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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54279	A looking-glass for the Quakers: in two columns wherein they may in part see themselves, and may be seen by others. Vide, audi, judica. The first column is, what they formerly published against the Papists; and the other column is, what they published on their behalf, when uppermost. Phil. Anglus. Licensed, May 14. 1689.	Pennyman, Joseph.	1689 (1689)	Wing P1428; ESTC R221427	14,228	12

methinks we should when the Noise of Fire and Sword is in our Ears when we cannot walk the Streets without Danger of being stabbed nor sleep in our Houses for fear of being burned witness the dreadful Fire at London the Fire of Southwark and that the other day of Limehouse where three poor Souls were burned quick to say nothing of forty Attempts they have made in other places To which let me add the Design in general of Massacring all the best People in the Kingdom begun and amply confirmed in the most barbarous Murder of that Worthy Knight and Judicious Magistrate Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey p. 1 2 3. Thus this poor Gentleman but worthy and brave Patriot ended his days by the Assassinating Hands of Papists whose Butchery made him the Common Martyr of his Religion and Country and his Death is to us the Earnest of their Cruelty in him they have Massacred us all we must take it to our selves and can no more be unconcerned in his Death than disinteressed in the Cause of it The Plot is opened the Tragedy is begun our Wives are frighted our Children cry no Man is sure of his Life a day the choice is only what Death we shall dye whether be Stabbed Strangled or Burned This Consternation and Insecurity must needs obstruct all Commerce scare People from following their lawful Occasions deter all Officers of Justice from their Duty and in fine dissolve Human Society and reduce the World into its first Chaos For the Lord's sake let us consider our Condition let us all turn to the Lord with unfeigned Repentance let us look and cry to him for Help that he who has discovered would confound this Bloody Conspiracy and shew Mercy and bring us Deliverance that we may yet see his Salvation and serve him all the days of our Lives and in order to our Security these things are earnestly requested of you 1. Take effectual Care to preserve the King they say and we believe he is not for their turn we would not have him for his sake and ours In order to this pray find out the Ahithophels the Dangerous Men about him you know who they are Be free and bold prize your time the Conjuncture is great 2. Vote an Address to the King to Banish all Irish Papists out of the Army Navy and Kingdom by such a Day and all Papists out of the City of London whose gross Ignorance and base Desperateness renders them the fittest Men for Assassinations Besides it is a shame that the Children and Kindred of Irish Rebels if not some of them the very Men themselves that were Actors in that horrid Massacre in the year 1641 about thirty seven years since in which above Three hundred thousand Protestants were Murder'd in the Kingdom of Ireland without regard to Age or Sex should be employ'd either in the English Army or Navy but more scandalous is it that St. James's should be their Head Quarters and the Park turned into an Irish Walk What do so many Irish Papists Teigs and Rebels do swarming there No good to be sure their Parts Courage and Skill can invite no Man of any to entertain them it must only be their Ignorance and Cowardly Cruelty which make them Instruments of Mischief and fit to be used by those that love foul play p. 6. 3. For God's sake call for the Plot look thoroughly and strictly into it Fear nor Favour no Man Fiat Justitia But fear God do what you do as in his Presence to whom you must tender an Accompt 'T is it he great Action of your Life discharge your Trust and quit your selves now like Men. This has been the perpetual Troubler of our Protestant Israel as you would see God with Comfort and secure your Posterity from Civil and Spiritual Tyranny slip not this opportunity God has so wonderfully cast into your hands be not found Despisers of his Providence neither be you careless or fearful of improving it Now or Never Had they you on this Lock and at this Advantage you nor yours should never see Day more What once you could not have so well done they have now made easie and necessary for you to do and what before you scarcely might do is now become your Duty Be not cheated by a Sacrifice let not the Lives of two or three Plotters be the Ransom of the rest or your Satisfaction 't is not Blood but Security prospect future Safety an Eternal Prevention of the like Miseries for the future otherwise we shall only sit down with the Peace and Joy of Pools and fat our Selves Sacrifices with more security against their next Slaughter p. 7. 4. Let every Protestant Family be well Armed and every Popish Family be utterly disarmed they have tryed out usage of Arms with Ease we theirs with Cruelty enough 5. Let there be an Act with a strict PENALTY that after such a Day no Gun-smith shall sell Guns or Pistols Cutlers Swords or Daggers and Dry-Salters Gunpowder or Bullets without Licence of the Aldermen of the Wards in London or some Chief Officer if in any other Corporations and that the Person so buying them shall before the said Officer subscribe a sufficient Test against Popery but more especially that no Papist be suffered to make or sell any such Implements of War. 6. That care be taken to prevent fraudulent Conveiances of Estates by Papists to escape the Law where they have done mischief For this is to cheat the Government and invalidate the Law. 7. That it shall he Treason for any Papist to Entertain a Priest Jesuit or Seminary in their House because mortal Enemies by Principle and Practice to the Civil Government Consider of the Swedish Law or a better way to clear the Land of all of them let 's buy them out to be safe 8. That in all Schools particularly in Universities Care be taken to Educate Youth in a just abhorrence of Romish Principles especially the Jesuits immoral Morals shewing the Inconsistency thereof with Human Nature Reason and Seciety as well as pure and meek Christionity of which there has been great neglect 9. That our Youth be not suffer'd to Travel abroad but between Twelve and Sixteen and that under the Conduct of approved Protestants for the present way of Education is chiefly to Pleasure and Looseness which makes way for Atheism or Popery no Religion or false Religion p. 8. 10. That speedy Care be taken to release all oppressed Protestants in this Kingdom and since the Papists mark all Protestants out for one Fate and esteem them one Body of Heretichs that they may be as one Body of Protestancy against that Common Enemy● This is the Language of God's present Providence those that withstand it are such as love Rome better than London Every Protostant Dissenter or not has the same thing to say against Bopery Agree then so far and let a general Negative Creed be concluded upon and from thence let some general positive Truths be consider'd of in