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A54759	The character of a popish successour compleat in defence of the first part, against two answers, one written by Mr. L'Estrange, called The papist in masquerade, &c., and another by an unknown hand.	Phillips, John, 1631-1706.	1681 (1681)	Wing P2081; Wing S2671_CANCELLED; ESTC R23102	48,706	43

lines For indeed as he says a Prince that 's guilty of all this must be both unman'd unchristian'd and an Excommunicate to humane Nature c. if the Gospel and Christianity be truth for the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles will pronounce him such a one But all this while the Reader is to observe that this great Truth is urged by Mr. L'Estrange in favour of his great Mecaenas designing it not so much to set this Brand upon a Popish Successour's perfidy in such a case as to let us understand 't is a picture of a Popish Successour so strangely deform'd and so extravagantly monstrous that 't is not to be matcht or copy'd in Flesh and Bloud and indeed has no being in Nature But not to let him carry it off so what does he think of Sigismond King of Sweden crown'd in the year 1580. who in the very exact parallel to our present state of England being privately bred by his Mother a Roman Catholick unknown to his Father and afterwards being elected King of Poland openly profest the Romish Religion but upon his Fathers death return'd to his Hereditary Swedish Kingdom where with much difficulty he was received but under all the solemn conditions and engagements that could possibly be made between Prince and Subject of his maintaining and upholding their Lutheran Religion But on the contrary no sooner were the Reins in his hand but with all the fiercest Career of Infidelity as if Hell drove him he presently erects Popish Churches places Popish Governours in all his Forts and Castles encourages and countenances no other Perswasion but striving by all Arts imaginary to bring in the Romish Religion Upon this notorious Perjury his Subjects gave him the Reward which Mr. L'Estrange has elegantly allow'd such Perjury deserv'd they excluded him from all the Offices and Benefits of mankind for accusing him of breach of Faith and mischievous practices against the Government they deposed him And this was done by Lutheran Protestants neither Presbyterian nor Independent Fanaticks yet with offer of crowning his Infant-son Vdislaus provided they might have the breeding of him in their own Belief which he refusing after seven years Treaties and other Endeavours for accommodation all in vain in the year 1607. they crown'd his Uncle Charles the third Son of his Grandfather Gustavus Errichson Now how many Bejesuited Fanatical Rebellious Covenanting Trayterous Holy-leaguing Dissenting Psudoprotestants would Mr. L'Estrange have call'd these Lutherans were his Pen retain'd against them and what Volumes would he publish in vindication of Iure Divino and unalterable Succession c. with all the Curses of Bell Book and Candle against them as he has done against the Popish Character for making so slight of that indispensable Duty Passive Obedience though as ill luck would have it certainly the busie Spirit of Mr. L'Estrange was not then in the world for there are no such vilruent Records against them either in any of the Historians of that Age or indeed ever since Now one Remark I would make upon this Sigismond to continue the parallel to our Case He was a Prince in his nature as Heroick as we have or can have a Popish Heir worthy of all those praises that either of these two Answerers have given the last and in short to use one of their own words A Prince for every thing else bating his Perswasion brave to admiration Which one thing must more particularly witness for him his being elected King of Poland a Nation which we all know make their choice for a King out of the gallant famous and illustrious Worthies of all the Princes and Nobility through the whole Christian world And yet we fee neither Magnanimity Justice all the Cardinal Vertues that adorn'd him nor all the promising Perfections and Accomplishments of Nature strengthen'd with all the Bonds of Protestations Oaths or Sacraments could hold the head-strong Violence of his Religion But to return to Mr. L'Estrange in answer to the Character 's proving how improbable nay impossible 't is to suppose we may have a Roman Catholick King That shall discountenance Popery cherish Protestantism and effectually deter all those that shall endeavour to undermine or supplant it he says As to the Influence which a Popish Suceessor may have upon Ecclesiastick Matters As in the Character There needs no more to be said in 't then this that the King has been Gratiously pleased to offer the passing of any Bill for securing the Protestant Religion without Barring or diverting the Succession And such expedients have been also framed to that effect as have been by great Authority judged competent for the obviating of that difficulty The first part of this Assertion all the world knows to be truth but if such Competent Expedients have been framed either the Framers of them have been the Unkindest Men in Christendom or the three last Parliaments the Unluckyest The first in either never producing or publishing those expedients for the Nations service in this time of exigence or the last in never having the good fortune to meet with them for if the Parliament at Oxford were not damnably mistaken or very lewdly forgetful they have declared Nemine Contradicente that neither they nor their Predecessors have ever heard or seen one syllable of such a Frame of Expedients offered them so that with Mr. Lestranges Pardon his above named Great Authority has been greatly unkind in this Matter or else their expedients were like one of the Virtuosoe's Engines never design'd for use But he goes on As to the rest I will not deny but that it is a hard thing for a Prince to teize and persecute a people of his own Religion purely Eonomine for their being so And it is very probable too that he will connive as Men of that perswasion in many cases where the Law directs a Punishment And what is there more in this than what has been done already more or less from the Date of the Statutes themselves to this very Day And what is done by the Government it self towards the Nonconformists at this Instant Where is the great Crime now upon this Admittance in not punishing the Papists so long as the Protestants are not persecuted Here the Reader by the by may take notice that these two Answerers did not confer Notes for one says a Popish Successor will be a second part of the Immortal Brutus and the other that he will be a quite contrary manner of Man But here I would beg Mr. Lestrange to explain himself if he means by a Popish Successors conniving at Men of his own perswasion to be no larger an extent of Royal favor than what that party have received in the two last Kings Reigns the priviledge perhaps of no more than a Queens or an Embassadors private Chapple for the visible worship of the whole party throughout all England then he contradicts the confessions of all the late Popish Martyrs for amongst all their plot silence they unanimously confess