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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93456	A sober vindication of the nobility, gentry and clergy of the Church of England: in answer to a late malicious pamphlet, entituled, A dialogue between Whig and Tory. : Licensed, Novemb. 28. 1693.		1694 (1694)	Wing S4415A; ESTC R233299	11,552	16

of the Church of England I utterly deny and so I rid my hands of his Epistle Dialogue is Discourse betwixt Whig and Tory. By the First he Points out a Presbiterian by the Latter the Church of England Protestant whom I intend to defend in this my Answer as fully as the narrow Confines of my limits will permit not doubting but my success will be according to the Justice of my Cause and the Righteousness of my Assertions and withall if he were not as he says insensible make him to blush at his abuse of the King's Mercy Favour and Friendship to such ingrateful Wretches Well the old Trade of Basket-making I find goes on still Whig is harping his ominous Schriech-Owl Noats upon the old String cries loud against Misfortunes bad Instruments Mismanagement of Affairs Tools of State and by and by you shall hear him squeak out in the old Key of 41 to the Tune of Evil Councellors Popery and Slavery Liberty and ●roperty c. The reason of all this is because he●s impatient of all Government as long as he bears not all the Power upon his own Should●rs Because Men deserving are put in Offices of Trust which his Boanarges Zeal of oppressing all but himself makes him unfit for To prove the reasonableness of his claim to Places and Power he tells us a story which every Man that has not as much lost his Memory as Whig has done all sense of Shame knows to be a Lye which is that he zealously strugled in the Convention to settle the Monarchy whilst the Torys Church of England men contested to make an Anarchy And this meddler Whig to expect to be a main Stickler in the Government which he thinks is never enough in his hands while any body besides himself has the least share of the Kings Favour Disapointment says he you must allow a just cause of Resentment This Hypothesis by his leave is not always true and cannot be allowed of when his expectations are unreasonable or unlawful As when he desires men to be wholly discarded from Trust who chiefly if not only are qualify'd by the Law and their own Merits for the administration of Affairs and when he expects New Laws to destroy and quite subvert the old ones up-start Ministers to shoulder and thrust out those whom Integrity Experience and Fidelity highly pleads for their continuance in the Service of their Country And lastly when he desires to introduce new Customs and Methods which by the greatest and most experienc●d Polititians have been ever found difficult to do for the most part dangerous and lastly never enterpriz'd without the greatest preeaution imaginable and when invincible necessity push'd them upon such designes But all this cannot remove his present Discontent nor make him hope for Advancement when it may with less danger and more specious pretences be done No this Jehu will have his Carriere resolving either to wriggle himself into the Government or ruine it tho its fall be accompanied through his fatal precipitation with his own Destruction Besides the friendship of Whigs with Potentates has been found upon Tryal more than once to figure out to us That of the old Wall and Green-vie which latter is of small advantage to and sucks its nourishment from the Cement of the Wall and inshort undermines it so that down they fall to the very ground to gether What gets the fawning Ivie That Whiggish Emblem by this Even nothing but either dyes or at best is poorly content to creep upon the Earth not being able to raise it self and only seems Powerful in destroying his kind Supporter But let us a little examine the Truth of his Assertion about the late Con●ention before-mention'd Who is it in the name of Madness can believe ●hat he whose Principles are notoriously known to center in the very Dreggs of Democracy whose Cants has for many years been nothing but so many encomiums upon a Common Wealth and who has always been observed to have a more than ordinary hanckering to project and transcribe a Government for England after the Belgick Copy or at best for all his fair pretences to the contrary after some Aristocratical Original Further The improbability of his advancing their present Majesties will amply appear if you consider the Circumstances of Whig at and a little before the Revolution Call to mind then his addressing the late King with Heart and Hand with frequent promises of assisting him to the utmost with Lives and Fortunce with Men and Money Can their Noysie Prayers their loud Praises and all their hideous pother be out of any English Mans Ears to this day that so lately made most sensible impressions in our very Hearts who has not known their more than double diligence in serving a Turn and being meer Tools and machines to build up and prop a Popish Interest with to no other end but to gratifie their piquish Humour and irreconcilable Malice against the Church party not caring if the whole Frame of Government suffer'd Shipwrack by the violence of the open Storms of Tyranny and secret the Quicksands of Court-Intrigues having only this poor reserve to countenance the business of their actions That if they could by any means whatsoever but sink the stately Ark of our English Hierarchy and procure the Dilapidation of our Magnificent Monarchy that then they did not fear but inspight of all Popish opposition to gather up scattered Pieces enough from the Ruines of both where-with to erect not only their Conventicle but also their Darling Common-Wealth Thus you may see for all their brave All 's what sort of affection they bear to their Country and to Liberty and Property when they will venture a Mark to a Groat odds to Destroy all Monarchy for Anarchy all Rule for Confusion Yet that this was their design is notoriously known by several to whom they intimated no less even when they were meditating their desperate Revenge under the umbrage of King J. whose Misgovernment and our Misfortunes does God knows in what measure lye at their Doors This being so who can imagin that they whose hopes depend on the Destruction of the Church and State which they thought by that King's help to effect would in the least contribute either to the sending for or the establishing of their Present Majesties whom they had reason to guefs would bring assistance to our Religion and Country and may to their Grief now see the●● eminent Professers of the one and true Defenders of both But this that I now lay to Whig's Charge I would not have understood of all that are rang'd in that Class or known by that Name but only Some which he owns to be Knaves Pag. 19. and let me add whose Ignorance and Malice made them fit Instruments for the late King to ruin or at least break in upon the Church Thus much once for all That their numbers in the Convention were unable to effect what they pretended to is thus easily proved First Because the