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An impartial survey of such as are not, and such as are, fitly qualified for candidates for the approaching Parliament humbly offered to all that truly love their King and country / by a hearty well-wisher to the prosperity of both.
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Hearty well-wisher to the prosperity of both.
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1680
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AN Impartial Survey Of such as are not and such as are fitly Qualified FOR CANDIDATES For the approaching PARLIAMENT Humbly offered to all that truly Love their King and Country By a hearty well-wisher to the Prosperity of Both. 1. THE Presbyterians are such for there is not one in forty of them in the Rank of Politicians for they have their several Classes as well as the Priests have Orders but will with all the force of their inexhaustible stock of Seditious Rhetorick justifie the late Rebellion and such without all question will be ready to foment a new One besides their insufferable Pride in owning no Superiors but themselves in Spirituals 2. The Independants are such for besides their horrid and detestable adherence to the High Court of Justice as they Blasphemously call'd that Infernal Brood their strict Conjunction with the most Damnable Iniquities of the twelve years Interval they have such Democratical Principles of Government as is inconsistent with human Society 3. The Anabaptists are such and not to be trusted in any Affair that concerns the Government for they and the Independants are Brethren in Iniquity and join'd Hand and Head in all the wicked stratagems throughout the Usurpation to involve the Nation in a perpetual slavery and that 〈◊〉 methods so unconscionable and bloody as the most Savage Barbarian would abhor 4. The Rumpeâ— are such they having run Paralel with if not exceeded all the deteâ—â—â—ble Villanies above cited 5. All those are suâ— if any such there be that did actually receive Pensions with design tâ—â—nflame the Nation 6. The Worcester-Figâ— men are such for if they had not in their hearts approved the horrid Murder of the Father they would not have attempted to imbrue their hâ—â—ds in the blood of the Son which must be the natural result of that â—position For then they had laid aside their Visor and walk'd bare-Faced and made use of none of those delusory pretences of bringing him home to his Parliament and making him a glorious King 7. The Papists Quakers Levellers Brownists and Fifth-Monarchy-men are all alike obnoxious for though they differ in themselves yet are they Confederated together in an inseparable Union against the Common Enemy as they call the Church of England and do with the utmost of their force and skill level their inexorable Malice against the very Root of it and that their Malice is as implacable against the State I refer the Reader to their former practices which instruct far better then Precepts which Modern History is pregnant with They have deceiv'd us once for which God forgive them but if ever they deceive us more then I say God forgive us and if some men there be as I fear there are too many of distinct Principles from the rest guided by their own Avaritious and Ungodly Appetites that would build up the State on the Ruins of the Church be assured that God will never bless the work of such hands and such a Structure cannot stand King James his Aphorism no Bishop no King we have by a most lamentable and sad experience found true It is true we cannot Divine of the future behaviour of men but when they have like Cain a Mark set upon them we ought to fly them as we would Infection and let it be remembred that such as give their Votes for any under these Circumstances are short-sighted wilfully blind or of the same Leven and do as much as in them lies to repeat the same Mischiefs over again Now to chuse such as are without exception such I say are men of good Estates true Sons of the Church and of untainted Loyalty to their Prince and such men can have no designs a-part from the good of their Country Some of those brave Souls are still living that exhausted their Estates and emptied their Veins in the Defence of Church and State and is it not more Rational to think nay is it not Irrational to think otherwise that these men or their Sons will rather do the like again than such or the Sons of such as once steered a quite contrary Course till they made Shipwrack of three Kingdoms It is probable they may nay it is certain they will if permitted again make long harangues for the Liberty and Property of the Subject which they invaded and destroyed Redress of Grievances which they multiplyed a 1000 times over Reformation of Church Government which they turn'd into a Chaos of Confusion and though they have laid aside as a State-device out of date their Religious Mask with which they cover'd such multitudes of horrid Impieties as would make a Pagan blush to behold yet they have found out fresh slights to debauch the people from their Allegiance These are I say our hot-headed Schismatical Separatiâ—ts whose Master-piece now is to persuade the honest and plain-hearted Church of England man that their Spiritual nor Secular concerns cannot be safe except they chuse such men as may be as obnoxious to our present Soveraign as some others were barbarous to his Father and the more effectually to wheadle them into this snare they tell theâ— that it was not they good men that Murder'd him but the Papists and if they can but throughly delude the people with this Imposture their Game will play it self without trouble of shifting Scenes for the Good Old Cause which is still so nauseous will then have a savour Rellish True it is the Priests and Jesuites had their part and acted into the life in fomenting those unhappy and inhuman Discords as Aâ—dreas ab Habernfields Discovery to Sir William Boswell and from him transmitted to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury that Mirror of Learning and Pious Constancy whom they intended to have Massacreâ— for being so firm a Protestant and the Parliament actually murder'd under the false pretence of being a Papist do plainly demonstrate So that we see that as our dear Lord and Saviour was Crucified between to Thieves so was the Lords Annointed our dear Sovereign between the Jesuits and Phanaticks It matters not what Principles the High-Court of Justice were of whether Presbyterian Independant or which is most likely Infidel or a mixt crew made up of all sorts but this use may be made on 't there were and still are many thousands in this Kingdom and few Towns so inconsiderable as not to have some of them that intitled themselves the Asserters of the Protestant Religion and were in their several Capacities strenous Abettors of their most wicked and execrable Practices and as they did then so they do still call themselves Protestants And so far are they from expressing any true signs of Repentance that I fear they are more ready to justifie the Fact and that for this Reason At Crouches Meeting-House in Moor-fields and several others about the City where on Sundays are eighteen hundred or two thousand Hearers they keep the Fifth of November mighty strict which proves them no Papists but on the Thirtieth of January there is not a soul
in them and so far are some of them from keeping it as a day of Humiliation that they make it a day of Feasting these are bad signs my Masters Some of the mis-led Flock of Presbyterians make loud boasts of the Loyalty of their Omnipotent Doctors Love and Baxter and how the first dyed a Martyr for the sake and cause of the King but to rectifie that mistake see his Narrative where he prays that God would redeem the King from the Iniquity of his Fathers House Again It is earnestly wished that our Kings heart may be tender and be truly humble before the Lord for the sins of his Fathers House And see his speech upon the Scaffold where he says I did it is true oppose in my Place and Calling the Forces of the late King and were he alive again and should I live longer the Cause being as then it was I should oppose him longer And in his Petition he doth protest in the presence of God the searcher of all hearts that he knoweth no Plot or Design against the present Government the Rump nor is he privy in the least to any preparations for or intendments towards any Intestine Insurrections or Foreign Invasions or to any Correspondence now held with any in or of the Scottish Nation or any other whatsoever And again He promiseth never to Plot Contrive or design any thing to the hurt of this present Government Rump and that he is sorrowful for his high Crimes and Offences against the Parliament in his late and great miscarriages and desires them to pass by these sundry and great Offences And concludes thus That I shall devote the remainder of my days to the Glory of God and good of his people the peace and safety of this Common-Wealth against all the Malignant Enemies and Opposers thereof By this we may see his Loyal Conceptions and Indeavours for the Kings Restauration and that St. Baxter comes not a jot short of him see his Preface to his Holy Common-Wealth where he says That if the War was to begin again he would take the Parliaments part If I should do otherwise I should be guilty of Treason or Disloyalty against the Soveraign Power of the Land for I knew not how to resist or disobey them without violation of the Command of God Rom. xiii Let every soul be subject to the Higher Power and without incurring the danger of the Condemnation there threatned to Resisters Now if these grave prudent modest sober sincere and unexampled Patterns of Loyalty go thus far we may cease to wonder when we hear others of that Fraternity with greater boldness and in plain terms justifie the late Rebellion and we all know the event of that was of a Glorious King as they canted it to gull the people to make a Royal Martyr Nor is it any wonder that their Allegiance should have so feeble a tie upon them the word of God being obligatory with them no further than it conduceth to their design For tell them God Almighty by the mouth of his Holy Prophet Samuel says Rebellion is like the sin of Witchcraft and the reiterated admonition of the Apostles Fear God honour the King Where the word of a King is there is power and who shall say what doest thou And happy is the man that feareth the Lord and the King Prov. xxiv 21. A divine sentence is in the lips of the King his mouth transgresseth not in Judgment Prov. xiv 10. This their Sophisters tell us is not to be understood in the extensive Latitude of the Word but must admit of Construction though we are Commanded by the Word of God in direct terms not to add to or diminish ought from the Scripture And not unlike this was their Exposition on that Clause in the Covenant which they so solemnly swore to adhere to to defend the Kings Person which they expounded to be the Kingdom This is true Jesuit all over yet that the wicked Rump Parliament nor their Complices were Papists nor favourers of Papists is most certain for besides their incessant Exclamation against them there were no sort of people throughout the Usurpation that lay under those heavy pressures that they did as frequent Imprisonments Sequestrations Fines and Decimations and this will be sayed to their Eternal Honour and to the unparalel'd reproach of those that call'd themselves Protestants and pass for such now had wickedly Conspired to shed their Sovereigns blood after that fatal defeat at Worcester the Giffords and Pendrels Papists and Huddleson a Popish Priest were the chief Instruments under God of his Miraculous Deliverance It is not meant by this to extenuate the mischievous practices of the Papists for their Putney-Consult and the product of that a Petition to Cromwel to abjure the Royal Family for a Toleration will proclaim their monstrous ingratitude to all Posterity but to shew that some of that King-Killing and detestable Race of mankind were better principl'd than such reputed Protestants But I will cease to enumerate the Slights Cheats and Forgeries which are well enough known if but half so well considered of an implacable Faction who would if possible once more turn all into Confusion as their wishing nay almost Praying in Publick for the success of the Rebels in Scotland do Witness But this is lost Labour I well know for their Faces are as impenetrable as the Walls of Ostend and they will no more recoil at the sight of ten thousand Apparitions of their horrid Impieties than the Mountain would remove at Mahomets call but to the last like the Jesuits at Tiburn aver themselves as innocent as the Child unborn These things should not now have been remembred it being a main Principle in the Church of England to forgive our Enemies and forget Injuries and Consonant to the Great and Pious Example of our most Gratious King who has Converted the Act of Indempnity into one of Oblivion did not they themselves with their Scurrilous and Seditious Libels hourly awake us out of our resolv'd silence I will conclude with these Divine Admonitions These filthy dreamers defile the flesh despise dominion and speak evil of dignities Jude 8. Repent ye for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand Matth. iii. 2. Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his Saints to execute judgment upon them all Jude 14 15. My son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change Prov. xxiv 21. FINIS