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A53183	The observator prov'd a trimmer: or, Truth and justice vindicated in the history of the murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, and the several popish shams since made use of to amuse the world about it. Being a full answer to certain late pamphlets, intituled, Observators; wherein the evidence of that gentlemans being murthered by papists, is very falsly stated; and the positions and practices of the Church of Rome, too favourably represented. Humbly dedicated to the clergy of England.		1685 (1685)	Wing O123JA; ESTC R220290	48,608	47

Kingdom do require at Our Hands and that notwithstanding any Power or Pretension of the Pope or See of Rome or any Sentence or Declaration of what kind or Quality soever given or to be given by the Pope His Predecessors or Successors or by any Authority Spiritual or Temporal Proceeding or derived from Him or his See against Your Majesty or Royal Authority We will still acknowledge and perform to the utter most of Our Abilities Our Faithful Loyalty and True Allegiance to Your Majesty And We openly Disclaim and Renounce all Forreign Power be it either Papal or Princely Spiritual or Temporal in as much as it may seem able or shall pretend to Free Discharge or Absolve us from this Obligation or shall any Way give us Leave or Licence to raise Tumults bear Arms or offer any Violence to Your Majesties Person Royal Anthority or to the State or Government Being all of us ready not only to discover and make known to Your Majesty and to Your Ministers all the Treasons made against Your Majesty or Them which shall come to Our Hearing But also to lose Our Lives in Defence of Your Majesties Person and Royal Authority and to resist with Our best Endeavours all Conspiracies and Attempts against Your Majesty be they framed or sent under what Pretence or patronized by what Forreign Power or Authority soever And further We profess that all absolute Princes and Supream Governours of what Religion soever they be are Gods Lieutenants on Earth and that Obedience is due to them according to the Laws of each Common-Wealth respectively in all Civil and Temporal Affairs And therefore We do here Protest against all Doctrines to the contrary And We do hold it Impious and against the Word of God to maintain that any private Subject may kill or murther the Anointed of God his Prince though of different Belief and Religion from His And We abhor and detest the Practice thereof as damnable and wicked These being the Tenents of Our Religion in Point of Loyalty and Submission to Your Majesties Commands and Our Dependance on the See of Rome no way intrenching upon that perfect obedience which by our Birth by all Laws Divine and Humane We are bound to Pay to Your Majesty our Natural and Lawful Soveraign We humbly beg Prostrate at Your Majesties Feet that you would be pleased to Protect us from the severe Persecution We suffer meerly for Our Profession in Religion leaving those that are or hereafter shall be guilty of other Crimes and there have been such in all times as well by their Pens as by their Actions to the Punishment prescribed by the Law This Protestation was consented to at London by one Popish Bishop of Ireland and several of the Catholick Nobility But being sent into Ireland the generality of their Bishops and Clergy though it were signified unto them that it was His Majesties desire and positive directions that they should sign it as an Argument of their purpose and Resolution to be more faithful to him hereafter than they had proved to his Father and though they were told that such subscription must be the only Medium to procure them that ease from the penal Laws which they desired Walsh ibidem p. 20. yet I say the generallity of their Clergy refused to sign it And the said Remonstrance it self was Condemned by the Theological Faculty of Lovain as containing things Repugnant to the sincere Professiou of Catholick Religion and therefore unlawful and detestable requiring such as had subscribed to Revoke it and none to subscribe under the guilt of Sacriledge ibidem Fol. 103. And the Popes Internuncio from Brussels likewise Brands it as invented for the Seduction of Souls and adulterating the Sincerity of Faith And so likewise Cardinal Barberini in a Letter on that occasion avows that it asserts things contrary to the Catholick Faith Fol. 632. Well after long shuffling and brangling the Irish Clergy very much desired a National Synod to debate and determine the point which at last was graciously condescended unto and granted the First says Walsh they had enjoyed since Queen Maries days and we hope it will be the last unless they had the Honesty to make better use of it Accordingly their Synod met at Dublin which began the eleventh of June 1666. and continued to sit fifteen days but in all that time could by no arguments or perswasions be prevailed with to pass this innocent and most just and necessary Declaration and so were commanded to dissolve by the Lord Lieutenant The reason of which their prodigious obstinacy is thus rendred by the said Father Walsh who was all along present a Principal Member of that Convention and who used a world of pains to have perswaded them to approve it They had saith he before obstinately resolved against all Reason The Miracles and Revolutions they expected from the year 1666. Their Forreign Intelligence and Expectations and their Lying Prophecies at home with many other vain perswasions of their own fixed them unalterable These are Walshes own words p. 703. Here were MIRACLES and REVOLUTIONS that is a Change of Government and a Re-establishment of the Roman Catholick Religion firmly lookt for that year Here was FORREIGN INTELLIGENCE to that purpose held about the matter and from thence VAST EXPECTATIONS His Majesty then actually engaged in a War with France And therefore they would not so far oblige the King or disoblige the Popc in so hopeful a juncture as to subscribe this honest Profession of Obedience to their Soveraign so very favourably worded as aforesaid Behold here an illustrious and never to be for gotten Precedent of the so much boasted Loyalty of Papists And let the Observator take notice these were the Authoritative Proceedings of a whole National Council of Popish Clergy-men And withal let the Protestant Reader remember that this was in that very year 1666. wherein about two months after this Catholick Synod in Ireland the City of London was laid in Ashes by a Fire kindled by a French Papist who for the same upon his own Confession was Executed and carried on as was generally more than suspected by Popish Hands and Contrivances Tho' the Observator has labour'd hard to clear them from the same But with as little sincerity and no more force of Argument than he has used in the like Service for them touching this matter of Sir Edmundbury Godfreys Murther For instance He would perswade us that this Monsieur Hubert was a Protestant 'T is true the Varlet after his Condemnation did once pretend so but that the same was false and said by the injunction of some Priest is very plain 1. Because being immediately askt whether he were an Hugonote the common word whereby the French call Protestants he earnestly denied that that word it seems was not in his Bargain 2. Being wisht to Pray he only muttered over divers times Pater Noster and Avia Maria in Latine and so suffered But this matter of Londons-Fire requires a larger Disquisition which God willing may one day see the light FINIS ADVERTISEMENT Whereas the Observator in his Pamphlet that came out on the 8th of December Numb 180. hath maliciously and falsly represented and named Mr. Jenkins and Mr. Delaune as the Two Licensers of this Book which he tells his Reader that he may give the more Credit thereto comes to him from one that Certainly knows And also that they gave their Judgment upon it That there was nothing in 't either against Church or State This is to acquaint the Reader That neither Mr. Jenkins nor Mr. Delaune did ever read or hear any one else read one line thereof until it came out in Print nor did Mr. Jenkins so much as hear there was any such Book written or in the Press until he saw it Printed Which will be testified upon Oath if need be It may therefore well be presumed one great reason why he is so concern'd to find out or imagine an Author and Abettors so circumstanc'd is That he may load them with Personal Reflexions and thereby Elude the Answering of the Book Since he has made bold as loyal as he pretends himself to break the Act of Indempnity that he might reflect on Mr. Jenkins having no other ground than that some of the Observators skulking Emissaries have given him information as abovesaid But by this Specimen of the Observators Truth the Reader may see what Credit is to be given to what he asserts with the greatest Confidence as if there needed no other Confirmation but the Observator's unquestionable Veracity