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A43197	Loyalties severe summons to the bar of conscience, or, A seasonable and timely call to the people of England, upon the present juncture of affairs being an epitome of the several præliminaries or gradual steps the late times took to their ... ruine, by their civil dissentions, through a needless fear of the subverting, losing, and destroying of religion, liberty of the subject, and priviledges of Parliament ... : in two parts / by Robert Hearne, Gent.	Hearne, Robert.	1681 (1681)	Wing H1307; ESTC R16702	50,264	47

Answer did not satisfie Him His Graces Answer and that since they trifled he would receive no more Messages from them In the mean time Our Canon with some Horse and Foot was brought down from the Body of the Army and posted not far from the Bridge The particular Account of the Fight being by me I shall Relate it here as I have it Word for Word THe Duke having put himself in the posture above-said A Relation of the Fight in Scotland commanded the Canon to Fire which it no sooner begun to do but the Rebels who were drawn up on the other side upon a rising Ground near the Bridge threw themselves upon the Ground to avoid the Shot Those that were posted upon the Bridge Fired at first pretty briskly but after Five or Six Shot of Canon they all ran away they upon the rising beginning first Our Men immediately seized the Bridge threw into the River their Barricadoes of Stones Cart-Wheeles and the like took a piece of Canon they had and followed them up the Hill but their Number being very small the Rebels rallied and faced them but had not the Courage to come down upon them Our Men came down again to the Bridge and one Shot more of Canon made the Rebels flye to their upper Line where they stood again In the mean time my Lord General passed the Army over the Bridge and drew up upon the Rising which took up some time and before we were quite in order the Rebels advanced upon Us and to appearance in very good Order When they approach't they espied Our Canon at Our Head and thereupon immediately shifted their Order and opened in the middle thinking it seems We were obliged to Shoot strait forward but Our Canon being turned upon them as they then stood and discharged Three or Four times they begun to Run again their Commander Robert Hamilton being one of the first and our Dragoons and the Highlanders advancing upon them it was a perfect Rout and they fled all wayes Our Men pursuing them Of the Rebels there were Seven or Eight Hundred killed and Eleven or Twelve Hundred taken which were afterwards brought prisoners to Edinborough THE Lord General behaved himself with extraordinary Conduct and Bravery and all the Officers Gentlemen and Souldiers carried themselves with great Chearfulness and Resolution But above all the Mercy of Almighty God was most signal in that tho the Rebels were near Seven Thousand Yet were they totally defeated without any loss to His Majesties Forces save of Two or Three private Sentinals Killed and some few Wounded THUS was extinguisht that furious Flame of Rebellion fed by Presbyterian Doctrines and Zeal to the destroying of so many poor Souls who obstinately refused the Mercy of their Prince and Dyed Martyrs as they call them for the Doctrine of King-killing I pray God divert them from such like Practices for the future and make them know That without Honouring the King we do not Fear God NOW to proceed to a Second Remark which is Episcopacy spoken against the great Hatred these sort of Men have had and now have against Episcopacy as well as Monarchy For as in those late Times the Bishops were ever an Eye-sore to the Scots and the Presbyterian Faction here and therefore the Church of England in its Government Liturgy Common-Prayer and Ceremonies was termed direct Popery and could not be entertain'd as any thing else and therefore to throw down this Rome as they called it destroy the Members of this Church and at the last the Head too was what was suitable to a Good Conscience and consistent with the Liberty of the Subject and the Protestant alias Presbyterian Religion So now adayes Men are so bold to call it the like and will not stick to say the King is a Papist and the Professors of this our Religion of the Church of England Romish or Popishly affected Nay it is publickly asserted That there is not one Bishop in England who was advanced to their Episcopal Dignity by any Protestant but Popish Hand And therefore say they They must needs have a great relish of that Leaven And as the Parliament in those times began to throw their Bolts at the Bishops and to shew their Dislike to that Reverend Apostolical Order and to that Authority and Honour which is due to them and their Right of Sitting in that August-Assembly they Vote That no Bishop should have any Vote in Parliament nor any Judicial-power in the Star-Chamber nor be concerned in any Temporal Matters c. So of late in the Tryal of the Earl of Danby the Commons in Parliament Vote the Bishops useless nay The Bishops Right of Sitting in capital Causes Disputed disown their Right of Sitting there upon Capital Causes c. They Dispute their Right of Sitting at that time and at all times of Session and divers Papers flew about concerning the Right of the Lords Spiritual to Sit in the Lords House or Vote in matters Judicial and others è contra were disperst abroad to the vilifying their Reverence and beating down their undoubted pretensions But the Wisdom and Prudence of Our Gracious Sovereign knowing well enough by sad Experience That they were Treading in the same Steps with their Old Fathers who began at the Church in order to the better subverting the State put an end to the Session After which we have but little News of them the Anti-Episcopates or Presbyters holding their Fingers in their Mouths and standing as mute as Metamorphosed Niobes SINCE the Mutterers against Episcopacy were thus silenced the Clergy have been pretty quiet tho sometimes we meet with a little Piece or two of Controversial Points thrown into their Closets or sent to them by the New found way of Dispatch and that 's the most they can do now They would have their Old Darling bear sway and would be dancing to Westminster to the Assembly of Grave Divines of which some Hugh Peters or Faringdon may be President I should say Moderator But here 's the Plague They have no long Triennial nor meet with such Concessions tho indeed they have had too many very gracious and great ones of late which have been too much abused as we shall take Notice of hereafter as their Fore-Fathes did nor have they a Durante Voluptate Parliament else you would find they would do glorious Things for the Good People of the Land and the Lord's Cause In Truth had these great Antagonists of the Bishops but what they Merit for either their scandalous stigmatizing them in private in their Conversations as well as in exposing them to the World with their spiteful Censures the Punishment which their Patrons Pryn and Burton and Bastwick Suffered in the late Times is too great a Favour and too mild a Resentment AND now I must hasten to Generals only I cannot choose but take Notice That these Times or the Men of them as if they were driven by the pure Dictates of a

Author of Peace was to be Propagated by His Ministers by the Sword OH the Blindness and wilful Obstinacy of Man Oh the Proclivity of the depraved Humane Nature to Errors and Abuses How is it that Thou Religion art thus mistaken How is it Thy Dictates and Sacred Rites are thus mis-construed and mis-applyed Dost Thou Teach Men such Horrid and Abominable Doctrines 〈…〉 That to Propagate their Empire and extend their Dominions Subjects should be absolved from Obedience to their Lawful Sovereign Princes impowering them to Depose Them or pull Them down from their Thrones take the Crown from their Heads and at last their Heads from their Bodies Dost Thou warrant Disorders Distractions and Discords in the Socieries or Communities of Men to the utter Subversion of Governments Laws and Liberties and to the totall Ruin of Kingdoms Dost Thou lead Men to Contrive the most Execrable Designes to hatch Treasons and to lay Plots and Conspiracies to Endeavour nay Perpetrate Assassinations Nay if they fail in These to kick at Authority and contemn the Laws asperse the Governor and vilifie the Government Are those Thy Precepts No no not at all nor in any wise consisting with My Nature as I am Profess'd by the Church of England Indeed Rome and Geneva may understand Me so and the World has felt they do ever understand Me so The Religion of the Church of England As I am Profess'd by the Church of England I command Her Preachers to endeavour to implant Virtue in Mens Minds To let Her Doctrine as it truly and purely is be Undefiled Orthodox and Evangelical Teaching Piety or our Duty towards God Justice or Love towards those in Society with us and primarily towards His Vicegerent our Lawful King and Governour and Sobriety or Love to our own Persons in living in the Practice of those Excellent Virtues of Temperance and Soberness which tends so much to the Glory of God and our own Comfort and Happiness Have not we then who have the Church of England for our Mother great Cause to bless God for those daily Influences of Divine Love and Comfort which we receive from Her That nothing but the Pure and Uncorrupt Milk of Sincere Piety and True Religion may be suck't from Her Immaculate Breasts But Alas What the Reverend Pious and Learned Arch-Bishop Laud said in his Speech upon the Scaffold before his Death speaking of the Church of England may be too aptly the more is our Shame applyed to Her at this Time This poor Church of England said that Reverend Prelate has Flourish't and been a Shelter to other Neighbouring Churches when Storms have driven upon them but Alas now it is in a Storm it Self and God knows whether or how it shall get out And which is worse than a Storm from without it is become like an Oak cleft to Shivers with Wedges made out of its own Body and that in every Cleft Prophaneness and Irreligion is creeping in a-pace Lib. 2. de Vitae Contem. cap. 4. while as Prosper saith Men that introduce Prophaneness are cloak't with a Name of Imaginary Religion For we have in a manner almost lost the Substance and dwell much nay too much a great deal in Opinion and that Church which all the Jesuits Machinations in these parts of Christendome could not Ruin is now fallen into a great deal of Danger by Her Own BUT hold Consider Is it Religion alone that hath thus distracted Men's Brains or is it Mistaken zeal that drives Men into these Madnesses Is there nothing else in the Grass that lyes Latitant and pricks us and makes us so uneasy Yes I fear there is a Serpent that stings us and makes us kick at Authority called as heretofore Liberty of the Subject 'T is this wounds our Stomacks Liberty of the Subject and without a little Aqua Tetramagogicon or an Indubitable Assurance of its being Preserved we cannot be at ease God God! Is there any People or Nation in Europe ever Bless'd with Greater Freedoms and more Undisturbed Libertyes than this Kingdom of England Or Is there found from the One Part of the World to the Other one People bless'd with such a Land A Land whose Constitutions make the Best of Governments which Government is strengthned with the Best of Laws which Laws are Executed by the Best of Princes whose Prince whose Laws whose Government makes Us the Happiest of all Subjects makes Us the Happiest of all People And what a late Learned Writer said speaking in the Praise of a Land and the Admirable Blessings of it may be said of England and I shall apply it according to his Words A Land sayes he of Strength England described as it now flourishes of Plenty and of Peace where every Soul may sit beneath his Vine unfrighted at the Horrid Language of the Hoarse Trumpet unstartled at the Warlike Summons of the Roaring Canons A Land whose Beauty hath surpriz'd the Ambitious Hearts of Forreign Princes and taught them by their Martial Oratory to make their vain Attempts A Land whose Strength reads Vanity in the deceived Hopes of Conquerors and crowns their Enterprizes with a Shameful Over-throw A Land whose Native Plenty makes her the World's Exchange supplying Others able to subsist without Supply from Forreign Kingdoms In it Self Happy and Abroad Honourable A Land that hath no Vanity but what 's the sweetest of all Blessings Peace and Plenty that hath no Misery but is propagated from that Blindness which cannot see Her own Felicity A Land that flows with Milk and Honey and in brief wants nothing to deserve the Title of a Paradise The Curb of Spain The Pride of Germany the Aid of Belgia the Scourge of France the Empress of the World and Queen of Nations In fine England is the Envy of all Nations the Ambition of all Princes the Terror of all Enemies and the Security of all Neighbouring States Thus far I follow the Steps of my Learned Author in this Encomium of the Land whereof we were both † Oh Fortundt●s nimium sua si bona norint Anglos Natives BUT Alas I find at the Bottom of the Role a Blot or Blur which as it were oblitterates part of the Account for all these Blessings and Happinesses are but as so many Steps towards her Woe or as so many Gaps to let in Pride Ambition c. as Foxes and Wild-Boars to eat up and tread down these her Flowers For Alas She renders her Self miserable by Not being Compact within her Self in Unity but is apt and prone to Civil and Intestine Broyls Did Her Children but cherish Brotherly Love and Charity Vnion the best Antidore against Evils and endeavour the maintaining a good and right Understanding one with another and not suffer every Private Man's Interest to disturb Publick Peace Utility and Order the Devil himself nor the Pope and all his Instruments can or will ever harm or molest us But that 's the Colliquintida that alwayes spoyls our Pot

We are apt to carp at every thing that suits not with our crooked Desires We cannot endure any thing that touches us near but we stile it Arbitrary or that it sinells rank of Popishly-Affectedness and then Authority is contemned and every Non-sensical and half-witted Upstart who is but just got out of Busby's Hands must appear in Print in a Seditious Libel against the King and Government THE Splendor of that Fire which burns our Neighbours deceives the Eye It seems Fair because it Shines It seems Good because it gives Light The Harm thereof is not felt till Loss be occasioned thereby Who is there that 's unsensible or have not heard of the late Troubles in England What Ruin what Confusion what Miseries what Destruction they brought us into when the Son killed the Father and the Father the Son when all Order both of Nature and Government was broken to pieces when Liberty and Property their Meums and Tuums nay Religion too the Chief Cause of so much Effusion of Innocent Blood were totally Subverted and quasi Annihilated And all upon Pretence of Arbitrary Government and a Needless Fear of Introducing Popery Have not our Father's Blood been spilt in this Cause and cryes unto us from the Earth My Sons Give not your selves to Change Prov. 24 2● And yet Will we be running down the same Precipice to Destruction And Will no Perswasive Arguments and Amicable Suggestions and Perswasions Impede your Hot Careere and turn you like Balaam from Disobeying the Commands of the Great Iehovah But you will continue your Old Thesis Id factum juvat quod fieri non licet 'T IS true there ought a Remedy be had for appearing Dangers The Danger of too much Haste but I do not commend the Repairing of past Errors caused by Delay with New and Greater caused by Impatience Injuries received tend to the Ruin of Men who with the Zeal of Honour do not accompany wisdom they run upon Revenge for past Wrongs and throw themselves headlong upon New Miseries They would amend One Error and produce a Thousand Too much Haste is as much before Time as too much Delay is out of Time Errors of Impatience are worse than Errors of Delay for it is better to shun Precipices than run upon Them If they be not hindered they are Retarded Wisdome is the Daughter of Cold Violence of Heat Things which have not been done in Times past may be well effected in Times to come Occasions are never wanting to Men but Men are wanting to Occasions They may be expected they ought not to be prevented Generous Spirits address themselves to endure present Injuries out of hope of Future Revenge They reserve their Anger to Vindicate Offences not to Evaporate Passion A Disease that has been long growing is not presently eradicated but deserves the longer Time and the greater Industry to Cure it Difficulties ought not alwayes to be thrust at in Desperate Cases it is better to commit them into the Hands of Fortune than to seek to Remedy them Where we cannot help our selves to be busie can work no other Effect than hinder the Effects of a Cause Superior to our selves That as I said before which hath wrought it self into us by little and little must be wrought out by little and little SINCE the First Discovery of this Late Hellish Popish Plot What Prudent Means and Well-weighed Methods have been used to prevent the Designs and Dash the Hopes of those Damnable Conspitors there is not any reasonable sober Man but will aver He is sensible of Almighty God as the Prime Agent towards Our Deliverance was pleased first to Detect their execrable Treasons and Machinations and to strike the Rock to send forth Streams to save our drooping and Fainting Land or made those who were the Great Sauls Mr. Oaes and Mr. 〈◊〉 c. in threatning the Destruction of Our Church and State to become the most Eminent Pauls in the preserving them And these He placed as most Exquisite Instruments in the Hands of His Sacred Majesty His Vicegerent to work out those Means which might procure Our Peace and Well-fare and remove those Obstacles which impeded that Good which His Royal Bounty and Gracious Love ever wisht His Subjects should enjoy THE Consternation and affright a thing of so important a Nature as a Plot put the whole Nation into was not nor is easily to be removed especially discovered in a time when England was the Sole Seat of Peace and Tranquility and when at the same time all Her Neighbours were in the greatest Conflagration of War and Desolation The sudden Amazement which such a surprize put Us in possest Us then with a Diffidence and Distrust of our Best Friends neither could we think our selves Secure of the Government we lived under either in its Power or Authority We presently suspect the Incredulity of Our Prince in being not easily induced to Believe a Plot might proceed from some more than Ordinary Cause and therefore we imagined the Court-Air smelt rank and thus trusting our Senses The Duke of York impeach't we ran briskly on our Pursuit and found the Duke in the Quarry The Duke in the Plot The Duke in the Plot Is presently the wondring Interrogatory of every Body What! He that was the Alumna the Joy of all true English Hearts the Heir Apparent to the Crown of the Three Kingdoms And the Endeared Brother of Our Sovereign Lord HERE the Scene begins to alter and Revenge and Odium sits Regent on every Brow and like Amnon's Hatred to His Sister Tamar it became greater and more inveterate than the Love they before bare to him For now every Pen is employed in beating down His Pretentions to the Crown and proposing the Reasonableness nay Undeniable Necessity there is for the Exclusion of Him as a Papist from the Succession AND here all Our Miseries began Our Fears and Jealousies of Introducing Popery Arbitrary Government and utter Subversion of Our Religion Laws and Liberties drives Us to distrust Our Prince and His Council and nothing will serve our Turns but we are ready to Affront Authority asperse His Ministers and Contemn His Sovereignty and all this like the Antient Turnus for the Liberty of the Subject and the Maintaining the Protestant Religion GOOD GOD Was there ever Prince more sincere in His Professions and more real and direct in His Promises than Our Prince hath been Was there ever Prince shewed a more Vigilant Care and Indefatigable Diligence in endeavouring the Finding out those nefarious Contrivers of the Popish Plot Hath He not given the greatest Incouragement imaginable to the Discoverers of the Plot and Promoted their Care in finding out those Hell-bred Conspirators to bring them to Condigne Punishment Hath He not taken the Strictest Care in the World that the Laws be duely put in Execution and that Delinquents escape not unpunisht Did He Judges removed and new Ones Chosen Did He not Purge the Courts of publick