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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54639	A Pair of spectacles for Mr. Observer, or, Remarks on the phanatical observations on my Lord Petre's letter to the king		1684 (1684)	Wing P195; ESTC R11097	6,731	4

Oates Swore at the Bar of the Lords House against him His 4th Observation for the 3d. will follow next more methodically is on his Lordships affirmation That the murdering of Kings and the taking up of Arms against Them is to his knowledge no authoriz'd Principle of the Popish Religion This makes the little Gentleman touchy and say That the Averment is either delusive or false since Papists have Rebell'd even in England and Ireland seeing their Councils have declar'd and catagorically concluded it in express terms and lastly seeing their greatest Doctors have avow'd it also To this I first say If owning Rebellion lawful by the determination of One or more spiritual True-Protestant-Assemblies for such a Meeting I suppose in our Casuist's sense is a Council and if the asserting it by the Doctors and Preachers of the Communion and again if the practising it by the Flock in general makes the Position an authoriz'd Principle of a Religion I can tell our said Casuist with a vengeance whose Religion this Doctrine is an authoriz'd Principle of with this aggravation too that 't was never explicitly nor implicitly disown'd by the Party nay rather than recant several of the Fraternity have lately dy'd the Devil's Martyrs for it we know But 't is not my Province to Accuse the Brethren or Excuse Popery but to Vindicate a Noble Peer and a Loyal Subject who died a Christian and hop'd for Salvation by the Merits of the Blessed Jesus only To the business then in God's Name The whole English World knows That my Lord Petre was accus'd of intending the King's Deposition and Death nor is any body ignorant with what zeal 't was proclaim'd through the Kingdom That the lawfulness of it was a Popish Principle even a certain Tenet of that Religion Now seeing his Lordship thought it as he says in his Letter a duty he ow'd to Truth and his own Innocence to clear himself of the Treason was it not absolutely necessary if he could truly and knowingly do it to declare the Doctrine a Calumny and to his knowledge to be no Principle of his Church I say was it not necessary for him to do thus especially when 't was evident that our very believing this a part of his Religion infinitely strengthned the Evidence and Charge against him This being his Case and these his Motives might he not then knowingly deny the Principle when several learned men had told him 't was an aspersion when many zealous English Papists had he knew written against it when he heard that Books that maintain'd it had been censur'd and burnt in Popish Countreys and especially when he saw even whilst he lay in Prison in a manner for the King that the Pope 's eldest Son even the Popish King of France with all that Clergy tell his Holiness to his face That they detested this Doctrine for Princes held their Crowns from God alone so that no Power under Heaven could Depose them much more Murther them Nay his Lordship also knew that the good old Man instead of damning his Child for the Fact did even since this Declaration send him his Blessing which no body I think believes he would have done had His Majesty deny'd Transubstantiation Purgatory or any real Tenet of the Popish Religion By this then we see that the Council of Lateran which impos'd even Transubstantiation on all Papists is far from obliging them to the deposing Doctrine and this Dr. Heylin that great Champion against Popery in his Certamen Epistolare plainly shews and truly I shall much sooner follow the Opinion of that eminent Divine than Mr. Observer's But still I say that Popery is Popery and tho' Papists may be Loyal many things in their Religion may be yet Erroneous nor will I be the sooner a Jew because he is thus far in the right as to believe Moses and the Prophets So much then for this point and now let 's fall to the 3d Observation which is extremely remarkable and pleasant it being on that part of the Letter which puts Mr. Observer into an Extasie and far above the Altitudes of Dol Common His Lordships words are these That of the folly as well as falshood of Oates's Information the sober part of Mankind are as he conceives e'r this sufficiently convinc'd To which the Gentleman says That the Paragraph smells rank of the Priests Contrivance That it arraigns the Justice of the Nation That it affronts His Sacred Majesty the Pa●l●ament the Judges c. calling them in effect Fools and Mad-men That sober men are so far from being convinc'd as the Letter means that on the contrary Oates stands in spight of all the little Romish Arts unshaken and as firm as the Pillars of the Earth but the Popish Subornations and Tricks have been abundantly derected by Providence to their confusion as appears in the Case of Knox and Lane Then to conclude he says That He who with deep asseverations avouches one Vntruth cannot expect to be believ'd in another Affirmation by any but Bankrupts in Reason and Prodigals in their Faith What a Rhapsody and heap of unsorted and which is more contradictory things has the Gentleman rak'd up here altogether to his own confusion and shame if a Whig had the grace to have any For what an encouragement does he give to Perjury and any profligate wretch if a Witness must never be question'd after Judgement Magistrates and Governours are not Gods tho' they are call'd so They must commit upon suspicion and believe an Oath when they have no reason to doubt it and therefore 't is Justice in Judges to condemn even an Innocent if really and in their conscience they think him guilty Our very Law-books shew us many sad Precedents of this Nature without dishonouring thereby the Government and the Papists themselves tho' sufferers have had th● ingenuity to own this Truth as we see in the Lord Castlemain's Manifesto yet had they been silent or dogged Mr. Settle in his Narrative and the Observator also in his Loyal Treatises have fully prov'd the point and answer'd all the Phanatical Objections and Pretences But who could have imagin'd had we not had a long and repeated experience of it that Claudius should rail at Debauchery or that True-Protestants should be so tender of the Honour of the Government who blasphem'd against all that is Sacred if their own Copy-holds come once to be touch'd To pass by then the scandal they have cast upon Juries by their Ignoramus's and other Notorious Verdicts Have they not defam'd all our Courts by publickly decrying and disowning the Now PLOT tho' Persons of Rank and Quality have been the Witnesses tho' the Condemned themselves have confest the Conspiracy and tho' no one of them have had the impudence to deny it at their Execution which even in conscience he ought to have done had he been Innocent Nor can any thing more unanswerably prove the Truth Tenderness and exact Probity of the said Witnesses than that so many