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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62310	Popery display'd in its proper colours wherein its nonentity and nullity is demonstrated by undeniable arguments : with several remarkable passages relating to the present times : humbly offered to the honourable House of Commons / by J.S. gent.	J. S., gent.	1681 (1681)	Wing S83; ESTC R9412	19,102	18

bloody Generation who since they could not cut off the King by their Buliies nor the Worthies of the Nation by a Meal-tub Plot intended no less than a publick Massacre had not the Wisdom of God the Courage of the Parliament who ever loved and honoured their King their Countrey and the Protestant Religion more than their Lives and Fortunes detected their Villany and put themselves with undaunted Courage between them his Majesties Life and the Protestant Religion to the great Terror and Confusion of all Papists in the World A Generation who put themselves into various Forms and Shapes though never so Monstrous to carry on the good Cause and all tending to one and the self same end the Destruction of the Protestant Religion though the Villany and Debauchery of some is such as to reckon every one either a Presbyterian or a Fanatick that appears more than ordinary active against these Papists There is a duty and a great obligation incumbent upon all true lovers of the Protestant Religion to Unite and Joyn with one Voice and observe the words of Abraham to Lot Let there be no strife I pray thee between me and thee for we are Brethren Gen. 13.8 Are we not Brethren Undoubtedly the Papists Rage is equal against us why should we Quarell then with our Brethren who the Papists would destroy because they are Protestants therefore we ought to own and preserve them as such and to give them all the Demonstration that can be both of love and of laying aside all Prejudices and Animosities that either Papist or Devil can suggest to persecute our Brethren who truly labour in the Vineyard and Exhort to give Caesar his due and to submit to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as Supream or unto Governors as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers 1 Pet. 2.13 This infallibly will put a stop to all Popish Operations though their Villanies are of such a reaching magnitude as if they were laid in the very depths of Hell as undoubtedly they were The Romish Emissaries here in England doe not only operate by distilling Notions in Religion but also in affairs of State which is well known in all Courts in Christendom and chiefly in the Court of England witness the last unhappy War that happened between the King and the Parliament they were the chief cause and Fomentors of it notwithstanding their great and pretended Loyalty to King Charles the first which they so confidently Boast of nothing will appear more ridiculous if you consider First their commencing that bloudy Rebellion in Ireland where so many Thousands of His Majesties Protestant Subjects were butchered for which they pretended to have a Commission under the Great Seal this caused and encreased the Fear and Jealousie of all the Protestants in England as well it might that the like might be designed against themselves they also renounced all Allegiance to His Majesty and owned the Pope as their Supream King This obliged the Parliament to request of the King such and such things as they thought most convenient and most conducing to his safety their own and the Nations The King finding it not fit or necessary to grant all that they demanded proved to be one matter and in part cause of the last War and the fatal ill consequences of it in which the Papists at first were very active for the King well knowing that the foundation and only cause of the War was only in opposition to their Party so that their Loyalty and Service to the King was meerly in their own defence not out of any true Loyalty or Principles of Religion for their Religion commands and teaches the contrary as their practices as well then as now confirms and leaves no colour of denial so that I much fear that they will as well now as then run the hazard of a War thinking thereby to establish their Foppery Secondly Their Fidelity and Loyalty to the King in the latter end of the War when many of them revolted and took part with Oliver others laid down their Arms made their peace with Oliver and told the King they would never fight a stroke for him or his is very well known When the War was ended and the King overcome in the Field it is evident that the Jesuits and Priests stirred up those Sons of Belial to Murder His Sacred Majesty the Jesuits and Priests did also endeavour to encline the People to a Common-Wealth and was at the same time very earnest with Cromwel to accept of the Crown and offered him all Obedience and Allegiance imaginable but Cromwel knowing full-well that their Religion taught them that no way was to be refused or slighted though never so unlawful whereby they might promote or advance the Church of Rome slighted them and kept them out of all places of Trust and so much under that they could never attempt any thing against him or at least they would not though a Traytor to His King Now their Loyalty to this present King evidently appears to the World in their many Attempts upon his Sacred Life in their Hellish Designs in subverting his Government burning his Cities and murdering his Subjects and all this according to the Principles of their Religion What Villanies will not these Monsters attempt what Interest or Right will not they invade what so Sacred that they will not violate what can limit them if they find opportunity to accomplish their desire Miserable must that Nation be that will be subject to such inconveniences and poysoned Positions not only destructive to Publick Safety but also to the Honour of God and the Glory of his Church In declaring this I do in effect also declare That what has been these many years and now is acting among the Papists is an old Play newly revived What the Papists did in the late times was laid upon the Phanatiques the like was to have been done at this time Just before the discovery of Dr. Oates they seized upon one Mr. Claypole and imprisoned him for having as they pretended a design to Murder His Sacred Majesty thinking thereby to convince the World that Mr. Claypole and some of the old Party had a Conspiracy to take away the Kings Life that in the mean while the Papists themselves might with safety do it and lay it upon the Nonconformists who in all truth and sincerity own their safety and peace to His Majesty only for when Dr. Oates first discovered the Plot Mr Claypole was not only released and his pretended Crime forgotten but the Parties called Nonconformists were the most active and are to this day both in the preservation of His Majesties Life and the further discovery of the Plot as is too apparent Such another Sham-Plot as this undoubtedly was the last Rebellion in Scotland fomented and moved by Papists disguised Priests and Emissaries who make it their only business first to insinuate to the Common