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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69451	The character of a bigotted prince, and what England may expect from the return of such a one	Ames, Richard, d. 1693.	1691 (1691)	Wing A2975AB; ESTC R9100	14,420	28

barefaced as the Sun And after all this and the Deliverance we Enjoy must we go into the House of Bondage again and put on those Fetters we so lately shook off Let the seeming warmth of this Parenthesis be a little excus'd yet I must confess such considerations as these are almost valid enough to justify a Passion and make Anger appear no Fault for were the Roman Catholicks the only Asserters of the Rights of the late King James the wonder would be little bodies often Sympathise at a distance and they by several Obligations are bound to wish him Success and while they terminate in empty Hopes let them still regale themselves with their airy Diet I pity the deluded Creatures but cannot blame them because they Act upon their own Principles and 't would be as unnatural for them not to Pray for his Return as for a Cardinal in hopes of the Popedom to wish success to the Protestant Forces or a Calvinist to Drink a Health to Monsieur Catinat But when a sort of Men guided as they pretend by the Dictates of an unerring Conscience shall at this time of day openly declare for an exploded Interest and these Protestants too Men no ways leven'd with Popery or any of her Doctrin's but Zealous Maintainers of the Church of England Devout and Pious Charitable and Just in the chief Employments of the Church and the Brightest of the Golden Candlesticks For these so openly to declare their Aversion to this Present Government and their Fondness for the Last is what does not a little elevate and surprise to use an Expression of Mr. Bays and comes almost as near to a Miracle as Transubstantiation A late very Eminent Doctor of the Church when the Prosecution was Violent against the Dissenters wrote a most Learned Tract concerning the Nicety of a Scrupulous Conscience wherein he very curiously Anatomizes the several Meanders and turnings of that invisible Operation and Proves that Humour Discontent and Interest do frequently wear the Livery of Conscience How nice soever some may be in point of Religion I wish these Gentlemen could acquit themselves from the forementioned Disguise with which they masquerade their Political Conscience One would wonder what strange bewitching Sophistry the Church of Rome makes use of to blind the Understandings of her Votaries to that degree that they are continually mistaking their own Interest and tamely to deliver up their Bodies Souls Reputation and Fortunes for the Reversion of Purgatory hereafter only for the slight gratification of their humours here and I appeal to the greatest asserter of King James his Interest if they can produce any Crown'd Head in England since the Conquest who was half so Infatuated and Bigotted to the Interest of the See of Rome as the late King Indeed we Read of a Religious Edward and a Pious Devout Henry but our English History cannot afford us one Instance of a Prince who would Sacrifice his own Honour his Kingdoms Safety his Interest Abroad and the Love of his Subjects at Home meerly out of a mistaken Zeal to the Advancement of the Romish Faith the most solemn Oaths and Protestations esteem'd no more than words of Course and that which was held Sacred amongst all mankind valued as nothing in competition with a Command from the Apostolick Chair The old Lady at Rome with all her Wrinkles has still some Charms to subdue great Princes and tho she has Abus'd Depos'd and Murther'd so many of her Lovers yet she finds every day some new Admirers who are proud of her Charms a Practice which comes as near a Miracle as any that Church in her Legends can boast of and I hope some passages in the late Reign are not so forgotten but they may serve to justify the truth of the Assertion Indeed for our amusement we were once told by a popular Pen That allowing a King upon the English Throne Principled for Arbitrary Government and Popery yet he was Clog'd and Shackl'd with Popular and Protestant Laws that if he had ne're so great a mind to 't there was not a Subject in his Dominions would dare to serve him in his Design How true this Assertion has since prov'd let any indifferent person judge the late King himself both dar'd and found no small number of his Subjects as resolute as their Master to alter the whole Frame of the English Government he found not Men only of his own Communion but Men of all Religions or rather of no Religion at all whose desperate Fortunes push't'em on to the most daring Enterprises his single Command added Life to their Motions and no wonder he found Tools to Work withal when all the Obligations of Law were shrunk into the small compass of a Princes Will and the musty Lines of Magna Charta dwindled to a Sic volo sic jubeo Several other artifices were us'd to let us conceive a Popish Prince no such terrible Bugbear as common Fame represents him as that the Idolatrous Superstition of the Church of Rome was by a long series of time so worn off the minds of the People and the Reformation so strongly Rooted the Church of England so firmly Establish'd the Romanists so detested for their Innovations in Doctrin and Absurdity in Ceremonies c. that it was impossible ever to fix Popery here But alas 't was meer Delusion we quickly saw through the Juggle and the State-Quacks discover'd their Leigerdemain tricks too openly and had not Almighty God by a most surprising and almost unparllel'd Providence Deliver'd us I know not by this time but that the Name Protestant had been as odious in England as the Term of Hugonot is now in France and the Dominicans and Franciscans left their Cells in Lincolns-Inn-Fields and the Savoy to have Sung their Regina Coelorum in all the Cathedrals in England I am not Ignorant how some Persons do still Magnifie the Merits of the late King as to his Private Virtues as his being Descended of the Blood Royal his Inviolable tenderness for his Friend the exact Correspondency of his Mouth and Heart his Courage against the Dutch c. but these were glimmering Rays of his which shin'd upon some few only for when he came to his Meridian they chang'd their Nature and the scorching Beams of his Zeal for his Religion got the Ascenednt of all his other Accomplishments which so clouded his discerning Faculties that he mistook his Friends for his Enemies and his Enemies for his Friends the most sage and deliberate Advices given him in opposition to beloved Jesuits were censur'd as intrenchments upon his Prerogative and the single Ipse Dixit of Father Peters valued above the Joynt Council of the Realm the Colledges of Oxford and Cambridg esteem'd as Nurseries of Hereticks and the President and Fellows of Magdelen Colledg most illegally Ejected from their just Rights to receive upon the Foundation a sort of Sparks who were neither Schollars nor Gentlemen Priviledg was swallow'd up by Prerogative and Know