onely about the Rights of other Princes but of his Father and Vncle And if he can catch his Crown too it shall be his own And if he did this for Religion why may not the French King do the same for his Religion and see to get King William's Crown if he can Is the one more Impious than the other King William gives it for one Reason of his War with France to Restore the Hugonets and other the French Subjects to their Rights by Law To Re-settle their Parliaments in their Ancient Authority free from the Encroachments which have been made upon them by their Kings c. And he has the same Grounds of War against Denmark and Sweden Let them look to it Now say the Jacobites if it be Lawful for Princes thus to look into one anothers Kingdoms and take upon them to redress what they find amiss in the Governments of other Nations why do we blame the French King to indeavour to Re-settle King James having the Laws of England to plead on his side Dr. Sherlock himself in his Recantation allows King James to have still the Legal Right and upon that Ground a Right to Regain the Crown if he can Why should the French King Rectifie the Incroachments of our Parliaments against our Kings as well as we take upon us to Rectify his Incroachments against his Parliaments We shall make a fine World of it when every Prince must Govern his Neighbours Country or as a Modern Author Words it when one Prince must Interpose 'twixt another Prince and his Subjects when he uses them Cruelly If Loss of all we have and frequent Imprisonments contrary to Law without Information upon Oath if double Taxes and Twenty other such Treatments be Cruel Usages Then by this Argument say the Jacobites the French or any other King may interpose 'twixt K. William and his Subjects And they appeal to you or any Man in the World whether making the Refusal of an Oath which is against a Mans Conscience to be a Premanire as it is in Ireland be not some Degrees worse than any French Dragooning as it is Painted to the Worst And then Imposing this upon all Women as well as Men above eighteen Years of Age may be Aggravated say the Jacobites upon these Principles to Provoke all Kings and States to Interpose 'twixt these Subjects and their Prince Good Sir I beseech you to Dis-ingage the Government from these Intanglements which its Convert Advocats and False Friends have brought upon it But by none more than your self Sir in this Letter to a Friend p. 28 29. Where speaking of the Oath to K. William and Q. Mary you expound Faith and Allegiance to the lowest Sense that possibly can be supposed even by Jacobites and you make it to exclude under the Guilt of Downright Perjury any Attempt against their Persons or Crowns to whom we have Sworn or to hold any Correspondence with or to give any Assistance to their Enemys This you did to deter the Swearers to K. William and Q. Mary from Countenancing the French Invasion or to Assist the Late King in Recovering the Throne But did you foresee Sir That this Rule you set down will Involve all those in Down-right Perjury according to the very lowest Sense of Allegiance that can possibly be made even by Williamites who held Correspondence with the P. of Orange or Assisted him in this Revolution Sir you are one who Turn'd late And to save your own Credit and new Hypothesis would make Perjur'd Miscreants of all who came into this Revolution before your self Now the Fish is Caught you come in for a Snack but give all those to the Devil who provided Hooks or Nets Sir I am not now Personating the Jacobite I speak plainly in behalf of those who had a Hand and Glory in it in bringing about this Wonderful Revolution They cannot think their Part to be wholly Diabolical in the Contrivance and Effecting of that which must be all over Divine to you in the Enjoyment of their Labours and Dangers You cry that K. James went no doubt as was determined of him But to them by whom he was Betray'd And yet you will take a Share in the Price for which he was Sold. Besides if it was such a Damn'd Design in them to bring in the P. of Orange his Highnesses's Design could not be very Heavenly But you are content to make a Rogue of him too to save your own Bacon Sir this deserves some Animadversion from the Government For all your skil will never perswade plain Honest English-Men that it was Knavery and Down-right Perjury in all the Subjects of England who Plac'd the P. of Orange upon the Throne And yet when he is there by such Wicked Act of theirs that this can give him Divine Authority and their own Wicked Act Absolve them from their former Lawful Oaths and Oblige them in Conscience to Maintain and Defend their said Wicked Act and to Swear never to Return from it This all Men will call Swearing never to Repent And to give such an Account of our Revolution by one who sets up now for the Chief Advocate of it is Betraying it and Exposing it more than all Jacobites or Profest Enemys can say It shews us to stand upon such Ridiculous Foundations as must Nauseat all who pretend to Common Sense And it Confirms the Jacobites Irrecoverably in what they think to be Loyalty while they see us Defend our selves like Fools and Mad-Men by Arguments which evidently Destroy our Cause And Sir you needed not have done this you might easily have avoided these sort of Stumbling Blocks Therefore I advise you to avoid Excursions March on straight your Road Tread warily say no more than you must And do not go out of your way for the pleasure of Lashing the French King himself for it does not alwaies turn to Advantage p. 23. You pursue him to the Boyne to Athlone to Agrim to Limrick and say we Beat him in all these Places and in a Word say you we Beat him out of Ireland And have now got a Habit of Beating the French This indeed Sir with all due Deference to your Judgment is horribly Ridiculous Or you speak without Book and know not what you say for it is most certain that at Athlone at Agrim at Limrick there were not above Forty or Fifty French in the whole Irish Army And there were more than Twenty times as many in K. William's Army Therefore to cry we have Beat him the French King that we have got a Habit of Beating the French If you had a mind to have Beaten K. Lewis you should have sought him in Flanders not in Ireland where he never was how very Comical do you think would this Passage of your Letter look to him if he saw it Would he not desire you to remember Namure and Steenkirk and ask you how you came to forget your Habit there Do not Mistake me as if I did in the
and all places Ecclesiastical Civil and Military were put into the papists hands In K. James's time the Protestants were two hundred to one papist and he could never have got a Popish Parliament The K. of Spain was then as Formidable to England as the French King is now and had much greater pretence He was Married to our Queen and all our Acts of Parliament were in his name he was stil'd King of England There were great Objections against Q. Mary's Title to the Crown The validity of K. Henry the VIII's Marriage with her Mother was disputed all over Christendom and the whole Nation was Sworn by Act of Parliament to adhere to the Issue of Queen Ann who was Mother to the Princess Elizabeth 26 Hen VIII C. 2. Yet all this notwithstanding neither did that Protestant Princess pretend to the Crown neither did the Protestants contend for her during her Elder Sisters Life tho' it was given out That there was a Design of imposing a False Son upon the Nation to Cut off the Princess Elizabeth's Succession who was next Heir to the Crown Publick Thanksgivings having been thro' the Nation for Queen Mary's being with child and some foolish Friars even in their Sermons giving out before hand That it must be a Prince of Wales which their Pryaers had obtain'd to prevent a Protestant Successor c. But none of these things had any Witch-craft then in that sober age of Protestancy to prevall with the Protestants to lift up a hand against the Right of Queen Mary tho' a Bill of Exclusion had past against her in her Fathers time and the Nation had sworn to adhere to the Princess Elizabeth the next Protestant Heir But they did not think their Oaths ought to bind them against the Right and notwithstanding that Queen Mary did plainly and without any Disguise endeavour to Defeat her Sister Elizabeth's Succession to the Crown having first got an Act of Parliament to Establish her own Legitimacy and consequently to throw off her Sister as Illegitimate But secondly She had sent her Sister Elizabeth to the Tower in order as was generally believ'd to Cut off her Head Speed tells That a Warrant was once Sign'd for her Execution Yet not to Rescue her nor to Assert her Right of Succession nor for any other cause whatsoever wou'd our Loyal Protestant Fore-Fathers take Arms against the Popish Queen either in behalf of this Princess Elizabeth or of Queen Jane another Protestant against whom they Fought to set up Queen Mary And thought they consulted best in so doing for the preservation of the Protestant Religion by asserting its Principles tho' to the Loss of its Legal Establishment and all other visible worldly Advantages These things the Jacobites urge And they Glory in the wonderful protection which GOD at that time shew'd towards these Protestants in their Faith and Dependance upon Him turning all the whole Scheme to the Protestants advantage taking away Q. Mary without their Guilt and giving her Condemn'd Sister Forty Four years Possession of her Throne to Establish Adorn and make Glorious that poor despis'd and persecuted Principle of Non-Resistance They tell us likewise of the Case of Theudas and Judas of Galilee Act. 5.36,37 who took Arms against the Romans in Defence both of their Religion and their Property It was against the grievous Taxing which was then impos'd by the Romans that Judas rose in Arms and Drew away much people after him They say That all the Declamations in this Letter to a Friend against the Jacobites will hold as strongly against the Protestants in Q. Mary's time But much more strongly against Gamaliel and other Jews who Condemn'd Theudas and Judas in behalf of their Lawful Governours the Romans who were profest Heathens Idolaters Despisers and Persecutors of the Law of Moses yet Fighting against them tho' in Defence of the True Faith was inferr'd to be Fighting against God Act. 5.39 And Christ would not be Defended by Resisting a Heathen Magistrate The same do the Jabobites think of fighting for a Religion in a Case which that Religion does not allow to be a Good Cause of fighting for it They think this to be fighting against that Religion On the other hand If we should fight to the visible prejudice of the outward profession and Legal Establishment of our Religion in pursuance of a Principle of that Religion This the Jacobites would call a fighting for our Religion That is To Maintain Assert and Honour the Principles of our Religion which only are the spiritual part of Religion tho' to the Loss of Temporal advantages and outward ornament which are but the Out-side and Trappings of Religion Therefore they go not upon the Outward advantages but upon the Justice of their Cause for the love of which they have forsaken all their Outward Advantages Upon the whole they say That unless you can prove their Principles to be Vnjust all you Argue against them is against the Law of God against Justice against Reason and all Christian Religion And that Humane politicks are too weak to over-ballance all these Nay they pretend that even Humane policy and the Good of the Nation is on their side That K. James's Tyranny suppose it as bad as you will would not have Cost the Nation so many Lives so much Money nor been so hard to be Redrest after his Death as the present Revolution Now they complain That all this is not sufficiently Answered in this Letter to a Friend where it sayes page 28. which is all the Answer given to it in that Letter that If they the Jacobites say they would fight for him K. J. I give them over sayes the Letter as profess'd Enemies to the True Religion and the Liberties of Man-kind And This I hope sayes the Letter may satissy the Non-swearers that they are not bound in Conscience to Fight for the late King c. Now these perverse Jacobites do say That they can see no Reason why the Author of this Letter 's Giving them over should be a Satisfaction to their Consciences They call this Scolding instead of Answering Whereas they pretend that their Principle is pursuant to the True Religion and most for the Good and Liberties of Man kind to Save men from the Great Destruction of Civil-War and Rebellion which they say is infinitely of more mischief to man kind than any Tyranny ever was in the world And that Religion loses more Ground and lessens more in the Opinion of man-kind by a change of principles which have been long profess'd than by suffering persecution in Defence of those Principles These things they think a full and sufficient Answer to all this whole Letter to a Friend And therefore do insult and rejoyce that no Answer is possible to be given to them since this Best Answer which is yet come out has not one word against the Truth or Honesty of their Principles only argues from Inconveniencies that may attend them which is incident to the
wou'd not have made this Muster but to enflame your Zeal to Vindicate the Government and Reconcile the Jacobites of which they give us good hopes if any tolerable Answer can be given to what is here Objected by them Wherein if you can be an Instrument I suppose you will reckon it the most Glorious Scene of your Life and not be Displeas'd with your Humble Servant by offering these Objections of our Adversarys to put it in your Power to Oblige your Self and your Nation to so High a Degree as to make them one with us again And now Sir in the same Freedom that I have Dealt with you let me Intreat you in your Management of all this for the sake of these Dull Jacobites that you would Curb the excuberance of your Wit it is but lost upon them They are a Plain Down-right sort of People and Love Plain Sence and Reason they will never be able to understand you Politicks when you resine them to that Degree as you do p. 12. where you prove that King James will have no Reguard to the Non-Swearers who lost their Preferments rather than take an Oath of Allegiance to King William because of the Title which they think King James has to their Allegiance For say you they did it not for hic K. James's sake but for another and better Reason for fear of being Damned Now the Jacobites think that no King can have a better hold of any Subjects Loyalty than of those who believe they will be Damned if they be Disloyal And that notwithstanding of all you say every King wou'd desire such Subjects and consequently would Encourage such more than any other Subjects They are likewise utterly uncapable of ever coming up to what you Advance p. 13 14. That their very Boldness and Resolution in Opposing their present Majestys will be thought no Virtue fit to be Rewarded by a Prince that is by King James Your Reasons are Subtile The first is That their Opposing their present Majesties is upon a meer Paint of Law What if it were Say the Jacobites if that point of Law be Asserting K. James's Right Will he for that Reason think it no Vertue nor fit to be Rewarded This passes a Jacobites understanding But Secondly you know they pretend Conscience and the Law of GOD unless you mean by a meer Point of Law a Point of GOD's Law And the very Page before p. 12. you confess that their Refusing the Oaths and Loosing their Preferments is for another and a better Reason for sear of being Damned And from thence you endeavour to prove that K. James owes them no thanks for it because it is not for his sake they do it but their own for fear of being Damned Now the Jacobites will certainly say that you prove your Assertion from quite contrary Topicks One that King James will not care for the Jacobites because they Act out of Conscience only for fear of being Damn'd The other that K. James will not care for them because they do not Act out of Conscience but upon a meer Point of Law This they call Fishing for Arguments and he that seeks will find They desire to know whether it be a Fault to be Loyal upon a Principle So that if we have any Reason for our Loyalty we forfeit all pretence to Thanks or Reward if we be Loyal upon the point of Law Then no Thanks to you says the King as you say the Jacobites wou'd have him Speak because you are Loyal upon a meer point of Law If we be Loyal upon point of Conscience Then no thanks to you again for that is only for fear of being Damn'd Suppose then we be Loyal without any Reason in the World but by meer Chance or a Fancy that say the Jacobites they find to be the only Loyalty you think Meritorious Because having no other Reason for it it must be suppos'd to be only out of Love to the Kings Person for a Handsome Nose a Sweet Breath Graceful Meen Affable Temper or what pleases your Fancy But you must have a Care that you have no Solid or Substantial Reason such as the Preservation of the Protestant Religion Liberty Property c. For then no thanks to you it is for them and not the King you are Concern'd But most of all beware of Pretending Conscience For then it is only for fear of being Damn'd A Weather-Cock Loyalty say the Jacobites fits you best it will Turn and Wind and not be troublesome at an Unseasonable Time and therefore you think it deserves most Thanks But they think not from the King The Jacobites say this Argument of yours overturns all Duty Humane and Religious And makes them wholly Inconsistent with any Gratitude or Reward from Men at least So that if Children or Servants be Dutifull if Wives be Loyal or Friends Just here is no thanks if they do it out of any Principle of Conscience But you do not Trust to these Arguments you have another That these Jacobites Boldness and Resolution in Opposing their present Majesties will be thought no Virtue by a Prince who wou'd make his Will Superior to all Laws That is a Prince would not desire his Subjects to be Firm in their Loyalty to him for fear they might be Firm likewise in something else that might Displease him This is too Superfine for these Jacobites they Cry out that it is the same as if a General should not desire Stout Souldiers least they should be as Stout if they should Turn against him As if a Man should desire a Weak Horse for his Journey because if a Strong Horse should prove Subborn he could dispute it harder with me Or if I should choose Knavish Servants and Fickle whose Principle it were to Desert me and take on with my Enemy when ever they were Displeased for fear if they they should be Firm to me they might be Firm against me All these and Twenty other Instances of the like Nature are as Feasable say the Jacobites as that a Prince let him desire never so much to be Absolute should be displeased at the Firmness of his Subjects Fidelity or their having an Inflexible Conscience as you Word it as to their Loyalty The Jacobites profess they can no more believe it than that a Husband should be Sorry his Wife were True and Loving to him least if she should happen to Love another she might be as True and Loving to him because he found it in her Temper to be Firm and Constant in her Love These Sir are Flights of Jealousy in Prince or Husband which lesser Wits than yours have the Happiness not to know And therefore desire you would not throw away such Magnificient and Strong Sence upon them for they shall never be the better for it they would not be Disturb'd with it But yet they Confess that you have found out Grounds for all this Jealousy which they should never have thought on and they stand amaz'd at the acuteness of
which the Jacobites shew another Instance in the Case of Mr. George Sheals a Clergy-Man who will not Swear but Read the Liturgy of the Church of England in his own House and did not Deny some Devour People who sometimes came thither the benefit of Joyning in the Common-Prayers of the Church For which Fault alone he was Fin'd a Hundred Marks which being much above his present Ability for he is Depriv'd and has nothing where-withal to Subsist a Wife and Parcel of Young Children he Lay Three Monthes in Newgate for his Fine Add to this the Imprisonment of Arch-Deacon Fitz Gerrald Mr. Collier and Mr. Newton Three Non-Swearing Clergy-Men this last Summer without having any thing to lay to their Charge And Dr. Bryand Sent to the Gate-House for Reading the Common Prayers The several Lords and Gentlemen Committed without any Information upon Oath contrary to Law has been brought before the Parliament Many more Instances the Jacobites offer to give of the like Usage from us and they desire a List of all whom we have Pardon'd since the Revolution who have come under the Lash of the Law to teach them by our Mercy to return our Kindness They likewise mind us That the Refusal of the Oaths was not at first thought so Heinous a Matter but that the Parliament Allowed Twelve of the Clergy who should Resuse it the Third of their Bishop-ricks or Livings during Life and it was left to K. William's Clemency to Name which Twelve of the Depriv'd Bishops or Clergy he Pleas'd But he was Pleas'd with none of them And their Successors whom the Jacobites call Intruders follow say they the Example of his Charity and keep all they can get to themselves They the No-Swearers hope to Live say you ibid. to see the Swearing Bishops and Priests the Contempt of Princes and People This does not shew say the Jacobites that they are Greedy of Life For they may see that every Day they go into the Streets The Turne of the Clergy this Revolution has made them in a Literal Sence the By-word of the People O but their great Grief is That if we had a Jacobite Parliament they would make no Scruple to Declare the Legitimacy of the Prince of Wales p. 18. That need not say the Jacobites for he is Legitimate by all the Laws in the World without their Declaration unless you think that Three or Four Foolish Ballads and Drunken Songs Laught at now by those who made them for they have serv'd the Turn for which they were intended can Disinherit a Prince or any other Man of his Birth-Right For there is no other Evidence against the P. of Wales no one Information of any Person whatsoever no Sentence of any Court nor has even the present Parliament said one Word against his Legitimacy There is a Terrible Discovery in the Words following viz. They would take care for new Jacobite Tests to Renounce and Abhor all the several Hypotheses and Principles of Government which have been Vrg'd to Justify our Submission and Allegiance to their present Majesties These Jacobites are a Cruel sort of People It is Ten to One but they might do all this And then we must be saying and un-saying all over again But they who have done it twice or thrice will find it easier and easier they will never want Distinctions And Shame is over But besides the Jacobites say it is impossible for them to Reproach you more than you do one another Even the chief Top-Men of your Party For Example When K. James lost the Boyn then Dr. Sherlock thought it would never be Day He Immediately cry'd up Success as Divine Right And upon that Point he Staked down his Soul to all Eternity and all theirs who would be perswaded by him Vide Dedication to his Book of Judgment and of Death 'Twixt these two he only found Conversion But since that the Whore Success has been Courting that Handsom Portly French King Waited upon him at Mons Namure Steenkirk the Rhine Savoy Dixmuyd and Furnes and we know not where it will End Therefore it is good to look about and Damn that Doctrine of Success in time before it be made use of against us For this Great Work Tillotson is set up to pull down what Sherlock had so Artificially built And he does it Effectually but not with so great Respect to his old Friend in his Thanks giving Sermon before quoted p. 30. where he tells us that The Cause must be first Manifetly Jast before Success can be made an Argument of GOD's Favour to it and Approbation of it Meer Success is certainly one of the worst Arguments in the World of a Good Cause and the most Improper to Satisfy Conscience And yet does in a very Odd but Effectual way satisfy the Consciences of a Great many Men by shâ—wing them their Interest And p. 17. Knowledge and Skill to Devise Mischief and Power to Effect it are the true Nature and Character of the Devil and his Angels What Jacobite could have Damn'd the Doctrine of Events more Effectually And when they see such Great Doctors fall out among themselves in the Method of Satisfying their Consciences as to this Revolution it is a mighty Scandal to them and a Tentation to think that having forsaken their old Foundation they are yet to seek where to settle upon true or certain Principles Meer Success says Sherlock is Divine says Tillotson it is the Devil and his Angels And each Ventures his Soul upon the Truth of his Hypothesis because an Error in this Involves them in Rebellion which both of them do Confess to be a Damnable Sin But as to this Principle of Doctor Tillotson's I must tell you that the Jacobites are very well pleas'd with it viz. That the cause must be first Manifestly Just before Success can be made an Argument of GOD's Favour to it or Approbation of it And they hope now to come soon to a Good Conclusion the Case being thus Stated upon its True Bottom Therefore we must suppose that it was Manifestly Just to Plot against K. James while he was upon the Throne and to assist the P. of Orange against him otherwise the Success of this Revolution can be made no Argument of GOD's Favour to it or Approbation of it The Great Terror before us was Popery and the most popular pretence for what we have done was Securing the Protestant Religion And whether Religion be a Manifestly Just Cause for taking Arms against our Natural Prince the Jacobites say is as Manifestly Decided as any principle of the Church of England or any Act of Parliament in our Statute Book They say moreover that this same Dr. Tillotson her gone a length in this beyond whatever the Church of England own'd in her highest Altitude of Passive-Obedience Which is to make it Unlawful even to Preach the Gospel without leave of the Civil-Magistrate unless we can prove our Mission by Miracles as the Apostles did This you will find
in his Sermon upon Josh 24.15 § 2. p. 11. Preached before K. Charles II. at White-Hull 2. April 1680. And that this Doctrine might be thorowly Instill'd and Propagated he Instructed the House of Commons in a Strain even beyond this in his Sermon Preached before them 5. Nov. 1678. upon Luke 9.55,56 where he Inferrs that Religion is good for nothing but Temporal Respects and that chiefly to prevent Rebellion And that Rebellion is worse than Atheism or Infidelity For let any Man says he p. 20. say worse of Atheism and Infidelity if he can And for God's Sake What is Religion Good for but to Reform the Manners and Dispositions of Men to Restrain Humane Nature from Violence and Cruelty from Falsehood and Treachery from Sedition and Rebellion Better it were there were no Reveal'd Religion than to be Acted by a Religion that is continually Supplanting Government Teaching the Lawfulness of Deposing Kings Such a Religion as this is as bad or worse than Infidelity and no Religion p. 21. and a Great deal more to the same purpose which makes it more Eligible to Renounce Christ and all Reveal'd Religion than to allow of the Lawfulness of taking Armes against our King upon the Account of Religion I hope he will think it worth his while to Explain these Matters for the sake of others as well as the Jacobites for in Truth Sir they carry a very strange Aspect and Stumble very Well-Meaning Men. Together with his Letter to Lord Russel and Prayer on the Scaffold with his Lordship which are so Notorious I need not Repeat them As likewise these Passages in Doctor Sherlock's Sermon upon the Discovery of the Phanatick and Republican Plot at Rye-House Printed Anno. 1683. Where after Disproving the pretence of Rebelling for Liberty and Property he proceeds to the Grand pretence of Religion The Libertyes and Propertys of the Subject says he p. 2. is an Admirable Pretence to Deprive the Prince of his Libertys and Propertyes and those who have any Liberty or Property to loose seldom gain any thing by this For when you have secur'd their Liberties and Properties against their Prince it is a much harder Task to secure themselves from their Fellow-Subjects But let us hear him as to Religion Page 2. It is a dangerous way for Men to Rebel to save their Souls when God has threatned Damnation against those who Rebel But this is as Vain a Pretence as Liberty and Property for no Men Fight for Religion who have any Religion is a Quiet Peaceable Governable thing it Teaches Men to Suffer patiently but not to Rebel Page 6. How do Men Abhor a Religion which is Nourish'd with Blood Page 7. It was sufficient to prove any man a Papist who durst own it possible for such Good-Men to Rebel or Plot against the King and Government We had been more secure from the Popish Plot than for ought I know we may be yet had not these Men abused Peoples Fears and Dangers of Popery to the Disturbance of the Government and to the carrying on their Antimonarchical and Fanatick Designs And thus the poor Church of England which has escap'd the Rage and Fury of Rome had like to have been Sacrificed to a True Protestant Zeal How things proceeded after this to the Disturbance of the publick Peace and the Interruption of the Ordinary Courts of Justice you all know as well as I and Wise Men quickly Saw and Honest Men could not forbear Warning the People whither those things Tended And they met with a good Reward for it they were all Papists in Masquerade and especially the Loyal Clergy were Loaded with all the Contempt and Ignominy which an Inrag'd and Envenom'd Zeal and some Witless Scriblers could cast on them Whole Vollies of Phamplets flew about to poison the people with Lewd and Seditious principles But to Talk or Write or Preach about Obedience to Government or patient Suffering for a Good Cause was to Betray the Protestant Interest and to Invite a Popish Successor to Cut our Throats And what all this ends in thanks be to God we now see and I hope time enough to prevent it Page 11. There is nothing more expresly contrary to the Reveal'd Will of God than Treasonable Plots and Conspiracies against Soveraign Princes And tho God does many times Permit those things to be done which He has forbid to be done or else no Man could ever be Guilty of any Sin yet his forbidding of it is a plain Argument that he does not Approve it that He will not Countenance it nay that he will not Permit it but where He sees Great and Wise Reasons to do so The Doctor has Recanted this in this Case of Allegiance and taken away the Distinction 'twixt Gods Permission and his Ordering of Evil it would not serve this Turn Therefore he says now that God not only Permits but is the Author of all the Good or Evil which Happens either to Private Persons or Publick Societies c. Case of Allegiance p. 12. But let us go on with his Sermon Page 13. Christian Religion requires us to Obey our Superiours in all Lawful things and Quietly to Submit and Suffer when we can't Obey He the Blessed JESVS Liv'd in Obedience to the Civil Powers and tho' the Jewish Nation which was a Free People the Lot and Inheritance of God Himself were then in Subjection to the Romans yet he would not give them the least Encouragement to shake off the Yoak but Commands them to give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars Page 14. Christianity Defended it self only by a Resolute and Patient Suffering for the Name of Christ This is the true Temper and Spirit of Christianity Under the most Barbarous and Persecuting Emperors no Christian ever Suffer'd as a Rebel Papists Plot and Conspire the Death of a Protestant Prince to bring in Popery And profess'd Protestants it seems do the same thing to keep out Popery Page 15. If the Consciences of Subjects will serve them to Rebel for Religion it seems a very hard Case if the Conscience of the Prince must not allow him to Hang 'em for their Rebellion The Truth of this is Readily own'd when it is apply'd to the Papists Page 18 19. The Church of England her self has been a Martyr for Loyalty Page 19. the life of our King King Charles II. and the Ruin of his Government was laid in a mighty Zeal against Popery and for the Preservation of the Protestant Religion Page 20. Tho' few Men dare own it yet the Actions of too many Sufficiently Proclaim that they think they may Strain a point and Dispence with Strict Duty when it is to serve a Good Cause when the Honour of God and the Interest of Religion is Concern'd Thus it is too often seen that Men who begin with a Zeal for Religion slip Insensibly into State-Factions and are Engag'd Vastly beyond what they first Design'd and Engag'd so far that they cannot Retreat with Safety or Honour
but must either Conquer or be Conquered Page 21. I doubt not but many Men have Dy'd Rebels and Suffer'd as Traytors who at first did as much Abhor the thoughts of Treason and Rebellion as any of us can Thus I doubt not but it was in our Late Troubles and thus I believe it is at this Day Page 23. We saw all the Zeal and all the Intrigues of Forty and Forty One return again and yet it was an Unpardonable Crime for any one to say so or for any Man to look as if be thought so Page 26. Let us Bless God and let us Honour our King and Receive him with Joy and Thanksgiving as a New Gift and Present from the Hands of God Page 2â— A true Christian Zeal will not Suffer us to Transgress the strict Bonds of our Duty to God or of our Duty to Men especially to Kings and Princes whatever Flattering prospect of Advantage it may have To Lie to For-swear our Selves To Reproach and Libel Governours in Church or State to Stir up or Countenance with the least thought any Plots Seditions or Rebellions against the King is not a Zeal for GOD nor for Religion Thus Dr. Sherlock Excellently Now then to come to our Application All this must be false if it was Lawful to Plot against K. James and Joyn with the P. of Orange for the Preservation of our Religion Liberty Property or whatever other Pretence Secondly say the Jacobites if it was unlawful to Plot against K. James while he was upon the Throne then the present Revolution notwithstanding it's Success must still Remain Wicked because as Dr. Tillotson has said The Cause must be Manifestly just before Success c. And thus he proves it to be in the present Case in the Words immediately following viz. If the Cause of True Religion and the necessary Defence of it against a False and Idolatrous Worship be a Good Cause Ours is so If the Vindication of the Common Liberties of Mankind against Tyranny and Oppression be a Good Cause than Ours is so And this needs not be proved it is so Glaringly Evident to all the World Thus the Dr. And it is every Word of the Proof he brings in all that Sermon and is Answer'd in what goes before The â—ame Hand and say nothing This say the Jacobites is the Ultimate Resolve of the Letter to a Friend which is our present Subject and is taken Notice of before viz. That he will Dispute with none who do not feel the Force of his Argument at the first Hearing that they are Stupid Senseless Slaves c. Letter p. 26. And now the proof is That it is Glaringly Evident to all the World This say the Jacobites the Dr. meant for a Joque for he knows all the World is not of his Mind And a Glaring Light is the falsest Light can be it Strikes one Blind But they tell him of a Glaring Comet hangs over these Nations which he Mistakes for the Sun and because it Lighted him over to Lambeth he is resolv'd to see by no other Luminary least it should shew him the way back again It was this say the Jacobites Glared in his Eyes that he could not see what the Poorest Dablers in Divinity have at their Fingers ends and it is one of the first Principles Taught among the Casuists viz. That not only the Cause must be Good but the Means That a Good Cause will not Justify Wicked Means That we must not Lye for GOD that their Damnation is Just who do Evil that Good may come of it Therefore there was something more to be said besides the Cause being True Religion which is all the Doctor Urges We know that all Pretences are Good For if a thing were not Good it could not be a Pretence No Man Pretends to do Wickedly And the better the thing is it makes the better Pretence therefore Religion is the General Pretence for Rebellion But as before is said Religion must not be serv'd by Means which that Religion does forbid that would be to Destroy Religion to please GOD by breaking His Commandments to take Service with the Beelzehub for the Cause of CHRIST We have no Dispute with the Protestant Jacobites but concerning the Means of Preserving our Religion They say the Means we take are not Justifyable And for you Sir to say nothing at all to this but that it is Glaring The Jacobites think was because your Understanding was Dazled and they take it as a Yielding of the Cause But besides they say that by this you 〈◊〉 Absolutely Declar'd that Protestant Religion you now Profess to be worse than Infidelity and no Religion And that without Debating particulars or at the first Hearing as you now would have it And that all this follows unavoidably from your own Words in the 'bove quoted Sermon upon the 5. Nov. p. 21. where only putting in your now Doctrine of Resistance instead of the Word 〈◊〉 which the Jacobites think but two Names for the same thing then these are your own Words viz. We will at present admit Resistance to be the True Religion and their Doctrine of the Lawfulness of Deposing Kings as in Truth it is the Doctrine of this Religion In this Case I would not trouble my self to Debate Particulars but if in the Gross and upon the whole Matter it be Evident that such a Religion as this is as bad or worse than Infidelity and no Religion this is Conâ—…tion enough to a Wise Man and as Good as a Demonstration that this is not the True Religion and that it cannot be from GOD. These are the Doctors Words And he says all this of Popery only upon the Account of its containing the Doctrine of Resistance But he makes a Notable Discovery p. 24. Where he tells us That many have all along held and believ'd these Doctrines of Deposing Kings and of Absolving their Subjects from Obedience to them and have frequently put them in Execution though they have not thought it so Convenient at all Turns to make Profession of it It is a certain sort of Engine says he which is to be Scru'd up or let down as occasion serves and is commonly kept like Goliah's Sword in the Sanctuary but yet so that the High-Priest can Lend it out upon an Extraordinary Occasion These are the Doctor 's own Words And the Jacobites leave the Application to himself And hope they need not fear now that he has got the keeping of our Goliah's Sword Let him take care to whom he Lends it All the Dissenters but those of the Church of England are Sueing for it The Socinians want not hopes that it will come to their Turn at last But if another Turn come first then says your Letter to a Friend p. 19. Those who in the Late Reign were the Great Advocates of the Protestant Cause will be Disgrac'd at Court Threatned into silence their Authority Weakned and their Persons Reproac'd both by Papists and Jacobites The Jacobites
THE Anatomy of a Iacobite OR THE JACOBITES Heart Laid Open WITH A Sure Certain5 Method FOR THEIR CURE Address'd to the AUTHOR of A Letter to a Friend Concerning a French Invasion to Restore the Late King JAMES to His Throne c. CAMBRIDGE Printed in the Year 1692. The Jacobites Heart Laid Open c. SIR YOUR Letter was Read by none with Greater Delight than my Self to Consider the Pitch of your Reasoning in a Cause so Important as this And I Congratulate your Good Success in the Words of King Lemuel Many have done Nobly to this Theam but thou Excellest them all The Jacobites Despis'd the Swarms of Pamphlets have hitherto come out against them and made it their Sport to Toss them like Chaff in the Air. But now Sir their Eyes are all Fix'd upon you Entring the Stage like Almanzor they Buckle their Armor Close and bend all their Force against you They Know and Feel that this Letter of yours is deservedly Esteem'd by all in this Government as the most Celebrated and Top-Piece of the Party and thought Vnanswerable That it may Continue and Encrease its Reputation it will be Necessary that you Sir should know and Refute all the Poor Objections which the Jacobites Start against it Some of which I have gather'd together for your Service but more that the Honor and Justice of the Present Government might as far as possible be Vindicated and even these fame Jacobites Reclaim'd of which we have Reason to Conceive Great hopes if you be able to Satisfy their Scruples First Their Arguments from Principles and Reason Secondly Matters of Fact which they Charge upon this Government and are to them an insuperable Prejudice against it Both these I have set down Full and Broad in their own Words that you may miss nothing of the Force of their Objections And I hope you Sir nor any in the Government will take it Amiss from me seeing I only Repeat their Words and that in Order to the Necessary Vindication of the Government Which if you Perform to Satisfaction for you or none must do it we will leave these Jacobites nothing to say or nothing but what will Expose them And let us Deal Fairly and upon the Square with them and hear the uttmost of their Defence the sooner we shall have done And we need not fear to give them this Liberty for we can sew the Jacobites in Bears Skins when we please cry out upon them Wou'd you have the French wou'd you have Popery come in We can easily make such a Noise as that they shall not be heard Therefore let us Venture for once to give them a hearing We do not suspect them for any Inclinations to Popery notwithstanding of all this On the Contrary they were the Men who stood in the Gap against it when it threatned us most and are still ready and I doubt not wou'd be as forward as any to do so again Much less can they be suspected to have faln out with the Country of England so as to desire the French might Conquer it They have Estates and wou'd be as loath to lose them as other Men and no doubt love their Liberty and Property as much And pretend as Great Regard as any People to the Laws of England which they say do Justify them and Condemn us who Support this Government But they plead greater things than these The Law of God and His Express Command which if true will supersede all our Arguments drawn from smaller Topicks The People of Athens Rejected a Method which Themistocles propos'd to them Plutarch Life of Aristides much to their Advantage and Security and which could be easily effected upon the only account because it was not Just And shall not Christians say these Jacobites Depend as much upon the Protection of God in their Obedience to His Reveal'd Will as Heathens upon their general notions of Justice which were much more Fallible They say that the Folly of God is Wiser than men He can bring Good out of Evil and turn all the Seeming good and prosperity of the wicked into evil and mischief upon their own heads And therefore that all your Politicks and Conjectures what may happen is not so sure a Foundation for men to venture their Souls upon as the Reveal'd Will of God In short the Jacobites seem to bring the Matter to this Issue That we must either Deny the Scriptures or Answer their Objections out of the Scripture And they seem very apprehensive that the first of these will be chosen That it is chosen by too many already They say there are Examples in all Ages of men going against their visible Interest to preserve a Good Conscience They tell you of the Protestants in Q. Mary's time who fought for her against Q. Jane a Woman of vast Endowments of mind and a Protestant That these Protestants had as sad a prospect in what they did as can be suppos'd in the Restoration of K. James You may say that they met with it accordingly Q. Mary broke her word to them and persecuted them with Fire and Faggot But this will be no Argument against the Jacobites for they say that the Protestants did their Duty in adhering to Q. Mary else they had been Rebels and not Martyrs That her Persecution prov'd infinitely to the Good and Establishment of the Protestant Religion which has liv'd Great and in Reputation with all the world ever since upon the Fund of that Loyal and Christian Principle of Non-Resistence And they say that the Church of England has Suffer'd more by forsaking that Principle now than She cou'd have done by a Persecution which wou'd still have added to her Glory They call themselves the only stay that has kept the Church of England from sinking utterly in the opinion of all good Christians by their present Suffering for that Old Doctrine of their Church Non-Resistance They say That a Church is more Destroyed by the loss of her Principles than of her Livings Pureness of Doctrine not Outward Pomp or Legal Establishments denominate a True and a Holy Church They say Rebellion brings greater Destruction than Persecution That not three hundred suffered during Q. Mary's five years Reign That a thousand times as many have perish'd within these three years in Ireland besides those have been lost in Scotland at Sea and in Flanders They say the Protestants in Q. Mary's time were in much more Deplorable Circumstances than we were in K. Jame's time He was well advanced in years when he came to the Crown and the three next Heirs Protestants Q. Mary a young Woman Married to the King of Spain the Princess Elizabeth declared to be Illegitimate by Act of Parliament and sent to the Tower in order to a further security And after her the Royal Line run out of sight into Popish Families The Reformation was but young and tender then in England The Parliament were papists and popery set up as the Establisht Religion
they can neither Rob nor be Robbed Because all they get is their own and what others get from them is all well gotten These are Excellent Principles and the onely Foundation of our Government as the Jacobites do object And therefore we should do well to keep off these tender Points and not give these Jacobites occasion against us You upbraid the Papists p. 4. for knowing how to expound Providence to flatter Superstition And you know how the Jacobites upbraid us with expounding Providence to flatter Success tho' it were in Rebellion Treachery and all Wickedness Which if it Succeeds it Immediately Commences not only Right but Divine as if Commanded by an Angel or a Prophet or the Mouth of God Himself according to Dr. Sherlock c. What strange Sermons say these Jacobites have we from your Bishops and Top Divines proving the Lawfulness of this Revolution from Providence by which they mean Success Which was as much made use of and almost in the same Words by the Rump Parliament Oliver and all the Canting Tribe God came from Nasby and the Holy one from Marston Moore Selah This will Justify the French King in all his Conquests and gives Mahomet the better of Christ And yet say the Jacobites we are Deafned with it from your Pulpits You might likewise have Forborn that little piece of Wit p. 10. of reckoning the Loud and Zealous Ladys of the Jacobire side For you know where that is to be Retorted at home With the help of these Loud Ladys you say they the Jacobites are enough to make a Noise but as they were not hands enough to hinder the late Revolution neither can they say you make another Here you make them very inconsiderable when you are upon your vapouring pin as the Jacobites do deride you For they observe that either your Memory or your Courage fails you p. 19. where you make the number of the Jacobites the Great incouragement to the French King to Restore King James For say you Without a hopeful Conspiracy in England the French King is too wary to make such an Attempt And p. 21. Were it not for them our Factions at home we need not fear its France's united Force Nor are you less affraid of the Zealous Ladys you have provok'd some of them may be upon your Top but you Court them again p. 21. where reckoning the Miseries of a Civil War you Reckon the Loss of Husbands but not of Wives this sure will touch them in the sensible part and Charm their tender Hearts This was a great deal Tweeter than what you have six Lines above where comforting us as to the Taxes and other Prices of this Revolution you say While we have left wherewithal to Maintain our selves we have no such great reason to complain This might have been spared because you know we have lest a great many Jacobites in a Condition not to Maintain themselves It had been also advisible if you had thought fit to have let alone that Gentile Rub you gave King James Page 20. We know the Late King too well to take his word For this raises the Devil of an Objection which the Jacobites have against us of our present King not keeping to his Declaration besides many Breaches of Promises since Dispencing with the Law and all those Grievances even Countenancing Popery of which we Complain'd in K. J.'s time In all whose Reign we had no such Example of Favour shewn to Popish Priests and Friars as was seen the Sessions at Old-Baily held 31. Aug. 1. 2. Sept. 92. Where two Friars by name Graham and Thursby were Indicted for the Murder of a Coffee-Man in Holbourn having first behauched his Wife in her Religion and he was Jealous in her Chastity as her self confess'd in Court where she came and was admitted as an Evidence for Graham who run her Husband thorow but she declared That her Husband run himself upon his Sword These Friars had the Interest they say it was by means of the Prince Vaudemont to have a Promise of their Pardon from K. W. then in Flanders But it was thought the best way to prevent the Noise that would make to have them Acquit upon their Tryal towards which all things being Dispos'd and the Necessary Orders given the Conduct was committed to Judge who had shewn himself so zealous against the Deprived Bishops that he corrected the Cryer of his Court for stileing one of them by the Title of Bishop when he call'd to have room made for him to come into the Court whither he was Summon'd as an Evidence in some Cause Depending It is likely the Cryer had not otherwise made the people know whom he meant But the Judge had better Skill in the Force of an Act of Parliament-Deprivation which Hody himself nor his Prompters behind the curtain do pretend to take away the Character that when he chid the Cryer for giving the Depriv'd Father the Title of Bishop What Bishop sayes Judge come Doctor Lloyd what have you to say This Learned Judge altered his Countenance and was all sweetness to these Friars which was observed by the whole Court and when one Objected that they were Popish Priests whom the Laws Discharged out of the Kingdom upon pain of Treason His Lordship temper'd that Man's Heat with the Gravity and Calmness of a Judge telling him That was not the Cause before them In short The Wife gave Evidence The Judge Summ'd it up The Jury Acquitted And All the People took Notice But it is not to be omitted say these Jacobites That in the Printed Account of the Trials that Sessions this of the Friars is left out Which I have heard some say was never done before in any case and durst not have been done now but by Order But they say what need we Instance Particulars It is Notoriously known That Popish Priests have of late not only own'd themselves as such before the Privy-Council but pleaded it as an Argument for their Indemnity and Protection Pursuant to the Secret Articles 'twixt King William the Emperour King of Spain c. And they have been allowed it It is true we excuse all this upon the account of Necessity But that does not stop the Jacobites Mouths They say that Necessity is as pleadable by one King as another And besides That we have Created this Necessity of which we Complain And that if Papists must be Countenanc'd what matter is it whether it be to Gratify the Confederates or the French who are less Papists than either Spain Savoy or the Popish Germans and not more Persecutors than any of these All this the Jacobites do Retort upon us Again p. 22. abusing of the French King you say He has no Scruple of Conscience about the Rights of other Princes all he can get is his own Dear Sir did not you Reflect that this is the very Reproach which the Jacobiees cast upon King William with this aggravation that he has no Scruple of Conscience not
themselves mightily Pleas'd with the Performance of the Answerer to Great Britains Complaint who Vindicates K. William they say at such a Rate as Exposes him more than the Book he pretends to Answer They say he brings in by way of Apology the severest Objections which K. William's Greatest Enemys could Suggest and then says nothing in the World to Clear them That it is known to every English-Man in England that K. William had no Battle in England Therefore that it is most Ridiculous in this Author p. 65. to Bragg of King William's Victories in England and to Advance his Prowess for this above that of the French K. whom he calls a Coward Was this in his Zeal to make England a Conquest Which is the Notion of late much Advanc'd That it would appear full as Comical to the French to Boast of K. William's Victorys in Flanders as this Author does in the same Place Would they not desire you to Name them Or to remember what the Dutch Narrative above-quoted Names viz. The Battle of St. Nuef the Siege of Mastricht of Woerden Oudenard and of Charleroy And once at Mons they say he Attempted to Steal a Victory with the Articles of Peace in his Pocket They Ridicule him and say that none but the Irish have been Civil to him For none else will be Beaten by him and not that but when he is much Superior in Number as he was at the Boyn which was the first time the French say that ever he saw himself a Victor and is like to be the last For the Irish themselves Baffled him afterwards at Limerick and Forc'd him to Turn his Back But this Author says ibid. That K. William Dar'd the French Army and makes his Great Prowess consist in that Whereas this is the very Jest which the French put upon him viz. That he Stood at the Head of a Hundred Thousand Men to see the French King in Person take Namur amat Victoria Testes without Daring to Strike a Stroak in its Defence tho' he came thither on purpose for its Rescue And his Daring to see the English Butcher'd at Stein-Kirk before his Face without Daring to come in to their Relief tho' he had drawn them into that Snare by his Conduct And the Inference this Author Draws from K. William's thus Daring the French is in the next Words viz. That if the French have the Advantage yet K. William hath Entirely the Honour of the Campaign Which is as severe a Satyr as any of K. William's Enemys could have made upon him to set up a Hero for his Non-Resistance Valour in War Doubtless the Honour is as Great In being Beaten as to Beat Pamphlet p. 64. It is observed that K. James never Won a Battle in his Life Jacobite He has certainly Mistaken an J. for a W. There can be no Excuse for his Malice unless he Plead such a Gross Ignorance as never to have heard that K. James when D. of York did on the 3. of June 1665. in fair and open Fight with the Dutch Blow up their Admiral Opdham and as it was Express'd in the Lord Chancellor's Speech to the Parliament 10. Octo. 65. In that Great Action Sunk Burn'd and took Eighteen Good Ships of War whereof half were the Best they had with the loss of one Single Small Ship of Ours The Actions and the Blessing of that Day that Glorious Third of June hath been Celebrated in all the Churches in England and in the Hearty Devotions of all True English-Men c. And the Commons of England to Express their Great Sense of the Valour and Magnanimity of his Royal Highness did upon this Occasion Grant to his Majesty one Months Assessment amounting to 120902. 15. 8. as a Present to be Given to his Royal Highness The Act begins thus We your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Commons Assembled in Parliament taking Notice of that Heroick Courage with which your Majesties Royal Brother Expo'd his own Person for the Defence of your Majesty and your People against the Dutch Fleet and of the Glorious Victory through the Blessing of Almighty GOD by him Obtained are Humble Suitors unto your Majesty That we may have leave to make some Expressions of our Humble Thanks to his Royal Highness for the same and that for this end your Majesty would Graciously Please to Accept from us your Loyal Subjects the Sum of Money herein after Mentioned and to Bestow the same upon your Majesties Royal Brother Now what a Witless and Malicious Scribler must this be Reputed who dare out-face the Sun and what is so Publickly known and upon Record in England Nor was his Royal Highness more Celebrated at Home than he was Glorious abroad During his Brother's and his own Exile he was General for France and Spain Alternativly where he Signaliz'd himself to that Degree that the Famous Mareshal Turenne who Instructed his Royal Highness in the Rudiments of War us'd to boast of him that he had Bred up one who did Exceed himself in the Military Capacity And his Fame was Trumpeted no where Louder than in England for about Twenty Years together till the Foundations lay'd for the Bill of Exclusion made it Necessary to have another Character Rais'd of him Pamphlet P. 65. Says of a certain Monsieur but Names no Body that he never got one Inch of Ground nor a Single Town by True Valour and Bravery Jacobite This is True of some Body but not of the French Monsieur Witness in the last Campaign Namur Steinkirk Dixmuyd Furnes c. But if you will say all this was by Treachery on the Confederates side it will follow That they know not among them all a Man they can trust A good Presage of a further Victory But why then was the Valour and Fidelity of the Governour of Namur so much commended You Contradict your selves on all hands In whom lay the Treachery at Steinkirk at Dixmuyd and Furnes Why are not those Traitors call'd to an Account The French King Fights when he pleases and Conquers when he Fights and Those whom be Beats call him a COWARD to make Themselves more Ridiculous and Contemptible Pamphlet p. 62. As for those who declare they ought to Fight against this Government so soon as an Enemy appears I hope the Government will with-draw its Protection from them and pair their Nails in time Jacobite This spoils all the mighty Braggs which this Pamphlet has p. 54. of Dr. King's Book concernign the Affairs of Ireland which he there calls a Convincing Tract and that every Page of it is a Demonstration For the Protestants then there do now declare That it was their Principle to Fight against that Government so soon as an Enemy appear'd and did accordingly And K. James was told of it and was Morally assur'd they would do so And therefore by this Rule he cou'd not have been blam'd if he had pared the Protestants Nails there much closer than even as Dr. King does
Represent it Pamphlat p. 59. He foothes the Roman-Catholick Princes of the Confederacy not to fear any Harm to their Religion from the Protestant Confederates for sayes he The Protestants never did Combine to Exterminate Popery in General Jacobite What does he mean by in General Are we not to be against All the Errors of Rome or only for some part of the Truth or are we to Compound and Abate of it in Favour of the Confederates And Swear to Re-Establish the Pope's Supremacy in France in Order to Secure the Protestant Religion in England The First Article of the Resolution of the Princes Allies and Confederates which was taken in the Assembly at the Hague Feb. 91. as it was done out of the French and Printed here was That they Solemnly Protest before GOD that they will never Break off their Union nor make any Peace with Lewis XIV Till he has made Reparation to the Holy See for whatsoever he has Acted against it and till he Annull and make Void all those Infamous Proceedings against the Holy Father Innocent XI This was but in Parsuance of what was before Concerted in the Particular League with Spain and the Emperor 31. Decem 1690. as it is in the Abstracts of the Foraign Leagues given into the Parliament this Session There Article Fourth It is agreed that no Peace be begun before all things in the Ecclesiasticks be Restor'd as in their Former State Pamphlet Page 52. He says the French King Dragoon'd the Hugonets against his Interest purely out of Vain Glory Jacobite So easily is it for Malice to betray our Reason and Expose us to Forget and Contradict your Selves It was but in p. 47. that he gave a Substantial Reason why it was the French King's Interest to be Rid of these Men The French King knows says he that if he be Invaded by a Protestant Prince these Men will Endanger him by a Revolt Pamphlet Page 37. He commend the Great Clemency of K. William's Order against the Laird of Glen-Coe and says a Milder Order was never given And that he has Express'd a High Displeasure at it viz. The Massacre of Glen-Coe Jacobite He was too soon Weary of this Subject For he should have told what was the High Displeasure was Express'd against these Mutherers of Glen-Coe particularly against those Bloody Brutes in Commission who sent Orders under their Hands two whereof are Inserted No. 19. Appendix of the Answer to Dr. King's Book and said it was by the Kings Express Command to put all to the Sword under 70. Yet these Infernal Furys are continued still in their Respective Posts and no Mark of Displeasure is to be seen upon them In the next Place K. William's most Mild Order should have been Inserted otherwise it will not be Believ'd that any Officers durst have Vouch'd his Express Command for an Action of this Nature and not have Forfeited their Necks at least their Commissions if they had not a Sufficient Warrant under his Hand to Produce And it is to be Explain'd how Glen-Coe and his Men could be in Arms and in open Rebellion as the Pamphlet Foolishly Alledges at the same time that Glen-Lyon and his Souldiers were Quartered in their Houses This Pamphlet confesses the Matter of Fact but Disproves no one Particular of it Pamphlet Page 30. He undertakes to Free K. William from the Objection of Imprisoning many Lords and others contrary to Law Which he does by Confessing the whole Charge against him and then giving an Excuse for it viz. That the Safety of the Nation Absolutly Requires it when Invasion is Threatned Jacobite But yet when this Method would have Absolutly Defeated the Present Revolution and K. James was Minded of it and Advis'd to Secure but a small Number of those who Betray'd him and were then in the Conspiracy against him and he was Morally assur'd of it he would not do it because not having Informations upon Oath against them it was Contrary to Law as a Noble Earl did very well Remark in the House of Peers this Session of Parliament And the Ministers concern'd in our Modern Imprisonments had an Act of Indemnity to Secure them last Year for this and are Endeavouring another now The House of Lords having this Session Declar'd such Commitments to be Illegal Upon which the Prisoners so Committed were Discharg'd and not from K. William's innate Clemency which forbade the Prosecution as this Pamphlet would have us believe for such Endeavours were us'd to continue them in Custody that Aaron Smith the Plot Journey-Man was forc'd to make Affidavit that he had Informations upon Oath against them tho' when it came to the Issue there was no such thing And the Prosecution of this Perjury was all which the Innate Clemency did forbid Thus Sir say the Jacobites Pamphlet Page 31. Accuses K. James for Prosecuting Lord Macklesfield Brandon Gerard and Lord Delamare upon Monmouth's Rebellion Jacobite Lord Delamare himself cannot but own that he had a Fair Tryal and K. James who was Present shew'd a Particular Satisfaction in his being Acquit Will this Author say that there was not Information upon Oath against him Lord Macklesfield Fled his Case is Sufficiently known Lord Brandon Convict and Pardon'd by K. James and Professed Great Loyalty and Gratitude If such Informations could have been had against those Committed in this Reign the Lords had not Voted their Commitments Illegal But this Pamphleteer avers that the Government could not want Informations against them Tho' it is Evident to all in Westminster-Hall that they did want Informations upon Oath against them and that this was the only Cause of their Acquittal But he had some Reason to think that the Government could not want Informations against whom they Pleased to Accuse considering the Fund of Evidence was Provided and their Qualifications Fuller Young Blackhead and Holland are Notoriously known besides these there are the standing Evidence at every Sessions Capel a Broken Shoomaker of Windsor Low a Fidler in Field-Lane Mrs. Scot a Common Prostitute and others of the like Characters who except the Fidler that keeps an Ale-House among the Butchers have no Habitation but are Absolute Beggars Supported by Aaron Smith But the Wit of such Cattle is not alwaies so ready as their Knavery which is the Reason they have done no more Mischief tho' they have done all they could Pamphlet Of many Hundreds Guilty of Treason Two only have Suffer'd for it During this Reign Jacobite The Author by this would make you believe that he was very Exact in the Account But we can Name Three off Hand In all whose Tryals Law and Honour were as much Strain'd as ever was known in England The Hardness of Mr. Ashton's Case has been more than once taken Notice of in both Houses of Parliament The Second a Poor Chair-Man was Hang'd for Attempting to Raise an Army and Inlisting Souldiers to Restore K. James The Third Cross an Inn-Keeper for his Curiosity in going a Board