you Jack I doubt you are out in your Topick in this point as well as in your Head of the Church But I perceive by your pious Opinion that the Grand Seignior will make as good a Head of the Church as any of them all and then too I am sure you will be on the Government side if possible you can you are so good a Christian Page 8. Since James the Second took the Coronation Oath c. Here the Fellow mounts the high Rope again and tells us that it is true The King did take the Coronation Oath but it was by his own free choice and might have chused whether he would or not But let me tell him that this is a gross Lye for it is not Condescension and Choice in the King to take it but an Indispensible duty neither are the Subjects obliged to take the Oath of Allegiance till he hath taken that For as he swears to preserve them in their Rights and Priviledges so they swear to stand by him in the Execution of the Laws so that the Oath of Allegiance and the Coronation Oath are Reciprocal and Equally binding And the King is defective in divers points of his Duty and Power till that is performed and done And let me tell you Mr. Jack the Subjects have a Right as well as the King and both by the same Law. And if the King refuseth to be a King by Law there is neither reason nor necessity for them to swear Obedience for the Obedience due to him as King by Law doth also oblige him by the same Law to protect them in their Lives Liberties and Estates So that it is unreasonable that the Law should force the Subjects to swear to obey and maintain a Prince in his Right and not compel him to give them assurance by Oath that they shall enjoy theirs also And if it were otherwise it would shew great weakness in the Legislators of England to bind the one and leave the others to his Will when the Government of both is by Compact But I perceive my Friend John builds his opinion on Filmore such another sorry Sycophantizing Fellow as himself who hath many flourishes and words and but very little Law and less Reason and Honesty However he and Jack together would form a most admirable sort of Government for a Kingdom or Nation to be governed by Dragoons and converted by Booted Apostles Thus you may see what a special Englishman our Friend is and a hopeful Casuist that can guard and defend their tottering Cause with nothing but Lyes Page 9. Since Judge Street 00000000000 Tresilian How now Jack What are you turned Advocate for Westminster-Hall are those Benches supply'd with such Ignorant Fellows that they must make use of a Scribler to defend them with Arguments of downright Impudence This is a fine Credit for your Law and your King. Well Jack you tell us of a Riddle and that you have been the Oedipus to unfold it And you say the eleven Cyphers with Tresilian at the end of them shews that eleven of the twelve Judges must be hanged Why really Jack you are in the right for that is the meaning of it and it doth not only shew the merit and fate of the Villains but it is also a piece of Prophecy that will shortly be accomplished But pray observe When the Fellow hath unfolded the Riddle and told them that hanging is their due lest they should faint under the Consideration of their destiny and think themselves into their Graves and cozen Tyburn He licks them up with some Oyl of Fool and calls them Loyal Judges and Reverend Sages and then perks up with a strain of his accustomed Impudence and asketh what they have done Done ye Slave What have they not done to make themselves compleat Traytors in all kind of Villany and Treason that lyeth within the Sphere of their power and action First They have by their Suffrage given the King a power Superior to Law for which Crime Tresilian was hanged For it is one thing to connive at the Non-execution of the Laws and another to take away their Obligatory Force one thing to supercede a Law wherein his own benefit is concerned and another to dispence with Laws made for the Safety and Security of the Kingdom Religion and Subjects and this they have done in giving their Opinions that the King may dispence with all Law as he sees good You may remember Jack that when Richard the Second had pick'd a pack of Judges for his purpose suppose such as these or not quite so bad and those were Tresilian Belknappe Holt Fulthorp De Burgh Lockton and others the Duke of Ireland the King's Creature with the rest of his Consorts formed the then design into ten Queries under the power of which being granted they intended to manage and carry on their cursed Plot and on the 25. of August in the eleventh year of the King in Nottingham Castle the said ten Queries were propounded to the foresaid Judges to which they all consented and when they had signed and sealed according as they were desired Belknappe broke out into this Expression and said Now I want nothing but a Ship a nimble Horse or an Halter to bring me to the death I deserve for my Treason against the Nobles of the Land. Which ten Queries and the thirty four Articles of Treason which they were after charged with you may find Printed in the Life of Richard the Second which are too long here to insert And when you have considered both their Crimes you will say that the Judges under James the Second have outdone those of Richard the Second and yet this Man asketh what they have done Secondly They have used their utmost endeavour to bring in Popery they have not only connived at the base Actions used to encourage the Popish Party in their present damnable designs to overthrow the Government and alter Religion but have also given advice and direction for the doing of it and visibly shewed their Endeavour by encouraging base and unjust Prosecutions Fining Hanging c. all those that have stood in the way of it And when any such Cause came to be tryed where the Defendant was looked on as an Enemy to the Government as they usually call all those that they are minded to ruin they never used to consult Rastal Pulton or Keble c. in the true Law that did relate to the merit of the Cause But took their direction from the Lord Kings-will Sir John doe-it and Sir William ' Tis-well all of them great Lawyers at White-hall And is not the Defendant or Prisoner in a fine Condition in such a Case as this But that which leaves them without excuse is that they know the Laws which are made and still in force against Popery against all those that are reconciled to the Church of Rome and those that do but assist in any thing that concerns the promotion of the See of Rome in England Thirdly
A Short ANSWER TO A Malicious Pamphlet called A Reply Written by JOHN GADBURY the King of England's Juggler and Astrologer in Ordinary to the Pope to help on the work THis Gadbury being a new Convert to Popery hath to admiration armed himself with a vast Stock of Impudence and Villany and these being joined to Folly and Lying makes the Fellow the more Eminent and Notorious as if these qualifications were inherent principles to his new Religion And now he appears barefaced in defending Popery pretending to write a Reply by way of Answer to an Almanack for the Year 1687 designedly writ to ridicule and oppose that Lying Religion And this Reply of his is nothing else but a bundle of lies and forgeries to abuse the Author of that Almanack without the least ground imaginable to give Popery a Recommendation to the World and to vindicate the villanous Agents in the present design of Subverting the Government and Religion of England And in this Answer I shall omit the taking notice of the major part of his Nonsense and Lies as being not worth my pains nor the Readers time to examine and imploy these few Pages to examine and refute those things that are more remarkable the rest being easie and obvious to every impartial man and in the first place I will give you a Character of the Fellow that you may thence guess at his Credit in every thing else that he pretends like a Champion to defend Ex pede Hercules First then This Fellow was by his Father brought up in the Doctrine of the Church of England while he was young and in this he continued for some years but after he came to London as he tells us in his Doctrine of Nativities he shook off that and went among the Presbyterian and Independent Congregations and followed them so long that he says in that Book they made him almost mad by preaching up the Doctrine of Free Grace So that he then began to think of inquiring after a new Religion And the first that he pitcht upon and best pleased his vicious Inclinations was that prophane Persuasion called Ramters Familists or sweet Singers of Israel a sort of profuse debauched Atheists at that time very numerous and to this he was Converted or as the Cant then was Begotten in the Faith by Abiezer Cope whose Piety and Reverence to a Deity may be guest at by this Expression of his who when he was committed to Newgate by the Parliament for spreading his damnable Heresie and being brought to the Prison door he set his Arms on kembo and said Be thou opened thou Everlasting doors and let the King of Glory come in And by the way as he was carried to Prison our Juggler hung on his Coach-side to beg his Blessing calling him Father and in this pious profession Jack grew in a short time so good a Proficient that at London-wall being more than half drunk he undertook to preach his Text being these Words And Jephthah was the Son of a Harlot Judges xi ver 1. This Religion after some time grew out of Fashion with our Juggler and then he was again upon the hunt for a new one and as it happened Cromwel had then taken upon him the Government and Jack began to think of learning the Art of Whineing that he might Cant at Whitehall for he is certainly as all Sycophants are always and in all times of the Government side be it never so base and lawless And to this end he began to ingratiate himself there and make friends to Cromwel that he might be permitted to dedicate his Doctrine of Nativities to him but in this he was prevented to his great grief and I am credibly informed that he had promised all that a base Fellow could to be a Creature in that Government to the best of his power but was not accepted Cromwel being dead and the King likely to return he then began to set up for a Church of England-man and Loyalty complaining of his hard usage in the time of Rebellion and then it was Charles the Martyr at every word In this Course and Cant he went on for some years railing at the Rebels in defence of the Church of England as now he doth at the Church of England in defence of Popery till he was taken notice of by the men then in Power In the Year 1666 he removed to Westminster and turned a Whitehall Broker which in plain terms is a Pimp in which Profession he did mighty well And having used the Trade a few Years and found the Inclination of the Court he began to abuse Parliaments among those he durst trust of whom I was one we then being intimate to cry up the Kings Absolute Power and ridicule all and every thing that was against Popery which indeed at that time was a great Argument to me that Popery was growing upon us for I then thought he spoke the true Language of Whitehal And now the Fellow began to grow intimate with Popish Priests in whose Company I have been with him he then hoping to make me as very a R as himself to accomplish which and bring me off from my Principles he would often tell me that Religlon was nothing else but a Cheat a Bugbear and a meer trick of State. About the Year 1677 and forwards he then being intimate with that worthy Matron Mrs. Cellier Midwife to the Popish Plot and his Kinswoman whose Narrative he afterwards writ she came to him to ask an Astrological Question and that was Whether Dangerfield was fit to be trusted or not Trusted to do what to Kill the King. No No but to know whether Dangerfield was fit to be trusted to get in her Husbands Debts who was a Bankrupt and had never a penny owing to him But this was the sham Question that she told the Council to excuse her self So Dangerfield was trusted and his business was to Kill the King and this by Gadbury's direction as you may see at large in Danger-fields Depositions In 1679. our Squire was for that committed to the Gate house where he used in my hearing to rail often against his Cozen Cellier calling her Whore and Bitch and said she had ruined him and had undoubtedly been hanged if he had come to his Tryal which to prevent he sent a large Bribe to Sir T. D. to desire him to procure his Pardon But that Gentleman's honesty and integrity was above Bribery and besides he knew by what he had confest before the Council too much of his Villany to be concerned in his Pardon and so refused Then he sent 100 Guinea's to the late Lord Angle-say to beg the same thing of him to which his Lordship condescended and by his Endeavour his Pardon was past and he pleaded it in Westminster-Hall the Hillary Term following and so escaped hanging at that time and when he came out of Prison he was by the Papists presented with 200 pound for his faithful Service in the Cause because
he had confest so little of the design Now pray consider What Protestant Prince or Princess can be safe in England while this Fellow remains unbanished or unhanged for he that did confederate with Popish Villains like himself to murder CHARLES the Second for no other reason but because they supposed him to be a Protestant will undoubtedly do it to those that he is sure are so and make less scruple of it too because it is to serve the holy Cause in their hopeless condition In 1685 on Sept. 9. two Romanists and my self being at his house he shewed us a Popish Bishops Picture and said that now the true Religion was coming in again it was no crime to shew an honest mans picture with divers such Expressions that were undeniably sufficient to prove him a Papist for if Popery were the true Religion he was a grand fool if he were not of it if he did intend to be saved but besides this he hath in divers of his late Scriblings and especially his Reply given many good Reasons sufficient to prove him a declared Papist So that this is the fourth time he hath found it convenient to change his opinion and the fifth time he Renegado-like hath changed his Religion as if he made a Trade of it So that now he is reduced to the principles of his original Spawn his Mother being a Papist of whom I could tell you a pleasant Story to shew that he still retains the principles of her insatiate lust However the Papists have the honor to see this worthy member added to their Church he that is as great a blemish to the Protestant Religion as Sam. Parker is and both of them a scandal to any but that of Rome I should first come to answer his Popish Objections and lying Assertations in the Months but that they are so notorious and impudent that whosoever reads will guess at the man and his meanings for he is to oppose all that I have writ and give it the Lye that he may the better incourage the foolish Papists and others converted in the great work that the Gentleman you wot of will not dye in October next that is in 1688. for on his life or death depends the whole Affair and for all his noise he now makes he will tell you a year hence about the time he is to change his Religion again that he knew it too but would not speak of it He ridicules and denies the Hurrycane at Whitehall in March and April last when there was such a turning out of the Court Officers almost to Admiration He denies Ireland to be in distress as I mentioned it in the Month of May he quarrels with and denies the Defeat of the Turk which I predicted in July he denies the quarrel and difference at Rome which I predicted in August which was the time that the Quietists made the first noise and the Cardinals bearded the Pope about it He also denies the preferment of a Right-lined Clergy-man in October which I predicted but he forgets the Popish B. of Chester being sent to Oxford in Commission at that time In December I predicted Persecution but he says there neither was nor could be any such thing I wonder what he calls turning out so many brave learned men at Magdalen College and forbidding them to Exercise all and every part of the Ministerial Function or to be Tutors Schoolmasters c. and all because they would not perjure themselves and turn Papists is not this persecution No no 't is Popish Mercy and Kindness This is but a short Answer to his twelve months which I beg him to accept and promise to give him a Longer as soon as I come to England Some of the same that Collonel Mansel gave him The Chronology asserted and the Lying Juggler refuted in all his Objections c. PAge 2. Since Phocas Murdered his Master Here the fellow begins with a flourish and makes an offer as if he intended to Huff us into submission and calls in Platina and Heylyn for his Authors As if by asking whether I had ever seen them were Authority enough for the people to rely on what he says But I will take the pains to examin him and in doing that I will prove him a Lyar. First he tells us that Phocas did not make Boniface Pope but found him so Secondly that the Title of Vniversal Bishop was given to the Bishops of Rome in the time of Marcian the Emperor by the Council of Chalcedon And thirdly that Phocas did not give but justly preserved the Title of Vniversal Bishop to the See of Rome Which are all three notorious Lyes as you shall quickly see This first is false because Phocas did not find Boniface Bishop but Boniface found Phocas Emperor for when Phocas had by his Murder got the Empire Gregory the Great sate in the Episcopal Chair after whom succeeded Sabinianus and Boniface succeeded him so that Boniface came to be Bishop of Rome not Pope observe that about the fifth year of Phocas as you may see by Helvicus so that Phocas was Emperor before Boniface was Bishop The second is false because the Council of Chalcedon gave the Bishop of Rome no Power nor Title but that of Primacy and by vertue of that he was to take place of the Bishop of Constantinople and all other Bishops in publick and private Affairs but no Universal Title And if the Juggler pleaseth to observe John Bishop of Constantinople had been nibbling at this Universal Title before in which case Gregory the Great declared that it was Antichristian and that whosoever assumed that Title was the fore-runner of Antichrist So that you see this ignorant fellon knows not how to distinguish between a Primacy of Order and a Vniversal Jurisdiction between the Bishop of Rome being acknowledged for the first Bishop and his claiming to be Universal Bishop over all Churches The first was granted to the Roman See before but this last Boniface the third alias Antichrist did first obtain of Phocas the Murderer But for a further confirmation of this truth I have here delivered let us see what Heylyn says because the Juggler hath made use of his name and called him into his assistance He likewise gives all those before Boniface no other Title but Bishops of Rome pray mark that and also makes Boniface the first of the Popes of whose predecessor Sabinianus he says this This is the last of the Roman Bishops not having that arrogant Title of Vniversal Bishop or Head of the Church By all which it is plain that there was no such Title as Universal Bishop before Boniface the third nor no Pope till Phocas made him so by giving him that Antichristian arrogant Title The third must naturally be false because it is deduced from the two false positions preceding But here the Juggler doth as all other Sycophants do he gives villanous Actions soft Expressions He says Phocas did not give but justly preserve the Title