have their God propitious to their holy designs they zealously consecrated their Gospellary Rebellion with the most inhumane Butchery of the Right Reverend Father in God the Primate of that Kingdom and withall most arrogantly burnt his Majesties Laws and Statutes in the publick place of Execution And yet notwithstanding all these insufferable indignities we see the Presbyterians both here and there are still in vogue and in good hopes too by their expected Interest in the next Parliament ere long to lay a sure foundation for the Genevesian Gospel in these three Kingdoms and refine our imperfect Reformation and purge it from all those heaps of Popish Rubbish and Superstitions which their Patriarch Calvin Ep. 26. affirms are still remaining in the Church of England We see the intended Conspiracies of others is daily exaggerated by the Pens of Learned Men but the Presbyterians open Treacheries seal'd with the deepest silence And it 's very remarkable how the late horrid Plot was no sooner discovered in London but all the Papists of these three Kingdom were presently under a Cloud and as it were struck with a sudden damp and bereaved of all vital motions But the Presbyterians actual Rebellion in Scotland and that for Religion too as appears by their Declarations was so far from daunting the rest of that Faction here that they writ out several Pamphlets to extenuate their Brethren's wickedness and excuse their Insurrection But certainly had the Papists of this Kingdom been as evidently proved guilty of Justice Godfrey's Murder as the Presbyterians of Seotland have been undeniably criminal of the Bishop of St. Andrew's bloody Tragedy or could the former be as unquestionably proved to have conspired his Sacred Majesty's death or the subversion of the Government as the latter have undoubtedly designed both in their late execrable Rebellion as appeareth by their Declarations wherein Puritan-like they scruple not to charge his Sacred Majesty with perjury and violation of the Covenant together with several other Presbyterian expressions and besides their very Insurrection maketh it undeniable For as Dr. Bilson loco supra cit well observeth He that may fight may kill and war against the Prince and killing the Prince are of consequence inevitable Could these things I say be thus indisputably proved against the Papists surely all Protestants wouâ—d unanimously rise against such bloody Tygers and quite extirpate them root and branch out of this Island for ever How strangely then comes it to pass that Papists are so unfortunate in their wickedness as still to be exclaimed against for crimes in the judgment of many wise and judicious men not yet unexceptionably proved against them and the Presbyterians undeniable wickedness presently buried in oblivion Believe me Sirs the case is of a very dangerous consequence and it prognosticks no good to the Church of England it plainly sheweth how the dissembling Hypocrites by their plausible pretences have gained the hearts of the seduced people And we may be fully perswaded they could never 〈…〉 to write such seditious Pamphlets and presume to charge not onely the chief Bishop but also the whole Church of England with erroneous Doctrine and withall endeavour to justifie their own Schismatical separation from her Communion as plainly they do in several Libels and particularly in one by them called The Countrey 's Vindication had they not been sure of a strong party to second their attempts and justifie their proceedings Let us therefore beware in time and take heed lest while we are intentive to drive away the Wolf from our Flock the Fox may come in and destroy our Vineyard Fourty years are not yet expired since we were forced to make use even of the Papists themselves to defend our King and Countrey from the Rebellious Presbyterians God send we be not again through our stupid carelesness reduced to that extremity We see how continually active the restless Spirits are and what cunning stratagems they use to sow the seed of jealousie and division between the most true-hearted Children of the Church of England and how whomsoever they find couragious and resolute in maintaining the Rights of the Church and Prerogatives of the Crown presently as in the Long Parliament they exclaim against him as one of the King 's evil Counsellors or as a down-right Papist or at least Popishly inclin'd They bring us four and twenty Quaeries or so many Impertinencies in order to the choice of a new Parliament new indeed because if possible it must wholly consist of Presbyterians and other Fanatical Sectaries which but in the Rump-parliaments time was never seen in England In most of these Queries they tell us of the Papists cruelty I wish they had joyn'd the Presbyterians too for England has sufficiently tasted of the bloody contrivances of both parties If the Monument at London-bridge be a Memorandum of the Papists fiery Zeal what does Charing-cross speak of the Presbyterians bloody devotion We know full well which of the later have been either Actors or Abettors in murdering our King but we could never certainly find which of the former has been concerned in firing our City Yet the busie Spirits must cry Whore first and by thus crying so loud against the horrid Treacheries of the Papists they think to divert our eyes from discerning their own pernicious designs But we would gladly give them leave to spit their venom against the Papists and rail at them with all virulent invectives imaginable had themselves been so Loyal in their actions as not to surpass them in wickedness or so dutiful in their expressions as not to snarl at his Sacred Majesty nor with such arrogance openly censure his Princely wisdom in proroguing and Dissolving his Parliaments as if he design'd to encourage the Plotters to murder himself as though forsooth the blood-thirsty Presbyterians should wish his Majesty better than himself can do whereas it 's apparent to the World their main design is to tread the foot-steps of their Fathers and raise again the Cromwellian Gospel and Government To this end the Oliverian Presbyterians of Ireland having ill spent what they have worse acquired in that Kingdom do daily flock over hither in whole Swarms and under the colour of this late Popish Plot do leave no stone unremoved to bring that Nation again into intestine troubles thereby to leave that remnant of true Protestants which God has miraculoufly preserved in that Kingdom to the merciless mercy either of the cruel Papists or bloody Fanaticks Nay they make it their business to blow the Bellows of Rebellion here as lately they have done in Scotland though by God's providence to their own utter confusion Let us therefore dear Countrey-men beware in time of these hypocritical Religionaries and as we tender the peace and welfare nay the very being of our beloved Mother the Church of England let us use all our endeavours in this our choice of a new Parliament that no Presbyterian Papist or other Fanatick be ever admitted to sit in that Honourable House Let us not be so credulous as to believe that Schismatical Sectaries who daily undervalue the Laws of the Church will ever endeavour to make Laws to establish the Church We may as well believe that Wolves will make Folds to preserve the Flock from ravenous Beasts as that Presbyterians or other Fanaticks will ever pass any Laws for securing either Church or State against their own undermining contrivances I think the abomination of desolation which through your unlucky Election of treacherous Presbyterians for your Representatives in Parliament happened to the amazement of the World in the Year 48 speaks loud enough to disswade you from such desperate choice for the future Be wise therefore now and circumspective and while by one days prudent choice of faithful and true-hearted Representatives you can secure your Lives and Liberties and prevent all eminent dangers which threaten our Church and State make use of so fair an opportunity Believe me if you let it slip you may for ever lament but never be able to redress your losses Remember the old saying Post est occasio calva Therefore Principiis obsta sero medicina paratur Cummala per longas invaluere moras FINIS