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A56078
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The Protestant admirer, or, An answer to the vindication of a popish successor
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1681
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Wing P3819; ESTC R2851
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THE Protestant Admirer OR AN ANSWER TO THE VINDICATION OF A Popish SUCCESSOR SIR WHO and what you are I do not infallibly know but suppose without wronging you I may for want of a name call you Mr. Little Worth Indeed you entitle your self true Patriot but I fear it is of Italy where bloody Rome stands and not of England where Loyal London stands I have read your Paper called Weighty considerations which being put into Protestant Scales It may be truly said Thou art weighed in the Balance and art found wanting and in the reading of them I am filled with the following admiration 1. I do admire your confidence in Dedicating such a foolish Paper to the wise consideration of so great a Prince and Monarch as the King of England is together with his Honourable Privy Councel in which you manifest as if you were already or else had a mind to be some great States-man but this I must say that all English Protestants have cause to cry out from Such States-men good Lord deliver us Your Paper doth signifie as if you did sometimes read the holy Scriptures I wish you had well considered the words of the wisest of Kings His Neighbour cometh and searcheth him out 2 I admire you should present two sheets of paper to his Majesty and send them abroad to the World and say nothing of the Horrid and Damnable Popish Plot that is now in being to Murther the King Subvert the Government and destroy the Protestant Religion are you willing it should be forgot or would you have us believe there is no Popish plot in England What do you think to shelter your self under the wings of Royal Majesty while you strive to bring in a future Ruine upon his three Kingdomes Would God His Majesty may call to mind what is recorded in holy Writ for the learning of all great men how Joab while he spake peaceable to Abner smote him under the fifth Rib that he dyed 2 Sam. 3.27 3 I Admire that at such a day as this is in which the King and Kingdom are next door to destruction you should come forth like Goliah of the Philistian Army viz. the Bloody Papists and strive to put fear and dread in the English Israel viz. the poor Protestants what Sir did you think that the Lord of Hosts would be less mindfu l of his Israel now and stir up none to meet you who appeareth in worse manner then Goliah did for he being an enemy to Israel appeared no other but such an one but you appear for the Philistians and yet seem to be on Israels side and therefore the more dangerous but behold a poor Protestant one of the meanest of all our English Tribes cometh forth in the Name of Englands God to meet you as poor David did with sling and stone even so I in a plain and mean way of reasoning let fly at you the Lord of Hosts direct this to your heart as he did Davids stone to the Philistines Head that so you may fall and all the Popish Philistines fly away I will do what I can with you who are as Goliah and leave the pursuit of the Philistian Army to the Worthies of our English Israel viz. our Protestant Parliament 4 I Admire you should talk at so bold a rate of the Laws of the Kingdom as if the King with his Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament could not without breach of Law provide for the future happinss of the Kingdom by establishing a Protestant Successor that so England may not be undone by a Papist I pray you Sir take into consideration that weighty Speech lately made in Parliament which sheweth that to talk at such a rate is a transgression to be punished with premunire Surely what that worthy Gentleman said in this matter was Law or his own Notion but we have cause to conclude it to be Law because the House of Commons did not rebuke him for it and also let the Bill against the Duke of York pass However if you think he hath offered his own Notion in stead of Law I wish with all my heart you may appear in Parliament not as a member but as the Advocate of a Popish Successor and if you suffer for it remember it is but what you perswaded all the Protestants in England to endure under your popish Successor which will be far short of theirs And for as much as you have been so bold in your Paper to affirm you had the best Cause in the world to manage respecting faithfulness to God and Loyalty to your Prince be not afraid to appear before the Parliament that by Informing them you may inform all England and so prevent that which you account a great sin I am not willing to retain any Error in any matter but I do not see cause to change my mind from any thing offered in your called weighty Considerations but perceiving you to be a Man of parts if not abused and supposing you have much more to say I beseech you for the Successors sake and the Kingdoms Plead this Cause in the High Court of Parliament If you be a Protestant it is better to suffer a Prison or a Fine under a Protestant King and Parliament than to be Burnt under a Popish Successor who it may be will Favour you for this Service though he destroy thousands of others that now Reason against him from Love to their Country and him also in preventing the wronging of his Conscience to obtain a Crown And if you are afraid to venture upon this now I can hardly believe you will burn and not turn under his Power you so much plead for But if you be a Papist then no wonder you thus cunningly perswade the poor Protestants to lose their Inheritance and Lives also 5. I Admire you should call a Popish Successor the best of Princes Sir you smell strong of Rome God deliver His Majesty from such Flatterers What do you think that the King and Parliament cannot find out a Protestant Prince to be his Successor which if they should I think you would not then own your Paper and who so ready as such as you to call him the best of Princes rather than be without preferment under him 6. I Admire you should so highly pretend to plead the Kings Power and at the same time strive to take it away by insinuating as if he with his Lords and Commons could not Establish another Successor for the future Happiness of his three Kingdoms I thought all England had Learned by this time that the repealing of bad Laws and making better had been in the power of King and Parliament 7. I Admire you should make mention of Cook upon Littleton That if the right Heir of the Crown be Attainted of Treason yet the Crown shall descend to him What Sir have you a mind to encourage Treason because such an one will be safe in it if this be true the Lord of Heaven open the King of