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A62310 Popery display'd in its proper colours wherein its nonentity and nullity is demonstrated by undeniable arguments : with several remarkable passages relating to the present times : humbly offered to the honourable House of Commons / by J.S. gent. J. S., gent. 1681 (1681) Wing S83; ESTC R9412 19,102 18

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Scotland and Ireland were at a Papists beck Besides the great danger of being stabbed as we walk in the Streets and of being burned as we sleep in our houses witness that horrid murder of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey the barbarous Assassination of Justice Arnold and the dreadful Fire of London and Southwark to which let us add their unanimous assent and design in extirpating all Hereticks as they term them root and branch by cutting their Throats having no other way to propagate their Profession that has nothing of Religion but the Name therefore Gratitude nor Countries sake restrains not men of this stamp their Principles know no Kindred no Love no Obedience no Obligation to a Heretick but through blood as the Murther of Sir E. G. can testifie O wonderful that ever supposed Christians should be so much the Children of the Devil as first to Murder then charge it upon the innocent soul Murdered as the Papists most Impudently did and do in him all Protestants were Massacred no man is sure of his life a day or night the choice is only what death we shall dye whether be Stabbed Strangled Burned or Poysoned this Consternation in security and danger of our Lives must needs obstruct not only all Commerce betwixt man and man but also deter Officers of Justice from their Duty and Obligation and in fine dissolve all humane society and reduce the world into misery How much then doth it concern all Protestants nor only with unfeigned Repentance to turn to the Lord and beg of him that these Conspirators should be either Confounded and insnared in their own Nets or diverted from their hellish designs Not that this is sufficient but we ought as in duty bound to preserve our King whom the Conspirators assert blessed be God is not for their turn and make our humble Supplication to this worthy and English Parliament to Vote an Adresse to the King to Banish all Papists and all Popishly affected as well out of his Army and Navy as the Cities of London and Westminster whos 's Villiany and Cruelty one would think sufficiently rendered them as uncapable of serving in our Armies as in keeping humane and Common society with Protestants whilest poor and Innocent and dissenting Protestants are daily molested and pilledged for the sake of their peaceable Consciences and Popish Rebels sheltering themselves under our Roof is this to Maintain the Protestant Religion No certainly it is insupportable Therefore call for the Conspirators look throughly and strictly into their hellish Actions fiat justitia fear nor favour no man but fear Cod do what you do as in his presence to whom you must render an account nay or every idle word 't is the chief and most applaudable Action of your Life to di●charge your Trust that is if you will quit your selves like Men and good Protestants preserve the Being Liberties and religion of those who have intrusted you by throwing out Popery after the Bill the only Tormentor and Plague of this Nation as you desire to see God in his Glory and secure your selves from Popery Tyranny and Slavery neglect not this Opportunity which God has so wonderfully cast into your hands unexpected be not Despi●ers of his Care and Providence over you neither be you careless or fearfull of Improving and Shewing your Power Now is the time for had they you or ever will at the same advantage you nor yours should not long continue therefore what before you would scarcely have done is now become your Duty Let not the Life of that Grand Traytor and Popish Courtly Secretary who Traiterously communicated the secrets of our King and Countrey to all Popish Courts in Christendom nor the Lives of five or six bigotted Jesuits pass as satisfaction for this horrid and never to be forgotten Hellish Conspiracy Not that I desire more Blood but Justice Security and future safety as well for our Posterity as for our selves otherwise it may be truly said of us They saw and would not see You know that Popery marks all Protestants of what perswasion soever out for the same end and esteems them as one body of Hereticks equally deserving the Slaughter as Bellermine affirms All Hereticks are to be destroyed Root and Branch if it can possibly be done De Laicis lib. 3. cap. 22. Besides all Hereticks are solemnly Cursed once a Year in Rome and thereupon the Papists in the several Kingdoms where the Protestant Religion rules are not only discharged from all Allegiance to their Prince but all are obliged by the strictest bond of Conscience and under the penalty of the utmost hazard of their Souls to depose such Heretical Princes and that they are so far from being Guilty of Murder if they kill any of them as Vrban the Third Pope saith that they are bound to exterminate all Hereticks as they would be esteemed Christians themselves Mariana saith When the Common-wealth cannot otherwise secure and preserve its own peace and safety it may by a right inherent in it self declare the King to be the common Enemy and then destroy him with the Sword Leshius saith that such a Prince ought to be deposed and therupon it may be lawfull to attempt any thing against his Person Pope Paul the fifth did not only Excommunicate and Damn Q. Eliz. and all her Protestant Subjects but also Cursed all the Papists that should give any Obedience to her or her Laws All this one would think should not only rouse us to Self-defence Brotherly love and Union betwixt all Protestants but also to determine that whosoever opposed such may be Judged to love Popery better than Protestancy consequently an Enemy to the King the Protestant Religion and the Government In reference to Self-defence after a true Union is once setled among all Protestants it 's most necessary that our Militia Officers all standing Officers Judges and all Justices of the Peace should be strictly examined whether they be men Popishly affected or not if popishly affected they are the most dangerous to be trusted and the ready way to introduce Popery the first have our Lives in their hands and may cut our Throats at will the second will never put the Penal Laws in Execution if not against Protestant Dissenters which is no less than to cheat the Government and Invalidate the King and his Laws Popery and men Popishly affected or in Masquerade fear nothing more than such strict Enquiry Be not slow in this we will never leave you for such ever since the Reformation were our greatest Enemies and chief Fomentors of Plots and Conspiracies If you read of the Massacre of Paris Piedmont and Ireland with the Transactions acted upon this our English Stage within these few years you will find this confirmed and much more too long here to insert to your great satisfaction and the Confusion of many great Courtiers who for Interest have betrayed God and their Countrey wherefore if now after all these great Discoveries Justice were not done on this wicked and