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A54759	The character of a popish successour compleat in defence of the first part, against two answers, one written by Mr. L'Estrange, called The papist in masquerade, &c., and another by an unknown hand.	Phillips, John, 1631-1706.	1681 (1681)	Wing P2081; Wing S2671_CANCELLED; ESTC R23102	48,706	43

upon the impossibility of Popery and Arbitrary Powers advance into England Page 82. he says take the matter as they suppose it a King upon a Throne that 's principled for Arbitrary Government and Popery but so clogg'd and shackled with Popular and Protestant Laws that if he had never so great a mind to 't there 's not one Subject in his Dominions that would dare to serve him in his Design Now the King of France we see has made himself absolute and that as I take it by the help of his Subjects and why English Men should not dare to do any thing that the French have done before them I cannot understand Neither do I find but a Popish King might not only have good Irish Hands out of his Dominions but good English ones too upon that occasion for besides his Popish Friends we have but too many of all Religions but more of no Religion at all whose desperate Fortunes would make their hearts leap at so pleasing a motion and push for a change at any rate to fish in troubled Waters and that too notwithstanding the hazard of their Necks upon a Scheame of Law which he proposes Pag. 40 to be form'd for that purpose Nay that Scheame of capital Laws should serve for an incentive to their Resolution and make 'em wade the deeper the more unsafe and dangerous it should be to retire In the foregoing Page he says Mr. Lest. that possibly there may be a Popish King that may not have the will to change the Government in respest of the immorality of inclinin to such a violation of his trust and word but most certainly not in regard of so manifest an inability to bring it to pass Now 't is evident the Plotters and Jesuites have not believed it such an impossible exploit and why may not a Prince of their own Opinion and their own Industry for Rome upon the presumption of whose principles and for whose sake their whole Machine moved with a Crown on his head and a Sword in his hand believe as they do So that were there a real inability in the case yet if the blindness of zeal and the over-sight of Ambition shall not distinguish that inability to be manifest till the event fatal success has proved it so what shall that hinder his endeavors in attempting and prosecuting it and then where 's the certainty of his will against it And these endeavors once prosecuted amidst all the violent Inrodes or subtle Attaques that shall be made for Popery and Slavery no God ha' mercy to his Kindness for 't it is none of his fault that he lays his Bones by the seige and does not live it out to put us to Storm And I need not insist how far the Peace Prosperity and Freedom of this once flourishing Kingdom will suffer under such a seige and how far they will be dayly harass'd and gall'd with so potent and so pressing an Enemy At best they must expect to have their Laws snapt asunder as often and as fast as Sampsons cords and their City gates in the scuffle twing'd off and if at last they play the Philistians and live to pick out both his Eyes for 't the end of all must terminat in Sampsons fate they 'll have an old heavy roof pull'd down both upon his head and theirs together The next thing Mr. L'estrange falls foule upon are the Acts of Parliament recited in the character and here he either tells the Reader they are nothing to the characters purpose or if they are he finds such flaws in the Law-makers that made them that they are unreasonable and consequently void in themselves as you shall hear anon And so he fairly trips up the heels of Kings Lords and Commons at once and makes their whole authority insignificant because their Laws are against Mr. L'estranges inclination First he 's very angry with the character for advancing the Popish Succesour first from the Possibility of a good man then from bad to wars and at last to a downright Traitor and that from a statute of Queen Elizabeth that declares every subject of England that shall take absolution from Rome or own the Popes supremacy or pay any Fealty to the See of Rome guilty of High Treason And then he answers this by saying there are two provisoes in the Act that makes the case somwhat different from what the Characteriser has Stated it viz. 1 Provided alway that for as much as the Queens Maiesty is otherwise sufficiently assured of the faith and loyalty of the temporal Lords of her high Court of Parliament Therefore this Act nor any thing therein contained shall not extend to compell any Temporal Person of or above the degrée of a Baron of this Realm to take or pronounce the Dath abovesaid viz. of Supremacy nor to incur any penalty limited by this Act for not taking or refusing the same c. 2. Provided also that if any Péer of this Realm shall hereafter offend contrary to this Act or any Branch or Article thereof that in that and all such case and cases they shall be Tryed by their Péers in such manner and form as in other cases of Treasons they haue used to be tryed and by no other means Now I would defie any impartial Reader to Judge if ever any thing was so weakly and so impertinently urged as these two Provisoes The first tells you that the Queen was so assured of the Loyalty of her Nobility that she would not put them to the trouble of Swearing to confirm it as the Law required from her Inferior Subjects but on the other side the second Proviso tells us that notwithstanding that if any of them offended against the Law or any Branch or Article of it they should find no more Mercy than the meanest Commoner in her Kingdom but be equally Tryed for High Treason Now what he drives at by this objection or what favor these Provisoes make for a Popish Heir I declare I cannot Imagine neither do I believe he knows himself Upon this he comes to a touch of Conscience and says It would be well if every man that presses with this unprecedented rigor upon the Person here in Question would lay his hand upon his Heart and say if the King has Pardoned me Ten Thousand times more than this comes to with what reason or Conscience can I Importune His Majesty thus bitterly against his Brother Ten Thousand times more than this comes to is a very great disproportion But thus much I am certain for the Heir of a Protestant Kingdom and the Son of a Protestant Martyr to be perverted to the Religion and Interest of Rome so notoriously destructive to the English Government and thereby to be the cause of all those Distractions in the Nation that tye up the Hearts and Hands of the Subject from their Duty to the best of Princes and weaken both his greatness at home and his Alliance abroad and not only this but to be