Nation to diminish his Regal Authority and to deprive him of the Services of a great part of his Subjects from which no Act of Parliament can restrain him because the Law of Nature gives it him As to the Men of Taunton and Tiverton who were formerly Stigmatiz'd for their Rebellion they are now the more eminent for returning to their Loyalty from which they made so notorious a Defection and should be embrac'd by us accordingly with great joy as returning Prodigals And some of the Quakers who were formerly known to be accomplish'd Men of good Parts and Breeding are with a Non obstante to their Religion taken into his Majesties Protection for which they give him Thanks with a Grace that very well becomes them which as new a thing as it is and as much as our Author is surpris'd at it is not a thing utterly incredible It is far from a Miracle to see so Gracious a Prince as King James the Second is to cherish and reward the Loyalty of his Subjects Hearts in spite of their Hats or their more shameful Mistakes in Matters of Religion The Princes Power is not limited to his morose Humor He can as oft as he is so dispos'd be Gracious to them who have been undutiful to him Reprieve and Pardon whom he has justly Condemn'd without acquainting him or the Confessor with the Reasons of so sudden effectual a Change he may alter his own Mind without altering the Nature of other Things If a Man repent of his Crimes and the King Pardon him and he amend his Life in order to obtain God's Pardon too our envious Author laments his entire Resignation and looks upon his Endeavors now he is Converted himself to strengthen his Brethren as an unwelcom Task and looks upon them as squeez'd out of him by the weight of his being so obnoxious by which he squints at a Person who has Honor and Courage enough to call him to an account for it if he knew where his humble Servant T.W. were to be found whom he believes to be better at his Pen than any other Weapon What he saith of the Church of Englands Provocations p. 12. may be subscrib'd to by all as an Instance of her excellent Temper if his Letter which is an Exception against it do not hinder if yet there be any reason to blame her for the Rashness and Indiscretion of one of her Members when the rest bare the Reproches of so many malicious Pamphlets without quarrelling eithere the Government or the Dissenters These Provocations like a Storm of Hail upon a strong House cause more Noise than Prejudice She is ready he saith pag. 13. rather to suffer than to receive all the Advantages that can be gain'd by a criminal Compliance And if she refuse only criminal Compliances I am persuaded she will never suffer under this merciful Prince who requires no Man to play the Hypocrite or act against his Conscience The Reflection pag. 13. savors much of T. W's Spirit who cannot forbear Libelling the Government for what ground hath he but his own Fancy to insinuate that the next Parliament will not be Elected freely but by Conge d'Eslire and the Men Return'd whom the King nominates whether Elected or no And that when Return'd they will not be allow'd the liberty to Debate freely in Parliament but oblig'd without Examination to do whatever they are desir'd For doth not he in his very next Paragraph contradict himself wherein he saith that the Papists themselves do not rely upon the Legality of the Declaration and therefore are so very earnest to get it Establish'd by Law. For they are not so blind but that they can see there will be no more Security in a Law made by a Parliament illegally chosen and under restraint in their Votes than in a bare Declaration and that the next Turn of Government would regard that less than this So that if it be their Interest to have a Parliament to secure their Liberty by Law it is equally their Interest to have one freely chosen and free in their Votes And what reason is there to suspect Men will act contrary to what they know to be their Interest Our Author knows who they were who were Return'd out of every Burrough by virtue of the Letters Missive from the Faction in the City and instead of Election were satisfi'd if they could get but a double Return when the Power of the Committees of Election was more significant and to worse Purposes than the King's Conge d'Eslire And whereas he farther suggests that our Methods of Enacting Laws in England will be reduc'd to those of Scotland and that the Papists shall be made Lords of the Articles over us and yet endeavors to wheadle the Dissenters into a fond Persuasion that the Parliament will offer them an Indulgence without including the Papists To give him a Cooler for his Conceit they have told him already that this Way of his will catch none but Woodcocks and that they can see and break thro' it at pleasure and so his Road is quite spoil'd And for our parts the Church of England has taught us to value the Merit of Obedience above the Liberty of Debate which such Men as he would turn into Licenciousness and Liberty of Aspersing if not Altering the Government What he insinuates pag. 15. of the danger lest if the King and those of his Communion be gratifi'd by the legal Establishment of their Liberty they will at the next Step attempt theirs that helped them and after the Dissenters squeaziness in starting at a Surplice force them to swallow Transubstantiation is another of those malicious Suggestions which have been sufficiently Answer'd at the beginning of this Discourse it looks like a Plot to pelt out the Protestant Religion with Sugar-plums so ridiculous is it and unreasonable The sum of all is that T.W. pretends to be an Ambassador from the Church of England to invite the Dissenters to joyn with her in a League against the Roman-Catholics promising every one Liberty when the Parliament meets except only the King and those of his Religion which makes me to question his Credentials and suspect him for a Cheat since all the genuine Sons of the Church of England have their Good Breeding better bounded than to be civil and obliging to all Men but their Prince He is like a Man in a Trance rapt into the Religious Cause of the Church of England none knows how he blames her Sons for going too far in compliance with the Romanists and yet complains that they are not only deserted but prosecuted but when and how he leaves us to guess nor do we know what Weight of Power it is they lie under to avoid the Burden of being Criminal which whilst he maliciously suggests he speaks like Council Retain'd by his old Friends the Republicans in Forty Eight against the Prerogative which has done nothing yet in this King's Reign or his Predecessor's to fall thus under his
Displeasure Our Gracious Sovereign hath already done more for our Church than the most sanguine of her Sons ever look'd for which gives us reason to believe that he will never be sorry for doing what we desir'd Liberty of Conscience is more than pretended to be given by him and yet there is no Freedom or Property to be sacrific'd for it neither as far as yet appears or we believe is ever like to do The King intends not to unhinge the Establishment of the Church of England for that he can no more do than he can be unfaithful He only desires Safety and the Protection of the Laws for those of his own Communion and other Dissenters too which however peevish Men may be at the first motion will appear so reasonable upon second and more sedate Thoughts that however p. 17. the odds be Two hundred to one in the number of us and them yet there will be no such odds in the Votes for and against their Indulgence I am as loth as he is that we should throw away all Human Means of preserving our Religion p. 17. and I doubt not but that the Wisdom of the Nation may find Human Expedients to secure it to us without Infringing the natural Liberty of Subjects by severe Tests or tyrannizing over their Consciences by Penal Laws Sure I am a peevish provocation of a Prince whose Spirit and Power are equally great is no Human Means of its Preservation Our Author 's great fear is that the Thankers of the King will be Repealers of the Test in the next Parliament which would bring them under such a Scandal as would make them odious to all Mankind from which that he may the better deter them he tells them that by rescuing themselves from the severity of one Law they will necessarily give a blow to all the rest and that the Price of their Liberty will be no less than the giving up their Right in all the Laws which were a losing Bargain indeed to draw such a Mischief as this upon themselves But whether those Methods which he proposes to them will not more infallibly destroy them I hope the Dissenters and the Church of England men will consider well before they follow them It concerns us all to take heed that in acting for the preservation of our Religion we do not expose it to more imminent and apparent danger Tanti non est ut placeam Tibi perire Martial If nothing will gratifie our Author but what will displease and disserve the King let his Pretexts be never so specious he shall not intice us into a sinful Compliance we will follow the Golden Rule to do to others as we would have them do to us in like Circumstances Arma tenenti omnia dat qui justa negat Our obstinate and unseasonable stiffness hath made some Alterations already in Public Affairs and Administrations and may provoke his Majesty to do those things in his Displeasure which may be more prejudicial to our Religion than the Repealing of the Test can be the making whereof she abhorr'd and oppos'd as much as she could and cannot remember the Author or Occasion of it without Detestation And I hope the King 's Old Friends will not put the King to such shameful Shifts as to fly to his New for any Justice they can do him in this or any other kind If they should fail of their Duty in this kind their Mother Church will not bless them nor be displeas'd to see the Father of the Country correct such ill-nurtur'd Children as are too big for her Discipline I question not but that the next Parliament will do what the King and all good Subjects expect from them The King is assur'd of the Affections of his People in gross they have already Presented him with their Lives and Fortunes in their repeated weekly Addresses and therefore he will be sure to find it by their Loyal Representatives who will never sail to give him that Satisfaction in a Parliamentary way which they have already done in a Popular one for they would wrong us as well as him if they should not give him that Satisfaction in Formalities of Law which our Devotion hath already design'd and dedicated to him All true Sons of the Church of England rejoyce and are pleas'd in his Majesties Government and doubt not but a good Correspondence between him and his two next Houses of Parliament will put the Ballance of Europe into his Hands but if once a Spirit of Jealousie should be rais'd between him and us to fright us from the Repealing of the Test and Penal Laws what Disadvantages may accrue to our Nation or our Religion I tremble to think We had need do something more than ordinary to atone for the innocent Blood that has been shed upon the Testimony of a few perjur'd Villains Thus Sir I have given you my Opinion of the Pamphlet you sent me which was certainly writ with a very ill Design against the King no good Intention for the Church of England whom it represents as it would persuade her to be obstinately engag'd not only against the Religion but against the Interest of her Prince too attempting to draw Men to suspect his Mercy for Treachery and inviting Dissenters to Combine against his Gracious Designs for the Ease of all his Subjects which I am persuaded the Church of England by her Compliances without obstinacy as far as without deserting her Religion she may will in the Event demonstrate to be black-mouth'd Calumnies FINIS
Intentions and Treachery in his Kindnesses otherwise he violates the natural Obligations of Justice and Charity as well as the Loyal Principles of the Church of England What then may we judge of T. W. who in the Name of the Church of England takes such pains to persuade the Dissenters that their New Friend their Gracious King is a treacherous Man especially considering the weakness of those Reasons wherein he grounds his Suspicion and which come now to be Examin'd The First I find pag. 2. That the Dissenters are not the King's Choice but his Refuge after the Church of England hath refus'd his Courtships That he might the better teach Dissenters to cast off their new Lovers he persuades them that they had before made their ineffectual Courtships to the Church of England and been scornfully rejected by them and must either drive a Contract with them or despair of good Fortune for ever and that if their sudden Passion have not blinded them they must needs see they Court them not for Love but Interest Which to me seems to speak as softly as may be a very rude Insinuation such as T.W. would never have us'd had he not wanted the Bounds to his Ill Breeding which he would have others put to their Good Breeding An Insinuation that equally wrongs the King and the Church of England who would no more be guilty of putting her King to his Shifts than such a King as ours would stoop to such mean ones Did not his innate Clemency and Compassion to his Subjects perhaps to an Excess prompt him to it I see no necessity of his Circumstances that could drive him to Court the more despicable part of them as the Dissenters are reputed to be What Courtships of the King or from Men of his Communion the Church of England hath rejected I know not and what Applications soever shall be made to her in the first or second place I doubt not but she will receive with that Respect and Duty which becomes her But the next Insinuation is more considerable That there is no Alliance between Infallibility and Liberty pag. 4. That it is the bringing together the two most contrary things in the World and that their Absolution for the mortal Sin of promising it is to be had upon no other Terms than their Promise to destroy them which they will be the easier tempted to do because in truth they have no Inclination no not so much as to give them any Quarter but to Usher in Liberty for themselves under that Shelter for which he refers them to Mr. Coleman's Letters and the Journals of Parliament where they may be convinc'd if they can be so mistaken as to doubt And that they cannot forbear even in the height of their Courtship to let fall hard words of them because their cruel Nature is not to be restrain'd from starting out as disdaining to submit to the Usurpation of Art or Interest Now to shew the weakness of all he suggests on this Head I shall offer these Two Considerations 1. Whether there be not some difference between the Church of Rome offering Liberty to Heretics and a Gracious King of that Communion promising Ease to his Subjects For however cruel toward Dissenters the Principles of the Church of Rome can be suppos'd to be the Sweetness of his Nature may correct them or the Generosity of his Courage over-bear them A Papist may be a Friend to Liberty and a known Enemy to Persecution and our present King upon whom you squint was always so and ever will be There is no Religion so bad but there may be very good Men among the Professors of it however inexorable to those it calls Heretics Popery can be thought to be there are many Papists we know merciful Men. And who more worthy of that Character than this Prince whose Clemency hath hitherto so flatly given the Lye to all former Characters of a Popish Successor Were it not then more fair and just to believe this Declaration sincere because made by so good a Prince than to suspect it of Treachery because we have a bad opinion of his Religion And that the Obligations of Natural Religion will prevail more with him to be still merciful in his Proceedings and faithful to his Promises than the supposed Principles of Popery to betray those that relie on his Royal Word which is as currant as his Coyn Our Confidence in our Prince's Word which is as sacred as his Person will be our greatest Prudence We can never trust our Lives and Fortunes in safer Hands than his to whom by our Addresses we have so unanimously tendred them at which his Enemies and ours are not a little netled If we are any of us afraid of his Power it is not his Fault but our own take not mine but St. Paul's word for it Do that which is good and you shall have praise of the same but if you do that which is evil you may well be afraid your selves and make us so too for he bears not the Sword in vain but is the Minister of God for revenge to execute wrath upon them that do evil He has oblig'd us ever since he came to his Throne in such a Princely manner as to puzzle our Understandings as well as our Gratitude we are as safe and secure as we can desire to be whilst he lives and he is content we should be as true to our God as to our King. 2. And yet it is no such Paradox as he pretends pag. 4. that Popery should be a Friend to Liberty or the Pretenders to Infallibility tolerate Dissenters and live peaceably with them That there have been great Cruelties acted by Men of that Communion is out of question and this Author acknowledges p. 10. l. 16. that there have been Prelates of our Church too rigid And as these are now convinc'd of their Error in being severe to Dissenters as he saith p. 16. l. 1. is it not possible that those may see their Mistake too especially since they pretend to Infallibility only in Matters of Faith not in Fact or the Conduct of their Practice However what hath been practis'd in other Places is not altogether unfeazable among us For besides the Toleration of the Three Religions in Germany by the Treaty of Munster Dr. Burnet whom he will not deny to be an authentic Historian in a late Account he gives of his Travels pag. 289. acquaints us That Charles Lewis late Prince Palatine seeing of what advantage Liberty of Conscience is to the Peopling of a Country not only allow'd the Three Religions the Calvinist Lutheran and the Roman to be Profess'd there but built a Church for them all Three which he call'd The Church of the Concord in which they all had in the Order above set down the Exercise of their Religion and yet he maintain'd the Peace of his Principality so entire that there was not the least Disorder occasion'd by this Toleration The like Toleration without
he has set to his Good Breeding and to throw away their present Advantages and to stay for the Liberty of the public Exercise of their Religion till the Parliament allow it them and to satisfie themselves with those imaginary Advantages of which they can hardly fail in the next probable Revolution if by an unseasonable Activity they lose not the Influence of their good Star which promises them every thing that is prosperous for that all things seem to conspire to their Ease and Satisfaction if by too much haste to anticipate their good Fortune they do not destroy it Such a prevailing Eloquence as this would speak him an Orator beyond compare and would give us cause to conclude by the Effect it had upon them that the Dissenters had not yet been so long restrain'd from their Liberty as to have any strong Appetite to enjoy it again but the Indians I believe may as soon catch Monkies with a Mousetrap as he can draw in the Dissenters with such a dull Device as this to destroy themselves by using their Interest against the Establishment of that Happiness by a Law which his Majesties Clemency hath already Indulg'd them For this purpose pag. 8. he insinuates the Irregularity of the Declaration in point of Law which whether it be so or no is certainly not so fit to be determin'd in a Pamphlet as in Westminster-Hall which already hath given its Opinion in favor of the Prerogative And after that it is methinks no small Presumption to Censure the King's Actions as irregularly done which proceed upon such special Verdict for their Legality As the King do's not need the Dissenters Thanks to justifie his Declaration in point of Law so neither do the Papists doubt of the Legality of his Power of Dispensing with them for his Time but they desire to have the Royal Favor made more lasting to them by a Law. Besides is it not very strange that Men should generally acknowledge the King a Right to Dispense with Penal Laws against Theft and Murder which are founded upon a Divine Sanction yet question his Right to Dispense with those against a Conventicle which can make no such Pretences Or that this should lay a Foundation for the breach of all Laws so saith this Writer pag. 9. and that should not Or that Dissenters should look like Council Retain'd against Magna Charta for thankfully receiving the Benefit of this and Felons never be so Censur'd for that But if as he presumes to affirm the Declaration be irregular it 's not a little difficult to comprehend how this becomes an Argument against Endeavoring to have the Liberty granted by it Confirm'd by a Law since the Invalidity of their present Grant should in all reason make them more sollicitous for such a Confirmation as may preserve the Liberty they are so desirous to enjoy His Arguments to me seem very weak against this mighty Power of Dispensing which needs not the Justification of a Parliament tho' the Penal Laws and Test want their Repeal which I hope they may have in good time without endangering or destroying our Religion or Properties But our Author thinks this a proper time to put the Prerogative in Pickle for some other Generation that can better digest it than the present and in pursuance of his Designs he makes the Laws spurn against their Maker which is not the way to secure our Religion but to make our Church the more odious by practising that which she professes to abhor She has taught her Sons to believe that no Power on Earth can give Licence for the doing of that which is Malum in se an Offence in its own nature and so declar'd by the Divine Law but that Malum prohibitum which in its own nature is indifferent and becomes an Offence only because some Law of the Land makes it so she thinks may be dispensed with according to the King's Discretion whom she allows to be the proper Judge of Public Necessity 'T is impossible for Human Law-makers who have no pretence to Infallibility or a perpetual Divine Assistance to foresee all particular Accidents Mischiefs and Inconveniences which may happen in particular Circumstances by or from the making of any particular Law And therefore there must be some Power always visible and in being to Suspend or Dispense with such Laws as the Public Good and Safety of the People or an emergent Necessity requires which is by Law in the King who is the Head of the Public Good and the Fountain of Justice and Mercy which Power is so united to his Royal Person that he cannot transfer give away or separate the same from himself as all the Judges of England resolv'd Lord Coke lib. 7. fol. 36. nor can he bar himself from that which is so inherent in him and inseparably annex'd to his Royal Person no not by an Act of Parliament for by so doing he would cease to be King Coke lib. 7. pag. 14. the most he can do is only to agree that he will not use that Right but in extraordinary Cases and Occasions when in his Princely Wisdom he shall find it necessary for the Public Good Nor is his reassuming to Exercise such a Right any Breach of his Promise or Oath at his Coronation but a making use of that Condition imply'd in his Agreement as to such particular Cases and such present Circumstances The King cannot Repeal and totally make void the Law by his own single Power without a Parliament but Relax Suspend and Control it for a time with respect to the Advantages or Necessities of his People he may which is a temporary Repeal or the laying the Law down to sleep for a time in a legal way which is a sufficient Discharge to them who are Commission'd under him and by his Authority to put them in Execution Our Author knows that the strict keeping of Lent is enforced by great Penalties in our Laws viz. 2 3 Ed. 6. cap. 19. 6 Ed. 6. cap. 33. 5 Eliz. 5. and yet that the King was never question'd the Power of Dispensing with them all either by Judges Bishops or Parliament but his Power in these Points has had an universal Admittance with a Nemine contradicente and why then should it be arraign'd only in Dispensing with those Penal Laws relating to Religion against Conventicles or Recusants In his next Attempt he seems to imitate the last and desperate Shift of the King of Moab when he took his eldest Son that should have Reign'd in his stead and offer'd him a Burnt-offering upon the Wall to move the Israelites by that Instance of his Misery and Desperation to pity him 2 Kings 3.27 For to move the Dissenters Compassion he sacrifices the Reputation of his own Mother the Church of England confessing pag. 10. that she out of revenge for the rough usage she met with from the Dissenters in the time of their Reign upon the late King's Restauration made the Penal Laws against them
his Clemency that with safety to our Temporal Interest we may be Ungrateful I have heard indeed that as many Bishops as were then in London did meet together upon the sense of their Duty to draw up an Address of Thanks to the King which having done they sent down Copies of it to some of their Brethren one of which and he as good a Casuist and as far from the Court as any of his Bench having seriously perus'd and consider'd it gave this Judgment of it That he highly approv'd it as prudently Penn'd and such an Acknowledgment of his Majesties Signal Favors to the Church of England and all her Members as their Gratitude and Duty indispensably oblig'd them to pay And he not only Subscrib'd it chearfully himself but us'd his best Diligence to procure Subscriptions of the Clergy to it in his Diocese and having receiv'd some nameless Letters like this of T. W. to dissuade him from Addreses and among the rest those call'd the Oxon. Reasons he answer'd them all to the satisfaction of all thinking Men who saw them and concluded That he saw nothing in them that look'd like a Reason against it only some groundless Fears and insignificant Jealousies and that if the Clergy at this time and in these Circumstances we now are should generall and obstinately deny in an humble Address to give his Majesty Thanks for so Gracious a Promise of preserving that ALTAR from being overthrown at which yet he did not worship he fear'd it would give him too much cause to say That he had little Reason to protect them who so peremptorily refus'd as the Motion of their own Bishop to Thank him for it And others wish'd that the niceness of particular Men where in truth no need was did not at last hazard the whole and so indeed it must have done had not his Majesty in imitation of HIM whom he Represents among us of his great and undeserv'd Mercy been Kind to the Vnthankful and according to his accustom'd Goodness spar'd the Church for the sake of the smaller visible number that were in it so great Grace may if they are not past cure heal their Infidelity and Revolt from their Duty especially when they are thus invited to believe and adhere to a Prince of whom we have had sufficient Experience that he will no more recede from his Promise than he would fly from his Enemy in the Day of Battel If the nature of Thanks be so unavoidable a Consequence of being pleas'd or oblig'd as our Author confesses and they will presently shew themselves in Looks Speeches Writing and Actions then they from whom Thanks do not naturally flow upon so just and great an Occasion are to be reckon'd among the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those unholy and unthankful Men whom the Apostle foretells us will arise in the latter days who not only will give no Thanks but have none to give If our Obligations were less and our Sense of the Religion of Gratitude as little as our Authors yet I wonder he should be offended at such an innocent and usual piece of Good Manners He would make us suspect him for one of the Members of Forty Eight who Voted no more Addresses to be made to the King for he is so mightily netled at these weekly Addresses of Loyal Men from all Parts of the Kingdom that he would make us believe if we consulted the Bills of Mortality we should find some numbers murder'd by them He tells us that the Priests who are not proper Secretaries for the Protestant Religion made the first Draughts of them A Scotchman would take the liberty to tell him that he were very good Company and an Englishman would wonder how he came to be so privy to this Secret unless he were at their Elbows when the Priests Indited them These extravagant Acknowledgments as he calls them extravagantly enough which he pretends all the Post-horses are tir'd with carrying Circular Letters to solicit give us a Copy of his Countenance And that where Persuasions cannot delude Threatnings are employ'd to fright Men into a Compliance but where or by whom he knows not And that the manner of getting them did extremely lessen their value And that the Thanks which fill'd the Gazetts were either Trifles or Snares which either signifi'd nothing or a great deal more than was intended by them who gave them By all which he proves himself a greater Master of his Pen than his Passions that his Wit is more than his Manners and that his Republican Zeal has like a Cormorant devour'd his Charity to his Fellow Subjects and his Loyalty to his Prince Do not his Objections to his Majesties Belief now hinder him from seeing his Vertues whilst he instigates others to discredit and disobey him One would think he himself who pretends to be a Son of the Church of England made but a Jest of the Doctrin of Non-resistance whilst he is so fearful of the Submission of his Fellow Subjects to the King 's so just and reasonable Expectation from them Is not our Peace at Home and our Prince's Reputation abroad of more value than to be hazarded for want of a Complement as he calls it If I did not think it a Task too hard for me to persuade a Man so bewitch'd with a turbulent Spirit as he is to grow more peaceable and thought he were not so far gone in his new Passion but that he would hear still I would not be discourag'd from dissuading him to relie on a Death-bed Repentance If he have not engag'd himself in the Ways of Faction in an Association beyond Retreat and be not hurry'd on by his first Heat I would request him to look back upon what he has written before it be too late and not sacrifice the true public Interest of the Nation to his private Revenge which will speak him a Man of good Morality and Understanding as well as a great Wit But I fear that as he has betray'd too much Weakness in entertaining and propagating these groundless Fears and Jealousies by which he speaks his Spleen and not his Conscience so he will shew too much Obstinacy to forsake and recant them being none of those who thinks himself oblig'd to obey for Conscience sake And now I leave T. W. to review his own Reasons and consider whether they be not too weak to acquit him from Uncharity and Disloyalty in charging his Sovereign with Treachery in the Declaration of his Mercy to Dissenters or which is much the same in persuading Dissenters to suspect him And the worst I wish him is that the sense of his Guilt may make him a true Penitent I proceed to the Second Part of his Design which is To excite the Dissenters to use their Interest against the Establishment of that Liberty by Law which his Majesties Clemency hath Indulged to them If he can persuade the Dissenters to throw the King's Declaration of Indulgence at his Head which is within the Bounds