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By what Name or Title' Ibever Digni-
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in'-getieral arc a fort of Animals Iprung
1 from the Corfuptioti of king Jame/s Evil Gor
J vernmcnt I and carry" two ihapes in one ^dy>
like 2,,£tntAur^ or the Irtib Virgin with a Fifli in her
tail, half Proteilant, half Papift. If they are of the
Ttmprai .NobfUty, they believe the Glitter of theiniio^
mur to be only-tbe RefleQiion' of -King Jameses Favour,
and that the Rays of their'Grandeur cannot ; fhinc
with that luftre as they ought, unkls like Glow-
worms Tails they may be permitted to giifter in
the dark of Popery and Ty ranny. They are thQ .Moua-
lams of, Arbitraty'lP^^f " and Magnificence, - which
TyraritSi'ereft to'be'tihe' dtlajjeJ'kdd Coloffus^s to fupport
Exorbitant Dominion. And many times they owe their
Advancement toa Serr^band welldanc'd, the adfivity of
f heir Bodies, Ofjthe alj^ments-oflovely Features : And
iforneiimei ime^ are pfc'kt oht: tofcombat ( with GO-
iohrs flyiH^)'^^!'Authority oFEaw^dJftftiee.J They
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teach 'em to afcend to Greatnefs by- other fteps tham
thole of their Countries Ruine. They efpoufe the late
King's Intereft, as many men, when they grow Im-
potent, marry their Old MiJlreJJes- But the lupport
and the Intereft being feeble alike, his only to make
the World believe the Conjunftion at laft to be ho-
neft. Or elfe they think it ill manners to-defert the
late King in hiS' ^iritual Amours with the Whore, of
BAhylony becaufe they know To well the pronenefs
of their ' own Inclinations to carnal Devotion :
Tho on the other fide, 'tis ftrange they fhould have
fb little Efteem for the Proteftant Religion, becaufe
the Papiftj tell 'em, if came out of Hemy the Eight's
Cod piece. But certainly thefe Noble 'Jacobites are the
oddeft Courtiers in the World, to worlhip a fetting
Sun ; and that in his Winter Qaarter too, when he
can never cxpetl: to rife again, but he muft be fur'-
rounded with Mifts and Foggs, and Storms and Tem-
pefts, which his warmth will ne're be able to dif-
perfe.
Thefe Noble Jacobites are a fort of fearing Politi-
cians, that fin againft all the Profpeds of Sence and
Reafon in the Earth. Were they not banded about
the Eyes like, fo many Sons of Vemu^, they who
fit upon the Pinaclc of the Kingdom,, and have the
opportunity of diftant views, could'not but^ with a
clearer fight behold the finking Eftate of the rotten
Intereft which they labour to lupport. But the No-
bk Jacobites are more fublime in their Politicks than
others ; they can fpieinto a Mill-ftone not only as far,
but farther than other Men ; and their exalted and
piercing Imaginations make fuch holes in Futurity,
that they can fee through it as through a Cullender,
Then taking their magnifying Glaifes, they fancy
they fee their Idol King James far more pompous than
every
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ever ; and conceit themfelves fexrching about his
Throne, full plum'd with all the Glories and Prefer-
nients due to their pretended Merits. And thus,
they xhu jlttter d him out of his Throne, no lefs ab-
fiirdly vthemfelves with Felicities of their own
creeling, by reftoring him again. All this while,
purfuing that abominated Maxim of the Kings Inte~
rell, and conlequently tlieir own, being feparatefrom
that of the Subje^l; they tell the World that they
have nothing to do with the People, and thereby
teach the People not to have any thing to do with
them. The late King conferr'd Titles upon Vm, but
their Titles .allbrd 'em- no Honour ;; for they no foon-
er are invefted' witir their Honour, but they debale
it with pick-thank Sycophantrie, and Slavilli Adu-
lation : And fway'd by the powerful Inftigations of
a pufillanimous Ambition to be great only in Ihew,
betray at once Ihtmfelves^ and their Com-
trty: for inftead of adviling tlie King as they ought,
they give him fuch Counlei as they believe him in-
dined to, and determine of his Welfare by his Defre;
which is a kind offetting the Sun by the Dj/al; fb that
the King never knows what time of day kis among
his Subjefls. Therefore it is that fet before thele
L^rd// Jacobites, the fight 'of a guilt Coach and fix
Horles, or a round Bag of Louy-dors, they are eafily
perfwadedto facrifice the Welfare of a whole Nation
to their own Eafe and Plenty.
In fhort then, a true Jacobite Lord is a true Jtfe-
ries, that is to fay, an Abandon'd Slave to Defpo-
tick Tyranny ; a Sejanus to his own Vices, who
will humour a Tiberius, to the difpeopling whole
Provinces, rather than lofe the fordid) Advantage of
infulting over his Inferiours. A Jacobite of the fir (I
magnitude, is one that will take no warning by the
fatal
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fatal Precipices, from which he has feen fo many of
h s own degree fall headlong. The Deftinles of Buckmg.--
ksm and Strafford are fo far cancelTd in his thoughts,that
they prevail with him no more than the Fable oiPhae-
mn. It cannot be thought that all who were e-nno-
bled by the late King, were of Ancient Defcent,
from Anceftor to Ancellor, which is the Reaibn why
they cannot be altogether biam'd, if like the Statua-
ries Car, that would be'ftarting after Mice after (he
was exalted to Humane Shape,, they purfue thofe:
bafer Ends which true NobilUy (corns: However we
are glad the Moral only can be fixed upon the ffaco-
bite Race. 'Tis' t(ue, that; fome of there„A>^/e Jaco-
bites lay claim to Confcitnce, and upon, .that (core
pretend whole Ounces of Loyalty and Fidelity to
King 'James : But 'tis a Charader appropriated to
thefe fort of Jacobites^ that they never think ; elfe
they could never be fo' much miftakcn in the diftin-
bfion of Loyalty : For how can ever they be faid to
be Loyal to a Perfon that never was true to liimfelf?
-Kor is it le'fs abfurd to believe they may be morgLoy-
al to-aoy one particular Man, than to the Body of
their Countrey in General: For by'this means tliey
fdlmnder .tlie fevere Character of preferring the Ad-
• vanitages of a. fingle Perlbn before the common WeL
^ 'fare. And then their Loyalty (don difcovers it (elf
■ to . be 110 more tlian a faciious Adherence to a difcard-
ed Prince, in hopes to .wreft; from .the Kingdom by
- his'' Advaocerrientd the drlappointed (atisfat^^ion of
dieir • Ambitious Ends,. wliiGh otherwife they giye
over for loft. . . ; •
.But hat. yircues as well, as Vices wdAl! not Self-
1 inlfdTe .iiko a -Noble iMiod ?. Of a, (bddcn thefe
ate; become th'er moft Gharitable, and
(hfcliw'i^ S^fonsniti'/ihe WocWi; J-Jaeyi l^ejae^e tfiat
' iKing
King Jawes has forgot to forfeit his Promifes and
Proteflations; they believe that he believes it is for
no By-ends of theirs, but purely out of Pity and
_^ompaflion that they feek his Return ; They believe
they fhali never be Clofetted more, but that Sympa-
thy and Antipathy, the Mafs and Common-Prayer,
will kifs each other upon his coming back, in two
Chappels under the fame Roof: They believe that
his Italian Wife will Forgive 'em, his Priefts will
Pardon 'em, and that He himfelf will acquit, exo-
nerate, and difcharge 'em for affifting to lift him
out of his Kingdom : They believe that young Ptr-^
kin was truly begot, and truly born at St. James's,
and that he is lawful Heir to tlte Crown : Ihey be-
lieve the French King, like a Mofl: Chriftian Prince,
will foregoe all his private Contrails, and never fue
neither him nor them with Fire and Sword for "all
the vaft Summs he has lent upon the Mortgage of
of the Brittijb Dominions. All this, an'd more than
tliis, too long to be enumerated, the Noble Jacobites
believ-e, to that degree, that if their Faith were other-
ways employ'd, there would not .be an unruly Moun-
tain in England.
But after all, this is their unhappy Misfortune, that
all this extraordinary Belief of theirs ferves only to
betray tlieh* Weaknefs, if it may not rather be call-
ed a kind of Frenzy ; as if their living formerly lb
near t/ie Rays of a Crown had tann'd and Blacka-
moored their very Underftandings; for it is not ratio-
nal to think thefe Exalted Jacobites believe thefe Ab-
furdities, asr being in a Station to know, better things
by woful Experience ; but it Ihews them how-
ever given over to a fond or wilful Credulity, r\)hich
is^ a Vice of Judgment, a feeblenefs like that of Mai-
dens, to be twice deluded ; fb far from the Prudence
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of True Nobility^ that we feldom find an Irrational
Moufe that having once fcapM the Bait, will come
near the Trap a lecond time. Bat there is this Di-
iHndion between true EngUih Nohiltty and Jacobite
£renchtfy'*d Nobility, that the one ftudies the Welfare,
the other the Ruine of the People ; one loves his
Countrey, the other hates it; the one walks by the
Rules of Honour and Juftice, the other values him-
felf upon the Quirks of Policy ; the one would be .
deem'd Wile, the other Crafty ; the one would be
efteem'd a. good Common-wealths Man, the other a
Cunning Politician ; the one alTerts the Nations an-
cient Freedom, the other would be a cringing French
Bafhav rather than a Peer of England ; the one would
redeem, the Other Jell the Kingdom. Thcle fort of
cobite Grandees, are the Hedge-Sparrows that hatch
Kjng Lewises Cockatrice Eggs', in hopes that when
England is become tributary to France, they lhall be
rewarded with whole Hefperian Gardens, full ofGoU
den Pippins^ Not confidering that Princes moft affe£l-
ing Arbitrary Power, deteft however a low-fpirited
Propenfity to Slavery, and that all the Reward which
the Senate received for their lervile Submillion to
Ttberiiis, was only to be derided by that icornful
Tyrant with the frequently repeated Sarcafm, of 0 ho-
mines ad Jervitutem Paratos,
In Ihort, fuch Noble-men as thele are like Barren
Mountains, that bear neither Plants nor Grafs for
Publick Ule ; they touch the Skie, but are unprofi-
' table to the Earth, and when they come to add the
ilnjuftice of their Actions to the Worthlefnels of their
Perlbns, their Exaltation becomes the Curfe of the
People.
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To come now to the Jacobite Clergy, (for may all
thofe of the true Sacred Order of the Church of Eng-
land^ long enjoy the Honour and Veneration due to their
Fun£l:ionT) I lay then, to come to the Jacobite Cltr^y^
they arefuch a Generation of Vipers^ foenyenomM with
the poyfonous Pamphlets of the Obfervator, that you
would fwear they made it their bufinefs to fwallow
thofe weekly Pafquills ; and that the layings of that
fame Charming Author being digefted in their Sto-
machs, has turn'd to real Nourilhment: They are a
numerous Gang, and haunt 6":—'s Ccjf'ee-Haufe in
llioats, where they . fit like Froggs in March
againfl: the Government. If they are of the Tribe of
Levi, the only Reafbn to be given for it is this, that
they are lb butcherly inveterate againfl: the Sichemite
Whiggs, upon pretence that they have ravifhed their
Sifter Dina, the Church. They cannot Study for
hearkening after News; and in Parliament time the
Court of Requefts is fb crouded with 'em, as if the
Popes Confifiory fate in the Painted Chamber. If
they can but get to be a Lords Chaplain^ they pre-
fently whip on a long Scarf'., and tnen Lucifer was
not prouder when he exalted himfelf upon the Mount
of the Congregation in Ifatah: And yet thefe Scarfs
are eafily come by ; for a Man that fhowed the Pup-
pet Play of the Creation of the World but t'other day,
may lay Title to one, if he can but flubber over a
few Prayers in a Ladies Family. They are a fbrt
of meer Divinity Meteors, that run whisking up and
down to mifguide the wandring People, and vent
their undigeffed Conceits, as the winde of their airy
Fancies agitates 'em. You cannot perceive 'em to
be Cripples, and yet there is not one of 'em but
halts moft confpicuoufly between God and Baal. They
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pretend td'6e Proteftants, but. Vhh an cxtraordfna-
ry Inciinatlon to Papery, tliati: they may have two
Strings to their Bow, and be ready upon the Return
of tlieir Idol, to fall down, and worlhip his Will
and Pleafure. If the Church of Rome WiOuld but re-
feale the feverity of her Pennances, her worjt were
done; for tho they are. paffionately for wjiipping of
others, they do hot much care to whip themlelves.'
They are the Pompejs and Cafars of Divinity, thac
can endure neither Equals nor Superiours, and ra-
ther than a D/Jekrer^-ihould get a Living among
them, if it were 4n their Power, they would facrLr
fice him to MoUek •, for they look upon the D.ffen-
ters as Forraigners that would eat the Bread out of
their Mouths. They fay that Nebnchidftez.zir did ve-
ry well to throw the three Diifenting Children in-
to the fiery Furnace, becaufe they would not coht
form to the Church of RuhiLon by efiablijlFd.
Had they liv'd in the time of the Ten Perfecutions,
what clean work would they have made with thole
Nonconforming thrijtijins ! Or if any thing had fav'd
/^'Remnant, it would* have been their Do^rine qf
Puffive Obedience. ^ They idolize King fames as the
Heathen did their falfe Gods, firft make the Idol,
and then worlhip it. Tyranny's the Moloch to which
they would offer their own Pofterity ; and their own
NativeiCountrey'the Place which they would make
"their Valley Gehinnon. They pretend to be true\J(?/ti
of the Cbtirch^ buti ufe her no better than a Step Mp-
ther, to offer the Price of her Prefervation for the
Redemption of her profefs'd Enemy. And fo doing,
while they pretend to avoid their being: Tray tors to
a pfetended Prince, they-betray riot oply the People
which iliey milkad, but th'eqnf^es; as if the Church
woukl
would ever He able to give them fuc^ when they
have'ailifted'her Capital Foe to cut off her Nipples.
Whence it is apparent, that they were never welF
read either in Scripture or MxtchUvel^ tho it fhews
as truly, that their Inclinations are more for the worft
of Po|itlchs than the bejt of Divinity. All this while,
how they fhould be fo charitable t6 the misfortunes
of King Jamss^ is a wonder, having fo little Charity
one for another, there being nothing more frequent
among them than Envy, PalTion, Repining, and fup-
planting of each other : And yet they are fo iqfenli-
ble as to believe that their King James does not fee
through them, ( unlefs becaufe they have made him
their Idol, they think he has Eyes and fees not, )
and that he knows he muft fatisfie the particular
ends and aims of every individual Perfbn, or elfe
there will never be peace in IfraeL
They would be the beft Marks-men in the World,
if they could but bring a ^reat Gun as well as a little
lext to bear upon any Subjed whatever they aim
at. To prove Epifcopacy, they baulk all other Texts,
and take this, Sirwhat jball I do to be fav^d? be-
caufe the Greek word. Sirs, fignifies Lords, therefore
they were Bifhops that were fpoken to. Another to
preach up Kingly Government, chofe for his Text,
Seeh fir/l the Kjngdom of God : Not the Common-
wealth of God, nor the Ariftocracy of God, but the
Kingdom of God, Ergo, Kingly Government is the
beft Government. A tiSirAioAi^'^xovQ Non-Refidence,
finds out Mat. i. 2. Abraham begat Ifaac: For that if
Abraham had not refided with Sarah, he had never be-
^t Ifaac. Another undertakes to prove the unlaw-
iulnefs of the Bill of Exclufidh, from Job v. 21,
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It h not Ix'vful to do cvil^ that good may come of it.^
Another to prove the Excellency of Monarciiy, picks
out 'Jttdg. if.v.S. In thofe days there was no Kjng tn
Ifrad: for had there been a King in Ifrael, Micah
had never made a Graven Image, nor had the Levitef
Concubine ever been ravifhe'd. And thus their Ser-
mons are a fort of Lanipoons upon Scripture, while
they make u(e of it only to put their Shamrns and
Tricks upon the People, and expofe it dreis'd up in
wrefted Interpretation, to the Diverfion oftheworft
of Libertines. They pray to Heaven as if they be-
lieved there were no God ; or fought at leaft to make
him the Author of their mdchievous Contrivances.
They pray for King J.tmes, fpend all their mod fer-
vent Ejaculations in their Cups, and over their Cof-
fee, for King James^ as if they thought that God
were a Favourer of Popery, Tyranny, OpprelTion
and Slavery ; and yet would have us think they be-
heve him to be the God of Mercy, Truth and Ju-
flice. But whatever they would have us believe, 'tis
but an ill fign of the good Opinion they have of it,
to invoke Divine Favour upon the Enemy of their
Religion, their Laws, and Liberties.
While they had the Power, the Hook of recalling
the Penal Laws and Tejl would not take ; but now
they would recall the difappointed Angler, and ra-
,ther throw themfelves into a precarious Toleration
pf a Popifh Tyrant, than abandon Dominion over
their Proteftant Brethren. And thus they fet up
K'ng James like the Brazen Serpent^ thinking to be
fafe by looking upon him, when ftung to inevitable
Death by the fiery Serpents of Rome. Look into
their Converfations, and you fhall find'em Wine bib-
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feers to excefs, and frequently remov'd from the
CoiJee-houfe to the Tavern, to carry on the Eleflii-
ons of Sheriffs and Parliament-men. And 'tis a
fhrewd fign they are no lefs addided to the
Smicker, becaufe they love fb much as they do to
fee Religion with her Heels upward. When they
get into their Pulpits, they make 'em roar like fo
many Matrajfes of Aurum Fulminans, under the Guard
of an ignorant Chymifl:; you'd think they had been
learning of the Fire-chawing Mountebanks to carry
burning Coals betwixt their Teeth, their Breath is
fo hot : They fling about their Bombs and their
Granado's againft the Phanaticks, as if they were
fiormins^ a. Conventicle ; every word is a Sna^-dra?on
or a Flafli of Lightning, enough to finge all the Pe>
riwiggs in the Congregation. Strange, that fuch
fiery men as thefe fhould be for Pajjlve Obedience !
But that's a Virtue which they only Preach to
others, never prabfile themfelves : They make ufe
of PajjIve Obedience as Houfc-breakers do of the little
Engines called Betties, to force open the Confcien-
ces of all that will not bow to their Baal, and rob
*em of their Underftandings. They are fo far from
Pa(Jive Obedience themfelves, that never was any
Hornets Neff in fuch an uproar as were they them-
felves when their warm Livings were in danger.
The Scripture fays. Obedience is better than SacriJjse,
but they cry Sacrifice is better than Obedience; for
if «1I their Oppofers were facrific'd, there would be
no need of Obedience : Touch but their Coppy-
holds, and then inflead of Paffive Obedience they cry
^Tit better to Obey God than Man ; and let their
King de Jure make ufe of all his Right and Title
to Command 'em, he Ihall as Toon Command a
Cabbin
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CMin in a rough Sea, as get *em to read any of*
his A£ls or Declarations, it" they but fmell a Ra
in *era to the Prejudice of their Cbeefe. Their vain
Hopes perfwade them to Obey King James^ and their
groundlefs Fears to Difobey King William. . Thus
tliey hope in a PopiOi' Prihcc, and are afraid of a
Proteftant King ; abandon the Felicity they may
jnftly expe<ft from King William^ and hope, in the
Courtefie which they can never exped from King
'James \ like many Men that are afraid of Heaven,
and place their hopes .in the Devil's future Qivi-
lily.
They believe all the refl: of the Nation but
themfelves to be Crows, and come with their Cher-
ry-Garden Divinity to prove the difference between
a King de Jure and a King de Fa6to ; as a King de
Jure that has forfeited his Right by Breach of Law,
Breach of Faith, Breach of Oaths, Breach of all
things by which a Sovereign claims his Sovereignty,
were any more than a vain Terror of their own
crefting. Heaven pull'd him down, and they would
heave him up again. Now whether the Ancient Ro-
mans or thele Jacobite Levites were tlie wireft, muff:
be left to Judgment; for the one trufted to a Goofe
to preferve their Copitol, the other to a Cock-match
for the Reftoration of their Exile : Indeed the Cock
\s [the. nipre Martial Bird, but the Goofe was the
mbre Fortunate ; But they thought to Iiaye been
Crowing again upon their own Dung-hills, and
therefore they preferr'd a Cock-Match-Plot before any
other Plot. They had cry'd down the Popijb Plot,
"'and^'^AP Presbyterian Plot was of King Tawe/s oWn
jnafen^, and" fell with himfblf'; but they thought
there
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m\^x. ■ 'Ten to Ons laid upon the SuCCefs of a
Co^'Match'. Plot. However it were, by this you
may difcover the right Genius of a Je/utte and a
'true Juobtte., the one was for Difpeopling the Na~
tion, the other for making a Gock-pit of the King-
dom. •
I would fain exempt *em from having any hand
in the MifcArriage of our Fleet., a fatal Blow to the
Ancient Honour of the Englifh Nation, which all
Europe but their Confederate the French King ftill
laments: Since they that would betray their Coun-
trey and their Deliverer, would betray their Savi-
our; for Jud.is might perhaps not know how great
a Peifbnage our. Saviour was, but no Man can be
exempted from not believing in his Countrey.
The other fort of Levltical 'Jacobites, as they are
more highly dignify'd, and farther ftricken in Years,
carry themfelvcs with more Refervednefs, and as
they have gain'd a greater Reputation, fo they
are more dangerous to the Government ; yet
they walk upon the fame grounds, and move up-
on the fame Principles with the Inferiour Crew,
who receive their Inffruftions from them ; and
when they are fully Lejfond, like the little Spaniels
that fall a yelping when the great Maftiff opensS
follow the fcent with a full Cry. ^
Thefe Men being generally of low Extraction,
cannot forgoe thofe mean and narrow Notions which
their fordid Education infus'd into their Boyifb
Tars, whicli makes them admire Advancement as
poor Folks adore gaudy Qloatbs \ and having once
tailed
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tafted the fweets of Preferment, they fo abhor their
former Condition, that they place all their Felicity
in this World. They ftudy the Humour of the
Court more than Women do the Falhions, and if
they can but gain the Primeh Favour^ they deal
by the Kjng as the Filou did by the Countrey-Fel-
low in Bartholomew-Fairy that tickl'd his Ears 'till
he pick'd his Pocket: Only it fhews Ibmewhat ug-
ly, that they Ihould rejoyce at the Mifsfortuno of
our Fleet, and that King Wiiliamls ViQ:ories in Ire-
land fhould fadden their Hearts.
Their Sermons are all Calculated for the Court
Meridian, the continual Infufiory of Servitude and
Wretchednefs into all their Hearers : You might
have known what a Clock 'twas at White-Hall by
the Chiming of their Pulpits. They took their
Text from the Minutes of the Private Cabal, and
then fiting a Scripture fhooe to it, fent it abroad
Apparel'd in A Sermon Preached before the N G,
By the Reverend luch a One, D- D. If the King
wanted one to tell the People, That though he com-
tnanded what was contrary to the Law of God and
Nature-y the Siibjeli was neverthekfs hound to Obey
with an abfolute Paffive Obedience ; there was a Sib-
thor^ ready to bawl it out in his Pulpit. If the
King wanted another to prove by Scripture, That
he was not bound to Obferve the Laws of the Realm
aoncerning the Subjebls Liberties and Rights, but that
his Royal Will and Command in impofng Loans and
Taxes without Confent in Parliamenty obliged the Sub-
jecfs Confcience upon Pain of Eternal Damnation ;
Manwarinq^y in his way to the two Fat Livings of
St* Giles in the Fields and Stamford Rivers in Ejfex,
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does it to a Hair, Thelc fort of d'tgnifyU Jneobltes
deriv'd their Appellation from Jacobus Primus^ who
afraid^ of his En^lifh Nobility^ caw'd the moft fup-
pie of his dignify'd Clergy, with his new invented
Maxim of No Ihlbop, No for which they gra-
tify'd him with the Title of a ftcondS)lom.on \ could
they have found a hole in the Scripture to have
made that Golden Maxim Canonical, they had done
k ; but the Scripture had been fo often Tranhated
before, that they durft not attempt it ; Howevetj
they went fo far, as to make Epifcopacy Jure Di-
viffOy which was the fame thing as to range it
coequal with Kingfhip : And they were fo much
his Slaves, that they did all they could to make
out the Truth of his Apothegm, and their gratitude
for his Invention, by making all along the Scripture
the Common Voucher and AlTerter of Worldly Po-
liticks.
When thele Ibrt of Dignify d Jacobites come to
be advanced near the Perfon of a Prince, they ne-
ver make ufe of their Dignity to Correft him
when he goes aftray, nor to tell him of his Faults,
but to Iboth him up in his extravagant Courfes:
They tell him. That Kjngs breath not the fame
Breath vpith other Men ; that they are not of the
■Race of Adam^ but the Sons of Jupiter Ammon^ &c.
defcended from Heaven, Booted and Spurred, to
ride their Valfals the People. Moreover, That they
are no more oblig'd by any Coronation-Oaths, than
Lovers by their Vows to their Mikreffes, but may
difpenfe with the Eftablifffd Conftitutions of the
Kingdom at their own Will and Pleafure, and that
they are accountable to none but God, For thefe
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good Services, and many more of the fame Na-
ture, they prevail with the Prince to enlarge their
Encroachments upon the Civil JurifdiSlion, and
having gotten an Unjuftifiable Power into their
Hands, they call it the Churchy no lefs Sacred than
the Jrky have a care how you touch it : if the
Lord do not fmite the bold Adventurer, they will.
A PopiOi Prince may do any thing but abridge
them of this Power of theirs ; if he does tliat, he
is an 1)z,z,iah^ he has invaded their Properties, and
muft be turn'd out pf the Temple with a wither'd
Arm ; and then 'tis lawful to fend for a Prince
of Orange to help 'em, 'tis lawful to devolve the
Government into his Hands, and humbly to im-
plore him to take Care of their Ark. But no fbon-
er are their Properties fafe, and King William by
the General Confent of the Nation advanc'd, in
his own Right to a Vacant Throne, but they are
offended at his Proteftant Zeal, tell him they ne-
ver lent for him to make him their Sovereign, but
their 'Journey-man only ; call him King de Fa^Oj
flight his Proteffion, and rather than acknowledge
their Deliverer, would put on their Philijline Yoak
again.
Thefe are a moody fullen fort of Jacohitesj that
would make all the World believe there are but
fo many knowing, Pious Men in the Nation ; and
by an affefted Oibentation of Conlcience, would
riggle themfelves into the Honour of having all
the Nation dance after their Pipes. They know
the ill Confequences of their Example to the I^ing'
domy and yet perfevere in it ; but they imagine
the Humour will take, and therefore they prefume
upon
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upon it. Nor can they be infenfible, that King
Ja^f^es takes his Opportunity, and makes his Ad-
vantage of their Bigottry. And yet fb highly are
thefe Dignify d f.icobitts conceited of themfelves,
that though the Righteoufnefs of ten Men would
have fav'd Sodom^ they believe the flreight-Iac'd
lendernefs of half the number enough to ruinc
Engjand : At leaft they would have the Publick
Good and Safety depend upon the overweening
Reafon of a few Obftinate Men.
Thele fort of Jacobites cannot but know the dan-
ger of great Examples,
Veloctus citius nos
Commilnmt Vitiorum ExempU Domeflicaj magnis
Cum fubeant Jnimos Juthorihus
From whence we muft conclude they are buoy'd
up, and encourag'd by the more Politick Jacobitesy
on purpofe to promote their Darling, King James's
Intereft. Thus with the Sorcerefs Circe, thefe dig-
nify'd Jacobites fee better things, but follow the
worie Not out of any Love to King James,
for that's impoflible, but out of a Picque to King
William : Otberwife 'tis certain, that never any Di-
vinity taught them to pretend a Relu£i:ancy of
Confcience that threatens the Fate of a whofe King-
dom : Nor can Piety grounded upon Error excufe
any Man for defigning Mifchief to his Countrey :
Or fuppofing a Man's Piety were feemingly well
intended, neither will the Goodnefs of a Mans In-
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tent-ions cxcu^e the Scandal and Contagion of Lis
Example.
Others there are who are more Piyable and
Coraplaifant, who being unwilling to come within
the Lalli of Afls. of Parliament, think it their lafclf
way to take the Oaths both to King Wtllixm and
Queen Maxy: But thefe Men have a Trick to fave
themfelves, they are Shi pers at Equivocation, ne-
ver known among Protelfants before, and are able
to teach the Jefiaites themfelves to fing a Note
above £/4 ; Thus, the Chancellor of a certain Dio-
cefs in this Kingdom, being ask'd how he could
take the Oaths to King Wdlixm and Qieen Mxry,
and afl: for King "James ? Oh! cryM He, though I
took the Oaths, I never fwallow'-ii ''em. And thus you
fee how near to a Reconciliation the "Jacobites and
komamfts are, they are link'd together againft King
William^ like the wicked againft David : But the
Jacobites are fo fhort-fighted, as not to fee that
were the t'others ends accomplifh'd, ftis a Friend-
fhip fo ill order'd, it would never hold together ;
their I>arling's good Fortune would foon unloofe
the Knot, and then they muft come over the Stick
for the Pope, or elfe not a bit of the Cruft.
The greateft part of thefe Jacobite Dons 'were of
King James's Promotion, or by his Intereft when
Duke of Tork, and fearing therefore to be laid
afide, they would make the World believe that
the Church of England will fall, fhould they be
difcarded ; M'hen others more Dignify'd, more Con-
fcientious, more Religious, more Fore-feeing, appre-
hend no fuch Danger. They would make the
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World believe, the Reformation of the Clergy to be
the Downfall of the Church.
Hence fuch a Buflle, fuch a Clutter, fuch a Hur-
ry ; hence io much CanvalTing at Elections, fuch
hauling out 6>. George for the church, as if all lay
at llakc when nothing is in danger. Some of theie
great Jacobites conform on purpole to do Mifchief,
and they are the mold dangerous ; for they are'
able to give bad Counfel unfufpeifled, and their
Ffiendlhip betrays, like Fire that embraces to con-
fume. Some of thcfe there are who are eafily per-
fwaded to fend about their Diocefan Letters, to their
Inferiour Clergy, upon hheir Filial. Obedience to
give their Voices for fuch a One, as being pitch'd
upon by the Grand Cabal of the County for his
AlfeO:ion and Fidelity to the Church. And many
times the fame Pretence deludes others that mean
better, with the fame Hazard of their Reputation :
As if it could be any Honour to the Church of
England, to imitate the paltry Shifts and wicked
Politicks of Brent and Graham. But a true Eevi-
tical Jacobite cares not whom he amufes, nor
whofe Example he follows, fb he may but have
the Honour to idand fair with AntichriJ} and King
James, A true Levitical Jacobite cares no more
for the Church than for the Alchoran, but he Wor.-
fdiips the Church-Lands ; and fb he may but lye
well and at eafe, he matters not whether it be in
the Abby of Glajl^nburg, Or the Paribnage of Sms^-
bury.
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However, thefe Leviticd Champions for K. James
draw after'em fomeNumbers of the Gentry and Com-
monalty of the Nation : Among whom of the Male
Sex, there are three Degrees of Comparifon. Some
Sober, fome more Looie , fome moft Extravagant.
The Sober part are wheedl'd in by the fpecious pre-^
tence of the Churches Danger: Men otherwife ol:
Honeft Morals, but Credulous Bigons, that pin their
Faith without Examination upon their In(lru£fors
Sleeve^ and believe that all they fay is Gofpel, tho
they foould tell 'em that High gate Hill was made
of March-pane. If they are men not fo eafily gull'd,
they feel the Ladies Pulfe, and if fhe be of their
Party, Heavens! how the poor Gentlemans Ears are
teaz'd between the Wife and the Do6lor ; and fo
they make themfelves Mafters of his Realbn, as
Poachers catch Partridges, aftonifh'd with the dinn
of the Lowbell. Others Ambitious of a Seat in Par-
liament, or a Magiftracy in the County, though
they fee through 'em, and have perhaps as little
Religion as themfelves ; however they clofe with -em,
and applaud their Zeal for the Church, to fave the
Expences of Canvafling, or Feafting the Corporati-
on : But having Rudied well neither the Laws of
God nor their Countrey, they render themfelves fo
obnoxious to a more happy Revolution, that nothing
can lave 'em but an AH of Oblivion.
None of thefe are any more than the Crutches of
a Crazy Government, which being once reftored to
a healthy Conftitution, lays'era afide as neediefs Sup-
porters. Their Devotion is like Meat neither hot
*nor cold, which frighted the Devil from being a
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Serving-man ; and their Loyalty is lihe a Woman's
Aftetlion, generally too much or too little. And
for their particular Loyalty to King James, 'tis like
an 111 Habit, which when a Man has once got, he
can never leave it : However it ferves 'em to make
a noile with at a Tavern, for want of other Dif^
courfe ; or elfe like a cold Neats-Tongue, or a Difh
of Anchovies to relifh a Glafs of Wine.
They have a pretended Kindnefs indeed for the
Strvice-Bookj and the Liturgy of the Church of Lng-
ianA i but they are more for fet forms of Oaths than
fet forms of Prayer, and preferr a brisk God damm
'cw, before a fneaking Lord have mercy upon
They know fo little the true value of the Laws and
Conftitutions of the Land, that they were ready at
any time to part with thofe Jewels for the Barky-
Corns of Court-Favour. Tyranny therefore huggs em,
and makes the fame ufe of 'em as Tamerlane did of
his Captive Bajazety to get up and ride the People-
The loofer fort are Perfbns M'holly addi£led lb
their Pleafure, that meafure their Felicity by their
Faffions. Thefe are Men that live mofl: at eafe un-
der the OpprefTions of Arbitrary Power, like thofe
fort of Animals calPd Hog-lice., that breed and muL
tiply under the weight of great Timber-loggs. Un-
der the ftri(^lnefs of Government they are like Filli
cut of the Water; in the loofenefs of abfolute Ty-
ranny, they are as merry as Summer Swallows in
a Chimney. Having therefore experienc'd the Re-
mifsnefs of King James Reign, like Ivy to a Stee-
'ple, they cling to his Mifgovernment, as being that
which allow'd 'em the full fwinge of their Licenti-
ouf-
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oufnefs and rather choofe with Swine to voAllotv
in the Mire of Voluptuous and Libertine Bondage,
than breath the Atr of Freedom^ within the limited
Impalements of the Law. They live like Brutes,
by Sence and Appetite, not Realon ; and having no
more Underftanding than Dorr-flies, buzz about the
Dazle of a forfeited Crown, to their own Deflru-
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•They talk of Religion, as they that nQvtx travel'd
talk of Forreign Countries. However, if you ask
em of what Religion they are, they will tell you
they are Protejlantf of the Church of England ; if you
mildoubt the Truth of it, they prefently conflrm it
with a God Damm 'em but they are. Ask 'em why
then they fide with King James who is a Papifi:: Be-
caufe^ quo* they, the Papifis are better than the Pref-
byterians: Ask em how fo, Beca'fe, cry they, the
Presbyterians are worfe than the Papifis. Knock with
your middle finger knuckle againft the middle of their
Foreheads, and you may hear the Concavity found
like an empty Cask. If it were fearch'd into, there
would be nothing found in it but the Lees of Forty "
One Clamour half dryed up to nothing.
In fhort, what they think is Vanityy what they [peak
is Falfcy whatever they approve is Bady and whatever they
difapprove is Good.
The mod: Extravagant fort are like the Wild Beafts
of. the Forreft, and almoft of as many various forts ;
BuUkSy Beausy HeSlorSy Bravoesy St. Nicholas Clerksy
Alfa:tiansy Mint-meny Rake. Hell and Skimm the Devily
and all the reft of the blefled Canaille of broken Trades-
' men
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men. Pimps, and Suburb-Koyfters,
^mbuhdjmim Cotle^t^^ ^hamacopoU
Mendicif Mirticif be Omhus Omne,
All thefe ave of the Sodety oi chat
long for King as Women with Child
long for Coah and foul ToOaceo^Pipes, Theie
were the lnhabit(^n(s and fm-lmd^rs of all the
Towns and Counties in Bnglmd^ that had
as many Cbriftian and Sirnames as the King
of ^pmn has Titles, to clap to a Bapl M-
dufs J and then the <im\nt fkce of Bojuence
was carry'd to Whiu-Hdl^ with a Label of
Subfcriptions that looked like a Clufter of
Bees before the Mouth of a Hive. And thus
the Cheaters cheated tbemfelves; They were
Rampant then, they are now Couchant, and
therefore they Pray for the loft Protedor of
their Vices \ as Women Mourn at Funerals
for the Dead, 'till they make themfelves
Drunk for Sorrow ; When all the World be-
fjdes rejed:s 'era, they think King Jmms wiU
receive 'era to his Mercy j ar if be needed
more Gurl^ than he has already to blaft his
Profperity.
Ch]
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Popery indeed is a Common-fewer for any
Vicious Excrements ; but thele icoundrel Ja^
cobjtes are fo very wicked, that the Priefts
are afraid to let 'em dye in their Communi-
on, lell the Flames of Purgatory fhould not
be hot enough to purifie 'em.
In fliort, they are the Dreggs and Caput
Mortuum of Eluraane Society, fit for nothing
but to be thrown upon the Dung-hill : Or if
they may be laid to ferve for any thing, 'tis
only to provoke the Anger of Heaven, and
to be the Combuftiole Stuff to kindle the ge-
neral Conflagration.
As for the Females, not to fay any thing
of the Modeft and the Vertuous, who, conli*
dering the.weaknefs of their Sex, may be ea-
jily. led away by. their Cpnteliois, the
Tprtpnt^.-pf.iWhQie i thundri-ng ,El,Qi|uence, they
fji;p^mpt,able.;fp withfiand ;;the wopder is, how
thele infufiqns come to ope\ate io ge-
nprally^uppn th^ Cpmnion.Harlpts aqd "Mules
of the Town, fince it cannot be preium'd| tlujt
.-j.,'] (I they
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they have any fuch familiar Converfe with the
'ja^^ohite Order. But lo it is, that all the Su-
burb '^ahahs^ and 'Daughters of joy within the
Walls, have univerlally elpous'd the jacohite
Incered;. 'Tis true, there was a Lady faid,
That Ihe had rather be Miftris to a King^
than Wile to the beft Noble Man in England/
And perhaps the fame Ambition polTeffes our
Eiagiilh Lais's, that fince they cannot all ima®
gine to embrace the R.oyal Perlon, they will
hugg his Intereft. They know that King
'jama/s Cauie is the Whore of Dahers Caule;
and then the Whore of Dabel's Caufe muft
needs be the Caufe of all the, Whores in
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They know Idolatry to be a kind of Spiri-
tual Fornication: and therefore 'tis no wonder
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that Carnal Harlots fhould adhere to, Spiritu-
al Whore-mongers. Belides, they are for a
Gener^ Tolerationand tor that Reafon f^-
vour thofe by whofe'means at ^ lai^th th^y
hope to have the P^nal Laws aM Statutes
taken off.
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Others
Others there are v,'ho think k a great piece
of Ingratitude to forlake a ReliguMi which has
been to kind as to Canonize lb many of their
Sex, and gives 'em ib eafw an /kbrolutioa from
their .plcaSng Tran%i^ilk>ns. Eov a Female
Jacohitdy cares not that her Conicienee Fbould be
heavier than her Fan } and theretore choofes
that Profeilion that layes die leaft weight up-.
on it.
Yet fbme there are w^ho think thefe Gvp-
fies to be miftaken in their Politicks, for that
tho the Roman Curtifans had ibme Reafon
tor what they did, in (tickling and caballing
as they did to keep the Sodomite Cardinals trom
fitting in St,'Pe/er;. Chair ; yet our Strumpets
are the greateft Fools in Mature, for ft riving to
bring in the Man Abby-Lubbers into Bn^iand
to ^oil their Vocation; They little dream
what terrible Rates will be let upon Might-
Walkersj and what an Exceftive Excife will
be put upon Chamher-pra^ice.
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Neverthelels, There are fome who pretend
' to have a de^p infighc into fuccecding Tinnes,
comfort themfelves in the Hopes they have in
their little Hs^iogMmy who was what d'ye calN
k tnto the World at St, Jm€^'$'y that when he
comes to reign over 'em, he will advance em
into a Corporation of themlelves, make Ha-
rangues and Speeches to 'em, and dignifie ^em
with the Title of his Commdltones, and Fellow
Subjects, and be no lefs kind to them than
that famous Emperour was endearing to the
Curteians of ^^me. Expectations of conie-
quence, and grounds fufficient for the Englip?
Trulls and Mifles to plead fo hard for an llle-
eitimatc. But fuch Female Advocates as thefe
for the JacoHte Cauie do ic more harm than good j
luch Syrens 'is they ^eing'iookt upon tcfe" no •
lels clapc in their Underftandings than their Bo-
dies. There is no fear of iuch Jma:^ns as
thele, notwithftanding their Attire for the Head,
fb like the Helmets of Tomyrk and Tenthejilea j
f and therefore'J we teave "^to^^ their leveral
Cures, and their Dyet Drinks of Sarlaperill
- and Guaiacum.
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How-
Ci83
However, By iuch a feparation as this of
the Goats from the Sheep, it may be eafie to
give a true Judgment of the Jacobite Cauje by
the Favourers of it, and to lee what iort of
Perfons they are that feek for flielter under the
Wings of Tyranny and Popery. And the
quite contrary, it may with no lefs clearneis
be difcern'd who are the Aflertors of the King-
doms Welfare, and the Safety of the True Pro-
teftant Religion, under the happy Auipices of
KING WILLIAM and QUEEN MATQ:.
f\»m, i.
THE END.