Absolute and Despotick Power in the King They were fit Instruments to sacrifice the Laws and Religion of the Kingdom to the Will of their Sovereign P. 40. They neither knew nor feared nor cared for the Laws P. 82. The Members of Parliament would not stick to sacrifice the Liberties and Laws of the Kingdom to the King 's Will. P. 153. They devolv'd the Power of Making and Repealing Laws on the King's Pleasure P. 24 It was impossible the Grand Segnior should have fitted himself better with Instruments for promoting an Arbitrary Government than he K. J. did P. 31. No body can deny but they were well chosen for the Work for which he designed them Yet this Author could not think they were so very well chosen when he makes them stand up for the Laws and struggle with the King against Arbitrary Power till they made his Nose burst out a bleeding for vexation as you have heard before Now would you believe that this K. J. who was so highly bent to be Absolute and Arbitrary would be content to be a Vassal to France Yet this Author asserts it so positively p. 45. as to say that it is manifest And p. 183. That he took care to put it out of his own Power to help the Protestants Qui occidere quemquam nolit posse velit It is not natural for an Arbitrary Man to desire any thing to be out of his Power much less would he take care to put it out of his own Power If he did it must proceed out of an inveterate malice to the Protestants yet they all think His being there was their Preservation that he hindered the Irish not only from Massacres but from Burning or Plundering Dublin and the whole Country when they left it and many other Outrages And our Author when he is upon painting out the Barbarity of the Irish does frequently confess it and insist upon it and as frequently deny it when his Spleen rises against K. J. He cries out c. 3. s 13. n. 3. d. 4. p. 172. And when men were thus slaughtered with his K. J's approbation This is a very heavy Charge and what was the reason of it Because says he they were killed with K. J's Protections in their Pockets I am afraid there is no Case where we could come upon the Comparison betwixt the Protestant and the Irish Army in Ireland Of K. J. keeping his Protections with more disadvantage to the Protestants than that of keeping their Protections or punishing the Breaches of them In this I appeal to Secretary Gorge's Letter in which he gives a remarkable Instance of K. J's both granting Protections to the Protestants and making it good to them notwithstanding the greatest provocations viz. Secretary Gorge's Wife and Family were not only Protected and Preserved by K. J. in Dublin while he was in so considerable a Post against K. J. as to be Secretary to the General Schomberg then at the Head of an Army in Ireland to drive K. J. out thence but upon their application to K. J. he gave them leave and his Pass port to go to the Secretary to Schomberg's Army And thus by K. J's Clemency he had his Wife and Family restored safe to him at the same time that he was endeavouring to dispossess K. J. of all he had in the World The Secretary in his Letter aggravates the Breach of Protections and want of Discipline in Schomberg's Army by shewing how regularly King James governed his Army and not only threatned severe Penalties upon the Breach of his Proclamations and Protections but duly exacted them The respective Penalties injoyned in the said Proclamation says the Secretary viz. K. J's Proclamation against plundering and other Irregularities are severely and impartially executed on the respective Offenders My Family tells me that the Week before they left Dublin there were two private Soldiers publickly executed before a Protestant Baker's Door for stealing two Loaves not worth a Shilling And a Fortnight before a Lieutenant and Ensign were publickly executed at a place where on pretence of the King's Service they prest a Horse going with Provision to Dublin Market Two others were condemned and expected daily to be executed for the like Offence These severe Examples confirming the Penalties of these publick Declarations contribute so much to the Quiet of the Country that were it not for the Country Raparees and Tories theirs 't is thought would be much quiâ—ter than ours The truth is too many of the English as well as Danâ—s and French are highly oppressive to this poor Country whereas our Enemies have reduced themselves to that Order that they exercise Violence upon none but the Proprieties of such as they know to be absent or as they Phrase it in Rebellion against them whose Stock Goods and Estates are seized and set by the Civil Government and the Proceed applied for and towards the Charge of the War These are the Words of the Secretaries Letter where you see it was K. William's Army that destroyed and K. James's that protected the Country And as many Protestants as staid at home and trusted themselves to King James's Protection preserved their Goods and Improvements and live now plentifully while those that fled from him lost what they had and smart now severely under these Necessities which their Neighbours escaped who either would not or could not fly from the Mercy of their Natural Sovereign The Secretary says here That they seized the Estates of the Absentees But I must add to this That where any Application was made in behalf of Absentees and any tollerable Reason given for their not returning there was not only no advantage taken of their not coming in within the time limited in K. J's several Proclamations to that purpose but they had Time sine Die given them come when they could and in the mean time their Goods were preserved and though seized by the Sheriffs for the King's use being forfeited by the Laws there the King commanded the Sheriffs to deliver the Goods into the hands of such Friends of the Absentees as made Application for them And where the Irish Sheriffs refused or delayed to deliver such Goods they were severely punished and forced to do it or others put in their places that would For you cannot imagine but it went mightily against the Grain with them to be forced to restore the Goods of those who as they supposed were in actual Rebellion and their declared Enemies and which they expected and they thought reasonably as a Reward for their Services For who would not take the Spoil of their Enemies The Irish understood it as if the King still had an Eye towards his Protestant Subjects and preferred their Interest though in Rebellion against him before that of the Irish though at that time serving him or as Dr. Gorge words it better That King James considered the Protestants who were in Arms against him rather as deluded Subjects than as obstinate Rebels The Irish Protestants who staid
the publick printed Accounts of the Persecution and violent Rabbling of the Episcopal Ministers and others of their Principles they have suffered more from the Presbyterians in Scotland than even this Author was afraid of from King James in Ireland But not only the Papists in England and Episcopal Party in Scotland and the present Papists in Ireland may justifie their taking Arms against the Present Government when they please but the Irish Papists in 41 might have justified their Rebellion against King Charles I. by this Author's Principles which do indeed justifie all the Rebellions that ever were in the World or all that can be invented for none can want some of the Pretences which he allows for Rebellion But especially it gives full Liberty to all Dissenters in Religion to take Arms against the Government but more plainly if the Government shut them out from Places of Trust and Profit for such a jealousie of them may easily be improved into a Design for their Destruction But if any Penal Laws be made against them then the Design is apparent it goes beyond a Design it is a real Attempt upon them actually assaulting them c. But of all things How could the Irish who adhered to K. James be made Rebels to K. William before they submitted to him How could this be doâ—e by our Author's Principles If you say he had Title to Ireland by being King of England because Ireland is but an Appendix to the Crown of England Answer But from the beginning it was not so and the Government of England being dissolved as you say by Abdication and returned back to the suppos'd Original Contract or first Right of Mankind to erect Government for their own Convenience of consequence the Tye which England had upon Ireland by Conquest was dissolved and Ireland left as well as England in their suppos'd Original Freedom to chuse what Government and Governours they pleas'd But all this notwithstanding this Author's Principles freed them from K. William because of the Presumptions they had to think that K. William intended to invade their Property Lives and Religion He declared that he came to Establish the Protestant Religion By his Declaration of Grace 7 July 90 he pardons none either as to Life or Estate but only Poor Labourers Common Souldiers Country Farmers Plow men and Cottiers and such Citizens Townsmen Tradesmen and Artificers who should return by the 1st of August and even these were to forfeit all but their personal Chattels as you will see in the Declaration N. 6. Appendix And by the publick Resolution of his Judges 21 Nov. 90. which you will see in the Appendix N. 7. very few had hopes lest them either of Life or Estate even upon their submitting to King William and living peaceably under his Government pursuant to his Declarations And I am told that thousands of them are out-law'd since they submitted to his Protection notwithstanding of the many fair Promises which were made to them afterward upon several Occasions particularly General Ginckle's Proclamation printed at Dublin 4 Feb. 90. wherein he assures the Irish Papists in their Majesties Names that all of them who wâ—â—â—d submit to their Majesties Government should be protected as to their Religion Estates and Liberties These following Words are verbatim the Words of that Proclamation viz. Their Majesties hereby giving demonstration to the World that it is not their Design to oppress the Inhabitants of this Nation either by persecuting them for their Religion Ruining them in their Estates and Fortunes or Enslaving them in their Liberty These are the Words of that Proclamation which have not hinder'd the multitude of Out lawrys and other Proceedings and Forfeitures against those Irish who submitted to the Government As to their Religion they do not complain but that K. William has been very Gracious to them and they enjoy it in more ample Manner than ever they had it under any Protestant Prince But as to their Persons Estates and Liberties they cry out heavily of Breach of Publick Faith and Great Oppression If our Author had the improving of these and other their Circumstances how easily could he argue them into the lawfulness of taking Arms for their Defence But if the Argument of Glenco were on his side no doubt he would summon the Nation to rise as one Man and would Abdicate all the Governments in the World It is well for the Government that this Author is not touched by the late Act imposing the Oaths in Ireland the Refusal of which is no less than Premunire which does not only invade your Property but makes you uncapable of having any Property at all so much as to the Cloaths upon your Back or ever to breath the common Air out of a Jayl and none above eighteen years of Age no not Women of any sort Maids Wives or Widows are exempted What Declamations could our Author make upon this How far would he make this exceed the French Dragooning or even the Spanish Inquisition if he had such a Handle against King James Some Instances of the Author's manner of Argumentation I have heard from some who are acquainted with this Author that he is a Man of good Reason But in this Book I must say that his Zeal has transported him to take that for Reason which is the farthest from it in the World and which it is impossible he should think to be so in any other Case C. 3. s 8. n. 6. p. 102. He tells how Derry shut its Gates against the Earl of Antrim's Regiment And n. 7. p. 103. he proves they were obliged to do thus by their Foundation and names the Charter granted by K. James I. One would wonder how the King should grant a Charter to oppose himself The Author's Reason is That this Town was founded to be a Shelter and Refuge for Protestants against the Insurrections and Massacres of the Natives The Natives had before that time made frequent Rebellions and Derry was built as a Security against them therefore our Author thinks that if ever it should so happen that the Protestants should turn Rebels and the Natives be Loyal the King's Charter was meant to support the Protestants in their Rebellion This is too extravagant to need Confutation C. 3. s 12. n. 16. p. 154. He inlarges upon the Reasons they had in Ireland as well as in England to dread Papists in a Parliament and grounds his Argument from Q. Mary's House of Commons which was not well thought on for his Purpose for though that Parliament did overturn the Protestant Religion and set up Popery in its place yet the Protestants of England thought it their Duty for Conscience sake to suffer Martyrdom under those cruel Laws rather than to take Arms against their Popish Governours It is a Topick as ill chosen which he urges in the third Paragraph of n. 18. of the same Section p. 160. where the Argument he uses to cure the Folly of those Jacobites who were
of K. James II. when he came among them sacrificing his Interest to the carrying on of their own Designs did justly deserve that Judgment which fell upon them in the Issue of that War We have done with their Loyalty at least their Mouths are stopt against the Defection of so many of the Church of England Of the Roman Catholicks of England And I think the Roman Catholicks of England too are not to insult For though the Oaths be not come to them and therefore we cannot say certainly whether they will Swear or not yet there lies this against them viz. in their publick Chapels here in London they pray for K. W. and Q. M. which some of their Communion told me I hear that all the Protestant Non-Jurors say There is the same Argument against praying as swearing And of all their number none did allow himself to pray but Dr. Sherlock alone who as he tells in the Preface to his Recantation stood single among the Non-swearing Clergy upon this account and you see he did not stay with them But the same Principle that led him to pray brought him to swear too rather than stick out Therefore let not these Roman Catholicks be high-minded because others have fallen but rather fear lest having gone already Dr. Sherlock's length of Praying they may come to Swear like him if they should be pinch'd as he was Nay I have heard several of them argue for the Lawfulness of it only they would keep from it as long as they could I say not that this does conclude upon others who do not so but it may make them more modest in rejoycing over our Fall Non-Jurors of the Church of England Upon the whole I must say That there are none have cleverly stuck to the Principles they profess'd but the Non-jurors of the Church of England For as they profess'd them all along in the same sense they have stuck to them now and have given that demonstration of their being in earnest that they are content to lose all rather than deviate from them And this is one Discovery among the rest that this Revolution has made It has discovered the inflexible Loyalty of these Men whom neither personal Injuries nor Attempts upon their Religion Liberty or Property can move from that Duty to the King which they think a Principle of their Religion and this is a high Vindication of their Religion and a Recommendation of it But now we are upon the Discovery let us not forget to do Justice to all We cannot forget the Rise and Source of our Disease whence all these Evils we now feel and foresee have come upon us and that is our wicked Presbyterian Rebellion against K. C. 1. which banished his Children into Popish Countries God thereby fulfilling a just Judgment upon these Unchristian Rebels Presbyterian Loyalâ—y permitting his Son to suck in the Principles of Roman Catholick Religion of which these Hypocrites against their own Consciences accus'd his Father and on that pretence instigated his deluded Subjects to Rebell against him Therefore it is plainly the Presbyterians we have to thank for K. J's being a Roman Catholick and all the ill Consequences which depend upon it God often in his All-wise Providence suffers Rebellion to bring on those same Evils for prevention of which we chose to Rebell as the Jews crucified Christ lest the Romans should come Joh. 11.48 and his Death brought the Romans who did take away their Place and Nation This had been an Application more befitting a Divine and to have warn'd us of those Sins which have provok'd God to send his Judgments amongst us rather than to bite the Stone not minding the Hand that threw it to lay all upon K. J. if it had been true But to tell down-right Untruths of him or to misrepresent the Truth to appear other than really it is which is likewise Lying and perhaps the more wicked of the two being harder to be discovered and so more apt to impose upon unwary and unthinking People This is direct Diabolical the Office and the Denomination of the Adversary and false Accuser Popish Principles which are embraced It had been a more proper and serviceable Undertaking of this Author to justifie himself and others of his complection from this Imputation and several other things formerly rail'd at against Popery as the Deposing Doctrine Dispensing with Oaths Jesuitical Equivocations and Mental Reservations Not keeping Faith with Hereticks c. where we own we must have kept the same Promises made to another and all this or any other Falsity or Immorality to be allow'd for the Good of the Church If to preserve the Protestant Religion will excuse us to dispense with God's Commands as much as we say the Papists have done to preserve their Church we must expect that the Protestant Religion will grow as hateful to all good Men as the Church of Rome is to the most Bigotted against it or the Jewish Doctrine of Corban which dispenses with the fifth Commandment upon the same Pretences viz. for the Good of the Church to enrich the Treasury of the Temple or the Phanatick Confession of Faith That Dominion is founded in Grace But all these have the Advantage of our Church of England Clergy The Jews had the Tradition of their Elders to plead and the Church of Rome have their Great Council of Lateran for the Deposing Doctrine the Council of Constance for Violating Faith to Hereticks c. and they have their Traditions too for the Benefit of the Church and the Presbyterian has his Solemn League and Covenant But the Church of England Clergy are destitute of all these Helps There is nothing of these but the direct contrary in all her Articles Homilies Canons Rubricks or any Constitutions of her Church The Church of England Vindicated And the Metropolitan of all England with a Quorum of Bishops and several hundreds of the Inferiour Clergy have adhered to the Doctrine of their Church and suffered themselves to be Deprived rather than act or teach contrary to it Therefore this cannot be called a Defection of the Church of England but only of particular Persons who have done it in opposition to their Superiors in the Church as well as in the State and let them answer for it but let the Reputation of the Church be preserved It has already received both a Testimony and a Vindication from the Mouth of K. J. himself who as some present have told when an Irish Lord at Dublin attending upon His Majesty at Supper began to reproach the Church of England for her Apostacy from her former Principles of Loyalty c. The King reply'd They are the Church of England who have kept to the Principles of the Church of England The Lord made Answer But Sir how few are they in comparison with the rest The King said They are more than Christ had to begin Christianity with And all Rightful Kings of England have this
equal Justice does belong To you therefore dread Sir the Second Cause our Faith's Defender the wonderful Restorer of our captiv'd Liberties in greatest Humility but with unlimited Zeal and joyfull Hearts full of sincere Affection we yield our utmost and unfeigned Thanks the onely thing valuable which our Enemies left us wherewithal to Sacrifice and of which their Malice could not rob us We cannot but with Horrour stand amazed when we recount our never to be forgotten Sufferings our frequent causeless Imprisonments the Plundering our Goods the Confiscation of our Estates the innumerable Oppressions the illegal Exactions the tyrannous Hatred of our Persons and in a word the unchristian behaviour in all the Actions of our Enemies infinitely surpassing an Egyptian Servitude when Baal's Priests contented not themselves with their Idolatry alone to pâ—o4â—igate our Altars but in prosecution of their profane and ungodly Malice contrived the leading us captive to our Churches and each Ancestor's Tomb became our respective Couches then it proved literally true that our Liberties were offered a Romish Sacrifice on our own Altars Thus far Almighty God permitted them Then it was that our Enemies grew ripe for divine Vengeance then it was that you mighty Sir stept in and by your own victorious Arm to the hazard of your Royal Person rescued us from the hands of our Enemies then and not till then did Arbitrary Power Popery and Slavery terms almost convertâ—ble receive their period Wherefore to you dread Sir our only King our Lives Liberties Goods and Estates we humbly offer and at your Royal Feet great Sir we come prepared ready to lay them down for the defence of your Majesties Royal Person for the suppression of Popery for the maintenance of the Protestant Religion and the support of your Majesty's undoubted Right to these your Kingdoms and Dominions In testimony whereof we have caused the common Seal of the said City to be hereunto affixed this Ninth day of July in the Second Year of your Majesty's Reign Numb 23. His Majesty's Protection to the Inhabitants of Belfast June 3. 1689. James R. WHereas several Merchants and other our Subjects late Inhabitants of our Town of Belfast have quitted their respective Homes either by the Instigation of Persons ill affected to us or out of fear and taking up of Arms or seduced by sly and false Insinuations from the Duty and natural Allegiance they owe Us by means whereof they are very much impoverished in their Fortunes and they and their whole Families reduced to great Wants in strange places to the Depopulation of our said Town and lessening of Trade and Commerce therein Now forasmuch as we have received Information that the said Persons are by woful Experience convinced that they have been thus misled and frighted from their Duty by Persons for the most part desperate in their Fortunes or disaffected unto Us and our Government and that they do heartily repent of their having been so imposed upon and do resolve to return again to their Habitations Trade and Commerce so as they may receive our Assurance of Pardon for the time past and Protection for the time to come And We being willing and resolved to reclaim our Subjects by Mercy and to shew that We rather delight to forgive than punish do hereby promise to give a full general and free Pardon and Indemnity for the Crime of High Treason to all such Person or Persons as have for the space of twelve Months last past inhabited Our said Town of Belfast and shall within the space of forty days return to their Dwellings and Habitations there as also full Pardon and Indemnity of all Pains and Forfeitures which the said parties or any of them might have incurred or be subject or liable to upon account of having committed the said Crime of High Treason and that the said persons and every of them may peaceably and quietly enjoy their Estates Houses Stocks Goods Chattels Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the said Town of Belfalst or elsewhere they upon their arrival severally taking the usual Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity to Us before the Sovereign or other chief Magistrate for the time being of our said Town of Belfast And of this Our Will and Pleasure thus signified in behalf of Our said Subjects late Inhabitants of Belfast We hereby will and require all our Officers both Civil and Military to take notice and that they presume not to imprison indict or molest any person or persons either in their Persons or Goods who upon this our Indulgence can claim the benefit of this our free Grace and Favour Given at our Court at Dublin Castle the third day of June 1689. and in the Fifth Year of our Reign By his Majesty's Command Melfort Memorandum That the Oath of Fidelity mentioned in this Protection was not exacted as it is told in this Narrative but the Protestants were received into Protection without any Oath at all required from them Numb 24. The Lord Melfort's Letter to Mr. Pottinger Sovereign of Belfast July 9. 1689. Dublin Castle July 9. 1689. Sir IN Answer to yours of the 3d Instant I can onely tell you that the necessary Orders are given for the Subsistence of the Garison in that place without being a Burthen to the People That for such of the Inhabitants as have been deluded or frightned to quit their Dwellings in that Town and fly into Scotland where there appears any moral impossibility of complying with the King 's gratious Intentions to them without any Act of their own and that they have not taken part with any in Rebellion against his Majesty the King will not stint his Mercy to any narrow time his Inclination leading him rather to reclaim his People by indulgent than severe or rigid Courses I have ordered the Names of such as were Inhabitants there and entituled to the Benefit of the King's Promise of Pardon to be brought me in order to be struck out of the List of Persons to be attainted I am Sir Your humble Servant Melfort For his Majesty's special Service to Thomas Pottinger Esq Sovereign of Belfast at Belfast Numb 25. Coll. Hill's Letter to Mr. Pottinger Sovereign of Belfast May 1689. Sir I Did not intend that Business of the Sheriff should have been carried so far for it will draw all the O Neals upon my back and yours and if he should be sent for it may be a trouble to some to go up against him and will breed ill Blood in his Friends And since Coll. Maxwell hath so well redressed Matters already it will be needless and no other order is needfull more than a Letter to him owning his Care in this matter and desiring the continuance thereof but by all means if you can stop his being sent for otherwise it may meet you and me one time or other to our Prejudice by him or his Friends Here are six Companies of Coll. Cormuck O Neal 's Regiment quartered here and a Troop of Dragoons in Malone
shewn For being by a particular Clause in that Act enabled by themselves or whom they should appoint to try and purge out all insufficient negligent scandalous and erroneous Ministers they erected Tribunals in every Presbytery as arbitrary but more senseless than the Inquisition and did but one good Act to purge out those Episcopal Presbyters who complied with their Schism and Usurpation for which they could never want a pretence because Ordination or Collation from Prelates was always made one Article in their Visitations and thought erroneous enough to spew any out of their Churches But as to these Deprived Clergy I must here take notice of a distinction much used in England to mollifie Lay-Deprivations viz. That the Bishops and Clergy Deprived by Act of Parliament lose not their Character only are barr'd by the Secular Power to exercise it in such Districts But Act 35. of Sess 2. of the first Parliament of William and Mary in Scotland those Ministers who did not Pray for King William and Queen Mary and were therefore Depriv'd were afterwards prohibited to preach or exercise any part of the Ministerial Function either in Churches or elsewhere upon any pretext whatsoever And in the 38th Act of the same Session they do as much confound our State-distinction of de Facto and de Jure which they say is cunningly of late spread abroad to weaken and invalidate the Allegiance sworn to their Majesties And therefore they order a Certificate to be subscrib'd by all who take the Oath declaring K. W. and Q. M. to be King and Queen as well de Jure as de Facto And they say That in all these things they have dealt more frankly and plainly if not more honestly and sincerely than we have done in England They think it more fair and open Dealing plainly to Foresault the King for Male-administration than to Abdicate him for flying to save his Life And when he is gone that he should not take the Right to the Crown along with him and leave K. W. nothing but a de Facto Possession which they think a Betraying K. W. to the last Degree and making him no better than an Usurper They think it the same thing to debar Clergy-men from the Exercise of the Ministerial Function as to leave them no Place to exercise it in And as Charitable to allow nothing to the Depriv'd as to name something for them and put it into Hands where they are sure never to come by it But I know not so well how they 'll solve that Contradiction which seems to be betwixt their Claim of Right 11 Ap. 89. and their Confession of Faith Ratified and Established Act 5. of 2 Sess 1 Parl. William and Mary Read over in their Presence and inserted Verbatim in the Body of the Act. The Claim of Right begins in these Words Whereas King James being a profest Papist did assume the Regal Power c. And the first of their Claims is in these Words That by the Law of this Kingdom no Papist can be King or Queen of this Realm And yet in the abovesaid Confession of Faith Chap. 23. It is Decreed and Established as the true Christian Doctrine in these Words viz. Infidelity or Difference in Religion doth not make void the Magistrates just and legal Authority nor free the People from their due Obedience to him But I must not exceed the bounds of a Preface For if I should only Name all the Hardships and Oppressions the illegal and arbitrary Proceedings of which the Jacobites complain of in Scotland say they are ready to make good by undeniable Vouchers I should swell this beyond the Bulk of Dr. King's Book and that the Truths of the Proceedings in Scotland would if possible out-number the Falstoods he relates of Ireland But for a fuller Account of these Scots Affairs I refer you to a small Tract called A Letter to a Friend giving an Account of all the Treatises that have been Publish'd with Relation to the present Persecution against the Church of Scotland Printed for Jo. Hindmarsh Among these as to the State Affairs be pleased to consult that Tract called The late Proceedings and Votes of the Parliament of Scotland contained in an Address delivered to the King And for the Affairs of the Church An Account of the present Persecution of the Church of Scotland in several Letters The Case of the present Afflicted Clergy of Scotland The Historical Relation of the late General Assembly held at Edinburgh And the Presbyterian Inquisition And there you will find such Cruelties used towards the Loyal and Episcopal Party in Scotland as were unheard of in Ireland and by Dr. King's Principles would justifie any Foreign Prince to interpâ—se on their behalf And if it be true which he lays down as the Foundation upon which he builds all that he says in his Book viz. That if a King design to destroy one main Part of his People in favour if anâ—ther whom he loves better he does Abdicate the Government of those whom he designs to destroy contrary to Justice and the Laws If this be true the Episcopal Party in Scotland think it would free them from all Obligation to K. William's Government But how far it is Applicable to the Protestants in Ireland to justifie their Carriage towards King James will be seen in what follows Suppose say they it were true which Dr. King asserts as it is most false That K. James while he was in Ireland did endeavour totally to overthrow the Church Established by Law there and set up that which was most agreeable to the Inclinations of the major Number of the People in that Kingdom who are Roman Catholicks The Jacobites ask if this were so Whether it be not fully vindicated in the 4th Instruction of those which King William sent to his Commissioner in Scotland dated at Copt-Hall 31. May 89. in these Words You are to pass an Act Establishing that Church Government which is most agreeable to the Inclinations of the People By which Rule they say That it was as just to set uâ— Popery in Ireland as Presbytery in Scotland And that the Law was not more against the one in Ireland than against the other in Scotland That the Parliament in Ireland was liable to less Exception than that in Scotlandâ— The one called in the usual Form by Writs from their Natural King to whom they had Sworn the other by Circular Letters from a Foreign Prince to whom they ow'd no Obedience who could not nor did pretend any other Authority over them or Right to the Crown besides The Inclinations of the People Which therefore they say in return for their Kindness he has made the Standard for Church Government as well as the Government of the State That it is only alleged that King James intended to do in Ireland what he did not do when it was in his Power and what King William actually did in Scotland viz. To overturn the Church then by Law Established
Though King James had truly the Argument of the Inclinations of the People i. e. of the major Part in Ireland which was but a Pretence and falsly Collected in Scotland from the Fanatick Rabble being let loose and encouraged to act all outrage upon the Episcopal Clergy That the Argument is carry'd in Dr. King's Book and many Pamphlets grafted upon it that the Church of England ought to expect from K. J. the like Treatment which they pretend the Church of Ireland met with from him and his Popish Parliament But yet have no apprehensions from what K. William has done to the Church of Scotland which he and a Presbyterian Convention have pluckt up by the Roots tho' living peaceably and offending no Man while K. James and the Popish Parliament left the Church of Ireland Established by Law when all her Members to a very small Number were actually in Arms against him in as Universal a Rebellion they say as ever was heard of in any Nation wherein there are fewer Exceptions than of Loyal Irish in 41. Many other things the Jacobites do plead with which I will not detain the Reader they have made large Apologies for themselves and Dr. King's Book will afford them Mâ—tter for more I know not if it will be needful to advertise the Reader That he will meet with several Expressions and Arguments which I use only ad hominem following Dr. King's Phrase and Logick and not to mistake them for my own Sense or Approbation of his Principles or Characters which he gives As pag 33. paragr 5. and elsewhere And p. 191. where I take notice of his Comparison betwixt King James and the French King and according to his Representation of them I ask Whether any would have King James to be worse than the French King That is than that Character with which some take Pains to blacken the French Monarch But we know now what stress is to be laid upon their Representations by the many false and malicious Slanders which they have spread abroad and vouch'd with as much Confidence of their own King and of Matters done within our own Country It is not just to frame an Idea of any Man by that Represantation of him which is given by his Enemy And yet no King that ever was in the World has had his Praises sung to a greater pitch by the most flattering Poet than the French King 's most bitter Enemies have extalled him even while they were spitting Venom at him A Prince says the Mighty Cant. in his last Thanksgiving-Sermon before K. W. and Q. M. 27 Octob. 92. who governs his Affairs by the deepest and the steadiest Councils and the most refin'd Wisdom of this World A Prince Mighty and Powerful in his Preparations for War Formidable for his vast and well-disciplin'd Armies and for his great Naval Force and who hath brought the Art of War almost to that Perfection as to be able to Conquer and do his Business without Fighting A Mystery hardly known to former Ages and Generations And lastly that he has an almost-inexhaustible Treasure and Revenue Perhaps he said all this with a Prospect of standing him in stead another day What Roman Caesar's Greatness or God-like Power and Wisdom was ever set out in a higher strain than this Nay he makes the French Caesar exceed in the Art of War all former Ages and Generations And for his Civil Government within his own Kingdom suppressing and effectually curing Duels Robberies and other publick Vices which were most rooted in France for immemorial Generations it is the Amazement and envy'd Pattern of his Neighbor-Nations and really the greatest and most noble of all his Victories How does every one that comes over tell us That Travellers may carry Gold open through all France without danger of any Robbers But as soon as you set your foot upon Spanish Flanders you must prepare to fight your way to be Robb'd or Murder'd And in England we all too well know that none now are secure neither on the High-way nor in their Houses from Thieves and Robbers There is one Objection against this Great King which makes it an Offence to many to hear any thing though Truth spoken to his Advantage and that is Banishing the Hugonot Ministers and Dragooning others to work them into another Religion which does and justly eclipse his Glory with those who know not the true Grounds and Motives which induc'd him to Methods so rigid and severe But his very Enemies who know the Reasons he had for it do even in this Excuse him and turn it into an Argument of his wise Foresight and Prudence They tell you that he was under an invincible Necessity of being rid of these Men or hazarding such a Revolution as befel King James That he knew they would endanger him by a Revolt if he were Invaded by a Protestant Prince Which are the very Words of the Answer to Great Britain's Just Complaint pag. 47. That their Refugees here do generally all own the Principle of Resistance And that their Ministers march'd last Campaign before the Army into Dauphine Preaching to the People as they went the lawfulness of taking Arms against their King This is a plain Demonstration what the Answer to Britain's Complaint has told us The French King being thus vindicated by his Enemies in that which was most colourably Objected against him and which if not done upon the abovesaid Motives would leave him inexcusable The Jacobites think themselves for ever oblig'd to acknowlege with all Gratefulness the Noble and Generous Reception he has given to King James in his Distress which as no King in Europe was able to have done but Himself so none but he could have done it in such a manner with that Greatness and every Punctilio of Honor which if all the particulars were repeated would fill a Volume and is such an Original as is not to be found in former Ages and will be Recorded in History as the most glorious Scene of his Life And that if he perfect what he has so Heroically undertaken the Jacobites say he will not find readier Trumpeters of his Glory than the present Complying Divines late of the Church of England They would in that Day resume their old Theams with which their Pulpits us'd to ring but are now forgotten of the Persecutions of the Protestants by those Popish Princes who are now in Confederacy with England against France They would then tell us of the declar'd Principle of the House of Austria not to suffer any Protestants whom they call Hereticks to live within their Dominions And pursuant to that have Erected the Spanish Inquisition which occasioned the great Revolution in the Netherlands They wouâ—d set out likewise in their Colours the many Persecutions of the Protestants in Bohemia Hungary and Transilvania and the long Persecutions in Piedmont by the Dukes of Sarvoy and that by this preâ—ent Duke They would then inform us That all these Perfecutors were more Popish and
Bigâ—t than the French King and their Persecutions were more causeless not having such pressing Reason of State as ruâ—t which is above told for the French King 's dealing with the Hugonots and yet that their Persecutions were much more grievous The French King only Banished the Hugonot Ministers the present Emperor sent to the Gallies all the Protestant Mâ—nisters of Hungary whom he could seize They would then too preach it aloud who they were who occasioned the Mutyrdom of 400000 Christians in Japan and now engross that Trade by denying their own Christianity All this and more we should hear if such a turn came from these Versatile Trimming-Court-Divines Or wherever they judg'd it to comply with their Interest Their Carriage in this Revolution has given greater occasion to the Enemies of the Lord to blaspheme and turn'd more Men from the Church of England to the Church of Rome and even to Atheism has overturned ruined divided and dishonored our Church more than if that Persecution which some feard or pretended had fallen upon ' em How did the very apprehension of it unite the Protestants all over the three Kingdoms and fill their Hearts with greater aversion to Popery And none believe it would have Eradicated the established Episcopacy in Scotland not shaken it in England so much as is now done by the present Schism No say the Jacobites it would have Rooted and Confirmed it the more the Jesuit Councils should endeavour to destroy it for as Dr. King used to say Persecution never hurts Religion but Rebellion destroys it And he once thought it would be a glorious Sight to use his own Phrase to see a Cart full of Clergy men going to the Stake for asserting the Principles of their Religion How much more glorious indeed than to see them Recanting and Preaching down their former Principles and Proclaming it out of their own Mouths that they have been false Teachers all their Days before this Turn or otherwise that they are so now to serve a Turn Thus have they fulfilled upon themselves what Dr. B t told us in Print Father Peters threatned but was not able to effect viz. to make them eat their own Duâ—g It is in the Power of none to ruin the Church of England While it remains true to its self I have done when I have desired the Reader not to think that I am insensible of several ill Steps which were made in the Administration of Affairs under the Government of K. J. Nor do I design to lessen them or make other Apology for them than by doing him this Justice to tell what the Jacobites offer to prove and make it Notorious viz. That the greatest Blots in his Government were hit by those who made them with design to ruin him and now boast it as their Merit and are Rewarded for it And though Dr King represents him to be of so Tyrannical and Implacable a Temper towards the Protestants yet that it is now publickly known that the fatal Measures he took were advised and often pressed beyond and against his Majesty's inclinations and Opinion by those Protestants whom his unexampled and even faulty Clemency had not only Pardoned for all their bitter Virulency in opposing his Succession but brought them into his most secret Councils and acted by their Advice This was the Burden of the Charge laid against him in the P. of O's Declaration viz Employing such Ministers and acting by their Advice And though our Law says That the King can do no wrong and therefore that his Ministers only are accountable yet as Mr. Sam. Johnson has laid it open that we have liv'd to see the King only Punish'd and those Ministers Rewarded and still employ'd and the many Grievances complain'd of in their Administration under K. J. are by the present Discontented said to be continu'd and doubl'd upon us now FIAT JUSTICIA Memorandum That the Scots Acts of Convention and Parliament above-quoted are collected and extracted from the Registers and Records of the Meeting of Estates and Parliament there by the Commissioners then exercising the Office of Clerk-Register and printed Cum Privilegio at Edinburgh Anno 1690. And the Instructions above mentioned sent from K. W. to Duke Hamiltâ—n then his Commissioner there were printed at London by K. W's Order Anno 1689. I have but one thing more Upon reading over these Sheets after they were Printed I find an Omission as it may perhaps seem to some p. 139. where shewing Dr. K's familiar way of treating K. J. giving him the Lye c. I quote p. 15. of his Book where he says that the Representation made by K. J. was false c. and p. 211. that K. J's Answer was a piece of deceit and meer collusion c. Now lest any might apprehend that the abovesaid Representation and Answer of K. J. were so gross as to provoke the Doctor to this 〈◊〉 Language I will here tâ—ll you what they were which when I wrote it I did not think necessary because if they were never so bad they could not justifie such Billingsgate Treatment of a Crownâ—d Head especially of his Natural Sovereign to whom he had sworn Allegiance and from whom he had receiv'd particular Marks of Favour which I have shewn But the matter was no more than this The Representation Dr K mentions p 15. was a Declaration he names of K. J's dated 8 May 89. at Dublin and sent into England wherein the Doctor quotes these words viz. That his Protestant Subjects their Religion Privileges and Properties were his especial Care since be came into Ireland Which was so far from false as the Doctor decently and gratefully words it that nothing was more true and apparent as I think is fully made out in the following Answer to which I refer the Reader The other passage p. 211. where he says That K. J's Answer was a piece of Deceit c is thus Upon a Contest betwixt the Roman Cathâ—lick and the Protestant Clergy concerning their Title to some Churches and Chappels K. J. referr'd them to the Law And in the same place Dr. K. tells how violent and positive K. J. was where he saw any forcible Infraction made by the Roman Catholick Clergy as at Wexford which is told above c. Now whether referring Men to the Law was such a provoking Answer as to raise the Doctor 's Spleen to bestow the Lye Deceit Collusion and such civil Complements upon King JAMES I leave to the Reader and release him from this Preface desiring him before he begin the Book to correct with his Pen the under-written Errors of the Press because some of them do disturb the Sense ERRATA PAg. 2. lin 34 read Oxoniense P. 15. l. 17. r. do pretend to prove P. 16. l. 1. r. ours P. 21. l. 32. dele he might have added that P 22. l. 9. r. Pupillage P. 25. l. 20 dele And. P. 29. L. 37. r. greater P. 32. l. 22. r. kill d. P. 33. l. 4. r. greatest
Account of which he may be deprived of c. And pag. 23. he says of these Principles That they have poisoned the very Springs and Fountains of Government and so deeply tinctur'd Mens Minds that he prays God we may not still live to see the miserable Effects of it Thus Dr. Sherlock even since his Conversion But you may say how does it appear that this Author now sets up these Principles You shall be Judge Pag. 49. he says That it is ill trusting any one any King with such a Power This is in his c. 3. s 1. n. 8. Again c. 1. n. 10. p. 11. he expresses himself in these Words viz. The antient Government with which he the King was intrusted p. 41. he falls upon those who stopt the Bill of Exclusion with this wholsome Advice Never to trust Men of King James's Principles and Religion with a Power that may destroy us Here the King's Power is onely what the People please to trust him with Pag. 57. He says That it is not the King's Money that pays the Soldiers but the Kingdoms and thence it will follow that they are not the King's Soldiers but the Kingdoms 67. He says That every Law is certainly a Compact between the King and the People wherein by a mutual Consent they agree on a Rule by which he is to govern and according to which they oblige themselves to pay him Obedience That therefore the People may as lawfully dispence with their Allegiance to the King 68. as the King dispence with the Execution of a Law That the Subjects have no other Security for their Liberties 77. Properties and Lives except the Interest they have of chusing their own Representatives in Parliament Whereby he will exclude by very much the greatest part of the Nation from having any security for their Lives c. i. e. all but the Electors of Parliament men for none other have any Vote in chusing their own Representatives But the Author makes them amends by giving every one of them a power to dispence with their Allegiance to the King when ever they think that the King dispences with the Execution of any Law He makes them all Popes to dispence with Oaths or any other Duty when they think it reasonable And as he gives them Power over their Oaths of Allegiance so he does over the King's Treasury and Army It is Their Mony Their Army and why should not They command them The King himself acts but by their Commission and by all Rule and Right every Man is accountable to him from whom he has his Commission But now our Author is upon the Rode you shall see how he improves He derives the Eccles Authorily from the People p. 206. he stops at nothing And since he is a granting to the People they shall have all even the Ecclesiastical Authority which is trusted in the Crown shall be derived from the People and transferrable by them to whom they think fit For he makes King James's breach of trust in the Ecclesiastical Authority a provoking temptation to his People to think of transferring it to some other Person This will gratify the Phanaticks as well as Commonwealth-men That even the Ecclesiastical Authority is derived from the People His Interpretation of its not being Lawful upon any Pretence to take Arms against the King c. pag. 221. n. 3. And now to Crown all He gives as large and loose an Interpretation of that famous Principle of the Ch. of England viz. of it s not being Lawful upon any Pretence whatever to take Arms against the King c. as Bradshaw Rutherford Bellarmin or Mariana could desire viz. He says it was only meant That private Men should not take up the Sword or resist the King upon any Pretence that is says he upon any Pretence of private Injury or Wrong done to them in particular Beyond this none of the Republicans Phanaticks and Jesuits in the World could go So that this was no very distinguishing Principle of the Church of England as we us'd to call it But if you will allow the same Parliament which enacted the abovesaid Principle of Non-Resistance to the King c. to understand their own Meaning or think that the declared Sense of the Legislators is the true Sense of the Law then our Author has widely mistaken his Mark and misinterpreted this Law For 12 Car. 2. c. 30. it is declared That neither the Peers nor Commons nor both together nor the People Collectively nor Representatively in Parliament or out of Parliament nor any other Persons whatsoever have any Coercive Power over the Kings of England Now judge whether all this is meant only of Private Men as our Author would make you believe And take Notice that this is not to be taken as a Grant from that Parliament It is a Recognition wherein they declare what was the Law before them And they vouch that this Prerogative of the King to be exempt from all Coercive Power is by the undoubted and fundamental Laws of this Kingdom And that neither Lords nor Commons nor any other Persons not only now have not or hereafter shall not have any such Power over the King but that they never had or ever ought to have such Power I hope our Author will confess That this is somewhat a greater Authority and ought to have greater Weight with us than his single Opinion which he has taken up but of late And to confound that Distinction of the Parliament being Coordinate with the King and making the King but one of the three Estates which would imply their having something to do with the Sword which is the Supreme Power of Government joyntly with the King and therefore in some Cases might restrain him by Force which was the Pretence in 41. to obviate all this the Militia which is the Sword of England is by Act of Parliament put in the Hands of the King alone And it is declared in express Words 13 Car. 2. That the Sword is solely in the King's Power and that neither one nor both Houses of Parliament can or Lawfully may Raise or Levy any War offensive or defensive against his Majesty c. The Title of this Section p. 221. is King James and his Party endeavoured to destroy the Protestant Religion by misrepresenting the Persons and Principles of Protestants But it is not in the Power of Jesuit or any you can imagine to misrepresent the Protestant Principles more than this Author in this same Section as you have seen that is if you will allow that the Protestants did ever represent them Right before And whereas he Objects in the foremention'd Place That by it the abovesaid Principle of Non-Resistance it was never intended to give up the Constitution of the Government or to part with the Liberties and Privileges of the Kingdom The Answer is very easy for by the Judgment of what he calls the Constitution of the Government viz. King and Parliament
of Orange from that Contempt to which the States had reduced his Family and they were forc'd to make him their Sâ—at-holder as the Condition of saving their Country Therefore we know not well how to compute the Success of this staggering Commonwealth which is not yet an hundred years old and owes its Life to the Contention of its Neighbours and by Foreign Wars secures Peace at home which lasts no longer than they can have leisure and time to worry one another and shew the natural Effects of Popular Government which was worthily celebrated in Mobbing the De-Wits and will shew it self again when theâ—e shall be occasion But notwithstanding of all this our Author will allege that they had reason to take Arms rather than pay these unreasonable Gabels and Taxes which were impos'd upon them by their King To which I will nâ—w only say That they have paid much greater Taxes to their Deliverers than to their Kings But they fought for Religion as well as Taxes and they have got what they fought for for they pay the greatest Taxes in the World and they have got all Religions in the World Their Church is calculated for nothing but the Advancement of Trade and therefore has no other Authority than the States please to allow no more than a Company of Taylors Weavers or any other Society set up by the State Their Clergy are only Tools which the State makes use of for the better support of Temporal Government They may be call'd a Corporation or Committee of Religion but do not deserve the name of a Church who can forfeit their Charter to the State and are dismissable by them at their pleasure Erastus rather than Calvin was Moderator of these Assemblies General I would gladly have our Author's Opinion upon this Point He will perhaps say That they grow rich and thrive by these means No it is not by these means but their Scituation Soil and other Circumstances forces them to Industry they must work starve or drown and God has brought them under that happy Necessity to shew the World an Example of the great value and force of Industry how much it alone can do without the assistance of any other Vertue Therefore their Case will not be a Rule to other Nations But our Author says That at this day we shall find every Nation Happy and Thriving according as they have preserved themselves from Slavery He means Ireland of which he writes which at this day has glorious Effects of Happiness and Thriving to shew being reduc'd to a Wilderness from a Noble and a Plentiful Countrey and one half of the Souls in it are Perished and all Impoverished upon the Pretence of Preserving themselves from Slavery He says All Countreys under unlimited Monarchies decay in their Strength and Improvements By this he means poor France and the Eastern Monarchies whence we bring all our Riches But suppose it were granted That France has decay'd in Strength since its King grew Absolute and that there were no Riches in the Indies yet the Subjects of these Absolute Monarchs are free from Civil Wars Rebellions are rare among them they enjoy Peace which alone outweighs all the Pleasure of Riches if Civil War and Dissention go along with them as Solomon says Eccles 4.6 Better is an handful with quietness than both the hands full with travel and vexation of spirit Better is a Dinner of Herbs where Love is Prov. 15.17 than a stalled Ox and hatred therewith Riches are a Blessing they may be likewise a Curse Luke 12.15 A mans Life consisteth not in the Abundance of the things which he possesseth Peace and Quietness are more valuable than Riches for Riches without them afford little satisfaction and it were better be Poor than to have Riches to serve only for a ground of Debate or that Plenty should make us wanton so as to kick against our Governors and devour one another therefore till you can free your Principles of Liberty and Freedom as you call 'em from this main Objection of being an Inlet to Civil War and Confusion even Slavery and Beggary will be preferable to them in the judgment of wise men and of all that are not mad and intoxicated with the mere Name and Sound of Liberty tho the Effects of that prove the most absolute and miserable Slavery in the World who think there is no Liberty but in being free from Government tho they are thereby exposed to the Lawless and Arbitrary Attempts of their Equals and Inferiors but this they think nothing of so they may not be under their Lawful Superiors These are occasional Observations of this Author who would have you believe them without examining I hasten to give you a further view of his strain of Argumentation You have seen already the bent and force of all his Arguments viz. That a King who does design to destroy one part of his People does thereby Abdicate the Government of those whom he designs to destroy But King James had this Design against the Protestants of Ireland ergo he proves that King James had this Design Chap. 2. whose Title is Seventh Reason Destroying our Religion That King James design'd to destroy the Protestant Religion Now I say this is no Consequence for he might design to root out the Protestant Religion but not to destroy the Persons of the Protestants which is the foundation upon which this Author builds all his Arguments All Governments set up some Religion as the Established Religion of their Country and there are none which are in earnest with Religion but would wish all others to be of their Religion but that therefore they would destroy all who will not be of their Religion is our Author's Consequence which if it fail there is no Argument in his Book England no doubt would gladly rid it self of Popery to which end it is made Treason to turn Papist and their Priests are banished upon pain of Death and the Law debars Papists from Places of Trust and many Advantages which the other Subjects freely enjoy But that therefore the Government intends to cut the Throats of all the Papists in England or those that have now submitted in Ireland and therefore has Abdicated the Government of them is the Author's Doctrine which would be needful for him to explain for Reason is Reason in England and in Ireland and whoever should advance such an Argument in England I 'm confident would be looked on by the Government not only as a very weak and inconsiderable Reasoner but that he ought to be animadverted as an invidious seditious and Treasonable Incendiary who by this means endeavoured to render the Government odious and stir up the Subjects to Rebellion The same Argument will justifie what Dundee and the Highlanders have done in Scotland against the Present Government and it will justifie the Episcopal Party there if they should take Arms every day in opposition to the present Settlement of that Kingdom By
put the Sword in the hands of those of his own Religion and to make them the Ballance of the Nation which was natural enough for him to wish yet I do not Justify it But that ever he design'd to Massacre or Extirpate the Protestants I confess I cannot believe And his Carriage in Ireland by all the Accounts I could have of it nay take it altogether even as this Author tells it is a Demonstration to the contrary But I am too long upon this Subject Let us return to our Author's Quotation And here I must tell him That though Faulkner is against having such Cases put as abovesaid yet it is not that an Answer cannot be given for he gives it out of Bishop Bilson in the very same Place which our Author Quotes but he takes care to conceal the Words which if he had set down it would have appeared very ridiculous to have said as he does that Bishop Bilson seems to allow the Doctrine of Resistance The Bishop's Words are these as quoted by Faulkner first finding fault with such Cases being put That they are able says he to set Grave and Good Men at their wits end But then he adds yet we stand not on that and positively determines in these words which I had occasion partly to Quote before If the Laws of the Land where they converse do not permit them to save their Lives when they are assaulted with unjust force against Law or if they take Arms as you do to depose Princes we will never excuse them from Rebellion Thus Bilson And the very first words of the Chapter which our Authour quotes of Faulkner viz. Book 2. c. 5. puts the Case as directly against our Authors Position as if he had read our Author's Book and wrote on purpose to confute it There have been some says he who grant the unlawfulness of taking Arms against a Soveraign Prince to be a General Rule for ordinary Circumstances but yet they pretend there are some Great and Extraordinary Cases in which it must admit of Exceptions And the proposal of these Cases as they are by them managed is like the Pharisaical Corban an Engine and Method to make void the Duties of the Fifth Commandment And then he goes on and undertakes in this Chap. the defence of that Assertion of Barckley who proposeth the Question Nulli nè Casus c. May there no Cases fall out in which the People by their Authority may take Arms against their King And his Answer is Certainly none so long as he is King or unless ipso jure Rex esse desinat This is the same he Quoted Dr. Hammond for before viz. that the Person who was King may be Resisted when he does voluntarily Relinquish his Power and becomes a private Person for then indeed ipso jure he of Right ceases to be a King But may be our Author will say that ipso jure and ipso facto â—e ceases to be a King whenever he Designs to destroy a part of his People I will not repeat what I have said before in Answer to this as to tell what part of the Peoplâ— is mâ—aâ—t That this is an Eternal pretence for all Restless Spirits c. But it brings into my mind an Answer a Scots Presbyterian Minister whose Principles as to Government our Author has but licked up gave to the Objection in the 23 Chapter of their Confession of Faith upon the Head of the Civil Magistrate viz. That Infidelity or Difference in Religion does not take away a King 's Right to his Crown nor absolve his Subjects from their Allegiance to him The Minister replied That is true for if a King turn Infidel he does ipso facto cease to be a King So that our Author was not the Original of this pretty Distinction Faulkner in the same place shews our Author's Doctrine to be borrow'd from Mariana Bellermine and other Jesuitical Doctors Jesuit and Puritan are convertible Terms in the Point of Loyalty only that the Jesuit is the Elder Brother and determins against them N. 3. That the Agreement of the Whole body of the People or the Chief and Greater part thereof can give no sufficient Authority to such an Enterprise viz. of taking Arms against the King And with respect to this Kingdom he quotes our Laws which declare it Unlawful for the two Houses of Parliament though Jointly to take Arms against the King Faulkner goes on and proves as directly against our Author in this same Chapter which our Author quotes on his side as Words can be fram'd But there are none so blind as they that will not see These are all the Quotations he brings to support his new Hypothesis and how far they serve to his purpose I leave it to the Reader and from the whole I shall only mind our Author of the Instances I have already given him viz. The Condition of the Jews in Egypt in Babylon under Ahasuerus and the Romans The Gibeonites under Saul and the Primitive Christians in their several Persecutions more especially in the last Decennial Persecution And then apply this to the Rule he has given us viz. That Non-Resistance does reach only Tolerable Evils and where the Mischief is not Universal I wouâ—d be glad likewise to have his Opinion of the Carriagâ— of the Protestants towards Queen Mary The Protestants undeâ— Qu. Mary He will not say but â—â—â—ir Circumstaâ—ces were much more Dâ—plorable than under King James even at the worst that he does represent him There Numbers were fewer and she as much bigotted as King James married to the King of Spain overturn'd our Religion by Law and set up Fire and Fagot broke her Promise to the Protestants who set her upon the Throne in opposition to Queen Jane a Protestant There was but one Branch of the Royal Family that were near the Crown a Protestant that was the Princess Elizabeth and she was declared Illegitimate by Act of Parliament and to secure the Business was sent to the Tower in order to have her Head cut off And after her the Royal Line run out of Sight among the Papists so that the Protestants had a very lamentable Prospect Yet they bore it with an admirable Patience till God with his own hand wrought their Deliverance taking away Queen Mary without their Guilt or Rebellion and placing that condemned Princess upon her Sisters Throne to establish the Protestant Religion in a Legal manner And these Protestant Martyrs even at the Stake declared it Unlawful to take Arms against Queen Mary in defence of their Religion but exorted their Fellow Protestants to Patience and Resignation to the Good Will of God But by no means to Rebel for that was Damnation They did not Plead that their Evil was Intolerable when they were going into the Fire or that it was Universal reaching to their whole Religion in the Kingdom These were Excuses they were too dull to find out to save their Lives and their Religion But let us
the Irish Papists against us How frequently do we hear them tell us That though we continue to Injure them Rob and Destroy them yet they must Trust in us and be True and Faithful to us c. These are the Words of the Doctor 's Letter and I suppose will be thought but an over good Retortion of this Author's Objection viz. of the Spoil and Plunder committed by King James's Army Whose Discipline and good Government the Dr. in that same Letter does commend exceedingly above that of King William's Army And now as to the other Point viz. My Lord Tyrconnel's haste in sending that Army into the North I suppose our Author intends this for Politicks and upon that head without medling with the Goodness or Badness of the Cause I think my Lord Tyrconnel was rather too slow to suffer the Protestants in the North to be Arming Inlisting Associating against the Government actually Assaulting the Kings Forts and Garrisons Disarming his Souldiers and killing some of them at last publickly renouncing the King and proclaiming a Foreign Prince for their King and acting in his Name and by his Commission and all this was a doing and visibly carrying on from September to March which truly in Politicks was rather too long to suffer it to run And if that Army had not gone down when it did against the Associators in the North it wou'd never have been able to reduce them as it did which appears by the Defence a few of them made afterwards at Derry and Eniskillen And therefore I do not see any ground to blame my Lord Tyrconnel for sending that Army so soon considering that he thought it a good Cause in which he was engag'd But especially considering that our Author himself calls him a Fool for not dealing more briskly with the North in time He laughs at the Lord Deputy for leaving Derry so ill guarded as that they were able to seize it It proceeded says this Author c. 3 â— 8. n. 6. p. 103. from his the Lord Deputies own Ignorance or Negligence who had left that Garrison the only one of any considerable Strength in Ulster where most Protestants lived without one Soldier to guard it This is the Thanks be got for giving them that Opportunity which they had and they cry out upon him as a bloody-minded Man because he would not give them longer time then above three Months after their first seizing of Derry for it was so long before he sent the Army against them It was the 7th or 8th of December 88. that the Protestants seized Derry the first time and the Irish Army did not come to Drommore in the North till the 14th of March following tho all that time the Protestants were improving their Opportunity and every day committing Insults upon that small part of the Army only two Regiments which was Quartered among them But as our Author says in the same Page the Lord Deputy bethought himself too late of his Error but could never retrieve it Mr. Boyse's Narrative p. 13. says That my Lord Tyrconnel deferr'd the sending down his Army twenty days after it had been first resolved on in Council I have another Account which confirms all this viz. The Earl of Granard upon his leaving Dublin about the beginning of Feb. 88. to go to Castle Forbes desired a Person who went with him as far as Chappelisard to pretend some Business with my Lord Deputy on purpose to find out whether he designed to send the Army against the North and that Person went to the Lord Deputy that same day and asked him why he would suffer a Rabble in the North to affront the Government seeing a few of the Army would disperse them the Lord Deputy adswered That he was unwilling to ingage in Blood hoping they would of themselves reflect and come to a better temper But that now since General * This was a Son of the Lord Massereen's whose Souldiers assaulted the King's Forces at Tuam Scevington had made the first Rupture by falling upon and killing some of the Souldiers at Tuam he would send with what Expedition he could to Quash the Rebellion and let them blame themselves for the Consequence This I have from that Person himself and yet the Army did not go to the North till the 11th or 12th of the March following But this Author says as above c. 3. § 8. n. 10. that if he had delayed a little longer till King James had come then in all Probability if King James himself appeared amongst them and offered them Terms they would have complied with him at least so far as to submit Quietly to his Government If the Author thinks this I confess he is the first Protestant of Ireland that ever I found of that Opinion And the issue did pretty well prove it For after when the Associators were beaten at Drumore at Colerain at Clady and driven into Derry and Enneskillen and when King James appeared amongst them and offered them what Terms they pleased they value themselves upon refusing all Terms and holding out But may be this Author thinks That if they had beaten King James's Army they would have been better disposed to have received Terms from him But pray The Author's Character of K. J. how does all this agree with the Character which this Author raises of K. J. in this Book Wherein he represents him as a faithless merciless and bigotted Tyrant who designed to destroy all the Protestants and went as far in it as he could and employed Persons most inclined and fitted to do it and that no Trust was to be given to his Word or to his Oath c. And yet this is the Man whom in all probability this Author says the Protestants in Ireland would have submitted to if he had but appeared amongst them and offered them Terms But I must tell the Author That as to K. J. in his own Person there is another Man has given his Character who had more reason to know him than this Author and is at least as good a Judge that is the Lord Danby stil'd at present Lord Marquess of Carmarthen who in the Speech he made to the Gentlemen assembled in Yorkshire Lord Danby's Character of K. J. in the Infancy of this Revolution represented K. J. to them under as fair a Character as could be given of a great Prince and a good Man and that no Nation in the World would be happier in a King if he were but rescued from the evil Counsel of the Priests and Jesuits c. And I never heard any about his Person say but that he was a very good natur'd Man Even his Enemies charge his Miscarriages to his Zeal for Religion A very singular fault in these Times And even as to his Carriage in Ireland K. J. oppâ—â—â— thâ— Act of Attainder 〈◊〉 Repeal of 〈◊〉 Acts of Settlement I have heard not a few of the Protestants confess That they owed their Preservation and Safety
Religion The Passage is Pag. 11. Sect. 2. of the Sermon where the Doctor in profound Adoration of the Royal Authority and the Legal Establishment of a Nation makes it unlawful to preach against the established Religion of a Nation though it be false unless we could justifie our Commission by Miracles as the Apostles did All says he that Persons of a different Religion can in such a Case reasonably pretend to is to enjoy the private Liberty and Exercise of their own Conscience and Religion for which they ought to be very thankful because by the way it is impossible for any Government to hinder any Man from the private Exercise of his own Conscience and Religion and to forbear the open making of Proselytes to their own Religion though they be never so sure that they are in the right till they have an extraordinary Commission from God to that purpose Now because some do think That that extraordinary Commission Matt. 28.19 20 Go teach all Nations belongs to the Successors of the Apostles to the end of the World to which time Christ there promises to assist this Commission of his and to be with those who preach it therefore the Dr. barrs that Pretence in what is said above for he not only requires That such Men should be extraordinarily Commissioned as the Apostles and first Publishers of the Gospel were but that they be able to sustifie that Commission by Miracles as they did This indeed does effectually secure any People from being disturbed with the hearing of the Christian or ony other Religion but that wherein they were bred till a new Age of Miracles shall arise If our Author had gon to this length of Passive Obedience I should not wonder that some Irish Protestants had been offended for it did not relish with us here notwithstanding the good Dr. was at the pains to print it twice for our Information And 5 Nov. 78. before the H. of Com. And that he had two Years before Instructed the Honourable House of Commons in the same flight of Loyal Principles in his Sermon preached before them 5 Nov. 1687. upon Luke 9.55 56. Where in the second Head of his Discourse p. 17. he speaks Of an evil Spirit in the World which not only contrary to Christianity but the common Principles of Natural Religion which by Falshood and Perfidiousness by Secret Plots and Conspiracies or by open Sedition and Rebellion by Deposing and Killing of Kings by the ruine of their Countrey and betraying it into the hands of Foreigners by all the wicked Ways imaginable doth invite Men to promote and advance their Religion But when Religion says he p. 19. once comes to supplant Moral Righteousness to lye for the Truth and to kill Men for God's sake when it seems to no other purpose but to be a Bond of Conspiracy to inflame the Tempers of Men to a greater fierceness and to set a keener edge upon their Spirits then surely it loses its Nature and ceases to be Religion For let any Man 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 Falshood and Treachery from Sedition and Rebellion It is true indeed that the Christian Religion is the most conducive to promote Temporal Peace and good Government of any thing in the World But we have been taught and I hope it is true that it has much more Spiritual and greater Ends than these viz. Eternal Happiness in the clear Vision of God and Enjoyment of him for ever And therefore that it is good for something else than Temporal Quiet among Men which it does not always procure nor is it always a Blessing unless when accompanied with Truth Peace and Security in our Sins is the greatest Curse And therefore a Religion which happens to disturb the outward Peace of this World may not be worse than Infidelity or no Religion as the Dr. supposes for Let any Man say worse of Atheism and Infidelity if he can says the Dr. with great Courage But good Sir if you would give me leave Does not Atheism and Infidelity lead to Hell and Damnation And that is a little worse I humbly conceive than any Imbroylments in this World that were ever caused for Religion even that of Joshua among the Canaanites which by all the Arguments in this Sermon was an attempt contrary to the Nature of true Religion and must have byast all who look no farther than Temporal Quiet against Joshua's Religion and to embrace rather that of the Canaanites who acted only on the Defensive But I will not be so unjust to this learned Dr. as to conceal the Strength of his Argument That Hell is worse than Temporal Disturbance does indeed carry the Vogue among unthinking People and consequently they do suppose contrary to the Dr. that Atheism and Infidelity are worse than the Disturbance of our Quiet here But he has taken pains to instruct them in his Sermon Preached before the Queen 7 March 90. upon Matt 25.46 and Printed By their Majesties special Command That all God's Threatnings of Hell may be only in Terrorem to Frighten Men but that there is no Necessity nor Certainty that Hell will be Eternal as is threatned or that there will be any Hell at all But a less threat than that of Eternal Punishment he says is not sufficient to deter Men from Sin And therefore that God did wisely to threaten it But the Dr. to prevent God from Deceiving of Mankind has told this great Secret Has God said ye shall surely dye But the Dr. says Ye shall not surely dye Taste of my Knowledge and it will open your Eyes For as he goes on in that Sermon on the 5th of Novemb. abovesaid Better it were there were no Revealed Religion Both these Serm. are Pr. anew in the Year 91. in the 3d. Vol. of Dr. Till Sermons and that humane Nature were left to the Conduct of its own Principles and Inclinations than to be acted by a Religion that is continually supplanting Government and undermining the Welfare of Mankind Such a Religion as teaches Men to propagate and advance it self by Means so evidently contrary to the very Nature and End of all Religion And p. 21. The Doctrine of the Lawfulness of Deposing of Kings and Subverting Government is as bad or worse than Infidelity and no Religion How much better Teachers of Religion were the Old Heathen Philosophers In all whose Books and Writings there is not one Principle to be found of Treachery or Rebellion But blessed be God says Dr. Burnet in his Sermon upon Rom. 13. v. 5. p. 36. Our Church hates and condemns this Doctrine from what Hand soever it come and hath established the Rights and Authority of Princes on sure and unalterable Foundations injoyning an entire Obedience to all the lawful Commands of Authority and an absolute Submission to that supream
particular Salvo for his own Conscience Some pretend they keep to Passive Obedience still others that they were never for it It is a severe Jest that the Common People have got up against the Clergy That there was but one thing formerly which the Parliament could not do that is to make a Man a Woman But now there is another that is to make an Oath which the Clergy will not take In short they have shewn such Unwillingness such poor pittiful mean Arts to shift to compound to accommodate this Oath to their Interests that K. W. has no reason to trust them nor their Oaths They will find a Distinction to leave him if ever they can make their Account by it But no doubt he understands them Of the Dâ—prived Clergy I will not enter upon the Case of the Deprived Clergy only say this That their Firmness to what the People think to have been the uncontroverted Doctrine of the Church of England that is Passive Obedience has kept many Men from rank Atheism and believing all Religion to be really no more than Priestcraft and a mere Cheat while they see Divines turn for a piece of Bread and damn that to day which they enjoyned yesterday upon pain of Damnation But on the other hand when they find so many and the greatest of them part with all they have in the World Honours Estates and ready as they have given good Reason to believe to lay down their very Lives in adhering to those Principles which they have preacht this forces People to reflect that these Men are in earnest with Religion and that there may be such a thing For the greatest Danger to which we are now exposed by this Defect of so many of our Clergy is not only Popery or Phanaticism whose Principles they have embrac'd but a contempt of all Religion which is now spread over the Land in a manner unheard of in former Ages The Lord avert this sad Omen and grant us Repentance to prevent his Judgments for Christ Jesus sake This is a sad Subject to look upon the Nakedness and Reproach of so many who were once Members of that Renowned Church of England Let us turn our Eyes to some less afflicting Prospect Roman Catholick Loyalty Among these melancholy Discoveries we have made of the Failings of our Friends let us not forget those of our Opposites of the Church of Rome lest they glory in our Downfall I go not abroad nor meddle with the Confederacie of Pope Innocent XI the Emperor King of Spain and other Roman Catholick Princes to set up a Protestant Prince against a Roman Catholick King who has no other Crime laid to his Charge by our Author 's own Confession than what he calls the natural Effects of Popery And for this Thousands of Armed Papists came to dispossess him It is said That Religion was not the only Quarrel and we easily believe it It has the least share in our Quarrels though it is always made the Pretence It would have been made the Pretence and Loialty in abundance as with the Dublin Clergy so with the Irish Papists if they had prevail'd and it would have been hard to disprove them Particularly of the Irish But now they too are detected I speak not of all I â—eâ—â—e not to maâ—e any National Reâ—â—â—â—ion no doubt there are many â—onest and gallant 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 other Nations and they have shewn it 〈…〉 always will shew in But I am looking upon the 〈◊〉 of â—â—â—y others of them in this Revolution 〈…〉 that there was more of Interest 〈◊〉 their Dâ—â—igns than pure Principles of Loialty Wiâ—nâ—ss their forcing K. J. to call a Parliament when it was so very unseasonable in the midst of his short time of Action and threatning to lay down their Arms and desert him if he would not pass the Bills of Attainder and Repeal of the Acts of Settlement Their hindering him so many times to go to Scotland which was then visibly his Interest and suffering none they could help English or Scots though Roman Catholicks to be employ'd even forcing some of his Ministers from him whom they supposed no Friends to their Interest Insomuch that the King complained to a Scots Gentleman who was pressing him to mind his Affairs in Scotland What can I do You see I am left alone I have none to do any thing for me But above all some of them moving to him for leave to cut off the Protestants which he return'd with Indignation and Amazement saying What Gentlemen are you for another Forty-One Which so gall'd them that they ever after look'd upon him with a jealous Eye and thought him thô a Roman Catholick too much an English-man to carry on their Business And I am told by persons come from thence That the generality of the Irish Papists do at this day lay all their Misfortunes upon K. J. because he would not follow their Measures and was so inclinable to favour the Protestants Lastly their Surrender or Selling of Limerick as some say but I know nothing of it but this is certain that they were well able to have held out till the French Succors could have come And some of these Irish have since been rewarded by K. VV. and have found their Account in the Articles granted them and made no scruple to take the Oath of Allegiance to K. VV. and Q. M. which is agreed to in the Articles of Limerick and now taken generally by the Irish Papists all over Ireland by direction of their Clergy But these Irish for got that it was chiefly upon their Account by shewing favour to them that K. J. brought upon himself all his Misfortunes Putting them into Power and displacing Protestants to make room for them made more noise and rais'd K. J. more Enemies than all the other Male-administrations charg'd upon his Government put together But when some of them saw that he could no longer secure them their own Estates or give them those of the Protestants they gave over His Cause and found no difficulty to swear to another Prince though a Protestant and possessed of K. J's Crown It was not much better they serv'd his Father first brought him under Calumny for pretended Kindnesses to them and their Religion counterfeited Commissions under his Name which Sir Phelim O Neal confess'd at his Death and endeavour'd to cast the Odium of their Rebellion and Massacre upon Him And after when they made a shew to return to their Loyalty they disappointed him of the Succors they had agreed to send him against the Rebels in England joyn'd with the Pope's Nuncio against him and invited over a Foreign Prince the Duke of Lorrain to Rule over them I have heard some of the Irish attribute their ill Success in the Rebellion of 41. to the barbarous Massacres by which they began it and their unfaithful dealing with K. Charles I. And some of the soberest among them now do make the Reflection That their ill Usage
Security from the Members of the Church of England more than from either Popish or Presbyterian Dissenters That when either of these two last-nam'd take Arms against the King for the Propagation of their Religion they act pursuant both to the Principles and Practice of their Churches but no true Church-of-England man can take Arms against the King in Defence of his Religion Liberty Property or any pretence whatsoever without at the same time renouncing the Principles of his Church or in Dr. Burnet's words turning Renegado and Apostate from it and from the constant Practices of its true Professors to this present Age. And though God has sifted Her and discovered Her unsound Members most of whom were Phanaticks grafted contrary to Nature yet we may perceive by the Remnant He has left that it will end in rendring her more Pure and Glorious after she has past the Refiner's Fire These Considerations have taken me a little out of the Road if it be out of the Road of the present Business I will return to the Author We have seen his Sincerity in the Original Matter of Fact and Mother of all the rest viz. Who were the Aggressors in the late miserable Revolution of Ireland for they were answerable for all that followed Matter◠of Fact set down by this Author at random But there are many other Particulars besides those to which I have spoken wherein the Author shews great variety of prevarication And tho he pretends to so great exactness which any one would believe by his Method yet it is visible that he set down things at random meerly for want of pains to examin them C. 3. S. 12. at the end p. 165. he pretends to compute what the Estates of all the Jacobites in England and Scotland are worth But this may pass more innocently than where it reflects upon any particular Persons Reputation in these Cases it is not only uncharitable but unjust to say any thing at a venture If we know not the thing to be true we are to err on the charitable side and not mention what may reflect upon another but if we do we must be sure to set down our Vouchers so as to leave no umbrage to suspect the Truth This our Author I am afraid has not so punctually observed through all this Book particularly in the Characters which he takes upon him to give of so many persons C. 3. S. 3. he accuses the Judges particularly the Lord Chief Justice Nugent ibid. n 5. p. 61. of down-right Bribery That he went sharer in Causes before him and not only appeared for them on the Bench but also secretly encouraged and fomented them I have heard others say who are no Admirers of that Judge That they are confident this is a rank Slander and Calumny and that no such thing can be proved against him However an Accusation of so heinous a Nature ought not to have been exhibited especially in Print without some Proofs along with it This Nugent says the Author was pitch'd on by K. J. to judge whether the Outlawries against his Father and his Fellow Rebels should be reversed Now I am assur'd That his Father viz. the Earl of Westmeath was not Outlawed which if so this is such another careless Mistake as this Author makes ibid. n. 3. pag. 60. where he calls Felix O Neil a Master of Chancery in King James's time Son of Turlogh O Neil the great Rebel in 41 and Massacrer of the Protestants That Turlogh O Neil was Brother to the Famous Sir Phelom O Neil and was not Father to this Felix O Neil I have been told by Men of Ireland That this Felix O Neil's Father's Name was Phelom and that he was so far from being a bloody Masacrer in 41. that he was civil to the Protestants in those times particularly to 〈…〉 Guilliam Father to Meredith Guilliam now a Major in K. W's Army whom he obliged by his civil Usage of him when he was Prisoner with the Irish and the same Guilliam's Relations do still acknowlege it But as to the Reversing of these Outlawries this Author has not done right to K. J. For upon the Representation made to his Majesty by the Earl of Clarendon then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland of the ill Consequences of the Reversal of these Outlawries particularly the Jealousie it gave of encroaching upon the Acts of Settlement which you will see more at large in King James's Letter of the Third of May 86. to the Earl of Clarendon and his Lordships proceedings thereupon which are hereunto annexed No. 20 His Majesty did not press that matter any farther and so there was a stop put to these Reversals during the Government of my Lord Clarendon in Ireland and for any thing I can hear afterwards till this Revolution So that this seems rather an Imposition upon the K. as there were many by my Lord Tyrconnel and those of his Party than a thing that sprung immediately from the King 's own Breast or that he pitcht upon Judge Nugent on purpose to carry it on violently as this Author sets it out in his Guesses at Random and would have it pass for some mighty Matter To this Class will justly belong what I have before mentioned of this Author 's bold and positive Politicks upon foreign Princes and States and likewise of the P. of W. Fr. League c. which he had from the same Intelligence and avers with the same Assurance By Innendoes wherein his groundless and unjust Reflection upon the E. of Clarendon He has likewise an Art of making many things pass by Innendo's whose Falshood would have appeared if they had been plainly related For Example c. 3 s 12. p. 144. telling of the assurances sent over by King James to Ireland by the Earl of Clarendon Lord Lieutenant and Sir Charles Porter Lord Chancellor he says These Declarations gained belief from the credulous Protestants especially that made by Sir Charles who behaving himself with Courage and Integrity in his Office went a great way to persuade them which being the Ground of their being persuaded by him more especially than by my Lord Clarendon plainly insinuates as if my Lord Clarendon had not behaved himself with Courage and Integrity in his Office there This Author is the first Irish Protestant I have heard give my Lord Clarendon an ill word as to his Government in Ireland On the contrary they all speak exceeding things of him particularly of his Zeal and Pains for Supporting the Protestant Interest in that Kingdom which gain'd their hearts to as great a degree if not more than most Chief Governours had ever been there they never parted with any Chief Governour with so much regret and as I have been told none courted him more when he was there than this Author who was admitted one of his Excellency's Chaplains but now thinks fit that should be forgotten at least kept for a more seasonable Juncture But C 2. S. 4 n. 1. p. 19. he
here do tell it The Earl of Inchiquin and Captain Henry Boyle with the generality of the Protestant Gentlemen in the Province of Munster having entred into an Association in Decemb. 88. as the Protestants in Ulster and Connaught had done they resolved to seize upon Corke and Bandon as the places of greatest Strength and Consequence in the Province Their Design took effect at Bandon which joyned with them But the Lord Deputy having notice of their Proceedings sent Major-General Mac-Carty now Lord Mount-Cassell to observe them He pretending to keep fair with them they attempted bringing him over to declare for the P. of Orange and some of them had hopes of it but he proved too cunning for them prevented their seizing of Corke and when Captain Henry Boyle upon that disappointment fortified his House Castle-Martyr he besieged him there Upon this Sir Tho. Southwell in the County of Limerick and several other Protestant Gentlemen marched with the greatest Force they could make to raise the Siege in their march they seiz'd on all the Papists Horses and this Mr. Browne who was then one of them took the Horses of Neagle of Moyallow who was then High-Seriff of the County of Corke and a Man was killed in the Fray and all this our Author calls only making his escape from those who came to plunder him But to tell out my Story Sir T. Southwell and his Company hearing upon their March that Castle Martyr was surrendred he endeavoured to make his way to Sligo to joyn the Lord Kingston and other Associators in Connaught who were all in Arms and as this Author tells p. 170. he and 200 of his Men were taken by a small Party of K. J's Dragoons not much to the Glory of their Courage And this Author says p. 171. That they were over-persuaded to plead Guilty though they had not been guilty of any Overt Act that could be construed Treason What this Author means by Overt Acts or what by Treason he will tell us in the next and likewise give us some probable Reason why K. J. should Reprieve and afterwards Pardon Sir Thomas Southwell and all the rest who were engaged in that business and have such a particular Malice only at Browne whom he knew as little as any of the rest Otherwise he must give us leave to suspend a little our belief of his Narrative in this matter particularly that K. J. should influence either Judge or Jury to take away Mr. Brown's Life and that he should be inexorable in Mr. Brown's Case alone and yet so very merciful to all the rest is a Contradiction to believe if his Case or Circumstances did in no ways differ from theirs But it is no wonder that this Author cannot keep him self from Contradictions through the whole Series of his Book when the very Titles the Heads of his Discourse are contradictory one to another which one would think an ordinary Care might have avoided C. 2. s 8. n 10. the Title is That K. J's Desire to be absolute induced him to change his Religion And yet c. 3. s 1. n. 5. the Title is Zeal for his Religion made him act against his Interest to that Degree says this Author in his Prosecution of this c. 3. s 1. n. 5. p. 46. that the Protestants could not but conclude that K. J. was so intent upon destroying them that so he compassed that Design he cared not if he enslaved himself and the Kingdoms P. 45. That he had a setled Resolution not to mind any Interest which came in Competition with his grand Design of advancing Popery and the Slavery of the Nations To effect which it is manifest he was content to be a Vassal to France Thus the Author Here are Contradictions upon Contradictions That K. J. should be content to be a Vassal that he might be Absolute If you say that must be understood only of his other Grand Design viz. advancing Popery which had the Ascendant even over his Interest or his desire of being Absolute This will contradict the other Head of Discourse which gives the desire of Absoluteness in him the Ascendant over his Religion as being the Ground-work and Motive which induc'd him to change his Religion And yet page 10. of his Thanksgiving-Sermon Perhaps says he K. J. chiefly desired an Absolute Authority over his Subjects that he might compel them into the bosom of his Church And it does not appear a less Contradiction than any of these that a King should change the Principles of the Church of England as then taught for those of Rome out of a desire to be the more Absolute The Church of Rome 4 Coun. Lat C. 3 c. gives Power to the Popes to Depose Kings and they have shewn many Examples of it On the other hand the Church of England when K. J. forsook her Communion damn'd this Deposing Doctrine and the Practice of it and valued themselves upon the Principle of Non-Resistance to their King upon any Pretence whatsoever as their distinguishing Character and an essential part of their Religion and they had never varied from it nor was it thought by any or themselves that ever they would I am sure if they were not in earnest with it then they can give no demonstration now that they can be in earnâ—st with any thing and it is in every bodies mouth That K. J's trusting too much to their Passive Obedience hastened his Ruin which could not be if he had not thought this to have been their Principle Now for a King of this Opinion to quit this Church and go to that Church which teaches the Deposing Doctrine to do this out of a desire of Abâ—â—luteness is such a Contradiction as this Author would have seen at another time C. 3. s 12. n. 15. p. 153. he makes K. J. most absolute in the Parliament in Ireland That this Parliament openly profess'd it self a Slave to the King's Will and that he was look'd upon as a Man factiously and rebelliously inclin'd that would dare to move any thing after any Favourite in the House had affirm'd that it was contrary to the King's Pleasure Accordingly the Author instances several particulars of K. J's Absoluteness in this Parliament particularly That upon his signifying his dissatisfaction to the Repeal of Poyning's Act the Parliament let it fall with several other Acts tho' the Irish had talk'd much and earnestly desired the Repeal of Poyning's Act it being the greatest sign and means of their Subjection to England Yet p. 37. you have the Irish dispute his Orders and and stand on the Laws and they would not suffer him to dispense with their Act of Attainder c. And yet p. 18. They pish'd at the Laws as Trifles and declared they liked no Government but that of France that they would make the King as Absolute here as that King was there P. 31. The Temper and Genius of these Men were at Enmity to the Laws and fitted for Slavery They promoted and
the Protestants in Ireland Did the French King use them no Worse than K. James did these Protestants Our Author says as above that K. James used worse Methods towards the Protestants of Ireland than the King of France did with the Hugonots If so Mounsieur Claud has mightily Misinform'd us in his Account of the Persecution of the Hugonots in France And since our Author will have this Comparison because he could not think of another would Render K. James so Odious I have a Curiosity to know his Opinion as to the Cause of these Hugonots viz. Whether their King 's breaking the Edict of Nants and using them as he did was Sufficient to absolve them from their Allegiance and to set up a King of their own Religion where-ever they could find him I doubt not but this Author will Answer in the Affirmative and that it was nothing but want of Power kept them from Abdicating that King who they thought had Abdicated the Government of them by his ill usage of them And this will be a better Plea for the French King to Rid himself of these sort of People than any I have yet heard offered for him But in this Comparison 'twixt King James and the French King our Author makes King James the more wicked Man of the Two using worse Method with his Protestants as you have heard And in his Character of the French King he gives him the Advantage over King James with an Innuendo-reflection upon King James in this same place p. 14. He reports the French King to be a Merciful Man in his own Nature and certainly says he a mighty Zealot for his Honour As if King James were not so indeed he was far from it as this Author represents him You see to what a Height this Authors Zeal has carried him when he will give so fair a Character even of the French King that he may thereby blacken K. J. the more And upon this Head I hope no Man will take it ill at least to do Right to K. James Would any Body desire him to be worse than the French King Therefore give me leave to say and in this I believe I shall have the Major part on my side That if the Hugonots in France had Invited a Forreign Hugonot Prince to enter France with an Army had joyn'd with him and Proclaim'd him for their King and Forc'd K. Lewis to Fly out of France and afterward recovering part of his own he should reduce the Hugonots in Brettaigne for example and they when they were come again under the Power of their Old Master should shew all the Signs of Disloyalty and Disaffection to him Deserting him every day to their new Hugonot King and giving an Account to him of the same disposition in them that could not make their Escape from K. Lewis and K. L. to know all this and that those that staid gave all the Intelligence they could to his Enemies and did all the Mischief they could to him their Natural King under whose Protection they then Liv'd And those of them that were able in Brettaigne to hold out in open Arms against him keeping two Towns in the same Province he had Reduc'd where they Fortify'd themselves and Declared for their Hugonot King and to Rescue those Hugonots that were under King Lewis I say if this had been the Case 'twixt K. Lewis and the Hugonots I believe I shall have the Major part of England of my Opinion That King Lewis would have dealt otherwise with them than King James did with the Protestants in Ireland And perhaps had any King in Christendom but K. James had them in his Power as he had for a whole Summer he would not have left them in a Capacity to have Driven him out of the Kingdom as they did And he was Morally assured they would do so when it was in his Power to have prevented them But rather than Destroy them he put it in their Power to Destroy him which they did without the least sense of all his Goodness to them which they Disdain'd to own but pursued him as a Tyrant Secretary Gorge Assures us in his Large Letter that the Irish Protestants were more Active against King James and were more dreaded by the Irish than any other of K. William's Army If K. James were as great a stranger to us as Caesar or Pompey and the Scene were plac'd as far off as those Times yet who would not have a Zeal to Vindicate the Truth who would not be mov'd to see a King who suffered himself to be visibly Ruin'd by his unprovocable Clemency to Obstinate Rebels represented by them for so doing as the Bloodiest Tyrant in the World To see this Authors Book Transport Men so far without examining as that the Principal Secretary of State should License a Pamphlet call'd The Pretences of the French Invasion Examined which 〈◊〉 14. lays the stress of our Objections against King James upon his Cruelty to the Loyal Irish Protestants while he was among them in Ireland His King James's Carriage in Ireland says the Pamphlet to the Loyal Protestants writ this viz. His implacable hatred to the Protestants in Capital Letters and it must be suppos'd they have Drunk deep of Lethe who can forget all this Thus positively does the Pamphleteer averr upon the Credit of our Author And therefore it is Incumbent upon our Author to produce some Catalogue of these Protestants in Ireland who remain'd Loyal to King James while he was there except those few who were in his Army whom our Author or our Phamphleteer cannot mean because they reckon these among the number of the Persecutors and by some thought worse of than the Papists for Assisting the Papists against the Protestants we desire a List of these Loyal Protestants in Ireland who suffered any thing from King James while he was there Can this Author find so many as their were Righteous Men in Sodom But this is much more certain that King James's Mercy to the Disloyal Protestants in Ireland put them in a Capacity to help to Drive him out of the Kingdom for his pains Does this Author really believe That King Lewis would have used them as kindly as King James did while he knew they were Plotting and would Joyn against him I Appeal to this Author Whether he would have thought himself so Secure in King Lewis's hands if he had been betraying his Councils and giving Intelligence to his Enemies as he was under these Circumstances in King James's Power But our Author never fails to make a round Character That King James should not be so Good a Man as King Lewis is not so great a Matter But now our Author's hand is in you shall see him carry King James's Character to be full as Inhumane as that of the Great Turk himself You have it â—nd of c. 3. § 20. n. 7. p. 224. The Vsage we met with being says the Author full as Inhumane as any thing they the
Kingdom and that they also apprehend and seize upon all and every person and persons who shall after the time limited hereby and contrary to the Intent hereof keep or conceal any Arms or Ammunition and return their Names with a brief account of their Offence to the Commissioners of our great Seal that they may be proceeded against for the same and that they send such Arms and Ammunition as they shall so seize unto our next Garison or Magazin of Stores Given at our Court at Chapelisard this 31st day of July 1690. in the second Year of our Reign Numb 7. Queries proposed by the Grand Jury of the City of Dublin to the Judges and resolved by them Novemb. 21. 1690. 1. WHether popish Freeholders who raised and maintained Soldiers in their Houses for their Sons or others that submitted to their Majesties Declaration took Protections and did not violate the same ought to be indicted for their former abetting of the Rebellion or not Yes 2. Whether popish Farmers who took Commissions and raised Men but received no Arms and were not in service and submitted on the Declaration and took Protection and did not since violate ought to be indicted or not Yes if they have Chattels real else not 3. Whether common Soldiers or other poor Cottiers now amongst the Rebels no way entituled to any Estate in Lands are by Court intended to be indicted or not Not at present 4. Whether an old Proprietor that entred into Possession by virtue of the late Acts ought to be indicted or not Yes 5. Whether popish Widows who were such before the present Rebellion and do still continue Widows and have Jointures and that have abetted the Rebellion in maintaining Soldiers in their Houses for their Children who took Commissions and acted thereby in this Rebellion ought to be indicted for Treason or not Yes 6. Whether popish Freeholders Electors of Parliament Men who signed Indentures of their Elections to the Sheriffs and have committed no other Crimes ought to be indicted of High Treason for abetting of the Rebellion or not Yes 7. Whether Protestants who accidentally and undesignedly hapned to meet at the place in their County when the Papists were electing Parliament Men to the late pretended Parliament and that after such Election for fear of Death or other Punishment subscribed Indentures of such Election ought to be indicted or not No. 8. Whether Farmers who took Commissions and acted thereby were at the Siege of Derry were afterwards disbanded banded that submitted upon their Majesties Declaration and never since acted any thing against the Government ought to be indicted for the said former Crimes or not Yes if they have Chattels real 9. Whether persons who were Officers and others in Rebellion who deserted and came over from the Rebels to their Majesties Obedience and continue obedient under the protection of the Government ought to be indicted or not Yes Numb 8. Two Speeches by the Bishop of Meath one to King James when the Clergy waited on his Majesty at Dublin Castle in March 168â—â— the other to K. William at his Camp nigh Dublin July 7. 1690. The Speech to King James May it please your most Sacred Majesty We the Clergy of this your Majesty's City of Dublin and as many of the rural Clergy as the Distraction of the Times would permit are come to congratulate your Majesty's Arrival and to assure your Majesty of their Resolution to continue firm to that Loyalty which the Principles of our Church oblige us to which in pursuance to those Principles we have hitherto practised We come may it please your Majesty to implore the Honour of Kissing your Majesty's Hand and your gracious Protection for our Persons Churches and Religion and a Liberty to represent our just Grievances as occasion shall offer And we shall ever pray c. His Majesty's ANSWER THE Distraction of the Times I cannot but be sorry for and for the Principles of the Church of England I am very well acquainted with them nor can I doubt the Loyalty of any Man that acts in pursuance to them and who do so need not doubt my Protection for their Religion Persons and Properties in as ample a manner as ever they enjoyed them And for your Grievances let me know them my self and I will Redress them The SPEECH to King William May it please your Majesty WE are some of the Remains of the Clergy that have ventured to stay behind our Brethren in Perillous Times and under great Discouragements for the Discharge of our Duty to God and the People Two of us are Bishops who together with Five more in the Kingdom thought our selves obliged to continue here to preserve the Succession of the Clergy by the Ordination of Priests and Deacons and the Seminary of the Church by Confirmation The rest of our Members are the Clergy of this City and the Rural Clergy The former of these have staid upon their Charge under great Wants and Discouragements having not only been deprived of all their Maintenance but exposed to daily Dangers in and for the Discharge of their Duties And the latter are Persons driven from their Cures and forced to seek Relief and Sanctuary in this City We may possibly be censured by those who understand not the Grounds and Reasons of our continuance in this Kingdom as Trimmers or Favourers of Popery From the first we are able to acquit our selves having been guilty of no Compliances but such as were the effects of Prudence and Self-preservation such as were the effects of Prudence and Self-preservation such as were at once both innocent and necessary and fit to be observed to a Power that was able to crush us far worse than it did And we are so far from being guilty of the latter that we humbly conceive That we could not more effectually oppose the growth and inundation of Popery than by keeping up the publick Assemblies by sticking to our Flocks and preventing their Seduction by the Romish Emissaries We do not come to crave your Majesty's Protection for our Persons our Churches our Religion or our Properties which have been all in some measure invaded Our Persons have been imprison'd our Churches taken from us our Properties destroyed by a late Act of Parliament that took away our Tithes and the free exercise of our Religion for some time interrupted A Request of this Nature might perhaps look like a distrust of your Majesty's care of us and seem to contradict the Glorious design of your coming into this Kingdom We have sensible that the generous End of your Majesty's Presence is to Rescue us from the Oppressions and Tyranny of Popery and are well assured that the same Paternal Affection that moved your Majesty to pity our distress will still protect us now we are delivered We come rather to bless God as the Author of our Deliverance and Your Majesty as the Happy Instrument raised up by his Providence for the effecting it to express our Gratitude and
and the Fall but they are kept to strickt Discipline You will I doubt not take care to make you and me easie in this matter of the Sheriff Shew no body this Letter but you may the other I am Your affectionate Servant J. H. For Mr. Thomas Pottinger Sovereign of Belfast at his Lodging at the Boot near St. Mary Abby in Dublin Numb 26. To the Kings most Excellent Majesty the humble Address of the Clergy of the Church of Ireland now in Ulster June 1690. Great Sir We your Majesties loyal Subjects out of the deepest Sense of the Blessing of this day with most joyful Hearts congratulate your Majesty's safe Landing in this Kingdom And as we must always praise God for the Wonders he hath already wrought by your Majesty's Hand so we cannot but admire and applaud your remarkable Zeal for the Protestant Religion and the Peace of these Kingdoms We owe all imaginable Thanks to God and Acknowledgment to your Majesty for the Calm and Safety we have enjoyed by the Success of your Arms under the happy and wise management of his Grace the Duke of Schonberg And we do not doubt but God will hear the Prayers of his Church and crown your Majesties Arms with such Success and Victory that these happy beginnings of our Joy may terminate in a full Establishment of our Religion and our Peace and with lasting Honors to your Majesty May Heaven bless and preserve your Majesty in such Glorious Undertakings give Strength and Prosperity to such generous Designs that all your Enemies may flee before you that your Subjects may rejoice in your easie Victory and that all the World may admire and honour you Give us leave great Sir after the most humble and gratefull manner to offer our selves to your Majesty and to give all assurance of a steady Loyalty and Duty to your Majesty of our Resolution to promote and advance your Service and Interest to the utmost of our Power and that we will always with the most hearty Importunity pray that Heaven may protect your Royal Person from all Dangers that we may long enjoy the Blessings of your Government and Victories And that after a long and peacefull Reign here God may change your Lawrels into a Crown of Glory FINIS THE INDEX Page 2. THE Division of this Answer into the Principles and Matters of Fact of the Author First for his Principles They are hard to be Collected because they are not clearly asserted nor set down in any Method His Principles are the old Exploded Common wealth and Rebellious Principles which he indeavours to conceal Page 4. He derives the Ecclesiastical Authority from the People Page 5. His Interpretation of that Law which declares it not to be Lawful upon any pretence to take Arms against the King c. Page 7. The several Schemes of Government which are set up Page 8. The Case of one Prince Interposing betwixt another Prince and his Subjects Page 9. This Author's Defence of his Principles from Reason Page 10. I. Reason of a King designing to destroy his whole People Ibid. II. A part of his People Page 11. III. Invading their Property Page 12. IV. To disarm them Page 13. The Author's Rule for Abdication considered Page 14. V. Of Dissolving Oaths of Allegiance Page 16. VI. The Question Who shall be judge Page 19. Apply'd to Parliaments and States Page 20. Compared with Kings Page 20. Of Jealousies and Fears Page 21. Instances in the French League Page 22. Prince of Wales Page 24. Earl of Essex Page 26. King Charles I. Bishop Laud. Page 27. Moses Page 28. Of Evils not Tolerable Page 28. Of Evils not Universal Page 30. A Passage our Author quotes out of Faulkner and misapplies Page 31. The Evils of Tyranny compar'd Page 31. The Evils of Civil War compar'd Page 33. Our Authors Remedy for Tyranny to kill half the Nation Page 36. Religion the worst pretence for Rebellion Page 45. VII A King designing to destroy our Religion Page 48. Some Instances of our Author's manner of Argumentation Page 50. This Author's defence of his Principles from Authority From Scriptures Page 52. Disproved from Scripture 1. The Jews in Egypt Page 53. 2. In Babylon 3. Under the Romans Page 54. 4. Under Ahasuerus 5. The Gibeonites 6. Our Saviour Christ Primitive Christians Page 55. From Jovian Page 58. From Homilies Page 63. From Grotius Page 65. From Hammond Page 66. From Hicks Page 68. From Faulkner Page 71. The Protestants under Q. Mary Page 72. Matters of Fact of our Author The principal Matter of Fact Page 73. Viz. Who were the Aggressors in the Revolution in Ireland 1688. shewn in many notorious and undeniable Instances Page 95. Of Lord Tyrconnel's haste to run the Nation into Blood Ibid. The Protestants in Ireland worse treated by K. W's Army than by K. J's Page 99. Character of K. J. from This Author Page 99. Character of K. J. from Lord Danby Ibid. 99. K. J. opposed the Act of Attainder and the Repeal of the Acts of Settlement Ibid. He encouraged the Protestant Lords to speak against them in Parliament Page 105. This Author Guilty of Treason against K. J. while under his Protection and Favour Page 108. The gross Hypocrisie of the Irish Protestant Clergy in praying for K. J. and the P. of W. Page 113. This Author formerly a zealous Man for Passive Obedience even in the beginning of this Revolution Page 117. Dr. Tillotson's Extent of Loyalty in his Sermon 2 Apr. 80. before K. Charles II. Page 118. And 5 Nov. 78. before the House of Commons Page 123. The behavour of the Clergy in taking the Oaths Ibid. Of the Deprived Clergy Page 124. Roman Catholick Loyalty Particularly of the Irish Page 126. Of the Roman Catholicks of England Page 127. Non-Jurors of the Church of England Ibid. Presbyterian Loyalty Page 128. Popish Principles which are embraced Page 129. Church of England vindicated Page 130. Matters of Fact set down by this Author at Random Page 132. By Inuendo's wherein his groundless and unjust Reflection upon the E. of Clarendon Page 134. Incredible Matters of Fact wherein is told the Story of Mr. Bell. Page 139. Contradictory Matters of Fact Especially with Relation to King James whom he does not treat with common Decency giving him the Lye c. Page 141. The Case of Mr. Brown and Sir Thomas Southwell Page 145. Of K. J. keeping his Protections Page 152. The Massacre of the Laird of Glen-coe with others of his Clan Page 153. An abominable Misrepresentation of this Author in relation to the Protestants in the County of Down Page 161. The breach of Articles charged upon K. J. upon the Surrender of the Fort of Culmore refuted Retorted in the Notorious Breach of the Articles upon the Surrender of Carick fergus and of Drogheda Page 162. Of Cork and Limerick and the cruel Usage of the Prisoners Page 166. Of K. J's letting the English Fleet decay with the Author's Recantation considered Page 173. The Insincerity of this Author in Quoting K. J's Answer to the Petition of some Lords for a Parliament 17 Novemb. 88. Page 175. And in some Quotations out of Grotius Page 176. He confesses that the Irish Papists were not the Aggressors in the late Revolution and gives Reasons why they were not so Page 178. This Author wounds the present Government in the Person of King James and the Papists Page 186. He renders the King's Prerogative hateful to the People and inclines them to a Common-wealth Page 187. The Authors Conclusion and Protestation of his Sincerity Page 189. In representing King James to be worse than the French King Page 194. Or the Great Turk and according to the Dublin Address than Pharaoh or the Devil APPENDIX Numb 1. King James's Speech to both Houses of Parliament in Ireland 10 May 1689. with their Address to his Majesty Numb 2. Dr. Gorge Secretary to General Schomberg in Ireland his long Letter Apr. or May 90. relating to the Affairs then in Ireland Numb 3. Mr. Osborn's Letter to Lard Massareen 9. Mar. 88. Numb 4. Three Proclamations in Ireland 26 Sept. 90. Numb 5. Proclamation 7 March 88. of the Lord Deputy of Ireland and Council Numb 6. King VVilliam's Declaration in Ireland 7th of July 90 and Proclamation 31 July 90. Numb 7. Resolution of the Judges of Ireland to the Queries of the Grand-Jury of Dublin 21 Novemb. 90. Numb 8. Two Speeches of the Lord Bishop of Meath one to King James the other to King VVilliam Numb 9. The Sea-mens Address to King James Numb 10. Sir Peter Pett's Speech to King James Numb 11. A short Abstract of Mr. Pepy's Account of the Navy Numb 12. A List of the Ships that have been lost or damaged since the Year 1688. to the 13th of Nov. 1691. Numb 13. The Oath of Allegiance given by the Irish Officers to the Protestants in Cork Limerick and some of their Garrisons when K. J. drew out the Souldiers from these Garrisons into the Field Numb 14. Dr Tillotson's Letter to the Lord Russel Numb 15. Earl of Sunderland's Letter 23 March 89. Numb 16. Reasons tendered to the Parliament Octob. 90. to examine into the Birth of the Prince of Wales with Mr. Ashton's Paper Numb 17. Some Passages taken out of two Observators of August 1682. Numb 18. A Commission from the Prince of Orange Numb 19. A short Account of the Bloody Massacre of the Laird of Glencce and others of his Clan in Scotland the 13th of Feb. 1692. Numb 20. K. James's Letter 3 May 86. for Reversing two Outlawries with the Earl of Clarendon's Proceedings thereupon Numb 21. King James's Speech to the Lord Mayor c. upon his quitting of Dublin soon after the Action at the Boyne July 2. 1690. Numb 22 The Address of the Lord Mayor c. of Dublin to K W. 9 July 1690 Numb 23. K. J's Protection to the inhabitants of Belfast 3 June 1689. Numb 24. Lord Melfort's Letter to Mr. Pottinger Sovereign of Belfast 9 July 1689. Numb 25. Colonel Hill's Letter to Mr. Pottinger Sovereign of Belfast May 1689. Numb 26. The Address of the Protestant Clergy of Ulster to King William when he landed in Ireland June 1690. The End of the INDEX
the Bishop of Derry Hopkins who was then there did protest against their shutting out the King's Forces and refused to joyn with those who did it for which and other Reasons this Author then gave he was against any Bodies going to the North or joyning with them as being a joyning in Rebellion About the Year 86. or 87. After his going from Wexford Waters to several of the Bishops of Munster he wrote a Letter to a Person of undoubted Credit giving an Account of what happened in his Journey and of the Substance of what he Discoursed with the Bishops of Waterford Corke and Cloyne he wrote That among other things he advised them as the only way to prevent the Dangers that were imminent to a steaddiness in their Loyalty and Religion and that he asserted that if the King and our Temporal Governors should enact unjust Laws that the Subject has no Remedy but Patience against whom we allow no other Weapons but Prayers and Tears and that it was a most unlawful thing for any to call in a Foreign Force or erect a New Government to redress unjust Laws And adds That it is a sad thing that it is not observed that Rebellions in the State and Schisme in the Church arise from this one Principle to wit That Subjects may in some Cases resist or seperate from their Lawful Governors set over them by God Whereas the Principle of Non Resistance is a steady Principle of Loyalty and it will be found no easier Matter to shake either the Church or State that is settled on it And he repeats it again That it is intolerable for the Members of any State to flee to Foreign Succors out of Pretence that their own Governors have made Laws against Reason Conscience and Justice and foolish to allege in their Defence That all Mankind is of one Blood and bound to help one another Which now he has made his great Argument in this Book Chap. 1. Sect. 5 What is above-written I have from the Person to whom he wrote it and more to the same purpose and if he desire it his Letters shall be produced The same Person told me that about the beginning of this Revolution he was in Company with the Author and another Gentleman I think it was Dr. Dun who blamed the preaching of Passive Obedience so high as the cause of what had befallen us whom this Author smartly reproved and vindicated the Doctrine of Passive Obedience to the highth But that Zeal and Courage has left him with his Principles or while he counterfeits his Principles there is a difference of assurance in defending some Causes which makes him now shun all those who knew his former Principles and have not changed as well as himself He refused to see all the time he was in London last August and September a Deprived Bishop with whom he was as intimate as any Man and had contracted a great Friendship and when he was minded of it to see his Old Friend he would not said they should fall into Heats And beginning of this last October 1692 being in Oxford on his Road to Ireland Mr. Hudson of University-College was with this Author in the Schools-Quadrangle at the very time Mr. Dodwell his admired Acquaintance was going up to the Library and Mr. Hudson asking whether he should call after him our Author forbad him saying He knew Mr. Dodwell would be angry with him If he thought that Mr. Dodwell was in an Error he ought to have endeavoured to convince him No he knew that Mr. Dodwell stood upon the same Ground where he left him and that it was he himself had Prevaricated and forsaken his first Love and therefore was ashamed to meet with the Man who knew his Principles so well before and who had stuck close to them in the Day of Tryal The very sight of such a Man is an upbraiding of their Cowardise and Unconstancy who have deserted their Principles and raises Guilt in their Faces which their Eyes would discover though they were hardened against a Blush Heu quantum mutatus ab illo From the well reputed and deserving Dr. K. who honoured and admired and loved Mr. Dodwell above most Men would have gone far to see him and was proud of corresponding with him and now shuns his sight as Guilty Sinners would the Face of Heaven O if this Author had retained his Integrity how much greater would he have appeared in the Friendship Esteem and Fellow-Suffering of this Great Man then in his Guilty Purple But Deserters must shew their Zeal and discover their own Shame Behold now how he starts and quotes it as a full Proof of King James's Arbitrary Designs That it was Enacted in their Act of Recognition in Ireland That the Decision in all Cases of a misused Authority by a Lawful Hereditary King must be left to the sole judgment of God Indeed I was amazed to see him quote this as so strange a thing which is over and over to be found in the Acts both of England and Scotland and Ireland as if he had not only forsaken but quite forgot what he had formerly taught He has got new Principles and a new Language p. 182. it ought to be 190. for it is false Printed he says K. J. was ungrateful to the Irish Protestant Clergy This is very familiar but what was the King's Ingratitude Because if they had been disloyal in Monmouth or Argile's Rebellion they might have made an Insurrection c. So that this Author thinks the King is in their Debt for not Rebelling And I suppose this is all the way that they brought him to the Throne as this Author says in the same place It seems these Irish Clergy have been mighty Men and we have not known it But he says that by their Zeal for King James they lost the Affections of their People This is a Scandal I verily believe upon the Irish Protestants They were I hope better Men I have known some of them and this Author ought to know them better I have not heard that any of the Irish Protestants took Offence at that Passage which this Author Printed in the Preface to a Sermon of the Lord Bishop of Kilmore's preached in the Author's Church of St. Warborrough's in Dublin in March 1684. the first year of King James's Reign It was entituled St. Paul's Confession of Faith There in a Letter of this Author 's to the Lord Bishop which is Printed in the Preface he avers positively in these words viz. It is impossible for any one of our Communion to be disloyal without renouncing his Religion This past better with the Irish Protestants Dr. Till Extent of Loyalty in his Serm. 2 Apr. 80 before K. C. 2. than that Super-Loyal Strain of our famous Dr. Tillotson which he Preached before the King at Whitehall Apr. 2. 1680. upon Josh 24.15 did please the Church of England men here other than those who took the Court for the Standard of their