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England's improvements justified; and the author thereof, Captain Y. vindicated from the scandals in a paper called a Coffee-house dialogue. With some animadversions upon his popish designs therein contained.
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Yarranton, Andrew, 1616-1684.
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1680
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Wing Y14; ESTC R205441
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stable government that preserves the honour and majesty of the King and the happy liberties of his people Here I might end having said enough for the Captains vindication if I said no more but that he is by a forgery imposed upon But meeting with some things in his Paper I cannot but animadvert first where he Queries What Game have the great ones now to play He might have answered himself they have enough to do Your Romish Emissaries have cut out work with a witness here 's Plot upon Plot and all to murther the King to subvert Government in Church and State and by the mighty Power of God all discovered and because the Popish party had received so great a soil the Protestant party must now be made Plotters that under that colour you might murder the King and give the blow in Masquerade but no weapon formed against God can prosper and if his providence had not embowelled your cursed designs as you say the City ere this might have been on fire at one end and cutting of Throats all over The next Question he begs is an enforced reflection upon the Clergy of the Church of England a fine device to create jealousies amongst Protestants you have played that trick too often to have it thrive we better understand the common interest than to divide divide impera we know the danger of a division and since the quarrel is plainly betwixt Protestant and Papist and that all must endure the fiery tryal they will neither turn nor burn but jointly oppose all your insinuations I hope Mr. Dangerfields Plot has convinced the World so that we shall not hear any more invectives against the dissenting party for all are Protestants The Church of England as it is the best of Governments so I hope it will never want charity for any that agree in the same fundamentals the same Gospel is owned by all and by that rule all are to be governed which says Let your moderation be seen before all men the Lord is at hand and if any man be otherwise minded viz. as to Discipline or other matters not so essential God shall reveal it let there be therefore no animosities no differences amongst them for they are Brethren As for what you would suggest as the saying of the Captains in the reflections of the Church of England men you beg the question that you may take the occasion to discover yourself of what foot-mark you are and that the mark of the Beast is plainly in your forehead Ex pede Herculem I see by this foot the dimensions of your mind It is not your kindness or reverence you bear to the Church of England or honoured Clergy but to sweeten our apprehensions and mollifie our fears and to assure us that Popery is not such a bug-bear but that all the Lands taken away from those Idolatrous Lascivious Drones will keep firm as they are and reinforceth his argument and perswasions that as they were first sold by Act of Parliament it was again corrobarated in Queen Mary's Reign a necessary policy to keep all quiet till they had played up their Game to a sure point But the great assurance this Gentleman gives it is from infallibility it self in these words To which consent of his Holiness was given and this he counts security strong enough Then Sir you are a simple Papist and your Pope a Jugler for the Canons of your Church denies a power to be in any Pope himself to divest the Church of any of its possessions Where are your wheadles now Sir Carry your trifles to your Children nurst up in an implicit faith we will trust in God and use our lawful endeavours against Popes and Plotters and enjoy our Lands too no thanks to your Pope whom you stile his Holiness which never any Protestant so seriously did A fair evidence of your principles The next thing he disputes with himself and would father it upon the Captain is about the Subject of a Pamphlet called A Word without Doors which I have heard the Captain aver he never saw it nor I neither therefore to approve or disapprove belongs not to my present occasion but if any thing be in it Contra Bonos mores or savors of irreligion or disloyalty I commit him with this Popish disputant to the Sword of the Magistrate As for your Sophistries and what absurdities are in them take the shame to your self for they are all of your own making Interest I perceive can never Lye Popery must come in if your foul hand or crazy brain can help it Are not you a brave fellow to come in Print that can censure Parliaments and charge them with injustice and folly too you do not like them we may all see they are too hearty against Popery and too zealous to maintain the Protestant Religion to posterity Is this a crime As for the Bill that was is not now in being for that Parliament is Dissolved and another since chosen and Prorogued for a considerable time therefore you dispute de lana caprina you set up an Image and fall down before it go on with your Idolatry we will trust God for Religion and next humbly submit all to the wisdom and care of our gracious King and his great Council in Parliament To how little purpose do you revive the Lord Straffords Case in which you are a little too sawcy 't was done perenni Parliamento The supream Court of the Nation and by them he was judged guilty of High-Treason and you must not say he suffered without Law though his crimes were not within one or any of the Articles of the 25th of Edward the 3d yet if you consult the same Statute you will find the Parliament judg of Treasons not there named The words of the Act are these And because many other like cases of Treason may happen in time to come which a man cannot think nor declare at this present time it is accorded that if any other case supposed Treason which is not above specified doth happen before any Iustices the Iustices shall tarry without going to judgment of the Treason till the Cause be shewed and declared before the King and his Parliament whether it ought to be judged Treason or other Felony Sir the Articles are yet alive and the recited clause shews the Parliament not so mistaken for they are Judges of what is Treason I never heard that Act was repented of by any Parliament though the same Parliament provided that it should not be brought into presâ—ent not that they would be understood thereby to judg themselves as unjust but in reference to inferior Courts and how far that clause reached him or whether it did not imply that it was in the power of a Parliament so to adjudg I submit to better judgments than yours or mine for I dare not presume to determine Qua supra nos nihil ad nos In your last Paragraph you would give a fresh assault upon the late Parliament charging them with the greatest injustice and that from the Act Tricessimo Quinto of the Queen as if it were denied to the D. liberty of other Subjects to declare and make his submission and implies that he was never convicted if all were well in that case what mean the bleating of the Sheep and the lowing of the Oxen why were such proposals offered by his Majesty for securing the Protestant Religion against a Popish successor and all those great labours in Parliament and their Votes declaring what you would now question Pray let me ask you When was there the least appearance of the D's inclinations to declare his submission to the Church of England If you make not that appear What do you argue for not to satisfie the World that there was or is any such intention but to asperse the great Council of the Kingdom and certainly if the design had lain there the concern of succession to Three Kingdoms would have brought it into Act after so many fair opportunities and especially when the Parliament arrived at so high a pitch caused by the care for the Protestant Religion and those dreadful apprehensions of those horrid Plots discovered against his Majesties Sacred person I assure you Sir if ever such an offer had appeared it would have been cherished with the greatest indulgence but this is too much to argue upon a non Entity for that Bill is gone and you need not question but when the Parliament meets and ever take that debate in hand the D. will have nothing offered but what is just with relation to establishing the Protestant Religion and the preservation of his Most Sacred Majesty's person and the Liberties of all true English men Now Sir upon examination of your ill-bestowed pains I think you ought to ask God forgiveness in the first place for breaking his commandment Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy Neighbour next to answer to His Majesty for breach of his Law in Libelling and upon your Knees to crave pardon of the D. for your pitiful management of his Cause and for my part I shall throw you in my forgiveness for the trouble you gave me and as to the Captains concerns he is to thank you for the opportunities you have given to make his deserts more publick and Englands Improvements more honoured FINIS