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A77439	A brief history of the rise, growth, reign, supports, and sodain fatal foyl of popery, during the three years and an half of James the Second, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland Together with a description of the six popish pillars, the Anabaptists, Presbyterians, Quakers, Independents, Roman-Catholicks, & popish church-men. The perpetual addressers of the King.		1690 (1690)	Wing B4600; ESTC R229470	22,583	35

But that of the Dissenting Merchants and Trades-men in and about London exceeded at the same time exceeded for Flattery and Blasphemy comparing King James a known Popish Prince to Moses and our Poenal Laws to the Yoak Slavery and Bondage of Aegypt and worse than that And that of the Dutiful and Obedient Subjects of Chichester comparing the King's Act of Indulgence with the greatest acts of Wisdom and extolling it unto the Skies And that of the Freemen of Bath August the 22d Acknowledging the Kings undoubted Prerogative by His Gracious Declaration to stifle the force of Law which they call consistent with true Piety were notoriously Flattering On August the 25th was presented the conceited Humble Address of the Dissenting Protestants of Romsey Ringwood Fordingbridge and Christ-Church in Hant-shire fond and full of Flattery On August the 29th was brought forth the Address of Worcester Presbyterian Ministers and of the Master-Builders and other Artificers about London And of the Protestant Dissenters about Shrewsbury And of the Peaceable Dissenters of Namptwich Wem and Whit-church in Shrop-shire And of the Protestant Dissenters of Oswestree in the same County All bespeaking the Common Language of their Fellows September the 1st came forth the Addresses of the Dissenters of Chester Of the Loving Subjects called Presbyterians of Macclesfeild And September the 8th of the Loyal Subjects the Stroudwater Clothiers in Gloucester-shire And of the Free-men of the Borough of Banbury and of the Inhabitants of Dorchester And September the 12th of the Protestant Dissenters of Oxford-shire And on September the 15th of the Presbyterian Ministers of Derby and Nottingham-Shires All full of Flattery and promising dutiful Obedience On September the 22d came out the Address of the Presbyterian Ministers of Edenburg and Canongate starting this New Doctrine that there is no inconsistency betwixt true Loyalty and Presbyterian Principles c. And yet time hath since shewn the quite contrary from the same Ministers On September the 29th the thankful Address of the Protestant Dissenters of Salisbury the Devizes Cane Chippenham Westbury Warmister Throw-bridge and Bradford in Wiltshire All speaking after the same Canting way of flattery The The Humble Address of the Electors of Ladgeshal in Wiltshire at the same time promised always to choose such Members as should be Faithful and Serviceable to the Crown that is unto the Popish Interest the King being a known Papist At the same time also the Addresses of the Loyal Subjects of Andover Whit-church and Clotford bespeak the old Language of Flattery And that of the Subjects of Cirencester in Gloucester-shire coming forth at the same time promising to choose such Members as shall comply with His Majesty in putting down Poenal Laws and by consequence promote Popery Also at the same time the Address of the Noncons of Reading Abbington and Newbury And another of the Presbyterians of Nottingham Also October the 6th the Address of the Loyal Subjects the Combers Weavers and other Labourers of Taunton in Somerset-shire Also October the 17th of the Presbyterian Ministers and their Congregation in East Somerset-shire Bath Shipton Froom Bruton Wincaunton Milburn Frary Inscomb And another from the truly Loyal Subjects of Honiton in Devon-shire Also another from the Loyal Subjects of Pembrook Carmarthen Cardigan and the Town of Swanzey in Glamorgan-shire Presbyterian Ministers Independents and Anabaptists with their Congregations Also another of the Dutiful Subjects the Noncons of Kingston upon Thames Also another from the Dutiful Dissenting Subjects of Cambridge Also another from the Presbyterian Subjects of Hull and of two numerous Congregations there Also another from Weobly in Hereford shire Also another from the the Loyal and Faithful Subjects of Portsmouth All promising Mountains of Obedience and extolling His Indulgence whereof those of Hull and Weobly do much exceed On October the 24th followed the Addresses of the Presbyterians of King's Lynne and of the Noncon Ministers of Dorset-shire And on November the 3d. the Impatient but most Loyal Subjects the Free holders and others of Chard in Somerset-shire On November the 14th the Presbyterians of Maidstone On November the 21st the Dissenting Subjects of Lewes in Sussex and the Protestant Dissenting Subjects of Canterbury in Kent And of the Obedient Dissenters of Tenterden Cranbrok and Staplehurst in Kent On December the 1st the Ministers of the Gospel in New-England and the Loyal Inhahabitants of Hertford did bring forth their several Addresses of Thanks and promises of Obedience and all possible good Wishes Whereof those of Hertford promised to choose Members for Parliament as should be acceptable to His Majesty and supporters of His Prerogative On December the 15th several Ministers Dissenters of Leicester-shire were the last which presented their Flattering Address unto His Majesty King James the Second Now these Presbyterians are a new Sect of Schismaticks Introduced by Mr. John Calvin at Geneva from whence they have spread their Doctrines into Germany and France and into Scotland and also into England And are so called from the Parity of their Clergy being all Presbyters without any Bishops or Superintendants among them And are a People generally affecting Government by a Common-wealth and hating Monarchy in the State as well as in the Church And as appears by their Writings and Practices they hold with Papists and Jesuits that Kings may be Excommunicated and Deposed and in case of a Corrupt Prince they hold Rebellion to be no Crime Buchanan de jure Regni and the practices of the late Wars of the Parliament 1641. against their King Charles the First The first who attempted to introduce this Presbyterian Schism was Aerius who was therefore Branded by the Church for a Schismatick But being nipp'd in the Bud in those days he had no Disciples Howbeit this Presbyterianism is a Rent from the Church opposing all the Six first General Councils which do forbid any Presbyter in contempt of his Bishop to gather any separate Congregation of his own Can. Apost xxxii Nicaeni Concil Can. 16. Arelatens Concil Can. 19. Gangren Concil Can. 6. Antiochen Concil Can. 5. Carthaginens Concil ii Can. 11. And forbid any Bishop to be Ordained without three Bishops and any Presbyter or Deacon to be Ordained without one Bishop present Nicaeni Concil ii Can 4. Can. 6. Can. Apost 1 2 7. Ant. Concil Can. 9. The Canons of these General Councils of the Holy Primitive times are the Bonds of the Church which whosoever breaks is a Schismatick And there can be no pretence of Conscience to justifie Schism but the Magistrate ought to punish it And though Liberty of Conscience ought to be allowed yet no Liberty of Schism And though in case the Magistrate shall dispense with the punishment of Schism and we know not under God who shall call him to account for such Neglect Yet is it a sin which God will certainly Punish and therefore woe be unto those Flatterers who in such Cases do call Evil Good and Good Evil Next after that of the Presbyterian Ministers was

the 14th Another of the same from Hitching and Hertford in Hertford-shire All bespeaking much to the same purpose in extolling the Vertue and Wisdom of King James and promising Him their utmost Service in furtherance of His Designs Only this last more expresly promises to do their utmost that such Persons may be chosen to sit in Parliament as will concur with His Majesty that Liberty may be setled by an unalterable Law and that His Majesty may be the greatest Monarch on Earth Such was the Sense of these Independent Addresses Now these Independents are a sort of Schismaticks adhering partly with the Presbyterians and partly with the Anabaptists and in a middle way between both are a sort of Hereticks who denying the power of Bishops in Ordination and Constitution of Churches against all Orders of Christ and his Apostles set up Churches in the name of Themselves dependent upon no other Authority except the Elections of the People And being Renders of Christ's Seamless Coat ought to have been Suppressed However having nothing of any case of Conscience to plead for Their Schisms ought rather as men weed out Tares from among their Wheat to have been rooted up out of God's Church or at least ought not to have been Cherished as when the Tares are suffered to overtop and shoulder out the good seed However Liberty of Conscience ought not to have been made a Cloak for Liberty of Schism Such were the four first Pillars of Popery Which four having begun the Work anon after followed certain popishly inclined Members of the Church of England who minding the love of the World more than their Religion they professed Flattered the King's Majesty with their Addresses also The first beginners were the Unanimous Address of the Bishop Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Durham and the rest of the Clergy of that Dioecess on May the 17th 1687. Acknowledging His Majesties favour in promising to Protect His Archbishops Bishops and Clergy c. Now His Majesty by His Declaration of Toleration had broken down the Hedge whereby the Rights of the Church were to be preserved and had let in the Wild-Beasts the Swine to devour the Grapes and the Kine to break down the Boughs and the Wild-Boar to root up the Trees of God's Vineyard only the Arch-Bishops c. were Protected to stand by and look on without Molestation but were to have no power to fray one Cow or to hunt out one Hog do they never so much Mischief Now the truth is the Declaration of Indulgence was a thing Inconsistent with it self That His Majesty should at once protect and maintain all manner of Haereticks and Schismaticks which destroy the Church and yet do as much for the Pastors of the Flock who are to defend the Church from such destroying Wolves as are the Haereticks c. That he should at once maintain the Canons of Holy Councils which are the true Rights of the Church and yet at the same time maintain all those who break those Canons to pieces And yet loe how these tame Cattel come in with their Address to Thank His Majesty that in preserving the Thieves and Robbers He promises notwithstanding that he will not destroy the Housholder This was an odd sort of Flattery like the Man who meeting his Physician prayed him not to be angry that he was not yet Sick But to guess at these mens meaning the Bishop Dean Chapter and Clergy among the Quakers Anabaptists Presbyterians and Independents Addressing for the Declaration It must follow that either the Men designing in conclusion to turn Papists were found also among the Addressers in hopes upon the fall of the Church to share in her Spoils Or else at best they were a sort of timerous Rats who thinking the House to be falling down did run between the Legs of the Destroyers for Refuge After these came in the Addresses of the Mayor Aldermen Common Council and Free-men of the City of Durham bespeaking the very Language of their Right Reverend Bishop May 28. And at the same time was published the Humble Address of the Lord Bishop the Dean and Prebendaries of the Cathedral Church of Chester and the rest of the Clergy of the Arch deanries of Chester and Richmond c. Then followed the Address of the Mayor Aldermen c. of Richmond and Chester the Subjects of the Right Reverend Father of those Places June 11th next follows the Address of the Bishop Dean Arch Deacon and Clergy of the Diocess of Lincoln Now to guess at the length of Hercules by his Foot we know that ten for one of that Dioecess opposed the Address and yet it is called the Address of the Arch deacons and Clergy and so it was of some of them And thus it 's probable it was also in the Dioecess of Durham and Chester This July the 1st And on the 5th was publick that of the Dean and Chapter of Rippon in York-shire Then followed that of the Bishop and Clergy of the Dioecess of Coventry and Litchfield July 9th And lastly though long first came out the Address of the Bishop and Clergy of the Diocess of St. Davids that is of the new made Bishop for it seems the Dying Bishop was not for it Now all these Church-men wrote after one Copy which was from Durham There was also an Address of certain pretended Church-men of the City of London but it was only a name of what was not by some certain pretenders And indeed all the five Episcopal Addressers though true Bishops yet were but pretended Church-men while they became perfect Pillars of Popery Lastly after all the rest had begun the sixth and last and main Pillar of Popery presented it self The Humble Address of His Majesties Roman Catholick Subjects which appeared May the 28th Now whatever the rest were these were certainly in earnest in all their acknowledgments applauses promises and good wishes But what is most remarkable in their Address is that they say That they can do no less than thank God and His Majesty for such an happy Expedient as His Declaration for Liberty of Conscience for the ease and comfort of all His loving Subjects Now it is against the profest Principles of the Roman-Catholick Religion to allow Liberty of Conscience in matters of Haeresie and Schism as they do esteem all Presbyterians and Anabaptists Quakers and Independents to be such And in truth it is no wonder that they who count it a Principle of their Religion to Aequivocate or in plain terms to Lie for advantage can admit it into their practice to comply with the worst of Hereticks in order to carry on their Design in breaking down the good Laws which are the sence of the Church of England And this they may as aptly consent to do as practically to dissemble themselves to be Quakers among the Quakers and Anabaptists among the Anabaptists in order to increase Schism and Heresie in a strange Church that they may with the more safety

establish that great Schisme of their own Popery And thus we find the Roman-Catholicks the Anabaptists the Presbyterians Quakers Independents and Popishly inclined Church-men all link'd together in as fast a Bond of Friendship as faith and truth by Vows and Promises can tye them together in furthering the Declaration and Design of Establishing Liberty of Conscience upon the Basis of Heresie and Schism and finally to introduce Popery Now after this Foundation laid wherever any of these Six sorts of Papish Pillar-men got in to be a Mayor of a Corporation thence immediately followed an Address from that Corporation to the same effect as each Sect had afore Addressed But hitherto His Majesty had transgressed no Laws excepting that he had admitted Popish Officers into the Army and into other Places of Trust for which He pleaded Necessity However the Parliament then in force not approving thereof was Dissolved after two Adjournments and ten Prorogations in effectual was finally Dissolved July 2d 1687. Notwithstanding Necessity had no Law that putting in of Popish Officers in all Places of Trust was to be born with On February 12th 1686 the Earl of Clarendon being Removed the Earl of Tyrconnel was settled Lord Lieutenant of Ireland And on March 11th Henry Lord Arundel of Wardour a Papist was made Lord Privy Seal About the same time or before the Earl of Rochester Uncle to the King 's two Daughters for standing firm to the Protestant Religion according to the Church of England was removed out of Place from being Lord Treasurer and the Place put into Commissioners hands Popishly inclined And the Earl of Sunderland a Papist was made Lord President of the Council On February 8th the Lord Castlemain His Majesties Ambassador to the Pope had Audience But after the Addresses once began to come in thick then the King ventur'd to receive a Publick Ambassador from the Pope with all the Honours and Ceremonies usually observed on the like Occasion This was done at Windsor on July 5th 1687. And on November 11th Father Petre the King's Confessor and Clerk of the Closet was Sworn of His Majesties Privy-Council and took his Place at the Board And on November 17th was published a Book called An Agreement between the Church of England and Church of Rome Evinced from the Concertation of some of her Sons with their Brethren the Dissenters Such was the Fruit of the Addresses made by the Sir Pillars of Popery On December 11th His Majesty being encouraged by the abundance of Addresses began to view the List of His Justices of the Peace in all the Counties and of the Deputy Lieutenants and to turn out of Place all such as would not be for His Declaration of Liberty of Conscience and for taking off the Penal Laws and Test Whence great numbers in all Counties were turned out and Phanaticks Papists and popishly inclined Persons came into Place And about the same time or soon after all Corporations were Regulated by absolute Power and all Men adhering to the Law were turned out and Phanaticks Papists and popishly inclined Persons were put in place And hence it came to pass that all the Corporations in London became Regulated and filled with Hereticks and Schismaticks whence followed infinite Addresses from all these New Corporations and from all the New Model'd Companies After this it was that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners had been put in power and had begun to execute great power of Oppression over many of His Majesties Consciencious Subjects The Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of London beloved of most Men for his Fatherly care of the Church against all Law and Reason had been Suspended And on December 10th The President and Fellows of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford against all Law and Conscience were decreed and pronounced uncapable of being admitted into any Ecclesiastical Dignity These by force appointed by the Commissioners contrary to all Rules of Law had been turned out of their Freeholds on the 30th of November before On January the 23d was published The King 's right of Indulgence in Spiritual Matters with the Equity thereof Asserted By a Person of Honour About this time Commissioners were appointed and made Enquiry after all Monies received for Fines in the case of Seditious Meetings called Conventicles March the 1st was published a Book called The Legality of the Court held by His Majesties Commissioners Defended And also A Defence of the Doctrine and holy Rites of the Roman Catholick Church Against Dr. Burnet's Mystery of Iniquity Unveiled Unto such an height of Popery was the Kingdom ascended and all by means of the Sir Pillars of Addressers for alas the Popish Interest of it self was pitifully inconsiderable But by the union and conjunction of these Sir Pillars it began to look formidably And the King presuming upon the strength of the Pillars was meerly drawn in and encouraged beyond all His hope at His Coronation when he first promised and then Swore to defend and maintain the Laws of the Land Whence it may be safely maintained that wherein soever His Majesty hath acted against Law as is now generally alledged contrary to his Oaths and Promises although the Breach was really His own proper act yet the greatest blame thereof lyes at their Doors who by pleading Conscience to do the greatest Wickedness drew him in to comply with them and by promising to stand by and assist hiw to the last Breath encouraged him to do what otherwise in all likelyhood He never had intended For when it was declared by His Majesty on April the 27th 1688 what was His Majesties further will and pleasure concerning His Declaration of Indulgence He said expresly We are encouraged by multitudes of Addresses and by many other Assuances we receive from Our Subjects of all Perswasions as Testimonies of their Satisfaction and Duty to see it preserved without Distinction And in the same Declaration he further saith In pursuance of this we have been forced to make many Changet both of Civil and Military Officers throughout our Dominions c. Whence it fully appears that what by means of the Addresses and by means of private Assurances from the Parties Addressing before the Addresses came forth His Majesty was unhappily drawn in to do all those things which are counted ill ever since his Reign For as may be well observed many Addresses do boast of a Confederacy with His Majesty as to the substance matter of their Addresses from before the time of His Majesties coming to the Crown Hence followed the Orders issued forth directed unto the Arch bishops Bishops and the Clergy to read the King's Declaration in all their Provinces Dioecesses and Churches therein Which thing they humbly conceiving to be a matter against the known Laws of the Land and not fit to be done so many of them as were then in London did humbly Petition His Majesty to be excused from such reading and shewed their Reasons in their Petition But this Petition being judged Scandalous the Arch-bishop