but must either Conquer or be Conquered Page 21. I doubt not but many Men have Dy'd Rebels and Suffer'd as Traytors who at first did as much Abhor the thoughts of Treason and Rebellion as any of us can Thus I doubt not but it was in our Late Troubles and thus I believe it is at this Day Page 23. We saw all the Zeal and all the Intrigues of Forty and Forty One return again and yet it was an Unpardonable Crime for any one to say so or for any Man to look as if be thought so Page 26. Let us Bless God and let us Honour our King and Receive him with Joy and Thanksgiving as a New Gift and Present from the Hands of God Page 2â— A true Christian Zeal will not Suffer us to Transgress the strict Bonds of our Duty to God or of our Duty to Men especially to Kings and Princes whatever Flattering prospect of Advantage it may have To Lie to For-swear our Selves To Reproach and Libel Governours in Church or State to Stir up or Countenance with the least thought any Plots Seditions or Rebellions against the King is not a Zeal for GOD nor for Religion Thus Dr. Sherlock Excellently Now then to come to our Application All this must be false if it was Lawful to Plot against K. James and Joyn with the P. of Orange for the Preservation of our Religion Liberty Property or whatever other Pretence Secondly say the Jacobites if it was unlawful to Plot against K. James while he was upon the Throne then the present Revolution notwithstanding it's Success must still Remain Wicked because as Dr. Tillotson has said The Cause must be Manifestly just before Success c. And thus he proves it to be in the present Case in the Words immediately following viz. If the Cause of True Religion and the necessary Defence of it against a False and Idolatrous Worship be a Good Cause Ours is so If the Vindication of the Common Liberties of Mankind against Tyranny and Oppression be a Good Cause than Ours is so And this needs not be proved it is so Glaringly Evident to all the World Thus the Dr. And it is every Word of the Proof he brings in all that Sermon and is Answer'd in what goes before The â—ame Hand and say nothing This say the Jacobites is the Ultimate Resolve of the Letter to a Friend which is our present Subject and is taken Notice of before viz. That he will Dispute with none who do not feel the Force of his Argument at the first Hearing that they are Stupid Senseless Slaves c. Letter p. 26. And now the proof is That it is Glaringly Evident to all the World This say the Jacobites the Dr. meant for a Joque for he knows all the World is not of his Mind And a Glaring Light is the falsest Light can be it Strikes one Blind But they tell him of a Glaring Comet hangs over these Nations which he Mistakes for the Sun and because it Lighted him over to Lambeth he is resolv'd to see by no other Luminary least it should shew him the way back again It was this say the Jacobites Glared in his Eyes that he could not see what the Poorest Dablers in Divinity have at their Fingers ends and it is one of the first Principles Taught among the Casuists viz. That not only the Cause must be Good but the Means That a Good Cause will not Justify Wicked Means That we must not Lye for GOD that their Damnation is Just who do Evil that Good may come of it Therefore there was something more to be said besides the Cause being True Religion which is all the Doctor Urges We know that all Pretences are Good For if a thing were not Good it could not be a Pretence No Man Pretends to do Wickedly And the better the thing is it makes the better Pretence therefore Religion is the General Pretence for Rebellion But as before is said Religion must not be serv'd by Means which that Religion does forbid that would be to Destroy Religion to please GOD by breaking His Commandments to take Service with the Beelzehub for the Cause of CHRIST We have no Dispute with the Protestant Jacobites but concerning the Means of Preserving our Religion They say the Means we take are not Justifyable And for you Sir to say nothing at all to this but that it is Glaring The Jacobites think was because your Understanding was Dazled and they take it as a Yielding of the Cause But besides they say that by this you 〈◊〉 Absolutely Declar'd that Protestant Religion you now Profess to be worse than Infidelity and no Religion And that without Debating particulars or at the first Hearing as you now would have it And that all this follows unavoidably from your own Words in the 'bove quoted Sermon upon the 5. Nov. p. 21. where only putting in your now Doctrine of Resistance instead of the Word 〈◊〉 which the Jacobites think but two Names for the same thing then these are your own Words viz. We will at present admit Resistance to be the True Religion and their Doctrine of the Lawfulness of Deposing Kings as in Truth it is the Doctrine of this Religion In this Case I would not trouble my self to Debate Particulars but if in the Gross and upon the whole Matter it be Evident that such a Religion as this is as bad or worse than Infidelity and no Religion this is Conâ—…tion enough to a Wise Man and as Good as a Demonstration that this is not the True Religion and that it cannot be from GOD. These are the Doctors Words And he says all this of Popery only upon the Account of its containing the Doctrine of Resistance But he makes a Notable Discovery p. 24. Where he tells us That many have all along held and believ'd these Doctrines of Deposing Kings and of Absolving their Subjects from Obedience to them and have frequently put them in Execution though they have not thought it so Convenient at all Turns to make Profession of it It is a certain sort of Engine says he which is to be Scru'd up or let down as occasion serves and is commonly kept like Goliah's Sword in the Sanctuary but yet so that the High-Priest can Lend it out upon an Extraordinary Occasion These are the Doctor 's own Words And the Jacobites leave the Application to himself And hope they need not fear now that he has got the keeping of our Goliah's Sword Let him take care to whom he Lends it All the Dissenters but those of the Church of England are Sueing for it The Socinians want not hopes that it will come to their Turn at last But if another Turn come first then says your Letter to a Friend p. 19. Those who in the Late Reign were the Great Advocates of the Protestant Cause will be Disgrac'd at Court Threatned into silence their Authority Weakned and their Persons Reproac'd both by Papists and Jacobites The Jacobites
they can neither Rob nor be Robbed Because all they get is their own and what others get from them is all well gotten These are Excellent Principles and the onely Foundation of our Government as the Jacobites do object And therefore we should do well to keep off these tender Points and not give these Jacobites occasion against us You upbraid the Papists p. 4. for knowing how to expound Providence to flatter Superstition And you know how the Jacobites upbraid us with expounding Providence to flatter Success tho' it were in Rebellion Treachery and all Wickedness Which if it Succeeds it Immediately Commences not only Right but Divine as if Commanded by an Angel or a Prophet or the Mouth of God Himself according to Dr. Sherlock c. What strange Sermons say these Jacobites have we from your Bishops and Top Divines proving the Lawfulness of this Revolution from Providence by which they mean Success Which was as much made use of and almost in the same Words by the Rump Parliament Oliver and all the Canting Tribe God came from Nasby and the Holy one from Marston Moore Selah This will Justify the French King in all his Conquests and gives Mahomet the better of Christ And yet say the Jacobites we are Deafned with it from your Pulpits You might likewise have Forborn that little piece of Wit p. 10. of reckoning the Loud and Zealous Ladys of the Jacobire side For you know where that is to be Retorted at home With the help of these Loud Ladys you say they the Jacobites are enough to make a Noise but as they were not hands enough to hinder the late Revolution neither can they say you make another Here you make them very inconsiderable when you are upon your vapouring pin as the Jacobites do deride you For they observe that either your Memory or your Courage fails you p. 19. where you make the number of the Jacobites the Great incouragement to the French King to Restore King James For say you Without a hopeful Conspiracy in England the French King is too wary to make such an Attempt And p. 21. Were it not for them our Factions at home we need not fear its France's united Force Nor are you less affraid of the Zealous Ladys you have provok'd some of them may be upon your Top but you Court them again p. 21. where reckoning the Miseries of a Civil War you Reckon the Loss of Husbands but not of Wives this sure will touch them in the sensible part and Charm their tender Hearts This was a great deal Tweeter than what you have six Lines above where comforting us as to the Taxes and other Prices of this Revolution you say While we have left wherewithal to Maintain our selves we have no such great reason to complain This might have been spared because you know we have lest a great many Jacobites in a Condition not to Maintain themselves It had been also advisible if you had thought fit to have let alone that Gentile Rub you gave King James Page 20. We know the Late King too well to take his word For this raises the Devil of an Objection which the Jacobites have against us of our present King not keeping to his Declaration besides many Breaches of Promises since Dispencing with the Law and all those Grievances even Countenancing Popery of which we Complain'd in K. J.'s time In all whose Reign we had no such Example of Favour shewn to Popish Priests and Friars as was seen the Sessions at Old-Baily held 31. Aug. 1. 2. Sept. 92. Where two Friars by name Graham and Thursby were Indicted for the Murder of a Coffee-Man in Holbourn having first behauched his Wife in her Religion and he was Jealous in her Chastity as her self confess'd in Court where she came and was admitted as an Evidence for Graham who run her Husband thorow but she declared That her Husband run himself upon his Sword These Friars had the Interest they say it was by means of the Prince Vaudemont to have a Promise of their Pardon from K. W. then in Flanders But it was thought the best way to prevent the Noise that would make to have them Acquit upon their Tryal towards which all things being Dispos'd and the Necessary Orders given the Conduct was committed to Judge who had shewn himself so zealous against the Deprived Bishops that he corrected the Cryer of his Court for stileing one of them by the Title of Bishop when he call'd to have room made for him to come into the Court whither he was Summon'd as an Evidence in some Cause Depending It is likely the Cryer had not otherwise made the people know whom he meant But the Judge had better Skill in the Force of an Act of Parliament-Deprivation which Hody himself nor his Prompters behind the curtain do pretend to take away the Character that when he chid the Cryer for giving the Depriv'd Father the Title of Bishop What Bishop sayes Judge come Doctor Lloyd what have you to say This Learned Judge altered his Countenance and was all sweetness to these Friars which was observed by the whole Court and when one Objected that they were Popish Priests whom the Laws Discharged out of the Kingdom upon pain of Treason His Lordship temper'd that Man's Heat with the Gravity and Calmness of a Judge telling him That was not the Cause before them In short The Wife gave Evidence The Judge Summ'd it up The Jury Acquitted And All the People took Notice But it is not to be omitted say these Jacobites That in the Printed Account of the Trials that Sessions this of the Friars is left out Which I have heard some say was never done before in any case and durst not have been done now but by Order But they say what need we Instance Particulars It is Notoriously known That Popish Priests have of late not only own'd themselves as such before the Privy-Council but pleaded it as an Argument for their Indemnity and Protection Pursuant to the Secret Articles 'twixt King William the Emperour King of Spain c. And they have been allowed it It is true we excuse all this upon the account of Necessity But that does not stop the Jacobites Mouths They say that Necessity is as pleadable by one King as another And besides That we have Created this Necessity of which we Complain And that if Papists must be Countenanc'd what matter is it whether it be to Gratify the Confederates or the French who are less Papists than either Spain Savoy or the Popish Germans and not more Persecutors than any of these All this the Jacobites do Retort upon us Again p. 22. abusing of the French King you say He has no Scruple of Conscience about the Rights of other Princes all he can get is his own Dear Sir did not you Reflect that this is the very Reproach which the Jacobiees cast upon King William with this aggravation that he has no Scruple of Conscience not
Represent it Pamphlat p. 59. He foothes the Roman-Catholick Princes of the Confederacy not to fear any Harm to their Religion from the Protestant Confederates for sayes he The Protestants never did Combine to Exterminate Popery in General Jacobite What does he mean by in General Are we not to be against All the Errors of Rome or only for some part of the Truth or are we to Compound and Abate of it in Favour of the Confederates And Swear to Re-Establish the Pope's Supremacy in France in Order to Secure the Protestant Religion in England The First Article of the Resolution of the Princes Allies and Confederates which was taken in the Assembly at the Hague Feb. 91. as it was done out of the French and Printed here was That they Solemnly Protest before GOD that they will never Break off their Union nor make any Peace with Lewis XIV Till he has made Reparation to the Holy See for whatsoever he has Acted against it and till he Annull and make Void all those Infamous Proceedings against the Holy Father Innocent XI This was but in Parsuance of what was before Concerted in the Particular League with Spain and the Emperor 31. Decem 1690. as it is in the Abstracts of the Foraign Leagues given into the Parliament this Session There Article Fourth It is agreed that no Peace be begun before all things in the Ecclesiasticks be Restor'd as in their Former State Pamphlet Page 52. He says the French King Dragoon'd the Hugonets against his Interest purely out of Vain Glory Jacobite So easily is it for Malice to betray our Reason and Expose us to Forget and Contradict your Selves It was but in p. 47. that he gave a Substantial Reason why it was the French King's Interest to be Rid of these Men The French King knows says he that if he be Invaded by a Protestant Prince these Men will Endanger him by a Revolt Pamphlet Page 37. He commend the Great Clemency of K. William's Order against the Laird of Glen-Coe and says a Milder Order was never given And that he has Express'd a High Displeasure at it viz. The Massacre of Glen-Coe Jacobite He was too soon Weary of this Subject For he should have told what was the High Displeasure was Express'd against these Mutherers of Glen-Coe particularly against those Bloody Brutes in Commission who sent Orders under their Hands two whereof are Inserted No. 19. Appendix of the Answer to Dr. King's Book and said it was by the Kings Express Command to put all to the Sword under 70. Yet these Infernal Furys are continued still in their Respective Posts and no Mark of Displeasure is to be seen upon them In the next Place K. William's most Mild Order should have been Inserted otherwise it will not be Believ'd that any Officers durst have Vouch'd his Express Command for an Action of this Nature and not have Forfeited their Necks at least their Commissions if they had not a Sufficient Warrant under his Hand to Produce And it is to be Explain'd how Glen-Coe and his Men could be in Arms and in open Rebellion as the Pamphlet Foolishly Alledges at the same time that Glen-Lyon and his Souldiers were Quartered in their Houses This Pamphlet confesses the Matter of Fact but Disproves no one Particular of it Pamphlet Page 30. He undertakes to Free K. William from the Objection of Imprisoning many Lords and others contrary to Law Which he does by Confessing the whole Charge against him and then giving an Excuse for it viz. That the Safety of the Nation Absolutly Requires it when Invasion is Threatned Jacobite But yet when this Method would have Absolutly Defeated the Present Revolution and K. James was Minded of it and Advis'd to Secure but a small Number of those who Betray'd him and were then in the Conspiracy against him and he was Morally assur'd of it he would not do it because not having Informations upon Oath against them it was Contrary to Law as a Noble Earl did very well Remark in the House of Peers this Session of Parliament And the Ministers concern'd in our Modern Imprisonments had an Act of Indemnity to Secure them last Year for this and are Endeavouring another now The House of Lords having this Session Declar'd such Commitments to be Illegal Upon which the Prisoners so Committed were Discharg'd and not from K. William's innate Clemency which forbade the Prosecution as this Pamphlet would have us believe for such Endeavours were us'd to continue them in Custody that Aaron Smith the Plot Journey-Man was forc'd to make Affidavit that he had Informations upon Oath against them tho' when it came to the Issue there was no such thing And the Prosecution of this Perjury was all which the Innate Clemency did forbid Thus Sir say the Jacobites Pamphlet Page 31. Accuses K. James for Prosecuting Lord Macklesfield Brandon Gerard and Lord Delamare upon Monmouth's Rebellion Jacobite Lord Delamare himself cannot but own that he had a Fair Tryal and K. James who was Present shew'd a Particular Satisfaction in his being Acquit Will this Author say that there was not Information upon Oath against him Lord Macklesfield Fled his Case is Sufficiently known Lord Brandon Convict and Pardon'd by K. James and Professed Great Loyalty and Gratitude If such Informations could have been had against those Committed in this Reign the Lords had not Voted their Commitments Illegal But this Pamphleteer avers that the Government could not want Informations against them Tho' it is Evident to all in Westminster-Hall that they did want Informations upon Oath against them and that this was the only Cause of their Acquittal But he had some Reason to think that the Government could not want Informations against whom they Pleased to Accuse considering the Fund of Evidence was Provided and their Qualifications Fuller Young Blackhead and Holland are Notoriously known besides these there are the standing Evidence at every Sessions Capel a Broken Shoomaker of Windsor Low a Fidler in Field-Lane Mrs. Scot a Common Prostitute and others of the like Characters who except the Fidler that keeps an Ale-House among the Butchers have no Habitation but are Absolute Beggars Supported by Aaron Smith But the Wit of such Cattle is not alwaies so ready as their Knavery which is the Reason they have done no more Mischief tho' they have done all they could Pamphlet Of many Hundreds Guilty of Treason Two only have Suffer'd for it During this Reign Jacobite The Author by this would make you believe that he was very Exact in the Account But we can Name Three off Hand In all whose Tryals Law and Honour were as much Strain'd as ever was known in England The Hardness of Mr. Ashton's Case has been more than once taken Notice of in both Houses of Parliament The Second a Poor Chair-Man was Hang'd for Attempting to Raise an Army and Inlisting Souldiers to Restore K. James The Third Cross an Inn-Keeper for his Curiosity in going a Board