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A67513 Modern religion and ancient loyalty a dialogue. Ward, Edward, 1667-1731. 1699 (1699) Wing W747; ESTC R15113 5,591 18

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Modern Religion AND Ancient Loyalty A DIALOGUE LONDON Printed in the Year 1699. Modern Religion AND Ancient Loyalty A DIALOGUE Loyalty WHAT black Decree of Over-ruling Fate Ordains me thus Unfortunate of Late Who once made Nations Happy and their Princes Great The People's Safety and the Throne 's Delight Religion's only Darling Favourite Whose holy Priests assisted at my Birth Nurs'd me as Vertue and proclaim'd my Worth Thro' all the Christian Kingdoms of the Earth Where long as Monarch of the Heart I Reign'd By all Approv'd and by the Church Maintain'd To me their Love I gratefully repaid And Nations where I dwelt I easie made Preserv'd the Subjects Duty to the Crown And made the People and the Prince but One. I all things in a happy Medium steer'd Clad in Bright Innocence unstain'd appear'd Beloy'd by all Good M●● by none but R●bels fear'd But now alas by some prevailing Chance That sprang from Int'rest Pride or Ignorance Or some Rebellious Seeds that Lurk unseen Within the Hearts of blind mistaken Men Am I Abandon'd Slighted and Despis'd And from my Milk-white Robes in Rags Disguis'd Thrust out of Country City Church and Court And Foo● Ba●-like become the Publick Sport Corrupted thus they all conspire my Doom And raise inglorious Int'rest in my room Int'rest that oft Contaminates the Saint And makes the Knave in holy Language Cant. Int'rest that first taught Innocence to sin And bribes the Heart to let Corruption in Int'rest that over All bears Sov'reign Sway Makes the Friend faithful and the Rogue betray The Soldier hazzard Life and the Great Man Obey Tell me Religion Why do your Teachers suffer me to Fall Once so Upheld but now the Scorn of all Excluded from your Pulpits and betray'd By your Revolving Priests am Odious made What was your Doctrine once why do you now Evade Religion Faction Prevailes and does too Pow'rful grow You see I 'm brought by Tolleration Low How can You hope by Me to be Advanc'd Since I my Self am thus Discountenanc'd My spurning Foes on ev'ry side Aspire I Lose my Pow'r They Gain what they Desire How then can I Reduc'd by their Designs Promote Your Int'rest when my Own Declines No more can I Redress thy Present State Than Falling Princes make their Favourites Great The Growing Factions thy Obedience blame And call thee but an Empty Sound a Name They think thee Giddiness a Church-Disease And Tumble and Transfer thee as they please Thou canst expect no Favour in an Age Where Truth is hiss'd from off the Publick Stage And Vertue hides her Head whilst Pride and Envy rage Thy hateful Strictness would my Followers Fright Who brand thee with the Name of Jacobite Tho' known to all Opinions few apply thee right When Both Acknowledg'd One Supreme Command Like Faithfull Friends we then walk'd Hand in Hand But since the Pow'r of Heaven has chang'd the Scene By Notions False you have Misguided been And thro' Erroneous Principles Dissent From Me and Heav'ns Appointed Government In Your Behalf how can my Clergy Plead If you deny Submission to my Head And think your self Vnalterably Bound To the meer Name of King wherein no Pow'r is found Whilst you Refuse your stubborn Neck to Bow T' Authority both Church and Laws allow And like a Treacherous G●ide betray the Blind To Grope for Treasure which they ne'er can find To all my Priesthood Odious wilt thou be And canst no Aid expect from Them or Me. We Yield Allegiance to the Sov'reign Sway Who heav'n Anoints Religion must Obey Till you Submit you can no Longer Bind The Free-born Subject won't be so confin'd And if they be when once they 've Broke the Chain Like Bears 't is hard to Fetter them again They 'll hazzard All to set their Minds but Free So highly do they prize their Liberty That darling Object of the Peoples Love The only Spring that does the Publick move The Peasant's Comfort and the Rich-man's Care The Crown of Peace and common Cause of War A Kingdom 's Pride Strength Safety and Delight The Monarch's Duty and the Subject's Right A Pleasing Bliss the dullest Lump desires The only Native Good that all Mankind Admires But You an Adamantine Yoke design'd Attempting by a Lawless Force to Bind And make Allegiance such a Fatal Chain That cannot must not be dissolv'd by Man How can such High-flown Loyalty agree With Bounded Pow'r and Native Libertie For if Obedience be the Subjects part When Kings an Arbitrary Pow'r exert What Lawful Fence or Bulwark can there be The People to secure from Slaverie What Rights or Freedoms can a Nation boast But what may be by Sov'reign Pow'r ingrost What Law can Hinder or what Curb Restrain The wild Ambition of a Vitious Man All at a Tyrants Mercy then must be Religion Life Estate and Libertie The People all are Slaves none but the Monarch Free Besides Submission of the Whole implies Consent And Absolute Confirms the Government If you Bear Wrongs and may Prevent the same Who but the Sufferers shall Deserve the Blame Such Passive Tameness when you 've Pow'r to Nil Concludes you as a Partner in the Ill. The Patient Bigot who Resigns his Rights In Duty to a Tyrants Will Submits Against the Publick Good and Safety Errs And basely Does more Injury than he Bears Thus by degrees Intails a Slavery And Gains the Curses of Posterity These are the sad Effects of too strict Loyalty From hence you 're term'd a musty Roman Cheat Allmost Exploded and grown Obsolete As far as You the Nations Rights Secure And Bind Allegiance to the King in Pow'r Such Loyalty I Hold and such Maintain Whose Chain 's no longer than a Prince's Reign But such Deny as cannot be Remov'd When Iust the Cause and by the States Approv'd If such Exploded Tenets you Defend I 'm no more Yours than You the Kingdom 's Friend Loyalty Too Well alas Grave Guide you know the Cause Made me Aspire and Tow'r Above the Laws Your Frenzy Rais'd me to a Heighth too Great From whence I Sunk to this Dejected State Unlawfull Greatness in Contempt oft Ends A sudden Fall too quick a Rise Attends And when Beneath the Publick Scorn I lay Thus left You Steer'd your Course another way So the Rich Churl from all Misfortunes free Proudly Shuns Others in Adversitie First by your Priesthood was I made too Great Preach'd up as the Main Prop of Church and Sate Enjoyn'd on all as Monarchies best Friend On whom the Throne and Nation 's Peace depend As spotless Vertue in the Church receiv'd Taught as sound Doctrine and as such Believ'd Thus did your Clergy blaze my Fame 'T was I first Tam'd the Brutal Rage of Man In me alone Obedience first began I was the Reins to which the Curb is ty'd By which Great Men their Lesser Agents guide The Soldier I with Noble Warmth Inspire True Loyalty the Chillest Thoughts could Fire And turn by force of Duty Fear into Desire I taught the Subject