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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25576	An Answer to the Bishop of Rochester's second letter to the Earl of Dorset &c. by an English-man.	Englishman.; Charlton, Mr.	1689 (1689)	Wing A3390; ESTC R31265	19,150	70

that for the Diocess and was so Exact in pursuing my Lord of London's desires because to gratifie the pleasure of the Court you sate in the First Commission which was Illegal and the Act of Suspending my Lord of London therefore void In consequence all the Derivations were so too and the Commission for the Diocess to my Lord of Peterborough and your self being under the same Fate All you did was perhaps in strictness against Law and not only the more Inexcusable if you had acted without my Lord's Directions but Unsafe as to the Actions themselves if my Lord's Approbation had not warranted them into a Connivance so that Acting in Commission for the Diocess of London was in the Bishop of Peterborough as Publishing the Suspension was in the Dean of Paul's an Expedient of Necessity to chuse the least of Two Evils but more Amiss in you my Lord because you who sate in the Ecclesiastical Commission did it in confirmation of the great Evil which drew on the necessity of that The terrible Aspect of things from Court upon the London Clergy your standing in the Gap to hinder some other Persons prepared to be thrust in upon your leaving that Commission and if such Persons had got it Absolutely into their Power 't is possible that most learned and Pious Clergy had been somewhat otherwise Employed than they were and had been too much taken up in defending themselves from the Violent Persecutions of the Popish Party to have leisure to confute and triumph over the Popish Cause can have no other meaning but that if the Papists had got the Diocess of London into their Power for nothing else can be collected from the word Absolutely with the Terrible Aspect of that Court which had no other Tendency 't is more than Possible for 't is Absolutely Certain that all those of the London Clergy who had Resolution of Adhering to the Protestant Religion that is All those who by a Vigorous and Ready Allegiance in Defence of the Protestant Religion now shall justifie to all the Protestants at home and abroad they would have forsaken their Livings then had been Deprived or otherwise Engaged in too much Persecution by the Popish Party to have leisure to confute the Popish Cause and to triumph over Both as they do now if they can see their Felicity But your Lordship's standing in the Gap to hinder those Persons who were prepared to take that Diocess Absolutely into their Power is not Discernible On the contrary Open War being proclaimed between the Two Parties All those Eminent Supervisors of the Church who continued in Court were so far Endearing the Conspiracy on the Popish Side as to weaken the Protestant by going on with the Impracticable Distinction of Protestant Loyalty against Protestant Religion while the Papists made it their Business to single out the Flower of our Patriots in Church and State hunting them down with Renegades and Masqueraders of our own Faith to Death and Obscurity as well for their Entertainment as Interest Fifteenth Page of the Letter I should be glad I could claim as just a share in another of his Lordship's meritorious services to the Publick as I may do in This But in that I cannot for 't is evident the Seven Bishops whereof he was One had such an Opportunity put into their Hands by God's Providence for the Overthrow of Popery and Arbitrary Power by their sufferings for delivering the sense of King James the Second's Declaration as 't is likely never any of the Episcopal Order had before and 't is to be hoped will never have again This however I will say I had certainly added my self to their Number if I had then understood the Question as well as I did afterwards upon their Tryal where I was present in order to be Witness in their Behalf at the same time when your Lordship and many other Noble Lords were there to give Countenance to so Good a Cause There it was my Lord that I was first convinc'd of the false Foundations and mischievous Consequences of such a Dispensing Power as that on which the Declaration was grounded So that I have ever since been perswaded that from that Petition of the Bishops so defended by the Invincible Arguments of the Learned Councel on that Day and so justified by the Honest Verdict of the Undaunted Jury on the next day From thence I say we may date the first great successful Step that was made towards the Rescuing of our Religion and Laws For my part I must ever own I was so Fully satisfied by the excellent Pleadings of those great Lawyers at that Trial that I confess I never had till then so clear a Notion what unalterable Bounds the Law has fixt between the just Prerogatives of the Crown and the Legal Rights of the Subjects and therefore from that very day I hastned to make all the Reparations I could for the Errors occasioned by my former ignorance and to act for the future what I always intended as became a True Englishman Answer You are in the right My Lord to say The truth of an Englishman consists in the Reality of his Actions it gives me notice at the same time not to depend upon his Glistering Sentences nor be deceived by his plausible Apologies For if any but the Bishop of Rochester himself should tell me He had added to the number of the Petitioning Bishops if he had understood the Question I would answer it with a Smile The Bishop of Rochester had the same Organs disposing and Methods of Advice to inform his Judgment as the other Bishops had If to say no worse his Courage to Adhere had been the same and to add these words As well as I did afterwards upon their Trial is Ignorance repeated Ignorance upon Ignorance to the last Minute The Bishops maintained their Post with Honourable but not Unexampled Constancy and the Impudence of the Jesuite was no Diminution to the Credit of their Fortitude The Kingdom stood as Firm to Them the Warrant of Their Commitment was also in it self a Warrant for Correcting that Vagabond and a Pass for their Religion to Travel No sooner were their persons in the Tower but we were ready for the Field to Extricate them not only from the Present difficulties they laboured under and Convince your Lordship the Protestant Religion and Interest was no Forsaken Cause but to Clear them at Once from the Enemies of their Religion and the Rivals to their Possessions I hope their Lordships will prove Firm to Us and their Bishopricks now as in a chearful Allegiance No longer Puzling our Enjoyment with Unaccountable Reserves nor make Us such Cruel Returns as to suffer the Profound Respect we have for Them to Object against the Security of Our Selves It is the happiness of the Church of England that her Proselytes are not Slaves they Reverence their Spiritual Guides and Honour their Faithful Advisers the least distance between them is the Torment of their Lives

I know not How brings your Lordship to a Position of Assurance There have been indeed those whose Haughtiness of Mind bearing down all the Rest of their Faculties hath deceived them into a Superlative Idea of their being Above Apology they have perished in Falls Unnatural tho' not Unpitied But if a Bishop a Pattern of Humility One who to be Great among Us is to be our Minister shall Dare give it under his Hand that He always thought next to Committing Offences Nothing can be more Grievous to an Ingenuous Mind than to be put upon the Necessity of making Apologies In English no more but Owning a Miscarriage in Decency of Reasoning to Unload his Conscience if that be so very Grievous to the Ingenuous Mind of a Bishop I take his Apologies to be like his Compliances One the Result of more than Ignorance or Chance the Other of much less than Contrition and without charge upon my Self of any Disrespect either to his Quality or Function Conclude tho' with a Modesty even to Tameness of Expression that the Best and most Ingenuous Part of the Apology Lyes in Confessing the Necessity to make it To what Advantage might an Elaborate Man in Concern for the Injuries done his Country display this Abundant Paper How easily my Lord might a Pen if like yours Incapable of Parting with a Luxuriant Stroak for the sake of Persons or Families take down these Altars of Praise you have Built to Others Contriving to annex your self however without Detraction from the Merit due to any whomsoever I will reduce the Overflowings within Bank bring them to Fact and Qualifie the Magnificent Apology Shewing that your Better Understanding Proceeded not from Argument but Appearance terrible Aspect and dreadful Apprehension your own Words my Lord are very Dogmatical Full Satisfaction may seize People in Lightning and they may be Struck with the Convincing of Thunder Only by the way my Lord whereas you seem to intitle your self to something or other within Guess by incurring the Displeasure of our Two Last Kings in declining to Write against the States of Holland during the First and Second Dutch Wars I humbly desire if any thing in these Papers tempt your Lordship to a Third Apology or a Reply that you will please to let us know if they desired you to Write in Prose for neither of those Wars or Depredations afforded Subject Matter for one Paragraph of Truth How Specious soever the First might be rendred in the Frenchified Heat of our Honey Moon after the Restoration the Effect of Private Sentiments in Religion here tho' he seemingly took part with the Dutch against us I am sure No Man will say but the Second was an Apparent Violation of the Law of Nations the Triple League broke on our side with Grief be it remembred by Us and very unkind in your Lordship not to bury against all the Rules of Mutual Defence and Notwithstanding the most direct Warning of the Fatal Consequences of such a Breach that a Wise Man our Agent abroad could possibly insinuate To our Great Reproach my Lord Opening a Passage to the Common Disturber of Manking and for ought I know too great a Cause of all the Blood that has been and may be shed in Christendom from the Ravage of that Imperious Monarch of France beside a Subjugation of Us here to Popery and Slavery or the Inevitable Fury of a Civil War if in return of Good for Evil the Dutch had not Aided our Deliverance from the Influence of all those Pernicious Counsels and I make no doubt but your Lordship knew then as well as I do now that Invention must have been the Guide of your Undertaking and the Topick Dimunition of Glory if you had obeyed their Commands The Tenth Page of the Letter If I have now given your Lordship any Satisfaction touching my Fair Dealing in my part of that Book I doubt not but what follows will give you more when I shall assure you of my having refused to Write a Continuation of the same History For my Lord it was sometime after the Duke of Monmouth 's Overthrow and Execution that King James the Second required me to Vndertake such another Task and presently set about a Second Part To that purpose his Majesty gave me a sight of Multitudes of Original Papers and Letters together with the Confessions of several Persons then taken in England and Scotland who did seem to Outview one another who should reveal most both of Men and Things relating to the Old Conspiracy as well as to the Duke of Monmouth 's and the Earl of Argyle 's Invasion But finding the Innocence of Divers Persons of Honour and Worth touched in those Papers And by that time beginning Vehemently to Suspect Things were Running apace towards the Endangering our Laws and Religion I must say I could never be induced by all his Majesties reiterated Commands to go on with that Work. Instead of that tho' I had all the Materials for such a Narrative within my Power for above Three Years and might Easily have finished it in Six Weeks yet I chose rather to Suppress and Silence as much I could all that New Evidence which if openly produced would have blemished the Reputation of some Honourable Persons Answer Blemishes my Lord are from the Cause nor will I ask Pardon to say 'T is as necessary to live in the Disesteem of some as the Good Opinion of Others The Overthrow of the Duke of Monmouth was in the Name of King and if what our Neighbours assert to be Law in Scotland be Reason in England the late Kings assuming the Regal Power of this Protestant Kingdom being a Papist was in it self a Forfeiture of his Exercise of the Authority If the Eyes of the People had been as Open to apprehend it as his Chappel was Early to declare it their Hands had been Strong enough to have brought a General to Town then Confirming the Bill of Exclusion And placing the Crown where it now is The Generosity of Trust in the English towards their King at his First Accession to the Throne Over-ruling their Jealousie Reasonable from his Conduct of many Years before but Demonstration of Entire Affection to their Kings while any Tolerable Bounds will hold Them very Honourable in Them but very much to be Deplored was the End of that Duke Rebellion had been a Word in his Attainder if he had not taken upon him the Title of King that part of him which Died had perhaps been less than Execution and his Defeat not so much as an Overthrow King James my Lord made good that Cause by the Continuation of his own History to the time of his Departure and King William and Queen Mary whom God for ever preserve by Consent and Authority of the Estates have given it Immortality The Old Conspiracy is not a Language but in those Times when Judges deliver for Law that surprizing a Garrison apart from the King is an Overt Act