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A43197	Loyalties severe summons to the bar of conscience, or, A seasonable and timely call to the people of England, upon the present juncture of affairs being an epitome of the several præliminaries or gradual steps the late times took to their ... ruine, by their civil dissentions, through a needless fear of the subverting, losing, and destroying of religion, liberty of the subject, and priviledges of Parliament ... : in two parts / by Robert Hearne, Gent.	Hearne, Robert.	1681 (1681)	Wing H1307; ESTC R16702	50,264	47

Author of Peace was to be Propagated by His Ministers by the Sword OH the Blindness and wilful Obstinacy of Man Oh the Proclivity of the depraved Humane Nature to Errors and Abuses How is it that Thou Religion art thus mistaken How is it Thy Dictates and Sacred Rites are thus mis-construed and mis-applyed Dost Thou Teach Men such Horrid and Abominable Doctrines 〈…〉 That to Propagate their Empire and extend their Dominions Subjects should be absolved from Obedience to their Lawful Sovereign Princes impowering them to Depose Them or pull Them down from their Thrones take the Crown from their Heads and at last their Heads from their Bodies Dost Thou warrant Disorders Distractions and Discords in the Socieries or Communities of Men to the utter Subversion of Governments Laws and Liberties and to the totall Ruin of Kingdoms Dost Thou lead Men to Contrive the most Execrable Designes to hatch Treasons and to lay Plots and Conspiracies to Endeavour nay Perpetrate Assassinations Nay if they fail in These to kick at Authority and contemn the Laws asperse the Governor and vilifie the Government Are those Thy Precepts No no not at all nor in any wise consisting with My Nature as I am Profess'd by the Church of England Indeed Rome and Geneva may understand Me so and the World has felt they do ever understand Me so The Religion of the Church of England As I am Profess'd by the Church of England I command Her Preachers to endeavour to implant Virtue in Mens Minds To let Her Doctrine as it truly and purely is be Undefiled Orthodox and Evangelical Teaching Piety or our Duty towards God Justice or Love towards those in Society with us and primarily towards His Vicegerent our Lawful King and Governour and Sobriety or Love to our own Persons in living in the Practice of those Excellent Virtues of Temperance and Soberness which tends so much to the Glory of God and our own Comfort and Happiness Have not we then who have the Church of England for our Mother great Cause to bless God for those daily Influences of Divine Love and Comfort which we receive from Her That nothing but the Pure and Uncorrupt Milk of Sincere Piety and True Religion may be suck't from Her Immaculate Breasts But Alas What the Reverend Pious and Learned Arch-Bishop Laud said in his Speech upon the Scaffold before his Death speaking of the Church of England may be too aptly the more is our Shame applyed to Her at this Time This poor Church of England said that Reverend Prelate has Flourish't and been a Shelter to other Neighbouring Churches when Storms have driven upon them but Alas now it is in a Storm it Self and God knows whether or how it shall get out And which is worse than a Storm from without it is become like an Oak cleft to Shivers with Wedges made out of its own Body and that in every Cleft Prophaneness and Irreligion is creeping in a-pace Lib. 2. de Vitae Contem. cap. 4. while as Prosper saith Men that introduce Prophaneness are cloak't with a Name of Imaginary Religion For we have in a manner almost lost the Substance and dwell much nay too much a great deal in Opinion and that Church which all the Jesuits Machinations in these parts of Christendome could not Ruin is now fallen into a great deal of Danger by Her Own BUT hold Consider Is it Religion alone that hath thus distracted Men's Brains or is it Mistaken zeal that drives Men into these Madnesses Is there nothing else in the Grass that lyes Latitant and pricks us and makes us so uneasy Yes I fear there is a Serpent that stings us and makes us kick at Authority called as heretofore Liberty of the Subject 'T is this wounds our Stomacks Liberty of the Subject and without a little Aqua Tetramagogicon or an Indubitable Assurance of its being Preserved we cannot be at ease God God! Is there any People or Nation in Europe ever Bless'd with Greater Freedoms and more Undisturbed Libertyes than this Kingdom of England Or Is there found from the One Part of the World to the Other one People bless'd with such a Land A Land whose Constitutions make the Best of Governments which Government is strengthned with the Best of Laws which Laws are Executed by the Best of Princes whose Prince whose Laws whose Government makes Us the Happiest of all Subjects makes Us the Happiest of all People And what a late Learned Writer said speaking in the Praise of a Land and the Admirable Blessings of it may be said of England and I shall apply it according to his Words A Land sayes he of Strength England described as it now flourishes of Plenty and of Peace where every Soul may sit beneath his Vine unfrighted at the Horrid Language of the Hoarse Trumpet unstartled at the Warlike Summons of the Roaring Canons A Land whose Beauty hath surpriz'd the Ambitious Hearts of Forreign Princes and taught them by their Martial Oratory to make their vain Attempts A Land whose Strength reads Vanity in the deceived Hopes of Conquerors and crowns their Enterprizes with a Shameful Over-throw A Land whose Native Plenty makes her the World's Exchange supplying Others able to subsist without Supply from Forreign Kingdoms In it Self Happy and Abroad Honourable A Land that hath no Vanity but what 's the sweetest of all Blessings Peace and Plenty that hath no Misery but is propagated from that Blindness which cannot see Her own Felicity A Land that flows with Milk and Honey and in brief wants nothing to deserve the Title of a Paradise The Curb of Spain The Pride of Germany the Aid of Belgia the Scourge of France the Empress of the World and Queen of Nations In fine England is the Envy of all Nations the Ambition of all Princes the Terror of all Enemies and the Security of all Neighbouring States Thus far I follow the Steps of my Learned Author in this Encomium of the Land whereof we were both † Oh Fortundt●s nimium sua si bona norint Anglos Natives BUT Alas I find at the Bottom of the Role a Blot or Blur which as it were oblitterates part of the Account for all these Blessings and Happinesses are but as so many Steps towards her Woe or as so many Gaps to let in Pride Ambition c. as Foxes and Wild-Boars to eat up and tread down these her Flowers For Alas She renders her Self miserable by Not being Compact within her Self in Unity but is apt and prone to Civil and Intestine Broyls Did Her Children but cherish Brotherly Love and Charity Vnion the best Antidore against Evils and endeavour the maintaining a good and right Understanding one with another and not suffer every Private Man's Interest to disturb Publick Peace Utility and Order the Devil himself nor the Pope and all his Instruments can or will ever harm or molest us But that 's the Colliquintida that alwayes spoyls our Pot

Paces towards a Rebellion a Design of Petitioning their Soveraign But the King not able to bear His being Affronted at this Rate does likewise Arm to Defend His Crown The King Raises an Army to go against the Scots and the Lives and Estates of His Subjects here and Recover the Rights and Prerogatives they had Usurped in that Kingdom But notwithstanding the Justice of His Cause and the Gallantry and Vigour of His Army when He came in Sight of the Enemy He was moved out of a Compassion and a Desire to Save so many Lives both of His Loyal and Rebellious Subjects A Treaty is held a Second time to Condescend to a Treaty which He was likewise perswaded to by some of the English Nobility that were Secret Friends to the Scots DURING this Treaty the Factious Spirits of the Two Nations had by Feeling one anothers Pulses found their Tempers to be so alike and their Inclinations so sutable that they easily and quickly agreed of the Measures for a future Correspondence and of the means of putting in Execution their Designs Which however would have been impossible for them to have Effected had they had the least Sense of Religion Loyalty Honour and Honesty But the Scots had no sooner seen the English Army Disbanded and the People Dissatisfied with the Ill Success of that Expedition than that having Broken almost as soon as Signed The Pacification broken and the Scots Raise another Army every Article of that Pacification they Raised a New Army to Petition withal which they were Invited to by their Brethren or Presbyterian Party here who Encouraged them to this Invasion by assuring them That the King was not in a Capacity to make Head against them nor could be without Calling a Parliament wherein they would be sure to find so many Friends in Both Houses that nothing should be done there to their Disadvantage Which proved but too True for the King having Summoned a Parliament and proposed to them the Raising of Money for the suppressing the Insolence of the Scots some of the Members began to Question the Grounds and Justice of the War which they were Resolved to be Satisfied in before Moneys should be Raised In short the Scottish Party had that Influence in this Parliament as to put it to Question Whether the Grievances of the People or the King's Supply should first be Considered And tho the King told that Parliament That if they would Supply Him so as to Suppress the Insolence of the Scots He would Acquit His Claim to Ship-Money and give Satisfaction to their Just Demands They growing still more sensible by these Proposals of the Necessities the King was in instead of making such Returns as so Gracious an Offer merited Voted 1. The Clearing the property of the Subject 2. The Establishing the True Religion And 3. The Priviledges of Parliament and then fell into such Extravagances that the Privy-Council Advised their Dissolving The Parliament's Dissolved being assured the Heats of the House of Commons were so great that they intended that very Day to have Voted against the War with Scotland whereby the King would have been in a worse Condition than before their Sitting Yet though the City of London refused to lend Money to the King the Gentry contributed indifferently freely so that with their Assistance He raised a Second Army A Second Army raised by the King and having with much Difficulty and the great Murmuring of the Presbyterian Party drawn them together as far as York He designed to have Marched in person to the Borders of Scotland But the ill success My Lord Conoway had broke all His Measures for Lesley had no sooner forced His passage over the River Tine and faced New-Castle where the King had reposited His Magazine of Arms and Ammunition and His Stores of Provision for His Army but that the Gates were opened to them they having more Friends than Enemies in the Town The Scots Declaration Hereupon the Scots declare the Intention of the Army to be Not to lay down Armes till the Reformed Religion was setled in both Nations upon sure Grounds and the Causes and Abettors of their present Troubles that is Arch-Bishop Laud and the Earl of Strafford were brought to publick Justice in Parliament Whereupon Twelve English Peers Petitioned the King for the Sitting of the Parliament Some Lords and the City c. do Petition for the sitting of the Parliament and the City of London and several other parts of the Kingdom did the like all centring in this that Nothing else could relieve the pressures of the Nation And now the King condescends to their Desires and Summoned a Parliament A Parliament's called which instead of redressing Grievances defending Liberty Property and Laws Trampled all things both Civil and Sacred under their Feet and the People found at length that instead of the Arbitrary Government they had been so much afraid of they had brought upon themselves the Rankest Tyranny THIS Parliament was no sooner met than that they fell to Impeaching the Earl of Strafford Arch-Bishop Laud The Earl of Strafford and Arch-Bishop Laud impeach't with several others several of the Judges and other Ministers of State But tho the Earl had been forewarned of their Designs against Him yet relying upon His Great Innocence and His Courage rendring Him uncapable of Fear He could not be perswaded to with-draw till the Storm was over least His Flight might be interpreted as Guilt and should blast His Sovereign's as well as His own Reputation Upon this Impeachment He is Sequestred from the House of Lords and likewise His Friend Sir George Ratcliffe is sent for out of Ireland by a Serjeant at Arms In the mean time the Bishop of Lincolne who was Prisoner in the Tower is Released who had been Committed there for some dishonourable Speeches that He had spoken of the King and having endeavoured by some indirect means to Appear Innocent He had been therefore Sentenced Ten Thousand Pounds Fine to the King Imprisonment in the Tower during Pleasure to be suspended Ab Officiis Beneficiis from His Bishoprick and the Profits thereof and to be referred to the High Commission Court as to what concerned them And likewise Mr. Pryn Mr. Burton and Dr. Bastnick who had received a very just Censure for Writing against the Bishops and their Government they being all Three Sentenced to pay Five Thousand Pounds apiece Fine to the King to lose their Ears in the Pillory and to be Imprisoned which they accordingly Suffered were now brought in great Triumph to London and December the Third they presented their Petition against their Prosecutors THEN the Commons fell to Voting Ship-Money with the Opinion of the Judges thereupon to be Illegal who with Noy then esteemed the Oracle of the Law had assured the King of the Legality of it and a Charge of High-Treason was ordered to be drawn up against Eight of them and they resolved to

sincere Conscience or else that they held it as an Article of their Faith should think That within Forty Years by a necessary Consequence the same or like Occurrences must needs happen to a Nation and therefore if they acted never so contrary to God's Word Nature nay Common Honesty still it must be look't upon as flowing from the supream Cause or those concurrent hidden Causes which usually attend the Revolutions of States However it be This I must needs confess No one Evil comes alone The late King's time tho attended with continual Vicissitudes and repeated Troubles yet we find still some dreadful Additional Circumstance or other to befall them to hasten their way to Ruine THE Scotch Rebellion His losing His Priviledges dayly His publick Ministers impeach'd His legal Proceeding censured thwarted His Honour beginning to dwindle His Majesty exclipsed His Subjects here at Home Mutinous and Seditious but to add to these a cursed hellish Rebellion in Ireland breaks forth to the Massacring above Two Hundred Thousand of His Subjects in one Night Now do we but look upon our Times We have through the unspeakable Bounty of a Gracious GOD Para'el a hellish Popish Plot which terrified and frightned every poor Soul of this Our English Nation Discovered to Us by those who were to be the Executioners of Our Ruine the Grandees and Pillars of the Government are taken into Custody as Accessories to this execrable Design of destroying Prince and People several others have been taken and Suffered The People have been disquieted and disturbed at such a Surprize The Government aspersed by Incendiaries Loyalty despised Laws contemned Authority neglected Magistracy villifyed c. And to augment the Obscurity of those dark Clouds which hang over our Heads and threatned Subversion of Monarchy Religion and All A Plot in Ireland discoverd a Cursed Irish Plot too is Discovered broached and fomented by the same Ministers whom the Pope and the Devil had employed in that profound Mystery of Iniquity The English Plot. Upon the Miraculous Discovery of which His Majesty was pleased to take all the Care He could for the through detecting This Damnable Plot and Proclamations and Warrants are issued out for the Apprehending the Conspirators upon the putting in Execution of which several betake themselves to Flight leave their Country and get into Forreign Parts Some are taken Prisoners amongst which was those Two notorious Traitors Plunket and Fitz-harris taken the Titular Primate of Ireland Plunket One whose Hands were imbrued in the late Bloody Massacre There So that we see the Old Saying true Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit Odorem Testa diu and one Fitz-barris both which were lately Tryed Convicted and Executed And Others come in and take hold of the Mercy of their Prince and as far as they were knowing give their several Evidences concerning this Hellish Designe Which was for the Murthering His Majesty's Person The Designe of the Plot in Ireland the Destroying and Subverting the True Protestant Religion the Deposing His Majesty from the Crown and Government of that Kingdome and the Establishing of the Roman Catholick Religion there c. Thus as the Wise-man sayes There shall no Reward be to the Evil Man the Candle of the wicked shall be put out My Son Fear thou the Lord and the King and medle not with them that are given to Change For their Calamity shall rise suddenly and Who knoweth the Ruin of them AND Lastly As in those Times the Press was open to receive the Dictates of every Male-content to the Aspersion of the King and His Ministers and the Censuring and Exposing the Government So in these Times we see the like every Day affording us fresh Pacquets But of This more here-after I will therefore desist the Tracing thus Particulars and do what I promised before I entred upon this Digression viz. Lay down in Impartial General Terms The Present State of this poor Nation through the needless Fear of Popery Arbitrary Government and the Subversion of our Religion Laws and Liverties I shall begin then with Religion THERE is no Stuff so proper to make a Cloak on Religion as Religion nothing so Profitable nor indeed so Fashionable It is a Livery How understood now wherein a Wise Man may easily serve Two Masters God and the World and make a gainful and advantageous Service by Either For when once a Man hath got a Publick Opinion of a Holy and Regular Life the Goodness and Sincerity of his Conscience is cryed up to that height that his Trade will lack no Custome his wares want no Price his Words need Credit or his Actions tho never so Enormous and Immoral be destitute of Praise and Applause In Summer this keeps him cool in Winter warm and hides the Nasty Bag of all his beloved Secret Lusts Under this Cloak he walks in Publickly fairly with Applause and in Private sin securely without Offence and officiate Wisely without Discovery c. AT a Fast I cry Geneva at a Feast I cry Rome Under this Cloak I compass Sea and Land to make a Proselyte and no sooner made but He Makes me I most frequent Schismatical Lectures which I find most Profitable from whence learning to Divulge and Maintain New Doctrines they maintain me in Suppers Thrice a Week Charity I hold as an Extraordinary Duty therefore not Ordinarily to be performed c. Thus our Great Religiosi understands Religion but as a Trick they make use of to advance their Interests and Improve their Advantage In fine 'T is Religion which hath been the sole pretended Directrix to the Commission of the most Nefarious Conspiracies and Damnable Contrivances which have for several Years distracted the Peace and Order of the Government of the Kingdom of England Scotland and Ireland The sad Effects of it in those Late Times of Rebellion here in Forty-One we have as is before said to our Sorrow felt and those direful Consequences of Ruin and Destruction of our King and Kingdom brooded and hatch't under her Wings now in these present Times Which would have inevitably followed the Damnable Designs of the Wicked Conspirators of the Hellish Popish Plots had it not pleased the Omnipotent Power to infatuate their Intentions and disclose their Diabolical Secrets I say These Two sad and notorious Instances are sufficient to convince any Reasonable Man how far Religion has blind-folded and carryed Men on thro the most uncouth and execrable Designs to destroy both Prince and People 'T was under her Banner the Boid Regicides flourish't their Colours over the Murthered Body of His Late Sacred Majesty whom they durst not to have approach't when Living 'T was under her Banner the Audacious Heroes of the Romish Party were now Marching on armed with Fury Violence Rapine Murther and Destruction ready upon a Minutes Call to Massacre Prince and People without Distinction of Sex or Family As if the Gospel of Peace which was first Planted by the

Justice by removing those Magistrates and Judges whom He thought Male-affected and fill'd up their Rooms with others Did He not charge them to Officiat Wisely and Discharge their Duties in their several Stations Honestly for the Good of their King and Country And hath not this His Princely Care had this Effect That the Prisons were filled with Popish Recusants Priests and Jesuits and many of them brought to Condigne Punishment Nay Hath He not shewn how far He desires the Plotters in the Tower might be brought to their Tryals and the Law takes its force upon them The Lord Stafford Executed by the Execution of the Lord Stafford And lastly is it not His daily Protestation That upon His Kingly Word the Maintaining the Protestant Religion as it is Establish't by Law the Rights and Liberties of the Subject of England c. is and shall ever be His Study Desire and Care What would Subjects wish for or What can Prince promise or do more WHY All this is Nihil ad rem a Man cannot be in Three several Companies but we shall hear some one more censorious than the rest which pretend to avouch it as the much received Opinion That notwithstanding all This Latet Anguis sub Herba The King inclines to that Religion He so much Persecutes or pretends to do When on the contrary We shall see how Causeless our Fears are in this matter if we will but look back on that memorable Act of 25. Ch. cap. 2d For preventing of Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants Whereby a Papist was disenabled holding any Office or Employment tho but of so small an advantage or interest as a Noble a Year And it likewise ran in such general Terms that it Reserved no one person but reach't even to some about Him of whose fidelity and sincere Love to His Person and Government He had undeniable proofs and unquestionable Demonstrations Which methinks should be sufficient to be-lye those Rascals who are so bold as to say That He leaned in the least that Way since if it be examined by any Man of Sence and Reason it cannot but be concluded that a Prince in whose Power the refusing a Law is would ever pass one to the utter subverting the Intendments and Designs of a Party whose Practises He favoured and meant to forward their Interests Nay it ran not only to Offices and Imployments but to the Disinheriting those Peers who professed the Romish Religion from taking their Seats in Parliament AND further to satisfy Us let Us but look back on His Gracious Speech to the Parliament 1679. March 6. I HAVE done sayes He many Great Things already Vide The late Journals of the House of Commons as the Exclusion of the Popish Lords from their Seats in Parliament the Execution of several Men both upon the Score of the Plot and the Murder of Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey and it is apparent that I have not been Idle in Prosecuting the Discovery of Both as much further as hath been possible for me in so short a time And above all I have commanded My Brother to absent himself from Me because I would not leave the most Malicious Men room to say I had not removed all Causes which could be pretended to influence me towards Popish Councils Why All This doth not satisfie as long as Mordecai sits in the King's Gate The Fear of a Popish Successor possesses our Minds and we shall still be restless Vide That Vnknown-Peer's Speech Printed January last till the Duke is Excluded Let the King's Treasury fill it self and let Tangier take ca5re for it self We must be assured the King is our own and that the Duke shall not succeed Him and then we shall see Golden Dayes and every ones Purse shall be open Pamphlet upon Pamphlet Libel upon Libel are disperst on that Subject and the Streets are filled with the Horrid Noise of the Bawling Vender who makes the Streets Ring with his Foul-Mouth belching out Great News of His Royal-Highness the Duke of York whose Name 's Too Sacred and of a Higher Veneration than to be mentioned by every Scoundrel Dunghill fellow AND to make their Malice appear the more Laudable a Pamphlet must be Published The Character of a Popish Successor is Published Intituled The Character of a Popish Successor and what England may expect from such a One stufft up with all the Arguments and Reasons Malice could invent or suggest to Asperse His Person to Thwart His Pretentions or render his Ligitimate Succeeding in the Throne of these Three Kingdoms to be the only Thing inconsistent with the Safety and Liberty of the Subject the Continuance of the Protestant Religion and the Priviledges of Parliament And therefore in all hast to avoid all these Evils which our Fears and Jealousies of a Popish Successor do at present affright Us with The Duke must be Excluded and then all will be well THIS Pamphlet has been the Work of Two Pens to Answer which has made our ingenious Author to annex his Answers to them both and stile it now Compleat 'T is pitty his to be admired Wit should be employed to such despicable Ends. Every Sentence of it being the very Quintessence of Malice and the Superlative Degree of Boldness and Impudence I shall only add these few words which I leave to your Consideration THAT tho 't is true the Soul of every Man as well Prince as Subject is in the Hand or at the Dispose of the Supream Power God and both Lyable to a Minutes Summons yet let me tell you according to the Natural Conclusions of Humane Understandings if we examine how little the Disproportion of Age is betwixt the King and the Duke His Brother and what Hopeful Appearances there are in the Air Health and Briskness of the King above that Proclivity to Indispositions which alwayes attend His Royal-Highness we must needs conclude That our Fears are but Chymaeraes meer Phantasmes or at least that we would shelter our Sinister Intentions under such a Specious pretence as the Possibility of being Subjugated to the proposed imminent Servitude a Popish Successor would inevitably bring along with Him BUT what should I further dispute or endeavour to heap up Arguments to deter Men from such hot brain'd and Unwarrantable Designs it is done already but Yesterday to my Hand and that too by the Best of Men The King who has endeavoured to allay the Heat the Fear of a Popish Successor puts Us in by telling Us in His Well weighed Gracious Speech to Our last Parliament That to remove all reasonable Fears that may anise from the possibility of a Popish Successor's coming to the Crown if means could be found that in such a Case the Administration of the Government might remain in Protestant Hands He should be ready to hearken to any such Expedient by which the Religion might be preserved and the Monarchy not destroyed Surely this is a Thrice welcome News and what will quell