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A54279	A looking-glass for the Quakers: in two columns wherein they may in part see themselves, and may be seen by others. Vide, audi, judica. The first column is, what they formerly published against the Papists; and the other column is, what they published on their behalf, when uppermost. Phil. Anglus. Licensed, May 14. 1689.	Pennyman, Joseph.	1689 (1689)	Wing P1428; ESTC R221427	14,228	12

methinks we should when the Noise of Fire and Sword is in our Ears when we cannot walk the Streets without Danger of being stabbed nor sleep in our Houses for fear of being burned witness the dreadful Fire at London the Fire of Southwark and that the other day of Limehouse where three poor Souls were burned quick to say nothing of forty Attempts they have made in other places To which let me add the Design in general of Massacring all the best People in the Kingdom begun and amply confirmed in the most barbarous Murder of that Worthy Knight and Judicious Magistrate Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey p. 1 2 3. Thus this poor Gentleman but worthy and brave Patriot ended his days by the Assassinating Hands of Papists whose Butchery made him the Common Martyr of his Religion and Country and his Death is to us the Earnest of their Cruelty in him they have Massacred us all we must take it to our selves and can no more be unconcerned in his Death than disinteressed in the Cause of it The Plot is opened the Tragedy is begun our Wives are frighted our Children cry no Man is sure of his Life a day the choice is only what Death we shall dye whether be Stabbed Strangled or Burned This Consternation and Insecurity must needs obstruct all Commerce scare People from following their lawful Occasions deter all Officers of Justice from their Duty and in fine dissolve Human Society and reduce the World into its first Chaos For the Lord's sake let us consider our Condition let us all turn to the Lord with unfeigned Repentance let us look and cry to him for Help that he who has discovered would confound this Bloody Conspiracy and shew Mercy and bring us Deliverance that we may yet see his Salvation and serve him all the days of our Lives and in order to our Security these things are earnestly requested of you 1. Take effectual Care to preserve the King they say and we believe he is not for their turn we would not have him for his sake and ours In order to this pray find out the Ahithophels the Dangerous Men about him you know who they are Be free and bold prize your time the Conjuncture is great 2. Vote an Address to the King to Banish all Irish Papists out of the Army Navy and Kingdom by such a Day and all Papists out of the City of London whose gross Ignorance and base Desperateness renders them the fittest Men for Assassinations Besides it is a shame that the Children and Kindred of Irish Rebels if not some of them the very Men themselves that were Actors in that horrid Massacre in the year 1641 about thirty seven years since in which above Three hundred thousand Protestants were Murder'd in the Kingdom of Ireland without regard to Age or Sex should be employ'd either in the English Army or Navy but more scandalous is it that St. James's should be their Head Quarters and the Park turned into an Irish Walk What do so many Irish Papists Teigs and Rebels do swarming there No good to be sure their Parts Courage and Skill can invite no Man of any to entertain them it must only be their Ignorance and Cowardly Cruelty which make them Instruments of Mischief and fit to be used by those that love foul play p. 6. 3. For God's sake call for the Plot look thoroughly and strictly into it Fear nor Favour no Man Fiat Justitia But fear God do what you do as in his Presence to whom you must tender an Accompt 'T is it he great Action of your Life discharge your Trust and quit your selves now like Men. This has been the perpetual Troubler of our Protestant Israel as you would see God with Comfort and secure your Posterity from Civil and Spiritual Tyranny slip not this opportunity God has so wonderfully cast into your hands be not found Despisers of his Providence neither be you careless or fearful of improving it Now or Never Had they you on this Lock and at this Advantage you nor yours should never see Day more What once you could not have so well done they have now made easie and necessary for you to do and what before you scarcely might do is now become your Duty Be not cheated by a Sacrifice let not the Lives of two or three Plotters be the Ransom of the rest or your Satisfaction 't is not Blood but Security prospect future Safety an Eternal Prevention of the like Miseries for the future otherwise we shall only sit down with the Peace and Joy of Pools and fat our Selves Sacrifices with more security against their next Slaughter p. 7. 4. Let every Protestant Family be well Armed and every Popish Family be utterly disarmed they have tryed out usage of Arms with Ease we theirs with Cruelty enough 5. Let there be an Act with a strict PENALTY that after such a Day no Gun-smith shall sell Guns or Pistols Cutlers Swords or Daggers and Dry-Salters Gunpowder or Bullets without Licence of the Aldermen of the Wards in London or some Chief Officer if in any other Corporations and that the Person so buying them shall before the said Officer subscribe a sufficient Test against Popery but more especially that no Papist be suffered to make or sell any such Implements of War. 6. That care be taken to prevent fraudulent Conveiances of Estates by Papists to escape the Law where they have done mischief For this is to cheat the Government and invalidate the Law. 7. That it shall he Treason for any Papist to Entertain a Priest Jesuit or Seminary in their House because mortal Enemies by Principle and Practice to the Civil Government Consider of the Swedish Law or a better way to clear the Land of all of them let 's buy them out to be safe 8. That in all Schools particularly in Universities Care be taken to Educate Youth in a just abhorrence of Romish Principles especially the Jesuits immoral Morals shewing the Inconsistency thereof with Human Nature Reason and Seciety as well as pure and meek Christionity of which there has been great neglect 9. That our Youth be not suffer'd to Travel abroad but between Twelve and Sixteen and that under the Conduct of approved Protestants for the present way of Education is chiefly to Pleasure and Looseness which makes way for Atheism or Popery no Religion or false Religion p. 8. 10. That speedy Care be taken to release all oppressed Protestants in this Kingdom and since the Papists mark all Protestants out for one Fate and esteem them one Body of Heretichs that they may be as one Body of Protestancy against that Common Enemy● This is the Language of God's present Providence those that withstand it are such as love Rome better than London Every Protostant Dissenter or not has the same thing to say against Bopery Agree then so far and let a general Negative Creed be concluded upon and from thence let some general positive Truths be consider'd of in

so much Religious as Civil not but that there is a vast contrariety in Doctrine and Worship too But this barely should not be the cause of our so great Distance and that Provision our Laws make against them But rather that fundamental Inconsistency they carry with them to the security of the English Government and Constitution unto which they do belong by acknowledging a Foreign Jurisdiction in these Kingdoms So that drawing into Question and Danger the Constitution and Government to which Scripture and Nature and Civil Pact oblige their Fidelity and Obedience There seems a discharge upon the Civil Government from any further Care of their Protection that make it a piece of Conscience to seek its ruin and which is worse a Principle not to be inform'd of better things for even here not Reason or Law but the Pope must be Judge p. 7. Having brought the Matter to this I shall first offer you a new TEST next the Ways of taking it with most aggravation against the Party Rejecting or Breaking it and lastly how you may secure your selves from Papists disguising themselves amongst Protestant Dissenters that so nothing may remain a Remora in the Way that shall not be remov'd to leave you a plain and even Path to peace and safety The New TEST I A. B. Do solemnly and in good Conscience in the sight of God and Men Acknowledge and Declare that King Charles the Second is Lawful King of this Realm and all the Dominions thereunto belonging and that neither the Pope nor See of Rome nor any else by their Authority have Right in any case to Depose the King or dispose of his Kingdoms or upon any score whatever to absolve his Subjects from their Obedience or to give leave to any of them to Plot or Conspire the hurt of the Kings Person his State or People and that all such Pretences and Power are false pernicious and demnable And I do further sincerely profess and in good Conscience Declare That I do not believe that the Pope is Christs Vicar or Peters Lawful Successor or that he or the See of Rome severally or jointly are the Rule of Faith or Judge of Controversie or that they can absolve Sins nor do I believe there is a Purgatory after Death or that Saints should be pray'd to or Images in any sense be Worshipped Nor do I believe that there is any Transubstantiation in the Lords Supper of the Elements of Bread and Wine at or after the Consecration thereof by any Person whatsoever But I do firmly believe that the present Communion of the Roman Catholick Church is both Superstitious and Idolatrous And all this I do acknowledge intend profess and declare without any Equivocation or Reserve or other sense than the plain and usual signification of these Words according to the real intention of the Law-Makers and the common Acceptation of all true Protestants This is the Test I offer large in Matter because comprehensive of Oaths and Test too yet brief in Words The next thing is the Ways of Taking it with most Aggravation upon the Refusers or Violaters of it First That in all Cities and great Towns notice be given by the Magistrates thereof to the Inhabitants of every Ward or Parish to appear on such a day be it New-years-day or Ashwednesday rather when the Pope Curseth all Protestants at their Publick Hall or other Places of Commerce where the Magistrates shall first openly Read Subscribe and Seal the TEST then that it be Read again by the proper Officer of the Place to the People and that those that take it do audibly pronounce the Words after him that Reads it and when they have so done that they Subscribe and Seal it that such Subscriptions be Registred Lastly Let this be done Annually that is upon every New-years-day or Ashwednesday as a perpetual Testimony of the Peoples Affection to the King and Government and their Abhorrence of the Practice of Rome The Abuse of this Discrimination should be very PENAL for 't is a great Lye upon a Man 's own Conscience and a Cheat put upon the Government Your Wisdoms can best proportion the Punishment but it can scarce be too Severe as our Business stands p. 9 10. Lastly See their Remonstrance c. to the Parliament c. presently after the Death of Sir Edmund Bury Godfrey IT is not a time now to Dispute but Act and that vigorously too or England's lost POPERY that Enemy to GOD by setting up Idols to CHRIST by its New-found Mediators to the HOLY GHOST by putting a Pope in his place to the Scriptures by its Legends and Corrupt Traditions to Reason by its imposed Absurdities to Common Sense by its most foolish but most idolized Transubstantiation to all tender dissenting Consciences by Fire and Faggot and to all Civil Government that refuse to be subject to it by Plots Assassinations and horrid Massacres its usual and notorious steps to Worldly Advancement This monstrous Popery this common Enemy to Mankind that hath so often contrived our Ruin and several times been at the very point of effecting it has once more attempted us and with that Violence and Design that it looks like the last time Nay the great Sticklers of it are got within our Works and promise themselves the Garison because they say they have Friends in Disguise among us 'T is true they have lost some Men in the Attempt but they are not much daunted at that for the whole Papal World they brag have Conspired their Success and the Air Rings with the thousands of Masses that are daily said for the Prosperity of the Design as if their Intention were to Convert the World and not to Kill the King Garble the Parliament Shamble and good and sober Protestants of every Party Fire and Plunder Cities and finally Change the Government and Religion of the Kingdom which is the Plot. Nor will the more impudent of them deny the thing in general but much the contrary insulting to us with Tertullian's Implevimus omnia against the old Pagans We fill your Courts your Armies your Navies it must take you can't avoid it 't is a just Cause to extirpate Hereticks Root and Branch But one and may be the worst part of the Plot has fail'd them they resolv'd to surprize you to make a Night Work of it to let you and yours never see day more for such Deeds become Darkness as they did in France and Ireland in those most Bloody Massacres of poor harmless Protestants But God the infinite good and gracious God that hath always watcht over this poor Island an hundred times design'd to destruction and whose Eye pierceth through the Secrets of Men hath notwithstanding the Greatness as well as multitude of our Sins not to be equalled by any thing but his Patience and Compassion discovered this impious Conspiracy we hope too early for the Plotters Purpose he has beaten up our Quarters and given us the Alarm if we will take it