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An Account of the design of the late narrative, entituled, The dissenters new plot, &c. written by the author of that book.
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1690
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Wing A275; ESTC R14792
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from the contrary Party particularly the truly Apostolical Bishop Vsher whom Heylen most civilly and dutifully calls a Walking Library and Writ professedly against him going in the same way wherein those of his Genius have since exactly trod how much and how justly soever they may blame others for want of Respect to those over them in the Lord never themselves to pay so much as Civility how much less then Obedience to such as do not please them in their own beloved Notions And here is added a particular Character of the Famous Doctor whom we now take leave of unless any of his Friends have the stomach to defend him In the 26 and 27 p. where he is commended for two or three Vertues neither of which I am pretty confident the worst Friend he has ever Scandaliz'd him with before viz. Gravity Ingenuity and Good Nature in which indeed he 's hardly to be paralell'd unless by the Famous little Doctâ—â— of Cosmus Blene afterwards mention'd and 〈◊〉 History of the Reformation c. Vindicated for just as much signal Veracity as his other Legend of St. George which he would perswade the World he did himself believe by his Book written concerning that Renowned Champion Nor can any one justly blame this severity to his Memory who used that of those before him no better and whose Credit must of necessity be weaken'd in order to vindicate theirs since it 's notorious most of his Assertions depend only on his own Word and lastly who turn'd alâ— the Venom of his Ink and Soul and stream of his Studies to Disgrace and Villifie almost all parts of the Reformation The 28â—h p. endeavours to rectifie the Judgment and unite the Affections of all Honest Englishmen by showing who were and who were not concern'd in the black and barbarous Murther of the Blessed Martyr King Charles the I. What happen'd after the Restoration c. What Expectations of Unity and fair Tendencies and Advances made thereunto and what Advantages expected from it how frustrated p. 30 and 31. How thereon Schisms were perpetuated and all very near ruin'd Those slanderous Matters of Truth which follow one would think should be too gross Banters to slip down any Man's Reason who had not before enlarg'd his swallow with plain Contradictions They are indeed several sad Truths which could be never beat into the Souls of some Men but which all thinking Persons not very much byass'd all along believed in that sense here intended For the first of them the Brothers being Reconciled to Rome let it be granted in some measure owing to our unhappy Divisions How many Plotters would an Honest Man have been call'd formerly for asserting or believing it Let the Friends of these Reigns Misgovernments and the late Kings Person and Cause chuse which of the two they will have either believe both the Brothers were of that Synagogue or else that their own Kings Word and Honour as well as Faith and Oath are broken Take pass the Debauchery of the Nation another Calumny is clear as the Sun the third of them the Fire must not be slipp'd so hastily treated of in the 3d Page wherein in a few Lines is the strength of our charge against the Papists as being under the Devil the immediate Actors thereof in proof of which are produced the Depositions before the Committee in Parliament the positive free Confession of Parties concerned in the very thing and the Inscription fixed on the Monument as an Act of the City of London asserting the truth of it which so gaâ—l'd those concern'd that they always squinted at it â—ike the Figure of Envy it self cary'd thereon 〈◊〉 they got it razed out agen 'T is further added That there 's no face of an Argument contrair to this Truth but two or three Observators which if they are sufficient to counterbalance the weight laid in the other Scale the Author will be willing to own himself a Jesuit To this succeed like a pair of Buckets the Popish and Rie-house Plot which ever of them goes up t'other of necessity goes down The chief of the Papists protested themselves as Innocent as the Child unborn Rumbold the very head of the other did as much at his Death Let the World believe which they please one thing is certain the Jesuits Religion gives them leave to go out of the World with a Lie in thiâ— Mouths which ours does not To make us all Friends succeeds an Account of what happened on the late King 's offering Toleration and of the Behaviour of those who were then Caress'd by Papist and Church Men to win them to their Interest Wherein how much they were wrought upon by the Famous Letter to the Dissenters the Reason of the Thing the Assurances of some great Persons and Examples of others to joyn in the common Interest of Protestants against the common Enemy and how strange a Check this gave to those who equally hated them both is not yet and its pitty it should ever be forgotten In pursuance of which are several plain Truths asserted That their Body was not engaged either in Addressing or altering the Government and pulling down that Wall we then so much needed What had pass'd is the more largely described because a Looking-Glass for the present and future Ages that if Persons will suck up what was formerly parted with Mistakes Jâ—alousies particular Follies they may at least be the more inexcusable The present state of things succeeds wherein as in the Index No. 8. of the present Plot and Design to overthrow the Church and State by the methods there described And it were seriously to be wish'd that some Men by their Follies and Wickedness had not given any seeming Reason for such a Suspicion and Jealousie and on the contrair that this Suspicion and Fear and the wild Words and Actions of some Imprudent or Ill Men had not been hearken'd to greedily Heightned and Exasperated and almost Espoused by whole Parties thereby setting them to Countermining where there might indeed be no Mine at all and so weakning Peace and Unity the very Bulwarks of the Kingdom However all the Plot the Author knows he freely discovers As p. 33. All good and moderate Men being forced into the same Notions of Government and Allegiance That for those ill Persons and Actions Aggravated in some Parties the good and honest Men among them refuse to own them or any separate Interest from the publick That the Moderate on both sides are almost of the self same mind concerning several things controverted at the foot of p. 34. and in in the 35 are exposed some of the most remarkable Arguments against any Mittigation or Alteration The last of which indeed is the weightiest some Persons would fain have the Author of all our Miseries once more return to make us as Vnhappy as the poor Irish now are These justly apprehend that were our Interests Hearts and Councils once United this were impossible and what wonder they should consequently oppose the means in order to prevent the End. After Answering Arguments contrary to Moderation come those for it without doubt the strongest in the World Gods Glory the Interest of Europe the Good of England in general and even of all particular Parties wherein the Author perswades himself he has done as much Justice to all sides as well as intended and he hopes really taken the Interests of his Country as ever any who Wrote on this Subject For which Work and for the Explanation and Defence of it he is no sooner got clear of one side but he expects the attacks of another which he shall endeavour to be ready for whenever they think fit to make them FINIS Sold by R. Janeway