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A93456 A sober vindication of the nobility, gentry and clergy of the Church of England: in answer to a late malicious pamphlet, entituled, A dialogue between Whig and Tory. : Licensed, Novemb. 28. 1693. 1694 (1694) Wing S4415A; ESTC R233299 11,552 16

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A SOBER VINDICATION OF THE Nobility Gentry and Clergy OF THE Church of England IN ANSWER TO A Late Malicious Pamphlet Entituled A Dialogue between WHIG and TORY Crescit sub pondere Virtus LICENSED Novemb. 28. 1693. LONDON Printed and Sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall MDCXCIV Price Three Pence TO THE READER A Certain Piece of Scrible being indeed a Julian kind of Handy-work having lately stolen into the World under the Title of A Dialogue between Whig and Tory c. Stolen indeed I may very well say for License and Authority would blush to Entertain or Countenance it This Enthusiast having his Tongue once more toucht with his Republican Altar-Coal has thus handed this doughty Brat abroad and possibly the Dowdy may have met some favourable Reception especially amongst the Zealots of his own Mark and Colour For even the coursest Cubs never want kind Bears to lick 'em And our own Pictures tho never so deformed are naturally our most beloved Darlings To such a Kindness and such a natural Affection and Tenderness this Julian product may owe its little Good Fortune However to undeceive the Ignorant World for the Sensible part of mankind need it not I shall take the Trouble or rather the Pleasure to unmask this Mormo and set it forth at a much truer Light than the Cunning and Sophistry of the Politiek Author has brought it before us For as plausible a pretext as it carrys viz. his pretended Zeal for their Majesties and their Government 't is worth our while to examine if this fair Front above has not the Cloven-foot beneath it For if Preaching up of Division Disuniting of the popular Peace and Tranquility by reviving the old Obsolate Names of Whig and Tory does not look horridly suspicious at this Time of Day and carry the Seeds of Sedition and F●ce of Confusion along with it let Reason and Impartiality Judge And therefore as the Parish-Buckets ought to be ready when the Coals are so near Blowing and Fire-balls preparing it is but the Duty of every Honest Man to be watchful as be desires to quench his Danger and guard his Roof As such therefore is this short Answer publisht to that Scurrilous if that Epithete can reach it Mass of Malice and Rancour and as such kind Reader I present it to your perusal I shall only add one preliminary Remark upon the Kidney and Constitution of a very Eminent Stickler of the Whig Party who seeing the King's Messenger near White-hall who in discharge of his Duty had endeavoured to suppress it at the Press be was pleased to rebuke him in this Salutation Mr. Take notice I lay my Finger on You laying one his Fingers upon the Messengers Hands and I will have you turned out of your Place for you shall not long be a Messenger with several other threatning Expressions Good Heaven what an Anathema was here Our Julian's least maledicting Touch carries the Force of the whole Romish Bell Book and Candle Nay his single Finger has the operation of Dr. Faustus his conjuring Wand and possibly actuated by the same Power some kind aiding Mephistophilus as a Fast-friend and Familiar at his Elbow ERRATA PAG. 5. l. 4. 5. after present Majesties 1. take my Sentiments thereof as follow As to your First Request p. 6. l. 36. add The p. 7. l. 14. r. made p. 15. l. 12. dele better A SOBER VINDICATION OF THE Nobility Gentry and Clergy OF THE Church of England c. In a Letter to a Friend SIR SInce you have honour'd me so far as not only to desire my Opinion of the Pamphlet you sent me but also to Answer some of the grand Reflections contained therein upon the Church of England's Loyalty towards their present Majesties As to your first take my Sentimen●s thereof as follow Request I say and doubt not but every honest Man will concur with me upon reading thereof That it is an infamous Libel against the Church State and good Manners Which tho these are times of a deep Dye yet do they scarce express his unseasonable Hatred which like an ill Humour in the Body has so corrupted his whole Book that I want words to Characterize so abominable a Mistery of Iniquity Against the Church it is most violent to the State prejudicial and in its Reflection on both notoriously opposite to Good-manners And lastly so fraught with disingenuity and malicious untruths that it may well cry out to him that is the Parent of Lies Thou art my Father His Episile is superscribed To the Honest English Protestant Reader That is doubtless a Protestant of some surreptitious Edition of 41 whose Title is No Bishop and Down with Lawn Sleeves for if as most certainly he does mean one of his own Kidney he must be some Kent-street Broom-maker or at least such an honest English Protestant as is no well Wisher to the Glorious Hierarchy of the British Church But what Errand does he bring to his Reader Why truly a very silly one for says he such is our fate That I am afraid that it requires an abler Pen than mine to convince some who it is highly necessary should be convinc●d That any of the Measures of the late Reigns were mistaken If this be all his Design he might have sav●d himself the labour of this Dialogue for he must be foolishly obstinate That will not be convinc'd that most or all Kings have at some time or other been mistaken in their Measures yet This and the following Assertion he says were the Motives of his now appearing Some are taught says he that none were Rogues and Villains and deserve to be hang'd but those who were most Active in the bringing of the present King and Queen over and in settling the Crowns upon their Heads By this Some that are taught● he would have to be understood the Church of England Men Tho the ●u●● is not plainer at Noon-day than the Church of England's Zeal has been perspicuous as he elsewhere confesses in their sending for and advancing their present Majesties to the Throne Now if he will needs have Some to believe as he says they do it is only Some few who not only are disown'd by Us but have separated themselves from the Church by running head long into an impious Schism and Faction for whom as they do not belong to us so are we in no ways accountable nor ought their Crimes as most maliciously thro' the whole Pamphlet they are be in the least for the aforesaid Reasons imputed and charged upon the Church Tell me truly Good Sir do you think that this his Errand is of any more weight than an April one or that he deserves any thing more than the extention of the fore-finger amounts to for his folly in blotting Paper to perswade us what we will easily grant viz. That Some Kings have been mistaken in their Measures and that Some beheld the present Government and their Friends with an evil Eye but that those Some are