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A23722 The absolute necessity of standing by the present government, or, A view of what both church men and dissenters must expect if by their unhappy divisions popery and tyranny should return again 1689 (1689) Wing A112; ESTC R9768 37,630 52

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The Absolute NECESSITY Of Standing by the Present Government OR A VIEW Of what both CHURCH-MEN AND DISSENTERS Must Expect If by their unhappy Divisions Popery and Tyranny should Return again LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Black-Bull in the Old Bailey MDCLXXXIX THE PREFACE IT is a strange thing That after all that has been so often repeated and inculcated concerning the Implacable and Inveterate Hatred of the Papists in general having given up their Consciences to the Management of Priests and Jesuites against all that make any Profession of the Protestant Religion there should be yet a sort of People That suffer themselves to be so far intoxicated with the Sweet Draughts of the Whore's Cup in the Revelation that nothing can retrieve them from that Phrensical Intoxication but that they will still be hankering after the Flesh Pots of Popish Slavery and Arbitrary Power these People are still distempered and infected with the Monstrous Excrescencies of Arbitrary Power in one single Member above all the Laws of the whole Infallibility Divine Right c. started by Knaves and Sycophants believed by Fools so credulous and good-natured as not to believe Matter of Fact being the strongest Proof and a far better Rule to steer Mankind by than all the empty Notions of the Schools invented only to perplex and confound our Racionations Once more therefore let them take a short Account of Publick Promises Oaths and solemn Contracts so scandalously violated not only with the Heretics but even among themselves In a Word to come to our own Home the Plots and Conspiracies which have bin promoted by the Roman Catholicks in England since the Reformation are of that Nature and have caused such dreadful Convulsions both in Church and State that it is a great Argument of the Goodness and Providence of God that this Kingdom has bin able to bear so many Brunts and to avoid so many deep Designs as has brought us to the very Brink of Ruine Since then the Almighty more out of the Goodness of his Providence than our own Deservings has bin pleased by this our late Deliverance to free us from the Treachery and Infidelity of our Antichristian Adversaries by defeating the Hopes and totally overthrowing the Contrivances of that restless Implacable and perfideous Faction certainly they must be very impious or very Ungrateful who instead of adoring the boundless Favour of Heaven towards them will still be hankering after the Abominations of Rome and seeking to close again with Idolatry Nor must they be less stupid who finding themselves at Liberty from Tryanny and Superstition would be again submitting their Necks under the Yoke of Arbitrary Oppression Rather it would become them to pay their most thankful Acknowledgments to God in the first Place And-in the next to the Instrument of their Happy Deliverance and with all grateful Loyalty and Obedience so to behave themselves toward his present Majesty as not to disturb him by their own Froward Murmurings and Discontents and by their own idle Heats and Animosities in carrying on and bringing to Perfection the Great Work which he has so magnanimously and piously begun Which till they do they must be lookt upon no otherwise than as such who seek their own Destruction Troublers of Israel that will neither be at Quiet themselves nor suffer others to enjoy the Benefit of the Public Tranquility THE TRUE SPIRIT OF POPERY CRuelty is a Crime so detested and abominated of all Mankind and so contrary and so destructive even to Nature it self and withal so diametrically opposite to the Sacred Precepts and Example of Mans Propitiator and the heavenly Founder of his Religion that it may well be lookt upon as one of the greatest Wonders of the World That the Church of Rome should be so daring as to pretend establishment from Heaven and to be the only Rule and Infallible Standard of Divine Worship among Men that places her chiefest Safety and Protection and has nothing more to trust to then the boisterous Arm of Inhumanity and Oppression And then again it is no less to be admired That Men endued with Reason should be so infatuated as in opposition to Reason and the innate Light and Law of Reason to surrender up all their common Sense to Doctrins that uphold a more savage Tyrannie than is exercised even among the most Savage Beasts themselves as it were in open Hostility with God and Man. For it is a Defiance of the Eternal to exercise all acts of inexorable Cruelty unlimited Pride and tyrannical Dominion where he commands Compassion Mercy and Humility And it is no less a mark of irreconcileable Enmity against Mankind upon all occasions to labour nothing more then the Destruction and utter extirpation of Mankind because they refuse to bow down and adore the Idol of Papal Authority One would think that the Church of Rome had bin founded not by S. Peter but by Maximinus the Elder one of the most cruel Persons upon Earth whose Maxim it was That no Dominion could be supported but by Cruelty or that she had bin a Disciple of those Apostles of Inhumanity that set up the ten Persecutions And indeed where can we better fix that Character which Scripture gives to Antichrist of being always drunk with the Blood of the Saints then upon the See of Rome She that is never well but when she is carousing in full Bowls the Blood of Heretics comprehending under that false and scandalous Name all People in the World that make a syncere and true Profession of Religion the most conformable to the Word of God. Agreeable to which is the Barbarity and Cruelty of her Doctrin against all that refuse to submit to her Opinions which maintains that Heretics are to be delivered over to the Secular Princes whose Duty it is to burn them without Mercy upon Pain of being anathematiz'd and depriv'd of their Kingdoms and Dominions if they deny to be the Instruments of her Inhumanity To which we may add her Violation of the Publick Faith which was decreed by one of her General Councils at Constance Insomuch that notwithstanding the Safe-conduct which Sigismund had granted to John Huss and Jerome of Prague care was taken to have them both burnt So that indeed it behoves all mankind besides that are not of her Perswasion to stand upon their Guard and to defend themselves against her as if they were in the midst of the Libyan Deserts or among Cannibals hourly in danger of their Lives For Proof of which there might be produced from the Records of all Ages all along ever since the first Extravagances and Usurpations of Popery Instances ●now to convince her most bigotted Idolaters of the Truth of what is here alledged and of what has bin so often inculcated into the Minds of Men were since the first beginning of the Reformation but not to insist upon the more remote Barbarities and Butcheries perpetrated upon the Albigenses under Innocent III a Name ill suiting with the