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authority_n	law_n	power_n	prince_n	6,812	5	6.0088	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41176	The knot unty'd, or, The association disbanded	Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.	1682 (1682)	Wing F744; ESTC R3769	15,275	34

Religion and keenest zeal fed upon the Church-lands which they have got into their possession And why do they stickle so earnestly against the Pope but to maintain that interest If you could secure their fears and jealousies in this point assure your self for the most part of them their Consciences are not so squeamish but the Mass would go down with them as easily as the Directory 'T is very well observed That the Rule for Doctrine Worship and Discipline in the Church of England at the Reformation A Vindication of the Primitive Church p. 275. was at first received with universal joy and approbation none but Papists opposing it But some time after some few discontented men under pretence of zeal against Popery took the part of the Papists against this Rule and it is observable saith that Author that as one faction grew up and gathered strength so did the other that ones right and left hand can hardly grow in evener proportion so that one would fancy that either they advanced by some secret Consent or were nourished from the same common Stomach It may be saith he from him that Patawicini calls the Stomach as well as the Head of the Church the Pope Have not these pretended Protestants and Et caetera's been eager even to Sedition and Blood to throw down the Enclosure to Repeal those Laws and subvert that Church-Government which have kept out Popery ever since the Reformation Have they not given their Emissaries advantage by their Projected Toleration and Indulgence and shelter'd the Priests and Jaesuites whom they pretend to Associate against in their own Conventicles Nay to come home to the business have not these men Rivall'd the Papists in their Treasons Have they not emulated them in their practices of Conspiracy and taken the Hellish work of Destruction out of their Hands and subverted both Church and State while they pretended the Popish party did pursue it For if we put in Fanaticism instead of Popery and change the Popish Priests and Jesuites into Presbyterians and Independents with their Adherents and Abettars the design they set on foot has not only been for several years pursued but effectually performed and really executed as we very well remember by sad and woful experience For did they not root out the True Protestant Religion establisht here by the Authority of pious Princes as well as the Blood of Holy Martyrs Did they not take away the Life of our most Gracious King the most incomparable Prince of Christendome Did they not subvert our Laws and Liberties and set up Arbitrary Power amongst us All this they did most accursedly accomplish to the astonishment of all Christendome And yet we have reason to believe that such of these Associators as were ingaged in it and perhaps they were not a few never lookt upon 't as such a pernicious and Hellish Plot nor were toucht with such Remorse and grief of Heart for that actual Guilt and Notorious Crime as they pretend to have upon the account of this which is but their own jealousie and surmise That the most prudent and faithful Ministers of State cannot escape their Malicious Insinuations we are not at all to wonder at 'T is the frequent practice of all Malecontents when they become Seditious For though it be the Majesty of the Government they aim at yet they think they can no way wound That with so much safety and to so great effect as through the sides of such Worthy Ministers To traduce the Duke is the main Design of this Association And indeed if we well observe it 't is an unusual strain of Modesty in them that they do not positively as well as by implication impute it to the Devilish Malice and desire of Revenge in his Royal Highness that his Majesty is in continual hazard of being Murdered to make way for his own advancement to the Crown For they say expressly That by his Influence Mercenary forces have been levied and kept on foot for his secret Designs Which it seems are not so secret but they can if not penetrate yet conjecture and imagine them But as the King is most concerned herein so hath he best opportunity to examine it and find it out if there were any truth in 't or colour for it Whereas it is suggested that the levying of those Forces was unaccountable their Disbanding difficult and at the Kingdoms great expence There 's not a little Malice coucht in that allegation To what purpose those Forces were raised is not unknown to such as have a mind to understand and the Service which some of them perform'd was not secret but in the open Field and so eminent that Foreign States and Princes will remember it to their Honour But let them ask themselves this question were Cromwel's Forces Levied or kept up or Disbanded without the Kingdoms great expence Or will the Forces design'd by these Associators be raised without money and will not their Officers and Conductors expect their Pay and at whose charge must all this be and how shall they be Disbanded do they Promise and Vow here that They will never Separate themselves from this Association or fail in the prosecution thereof during their lives And if they were once in Arms we might believe them though they were not engag'd upon such Temporal and Eternal pain as is due to Perjur'd persons This Party hath sometimes been very earnest to embroil his Majesty in a War with the French King but without any fond or considerable Subsidy to maintain it To what end this was projected wise men will judge but I shall forbear to mention But because they cannot to easily embroll his Majesty abroad they resolve to do it at home To this effect several Plots have been set a foot and they have made their utmost advantage of them And because the great obstacle which is their greatest Grievance too is The Militia in the Kings hand They design very dutifully no doubt to feize it without his leave that they may have it once again in their Power to set up Committees of Publicans in every County to make Delinquents and then to Tax Decimate and Sequester or make them Compound for their own Estates at their pleasure And what will follow but a High Court of Justice to bring whom they please to what they please to call Condign punishment and at last to extinguish as much as in them lyes the Royal Family and the Church of England root and branch And this shall be voted the Defence of the Protestant Religion and our Liberties without our Properties the Laws and Government against the encroachments of an Arbitrary Power Yea and the Janizaries they employ shall not wear the name of Mercenary Souldiers but be rewarded as Cromwel's were for their good service and be honour'd with the Character and Title of English Freemen and the Godly Party These are the Priviledges of the Saints But we use to say The Burnt Child dreads the Fire And I hope