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A36344 More shams still, or, A further discovery of the designs of the Papists to impose upon the nation the belief of their feigned Protestant or Presbyterian plot by Thomas Dangerfield. Dangerfield, Thomas, 1650?-1685. 1681 (1681) Wing D191; ESTC R24288 25,730 39

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More Shams still OR A FURTHER DISCOVERY OF THE DESIGNS OF THE PAPISTS To impose upon the Nation the Beleif of their feigned PROTESTANT OR Presbyterian Plot. By THOMAS DANGERFEILD LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin MDCLXXXI TO THE Right Honourable Sir John More Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of LONDON My Lord HAD I given those Opportunities for men of ill Converse and worse Insinuations to have drawn me aside as others have done to accuse the Innocent perhaps I had had no Occasion to give your Lorship this Trouble But because the Enemies of the King the Kingdom and the Protestant Religion observe my Resolutions fixt and constant to serve all three to the utmost of my Power and Capacity therefore rather than they will leave Plotting they have placed their little Sham Plots upon me too However they go on in the old Popish Track of endeavouring to render Scurrilous and Scandalous the Person against whom they raise their Batteries Among the rest I find my slef most terribly assail'd by two of these Enginees of Defamation by the one in a publick Pamphet by the other in a written but very malicious Letter cunningly distributed about the Town to several of the most Eminent Persons of this City Which being done without the least Proof of the Charges therein contained I cannot but look upon it as an intended Assassination of his Majesties most Royal Grace and Mercy towards me This my Lord is that which enforces me thus to appear in my own Vindication lest the World should think those Reproaches confirm'd by my Silence and consequently those Royal Favours ill bestow'd as being unworthily forfeited This it is that emboldens me to make this Address to your Lordship to shew that I am not affraid of Contradiction before so worthy and so great a Magistrate Whose Zeal for the Protestant Religion is so well known that you disdain the Plotters of its Destruction Whose Charity Generosity and Candor are such that you will not lend a forward Ear to Scandal and Reproach and whose Justice is such that should I be found imposing Falshood upon your High Dignity as you would be the first to Condemn me to deserved Punishment so you will be as ready to uphold and vindicate the Innocent And it is under the Protection of being so that I here presume to subscribe my self My Lord Your Lordships most Humble and most Faithful Servant Tho. Dangerfeild More SHAMS still c. THE best and most pious men that ever were in the World could not avoid the Scandals and Reproaches of venemous and malicious Tongues Even the very Saints and Apostles were not free Nor could our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ so well behave himself in his unspotted Life but that the Wicked had their Scorns and Scoffs ready at hand to blur and defame his Immaculate Conversation Men as impious as Satan found out Accusations and false Oaths to betray his Innocency and either through the Credulity or the Obduracy of his Judges to condemn and put him to Death If then those devout and holy Persons if Jesus the Saviour of the World could not be safe though it were in an Age when the Crafts and Devises of Hell were not so well known or at least so well practised among men as now they are how can poor miserable Creatures not only laden with Original Sin but more obnoxious once perhaps for Crimes perticularly committed than the rest of their fellow Creatures and the Transgressions of Human Precepts propose Immunity to themselves more especially when the most refin'd Villanies and Perjuries abound that ever were heard of such as neither the Memory of Man or History can Parrallel by swearing forswearing counterswearing and all this made a Trade by Men-Swearers and Women-Swearers that live by the price of Blood who if they can but fasten a moments Privacy upon a man never leave till they have sworn him out of his Life Now is it in the power of Man to Divine when this their thirst of Blood will be quenched while they still under various Pretences endeavour to worry the people of God and to annihilate the Immaculate True Religion of Christ set on to the End that what the Jesuits began but could not accomplish by Clandestine Contrivance they should finish by the accursed but most seemingly plausible Procedure of that Caitiff Jezebel For always the Jesuits were of opinion that the best Expedient to introduce Popery and that Hellish Sting in the Tail of it that Destruction of Mankind called Arbitrary Power was to inflame the Nation by false Alarums and impious Insinuations of Sham-Plots and Contrivances laid upon the Protestants to whip and spur on Prosecutions against the Innocent hoping thereby to provoke them into Mutiny and Rebellion that so there might be a Colour to call in a Forreign Power the more easily to accomplish their Destruction Another sort of Men so call'd there are who encourage abett and uphold those Instruments of Satan and their inferior Tools who are of such a malicious and venemous Tincture in themselves that the least appearance of Morality or Virtue or the least Inclination to Penitence or Reformation in another so cu●s them to the heart that if he be not a Proselite of their own that is a Convert to their wicked Designs he must be presently persued at the heels with a sort of Cur-like Observations on purpose to forestal him in the good Opinion of Men and to render him Odious for well doing as if Reformation and the Imbracing of a Christian course of Life in him were Wickedness and Impiety or that his former m●scarriages were never to be blotted out A piece of Charity which would never be owned by any but a Papist that Abhorrer of all Mercy from whom the Protestants are never to expect any favour So that it is no wonder I should be so Viperously bitten by one that either professes or upholds a Sham Politick called Religion that bears such an Antipathy to Charity that would shut Heaven Gates and no● suffer the God of Mercy himself to forgive any but such as they should approve of I have observed though perhaps not so well read as my Persecutor that the great Creator whom Man offends Millions of times more than Man can offend Man declares himself that he is willing to receive a Sinner at what time soever he repenteth and that there is no one Attribute in which he more glorifies himself than in that one Attribute of his Mercy I have also observ'd from the words of our Saviour what great rejoycing there is in Heaven at the recovery of one lost Sheep But the Custom alters with the Place for certainly never was there such Madness Fury Cursing Swearing Drunkning Whoreing Backbiting Rayling Fretting Fuming Grinning and Girning at the retrieving of one Penitent Sinner as I have observ'd in my self All which makes me apt to beleive that that same Person of Quality so reported to be who wrote those celebrated Observations called