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A47820 Citt and Bumpkin in a dialogue over a pot of ale concerning matters of religion and government L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. 1680 (1680) Wing L1216; ESTC R15090 33,146 42

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Subversion of the Government Bum. Now you have Arm'd me Thus far pray'e help me on one Step farther for I was hard put to 't not long Since about the businesse of the Protestant Religion What is That I pray'e that ye call the Protestant Religion Citt. You are to understand that by the Protestant Religion is meant the Religion of the Dissenters in England from the Church of England As the First Protestants in Germany 1529. from whom we denominate our Selves were Dissenters from the Church of Rome And So Call'd from the famous Protestation they enter'd against the Decree of the Assembly at Spires against Anabaptists Bum. So that I perceive We Set up the Protestant Religion we did not Destroy it But they prest it Then that the Church of England was a Protestant Church and that the Jesuites had only Design'd the Destruction of it where as We did Actually Execute it Citt. Your Answer must be that the Church of England though it be a little Protestantish it is not yet directly Protestant As on the Other side it is not altogether the Whore of Babilon though a good deal Whorish and therefore the Reply to That must be that we did not Destroy but only Reform it Bum. Why I have answer'd People out of my Own Mother-Wit that we did but Reform it And they told me again the Cutting of it off Root and Branch was a very Extraordinary way of Reforming Citt. The Answer to That is Obvious that the Cutting Off Root and Branch is only a Thorow or a Higher degree of Reforming But upon the whole matter it was with Us and the Iesuites as it was with Aaron and the Magicians we did Both of us make Froggs but We alone had the Power to quicken the Dust of the Land and turn it into Lice Thou art by this time I presume sufficiently instructed in the Methods and Fundamentalls of the Holy Cause I shall now give you some necessary Hints to fit and quallify you for the Province that I intend you But besure you mind your Lesson Bum. As I would do my Prayers Citt or I were Ungratefull for you have made me for ever Citt. Come we 'l take 'tother Sup first and then to work Who wayts there without Two Potts more and shut the door after Ye A great part of Your businesse Bumpkin will ly among Parliament-Rolls and Records for it must be Our Post to furnish Materialls to a Caball only of Three Persons that may be ready upon Occasion to be made use of by the Grand Committes Bum. My Old Master would say that I had as good a guesse at a Musty Record as any man And 't was my whole Employment almost to hunt for Presidents Nay the People would Trust me with Great Bags home to my Lodging and leave me alone sometimes in the Offices for four and twenty hours together Citt. But what kind of Presidents were they that Ye lookt for Bum. Concerning the Kings Prerogative Bishops Votes the Liberty and Property of the Subject and the like And such as They wanted I writ out Citt. But did you Recite them Whole or what did you Take and what did you Leave Bum. We took what serv'd our Turn and left out the Rest and sometimes we were taken Tripping and sometimes we Scap'd But we never falsify'd any thing There were some dogged Passages indeed we durst not meddle with at all but I can turn ye to any thing you have occasion for with a wet-finger Citt. So that here●s One great point quickly over in thy being Train'd to my hand A man might lay thee down Instructions now for thy very Words Looks Motions Gestures nay thy very Garments but we 'l leave those matters to Time and Study It is a strange thing how Nature puts her self forth in these Externall Circumstances Ye shall Know a Sanctifi'd Sister or a Gifted Brother more by the Meene Countenance and Tone then by the Tenour of their Lives and Manners It is a Comely thing for Persons of the Same Perswasion to agree in these Outward Circumstances even to the drawing of the same Tone and making of the same Face Always provided that there may be read in our Appearances a Singularity of Zeal a Contempt of the World a fore-boding of Evills to come a dissatisfaction at the Present Times and a Despair of Better Bum. Why This is the very Part that I was Made for these Humours are to be put On and Off as a man would shift his Gloves and you shall see me do 't as Easily too but the Language must be got I Phansy by Conversing with Modern Authours and frequenting Religious Exercises Citt. Yes yes and for a help to your memory I would advise you to dispose of your Observations into these Three Heads Words Phrases and Metaphors Do you conceive me Bum. There 's not a word you say falls to the Ground And I am the more sensible of the force of Words Looks Tones and Metaphors as ye call 'um from what I finde in my self Ours certainly may be well term'd a Powerfull Ministry that makes a man cry like a Child at the very Noyse of a Torrent of Words that he does not Understand One Syllable of Nay when I have been out of reach of hearing the Words the very Tone and Look has Melted me Citt. Thou canst not but have heard of That Moving Metaphor of the late Reverend Mr. Fowler Lord Sowse us says he Lord Dowse us in the Powdering-Tubb of Affliction that we may come forth Tripes worthy of thy Holy Table Who can resist the Inundation of This Rhetorique But let us now pass from the Generall Ornaments of our Profession to the Particular businesse of our present Case I need not tell you Bumpkin of the Plott or that we are all running into Popery and that the best Service an Englishman can do his Country would be the ripping up of This Designe to the Bottom Bum. I am so much of Your Opinion that you have Spoken my very Thoughts Citt. Bethink your self Bumpkin what Papists do you know Bum. Oh hang 'um all I never come near any of ' Um. Citt. But yet you may have Heard perhaps of some people that are Popishly affected Bum. Yes yes There are abundance of Them Citt. Can you prove that ever they Sayd or Did any thing in favour of the Papists Bum. Nay there 's enough of That I believe but then there are such Huge Great men among ' um Citt. Pluck up a good heart Bumpkin the Greater the Better We fear 'um not Rub up your Memory and call to minde what you can say upon Your own Knowledge and what you have Heard either about Sir Edmond-Bury Godfrey The Plott The Traytors that Suffer'd or the Kings Evidence Bum. I have seen people shrug sometimes and lift up their Hands and Eyes and shake their Heads and then they would clutch their Fists look sour make Mouths and bite their Nails