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This will appear by confidering how truly the parts of his whole Book correfpond to one another, to reprefent (as in a Picture) the late Rebellion, to which it bears the exaCteft Refemblance} For like that it begins (in the very firft Page,) with Fears and fealouftes, of Religion, Liberty and Property; and like that too it continues, (p. 16) to Murmur and Re¬ vile the Imperial Root, and not only to ft iff?/< the knees that would bow to a Crownd head, butalfotoarm againft it the hands that fhould defend it, by exhorting the people (p. 34.) not to befubdu'd like lefs then Engli(h-»2f», buttoRefifl and Repel aKing under the Name of an Invader. And like that too would itend, if thefe men who appear fo Jealous and fo Fearful could either prevail upon the Credulity of the Vulgar fo far as to make their Jealoufies appear Juft,or could themfelves bring to pafs all their own Fears, that fo they might be indeed fas our Author fuppofes them) Prophetic For truly in this fenfe they are jikeft to be fo, and our State Pro¬ phets will appear WkeNoJlradamus his Son,(a pretender to his Fathers Art)of whom the Stiory goes, that he was caught one night a Firing that City which He himfelf had Prophefied fhould be Burnt. And yet thefe are the Wife, and thefe are the Great, whom our Author would have us take delight to behold the refllefsandmeafe rolling about our troubled Sea-like Porpoifes to forewarn us of a Tempeff. But is not our Au¬ thor miftaken in his Simile ? Alas thefe are not the forewarning Porpoifes, but the Leviathans themfelves, that fport and take their paftime in our troubled deep, whofe reftlefs and uneafierolling does not foretel, but is it felf the Storm. A Storm which once more is ready to (hatter this (Royal Veifel the Britijh Kingdom) into peices ; O navis referent in mare Te novi flu ft us. Thefe O England are the fame Diftutbers of thy Calm Waters, which the (econd time are like to raife the Waves fo. high as to break all thy Anchors, loofen all thy Cables, and force thee out again / into that Red Sea of Blood in which fo lately thou haft fuffer'd Ship wrack j unlefs inthecaufeof its Image here on Earth, theMajefty of Heaven it felf hafts to our atlftance 5 unlefs He, (as himfelf fpeaks tohis Servant fob,)Put a hoof into thefaws of thefe Leviathans, and draw them out; unlefs He exert thofe T wo mighty effeCts of hi* p5 1 ■?, & 1 v * #• ^ • * | *' \ ^ 1 his Divine Power, which the Pfalmift joyns together as the higheft proofs of his Omnipotence, viz,' Unlefs he ftUls the rage of the and the of the People. And amidft this our evident danger, fmuft needs confefs with our Pamphleteer, that I cannotchufe but account thofe perfons very little onr Friends, nay indeed void of Humanity itfelf, that would lull us afleep'in the fight of approaching ruine anddeftruCtion, But on the other hand I can by no ways approve of thole for bur PhyfitianS who ufe fuch violent means to wake us out of our Security, as if there were no Cure for a Lethargy but calling us into a. Raving Prenizy. And in¬ deed fuch has been the Phyfick of Our State Mountebanks and fince they have pofieft the people with lo defperate a madnefs, and rais'd fuch difrnal apprehen- fionsinthe minds of the undifcerning multitude •, Ithoughuic the duty both of a Ghriftian and an Englijh-man; to ufe the moft effectual means of reftoring usonde more to our Wits again, andtorelciie, (ifpoflible,) the Nation, outof thatrnoft miferablecondition which Davidhas reckond among the grievouleft Plagues of • the wicked } of whom he (ays, They were afraid where no fear was: In order to which, I (hall rally again thole Arguments which forne have raifed to fave us, and which our Author has to his power confuted to deftroy us. P. 2. As firft they fay, WhyJhoHldwejland in fear of Popery, when Temper of England 'tis impoffible for any Succeffor to introduce it ? Ay why indeed ? The Gentleman is at a ftand, and is loath to venture his Serpents Teeth againll the File fo leaves this Argument and away to the next. Though I can't fee why the fame man, whoprCfentiy after has the courage to undertake the proving that the four Cardinal Virtues are more dangerous in a Prince than their four oppofite Vices, fhould here want the fame fool-hardinefs to juftifie the fears eyen of impoflible things. < The next Argument (which he undertakes to overthrow, and which yet ftands firm and unfhaken by all his empty batteries and airy affaults,) is drawn from the confideration of the Perfonal Excellencies inherent in that Prince, whom God and Nature, and the Laws of the Land have pointed out to Us as the unqueltionable Lawful Succeffor of the Crown and Virtues of his Royal Brother. And if thefe are fuch, andfofnany as neither his Friends can expreft, or his Enemies deny} If the Royal Blood, (as often as his King or Countries Honour or Safety have cali'd upon him,) has been as dangcroully and as freely expofed as that which fills the Veins of thevileft Plebeian ; If his Succels has been lo equal to his Courage, that his Arms when (imploy'd abroad,) have ever been the love and wonder; and when at home f for fuch to him was once the Britijh Ocean) the Dread and Terrour of the neighbouring World , If his Fricndlhips have ever been as firmly maintain'd as they were judicioufly chofen If his Mouth and his Heart have always been fotruc to one another, that his Word has ever been as inviolate as the Oaths of others ; And if this Noble Conftancy of Truth has been in him the effect as much of his Honour as his Confcience; And if in a Lie he has ever thought as much to be detefted as the Bafenefs of a Coward, as the Impiety of a Villain j If his Juftice has been acknowledged almoft Divine, in this efpecially, that it has never excluded all thofe milder Virtues that might adorn a Crown, and make Majcfty as amiable as it is Great: If all this be true, as none of his Adverfaries can deny, andfbmeof his moft inveterate Enemies have been forced even to confcfs; I hope I fhall be excufed by my Readers, if 1 have fbjuft a value for them, asto think that it would be an Affront in me to ftifpeft their Judgments, fo much as to fpend time in evin¬ cing to them how improbable a thing it would be, how contradictory to reafbo and common lenfe, that the difference of a mans Opinion about fome few difpu. table matters of Faith, and not very material Ceremonies of Divine Worlhip, fhould on a fuddain ruine and efface all thofe good Characters of Magnanimity and ' Juftice, ofGenerofityand Goodnefs, not flightly traced, but deeply engraven in his breaft, fo early engraven by Nature itfelf, that like Letters cut in the tender Bsrk, they have not been worn out but rather enlarged by the growth of the Tree, nor are ever likely to difappear till the Trunk it felf that they adorn fhall be '' « no V ' ' 1 / 1 •> •" : k ' (3) - , ROShdre. And yet If we will be pleafed to believe our little Impertinent Rhetorician," all this and much more mu ft rieceflarily follow; When Popery dant, and Rome has once Jlamped htm her profelyte. For what then fignitie all the great pa (I millions of a Princes Life? slnd how little an Imprejfionwill ail the recorded Glories leave behind them ? (p. 2.). No track of 'am it feems is left, all his Virtues are fled ; or which is worfe, if they Hill remain, There is not one of em that Jlcall not be a particular Infirument of our Deftrtdhon. Now in the name of all that is good, what does our Scribler mean; do Virtues thetnfelves turn Vices in a Roman Catholtck ? And do they become fo really, even in contradidion of our fenfts aftd experience tha't cells us to the contrary? This isfuch a Miracle as would ftffgger even a popifh Faith : fuch an abfurdity as would make a Prieft Blufh; and Which equals, if not ourgoes, even T ranfubltantuttion it (elf; the Scripture there- fdrehas a peculiar denunciation of Judgment againft the Coiners offuch falfeno- tions, and loudly cries ohr, We unto thdfe that call evil good, and good evil. But to efpoufe a while the caufe of the injur'd Virtues, all which our fatfe witnefs is ready to SWear into the Plot of our delhuction; let us examine whether we have not much greater reafon to rely upon them as our only Bulwark and defence when they are placed in that Prince to whom he is pleafed out of his excefs of bounty to jgrant them all, bCcatife he could hot deny him one , than to look upon them as dangerous and pernicious, and as his own Evidence againft them runs, 7 ftruments of our deftruBion. Let us therefore allow him Fortitude , that Which is thefirft in the ranik of all the Virtues,and Which (lands there bo'diy in the-front* as if defigrid for theProtfcdion of all the reft ; and without which a Prince is as Contemptible in hiinfelf, as he is tifelefs to his People: Can a Nation be more bleft than in the fecurity which the matchlefs Valour of fuch a Prince ought in all reafon to ctffcate, or can any man that has the ieaft (hare of underftanding entertain fo vain an imagination, as to think that that invincible Courage which hehasfo often and (b eminently exerted in the defence of the , when they were his Fellow-Sub jeds* and when but his own fingle (hare of Glory redounded to himfelf, fhould otherwiie imploy it when advanced to a Throne, when all thofe that he protedsare his oWn people ; when all the Renown (hall be wholly His, when every Subjeds Honour that he vindicates (hall increafe the luftre of his own } and every Engtijfh-m&n he laves, add to the largenefs of his Empire. But becaufeour Aurhor tnalicioufly fuggefts that this Virtue may be imploy'd in making him more daring for the Caufe of Rome ; I would advife him to confider Whether the Virtue of Fortitude in his Ethicks, (if he has ever read any,) be not as equally diftant fromTemerity and Rafhne.'s,as from Fear and Cowardice; and then Whether the attempts of an irapoffihle thing, (which as yet by hfs filencehe has allowed the introducing of Popery to be,) don't wholly overthrow that Virtile on which this very Suppofition is built. He might alfo have been informed that all the Virtnes have fo clofe an Affinity between themfelvcs, and fo near a depen- danceupon each other, that not one can ad withont the allowance of all the reft j fothat whatever is againft Juftice cannot be the objed of Fortitude. If then he be a Man of Juftice , this (till (hould produce in Us the greater aflurance that his Courage (hall be no otherwife exercifed but for their Safety and Honour, to whom till his endeavours by all the Laws both Humane and Divine are molt due; This will make him maintain the Juft Rights of his people, to which by his Oath he will then be moft folemnly and ftridtly obliged , much more inviolably than that imaginary Right of the Pope, which none can be certain that he allows, and to which it is molt certain he has no fuch obligation, or ever was Sworn. Then if he be a Matter of Temperance, what is that but a bridle upon all his Exceffes, a perpetual bofom Monitor that will withhold his hand,and allay his heat, that will curb the very firft motions of Cruelty or Revenge,which the malice of his oppofers might el(e have fome grounds to fear?This is that Vcrtue to which we owe Pardons and Ads of Oblivion, This is that which will make him a(cend the Throne, fhough never fo much injur'd, with the fame Moderation and Clemency as did his his Brother before him. Laftly, if he has Prudence, that will teach him not to exafperate a people of fo ftiff a neck , not to lofe the hearts of his Subjects for their difference of Opinion; that will lay before him the many ufeful examples of thofe Princesthat have unhappily ftrove to change the ancient Laws of their Go¬ vernment, w ho endeavouring to remove the Old Land-Marks, have loft their whole Poffeffions; who ftriving to alter the building of the State to their own Hu¬ mour, have brought down the whole Fabrickupon their heads, and perifhed in the ruine of their falling Kingdoms. Thus I think I have in fome meafure juftified the four Moral Virtues from the fevere charge of their feeing Inftruments of our Deftrudtion, not without fome wonder and indignation too, that any man fhould fpeakfoillofthingshedidnotunderftand, or treat ftrangers fo uncivilly : For indeed fuch they are to our Author. Had he any Courage he would have fcorn'd to infult over the prefent misfortune of the brareft of Men j had he any Juftice he would not have appear d fo earned: againft that Succeflion which is grounded up¬ on all the Laws of God and Man; had he any Temperance, he would have fpar'd his Malicious Invedtives; and had he any Prudence, he would have burnt his Book, andfav'd the Hang-man a labour. Butftay,let us be as favourable to him as we can, let us try if wecanexcufe him his ill treatment of the Virtues ; perhaps he rail'd at them only to bring in his Qyibble, and becaufe Car An is Latin for a Hinge, therefore the Cardinal Virtues wcxetobe the Hinges to open the Gates to Popery or what if his Picque againft them be their having fome Name-fakes in the Church of Rome, fince his Friend Merry Andrew in that excellent piece of SmithfieldDrcAlery, The Rehear/alTranfprojed, has been pleafed to call them, The Red-hatted Virtues. Well, whatever his quarrel be, I am fure His Royal Highnefs has reafon to be not a little fatisfied to fee that the defence of the Duke of Torkj and of Virtue it felf is the fame caufe, and that whoever oppofes the Juftice of his Succe^ion, muft forfeit his Morality as well his as Allegiance, But then the Notion of fuch a Popifh Succeffor, fuch a one as fhall maintain the Conftitution of the prefent Government, (and inthatthepublick Worfhip of the Church of England is included) without any alteration, puzzles the Gentleman ftrangely ; Nor can he make it con/i/lwith reafon, no not he, nor VP'th the leajlJhadow ofpojjibUity. And where is the difficulty? where is the unreafonablenefs? Why forfooth, he mud fupprefs the potent and dangerous enemies that would deftroy the Proteftant Worjhip,Peace and Inter eft; And the Monarchs, and awhole Nations unanimous prudence has declar'd Popijh i riefls to be thefe potent and dangerous enemies. Have they fo? then there are Laws tofecure us againft them, then why are we in fuch fear ? Then what is left to any Monarch that fucceeds, but to execute the Laws he finds ? derived down to him to maintain and preferve (together with his Crown and. Dignity ? And fince by the prudent zeal of both our Kings and I eople, our Religion has fo ftrong a fence built round about it, fince this Vine is fo hedged in,that neither the Wild Boars out the of Wood can root it up,nor the little Foxes devour it; why do we torment our felves with any further dif. quiet, why do we not rather fit down under the fhadow of it j and blefs him whoferight hand has planted it? But alas, under the Reign of an Englifh Pap if, thecafe will not be the fame; Butveejhallbe in much greater danger, by reafon of the multitude of their Roman Emiffaries, aid thofe too embolden d by hopes of Connivance and Mercy, and if ever the Proteflant Religion want a Defender, it will be then. Truly I am fo far from thinking that the Reign of a Popilh King can be any way advantagious to thedefigns of the Jefuuical Inftruments, that I rather believe it will of necefiity be the greateft oceafion of their deftrudtion 5 efpecially fince it is in the Power of every Subjedtin the three Kingdoms to be a Defender of the Pro¬ teftant Religion if it want it. And if people fhall think fo, as naturally then they will, to be fure no Information, noConvidtion ofRecufants, no Adminiftration of Tefts or Oaths to the leaft fufpedted fhall be wanting, nodifigence fpar'd which is backt by the Laws of the Land , which then more then ever will be waken'd againft b f ▼ ^ ^ againftthem, and which can't be difpens'd withal, muft needs be effc&ua! to the utter ruine of the whole party. This our Author himfelf feems to be fenfibfe of, and to allow i and this is one of pretty Chimara's, mtfmatched incon Ingredients, as he elegantly Phrafes it, that muft go to make up the Compofition of a Pepijh King-, and can He then, or the moft violent oppofers of the Church of Rome, defire any thing beyond this to gratifie their utmoft malice upon the Members of that Church, than to be affured that a Prince of that very Religion fliall be the caufeof their deftrudtion, fuis&ipfa Roma viribus ruet. For indeed all this a Popifh King muft do, or buffer to be done, and all his Apology to them muft be what the Phamphleteer fays, We muft expe to be made to us, He cannot help it, (p. 20 ft He cannot help it, that is, if the Law will have it fo, his duty is to fee that the Law have itscourfe, and whatever his private opinion may be, what¬ ever tendernefs he may bear to the very perfons, he fliall punifli j y et to remem¬ ber his obligation to the publick, fo far as to give them up to the hands of Jullice, with the fame conftancy of mind, with the fame applaufe of the prefent, and com¬ mendation of all fucceeding Agesj that the immortal Brutus deliver'd up his darling Sons to the Rods and Axes of the Ledtors. This, had our Author coufider'd, he would not have fo far betrayed his Morals, as to have ftil'd a Prince, in every thing elfe brave to admiration, (abjeil and deplorable Coward,) for not daring to un- dertakeeither unlawful or impoffibleexploits, nor been fo out of his Politicks, as to call governing by Law, fneaking on a Throne, But alas! good man he has a fit ofkindnefson the fuddain come upon him, he is infinitely concern'd for that Scene of war, and reftlefs inquietudes fuch a Prince muft have within himfelf, who to fpare a Fagget at Smithfield, mull Walloon hot Irons and have only Good Fri¬ day entertainments onaThronep and withfuch like, no doubt prevailing pieces of Rhetorick, would perfwade us, that a Grown to him would be fo uneafie a thing, that he had better be without it. Alas !he would not have the Duke undergo that torment for all the world, not be *, but this is only a flourifh of his ftile, in irnira- ' tion 1 fuppofe of a Brother Sir Formal of his, who Laboured as much as he could, to prove that the Bill was for the Duke's good, and undertook by dint of Argu¬ ment to make it appear that the Exclufion of his Royal Highnefs, was an adfc of Grace. Let us come now to an Argumeut offbme moment, artd confider what weight fo folemn a Proteftation and fb facred an Oath as a King of England is obliged at his Coronation to take, is likely to have with a Prince that has any fenfe at all either of Honour or Religion : Why truly our Charabterizer fays none at all, and tells us, That fame can give us fmartreafons for it: He gives us but one, which We will examine and try, if we can produce as fmart ones againft it. If he keeps his Oath, fays he, we muft allow that the only motive that prompts him to keep it, is fome obligation that he believes is in an Oath j Yes, we will allow it, there is a double obligation of Nature and of Religion. Well what then ? But cenfiaeringhe is of a Religion that can abfolve Sub]ells from their Allegiance, And are you fure beis Of fuch a Religion ? Wc hear the Roman Catholick Proteftations againft that Doctrine daily founded in our Ears; we are told by many of them that they abominate the Pofuion, and muft needs be convinc'd , that granting many of the Doftors of their Church to be of that opinion 5 yet it is a Doftrine never univerfally received, and that even they who believe, do not preach to all, and therefore very unlikely it is if they hide it from any •, that it fhould be ufed as a Bait for the Converfion of any Prince, from whom in all probability they would ftudioufly conceal fuch a point, as would put him in danger of the lofs of his Kingdoms, as often as his holy Father the Pope fhould be teafty,or call him Heretick. Well, but confidering him to be of fuch aperfwafion, why may not his Religion releafe a King from his F aith to an Excommunicated and Heretical People ? Ay ! there's the mifchief on't, thefe Abfo- lutions, and Difpenfahohs, and fefuitical Loopholes can do any thing. But now let us,a little confider and weigh the probability of thefe poor fhifts and evafions, ever being made ufe of to our prejudice by his Royal Highnefs : Can it be believed that B ^ He He who only out of the Confcience that he made of an Oath, and the Obligation that he thought was in it, has already parted with the places of the greateft Ho¬ nour 8c Profit in the Kingdom, is cvet likely to have a lefs Veneration for that molt Religious one that he then mull take ? Or can we imagine, that if he thought any power whatever could abfolve him from fuch a tye , he would ever have (crupled at the fwallowing that which he could with fo much eafe have dilgorged again ? Efpecially when fuch a proceeding had removed all Sufpitions and Jealcufies con¬ cerning hi6 Religion, and facilitated his way to the Throne, wherein he might eftablifh it before the people had warning enough to make any oppofition. Had this been his Principle, then had been the time to make ufe of it, and the eafie afcent thereby to a Throne had been the beft plea for his breach of Faith, then if ever it was necetlaryi for, fi violandum eft jus eft. But to ftrengthen this Argument our Author will give the World an of the power of an Oath with a Roman Catholick King. And that is, Famous Gentleman on the other fide the waterj who contrary to his Oath upon the Sa¬ crament, has Invaded Flanders. And muft all of that Religion be Vow-breakers and Perjur'd, becaufe one Ambitious Prince has violated at once his Oath and his Religion too > Belides, how far this Perjury of his is to be imputed to the Ro- mifh Faith, and how Zeal us a Son he is of that Church, his quarrel even at this inltant on foot with the Pope, is fufficient to inform us. If a man has born in him thofe Seeds of Ambition, and that Luft of being Great, 'tis not the fault of the Religion that he profeffeth, but the Vicioufnefs of his Nature that makes him fa - crifice his Confidence to his pride. If a man be naturally inclin'd to Virtue or Vice, let his Faith be what it will, his Morality will be the fame; and he that has learnt from the great Law of Nature how Sacred the tye of an Oath ought to be, let him be in what Church he will, fhall very hardly be brought to think that this Gor- dian knot can be unty'd by every jugling Prieft. Again, if Oaths will not bind Pa- pifls, if they come up as eafily as they go down ; why do we betray our folly fo palpably, as to think to fecureour felvcs by adminiftring them to Roman Cat ho-, licks' Why are the Allegiance and Supremacy Oaths tendered to them ? and why do they refute them ? Why are new Tefts devis'd that may be taken as harm- lefiy with a Difpenfation in the Pocket; as the Mountebankdoes poifon with his Antidote by ? Why is the Wifdom of the whole Nation thus arraigned, and the High Court of Parliament it felf accufed of the Policy, in building the Hedge to fence in the Cuckow : For this muft be the very top of their fage fore- caft, if they did not think that thefe Oaths did clip their wings, as well as build the hedge about them : And that if they can do , not only the little fuck-egge Cuckow Pricfl, but the Imperial Eagle it felf may be kept within the Fence. N \ • : I defign'd (in purfuance of my firft undertaking) to be on the Defenfive part only, and not to have at all meddl'd with the oppofite Faction : The Tale of Forty One and Forty Eight hath been long enough the Theme to be better made uie of than it is. But here's an unlucky harrangue of our Author's, againft Religion, immediately follows, that is enough to make the Old Rebellion rife again, even out of its Grave of the Oblivion A CI. I will therefore joyn with him in his railing at that defperate Incendiary of all Nations, Religion : (I hope he means honeftly, and underftands the pretence and mafque of it by that Name.) as heartily as himfelfj I will bring him in my fhare of endsof Verfe, and Sayings of Phylofophers; I'll mufter all Lucretius'% fcraps againft it} I can tell you of Tanturn Religio, and Religio peperit fceterofa atq-, dnpiafafla \ and all this I can make out too} Religion was the Gofpel-trumpet that firft founded to Battel, and whetted our Fears and Jealoufies intoCourage and Rebellions Religion that firft kindled the Flame, maintained it with Fuel} Th began ftill with a Pfalm, and ended in a Hymn; Religion was the Song; Religion was the burden of the Holy Ballad-fingers, when the Scots came tweedling it over, with the praife of God in their mouths, and a Two edgeft-fword in their hands. No matter (7) matter then, if we mnft be ruined, whether St. or IeDeum be fung for the Vi&ory, whether the holy Io Teem goes to David's or to Nero's Harp, to the Church-Organ or the Scotch-Bagpipe. And fee, our Author is already at it; he's founding a Parliament-Armies or rather holding forth in aThankfgiving-Sermon, and in the infulting Language of the profperous villany ol the late times crying our, To vow Covenant, and a Solemn League for/near three Kingdoms out of their Liberties and Lives, that's llluftrious and Heroick,: There sGlory in great Atchievemen, and Virtue : Come on then\ Let us the mighty Nimrods hunt for Nobler Spoils, and fly at a whale Nation, Property and Inheritance. Thatisas he explainshimfelf in the 29 page. / et us ne¬ ver leave , till we have hunted the Imperial Lyon down. But now he's out of breath, and his Glafs is run, and therefore lo much for this time. But now to the main Objection: Some people will tell us, (fays he) That 'tis wholly impoffible for any Popilh Succeiior, by all his Arts and Endeavours tver, to introduce Popery into England. Yes indeed will they tell you fo again; For if you remember they tcfid you fo already, in thefecond page of your Pam¬ phlet, and indeed I am of opinion that it ought then to have been conhdered; for till you had remov'd this great bar of impoflibility out of the way, I fee but very little hopes of making anv furt her progrefs, that you could reafor.ably have. This argument lay before you juft as you fee out; and being lenfible that this mult be o're-paffed before you could proceed in your journey, you came on indeed with very great brisknel's and affurance, as if you defign'd to have leapt the Ditch; but your heart fail'd, and made the Cowardly boggle juft upon the brink: But row, fince you are forc't to it, and neccflky has given you courage to take the leap, it is fome pleafure to the ftanders by to fee you fallen in the midft of it, and fo plung'd in the mire; as not to be in any vifible likelyhood of getting out. But let us fee how the poor founder'd Jade ftruggles to work it felf out.of the Bog. .If he's a Papifi that fays fo, he knows he belies his Confci- ence -, For our late Hellifh Plot is a plain demon fir at ion that their whole party belie¬ ved it poftble. Now the fport of it is, this Bouncing does but make him ftickthe falter. For what if he that lays fo be as good a P, as the Author, as I am fure a great many are that both fay and believe fo too ? why then they may e'en fay lb, and believe fo ftill for all him .* Be has nothing to fay to the contrary, unlets they are Papifts that fay fo; and forthem, mark how (hrewdly he is pro¬ vided. Firft he gives them the Lie, and juftifies it thus; Their whole Party belie- vtditpojfible,and therefore it was polfible, forfohemuft infer, if he means to prove any thing againft the foregoing Argument. And is i t lb then Mr. Chara&e- rizer? becaufe they believ'd it pofiible, therefore was itfo? Come, come, you arc a dangerous Man, and I wilh people knew you, that they might have a cave of you: You, forfooth, (under the notion of runningdown a are proving the verity of the Popip Faith, and aflferting every thing to be true that's believed by a Papift. Well, lam glad I have found out ourScribler, lor none could fure have wri tten fuch ftuft", but a dij'gulfed Priest, or at leaft, a Papift in Mapuerade. But after all, granting the Belief of Cathohck^ that the introducing of Popery was lb feaftble, according to our Author's opinion; to be a certain argument that it was fo, and that this was once the Belief of the whole Party, yet how does it follow that it is fo ftill ? If they be that cunning and poli¬ tick People as he foon after fays they are, I am fure they have very little reafon to think that that Defign, which was info hopeful a forwardnels, as never fince Queen Maries days could be boafted of, carried on with all the Art and Contri¬ vance, all the Secrecy and Cunning of a moll diligent and a&ive Party, favou¬ red by feveral of the greateft Perfons of the Kingdom, and thofe moft eminent for their Riches and Intereft, to fupport the Caule, the univerfal fecurity of the wholeNation, that then notfo much as dreamt of the Mine that was ready to take Fire, confpiring together with thofe Sons of darknefs, in the great work of our Deftru&ion; and yet, after all this, was brought to nought, fhould ever at .all f all (or at leaft in this Age) he effected, when all their meafures are broken, and all their wicked contrivances laid open, and the whole Scene of that Religious Vil- lany difplaid to publick view, when the whole Nation is ftill kept awake with continual Fears, and frefh Allarms againft them, while the very meaneft of the people are as diligent in this caufe, as the great ones that defcend to joyn with'em in it,and when (to prevent any furprife from the Pope or the Gaul) there's not a Goofe but cackles for the prefervation of our Capitol. A late! fuch projects as thefe, when once difcover'd,are for that age defeated;and when fo great a defign is to behatcht anew, it ripens as flowly as China does, that muft be buried an Age under ground before it come to perfedion, and then too is very often as brittle as that, and as eafie to be dalhed in pieces. Thus we fee how impoflible a thing it is, that in the temper which now runs quite through the whole Enghjh Nation, that Idola¬ trous Superftition fhould ever be here re-eftablilhed, which by fo unanimous a conftnt of fo many of our wifeft Princes, and all onr people, has been rooted out from among us. But is not the people of England highly beholding to our Author, that in this feeming difficulty has found an expedient for the introducing of it again? This Sir Pol of ours is a notable Head-piece, let him alone, and we Ihall fee as fhrewd a piece of contrivance, as the bringing over an Army that (hall crols the Narrow Seas dry-foot by the help of Cork-fhoes. Let us fee this pro¬ ject of fetting up Popery; Why, firft the Foundation of it muft be laid, o'my word that's but reafonable, and the firft Foundation of Popery is Arbitrary Government. Ay marry Sir, now he fays fomewhat, only make this an Arbitrary Govern¬ ment, a fmall piece of bufineft, a trifle that ■, and then Popery follows as na¬ turally as the Fox's body did, when he had got his head in at the hole. But how muft this be done ? Why, Wou'd be fhall tell you; If a PapiSt. reign, we •very well underftand that the Sheriffs, Juftices of the Peace, and all the judiciary Officers are of the Kings Creation. Yes; and are they not fo when a reigns? Yet even fucha Prince whofe Religion does not in the leaft render him obnoxious to his people, but whole confent with them in the firft and chiefeft duty of humane Life, the Divine Worfhip, fhould rather make both Prince and Peo¬ ple of one Soul, and one Mind; Let him have all the advantages, not only which a Papifl muft of neceflity lole, but which a Proteftant may wifh or imagine, would find it fodifficnlt a tasktofet up for this Arbitrary wav of Government, which our Author makes fo eafie a piece of bufineft, that I fhall not need to tell the confequence of fuch an Attempt, fince the impoffibility of focceeding in it will never fuffer it to be made. If then Arbitrary Power be the Foundation of Popery, there is very little fear of ever feeing that great Idol rear'd, whole Balis can never be laid. And of this we fhall be fo much the furer under the Reign of a Popifh King, by how much left opportunities he will have to let up this new Model, and by how much greater oppofition, and indefatigable diligence, and watchful fufpicion, the whole Nation will employ, left thisvaft Trojan Ho r fie, Arbitrary Government, big with Popery and our utter , fhould firft make us break downour Walls to let it in, (for the Gate of the Law istoo nar¬ row for its reception,) and afterwards admit it into the Pallace. Tis not in the power of Sheriffs, Juftices of the Peace, or of Judges, let them be as corrupted, orof as bafe a constitution as our Author would have em, to work fo extraordinary a change: Foriftheyareof bafe constitutions, as he phrafes ir, the hopes of preferment on one hand fhall not work upon 'em fo far as the fear of punifhment on the other } nor will they be like to ufe the Laws with the Cruelty of ProcruStes, who muft needs by experience be affur'd that our Coun¬ try does not want thofe Publick-fpirited Patriots, who with the Juftice & Strength ofThefeus can make 'em fuffer by their own Barbarity. Nay, how great an influ¬ ence this fear of difobliging the people, has over low Spirits, even in the higheft Offices, we have very frefh inftances j When by fomeof 'em, even Juftice has been denied, where it might give diftaft to the Keprefentatives of the Na¬ tion. •' . . vr * This This is indeed an a&ipn very unaccountable, but furncient to make it appear to the world how much lfronger the Peoples Intereft and Party is, than any Popifh Princes can ever be, by how much more formidable that is than this, even to the Tribunal of Jufticeitfelf which fhould never fear. If this then will not do the work, and the Pope is not abfolute, there wants a -Army to Crown the Worf: -And he Jhall have it ? Shall he fo Sir ? o' my word we are much obliged to you for granting a ftanding Army; butftay, he comes off with, who/hall hinder him? Nay that's another matter; then pray Mr. Bayes be pleaded to inform us where is this ftanding Army, is it in difguife? and does it lie concealed as your tother did at Knights-bridge ? Indeed, indeed that's dangerous, for an Army in difguife is full as bad, nay much worfethan aPapifiinMafquerade. But yet I havefome hopes, that dnce this Popifh Succelfor hasnot travel d the Rode fo much as others, has not been lb great a Journey-taker about England, nor made fo many Weftern Progreffes, the Inn-keepers will not be fo much his Friends as to hide all his Horfe and Foot, and Ammunition, and other odd things that go with an Army i and then all this great Project is like to be defeated, and fall to nothing. Or if this Army is not yet rais'd, and don't lye hid in the place we were talking of, or in theCellerin Worfterfhire,howlhall it be rais'd: You know you have told the PopifhSuccellbr that heJhall have a ftanding Army-, and l'l allure you he will expedt you fhould be as good as your word, Why then if you would have this Army quiet¬ ly rais'd fome honourable pretences mujl be found: Truly that is well rhoughton, for if that had been forgot, and Drums had beat up through the City for Voluntiers tofet up Arbitrary Power and Popery, it is ten to one but all the Fat had been in the Fire. Well let us get a pretence then, and when we have one, if it be only a pretence, though never fo Right Honourable, Suppofe the people fhould fmell it out, and be very unwilling to be rah'd for any thing but their own defence: This were indeed fomewhat like Rebelling, but not quite fo improbable, but that a wife Prince would forefeeand avoid it, and we may very well fuppofe it, Suppofe ? quoth, a, I am not at all mortified at your fuppofe, not I Sir, I tellyou if we have a Po¬ pifh Succeff or, he Jhall bring in a ftanding Army, and that ftanding Army Jhall bring in Aribitrary Power,and Arbitrary Power bring in Popery, and then what becomes of your Suppofe ?Suppofe quotha? —— Mr 1 beg your pardon for offending you, 1 am convinc'd, lyeild, and mull own, that though you have introduced Popery withfo mucheafe, you are the only man in the world that could have fo brought things about, and deferve to be General at leaft of that Army which you have been at the whole trouble of raifing. But enough of this trifling, let us be a little Serious, and leave off our Laughter, which cou'd not be avoided in Difcourfe with this Impertinent, grave conceited Politico, this florid Oratorical Buffoon, with his Ragioni det Stato of Sr. Poll, dreft up in the Eloquence of Sir Formal. There is none can be fo great a Stranger to the Affairs of this Countrey, as not to fee how ftrong the Tide runs againft Popery a Tide fo impetuous, foftrengthened and fwell'd up with the fiowingin of almolt all Interefts againft it, that it can never be ftem'd by the frnall refiftance that the moft vigorous Prince can make in the head of fo ruin'd , fo weak and inconfi- derable a party; 'twere folly to attempt it, and extream madnefs to hope to effect it. So young as the Reformation was in the Reign of CyMary, it might in¬ deed with fome eafe be pluckt up e're is had taken root, or fpread it felf over half the Kingdom: The number of Papifts in thofe days being equal at leaft if not ex¬ ceeding that of Proteftants,and they (as in all reafon we mult al!ow)all longing for the reftoration of their Religion: But now that this Idolatrous Superftition has been lb long worn off of the minds of the people, and the Reformation fo deeply and fo ftrongly rooted in the reigns of four moft Religious and prudent Princes;the Church * of England fo firmly eftablifhed.and that as much by the purity of its Doz.c-tts Champi¬ on to diveji themfelves of their humanity, and all worfe than Dtvils to be Saints. If a man were to tranfverfe this Character of Religion, could he do it more appofitiy than in thefc Lines of Hudibras. - ** - - » - f '' ■ . • , . \ ->' ' Twas Presbyterian true Blew, For be was of that (tub born Crew, Of Errant Saints, whom all mengr ant $ To be the true Church Militants. Such as buildtheir Faith upon The Holy Text of Pike and Gun : Decide all Controversies by 1 Infallible Artillery. And prove their DoBnne Orthadox, » By Apoftolickjblows and Knocks. Call Fire and Sword, and Defolatiotij gpdly-through-Reformation •% <* % t -9 A t i ' x Well, after this lhort breathing himfelf, iipon. a fubjedt, which he, nor any body elfe can ever want fomc fine flirewd thing or other to fay, he proceeds thus; I, but (fay the wife PI Criticks we have met With if thefe be the dangers of a Popifh King, why have we not fuch ftrong, fuch potent Laws made before this Popi{h Heir come to the Crown, that it jhallbe for him ever tip Popery, though he Jhouldnever fo much endeavour it.' Indeed I am. mightily rejoyced at our Author's unexpedled civility, in allow¬ ing this to be the expedient of the wifeft Crititk he has met with yet, for 'tis no lefs a Perfons than His moft Sacred Ma jellies own Propofal and gracious Of¬ fer to his two Houfes of Parliament, in thofe feveral Declarations that he has made to'em, ofhismoft vigorous afliftance in this wife provifion for the good of Pofterity : An Adt becoming both the Juftice and the Goodneis of fueh a King, that will neither debar his Brother from that Right by which himfelf reigns, nor leave his people in danger of the loft of their deareft and moft facred Birth-rights, their Liberty and Religion. But let us hear what our Politician fays to this : / anfwer ( fays he) To endeavour to fet up Popery by Law, even with the Laws that we have againft it, is impoffible,^ zi. But if you remember Sir, no further off than the 13 th. page; Tou were afraid that even the Protcftant Laws themfelves might be made to open the firfl Gate to Slavery, and fo to Popery, by the help of ftefe's that you were there talking of. And granting this, it would not befo im- ■■■■"' politick politick a piece of work to make fuch other Proteflant Laws, that fflould not be pofflbly Ihorten'd or ftretch'd by ere a P uf 'em ail, and then this proje¬ ction will notdeferve tobeaccus'd of N Nay we have your felf pre- fently confefflng That a Popiffl King may be totally reftraind jrom all power of in¬ troducing Popery, by the force of fuch Laws as may be made to tie up his hands. And who is fo unreafonoble as to deiire any more ? Surely Romes (as elfewhere you phrafe it) will not be fo formidable, when like old, both its hands (hall be broken off, and the power of hurting the true the Church of England, wholly taken away. "Ay, but then thefe Laws mufl be fuch as mufl ruine his Prerogative This does not neceflarily follow, and I believe HisMajefty (in His own Prince¬ ly Wifdom, and by His Councils Advice) was well enough fatisfied that fuch Laws might be made, as might not quite ruine the Prerogative of his SuccelTor, tho' they might abate much of his Power, in matters relating to the Proteflant Religion. . / Befides, granting even thus much, what you infer from this is doubly ridicu¬ lous. Firft, 'Ibat no Monarch Would thus entail that effeminacy on a Crown, asjhall render the Imperial Majefty of England but a Pageant, a meer Puppet upon a Wire. For thefe Laws that bind up a King fo'ftridly, fuppoi'e him> Popijh King, fuch only being to be retrained ; This is not therefore an entail'd Effeminacy, but ra¬ ther a fhort eclipfmg of the full Splendor of a Crown, which in the next Succeffor'is to (hine forth with the greater Lufire for its former obfcurity. And fecondly, confidering none but a PopijhKing, is thus to be limited, Is it not foo- lifh enough that, you fhould here be offended at the fmalnefs of his power that would have him utterly debarred rhe Throne, and fo have no power at all. As for this Statute,that teems to make fuch a blufter, with the Tall Capital- Letters at the top, it is as little to his purpofe as any thing that he fays; For even the ftriftnefs of that reaches none but thofe that are lawfully Couvitted, and there¬ fore concerns not his R. H. or if it did, the difpute being about the Right of Suc- ceflion, and no Succefflon to the Crown being poffible till after the Death of the Predeceffor, this at that time'can be no obftacle to the next Heir, when (ac¬ cording to the " hole tenour of the Law) all Attainders ceafe. Therefore, to urge more forcibly rhe Exclulion of the Duke, he is infinuating to the people, That if ever a J'apifl mounts this Throne, then all their Petitions, Proteftings and Affo iation-Ve ■ es;.lbe rcmembred to purpo/e.That is exaftly Catiline: The ills that We have a e era not be fafe,but by attempting greater. But I am fure there are fome men h v< reafon to remember that a King that has had the greateft oppo- fition has been the .moft gracious Prince that ever reign'd, and been fo far from remembring topurpofethe Tray tors that oppos'd him, that he has forgot'em, even by Aft of parliament. So far is it. from being generally true what he fays, That he who has gone a long and tirefom journey through Brakes and Briars, to a Jplendid Va/lace, will be fure to feud out to root 'em up.That the laft inftance that we have had of fuch a cafe makes it appear, that even thofe little pliable Brambles and Briars that bent and y ielded to every blaft, let it blow from what quarter it would j and thole Brakes and Thorns that ftuck fo fharply in the fides of Majefty, have not only been retriev'd from their due fate of teing utterly rooted up, but been admitted into the Palace it felf, and made to vie with, and indeed afmoftto \ over-top the talieft Cedars themlelves, that with unfflaken cenftancy partook in the fufferings of the.RoyaJ Cau e, and. without bending, withftood the force of the whole Storm. But now follows a very wife Difcourfe againft the Right of Succefflon ; and to prove that not to be fo inviolable as fome vehemently affert, we are referred to our own Chronicles. Remember Sir what 'tis you are difcourfing of; the Right of Succefflon, as I take it, and then youfhall refer me whither you pleafe. Well then, I take up my Chronicle and fall a reading, and there indeed 1 find fome Kings Murder'd and fome Depos'd, the true Heir fometimes depriv'd of his > ' - Succefflon Suceeflion by the power of a more prevailing Pretender to the fame Right, the Crown bandied about between the F aft ions of two Houfes , laying equal claim to it, and fcarcc ever firmly fettled for any confiderable date of years. But all this while I am learnt todiftinguifh between matter of and matter , and know that they are very often oppofite to one another; and that no precedent can alter the Nature of an unjuft Aftion, or make it allowable now, becaufe contrary to right it was done fome hundred years ago. I am.fure the known Sta¬ tutes of the Land ought to be the Rule of our Duty and Allegiance, rather than our Chronicles; men being to be govern'd by Law, and not by Hiftory. And as for thofe Afts of Parliament which we find ordering and difpofing of the Suceeflion, we (hall tee how little they make for the purpofe for which they are produced. We muft therefore note that all thcfe Afts of Parliament, both of Henry VIII. and of Queen Elizabeth, are not made at all to alcer the Right of Suceeflion; far from it; nay, rather toeftablifh it; for they are only defign'd to declare in whom this Right of Succeffion was, and therefore, were indeed necefla- ry both in the times of if. VIII (who fcoften Marriages and Divorces, and attain¬ der of his Wives, might make this Right, difputable among his Children) and in Qyeen Elizabeth's time, who being without Ifiue, had feveral others that pre¬ tended to the Right of fucceeding her. Theft Afts of Parliament ( 1 fay) were abfolutely necelfary, when the Title to the Crown might be dubious, but for the fame reafon very ridiculoufly and weakly urged, when it is clear to the blin- deft Apprehenfion,. who is the true Succeflor. . After this notable bout of Law, and a few Statutes and Afts of Parliament, borrow'd from fome Cafe-fplitter,or another; forhlsftile (for all its dulnefs) is too florid for a Lawyers; He is fluftit enough to think that he may venture to fall upon that which he calls the ftrongeft Argument for Suceeflion, If the Son of a private Gentleman, tho'a Papifl, Jhall inherit, and quietly poffefs his Hereditary Eft ate, is it not hard, nay barbarous fnjuftice, that the Sen of a King, and the Heir of a Crown, fhould lofe his Patrimony of three Kingdoms for being a Papift ? Indeed I muft confefs that in my opinion it is very hard, barbarous and unjuft, efpecially whenfuch provifion fhallbe made.that we may not be in danger of fufferingany thing by his Opinion.^ But our Author fays we are in danger of this-, and I fay Ho; and fo I find this is at the bottom no more than the former Argument con¬ cerning the poflibility of Arbitrary Government and Popery ever coming in upon us And this I think has fulficiently been confidered in its place. I can't choofebut fmile at the next undertaking of our Sir who I per¬ ceive has the vanity to believe his Rhetorick can do any thing : He has therefore fpun out a moft fine Harangue, to perfwade the. Duke to quit (of his own ac¬ cord) his pretentions to a Crown, and indeed as to that I have little to anfwer, but muft leave it to be as his Royal Highnefs and he fhall agree upon the matter ; Only I muft by the way take notice of one of the Arguments he makes ufe of to this purpofe, and try if I can make it as ferviceable to another. If then (p. 30.) the little disparity of their years be confidered, and the and uncertainty of the Duke's ever coming to the Crown duely weighed,furely thofe men are highly culpa¬ ble, nay, the greateft Enemies of (he publick good that can be imagined; who thus for an uncertainty ruine a Kingdoms Peace and Profferity, and make us run into thofe ills which we are fure to fuffer, in avoiding thofe which we neither know, or are certain we fhall be ever fo much as in danger of. There is another very remarkable paflage in.this laft Difcgurfe, which (for its extraordinary quaintnefs of exprcflion, and delicacy of ftile) ought by no means, to efcape us. It is a ftory of a Noble Roman, who, by the defcription that he makes of him, can be the pattern of no other than the moft defervedly belo¬ ved Darling of the People, and who might, for ought we know, do our Nation as muchfervice in the fame kind as the other did: He is thus therefore de- feribed in blank Heroick Meetre, as the dignity of this Subjeft required. t'i'X) 'ilfi' fjt'' fish * IWcn Hi* 4 D " Ci4) When along Plague had reign d in Rome, an Earth-quake Had open da prodigious Gulph in the MidSt of the Forum; their conftilted Oracle Told 'em, That neither Jhould the Plague be ft opp d, Nor the breach slot'd, till the moft Noble ViSlim In Rome appear'dtheir angry Deity. ' When Curtius, a Noble Youth of Rome, O' th' belt and highejl Roman Quality, Princely adorn d, and mounted gallantly On Horfeback, with a lookjo gay, fo cheerful, Mole like a Bride groom than a Sacrifice, uimidft athoufandveondring tender Eyes Of all his Friends, the Rabble round about him, Rode headlong down into the yawning Pit. pag. 19. • ; "" ' Qi /f.i 1. > Whoever can guefs by this lively defcription of the Authors, who oiir Englifb Curtius, this Charmer of the People, this Gallant Perfon fo bravely mounted, and fo like a Bridegroom is, would do very well toufe what Intereft he can to perfwade him to do as noble an Action as the Roman Curtius did, and try whether by his being a Sacrifice, our Plague that reigns among us would ceafe: But if this Curtius can t be found out, to be even with our Author ! will tell him a ftory fomewhat like his; and tho' poffibly not in fuch exadnefsof Meetre, yet as true, and of as good Authority as that, defiring him and his Friends toconfiderof it, becaufe [ have a fancy that Mofes, in this cafe, is likely to give as good Inftrudion as Livy. There were certain turbulent Spirits among the Children of lfrael, that had ftirredup the people to rebel againft their Guide Mofes, and their iHigh- Prieft Aaron, which was then all their Church and State: Upon this the Earth opened a prodigious Gulphinthe midft of their Tents; but here one fingle Vidim would not fatisfie, neither would the mouth of the Earth (that was opened) fee content with fefs than the Ring-leaders of the Sedition, with all that adhered unto 'em, who together went down quick, into the Pit 5 (Numb. 1 v. 30.) and fo as the Pfalmiftfays , The Earth opened, and (Wallowed up Dathan, and covered the Congregation of Abiram. And now I think we are at laft come to that which is indeed Ratio ultima, and find our Author juftifying the Rebellion of Subjeds againft their Prince .• An Ar¬ gument which I take the publickMinifters of Jufticemore concerned to anfwer than my felf; lor he who don't know who the Lords Anointed is, and who is his Na¬ tive Soveratgn, (p. 31.) in my opinion ought no otherwife to be convinc'd. But becaufe at laft he is for fumming up all, (p. 34.) Let us fee what is the (Utmoft ftrength of his reafons for Rebellion; why that is this, That a is guilty of a greater fin in bringing in Popery and Tyrahny, than the People that take up Arms againft him, - (p. 34 ) Is not this excellent arguing ; liippofingeven this Propofition to be true ? Becaufe a Prince is guilty of a fin, mUft the people be guilty of ano¬ ther?'Ay, but he is guilty ofagreatetthan they :• Suppofe thena Prince fhoUld commit Inceft, may his people by this? be warranted to commit Adultery or For¬ nication, becaufe their fin is hot as big as his ? Or to our purpofe,) if a Prince be en¬ ticed into the Witchcraft of Rome, as our Author elfewhere calls it, will this Au¬ thorize the Peoples Rebellion;Jwhich !the Scripture tells us i^migluy like that tdry fin,' the fin of Witchcraft? This is fo abfurd and fa foolffh a defence of fo abominableaftd pernicious a Pofttion, as'deferves both the Rods and Axes of the 1 Mag) ftrattr,' the'Rod for ^the Fools backjand the-Ax for the Traytortbead, if it be not topgreaf anttenour. And now'becaufe the writer of the' has had the bbldnefs to Addrefs his Libel to You the moft Noble Lords and Worthy Patriots of the two Hdhfes of Parliament; I likewife &t laft take. the Confidence to throw this Anfwer of mine at your Feet, with my humble Petition in the behalf y ' . Q'-' ■ ■' ■ ' • of C* 5 J ©falmofta whole Diftratted Nation: That in your great Wifdem you Will take fuchmoderate courfes as may once more make us a happy people.,.that you would (ecureus againlt Popery without* deftroying M ok at thy, or which is the fame thing, making this an Elective Kingdom, which has ever been Hereditary; that you would take care of that Church which is fo milerably belet with enemies on both fides,and which is fofirm a friend to the State,that they hayy e ver both rifen and fallen together. Laftly 1 muft conjure you by theSpirits of all thofe Englijh- men, thatinourlaft unnatural Wars fell on both fides, by the Heroes of ef Nafeby,ofWorcejler, and of all thofe Fatal Fields that were then Fought,by the Cries of the Widows which then were made,and the Curfes of thofe Mothers which that Cruel Scene made to be fo no more, by all the Miferies we remember, and all that wc can fear or expeft; And laftly, by the bloudof that Royal Martyr, whole nifemory we to this day celebrate, I conjureyouas you exped to anfwerit to God and a whole Nation, to take care above all things that we have not a Civil War entailed upon us, to fweep away what the former has left: that we may never more run into that extremity of Madnefs, which not long fince made one of the moft Powerful and Happy Kingdoms in the World, the pity and contempt of all the Nations round about her. And having made this moft humble Addrefs to your Honourable AHembly, I fhall take my leave of my Reader, in an Ode of Borate to this purpofe, a very little alter'd > 'Tis his 17th' Epodtothe people of Rome, his Countrey-men, de- horting 'em from engaging in a Civil War twice in oneAge,where by the eafinefs of the application of it to our prefent times and Nation, we may find that the peo¬ ple of England have learnt fomewhatelfe from befides its Religion, which is at leaft even as deftruftive as that. f X * r , - t bo: *d - .... ^ \ * C 1 (i6) I x ■ • » ¥ / , , * t * " * ji £ < . jjr Ad Populum Anglicdrium deteftatio Belli Civilis. Hor. Ep. 7. QVo, quo fcelefti r nit is ? ant cur dexter is Aptantur enfes conditi f farm?* tie camp is atq\ Neptunofttper Fufum e$t Britanni Sanguinis ? Non faBuofas invidt Lutetia Vt Anglus arces urerety Iterumve Rex ut Gallic us defcenderet Noftris-Catenatus *viisy - ^ Sed ut, fecundum votaGallorum, fud Gens hacperiret dexter a. Neq\ bic lupismos nec fuit leonibus Vnquamy nifiindifrar, feris. Furorne cacus, an rapit vis acrior ? An culpa f Refponfum date. Tacent & or a pallor albus inficit Mentefqiperculfa ftupent. Sic eft : Acerba fata Brittones agunt, Scelufq, Regianecis. Vt immerentis pegma tinxit Caroli Sacer nepotibus cruor. \ v \ i / 'iil- i ) > '1 .L>: 1 ?? /■ ' J f9 » i i % i f i J ! Im 0 i Mi u j, * r» « llli i i C # If) 1; < . i i i ' ' i 4 0 ) i ■» kit tv.i /;> f„ >t } / ■ , . i : iv? iUu. j [ J O J I ! ■ * ^ ' -4 « * 4 % * - p lul l I 7o • « 'U ■- i ' ■; V » . # >! . » 'o-*ytn m' - if» 4 4 n .. < ■ f ?> *• 1111 !G Ji 5 "ifc T'o the People of England 5 ADetejlation of Civil War, out of Horaces 7th* Epod. O H! Whither do ye rufh, and thus prepare ? To rouze again thcfleeping War ? Has then fo little £«^/i_/Z7-Bloud been ipilt On Sea, and Land with equal guilt ? Not that again} we might our Arms advance, To check theinfolent Pride of France. Not that once more we might in Fetters bring An humble Captive Gallic King: But to the wifh of the infulting Gault That we by our own hands fliould fall. Nor Wolves nor Lyons bear fo fierce a mind} They hurt not their own Savage kind Is it blind Rage, or Zeal, more blind and ftrong, Or Guilt, yetftronger, drives you on? Anfwer} but none can anfwer } mute and pale They hand j Guilt does o're Words prevail. *Tisfo: Heavens Juftice threatens us from high} And a King's Death from Earth does cry 5 E're fince the Martyrs Innocent Bloud was (hed, Upon our Fathers, and on Ours, and on our Childrens head. "J ■J F I 3\C I S.