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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66892	The associators cashier'd proving by undeniable arguments, as well as by the testimony of their own mouthes, that the late endeavours of some restless spirits were, 1. to enervate monarchy, 2. to subvert the institution of English-parliaments, and usher in the power of the sword.	Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.	1683 (1683)	Wing W3337; ESTC R20240	17,046	33

we put in Fanaticism instead of Popery and change the Popish Priests and Jesuites into Presbyterians and Independents with their Adherents and Abettors 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 so easily embroil 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 seize 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 this Generous and Manly Nation is not grown too stupid to be taught by Proverbs nor yet become so infatuated as to forget so fresh and chargeable an experiment But they take it for granted 'T is notorious that the Popish Priests and Jesuits with the Papists and their Adherents have been highly encouraged by the Countenance and Protection given and procured for them by J. D. of Y. and that He has publickly profess'd and own'd the Popish Religion This they peremptorily averr but it can hardly be imagined that Any free Prince at this time of day should be so fast asleep or ill advised as to make himself the Pope's Vassal to admit a Supremacy into his Realm paramount to his own To have his own Royal Authority confronted by the Check of foreign Bulls from Rome or the Treasure of his Kingdoms exhausted by such Engines of Extortion as can serve him to no other end but to endanger impoverish and inthrall him Consider but the Sense of the Greek Church who will not brook that pretended Supremacy in the lowest state of their Declination or the present Posture and Resentments of the French who seem so weary of the Pope's Inchroachments and Usurpation that they kick and wince as if they were in pain and Travel to throw his Holiness out of the Saddle in those Dominions As for his Royal Highness perhaps he may disdain to have his Integrity questioned by a common Test many times Great Spirits are irritated by such Attempts which are therefore for the most part better let alone than put in practice they will not be forced by such Screwed Engines to gratifie their Adversaries with an open profession of that which notwithstanding in their Hearts they may most stedfastly believe Yet we cannot take it for a wonder if his Royal Magnanimity and the deep Resentments he has for his Blessed Father's Sufferings under the bloody hands of seditious Schismaticks will not suffer