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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54970	The Plain dealer an essay wherein are some remarks upon Mr. Thomas Long, but more particularly upon Dr. Hollingworth's book where the character of King Charles the first is inserted from the declaration of Mr. Alexander Henderson, which book he calls A further defence of the Kings holy book &c.		1692 (1692)	Wing P2349; ESTC R26227	10,822	18

and will give him an Answer and the Truth of that Affair if I tell him and make it appear which I can do that Money was returned by this Martyr into Ireland to some of the Heads of that Rebellion he will have recourse to his old Cant rail at the Assertion give blackning Language say it 's the old Leaven and Spirit makes me say all this and. conclude I have Designs upon Church and State conjure them upon their Guard and to erect a Gibbet immediately But let this reviling Man go on asserting his own integrity Time has begun and will pull off the Mask and show our mouthing Doctor and some of that Tribe in their Colours when their Dishonesty want of Morals and Humanity will appear so plain the honest Men if such there are will blush to think they have been misled so long It is no easy matter when a set of Men for politick Ends with full swing has beat the Pulpit for thirty Years and more upon one Subject to remove the Prejudice for the most part of an unexamining Nation gained by such means and indeed nothing less than what was intended altering Religion breaking the Laws and enslaving the Nation could have done it yet these Men justify and like the Doctor cry up their Honesty when their whole Bent was for encouraging as Laud our Doctor 's Saint and Bishop and others Men of the same Principles did the unhappy Charles the First Arbitrary Designs How supinely remiss was Charles the Second upon their full Cry for Passive Obedience Jure Divino Kings can do no wrong that the Kingdom was by Inheritance the People made for the King not the King for the People and that they were accountable to none for their Actions but God Almighty Their Expressions upon these Subjects some of which as a taste though enough to nausiate the Stomach of an honest Man I have here from themselves inserted I have not mentioned the Authors who because upon the extreams which are seldom or never lasting may be now and I believe some of them are of another Opinion That the Prince's Patent is from God that no Accident or Occurrences can dissolve it to make us resist unless which we are assured he will not God himself should revoke the Grant The Church of England gives to all Princes the Supremacy in their respective Dominions as well over Spiritual as Temporal Persons in Sacred as well as Civil Causes Which we count speaking of its Members not as an Act of Grace or any base flattering of Authority or fawning upon the Crown but 't is the expression of a just Debt and a bare Recognition of what is their undoubted Right and what they always did enjoy That they cannot be Supream if Minor Vniversis and may be resisted in the tyrannical and exorbitant use of their Power These Arguments too often asserted made the Monarchy so absolute and the Nation in general so careless that the Growth of France like to be the Ruin of Europe was taken no notice of The most sauntring Prince that e're governed these Realms magnified to Idolatry and the meanest-spirited Prince incapable both of Friendship and Valour celebrated as the greatest Hero the greatest Friend when Popery was tiding in upon these Nations chiefly by his means How when some few Men in Parliament opposed it by offering at a Bill of Exclusion did the Pulpit * One of our Churchmen in a Sermon preached June 21.1685 says It is now the Season for every Man to shew his Readiness Courage Love and Loyalty to his Prince who is the Care of Heaven whom God long preserve and strengthen to overcome all his Enemies and let us bless God who thus thought us worthy of so gracious a Prince every way Great and Good kind to us to the utmost of our Wishes which past Ages have not known and future will sooner admire than believe whose Wisdom and Justice and Mercy whose Munificence Magnanimity whose Bravery and Conduct has been shewed in 1000 Occasions A Prince whose Royal Vertues and Royal Merits intitle him to the Crown above all others if he had not been born to it See p. 27. of S. Rich 's Sermon printed for Charles Broome 1685. roar our Honest Doctor in the Number and call these few worthy Men for the greatest Number gives the Character Forty one-Men that the Nation was to look upon as Monsters involving their Country again under the Mischief of that Age Nay such Encouragement was given by it that upon that Foot it was the Patriots of our Country and Religion were destroyed and the Nation so infatuated by the Principles above-mentioned that Juries were found I do not admire at Judges and Lawyers to drain the Blood of their dearest Friends for those must be called so that fell Sacrifices for their Country's Liberties After this what stood in Charles the Second's way Did he not like a Torrent dissolve Corporations and find base servile Lawyers of all Qualities some of which by their † Clergy-men means in this present Government were chose Members in Parliament and there sitting as Judges of their own Crimes escaped unpunished to wrest the Letter of the Law shaking the very Basis of our Ancient Government to serve his Turn resolving to have no Parliaments though he was never so long without one as his Father till he got one of his own chusing and would thus encouraged have perfected the Ruin of these Nations But Providence in its secret Wisdom thought he had gone far enough and by his Death removed the Reins of Government into a Rider's Hand that forced the willing Titts upon their Breath too far then almost jaded 't was they kick'd to throw their Rider Here 't was the danger came in view foolish Bigotry was discovered and this dreaming Nation waked from its Lethargy the flattering Churchmen saw their Interest their only God without any respect to their Services done the Crown in danger and now began to urge for their Excuse in a thing plain as the Sun at Noon * That King James was a Papist Who would have thought it And proceeded to promise then in Danger Temper to their † The Bps Petition to K. James when they refused to read his Declaration In all probability that Petition had the Consent of all the noted Clergy-men in England Of which if our Doctor and Mr. Long are Samples how truly they intended it let the Reader judg dissenting Brethren they for more than thirty Years together had had that distance with the two Poles has not greater Here any impartial Man may observe what set of Men these are and what the generality of Mankind thus influenced must be These very Men stamped Characters upon their dissenting Brethren if true would make Mankind start at the | The Church-men in the last Reigns made no difference though this Government does between the Papists and Presbyterians they asserted them like Sampson's Foxes their Faces contrary but they