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religion_n	england_n	king_n	parliament_n	3,428	5	6.3449	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93456	A sober vindication of the nobility, gentry and clergy of the Church of England: in answer to a late malicious pamphlet, entituled, A dialogue between Whig and Tory. : Licensed, Novemb. 28. 1693.		1694 (1694)	Wing S4415A; ESTC R233299	11,552	16

Church of England-men being most apprehensive of danger from the late Reign they consequently in all probability would be the most active to get into the Convention or else they would seem to suffer that willingly from the Whigs which under King James and Cromwell they bore with no small regret and uneasiness The want of Employs and loss of Property are no Trifles Next that the number of the Church of England-men made by far ●he very greatest Body in the Convention will appear if you consider the unwearied endeavours and different means the late King us●d by Quo Warrantos by Pentions by giving Offices by Promises by Caresses and by I know not what to procure a Parliament of Dissenters to serve his Turn with all and divest the Church of her Power by taking off the Test and Penal-Laws which the Episcopal Men were averse to resolving not to quit their hold of the two Reigns which most effectually held in the stiff-neck of Popery Now 't is as plain as the Nose of a mans Face that that King would never have made such choping-work such regulations if other ways he could got a Parliament of Whig's Kidney who in plain English for all his pretentces now were then the main men that put their hands to the Plough tho with no better intention than to betray him to ruin by their Councils to bring us to Poverty and want of Places by your Pride and to make havock of all by the force of their severe Malice Thus all men may s●e whether Whigs or Torys whether Conformists or Nonconformist whether the Orthodox or Heterodox were most numrous in the Convention and consequently who it is that deserves all the Encomiums he is pleased to attribute to them through his whole Book for all his boasts and title to Preferment stood upon this ground which you see has sunk under him Here if you consider the Churches discontents before and their number in the Convention he being beat from his Fortress let us ask these Questions Pray Sir who shew'd the most early inclinations to the Prince of Oranges person who went into Holland and first begun the Project of the Prince of Orange 's coming over Who put the Crown upon his Head when he did come Who shew'd most apparent partiality to his Person in all the points of the settlement of the Crown and particularly in giving it him for Life over looking at the same time the P. of D ' s. Title and Lineal Succession And stood by the Kings Authority in the debate concerning the P. of D 's Revenue and left that Affair entirely to the Kings Pleasure And lastly who had such care of the people in their deliberate Consideration about Chimney-Money And let me ask who for libelling the Government deserve the ill usage and requital from their present Majesties which the Libeller all a long taxes the King and his Ministers with What has been said may also prove Who are the true Defenders of their Country and refel his many and malicious slanders upon that Church whose Morals and Piety for all his prate pag. 45. c. endeavour'd tooth and nail to keep out that very Popery and other Grievances which his Faction as every one knows helpt to pull in by Head and Shoulders The Behaviour of those persons he oft inveighs against we neither countenance nor own but utterly explode and excommunicate from our Church and Communion tell we see some signals of their Recantation an●●●ncere Repentance Further we own as much as ever the Doctrine of Passive-Obedience and Non-Resistance Lastly I say our prayers for the King are Audible and Voluntary and no ways Mercenary as he most Calumniously does Insinuate As for his Assertion That we take the Oaths to this King only as he is King de facto and not de june I deny to be true nor has he produc'd one of the Church of England that ever declar'd he took them so or with any mental Reservation whatsoever all Equivocation and Palliation being abhord by us as contrary to the Principles of our Religion Now I will speak a word or two in behalf of those worthy persons his Malice seems to carry the sharpest edge against but I will be as brief as possible Because their Integrity is best known to the King and Parliament and to them only accountable Their Character so eminent that they can no more be hurt by the noyse of such drivling Caitives than the Moon can be prejudiced by the howling of distracted Curs over and above this if the Libellers bowlling chance to reach their Ears they can easily stop the bellowings of such a diminitive Beast The Law is a Receipt worth forty Rattles to quiet the cries of these Children of Iniquity Thus much in General This I dare say particularly for the M of C That he is a Star of the first Magnitude who has always waited upon our British Sun our Fountain of Light Honour and Glory from whence are emitted such Beams of Lusture upon him as the evil Eyes of our twilight Animal cannot without being bleard so much as behold the least glimps thereof and that his Integrity is as great as his Trust Yet he pretends to eater into the very inmost Recesses of his Generous Heart and put upon all his actions the most wrested interpretation Hell and an ill ' Tongue can foment Well but what does this Fellow mean by railling against so barve a Patriot of his Country and others of the like Figure Why ill tell you the Cry of Evil Counsellors is to an attempt upon the King and Government with some men what Grace before Dinner is to the rest Look about you for the next thing is fall on That this is true I could bring more than one Brecedent to justifie Hounds of this Pack by such crys get a double advantage for first it breads jealousies betwixt Kings and their great Ministers and again betwixt the latter and the Common-people all which proves an infallible Remora to the present Affairs For the main wheels once stopt must needs produce a cessation of motion in the less Secondly the forces which keeps the Miscreants from executing their pernitions designs being once divided opens the way to their entrance into mischievous Actions and their follows nothing but Ruin and Depredations in Church and State Therefore in such Junctures may all Kings and Ministers stand upon their Guard while to them and to the Law I leave the correction of such base Defamours as I have at this time to deal with To what he intimates of the Churches severity to Dissenters I will only say that she was never without a great tenderness to them when Reasons of State her own safety and their behaviour rendred it seasonable Next He strives to prove and that with all his might too how averse and what Step-fathers the Whigs are grown since 1660 to their Benjamin their Darling Common-Wealth Should I grant them what his Arguments set forth which is only the