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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54760	Dr. Oates's narrative of the Popish plot, vindicated in an answer to a scurrilous and treasonable libel, call'd, A vindication of the English Catholicks, from the pretended conspiracy against the life and government of His Sacred Majesty, &c. / by J.P., gent.	Phillips, John, 1631-1706.	1680 (1680)	Wing P2083; ESTC R21048	60,667	56

Protestants of Germany their Wars were carry'd on by their own Princes who were as free as the Emperour himself The Protestants of England never got the Power of the Government into their hands by Rebellion but by the act of their own Monarchs themselves By the assistance of the Protestants Queen Mary obtain'd the Crown And the Protestants were they whom she Martyr'd for their kindness who yet nevertheless made no other resistance against her but by their patient submission to her Cruelty But the papists were they that were so restless in their Conspiracies against Her Successor But the Chief pretence of their Malitious cunning is the late Rebellion in England of which Presbyterians are by them charg'd to be the chief Designers Authors and Instruments I must confess there can be no Pen but that of a Jesuites that dares adventure to justifie that Rebellion But since it was His Majesties most Gratious Pleasure that all the publick transgressions of those years should be Buried in the Tomb of a General Oblivion it was an unpardonable injury to His Majesties Act of Pardon to revive forgiven offences to improve Scandals and raise surmizes of Facts committed for which there is not the least appearance of Proof The Vindicator had a greater business then this to do before he had open'd such a Villainous absurdity that is he should have prov'd that the Papists and Jesuits were not the Abettors and Seducers of those Presbyterians at that time in regard they acted nothing but by their Doctrine and Principles and that so truly as if Bellarmine Lessius Suarez Mariana and the rest of that Crew had been their only Masters Salmonet also in his Troubles of England tells us that after the battel of Edge-hill several Priests were found among the Slain of the Parliaments Army So Couragious were Popish Emissaries to accompany the Presbyterian Souldiers for fear they should falter in their Rebellious Fortitude And it is the opinion of Wise and Learned men that that Rebellion was rais'd and foster'd by the contrivances of the Court of Rome When those Presbyterians saw their errors and had voted to restore the King with Honour and Safety they were no longer for the Turn of the Jesuitical Party who presently therefore forsook them and joyn'd with the Army Party that was not only the Stronger but driving on the Design which they aim'd at themselves which was the Destruction of His Majesty to which intent and purpose they insinuated themselves into the Chief Committees of the Independent and Fift-Monarchy Faction For proof of which Dr. De Moulin tells ye of a Select Number of Jesuits that were sent from the whole Number of Jesuits in England to the Sorbonne at Paris to consult for the advancing and securing the Catholick Cause in England which they found no better way to bring to pass then by making away the King who had then yielded to the making several Acts for Extirpation of Popery He tells ye of one Sarabras that was present and Triumphing at the Murther of the King and of a certain Priest and Confessor who when he saw the Fatal Stroak given flourished his Sword and cry'd out Now the Greatest Enemy we have in the World is gone And the Author of Fair Warning affirms that one Father Sibthorp in a Letter to Father Medcalfe acknowledged that the Jesuits were the Contrivers of the Kings Murther And it was the Opinion of Secretary M. that the Irreligion of the Papists was chiefly guilty of the Murther of the late King the Odium whereof they were then about to file to the account of the Protestants Now that men of such leud Principles as these men so strongly accus'd and so likely to be Guilty and of whose Number some have already Suffer'd upon the same Accusations I say that such men should go about to invalidate the Testimony that appears against them by recriminating upon another Party before they have acquitted themselves and that so unseasonably and with so little probability of proof was one of the most Sottish pieces of Jesuitical cunning that ever History Recorded It seems then that if the Jesuits Plot had not been Discover'd the Presbyterians never had been heard of But the Jesuits Plot being once brought to Light they began to look about 'em and so they found the Presbyterian Plot in a Midwives meal-Tub Here was strange good luck and strange bad luck strange good luck to find a Plot so Miraculously Strange bad luck to make so little of it And what was the Reason Because it was a Jesuitical not a Presbyterian Plot. And indeed it was a wonderful symptome of despair and that they were come to the last push to hope for success from a Plot carry'd on in a hurrey that had fail'd so unhappily in the Confultations and premeditations of so many years But there is yet a greater Argument of the pretended Presbyterian Plot for that it was not plac'd right as being fix'd upon Men that were become those Foelices Agricolae that now well understood their own happiness persons that have a fairer prospect of their own Interest and Safety as deeply understanding both to be so entirely wrapt up in the Safety of His Majesty as absolutely to oblige them to venture their Lives and Fortunes for the Preservation of His Sacred Person His Crown and Monarchical Dignity Therefore it was that they were so Cordially Zealous and zealously assisting in his Restoration since which they have enjoy'd those Blessed Fruits of Freedom Rest and Peace of which Men of their prudence would never go about to deprive themselves by the Folly of a Meal-Tub Plot or to sully that Reputation for their Loyalty wherein they have ever since continu'd with designs and Counsels the most Ridiculous and vain that ever Vanity it self produc'd They cannot be ignorant of that Immortal hatred which the Court of Rome and the Jesuits bear them Campian the Jesuit has told 'em roundly the Intention of his Associates As for our Society saith he I would have you to know writing to the Counsellers of the Queen of England That all we who are of the Order of Iesus where-ever dispersed over the face of the whole World have made a Holy League to extirpate the Hereticks by all means and ways whatever whereby we shall easily surmount all your Contrivances against Vs nor shall we ever despair as long as one of Vs remains alive So then it would be the most inconsiderate piece of Rage the most besotted piece of Fury in the World for Protestants to lend their helping hand to assist the Malice of such an Inveterate Enemy for the Destruction of each other And consequently so little to be suspected from the Wisdom and Piety of the Presbyterians that it would be almost a Crime to mention it farther And now to Conclude let the World take this Character of the Scandalizer of the Presbyterians and the Vindicator of the English Catholicks that he is a man of the most passion and the least Reason that ever put Pen to Paper and so I leave him against next time to learn more Wit and more Manners THE END Some burnt at Wild-house