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A dialogue upon the burning of the Pope and Presbyter, in effigie at Westminster, Novem. 5. 1681
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management of that Horrid Design to Rome as much as any before or since Pope You provoke me at that rate that I must pass Sentence against you Presbyt And no more then I expected O glorious Infallibility to bless and curse the same Person in the same Breath Fallible Muggleton could do no more Pope I was mistaken in you you seemed to be what you are not Presbyt But I am not mistaken in thee Thou very Strumbolo and Etna of all Civil and Ecclesiastical Erruptions Commotions and Plots Pope Nay I know you Hereticks confer the honour of all Evil of this kind upon my self and my faithful Adherents 'T is ten to one but you will say we laid this Plot against you to have you represented and in you all your Gang as Persons more worthy of Flames than Favour Presbyt In my Conscience Beelzebub thou art a Witch or a Conjurer you guess so shrewdly For tho' a Company of inconsiderate Boys appeared on the Stage yet your Actors stood behind the Curtain prompting them on and glorying in it to see the Seene on that day so altered as to burn true Protestants in Effigie instead of Popes and Cardinals I doubt not but the Grave and Learned Master of some of those Youths hath since taught them more Wit and better Manners than to Confront Authority at or near the very place where so many good Laws have been made to extirpate Popery and establish the Protestant Religion and where they lately repealed the Act de Heret Comb. never intending I presume that the burning no not in Effigie of true Protestants should come in the room of it But who shall correct your Agents Or call to account that Bell-Weather to the Tories N. T. who in his Scurrillous Pamphlet approved and made sport with it calling it a sign of Loyalty That you may discern how much he is tickled with the Fancy take the relation of it in his own Words in his Mercury November the 8th Instant Although faith he the Scholars of the Society of St. Peters Colledge Westminsler have been backward in addressing yet they thought themselves obliged to give some signal of their Loyalty wherefore on Saturday last they having dressed up Jack Presbyter in his proper habit they set him in a Tub having in his right hand a Seditious Pamphlet called Vox Patriae and in his left a broad Scroll of Parchment on which was written the Solemn League and Covenant On his Cloak there was pinned another piece of Parchment upon which was written Ignoramus and for a Pulpit Cloath there was nailed on the foreside of the Tub the Atchievments of Jack Presbyter In this manner the Effigies was brought in procession from the Bowling Ally to the Deans Yard where he was set aloft in the middle of the Yard the Tub being underpropped with Three very high Legs so when the Loyal Youths had discharged some dozens of Squibs at him they brought him to the Fire which was prepared for their purpose and setting about Ten Faggots more under the Tub they burnt him down with this Elegy Magnae nec invidio Tu Presbyter ibis in ignem At which a great Shout was given every one expressing Loyalty to His Majesty and wishing that the real Person whom the Image represented and all his Followers had been burnt with it Believe it such a publick Action and publick Vindication deserves a publick Censure Take it with all its Circumstances of person time place and manner and I think the Age past cannot parallel it and the Age to come will wonder at it and scarce believe it I know we have often been represented droll'd and ridicul'd in the most opprobrious manner and Language on the Stage But for a Protestant a Protestant Divine well known to be such by some thousands both in this and other Kingdoms to be dressed up in a most ridiculous manner hung round with Libels and represented as a Malefactor or Heretick conjoyned with the Pope that red Dragon and sacrificed in the same flames on the Fifth of November as if that Plot were as much the Protestants as the Papists or as if the Pope and he were equally guilty of the same Treasons and Rebellions And this too at such a time when God had so lately detected such an Hellish Design of the Papists and which no doubt they are yet vigorously carrying on to the ruin of our King our Religion and all that is or can be dear to us This I say was an action heinous and such as scarce any Instance can be given of the like Therefore I must first lay it at your door then at the Boys Pope I confess this burning of Poppets is but Boys play Presbyt I care not if there were none of it but the Reason why you dislike it is because it was first begun against you the Protestants being provoked by your continual bloody Designs against them But if it be against Hereticks and to reproach them 't is manly and commendable witness your annual Processions of this nature and burning of Hereticks in show at Rome In which we have once or twice endeavoured to imitate you upon your Old Friend Queen Besses Day Now the truth is the one you decry as puerile and childish but the other you publickly allow and approve Pope Yes and hope to see other guess Bonefires made for you Hereticks than these as we have had formerly such as shall not make sport for Boys but affright Men. Presbyt You must stay till our Gracious King whom God long preserve is gone off the Stage and till you have a Prince and a P that will re-establish that abolished Act de Heret Comb. Pope Well we hope the best Presbyt And so do we too that is that our King may live to the time when Popes shall be no more till that Armageddon Battel be begun which shall end in Antichrists Ruin and till that Fire be kindled not of your nor the Devils kindling but Gods into which shall be cast the Devil the Beast with all that receive his Mark and the false Prophet and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever Rev. 20.9 10. Pope But why do you say 't is of Gods kindling Presbyt For two Reasons First That you may not think 't is Purgatory a Fiction of your own framing to deceive the Ignorant and to replenish your own Coffers Secondly because the Holy Ghost who is truly infallible saith so in the forementioned Text and so Antichrist or the Beast and all that receive his Mark shall find it not an imaginary punishment like yours but real and terrible When your Judgments shall come in one day Death and mourning and you shall be burnt with Fire for strong is the Lord that judgeth you Rev. 18.8 In which burning while you and your Adherents shall eternally lament your Idolatry and Witchcrafts your Cheats and Delusions your Profaness and Blasphemies your Fopperies and Fooleries many of those you now call and condemn for Hereticks shall sing Triumphant Halleluiahs to the Lamb in Glory and partake of that fulness of Joy and those Rivers of Pleasures which are at Gods Right hand for evermore Psal 16.11 FINIS