Parable of Jotham on mount Gerizzim about the Trees going forth to choose a King and they chose the Bramble for their King. Now you know it is the nature of a Bramble to scratch and tear all that it comes near as Gadbury observes but the Bramble was not chose for a Commonwealth but for a King. Therefore how he will make this serve to set out the greatness of a King I cannot tell unless he hath made choice of this to abuse and affront them for I am sure it can be taken no otherwise However pitty his Folly and his Ignorance in this and every thing else for if he knew better he would do better for when he calls the Bramble a Commonwealth he calls himself a Common Coxcomb But it is no wonder in this Case because he is the same in every thing else In his Astrology he is a very Ignarant Fellow And his scandalous Libel throughout is nothing else but Cant and Noise As you see in the Nativity he there talks of which is all false his Palladium of Rome his Quotations out of Haly his pretended Astrological Reasons to prove the predictions in the Month false in all which it is nothing else but Trick and Sham. But I do not much wonder he is got into this false Course and Custom when I consider he is turned Papist a Lying false Religion and never was Religion and Proselyte better matcht than now in Jack Gadbury and Popery And this is the Course and Custom he will live in till the Government altars in England for when Popery goes out of fashion then he leaves it and I suppose about twelve Months hence it will be Hey for a new Religion c. Page 28. he says There was never such a civiliz'd Army in England as at this day and he is sure no man hath been wronged of a Pig Hen or Egg without Redress c. Here let the whole Nation be Judges For the behaviour of the Soldiers and the Complaints of the People from all parts of the Nation are visible evidences of the Fellows Impudence But perhaps the Rapes Robberies and Murders they commit are nothing if they let the Pigs and the Hens alone or perhaps he thinks the hanging of a poor Lousy Souldier or two for Robbing is redress and Satisfaction enough for their own Crimes and those of their Officers but I would advise the Fellow to go down to Hounslow and the parts adjacent or into the Countreys where they quarter and inquire there and no doubt but he will hear of many Abuses and Wrongs done that are yet unsatisfied even Rapes and Murders But perhaps Jack may be in the right of it too for the Soldiers have done no man an injury in his sence that is no Papist for in his opinion the Protestants are but like Caterpillars and Vermin that stands in the good Catholicks way and ought to be knocked on the Head and sent out of the world and therefore it is no injury to Rob and Murder them In Page 29. he makes a great Noise about the King's Nativity and says I have calculated it for which he doth not a little Abuse me with his unmannerly Billingsgate Complements and says also that I have predicted the King's Death Yet after all he tells the world that the King's Nativity is not known Why is not this next door to Nonsense For me to do a Nativity that is not known But if it be known or believed to be so the King is the less beholding to that scandalous Fellow Gadbury who printed it the year 1659. But he gives us one special Reason and he says that must serve for all why the Nativity he printed was not the Kings true one and that is No Imperial Nativity can have the Moon in the twelfth House Now how far he would strain the word Imperial I know not I suppose he means not less than a Crowned Head and in that sence I will take it Now observe if you look into the Collection of Genitures printed by Mr. J. Gadbury pag. 23. there you shall find that Henry the second King of France had both Sun and Moon in the twelfth House and in Page 52. of the same Book you will find the King of Denmark hath his Sun in the twelfth House and both these printed and published by that ignorant but great Impostor J. G. Now whether he forgot these or impudently asserted this to out-face the matter to make his Master believe that what he hath writ is true I will leave to his own Confession and conclude that a Lyar ought to have a good memory the want of which is it seems this poor Gentlemans misfortune for these were both Imperial Nativities and both Crowned Heads Of which I could give you more Examples were it convenient but two out of his own Book is more than ten out of the most Authentick Author in being and proves the Fellows Impudence the greater In Page 30. he basely abuseth me when he says that I doom'd the French King to Death three years ago which is false for I never had any Discourse with him in three years before that except September the 9th 1685. and then we had no discourse of that nature So that I perceive he had it by hear-say or else he made it to serve the turn at this time but be it how it will I suppose there is an ingenious Gentleman living near Ludgate that can justifie me in this that I shall now say and he understands Astrology well Mr. C. B. who is the Gentleman I mentioned before met me in March or April 1685. in an evening between Lydgate and St. Pau's And after other Discourse about Nativities he asked me if the King of France would dye that year and if I had ever said so I told him that he had two very bad Directions then coming up but I durst not be positive concerning his Death but I did believe if he did not dye yet he would very narrowly escape it but I had never said positively that he would dye And in this thing that Gentleman if he pleaseth can do me Justice till I can come to do my self Justice upon this Lying pittiful Fellow Now let any man that observed that year and the French King's Affairs remember in what condition he was between October that year and April or May the year following when he lay in that wretched fulsom Condition that as the Letters gave us an account he stunk and was noisome to his Attendants by reason of that Distemper in Ano yet it held him about a year and more but the greatest danger was in the first six Months Now the reason why I could not be positive whether he would live or dye was from directions he then had to operate that I had not had Experience of neither doth Gadbury know any thing of it to this day But I remember a certain Gentleman that I could name went to Gadbury after the late King dyed and asked
he had confest so little of the design Now pray consider What Protestant Prince or Princess can be safe in England while this Fellow remains unbanished or unhanged for he that did confederate with Popish Villains like himself to murder CHARLES the Second for no other reason but because they supposed him to be a Protestant will undoubtedly do it to those that he is sure are so and make less scruple of it too because it is to serve the holy Cause in their hopeless condition In 1685 on Sept. 9. two Romanists and my self being at his house he shewed us a Popish Bishops Picture and said that now the true Religion was coming in again it was no crime to shew an honest mans picture with divers such Expressions that were undeniably sufficient to prove him a Papist for if Popery were the true Religion he was a grand fool if he were not of it if he did intend to be saved but besides this he hath in divers of his late Scriblings and especially his Reply given many good Reasons sufficient to prove him a declared Papist So that this is the fourth time he hath found it convenient to change his opinion and the fifth time he Renegado-like hath changed his Religion as if he made a Trade of it So that now he is reduced to the principles of his original Spawn his Mother being a Papist of whom I could tell you a pleasant Story to shew that he still retains the principles of her insatiate lust However the Papists have the honor to see this worthy member added to their Church he that is as great a blemish to the Protestant Religion as Sam. Parker is and both of them a scandal to any but that of Rome I should first come to answer his Popish Objections and lying Assertations in the Months but that they are so notorious and impudent that whosoever reads will guess at the man and his meanings for he is to oppose all that I have writ and give it the Lye that he may the better incourage the foolish Papists and others converted in the great work that the Gentleman you wot of will not dye in October next that is in 1688. for on his life or death depends the whole Affair and for all his noise he now makes he will tell you a year hence about the time he is to change his Religion again that he knew it too but would not speak of it He ridicules and denies the Hurrycane at Whitehall in March and April last when there was such a turning out of the Court Officers almost to Admiration He denies Ireland to be in distress as I mentioned it in the Month of May he quarrels with and denies the Defeat of the Turk which I predicted in July he denies the quarrel and difference at Rome which I predicted in August which was the time that the Quietists made the first noise and the Cardinals bearded the Pope about it He also denies the preferment of a Right-lined Clergy-man in October which I predicted but he forgets the Popish B. of Chester being sent to Oxford in Commission at that time In December I predicted Persecution but he says there neither was nor could be any such thing I wonder what he calls turning out so many brave learned men at Magdalen College and forbidding them to Exercise all and every part of the Ministerial Function or to be Tutors Schoolmasters c. and all because they would not perjure themselves and turn Papists is not this persecution No no 't is Popish Mercy and Kindness This is but a short Answer to his twelve months which I beg him to accept and promise to give him a Longer as soon as I come to England Some of the same that Collonel Mansel gave him The Chronology asserted and the Lying Juggler refuted in all his Objections c. PAge 2. Since Phocas Murdered his Master Here the fellow begins with a flourish and makes an offer as if he intended to Huff us into submission and calls in Platina and Heylyn for his Authors As if by asking whether I had ever seen them were Authority enough for the people to rely on what he says But I will take the pains to examin him and in doing that I will prove him a Lyar. First he tells us that Phocas did not make Boniface Pope but found him so Secondly that the Title of Vniversal Bishop was given to the Bishops of Rome in the time of Marcian the Emperor by the Council of Chalcedon And thirdly that Phocas did not give but justly preserved the Title of Vniversal Bishop to the See of Rome Which are all three notorious Lyes as you shall quickly see This first is false because Phocas did not find Boniface Bishop but Boniface found Phocas Emperor for when Phocas had by his Murder got the Empire Gregory the Great sate in the Episcopal Chair after whom succeeded Sabinianus and Boniface succeeded him so that Boniface came to be Bishop of Rome not Pope observe that about the fifth year of Phocas as you may see by Helvicus so that Phocas was Emperor before Boniface was Bishop The second is false because the Council of Chalcedon gave the Bishop of Rome no Power nor Title but that of Primacy and by vertue of that he was to take place of the Bishop of Constantinople and all other Bishops in publick and private Affairs but no Universal Title And if the Juggler pleaseth to observe John Bishop of Constantinople had been nibbling at this Universal Title before in which case Gregory the Great declared that it was Antichristian and that whosoever assumed that Title was the fore-runner of Antichrist So that you see this ignorant fellon knows not how to distinguish between a Primacy of Order and a Vniversal Jurisdiction between the Bishop of Rome being acknowledged for the first Bishop and his claiming to be Universal Bishop over all Churches The first was granted to the Roman See before but this last Boniface the third alias Antichrist did first obtain of Phocas the Murderer But for a further confirmation of this truth I have here delivered let us see what Heylyn says because the Juggler hath made use of his name and called him into his assistance He likewise gives all those before Boniface no other Title but Bishops of Rome pray mark that and also makes Boniface the first of the Popes of whose predecessor Sabinianus he says this This is the last of the Roman Bishops not having that arrogant Title of Vniversal Bishop or Head of the Church By all which it is plain that there was no such Title as Universal Bishop before Boniface the third nor no Pope till Phocas made him so by giving him that Antichristian arrogant Title The third must naturally be false because it is deduced from the two false positions preceding But here the Juggler doth as all other Sycophants do he gives villanous Actions soft Expressions He says Phocas did not give but justly preserve the Title
you Jack I doubt you are out in your Topick in this point as well as in your Head of the Church But I perceive by your pious Opinion that the Grand Seignior will make as good a Head of the Church as any of them all and then too I am sure you will be on the Government side if possible you can you are so good a Christian Page 8. Since James the Second took the Coronation Oath c. Here the Fellow mounts the high Rope again and tells us that it is true The King did take the Coronation Oath but it was by his own free choice and might have chused whether he would or not But let me tell him that this is a gross Lye for it is not Condescension and Choice in the King to take it but an Indispensible duty neither are the Subjects obliged to take the Oath of Allegiance till he hath taken that For as he swears to preserve them in their Rights and Priviledges so they swear to stand by him in the Execution of the Laws so that the Oath of Allegiance and the Coronation Oath are Reciprocal and Equally binding And the King is defective in divers points of his Duty and Power till that is performed and done And let me tell you Mr. Jack the Subjects have a Right as well as the King and both by the same Law. And if the King refuseth to be a King by Law there is neither reason nor necessity for them to swear Obedience for the Obedience due to him as King by Law doth also oblige him by the same Law to protect them in their Lives Liberties and Estates So that it is unreasonable that the Law should force the Subjects to swear to obey and maintain a Prince in his Right and not compel him to give them assurance by Oath that they shall enjoy theirs also And if it were otherwise it would shew great weakness in the Legislators of England to bind the one and leave the others to his Will when the Government of both is by Compact But I perceive my Friend John builds his opinion on Filmore such another sorry Sycophantizing Fellow as himself who hath many flourishes and words and but very little Law and less Reason and Honesty However he and Jack together would form a most admirable sort of Government for a Kingdom or Nation to be governed by Dragoons and converted by Booted Apostles Thus you may see what a special Englishman our Friend is and a hopeful Casuist that can guard and defend their tottering Cause with nothing but Lyes Page 9. Since Judge Street 00000000000 Tresilian How now Jack What are you turned Advocate for Westminster-Hall are those Benches supply'd with such Ignorant Fellows that they must make use of a Scribler to defend them with Arguments of downright Impudence This is a fine Credit for your Law and your King. Well Jack you tell us of a Riddle and that you have been the Oedipus to unfold it And you say the eleven Cyphers with Tresilian at the end of them shews that eleven of the twelve Judges must be hanged Why really Jack you are in the right for that is the meaning of it and it doth not only shew the merit and fate of the Villains but it is also a piece of Prophecy that will shortly be accomplished But pray observe When the Fellow hath unfolded the Riddle and told them that hanging is their due lest they should faint under the Consideration of their destiny and think themselves into their Graves and cozen Tyburn He licks them up with some Oyl of Fool and calls them Loyal Judges and Reverend Sages and then perks up with a strain of his accustomed Impudence and asketh what they have done Done ye Slave What have they not done to make themselves compleat Traytors in all kind of Villany and Treason that lyeth within the Sphere of their power and action First They have by their Suffrage given the King a power Superior to Law for which Crime Tresilian was hanged For it is one thing to connive at the Non-execution of the Laws and another to take away their Obligatory Force one thing to supercede a Law wherein his own benefit is concerned and another to dispence with Laws made for the Safety and Security of the Kingdom Religion and Subjects and this they have done in giving their Opinions that the King may dispence with all Law as he sees good You may remember Jack that when Richard the Second had pick'd a pack of Judges for his purpose suppose such as these or not quite so bad and those were Tresilian Belknappe Holt Fulthorp De Burgh Lockton and others the Duke of Ireland the King's Creature with the rest of his Consorts formed the then design into ten Queries under the power of which being granted they intended to manage and carry on their cursed Plot and on the 25. of August in the eleventh year of the King in Nottingham Castle the said ten Queries were propounded to the foresaid Judges to which they all consented and when they had signed and sealed according as they were desired Belknappe broke out into this Expression and said Now I want nothing but a Ship a nimble Horse or an Halter to bring me to the death I deserve for my Treason against the Nobles of the Land. Which ten Queries and the thirty four Articles of Treason which they were after charged with you may find Printed in the Life of Richard the Second which are too long here to insert And when you have considered both their Crimes you will say that the Judges under James the Second have outdone those of Richard the Second and yet this Man asketh what they have done Secondly They have used their utmost endeavour to bring in Popery they have not only connived at the base Actions used to encourage the Popish Party in their present damnable designs to overthrow the Government and alter Religion but have also given advice and direction for the doing of it and visibly shewed their Endeavour by encouraging base and unjust Prosecutions Fining Hanging c. all those that have stood in the way of it And when any such Cause came to be tryed where the Defendant was looked on as an Enemy to the Government as they usually call all those that they are minded to ruin they never used to consult Rastal Pulton or Keble c. in the true Law that did relate to the merit of the Cause But took their direction from the Lord Kings-will Sir John doe-it and Sir William ' Tis-well all of them great Lawyers at White-hall And is not the Defendant or Prisoner in a fine Condition in such a Case as this But that which leaves them without excuse is that they know the Laws which are made and still in force against Popery against all those that are reconciled to the Church of Rome and those that do but assist in any thing that concerns the promotion of the See of Rome in England Thirdly
him upon what direction he Astrologically dyed and with a great deal of sop-gravity he told him that it was the Physicians chereby intimating that the Physicians had murdered him which was very disingenious of him to blame those Gentleman that used their utmost endeavour to preserve him but indeed he could give no true account of his death Astrologically nor really any at all tho he dyed upon the operation of six or seven Directions and therefore he was obliged to make use of any Sham to stop the Gentlemans mouth that asked him In Page 32. he shews his Skill in Astrology where he denies that the part of Fortune can be directed for lâ—â—e Pray Mr. Gadbury what direction kill'd Charles the first of England I know your Answer for you can make no other but this that he suffered upon the Direction of the Ascendent to the Square of Mars if so why did not the Ascendent to the Square of Mars kill in the Earl of Essex his Nativity Like Causes like Effects for none of your Shams shall pass upon me can you resolve this point now with all your Skill And in the Earl of Strafford's Nativity you make the Midheaven to the body of Saturn kill and the Sun is giver of Life Yet in the Nativity of the Princess Royal the Mid-heaven to the body if Mars gives Marriage is not this fine Stuff And in the Case of Henry the Eighth and Queen Mary neither the body nor the opposition of Saturn would kill are not you ashamed of this Nonsence if you are not you may But I shall expose you and your Collection in a treatise by it self in which Case I will use you very kindly but in the mean time pray tell us fairly in print what Direction it was that kill'd that worthy Gentleman Sr. Frech Hollis He that you promised him he should live some decades of years and he was shot to pieces within fix Months after Just so you will cheat the Papists and your Master too for the part of Fortune is Hileg in his Nativity and so it was in his Fathers Pray tell us by what Rules in Astrology you predicted the Queen of England should be brought to bed of a Boy in the year 1686. Did not the Devil and the Priests deceive you that bout I suppose it was a Whitehal Scheam which you judged that by perhaps of the same mans setting as that was which you predicted the taking away the City of Londons Charter by though you laid the sham on an Eclipse of the Moon you know Now when you have considered all this Nonsense Sham and Cheat how can you have the impudence to pretend to be Master and Teacher of any other Astrology than a false one and who do you think will believe you Fools excepted Likewise in the same Page 32. he is so notoriously bold as to deny my quotations from Ptolomey that is lib. 3. Chap. 12. de parte Fortunae and Chap. 13. Quot sint Prorogatores The first of which he says treats of de Impedimentis Infirmitatibus Nati c. and the second de qualitatibus Animae Nati Now I will appeal to all those Gentlemen that have that worthy Author by them of the best Impression which is that of Melancthon who is in the truth He or I for if the 12. and 13. Chapters of the third Book of Ptolomeys Quadripartite doth not treat the one departe Fortunae and the other de Prorogatoribus then I never have read that Book in my whole life But I suppose this Fellow hath cheared himself with the Translation of Camerarius which is the worst in being but it is indeed good enough for him for if he had a better he knows not what use to make of it Now you that are able to examine this Case and judge it will see what a strange Fellow I have here to do with for the two Chapters he there alledgeth are the 17. and the 18. of that third Book In Page 33. he tells us that he was there about to lay by his pen but upon new Considerations fresh Matter came in and my prevarications and abuse of art makes him enter into a long preamble about the Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter of which he gives you a very lame account but it serves to those that do not understand better but to what purpose he luggs them in I know not neither can I apprehend any occasion for them in his pretended answer to that Alman In Page 40. he brings in the Palladium of Rome to shew you that it is under no such misfortunes as I pretend to say it is neither says he is there any reason for it in the figure he produceth in the first place I never spoke any thing as to the Buildings and Foundations of Rome but the Cheating Crew that there resides for it is not against the stone Walls that I shoot but the Murder Idolatry and Villany of those that pretend to be the Head Members and Body of that cursed Antichristian Society who prophanely call themselves the Church of Christ and Christians for in the same Houses there might good pious People dwell were these removed or destroyed and Rome may be Rome when the Pope and all his Lewd Buggering Clergy are gone But if Gadbury pleaseth to consider the present Affairs between the King of France and the Pope and how dreadfully that Storm threatens the Holy See if it goes forward I suppose he will not be so impertinently positive in his Judgment from the Palladium now as he was at the writing of that Malicious Pamphlet Again let him with this also consider how the Lords Inquisitors and Cardinals did handle the Pope in the Affairs of Molinos I think this is an untoward Omen to the Grandeur of the Infallible Power lodged in the Pope as they say Which is further aggravated by that slight they put upon his Bull at Colien all which considered together tells us that either the Palladium is a false position or else the Prophetical Interpreter thereof gives a Lying Judgment to delude the Papists c. Rome stands 't is true unable to defie One Monarch's Fury or our Prophesy In Page 42. the Fellow tells us that the Heavens shew glorious things not only to England and Rome but to all Christcadom to the advancement of the true Religion and the depression of Heresy and Schism This Heresy that he here speaks of is the Protestant Religion and the 〈◊〉 of the Church of England which you see he hath here 〈◊〉 to destruction and ruin for which they are infinitely obliged to 〈◊〉 and the true Religion to be advanced and established is Popery in which this Fellow is imbarked In Page 46. he says Dangerfield was fetcht out of prison by a kind-hearted old Woman which was Mrs. Cellier the pillory'd Popish Midwife Well Jack did She release him from thence for pure Charity 's sake or not No he was to be her Stallion to kill the King and to