Truth and Loyalty VINDICATED From the Reproches and Clamours OF Mr. EDWARD BAGSHAW TOGETHER WITH A Further Discovery of the LIBELLER Himself and his Seditious Confederates By ROGER L'ESTRANGE Ex Ore Tuo LONDON Printed for H. Brome and A. Seile and are to be sold at the Gun in Ivy-lane and over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet June the 7 th 1662. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORDS OF HIS MAJESTIES Most Honorable Privy-Counsel My LORDS IF in Duty to his Majesty I become Troublesome to your Lordships I hope you will vouchsafe to Pardon so honest an Importunity Especially considering the high Necessity of the Office as to the Publique and the little Benefit he expects to reap by it that Undertakes it It is in Truth My Lords grown hazzardous to Assert the Cause of the Late King or the Authority of This against the open and profess'd Adversaries of Both And they Proceed as if the Act of Oblivion had only Bound the Hands of his Majesties Friends and left his Enemies Free Which would not be were but your Lordships duly Enform'd in the Matter and That you may be so is the Scope and Service I pretend to in This most humble Dedication I Think My Lords it may be made appear upon a Modest Calculation that not so few as Two-Hundred-Thousand Seditious Copies have been Printed since the blessed Return of his Sacred Majesty which being Exposed with Freedome and Impunity cannot fail to be Bought up with Greediness To These may be added divers Millions of the Old Stock which are Contriv'd and Penn'd with Accurate Care and Cunning to Catch All Humours What This Glut of Poysonous Libels may Produce is submitted with Just Reverence to your Lordships Wisdom for I presume not to make a Judgement but barely to Offer an Information Wherein as the fairest Evidence of my Respect and Duty I shall be as short and plain as possibly the Case will bear The late War is in Terms Justified against the Late King Pag. 57. and His Majesty Charg'd as an Overthrower of Religion Parliaments Laws and Liberties Several Counterfeit Prodigies Apply'd Pag. 58. as Portents of Revolts Persecutions Casting off Kings And in fine the Drift of the whole Book tends Chiefly to Predict the Dissolution of the English Monarchy and Episcopacy The Totall Extirpation of Bishops under the Title of Sons of Belial is Recommended Pag. 59. in Mr. Manton his Publication of Smectymnuus The King 's Supreme Authority in Matters Ecclesiastical is absolutely disclaym'd Pag. 60. and the People are Encouraged to Oppose the Imposers of Ceremonies as Adversaries of the Truth The Power of the Two Houses is Asserted in Coordination with the King Pag. 62. Harrison Carew Ibid. c. are call'd the Servants of Christ Their Cause Christ's Cause and the Murther of the late King is reported as the most Noble Pag. 63. and High Act of Justice that our Story can Parallel Iâ—id The King's Judges and Counsell together with the Jury that Sate upon John James are Charg'd with thirsting after His Blood Iâ—id His Majesty is Revil'd and Menaced for his Proclamation against Conventicles For Opposing These Insolencies and Defending the King's Rights His Cause and Government without ever receiving any Pretence to a Reply I have been Twice Libell'd by Mr. Edward Bagshaw as Cromwels Spy Pag. 34. and a Person Infamous both for Condition and Morality My Lords I dare not Beg but I do secretly Wish that he may be call'd to make it Good which I the rather do because the Latter of the Two was Tender'd to your Lordships as My Character But Principally for the Consequence For if it comes to That once That in a time of Peace a Man cannot be Loyall but at the Hazzard of his Life and Honour and that it becomes more Safe and Beneficial to be Guilty then to be Innocent I do mâ—st Dutyfully remit the Rest to your Lordships Humbly Beseeching You My Lords to receive This further Advertisement concerning Mr. Bagshaw He denies the King's Supremacy Pag. 11. and Animates the Subject against it Affirming That God has not Committed unto the Magistrate but to his Son the Government of His Church even in the Outward Polity That the Command renders a Thing in it self Innocent utterly Unlawful He makes the King an Usurper An Idolater Pag. 12. An Impious Pretender Pag. 14. He calls the Praelation of Bishops an undue and Anti-Christian Dignity He Inferrs His Majesty either no King Pag. 15. or no Christian. He is Peremptory Pag. 16. That the King is Singulis Minor and that the People may Depose him Fixum Ratumque habeatur Pag. 17. Populi Semper esse debere Supremam Majestatem Having exposed These Particulars with several of the Authours and Publishers of them Referring to the Pages of the Ensuing Discourse I shall leave before your Lordships Feet This Humble Testimony of my Desires to serve the King Wherein if I have done Amisse I Submit if Otherwise I have done but my Duty Which obliges me to Live and Dy with an Unspotted and Inviolable Faith toward his Sacred Majesty keeping my self also within Those Terms of Modesty and Veneration which may become My LORDS Your Lordships Most Obedient Servant Roger L'Estrange The Praeface I Have no Ambition to get my self a Name by a Dispute with Mr. Bagshaw and in effect This way of Wrangling is but a putting of it to the Question Which is the finer Fool the Plaintiff or the Defendent Yet in regard that in This Case the Publique and my Particular appear so Complicated that as I Suffer for That so That likewise is Wounded through Mee for 't is the King is Strook at in his Loyal Subjects and They are only Persecuted as the Bar betwixt Auâ—hority and Rebellion I hold it but a Modest and Discreet Justice not to divide in the Defence what Faction and Malice have united in the Scandal This being Resolv'd upon The Course I mean to take with Bagshaw's late Rhetorical Libell obtruded upon the World in form of a Letter to my Lord Chancellour is to Report him Word for Word and then to Examine First his Pretended Loyalty and after That his Bold and Scurrilous Defamations Pag. 10 11 12 16 17. For want of Softer Words I must make use of Schism Sedition Treason c. All which are prov'd against him under his own Hand Touching the Libellous part I leave it so clear that I defie his greatest Adorers to be my Judges The Greatness of His mind we must Imagine would never have stoop'd to so low an Ebbe of Baseness Pag. 46. as to have brought a Fiddle under his Cloke for a Recommendation to Oliver as he sayes L'Estrange did See now This Miserable Snake licking the very Dust at the Feet of Bradshaw Pag. 53. The Measure of his Conduct and Veracity may be taken from his Frequent and Ill-Menag'd Contradictions For the Purity of
Bishop of Worcester from a Libell of Mr. Bagshaw's And This now under my Hand carries the Necessity of it along with it So that Thus far my Pen has only been Defensive either of the King the Church or in the last place of My own Honour My Memento it 's Truth is a Mixt Dâ—scourse and the Greater part of it Effectually rather a Paraphrase upon Sir Francis Bacon then my Proper Text. It is written with more Honesty then skill and it has the Common Fate of other Things Friends and Enemies He that understands it as I meant it shall do Mee no hurt and he that takes it otherwise is the more likely of the Two to miss my Meaning Such Venemous Natures there may be as to Blast All they Touch Draw Poyson from the Holy Writ and Turn the very Decalogue into a Libel If it Displeases Such the matter is not great for it was beside my Purpose to Oblige Them I shall now be as good as my word concerning Defamers of the Government c. Since the Burning of the Covenant was Publish'd a Book Entitul'd A PHAENIX or The Soleâ—n LEAGUE and COVENANT Pretended to be Printed at Edenburgh and Dated In the year of COVENANT-BREAKING The Drift of the Whole is to Justifie the last War to disaffect the People to his Majesty now in Being and to Enforce the Obligation of the Covenant out of an old Sermon of Mr. Edm. Calamie's call'd The Great Danger of COVENANT-REFUSING and COVENANT-BREAKING This Book being brought to my Hand I procur'd a Warrant to search for it and Retriv'd about 120 Copies which I seiz'd together with the Printer Disperser and One Stationer of the Three that were Partners in the Impression I Brought These People to His Majesties Principal Secretary Sir Edward Nicholaâ— by whose Order the Printer and Stationer were Committed and the Disperser being Poor to Extremity was upon certain Conditions left at Liberty Concerning the Printer it appear'd that he acted rather upon Necessity then Malice but for Two of the Three Stationers to wit Giles Calvert who was Apprehended and Livewell Chapman who was now fled No men whatever of their Profession have more Constantly and Malitiously prosecuted the Destruction of the Royal Family The Third Stationer's Name is Thomas Brewster who absented himself for a while and is since return'd Francis-Tyton was one of the Puâ—lisâ—ers as Right as any of the Rest At the same Time I Seiz'd the first Two sheets of the Book of Prodigies then newly put to the Press and for the same Booksellers Giles Calvert did not only come off for This but during his Imprisonment which contâ—nued till the Adjournment of the Parliament his Wife went on with the Prodigies upon Proof whereof She was likewise Commâ—tted and is come off too See now the Temper and Design of These Pamphlets A King abusing his Power to the overthrow of Religion Phoenix Pag. 52. Laws and Liberties which are the very Fundamentals of this Contract and Covenant may â—e Controlled and Opposed and if he set himself to overthrow all These by Armes then they who have power as the Estates of a Land may and ought to resist by Arms Because he dâ—th â—y that opposition break the very â—onds and overthrow the essentials of this Contract and Covenant This may serve to justifie the proceedings of this Kingdom against the late King ☜ who in an Hostile way set himself to overthrow Religion Parliaments Laws and Liberties Among the Hâ—llish rout of Prophane and Ungodly men Praeface to the Prâ—digies let especiâ—lly the Oppressours and Persecutours of the True Church look to themselves when the hand of the Lord in the strange Signs and Wonders is lifted among them for then let them know assuredly that the day of their Calamity is at hand and the things that shall come upon them make haste Deut. 32.35 The retale and final overthrow of Pharaoh and the Egyptians those cruel Task-Masters and Oppressours of the Israelites did bear date not long after the Wonderful and the Prodigious Signs which the Lord had shewn in the midst of them ☞ Prodigies Pa. 1. Two Suns seen neâ—r Hertford c. The like in the Beginning of Queen Mary and about the Time of the Persecution in Germany It portends aâ—sâ— the Fall of Great men from their Power Ibid. Pag. 11. 12. Armies were seen in Sussex c. This happened a while before the King of Swede routed the Imperial Army and here in England in 1640. A Terrible Tempest and Raging Tides This in the Low-Countries Pag. 42. a little before they threw off the Yoak of the King of Spain A River dry'd up c. This portends a Revolt and Division of the People Ibid. Pag. 53. Let what I have said serve to satisfie Mr. Bagsâ—aâ— that Defamers of the Governmenâ— and the Publishers of Treâ—son may câ—me off and better too then their Accusers for I am expos'd to dayly Menaces Libels Violences only for Asserting the Kings Interest and Discovering his Enemies It 's time now to draw to a Conclusion and I cannot end better then with giving the World a Particular View of some few of Those Many Treasonous Seditious and Schismatical Pieces which have been Published Since his Sacred Majestie 's Return and with That I shall wind up my Justification Wherein I shall observe in Order how they Treat the Church and the King's Cause and his Authority Upon the Restoring of the King Mr. Manton Publishes Smectymnuus The Smectymâ—â—â—ns and in his Preface to the Reader I suppose sayes he the Reverend Authors were willing to lye hid under this ONOMASTICK partly that their work might not be recâ—ived with prejudice the Faction against which they dealt arrogaâ—ing to themselves a Monopoly of Learning and condemning all others as Ignorants and Novices not worthy to be heard c. Now see the Judgment of his Reverend Authours and what Stuffe Mr. Manton Publishes for the Reception of His Majesty he himself calling the Episcopal Party a Faction Do we not know the Drunkenness Profaneness Superstition Popishness of the English Clergy rings at Rome already Smectym Pag. 58. Yes undoubtedly and there is no way to vindicate the Honour of our Nation Ministry Parliaments Sovereign Religion God but by Causing the Punishment to ring as far as the sin hath done that our Aâ—versaries that have triumphâ—d in their sin may be confounded at their Punishment Note Do not your Honours know that the plastring or palliating of these rotten Members will be a greater dishonour to the Nation and Church then their cutting off and that the personal acts of these Sons of Belial being connived at become National sins Here 's Episcopacy Root and Branch with all Circumstances Suitable to a Presbyterian Modesty Publish'd by a Pardon'd Non-conformist for the Welcome of Hâ—s Sacred Majesty How comâ—s it to pass that in England there is such increase of Popery Superstition Arminianism Ibid. Pag. 66.
So that I fear this Gentleman will find he has overshot himself in affirming that not One Publique Action he has done during our Late Confusions but is Capable of a Fair and Equitable Plea [D] E. B. Pag. 3. 4. TO give therefore my preâ—ent sense I can sincerely profess that I have not only a Loyal but a most Affectionate esteem for his Majesties Person and Government for since besides the general obligation of a Subject I am bound by my Religion to prize Gratitude above all things I could not be just should I not most earnestly desire the happiness of that Prince ☞ unto whose single endeavours I owe both my Civil and Religious Liberty for he must needs be a very great stranger in this our Israel who doth not acâ—nowledge that his Majesties Personal and passionate interposing did confirm our Indempnity and his most pious and unequalled Declaration hath sufficiently evidenced that he is not unwilling â—o indulge the utmost extent of sober and Christian Liberty which are expressions of so much goodness in the midst of so great Power and after so many provocations that he hath not the heart of a Man much less of a Christian who doth not always preserve a thankful remembrance of them I am sure they are so deeply impressed upon me that if in any writing of mine there be so much as a word which can be wrested to the lessening of his Majesties JUST Authority I intreat your Lordship to take notice that I do hereby utterly disown it ☜ as being directly contrary to my Professed Principles which lead me to no one point of outward practise more strictly than an exact and punctual obedience unto his Majesties Commands MR. Bagshaw's Confession of his Majestie 's Mercy R. L'S does but aggravate the Sin of his Abusing it which that he has done to the height of Ingratitude and Disloyalty shall be made good against him by the Testimony of his own hand And yet if in any Writing of His there â—e so much as a Word which can be wrested to the Lessening of his Majesties JUST Authority he utterly disowns it as â—eing directly contrary to his Professed Principles His Majesties JUST Authority is but a Covenant-Salvâ— and in His accompt so small that it can scarce be Lessen'd But if it shall appear that he not only Lessens but totally Rejects it will his Disowning serve his Turn May not a Thief make the same Plea at the Gallowes Have not I Profess'd my self to be an Honest man and Stealing is contrary to my Profess'd Principles Did not the Murtherers of the Late King plead Duty and Religion In short if Mr. Bagshaw will disown every thing that iâ— Contrary to his Profession having Profess'd for and against every thing he must own nothing [E] I Must coâ—fess that ever since I became a Christian which stile I do not own either to my Birth or Education E. B. Pag 4 5. having then sensibly experimented the great difficulty of believing I alwayes doubted whether the Magistâ—ates Power did properly extend to things of a Religious Concâ—rnment and accordingly I handled that point while it was Res Intâ—gra and before ever there was any â—ear of Imposing But since the Parliament 〈◊〉 have decided that Controversie and put the matter out of Question I think my self not only discharged from medling with it but likewise concluded by what I have already declared which was in these very words That though for the present I make use of that Indulgence which His Majesty hath been pleased to allow unto Tender Consciences Preface to the Great Question c. that is to all Rational and Sober Christians the continuance of which I dare not so much wrong His Majesties Goodness as once to question yet should his Mâ—jesty be prevailed upon for some Reason of State to enjoyn outward Conformity I am resolved by the help of God either to submit with chearfulness or else to suffer with silence For as there is an Active Disobedience which is to Resist so there is a Passive Disobedience and that is to Repine neither of which I can by any means approve of since whatever I cannot conscienciously do I think my self obliged to suffer for with as much joy and with as little resistance as if any other Act of Obedience were called for from me I may perhaps be too partial to my self but certainly in general I may pronounce that whoever preserves this Temper let his Judgment be what it will in reference to Ceremonies yet he cannot be supposed incompatiâ—le with wayes of Publick safety since he that quietly suffers the Penalty of any Law I mean where it is a Law meeâ—ly of outward Order doth as really fulfil the intent of it as he that actually performs all its Injunctions for such kind of Obedience doth argue a more than ordinary degree of Love and that in the Apostles sense is the fulfilling of the Law And without speaking any thing in my own Commendation my silence under my Illegal exclusion from my place in Christs-Church and my late voluntary forsaking a Living I was possessed of that I might prevent any possibility of seeming to disobey Publick Authority doâ—h sufficiently proclaim the peaceaâ—leness of my Temper WHereas Mr. Bagsâ—aw affirms that there was no fear of Imposing when he wrote against it R. L'S I say that at That time Decl. Eccles. Aff. Pag. 14. his Majesty had already declared an Uniformity Necessary he had Proposed Promised and Resolv'd upon it Whereas in his Preface to the Great Question he pretends only to make use of his Majesties Indulgence I say that in the same Discourse he does Notoriously and Seditiously aâ—use it which shall be Cleer'd when we come to compare the Liberties he takes with his Sacred Majesties Concessions where we shall prove likewise that Mr. Bagshaws Opinions are utterly Incompatible with wayes of Publique Safety Touching his Illegal Exclusion from Christ-Church which in the Preface to his Necessity and Use of Heresies he tells us was for no Reason at all that he knew of unless for the Impartial and unbyassed Discovery of his Judgement about Indifferent or rather Doubtful things in Religious Worship Observe his Ingenuity He writes Student of Christ-Church and yet confesses himself thrown out of the College But he knows not Why he sayes unless for his Judgment about Indifferent things Whereas he does know Why and that he was Outed according to the usual custom Two Mistakes having a Benefice of a value too great to consist with his Student's place and the customary indulgence of a year of grace was granted him and expired long before his Ejectment There were in Truth Other Ungratious and sufficient Provocations to his Exclusion but the Inconsistence of his Student's place with his Living was the Main This Edward Bagshaw has a Brother indeed who at This present is a Student of Christ-Church and by Report an Ingenious Loyal and Deserving Person I
and Prophaneness more then in all other Reformed Churches Doth not the Root of These Disorders proceed from the Bishops and their adherents We have chosen rather to subjoyn by way of Appendix Ibid. Pag. 68. and Historical Narration of those bitter fruits Pride Rebellions Treason Unthankefulness c. which have Issued from Episcopacy while it hath stood under the continued influences of Sovereign Goodness Here 's Presbyterian Gratitude for his Majefties Declaration from Breda See now a seasonable and Modest Quaere Covenanters Plea Pag. 52. Whether the Lords and Commons of England assembled in Parliament have not a power to make a new Oath and impose it upon the People unless the King first consent Now see Gelaspies Dâ—spute against the English Popish Ceremonies a Book formerly condemn'd by the Secret Counsel in Scotland to be burnt by the Hand of the Common Hang-man and now lately Published by Philip Chetwynd In his Epistle to the Râ—form'd Churches Thus. Pag. 9. 1. Be not deceived to think that they who so eagerly press this Course of Conformity have any such end as Gods Glory or the Good of his Church and profit of Religion 2. Let not the pretence of Peace and Unity cool your fervour Pag. 11. or make you spare to oppose your selves unto those Idle and Idolized Ceremonies against which we dispute 3. If once you yield to these English Ceremonies think not that thereafter you can keep your selves back frâ—m any greater evils Pag. 16. or grosser corruptions which they draw after them Ibid. Pag. 20. 4. Among the Laws of Solon there was one which pronounced him defamed and unhonest who in a Civil uproar among the Citizens sitteth still a Looker on and Neuter much more deserve they to be so accompted of who sâ—un to mâ—ddle with any controversie which disquieteth the Church wherâ—as they should labour to win the Advâ—rsaries of the Truth and if they prove obstinate to defend and propugne the Truth against thâ—m Pag. 245. 5. Whensoever you may omit that which Princes enjoyn without violating the Law of Charity you are not holden to obey them for the Majesty of Princely Authority Pag. 266. 6. The Lawfulness of our conforming unto the Ceremonies in question can be no way warranted by any Ordinance of the Supream Magistrate or any Power which he hath in things Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Here 's first the very Intention of Authority uncharitably Dâ—fam'd Secondly the People Animated to Disobedience In the Third place Here 's a Jelousie injected of more Mischeives to follow Fourthly Not only Argument but Violenâ—e it self not obscurely Encouraged Fifthly Here 's the King's Prerogative render'd dependent upon the Good Pleasure of his People And Lastly here 's an Absolute denyal of his Majestie 's Supreme Authority The same Things over again are Mainteyned in The Old Non-confâ—rmist The Tryal of the English Lyturgy Mr. Crofton 's Pamphlets The Interest of England The Presbyterian Accompt from the Savoy Their Petition for Peace and Their Two Papâ—rs of Proposals Mr. Bagshaw 's Treatises and finalâ—y Where not See next Mr. Watson's Word of Comfort of but the other day Now saith he because the Church of God appears in his Cause and loseth Blood in his Quarrel Pag. 8. therefore God is in the midst of Her This was Calculated for Corbet and Berkstead c. Take hâ—ed of Idolatry yea and of Superstition too Pag. 28. which is a Bridge leading ovâ—r to it Superstition is an intermixing our fancies and invâ—ntions with Divine Institutions 't is an Affront offer'd to God as if he were not wise enough to appoint the manner of his own Worship Is not God upon the Threshold of his Temple ready to fly Pag. 30. Are not the Shadows of the Evening Stretchâ—d ouâ— And may we not fear the Sun-setting of the Gospel And again The Lord may let his Church be a while under Hatches Pag. 39. to Punish her security and to awakâ—n her out of her slumbering fits yet surely the storm will not continue long What can This Gentleman mean here now by Superstition but the Rites of the Church What by the Sun-setting of the Gospel but the Approaching settlement of Conformity And what by the short continuance of the Storm but the speedy Subversion of The Present Authority And in Truth their Pulpits do Generally speak the same Language Christians says Mr. Jenkins some five weeks since you do not know what God has Reserv'd to be done For you and BY you only wait the Lord's Leisure David had Sauls life in his Power but far be it from him he would not say to lift up his hand against the Lord 's Anointed but to anticipate God's time Who knows but the Lord may smite him or he may descend into the Battle and fall by the Edge of the Sword Look behind ye and ye must All confesse that God has relieved ye in your distresses when ye have most desponded In short he might as well have said to his Congregation Remember the last Turn and Rely upon Another Nor is This any Uncharitable Glosse upon his Meaning who may very well be suspected to be no great Friend to the Son having Publiquely absolv'd the Nation of the Bloud of the Father Observe now in the Last Place how Bold the Presse is with the King's Cause and Authority When as a part of the Legislative Power resides in the Two Houses Interest of Eng. Pag. 49. as also a Power to redresse Grievances and to call into Question all Ministers of State and Justice and all Subjects of whatsoever degree in case of Delinquency it might be thought that a Part of the Supreme Power doth reside in them though they have not the honorary Title Here is Coordination asserted which is Destructive of the King 's Imperial Title Hear now the Publishers of the Speeches of some of the late King's Judges viz. Harrison Carew c. In his Praeface to the Reader He calls them the Servants of Christ and Publishes the Story as he sayes that men may see what it is to have an Interest in Christ ☞ in a dying hour and to be faithful to his Cause If These People Suffered for God's Cause by what Authority did They Act that put them to Death Pag. 11. Mr. Carew could have Escap'd he sayes but would not knowing how much the Name and Glory of God was concern'd in his Faithful Witness to the Cause of Christ for which he was in Bonds In another Place a Letter is pretended to be written to a Christian Friend by Mr. Justice Cook I look upon it as the most Noble and High Act of Justice Pag. 41. that our Story can Parallel and so far as I had a hand in it never any one Action in all my life comes to my mind with lesse Regret or Trouble of Conscience then that does for the Bloud must ly upon Him meaning the King or upon the Parliament More of This Stuffe there is but it would be too tedious Proceed now to the Narrative of John James If there hath been any undue Combination against this poor man Praeface if for some Reason of State rather then for any real Guilt on his part he was made an Example if his Judgment and Conscience rather then any Just Crime were the cause of his Condemnation as he so often declared if suâ—mitting to a Tryal by the Word of God he was judged contrary thereto the Lord in his due time will Manifest and his Bloud will most certainly be required c. And again He was Tryed in so high a Court Pag. 36. there being sevâ—ral Judgâ—s before him and four of the King's Counsellours besides the Atturny and Solicitour General pleading against him to take away his Life and a Jewry of Knights and Gentlemen all of the same spirit thirsting after his Bloud c. Take now for a Close the Miserable Madness of another Pamphlet against the King's Proclamation Prohibiting Convenâ—icles Oh it is sad to Consider that the Proclamation of a poor Worm should not only Command mens persons Loud Call Pag. 16. â—ut their very Spirits also If any King or Powers dare offâ—r to intrench on men's Consciences to their utmost Peril be it and if men give way to their Usurped Authorities to their uttermost Perils be it also No Governours nor Rulers have any more Power as from God to give Laws in matters of Religion or to Rule over mens Consciences then they have to sit in Gods Throne in Heaven Ibid. Pag. 17. or to pluck him from his Throne Stand up for your Meetings and holy Services let Men and Powers Decree never so Contrary Ibid. I might Insist upon divers other Seditious Pamphlets but let This Suffice Here is the Sacred Government of the Church Vilify'd the Rulers of it Revil'd the People Animated and Enflam'd against the Magistrate Here is the Prerogative of his Most Gratious Majesty not onely question'd but Disclaim'd his Indulgence Trampled upon and the Execrable Murtherers of his Royal Father Sainted Let the World now Determine Whether it be not highly Nâ—câ—ssary that These Bold and Pestilent Defamations should be either Punished or Confuted FINIS