Accession from the Publique So that had you this or any other honest way of livelihood it might stop your mouth from bawling perpetually for the seisure of Church Revenues only in hopes of creeping into some small Office at the division of the Prey for I am apt to believe though all that know you know so ill of you that they will take it for a very strein of Candour and Courtship that all your rudeness to the Church does not proceed from meer malice to that and revenge upon the Dignitary Want will put any man that delights in Gaming out of humour but of all discontents there is nothing so peevish and so clamorous as when pride and poverty meet together in the same Gamester But that which seems to strike the greatest damp upon your mind and of which you make the oftenest complaints is that I talk so much of Pillories Whipping-posts Galleys Rods and Axes that is to say the Podâ—strabae the Tilethrae the Otagrae the Rhinolabides and the Cheilostrophia these are villainous Engines indeed but take heart Numps here is not a word of the Stocks and you since the Act of Indemnity is past and sure need never stand in awe of any more honourable Correction however suppose the worst you have read Seneca and Epictetus And what though your worth should sometime or other prefer you to the Pillory and that is not impossible yet it is no very painful Engine and Philosophers can endure any thing but smart it is only intended to make men look a little simply and put them out of countenance awhile but for confidence let you alone And now having thus far followed your dance it is time I hope to advance to serious Counsels You cry out of persecution So did Hugh Peters and so did Venner and so might all Malefactors when brought to Justice but that most of them are more modest than the most of you This is but seizing upon words and forcing them to sound or signifie any thing to your own purpose But unless all execution of Laws upon offenders deserve this hard name it is not enough for you to complain you are persecuted when you are only punish'd It is the cause that makes the only difference and you ought first to make out the iniquity of the Laws and to make good your obligation to disobedience before you can set up this out cry But to this you reply that you suffer for Conscience for Conscience what is that but that you would take advantage of it and report that I affirm there is no such thing as Conscience I would say it is for nothing For Conscience it self is an indeterminate thing and has no more certain signification than the clinking of a Bell and that is as every man fancies And though you are wont to discourse of it as though it were an infallible Oracle in your breasts or a Pope in your bellies yet had you but skill enough to anatomize your selves you would find nothing there beside Lights and Liver and Stomach and Guts and perhaps a deceitful heart for in the heart the Jews seated it of old though the Cartesian Philosophy has of late pearch'd it up into the Glandula Pinealis But wherever it resides it is not any principle of action distinct from the man himself being the very same individual thing with the mind soul and understanding so that there is no other real difference between a man and his Conscience than between a man and his mind or rather between a man and himself And therefore when you make such an heavy ditty about your being persecuted for your Conscience sake the result of it is that you are persecuted for your mind sake or suffer only because you have a mind to suffer For whatever Conscience is this is certain that it is neither the rule nor the reason of its own Actions but it is bound to guide and govern it self and all its determinations by the measures and prescriptions of its duty and that only can warrant either the wisdome or the innocence of its proccedings And therefore in any case to plead only Conscience for any action without specifying some particular Principle upon which it grounds it self and its dictate is in effect to plead any thing or rather nothing For without some certain direction distinct from it self it may signifie any thing what you please or if you please nothing And it may as well be call'd Pride Ignorance Passion Humour Peevishness Melancholy Rudeness Frenzy and Superstition as Conscience for whenever a mans mind is possest or abused with any of these unhappy Passions that to him is his Conscience And therefore if ever you intend to make out the justice of your Cause or the equity of your Grievances you must give over this hovering and uncertain pretence of Conscience in general and betake your selves to some more distinct and particular pleas and that is to appeal to the adequate rule and measure of humane actions and that is to all divine and humane Laws and if from either of these you can plead any express warrant to excuse your disobedience to the Constitutions of the Church in Gods Name plead it and then but not till then it will appear that you indeed suffer for the Cause of a good Conscience But if you have none then the case is plain that you suffer for nothing And yet it is as plain that you have not any other imaginable ground or pretext of reason to justisie your peevishness to the Ecclesiastical Laws beside the indisputable pleasure of your own proud and imperious minds for you are run off of all your old Cavils and know not what you would have beyond the satisfaction of crossing the Commands of Royal Authority For as for all your general clamours against the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of Princes that they invade Gods Royalty lay waste the Consciences of men usurp upon their Christian Liberties first they signifie no more than the general plea of Conscience that whenever Superiours impose any Commands upon Subjects that they have no mind or stomach to obey they then entrench upon Gods Supremacy as the only Lord of Conscience and then it subverts all Government and cancels all Humane Laws in that they neither do nor can pass any Obligation upon any Subjects but only as they are bound upon their Consciences and lastly they will never stand to this themselves when they are urged with those horrid mischiefs that must perpetually overtake the Government if the plea be once admitted in general terms and without exception This then being quitted the Magistrate may and sometimes must restrain men in their pretences or perswasion of Religion without seating himself in Gods Throne or invading their Subjects Consciences or offering violence to their Christian Liberties And then have they nothing to pretend in their own excuse but the unlawfulness of the particular Commands themselves and this brings them to a sweet pass when they are kept to it
Friend and Foe and eating up All Men Women and Children He that came off with Honour in threescore and seventeen Duels before he was one and twenty and in forty years more by Land and Sea fought as many pitcht Battels could not have made a more war-like sound Certainly you go as I have read of one in the 5 Epist. to Marcellinus for why should not I read your Fathers as well as you read mine always hung like a Justice of Peace's Hall with Pikes Halberts Peitronels Callivers and Muskets And if you could but victual your self for half a year in your Breeches it is not to be doubted but you would be able to over-run whole Countries Hungary Transylvania Bohemia and all the other territories of modern Orthodoxy The first Argument I made use of to remove all popular suspicions of Popery from the Government was the manifest inconvenience to the State that must arise from any alteration in the Church and this I proved from those impregnable principles of Loyalty that are peculiar to our Communion from all other Dissenters so that all design of Change being so manifestly imprudent and impolitick I thought it too wild a surmise for the Wisdome of the Government unless it were not only trinkled but bewitch'd to expose it self and therefore that there could be no other probable ground of danger but from the restlesness and seditious practices of the Fanatique Party that might possibly some time or other make way for the return of Popery by making disturbances in Church and State And to this purpose I gave a large Character of the peculiar Genius and the distinguishing principles of the Church of England from the Gibelline Faction But it seems you do not like my Characters and what is that to me am I obliged to justifie them because such Jack-Gentlemen as you do not approve them If you have any thing to except you know the Law and the Press is open but your bare dislike will no where pass for a confutation And to tell us that you find on either side only the natural effect of such Hyberbole's and Oratory that is not to be believed is in a great many words only to say I lye It may be so but yet that satisfies no body And yet tell me can you deny the Loyalty of the Church of England both in its principles and practices if you cannot whatever I have said in her commendation is undeniably true and then it is you that lease Can you deny that the regular Clergy are the most zealous Assertours of the Rights of Princes and that they and only they teach subjection to be an indispensable duty of Religion without false reserves and limitations Can you deny that those Subjects that stuck to the Communion of the Church of England ever stuck to hazard Lives and Fortunes out of devotion to their Prince Can you prove that every any forsook the Royal Cause in its greatest distress that did not first forsake the Church of England Can you deny that the main Article that distinguishes ours from all other Communions is that we vest the Crown in an Ecclesiastical Supremacy which is one half of the Sovereign Power whilst they challenge it either to themselves or some foreign Jurisdiction that has no more ground of Claim beside bare confidence to exercise any Authority in the Kings Dominions than the King has in his These are the Elogies I gave to the Church of England If they are such Hyperboles as are not to be believed that is to say if they are lyes make it good or else confess your impudence to call them so not only without proof or evidence but against Experience and Demonstration And so for my contrary Character of the Fanatiques that too is all a lye or such an Hyperbole as is not to be believed and so I am answer'd but if that be all you have to say I am very well satisfied too You had done them some kindness if you had undertaken to prove either that the Preachers never taught the people Aphorisms of Disloyalty and Rebellion or that they were never engaged in actual War against their lawful Prince by their Instigation or that any of them have renounced their old Principles though they could never be prevail'd with so much as to acknowledge their Crime either to God or the King These are plain Cases of Conscience so that till they have done this if they were ever guilty they are so still And therefore when you only tell us that I have dress'd them all up in Sambenita 's painted with all the Flames and Devils in Hell All the service you do your brethren is to inform the World that whoever will draw a Fanatique to the life must get the Devil to sit for his picture and if a man cannot describe them without dressing them up in Sambenita's I cannot help that this I am sure of that I have not made one false stroke or ill feature that I cannot justifie to any Artist I am not concern'd how ugly the piece is so it be but like and yet you your self have not been able to tell me one fault that I have committed I am only sorry that they are so very deformed as you have represented them for I never suspected before you informed me either that they were so bad or the Devil so good But I know what it is that so much girds you though your guilty Conscience dares not touch it viz. that I have there proved that nothing but the Good Old Cause lyes at the bottom of all your present Schism and that the most zealous Patriots of Conventicles are such as have given the World but very little ground to suspect them from their profess'd Principles or open Practices of the least tenderness of Religion and kindness to Monarchy so that nothing better can ever be expected from them than factions and republican Designs I know this twinges to the quick it is so observable all the Kingdome over that as you cannot endure to hear it so you dare not deny it And now your appearance has amply verified the truth of the Observation When at the same time that you come forth to vindicate the Innocence and Peaceableness of the Non-conformists and pass your word to the King that they shall never lift up disloyal thought against him you cannot forbear to let us see how warmly you are concern'd to justifie the late Rebellion In that the King had turn'd his whole Kingdome into a Prison that many thousands of his Subjects were constrained to seek habitations abroad every Countrey even though it were among Savages and Canibals appear'd more hospitable to them than their own that his whole Reign was deformed with Sibthorpianism i. e. with his affecting an absolute and arbitrary Government that himself and his party were the cause of the War that the Parliament took up Arms in defence both of their Liberty and Religion and that their Cause against the King was like
Covenauters Cause were too good to be fought for as little Logick as I understand I understand so much that then the Kings was too bad to be fought for and that is enough for one Conclusion But whatever was the occasion of the War whether the Arch-bishop of Canterbury and the Vicar of Brackley as you will have it or Ignoramus and Mr. Selden as a second concludes or the School-men and the Universities as a third observes whether I say any or all of these accidents might contribute to it I am not concern'd because occasions of mischief are unaccountable for their being so in that men that have a mind to it may make any thing an Occasion and yet still the occasion shall be as innocent as I believe the Children of Edinburgh were But if instead of the Occasion you desire to be satisfied in the cause of the War seeing you have been at so much pains in transcribing an huge Gazet to give me satisfaction I think my self at least a little obliged to give you my opinion and if that be not sufficient to satisfie you I shall only advise you to take heed of being too inquisitive for assure your self your Party will have but little reason to con you any thanks for demanding any farther satisfaction Inprimis then it hapned in this War as it does in all others that there were some general Causes that were set on work by some particular Circumstances As 1. The unusual ignorance of the Common People concerning their Duty and Obligation to the Government every man supposing himself as much Master of his own Estate as if he had lived out of all Society and expecting that the King should be able to maintain the Common Safety without his particular Contribution and this you may easily imagine makes them apt to murmur and tumultuate in all such straits and necessities of the State as require Money and Taxes 2. The seditiousness of Persons of broken and shatter'd fortunes and as there are great numbers of such at all times so are they alwayes with the formost to promote Disturbances in all States because it is very possible they may make their Condition better but impossible they should ever make it worse 3. The great numbers of well-meaning men that are usually carried down with the stream so that though possibly they were never disobliged at Court nor infected with Seditious Principles against the State nor addicted to Fanatique Factions against the Church yet are easily over-born with the noise of a whole Kingdom to joyn with that Party that pretends with most confidence to zeal for the publique good These with many others are the Materials and common Principles of all Rebellion but they never or very rarely come into action unless they are put upon it by some other particular and emergent Causes And these were plainly The Insolence and Seditiousness of the Presbyteran Preachers for it seems the Clergy of all Parties as well as all Ages can be mischievous enough because those that can do most good may for the same reason do most harm and therefore it is as ordinary for some to obstruct the Clemency of Subjects as it is for others to obstruct the Clemency of Kings Now it is certain these men had gain'd a mighty esteem and reverence with the People partly by the confidence of their pretences stiling themselves Gods Ambassadours and chalenging as much submission to their Doctrines as if they had wrought Miracles or produced written Credentials from Heaven partly by the vehemence of their tone and gesture and the particular manner of acting their Sermons but chiefly by the subject matter of their popular discourses in which they were alwayes very sparing of their reproofs against the gainful vices of tradesmen such as fraud cozening and covetousness and on the contrary very prodigal of their declamations and suggestions against such miscarriages as were proper to the Government And by inveighing perpetually against oppression they seem'd to take part with the People against their Superiours But that which gave them more Authority than all this over their minds was a certain way they had got of raising unreasonable and unavoidable troubles of Conscience by which means they continually kept great multitudes of well-meaning persons in perfect slavery and subjection to their own good-pleasure Now by the advantage of all these Artifices it was easie for them to infuse any poyson into the minds of their Proselytes And what Principles they taught them in reference to the establish'd Government they are so vulgarly known and so sufficiently recorded that I suppose it is now very superfluous to inform the world It is enough that there is not one Aphorism of miscief and rebellion that they did not impose upon the People under the obligation of a Christian duty as it is largely and distinctly proved out of their own words in the Book of dangerous Positions and Proceedings that is an exact Collection of all the Treason in the world Do but read it over and then tell me what peaceable and orderly Subjects they are like to prove whose Consciences are acted by such lewd and desperate Principles But though the Puritan Preachers from their very beginning never spared themselves nor their lungs against their Governours yet under the late Kings Reign by reason of the remiss Government of Arch-bishop Abbot they became more bold and boysterous than ever and especially when they perceived his Majesty so sincerely addicted to the Church of England and so resolutely bent to reduce all Factious Dissenters to order and obedience they began to think the cause brought to its last gasp if he proceeded without check to his designs and therefore they bestir themselves and thrash the Pulpits to exasperate the People against the Government of the Church and inveigh in the coarsest and most bitter expressions against that of the State And thus by the zeal and madness of these men were the People at length preach'd out of all sense of their Duty and Allegiance and by the perpetual roarings and bellowings of these Geneva Bulls were perfectly amazed into Rebellion And that indeed was their powerful preaching to raise Armies and beat up the Alarm to a Civil War If any man shall be at leisure to peruse those Humiliation-Sermons that were contrived to sanctisie the Cause he shall meet with such wretched and horrible abuses of Religion as the wickedness of all former Ages is not able to parallel What horrid work did they make with the Word of God How shamelesly did they urge the Prophesies of the Old Testament in defiance to the Precepts of the New And with what intolerable presumption did they load his Majesty with every burthen they could pick up against Moab or Babylon Their impertinence was almost as bold as their impiety And the People were rarely taught any thing beside Treason and Blasphemy And thus were they preach'd into Arms and converted into Rebellion they press'd Horse and Foot out of every
you have order'd the matter was enacted purely in favour of himself and his own Party You have brought things to that pass that were it not for that you might erect a new Court of Justice and hang them all for any thing they have to plead in their own defence For as you tell the story they are the only guilty persons in reference to the late Rebellion Your Charge against his Royal Father is the very same with the Inditement that was peferred against him both by and before the high Court of Justice only the manner of your Expressions is suited to the alteration of time and circumstances But he fought against a Cause that was only too good to be fought for he began a War against the Religion and the Liberty of his Subjects and forced them to take upArms in their own defence against Tyranny and Arbitrary Government for so you would have called it had you written in those happy days though now the word is Sibthorpianism i. e. as you describe it an endeavour to invade his Subjects Proprieties and subvert the Fundamental Laws and for that Cause only involve his Kingdoms in a long and bloody War And though he were sworn to maintain all the Ancient Constitutions of the Realm yet he deformed his whole Reign with indefatigable pains to destroy them and when he perceived that he could obtein his wicked and tyrannical Ends no other way he pursued them through all parts of his Dominions with Blood and Violence and at last upon this Rock ruined himself and his Kingdoms So that all the mischiefs of the late War are to be scored purely upon his head but as for all those that took up Arms against him their Cause was so over-just and warrantable that it was only too good to have been fought for And now what could you have said worse of the worst Prince that ever wielded Sceptre than what you have here said of the very best However this methinks is but an odd way of ensuring the good Behaviour of the Non-conformists for the time to come when you stand upon the Justification of their Innocence for the time past And it shews you to be a man of Judgment whilest you have so little Wit as to appeal to their former Practices as a sufficient Security of their future Peaceableness and by their harmlesness poor Lambs in reference to the late War encourage us to trust to their good Nature and Modesty for ever For if they were so innocent as to that Rebellion saving that they fought for a Cause only too good to have been fought for they are safe enough from ever fighting for any Cause too bad to be fought for And yet I shrewdly suspect we owe this very declaration of the Causes being too good to be fought for rather to your Cowardize than your Loyalty for it seems you think all Causes cost too dear when they are bought with danger or blood and though both their Religion and their Liberty were invaded you would have advised them rather than fight to let them both go And as little as you would have fought for the Good old Cause you would have fought much less for his Majesties Restauration in that it was forsooth to do it self without our Officiousness you had not leased if you had said against it too However his Majesty for any thing you would have had done for him might have been beyond Sea still unless God would have been pleased to have restored him by miracle and have march'd before him as he did before the Camp of Israel and rain'd down fire from Heaven upon the Rump and all their Adherents For men ought to have trusted God and not have taken the Work out of his hands by their own Officiousness he knows how to bring all things about in their best and proper time And these are pretty good evidences of your good-will to his Majesties Government First in that you scarce commend any thing of it since his Return beside the Act of Indemnity and Oblivion and then secondly in that you are so much concern'd to disclaim the Merits of those Persons that were Actors and Instruments in it by denying the Efficacy of any humane means towards bringing it to pass and casting it intirely upon the immediate Care of divine Providence So that if it were to do again you would advise his Subjects to forbear all endeavours of his Restauration and leave it to be brought to pass by the Providence of God or suffer it to do it self without their Officiousness We understand you But now have you not made an admirable Apology for the Loyalty of the Non-conformists by denying that they can possibly be ever guilty of any such thing as Rebellion for if the late War were none it is certain there never was nor will be any and I think upon this supposition and upon this alone we may pronounce them both innocent and secure as to this Crime But thus we see that whenever the Cause of Non-conformity appears at top the Good old Cause ever did and ever will lye at bottom or as your self express it if it were a War of Religion i. e. Fanaticism at top it was a War of Liberty i. e. a Commonwealth at bottom That is your old and your new Cause and you sink into it with the dexterity of fat Sir John Falstaff In a word it is your close and comfortable Importance And now after all your kind and courtly Expressions almost in every page towards the Act of Oblivion and Indemnity and on the contrary rating me for shewing no more respect to it than to remember some old stories in despite of its Authority and lastly commanding me to let all those things of former times alone and mind my own business You your self have not made bold with it at all by reviving the Adventures of Sibthorp and Manwaring and raking into all the Deformities of the late King 's whole Reign and transcribing a long History out of a certain long Gazette of the true Cause and Original as you dream of the Rebellion So that we now perceive your meaning in all this idle noise about the Act of Oblivion is to limit the Remembrance of the late War to such occurrences as you think may be of advantage to such as acted in and for the Rebellion but as for the suffering and loyal Party they must be obliged and conjured to seal up their Lips and smother their Resentments however if I had been profane or disingenuous in offending against the sacred Act of Oblivion I am sure you have out-gone me have done that and more For that looks back no farther than the year 37. but yet there are some old Sibthorpian Gentlemen still alive that might possibly have had an hand in carrying on Impositions of money in the late Kings time and thereby contributing not a little to our late Wars now these men are still obnoxious to Justice for all their
that of Christianity only too good to be fought for c. And now when you ensure us that the Fanatiques shall never rebel it is for this reason only because there neither is nor can be any such thing as Rebellion for if the last War were none you are safe for ever forfeiting your Loyalty and if that cause were too good to be fought for it will be hard to find one too bad It is well you have declared that if you can do the Non-conformists no good you are resolved you will do them no harm and desire that they should lye under no imputation on your account I am confident you intended honestly but they are more endebted to your good will than your discretion When your very Apology in their behalf brings them under the greatest imputation For this not only makes good my suggestion which you would lay by your Caveat that they are acted by men of Democratical Spirits but withal it is a stronger evidence of their continuing constant and stubborn to their old Principles because as they would never be brought to disclaim them so now it seems they are resolved to justifie them and lay the whole guilt of the Rebellion upon the King himself I know you are a wise and wary man and design'd when you set pen to paper to take upon you the Person that is Personam induere of a Royallist and not to betray the least kindness to or concern for the Good Old Cause But you are a Gamester and know what vast odds a man may lay on Natures side And thus have I more than enough vindicated every page and period of my Preface and yet the main of your business is still behind for that was the least of your design to confute me your Plot was to take occasion to fly out into invectives against the Clergy of all Ages in general and of the Church of England in particular first as the cause of the late War and secondly as the hindrance of our present settlement and then having barr'd them from trinkling with State Affairs and wheadled the King against hearkning to their Counsels though you do it so grosly and with such an impudent malice that it is like stalking by the side of a Butter-fly with a face as broad as a Brass-Copper you advise Princes to a more moderate course of Government and teach them from many sad examples to behave themselves dutifully to their Subjects upon peril of their displeasure or worse I shall as briefly as I can consider your performance in all these particulars and so leave you to the shame of your own Meditations First then having with mighty exultation of Spirit and words much too good for your heart congratulated His Majesties most Happy Restauration just as Malefactors cry God save the King because they have escaped the Gallows and so do you magnifie his Clemency Mercy and Goodness for carrying the Act of Oblivion and Indemnity through But this serenity is suddainly over-cast and you knit your brows and depress your Superciliums and at length with much fleering and more reluctancy for you are mighty sorry to speak it yet because it is a sad truth tell it him you must that the Ecclesiastical Part would not accomplish his Felicity and no wonder when the Animosities and Obstinacy of some of the Clergy have in all Ages been the greatest obstacle to the Clemency Prudence and good intentions of Princes and the establishment of their affairs Which is to say that the Clergy has not only in all Ages nay and places too been the bane of Government but more particularly the Clergy of England murther'd His Royal Father and are more accomptable for His Majesties and the Kingdoms sufferings than either the Rebels that took his Crown off of his head or those that afterwards took his head off of his shoulders But they shall answer for themselves anon we must first traverse your first Bill against the Clergy in general But who are you that are thus acquainted with the Clergy of all Ages time out of mind sure you can be no less a man than one of the Patriarchs or a fifth from Methusalem or at least Andrew de Temporibus John's elder Brother you have so general an acquaintance with the Clergy of all Ages As for the Clergy of the Ages before Noahs flood I will not contend for for any thing that I know there might be Bishops of Munster and Cullen and Strasburg in those times and I cannot disprove it but that King Nimrod's Chaplains were his Hunts-men but in all Ages since I cannot find that they have been more cruel than other men Aaron I am sure was remarkable for his meekness and mercy for though the Grand Remonstrance of Corah were intended against himself and his Bran for trinkling Moses and the Members of the Sanhedrin yet did he bestir himself to attone the Rebellion and procure pardon for the Offenders Though I must confess his Grand-child Phinehas was an arrant Jewish Zealot that is as your modern Orthodox Rabbies inform you a notorious Rogue and Cut-throat And as for the Heathen Priests though they were very famous Trinklers I do not find that they were any great Men-eaters In my Roman Empire I do not read that they were fiercer Canibals of the Race of Man or Capon-kind than the Laity nor I believe can you prove out of your 5 Ep. to Marcellinus that the Clergy were the Authours of Julian's Persecution But the bottom of all this is that the Priests have in all Ages and in all Kingdomes been advanced to places of greatest Authority next to the Sovereign Power it self The Druids of Britany the Magi of Persia the Priests of AEgypt Judaea Assyria AEthiopia are a sufficient Indication that however fanciful men may fool themselves and their Countrey with other Philosophical Models and Theories of Policy yet Religion and the Ministers of Religion will have the greatest share in the Government and the reason is as evident as the experiment is Catholique in that nothing can so truly and effectually awe the greatest part of mankind as the dread of the world to come and therefore they whose peculiar Office it is to guide and instruct men in their future concerns must and will in spite of all the witty States-men in the world have the greatest reverence power and interest with the generality of the People And thus though the Authority of the Clergy of England be at this time by reason of some malignant effects of the late war at as low an ebb as perhaps the power of the Priests ever was under any Monarchy yet it is manifest that for all their disadvantages all of the Loyal Party Nobility Gentry and Commonalty that are sober and serious in the belief and profession of their Religion cannot but have a veneration to their Persons and a deference to their Judgements How else think you could they be so easily trinkled And as for all the several
Text and then arm'd them with Spite and Zeal and that you know is an over-match for wisdome and courage And if the Pulpit were their Poast as you say it is they in the strength of modern Orthodoxy immoral Grace and Capon grease made it good against all Enemies whatsoever These were the Trumpeters to the War the next are the Leaders and they were first ignorant and half-witted men that were blown up with a great conceit of their own sufficiency in Politiques that had made Remarques upon Aristotle and Tacitus that could tell stories of the Grecian and Roman Common-wealths and begin a Speech with Sparta and Lycurgus and talk an hour together of the power of the Tribunes and the priviledges of the People of Rome and demonstrate out of History that when Augustus taxed the whole World he did it not by vertue of his own Imperial Prerogative but that it was granted to him by Vote and Authority of the Senate that he being a wise Prince avoided all appearances of Absolute Sovereignty that he submitted the management of his Power to the censure of so discreet a Consistory and sometimes labour'd to resign all his Authority and lay Himself and his Diadem at their feet and at last was not by all their importunity to be entreated to accept of the Empire but with a proviso of resigning his Charge as soon as ever he had setled the Common-wealth in Peace and Safety and therefore only renewed the Lease of his Government every tenth year at the petition of the People Beside that he avoided the Titles of Dictator and Rex and Dominus as much as a Mariner does a Rock for fear of splitting setting the fate of his Father Julius before him for he too was murther'd as a Sea-mark not to affect too great and glorious Attributes lest he might have ship-wrack'd both the State and Himself upon the Rock of a proud or an offensive Title This Mr. Speaker was the moderation of wise Princes in former Ages they had a deference to the wisdom of this house and a fatherly care for the Liberty of the Subject They were not wont to call Parliaments only when they were forced to it by their own necessities to be the spunges of the Common-wealth and by their means to squeeze the Subjects money into their own Coffers and when they had served their own turns disband them but to advise and consult with their great Council about the great Affairs of State We have Mr. Speaker a Gracious Prince but he is abused and mis-led by Evil Counsellers we owe all the Mis-governments of the State and the Affronts of this House to their Tyranny and Insolence And if they will not know their Duty however let not us forget our Trust. We have now an Opportunity put into our hands his Majesty is engaged in an expensive War and cannot hold out without Supplyes and therefore before we Vote that let us present him our Remonstrances and grant him Subsidies upon no other condition than that he will first redress all our Grievances This Mr. Speaker was the wisdom of Sparta and Athens and by this method of proceeding they kept the Liberties of the Common-wealth inviolable against all the attempts and encroachments of Tyranny This was the language of Parliaments in the late Kings Reign and by these pedantick stories did the ill-affected Members of the Puritan and Republican Faction obstruct and embroil all Affairs till they plainly run the Kingdom into a necessity of a Civil War Not that I believe they had all of them any form'd design to subvert the Government no doubt many of them were wonderfully satisfied if the Company would but take notice of and admire their learning and to this purpose the same Speeches would serve indifferently at all times and upon all occasions whether they had or had not cause of complaint And to deal plainly with you I have read most of the Long-Parliament Speeches over and though I know you will chide me for calling a whole Parliament Coxcombs yet it is better to call them so than worse yet this censure I dare pass upon them without any suspicion of arrogance within my self That they were for the most part no better than School-boys Declamations that seem'd to be made for no other end than the exercise of Wit and Rhetorique and the Topicks from which they raised their Harangues were equally serviceable in any Cause pro or con such as Aphorisms Similitudes and Sentences out of ancient Authours but as for true reasoning they rarely seem'd to pretend to it or endeavour after it in short all their Discourses were much like yours and accommodated to People that took Confidence for Reason Non-sense for Mysteries and Rudeness for Wit and a judicious man that compares them would almost suspect your Book to be only a Rehearsal or rather an Epitome of their Speeches though I am not apt to conclude that you read them over on purpose to write after their Copy because I know I it is as natural for bad wits to jump as good There is a way of popular and impertinent talking that is common to the pedantique Haranguers of all Ages But they declaimed so long upon idle stories of Rome and Athens and little sayings of Cato and Seneca till they in sober earnest challeng'd so much of the Sovereign Power under pretext of Liberty of the Subject and Priviledge of Parliament as left nothing of Prerogative to the Prince beside a little Pageantry of State and an empty Title So that unless his Majesty would tamely have resign'd his Crown and disclaim'd all Regal Authority he had no other way left to defend it from violence but by force of Arms. They had already begun to seize and there was no way to make them unfasten but by knocking off their fingers But that which contributed as much as any thing to these disorders was the great resort of our young Gentry about that time to Geneva for Capons and Education where being throughly instructed in the principles of Modern Orthodoxy and there every Tradesman and Lay-Elder was able to inform them they generally return'd home disaffected to the establish'd Government both of Church and State and furnish'd with Doctrines of Divinity suitable to their Principles of Policy and by this means Calvin obtain'd as great an Interest and Power in the House of Commons as Lycurgus and scarce a Speech could be made without his Institutions and the distich of Praeter Apostolicas c. And so Mr. Speaker though Mr. Calvin the ablest Divine in the world since the death of the Apostles exact an entire obedience to all Princes whether good or bad without exception or dispensation So that suppose a negligent and slothful Prince who has no care at all of the publique safety who is so intent of his own private as to make markets of all Laws and Priviledges and to expose his Justice and Favour both to open sale so that according to Mr. Calvin
England against the Church it self such Topicks as these are too dirty to be used in any but a bad and a baffled Cause And as for J. O. himself though I have heard many strange stories of him I scorn'd to publish any one Report to his disadvantage and have charged nothing upon him but what himself thought good to publish to the World Neither in truth should I have done that but that you see I was forced upon it by his own provocation as I would clear my own Candour and Sincerity And I protest that if he can convict me of any one Forgery it shall not suffice to ask him forgiveness upon my Knees but I will make him as publick a Recantation as I think he owes to his King and Countrey And as for the truth of all those Principles of Blasphemy and Rebellion that I have produced against him out of his own Writings I will appeal to his own Conscience and Ingenuity And if my Citations are true I shall trouble my self no more about them but leave it to the company to judge of the consequences of such Tenets and to himself to consider under what duty he lyes to the publique upon their account And how far you your self were engaged or whether at all I scorn to enquire and though by the Principles of your Book you seem to be full as bad as he yet really I think him as much worse than you as a well-meaning Zealot is more cruel than a Souldier of fortune you only fight for pay but he for spite and zeal And now what if I do inculcate the late War and its horrid Catastrophe and will needs have it to be upon a religious account And so I will and you know too well how demonstratively I have proved it out of their own Declarations In answer to all which you are only so civil as to suspect that I have been better acquainted with Parliament Declarations upon another account But it is no matter upon what account I came acquainted with them whatever it was this I learn'd into the bargain that Religion was the main pretence of their Rebellion or as J. O. expresses it their only design was to set on foot the great work of taking the Kingdom from men and giving it to Christ. But sure you think the Children of England as forward as the Boys and Girls of Scotland were when you suppose me formerly so well acquainted with Parliament Declarations I was no doubt an Arch-rebel when I was a School-boy and when I should have been conning my Lesson was drawing up Remonstrances and was at least one of Iretons Adjutatours and assistant at the penning the Armies Remonstrance from St. Albans Unless I were so pregnant a Youth it can scarce be suspected how I should be so well acquainted in former times with Parliament Declarations For unless this formerly relate to the time before his Majesties Restauration it loses its malice that is all it was intended for in that there can be no very great ground of suspicion of any great design of mischief in perusing them since however be that as it will this no doubt is susficient to bring J. O. off when he is plainly baffled and you have not one word to say in his defence then to drop any rude suggestion and that will or may serve turn to divert people from attending to the Argument Be it therefore known unto all men that J. O. had so much confidence and so little wit as to affirm that the Cause of Religion was not pretended or concern'd in the late War and that I have demonstrated this to be no less than impudent Leasing And so Sir you may proceed This horrid Catastrophe was twenty four long years ago and after an Act of Oblivion and for ought you can see it had been as seasonable to have shewn Caesars bloody Coat or Thomas a Beckets bloody Rochet Twenty four long years ago that is almost beyond my memory but if it had been so many hundred years ago and if J. O. had denied that the King was murther'd so long since by Fanatique Rebels I would have convicted him of impudence though there had been ten thousand Acts of Oblivion and if he had denied that Caesar too was murther'd I would have shewn his bloody Coat and when I have to do with the Papists I will hang out Thomas a Beckets bloody Rochet too it is a very good instance to shew the inconvenience of having the Clergy of any Kingdom subject to a foreign Power and if ever the Pope recover his Authority in England it will alwayes be so again and sometimes worse because they must be bound to obey his Decrees not only above but against the Kings Commands But yet whilst I have to do with Fanatiques such as J. O. and your self that instead of having any compunction for the late horrid Catastrophe discharge its guilt wholly from your selves upon the King and his Loyal Subjects to such I say I must and will shew the Scaffold at Whitehall Especially when notwithstanding it was twenty long years ago many of the same men that were notorious instruments in that bloody Rebellion are still in spite of gratitude and Mercy mustering up the People under their ancient Heads and old Principles Yes but the Chief of the Offenders have long since made satisfaction to justice Now you say something when you can assure us that they are hang'd indeed that whatever Harrison threatned at his execution is some competent security and I think for that reason the King for the time to come need never fear the same High Court of Justice that murther'd his Father We are satisfied then as to the good behaviour of all that are dead but can you undertake for the Survivers Oh yes no doubt For they are all so weary that he would be knockt on the head that should raise the first disturbance of the same nature This is only the security Mr. Calvin has given us for the peaceable deportment of single persons and it is very likely that if any one man should begin a Civil War he would be knockt on the head And I believe if Colonel Venner or the Cow-keeper though they had forty men to assist them should cry hey for Woodstreet hey for King Jesus it is not improbable but that they may have their brains beaten out But the thing we fear is lest whilst they take liberty to propagate their Principles and enlarge their Party they should in time grow once more into a body strong enough to fight the battels of the Lord and set up the Kingdom of Christ that is as J. O. has explain'd it a Common-wealth And what though at present you are so weary yet you may have time to gather breath and if you have then it seems we have no security when it is only your being tired and out of strength that keeps you from being unruly But what is it that you are so
former Times and the present transactions to regulate himself by in every Circumstance Though yet here methinks you shew more kindness to the Prerogative of School-masters than to that of Kings in that you address your advice of Peace and Condescension as well to the Subject as the Sovereign whereas in your former Admonitions you applied your self and your sage discourses of Moderation to the Government alone without the least intimation of advice to Subjects to beware of peevishness and incivility to their Superiours However it is to be hoped that Schoolmasters will hereafter lay aside their Rods and their Ferula's to avoid these implacable Grudges of juvenile Petulancy and learn by the Example of their brother Kings to condescend to their Boys for peace sake and the quiet of Boykind and upon all occasions to give them good words and humour them like Children and from all these fatal consequences of whipping which can only serve as sea marks unto wise Schoolmasters to avoid the causes And never hereafter to brandish their Rods against Truants Loiterers and Rob-orehards remembring the implacable Ballads of Tom Triplet the stabbing of the Roman Emperor the Tai-Ior-Parliament of Poland the danger of Alexander the King of Spain's progress into Biscai the Resignation of the Queen of Sweden the Revolts of Switzerland and the Low-countreys and an hundred more that I could tell you but idle stories and yet Kings and Schoolmasters can tell how to make use of them for where there is so great a resemblance in the Effects there must be some parallel in the Causes You have put Tacitus his nose out of joint for sententious Politicks But above all it concerns them to consider that God has instated them in the Government of their Subjects with that incumbrance of Reason and that incumbrance upon reason of Conscience as if Conscience were an incumbrance upon Reason and Reason upon Government Men therefore are to be dealt with reasonably and consciencious men by conscience And then that the Body is in the power of the Mind so that corporal Punishments do never reach the Offender but the innocent suffers for the guilty And the mind is in the hand of God and cannot correct those perswasions which upon the best of its natural Capacity it has collected and therefore to punish that is to violate the divine Majesty To what purpose is it to scourge the outward Boy your corporal punishments never reach the Offender but the innocent suffers for the guilty it is the mind that is the truant and the dunce and if that will not con its Lesson is it justice that the poor innocent Backside should do penance for anothers sloth and idleness It is only for implacable Divines to be thus cruel and sanguinary And then as for the Mind that is in the hand of God and cannot correct those false Concords and unlucky Tricks which upon the best of its natural Capacity it has collected so that to punish that is to violate the divine Majesty And now lay by your Rods my Masters break your Ferula's burn your Grammars tear in pieces your Dictionaries and your construing Books mure up your School-doors leave your declining of Nouns and Verbs construe no more Greek and Latin break up School and keep an universal Play-day throughout the whole Nation for Truants must not be whipt and if you attempt to take down their Breeches you offer plain violence to the Laws of Nature and of God For he has put their Bodies into the Power of their Minds and their minds he keeps in his own hands and therefore if you scourge them you do not only punish the Innocent for the Guilty which no sort of men are so brutish to do beside the Clergy but the disgrace and the blame of all lights at last upon the divine Majesty in that the Mind is wholly in his hands and all its Actions whatsoever must be entitled to his Providence A blessed Account of Government this but yet such as is absolutely necessary to the exemption of Conscience from the Commands of Authority by ascribing all the Extravagancies of Mankind to the Will of God that has put upon them a fatal Necessity to do whatever they do And then 't is in vain for the Civil Magistrate to think of forcing his Subjects to Obedience by Penalties when they are over-ruled to the contrary by an almighty and irresistible Power This is a fit Cover for so foul a Cause But now if you had come to me I could have told you an hundred more idle stories that you and Kings and School-masters would know how to make use of that would better have filled up your Politick Lectures and done more advantage both to your cause and your self than all that you have rak'd together I will recommend but one to you in which I am sure the King and Parliament the three Kingdoms with the Isles adjacent together with all the Plantations that lie out of hearing are more nearly concerned than in any of your Politick Tales not excepting the Queens own Broad-seal and to make you expect no longer it is the famous story of Massanello And if ever you come to be a Parliament-man because you may be modest at first and fearful of speaking I care not if I lend you a Speech before I conclude And thus you must manage it and your self First you must rise up and take out you Gold-watch if it be not at pawn for the Picquet disaster and though it do not go or be down yet look on 't in the first place however not transiently but stay your Eye upon it till you cannot longer do it handsomly without too apparent Prostitution of your design than combing your Wigg shake it with a Grace make up your Mouth betwixt a smile and a simper look upon the Presence with some Pity but more scorn And then begin Mr. Speaker and there pause again for it becomes you to seem modest at first and so after a frown or two more with your mouth and as many smiles with your Forehead procede in good earnest without any more faces and prefaces to be wail the evil the fatal the sad Consequences the mischiefs many and great that threaten the Kingdom 's ruine and turning it to a Common-wealth again by the Apple-mongers and old Women in the Strand Charing-cross and all along by White-hall as far as Westminster in the Face of the Street and all By-standers selling and exposing to sale from day to day whole baskets full of Pippins Paremains Russettings and old Apple Johns Whereas one sturdy Swiss for I am sure he will run in your head and here you must beg Mr. Speakers pardon and correct your self and say you meant one sturdy Fisher-boy and that you must observe for a certain Rule though you are out never so much yet for all that still to go on I say Mr. Speaker one sturdy Fisher-boy by that fatal occasion of over-turning an Apple-womans basket over-turn'd all
Naples his name was Massanello and the story is true And though Mr. Speaker you may at first think it but an idle story yet all circumstances duly weighed it may some time or other prove of fatal and dangerous consequence to the Common-wealth There is Mr. Speaker beside Punchanello's Audience a great concourse of Boys whipping Giggs and of Lacqueys playing at the wheel of Fortune as I my self have often remarqued or if you will not relye upon my single observation my Lord Chief Justice and Sir Edmond Godfrey are able to inform you Now Mr. Speaker beside what may ordinarily happen at any time in scuffles between the Boys or the Lacqueys or the Porters it may so fall out that some pleasant and humorous Gentleman one of the Cock-wits of the town as he is passing on by Charing-Cross to White-hall either for the intrinsick wit of the frolick it self or to make a noise by boasting the adventure in the privy Gallery should either by himself or the officious Ministry of his Foot-boy over-turn a whole Settle of Apple-baskets that must of necessity make a scramble a scramble a scuffle a scuffle a tumult and then that may lightly come to pelting of Apples and that to tumbling in the kennel and that to bloody noses and then be sure Mr. Speaker hell is broke loose as I have observed in my Book of Aphoisms and Similitudes when the Scots enter'd England upon as slight a Cause viz. to fight for the Jure Divino of throwing Cricket-stools at Divine Service And what follow'd thereupon is yet within the compass of most mens memories Mr. Speaker I would not willingly be such a sool as to make a dangerous similitude that has no foundation for every similitude must have if not all yet some likeness That is to say for it will be sometimes requisite for so deep a States-man as you to explain your self there is no likeness without some likeness But this Mr. Speaker I am sure of that War was begun by the Women and Children and Servants of Edinburgh as you may see in the first Remonstrance presented in their names to the Lord Chancellour of Scotland And so if it should happen upon this occasion at Charing-Cross that any Massanello and believe me Mr. Speaker all Kingdoms are full of Massanello's should head the Tumult what else can lightly be expected but that they should either betake themselves to White-hall and there revile the King to his face for requiring things impossible unnecessary or wanton of his people for not considering the Laws and Customes under which they have been formerly bred as when under the Long-Parliament the Rump and Committee of Safety they had the Priviledge of raising Tumults against their Governours for not giving them good words upon all occasions and humouring them like Children for not being so civil as to condescend to their infirmities and if at any time they have got a cold forcing them to be cover'd in brief for not observing the constitution of their bodies and the antipathy of their stomachs But if they shall pass by White-hall as Mr. Speaker no body knows the motions of Tumults then what can be expected but that they should immediately to Westminster one and all and so beset this House and offer violence to the Members for being so foolishly trinkled and burthening the Subject with such a superfetation of Acts. And therefore Mr. Speaker to be short my humble motion is c. But here you know how to go on by your self it is only to move and desire the House for a quarter of an hour together by repeating the same Premises all over again that neither Apples nor Pears nor Nuts nor any other incentives of scrambling may be sold between Charing-Cross and Westminster-hall for fear of Massanello's and sturdy Swisses Do but speak it confidently and with a good Grace and then I am sure the Speech it self deserves more regard and is of closer importance to the King Parliament and Government than all your idle stories from Alexander the Great down to the Great King Gill. I am content if you will keep your own counsel you should have the honour of the Motion and I doubt not but it will be thought so serviceable to the Common-wealth that if your Effigies be not set up in the next Nich to King James in the Royal Exchange yet you can never fail of having your Statue erected among the foremost of the Dirt-basket-Justices And now I have done and hope by this time you perceive that though one night may make some men gray yet threescore years cannot make others wise And therefore I would advise you to meddle no more with Ecclesiastical Polities for I plainly perceive that Divinity is a Trade that God be thanked you are not of And that truly the reason why God does not bless you in tampering with matters of Religion is both because he never intended you for that employment or if he did you have neglected to fit your self for it by Education So that if you must be scribling betake your self to your own proper trade of Lampoons and Ballads and be not so unadvised as to talk in publique of such matters as are above the reach of your understanding you cannot touch Sacred things without prophaning them To conclude though it was the Opinion of most wise men that there was nothing more needful to answer your Libel than only to desire the world to compare it with my Discourses yet others who overpowr'd me to this Reply against the bent of my own inclinations thought it expedient that I should lay you thus open though it were only to let those weak People that once seem'd to admire and applaud you know that they had so little judgement as to approve the most despicable Trifler that was ever guilty of ink-shed And as for what concerns your self I shall say no more than to assure you that if you will learn modesty by this Correction and so give over Transprosing and the Good Old Cause you shall ever hereafter find me as much your friend as ever heretofore But as for my Reply I fear it not for if you will keep to the Reason of the Argument I know You and all your Party cannot answer and if you will play the fool again that will not serve your turn a second time the very people that once magnified your Wit now laugh at the silliness of your Pamphlet At least I think I have so sufficiently chastised your folly that if you should be so rash as to continue troublesome there will be no need of a second Correction you will be laught at and scorn'd enough without being exposed by any beside your self However I have something else to do than to write a Book against every ignorant and conceited man that has nothing else to do than to throw out his impertinent scrible against me And therefore I shall only desire you to recommend me to all your Friends at Charing-Cross and in Lincolns-inn-fields and so bid you heartily farewell FINIS The Printer to the Reader Reader Thou art desired to pardon those few faults that have escaped the Press by reason the Authour had not the Revising of the sheets Pag. 198. Pag. 96. Pag. 98. Pag. 4. Pag. 107. Pag. 206. Conq. of Granada Pag. 140. Pag. 110. Pag. 111. Pag. 143. Pag. 143. Pag. 276. Pag. 200. Pag. 252. of J. O. pag. 113. Pag. 118. Pag. 117. Ibid. Pag. 322. Def. Pag. 335. Truth and Innoc. vindic Pag. 104. pag. 76. pag. 119. Pag Pag. 119. Pag. 123. Pag. 254. Pag. 295. Pag. 296. Pag. 240. Pag. 124. Pag. 151. Pag. 151. Pag. 128. Pag. 130. Ibid. Pag. 131. Pag. 132. Pag. 218. Ibid. Pag. 30. Pag. 247. Pag. 160. Pag. 184. Pag. 50. Pag. 133. pag. 193. Pag. 251. Pag. 244. Pag. 34. Pag. 232. Pag. 230. Pag. 164. Pag. 219. Pag. 251. Pag. 120. Expos. on 130. Psal. Pag. 275. Pag. 198. Pag. 197. Pag. 18. Pag. 309. Pag. 43. Pag. 29. Pag. 27. Pag. 281. Pag. 166. Pag. 320. Pag. 278. Pag. 264. Pag. 144. Vid. vit Joan. Calvini Vid. Epist. Calv. Pag. 122. Pag 277 8 9 10. Pag. 277. Pag. 218. Pag. 218. Areo pag Pag. 4. Pag. 212 Ibid. Pag. 2â—3 Pag. 210. Pag. 218. Pag. 231. Pag. 301. Pag. 230. Pag. 148. Ibid. Pag. 230. Ibid. Pag. 243. Pag. 248. Pag. 214. Pag. 320. 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