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A29318	Brethren in iniquity, or, The confederacy of Papists with sectaries, for the destroying of the true religion, as by law establish'd, plainly detected wherein is shewed a farther account of the Romish snares and intrigues for the destroying the true reformed religion, as professed in the Church of England, and established by law, and for the introducing of popery or atheism among us : clearly shewing from very authentick writers and testimonies, that the principal ways and methods whereby the papists have sought the ruine of our religion and church, from the beginning of our Reformation, to the present times, and by which they are still in hopes of compassing it, are by promoting of toleration, or pretended liberty of conscience, and that for above these sixscore years the papists have so craftily influenced our dissenters, as to make them the unhappy instruments of effecting their most pernicious designs, which they contrived for, the subverting our church and state.		1690 (1690)	Wing B4382; ESTC R6507	50,245	71

the Phanaticks that boasted to be the most avowed and irreconcilable Enemies of the Church of Rome were not only become altogether silent when they saw the Kingdom pestered with a swarm of busie and seducing Emissaries but were turned Advocates for that Arbitrary Paper whereby we were surrendered as a prey unto them and did make it their Business to detract from the Reputation of the National Ministers The Members of the Church of England wrote then above 220. Books against Popery when there were not above one or two writ by the Non-conformists as is to be seen in the late Lift or Accompt that was published of them who with a Zeal becoming their Office and a Learning which deserves to be admired did set themselves in opposition to that croaking fry and did enough by their excellent and unimitable writings to save People from being deluded and perverted if either unanswerable Confutations of Popery or demonstrative Desences of the Articles and Doctrines of the Reformed Religion can have any efficacy upon the minds of Men. And this Author farther saith Among other fulsome Flatteries made to his Majesty by an addressing Dissenter he found this hypocritical and shameful Adulation namely That if there should remain any Seeds of Disloyalty in any of his Subjects the transcendant Goodness exerted in his Declaratian would mortifie and kill them To which he might have added with more Truth That the same transcendant Goodness had admost destroy'd all the Seeds of their Honesty and mortified all their Care and Concernment for the Interest of Jesus Christ and for the Reformed Religion Their old strain of zealous Preaching against the Idolatry of Rome and concerning the coming out of Babylon my People were grown out of Fashion with them And whosoever should come into their Assemblies would think for any thing that he there heard delivered from their Pulpits that she which was the Whore of Babylon a few Years ago were now become a Chaste Spouse and that what were heretofore the damnable Doctrines of Popery were of late turned innocent and harmless Opinions And as they are already arrived to believe a Roman Catholick the best King so they may in a little time come to esteem Papists for the best Christians This and a great deal more to the same purpose you may find in this Book of smart reflections upon the Dissenters scandalous and abominable wicked Confederacy with the Papists for the subverting the true reformed Religon The Troublers of our Israel being thus plainly manifested to the World and a true Discovery made in the several Collections from whence the Evils and Miseries did principally arise that have befallen our Church and State since the days of Queen Elizabeth unto these present times and which will undoubtedly bring Ruine Confusion and Disorder on both if not seasonably and effectually redressed for so the Fountain of Truth and Wisdom tells us Matth. 12.25 That a Kingdom divided against it self is brought to desolation and every City or House divided against it self cannot stand The foregoing accounts are therefore humbly offer'd to the serious perusal of our Church and State-Physicians the Parliament and Convocation to find out and apply proper means and remedies for the preventing the farther growth of these mischiefs which not only threaten but genuinely tend and hasten to the destruction of the true establish'd Religion and of our Nation And that they may zealously go about this good work and effectually finish it it is the Interest and Duty of all good Christians to pray for them both as we are taught in that excellent Form in our Liturgy That God would be pleased to direct and prosper all their Consultations to the Advancement of his Glory the good of his Church and the Safety Honour and Well-fare of their Majesties and Kingdoms That all things may be so ordered and setled by their endeavours upon the best and surest Foundations that Peace and Happiness Truth and Justice Religion and Piety may be establish'd among us for all Generations And it is no less the Duty of all that profess themselves Members of our Church to be sincerely minded and not to be mockers with God but earnestly to seek and endeavour after the freeing us from those evils which we pray to be delivered from in our Litany viz. From all Sedition privy Conspiracy and Rebellion from all false Doctrine Heresie and Schism from hardness of Heart and contempt of God's Word and Commandments and that after the putting up these Petitions in the Church to the Throne of Grace that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of Truth and hold the Faith in Unity of Spirit in the bond of Peace and Righteousness of Life and that God would give to us and all Nations Unity Peace and Concord and bring into the way of Truth all such as have erred and are deceived none of us may be found such wretched self-condemners in our Practice and wicked Prevaricators with God and the Church as to act directly contrary to what we pray for in the promoting of a Connivence Toleration or Libertinism which will establish Schism propagate and multiply Heresies breed Discord and Divisions and will also impower and commission Satan to sow his tares and to seduce multitudes from the ways of Truth Peace Unity and Righteousness and when people are left at Liberty in matters of Religion to do what seemeth good in their own eyes they seldom do what is good in the Lord's eyes but are laid open to great Temptations of being drawn away into the paths of the most dangerous errors Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that which he alloweth Rom. 14.22 Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he reap Gal. 6.7 St. Paul's Prophecy of the Downfal and Suppression of seducing Separatists or Dividers 2 Tim. 3.8 9. Now as Jannes and Jambres Aegyptian Magicians withstood Moses so do these also resist the Truth men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the Faith But they shall proceed no further for their folly shall be manifested as theirs also was FINIS

Brethren in Iniquity OR THE CONFEDERACY OF PAPISTS with SECTARIES For the Destroying of the True Religion as by Law Establish'd plainly detected WHEREIN Is shewed a farther Account of the Romish Snares and Intrigues for the Destroying the True Reformed Religion as Professed in the Church of England and Established by Law and for the Introducing of Popery or Atheism among us clearly shewing from very Authentick Writers and Testimonies That the principal Ways and Methods whereby the Papists have sought the Ruine of our Religion and Church from the Beginning of our Reformation to the present Times and by which they are still in hopes of compassing it are by promoting of Toleration or pretended Liberty of Conscience and that for above these Sixscore Years the Papists have so craftily Influenced our Dissenters as to make them the unhappy Instruments of effecting their most pernitious Designs which they contrived for the Subverting our Church and State Every Kingdom divided against it self is brought to desolation and every City or House divided against it self cannot stand Matth. xij 25. Now I beseech you Brethren mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the Doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them For they that are such serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own belly and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple Rom. xvi 17.18 These be they which separate themselves sensual having not the Spirit Jude i. 19. LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall MDCXC THE CONTENTS TWO very remarkable Letters the one from Sir Will. Boswell the other from Archbishop Bramhall shewing how much the Sectaries were Influenc'd by Papists to take off the Life of King Charles I. and to Embroil the Church c. pag. 1 3. Dr. Peter du Moulin's Narrative which confirms the Papists contriving the Death of King Charles and their putting Phanaticks upon the Execution pag. 6 Part of Father Sibthorp's a Jesuit Letter shewing their Intrigues with the Sectaries for the raising of Broils in Church and State pag. 12 Mr. Richard Baxter's Discovery and Confession of the Papists insinuating themselves among the Sectaries for the restoring of Popery pag. 14 Several material Collections to the same purpose out of the Writings of the Learned Dr. Stillingfleet now the Right Reverend Bishop of W. pag. 17 Archbishop Whitgift's Opinion That the Papist's befriend the Puritans pag. 19 Archbishop Grindall's fear of Popery and Atheism being promoted by them pag. 20 Campanella's and Father Young's Advice of bringing in Popery by means of Toleration and help of Phanaticks pag. 22 Coleman's and the Lord Viscount Stafford's Confession of bringing in Popery by Toleration and the Phanaticks help pag. 23 Bishop Saunderson's Opinion how and in what Phanaticks befriend Papists pag. 26 Some Verses to the same purpose ibid. The Judgment of Nine Learned Presbyterian Divines of Toleration pag. 31 The Votes and Reasons of the House of Commons in 1662. against it pag. 43 The Letter of the Presbyterian Ministers to the Assembly of Divines at Westminster against Toleration pag. 46 Sir Francis Walsingham's Letter concerning Severities used against Papists pag. 53 Lord Keeper Puckering's Speech to the Parliament concerning the Puritans preparing the way to the Spanish Invasion 1588. pag. 59 What good Effects the Penal Laws wronght and the Acts of Vniformity in bringing People to Church when duly executed pag. 60 Bishop Burnet's Reason why the Penal Law 's wrought no more good in making People generally conformable to the Church pag. 62 Arshbishop Whitgift's Character of the Puritans turbulent Spirits ibid. King Charles I. his Memorial of the great Numbers of Papists in the Parliaments Army and of the Papists and Phanaticks Confederating pag. 63 An Ingenuous and very true Account of the Dissenters combining with the Popish Party in the late Reign of King James II. against the Church of England pag. 64 Brethren in Iniquity OR The Confederacy of Papists with Sectaries for the destroying of the True Religion as by Law Established plainly detected A Letter from Sir William Boswell to the most Reverend William Laud late Arch-bishop of Canterbury remaining with Sir Robert Cotton's choice Papers Most Reverend AS I am here employed by our Soveraign Lord the King your Grace can testifie that I have left no stone unturned for his Majesty's Advancement neither can I omit whenever I meet with Treacheries or Conspiracies against the Church and State of England the sending your Grace an account in General I fear Matters will not answer your Expectations if your Grace do but seriously weigh them with deliberation For be you assured the Romish Clergy have gull'd the misled party of our English Nation and that under a Puritanical Dress for which the several Fraternities of that Church have lately received Indulgence from the See of Rome and Council of Cardinals or to Educate several of the young Friars of the Church of Rome who be Natives of His Majesty's Realms and Dominions and instruct them in all manner of Principles and Tenents contrary to the Episcopacy of the Church of England There be in the Town of Hague to my certain knowledge two dangerous Impostors of whom I have given notice to the Prince of Orange who have large Indulgences granted them and known to be of the Church of Rome although they seem Puritans and do converse with several of our English Factors The one James Murray a Scotch-man and the other John Napper a York-shire Blade The main drift of these Intentions is to pull down the English Episcopacy as being the chief Support of the Imperial Crown of our Nation for which purpose above sixty Romish Clergy-men are gone within these two Years out of the Monesteries of the French King's Dominions to Preach up the Scotch Covenant and Mr. Knox his Discipline and Rules within that Kirk and to spread the same about the Northern Coasts of England Let therefore His Majesty have an inkling of these Crotchets that he might be perswaded whenever Matters of the Church come before you to reserr them to your Grace and the Episcopal Party of the Realm for there be great Preparations making ready against the Liturgy and Ceremonies of the Church of England And all evil Contrivances here and in France and in other Protestant Holdings to make your Grace and the Episcopacy odious to all Reformed Protestants abroad it has wrought so much on divers of the Foreign Ministers of the Protestants that they esteem our Clergy little better than Papists The main things that they hit in our Teeth are our Bishops being called Lords the Service of the Church the Cross in Baptism Confirmation Bowing at the Name of Jesus the Communion-Table placed Altar-ways our manner of Consecrations and several other Matters which be of late buzz'd into the Heads of the Foreign Clergy to make your Grievances the less regarded in case of a change which is aimed at if not speedily prevented Your Grace's Letter is carefully

Church of Rome unless they could under the same pretence of Purity and Perfection draw off Protestants from the Communion of this Church too To this purpose persons were imploy'd under the disguise of more zealous Protestants to set up the way of more spiritual prayer and greater Purity of worship than was observed in the Church of England that so the people under these pretences might be drawn into separat meetings Of this we have a considerable Evidence lately offer'd to the World in the Examination of a Priest so imploy'd at the Council-Table in the ninth Year of Queen Elizabeth 1567 published from the Lord Burleigh's Papers which were in the hands of Archbishop Vsher and from him came to the hands of Sir James Ware whose Son brought them into England and caused them to be Printed under the Title of Foxes and Fire-brands A. D. 1680. Two Years after the Examination of the said Priest one Heath a Jesuit was summon'd before the Bishop of Rochester on a like account for disparaging the Prayers of the Church and setting up extemporary or spiritual Prayers above them and he declared to the Bishop That he had been six Years in England and that he had labour'd to resine the Protestants and to take off all Smacks of Ceremonies and make the Church purer When he was seized on a Letter was found about him from a Jesuit in Spain wherein he takes notice how much he was admired by his Flock and tells him They looked on this way of dividing Protestants as the most effectual to bring them all back to the Church of Rome and in his Chamber they found a Bull from Pope Pius the fifth to follow the instructions of the Society for the Dividing the Protestants in England as also a Licence from the Fraternity There is one thing in the Jesuits Letter which the late Publisher of it did not understand which is that Hallingham Coleman and Benson are there mentioned as persons employ'd to sow a Faction among the German Hereticks which he takes to be spoken of the Sects in Germany but by the German Hereticks the English Protestants that is Lutherans are meant and these very men are mention'd by our Historians without knowing of this Letter as the most active and busie in the beginning of the Separation Of these saith Fuller Coleman Button Benson and Hallingham were the chief And Heylin saith That Benson Button Hallingham Coleman and others took upon them to be of more ardent Zeal than others c. that time is 1568 which agrees exactly with the date of the Jesuits Letter writ from Madrid October 26,1568 and both these had it from Cambden Who saith that while Harding Saunders and others attack'd our Church on one Side Coleman Button Benson and Hallingham were as busie on the other who under pretence of a purer Reformation opposed the Discipline Liturgy and Calling of our Bishops as approaching too near the Church of Rome and he makes these the beginners of those quarrels which afterwards brake out with great Violence Now that there is no improbability in this account will appear by the suitableness of these pretences about spiritual or extempore Prayer to the Doctrine and Practice of the Jesuits for they are profess'd despisers of the Cathedral service and are excused from their Attendance on it by the Constitutions of their Order And are as great admirers of Spiritual Prayer and an Enthusiastick way of preaching as appears by the History of the first Institution of their Order by Orlandinus and Maffeius This is sufficient to shew there is no Improbability that the Jesuits should be the first Setters up of this way in England And it is observable that it was never known here or in any other reformed Church before this time and therefore the beginning of it is unjustly father'd on Thomas Cartwright but by whomsoever it was begun it met with such great success in the zeal and warmth of Devotion which seemed to appear in it that no charm hath been more effectual to draw injudicious people into a Contempt of our Liturgy and admiring the way of Separation And what is it which the Papists have more envied and maligned than the Church of England What is it they have wished more to see broken in piece as the late Cardinal Barberini said in the bearing of a Gentleman who told it to Dr. Stillingfleet He could be contented there were no Popish Priests in England so there were no Bishops for then he supposed their work would do it self What is it they have used more Arts and Instruments to destroy than the Constitution of the Church of England and its Government Did not Cranmer Ridly Hooper Farrar and Latimer all Bishops of our Church suffer Martyrdom by their means Had not they the same kind of Episcopacy which is now among us and which some are so busie in seeking to destroy as unlawful and inconsistent with the primitive Institution as if it were Popish and Antichristian Is all this done for the honour of our Reformation Is this the way to preserve the Protestant Religion among us to sill mens minds with such prejudices against the first Settlement of it as to go about to make the World believe that the Church-Government then established was repugnant to Christ's Institution and that our Martyr'd Bishops exercised an unlawful authority over Diocesan Churches But whither will not mens indiscreet Zeal and love of their own Fancies carry them If such men are not set on by the Jesuits they do their work as effectually by blasting the credit of the Reformation as if they were In the Reign of Queen Elizabeth that Great and good Man Arch-Bishop Whitgist in his defence of the Answer against Cartwright pag. 605. tells the Puritans That the Papists could not have not with better Proctors than they And Pag. 55. he tells them That only did the Pope very good Service and that he would not miss them for any thing for what is his desire but to have this Church of England which he hath accursed utterly defaced and discredited to have it by any means overthrown if not by foreign means yet by domestical Dissention and what fitter and apter instruments could he have had for the purpose who under pretence of zeal overthrow that which other men have builded under colour of purity seek to bring in Deformity and under the cloak of Equality and Hamility would usurp as great Tyranny and losty Lordliness over their Parishes as ever the Pope did over the whole Church And in another place he saith They were made the Engines of the Roman Conclave whereby they intend to overthrow this Church even by these mens folly which they could not compass by all their policy His worthy Predecessour also Arch-Bishop Grindall express'd in a Letter of his his great fear of two things viz. Atheisin and Popery and both arising out of our needless Divilions and Differences He doubts not by Satan the enemy of mankind and the

evil Rom. 13.4 And God hath deputed you for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of them that do well 1 Pet. 2.19 There be some that would blot out half your Commission and restrain this good and evil to eivil good and to evils only against Men But this is against that general Rule Non est distinguendum ubi lex non distinguit Where the Law doth not distinguish there must not we distinguish Tell me I beseech you shall it be lawful for Magistrates to punish those that destroy Mens Souls Shall they be blamed for suffering Men to draw away people from Obedience to the Laws of the Land and to themselves and not also for suffering Men to draw away People from the Truth of the Gospel and from the ways of God such as Hymineus and Philetus who overthrew the Faith of some and their words eat as a Canker Shall Christian Magistrates take up the Maxim of Tiberius Deorum injurias Diis curae esse Let God himself take care to vindicate himself from Injuries committed against God as for me I will just like Gallio take care of none of these things Can Christian Ears endure such Language Doth not God Prophesie Isaiah 49.23 That in the New-Testament Kings shall be our Nursing-fathers and Queens our Nursing-mothers And how can a ChrisTain Magistrate discharge that Duty aright if he hath not Power from God to punish those that would poison the Souls of his weak Children with Heresies and soul-destroying Opinions Object Will you allow the Magistrate to Tyrannize over Mens Consciences Answer By no means but I believe it is the Duty of Magistrates to keep Men from infecting their Subjects with soul-destroying Errours If thou hast an heretical Opinion have it to thy self and the Magistrate will not nay cannot meddle with thy private Conscience But if thou labourest to Infect others with thy grace-destroying Opinions I doubt not but the Magistrate is bound to keep thee from spreading thy Infection to the undoing of the Souls of his Subjects If he may lawfully shut up a Man that hath the Plague upon his Body that he may not Infect others why not a Man that hath the Plague of heresie upon his Soul that so he may not destroy the Souls of Thousands Shall a Master of a Family have nower to put away a Servant that is tainted with a gross Opinion and yet not be called a Tyrant over that Servants Conscience And shall not the Chief Magistrate of a Kingdom have power to put out of his Kingdom at least shut up from doing hurt one that is his Subject and polluted with blasphemous heretical idolatrical Opinions Is not the Kingdom the Magistrates House and Family In another Sermon before the Commons Octob. 22. 1644. Pag. 26. Mr. Calamy preached thus This is a certain Rule That all the Sins of the Kingdom which are committed by your Connivence or Allowance are the Parliament-Sins and they call for a Parliament Repentance and therefore I beseech you search and try your hearts and consider how far you are accessary to the Sins of the Kingdom that so you may be wrought up not only to a personal but a Parliament Humiliation If you do not labour according to your Duty and Power to suppress the Errors and Heresies that are spread in the Kingdom all these Errors are your Errors and these Heresies are your Heresies they are your Sins and God calls for a Parliamentary Repentance from you for them this Day You are the Anabaptists you are the Antinomians and it is you that hold That all Religions are to be Tolerated c. These are your Errors if they spread by your Connivence for the Sins of old Eli's Sons are imputed to Eli himself And when the Israelites had profaned the Sabbath Nehemiah told the Nobles of judah That it was they that did profane it because they suffered the people to profane it Nehem. 13.17 Mr. Richard Baxter in his Holy Common-wealth Addition to Pref. Prop. 6. London Printed for Tho. Vnderhill saith It was none of the old Cause that the People should have Liberty and the Magistrate should have no Power in all Matters of God's Worship Faith and Conscience and as it is not the old Cause so it is not a good cause for First it contradicteth the express Revelation of the Will of God in the Holy Scriptures Moses had to doe in Matters of Religion as a Magistrate and so the Ruling Elder that assisted him and so had the Kings of Isruel and Judah as it is well known insomuch that in Asa's Days they covenanted to put him to Death that would not seek the Lord God of Israel Law and Providence are quite changed if toleration of false Worship and other abuses of Religion tend not to the Ruine of the Common-wealth It tends also to the destruction of the Church and Mens Souls if all hae leave to do their worst to Preach up Infidelity Mahometanism Popery or any other false Doctrine or Worship against the great and necessary Truths I leave it therefore to the Judgment of all Men that are not fast asleep in their security and utterly unacquainted with the advantages of the Papists whether this design of engaging the Magistrate by a Fundamental Constitution not to meddle with Matters of Faith and Worship but leave them all to Christ alone be not the present setting up of Popery in England and the delivering all the Fruit of our Labours Prayers and Victories into the Papists Hands ' Object But Liberty for Popery and Prelacy is still excepted Answ By whom But if there had been an exception against Popery c. put in it would have been to little purpose as long as a general Rule is laid down that condemneth that Exception For if it be the standing Rule That Matters of Religion and Faith and all Matters of Worship are out of the Magistrates Power to say then that Popery shall be excepted from Liberty is to say The Magistrate shall intrude into the proper Office of Christ to restrain the Papists Mr. Matthew Newcomen in a Sermon before the Parliament Sept. 12. 1644. Page 31. saith No Reformation of Religion now now nothing will satisfie some but a Toleration of all Religions and all Opinions Church-Government and Discipline is to some a Fiction to others a Tyranny and Persecution Ah Brethren this is a provocation and will be a provocation for this God may turn us into the Wilderness again Page 36. We are come to down-right Libertinism There are two Opinions which if encouraged will open a Door to Turcism Judaism Atheism Polytheism any monster of Opinion The one is That every Man is to be lest to the Liberty of his own Religion an Opinion most pernitious and destructive as to the Souls of Men so to the Common-weal of the Kingdom That Liberty of believing what Men will or of holding what Faith they please is no other than a Liberty of Erring and of erring in a matter

used and the Government as in an ague divided between hot and cold sits no wonder if Laws so unsteadily executed have failed of their effect But if the Government shall think it sit to imitate that prudent excellent Princess and in instead of shewing any fear of the Dissenters put the Laws moderately in execution against them we shall no doubt in a short time find the good effects of it in the happy uniting them to the Church of England to the great disappointment and grief of the Papists And till this be done we can expect no other than Confusion and disorder in the Church and Distraction in the State And the Book that was written in the Oliverian days by a learned Presbyterian intituled Wholesome Severity reconciled with Christian Liberty licenced by Ja. Cranford will justifie such a proceeding against the several sorts of Dissenters and vindicate it from the odious Imputation of Persecution In which Book there is this memorable sentence That Liberty of Horesie and Schism is no part of the Liberty of Conscience which Christ hath purchased for us but that under these fair colours and handsome pretexts Sectaries infuse their poison their pernitious God-provoking Truth-defacing Church-ruinating and State-shaking Toleration The Character which the Great and good Arch-bishop Whitgift gave of the turbulent Spirits of the Puritans is very considerable in a Letter of his to the Privy Council which was occasion'd by a Paper of some Suffolk Ministers True it is saith he they are no Jesuits neither are they charged to be so but notwithstanding they are contentious in the Church of England and by their Contentions they minister occasion of offence to those which are seduced by Jesuits and give the Sacraments against the Form of publick Prayer us'd in this Church and by Law establish'd and thereby increase the number of them and consirm them in their willfulness They also make a Schism in the Church and draw many other of her Majesty's Subjects to the misliking of her Laws and Government in Causes Ecclesiastical so far are they from perswading Men to Obedience or at least if they perswade them to it in the one part of her Authority in Causes Civil they disswade them from it as much in the other in Causes Ecclesiastical so that indeed they pluck down with the one hand that which they seem to build with the other And is is truly observed by Doctor Tompkins in his Pleas c. Pag. 141. That notwithstanding all the Zeal which the Non-consormists doe declare against Popery it is well known that they have and as their Interest leads them can still join both Counsels and Arms together The leading Men of both Parties in Ireland were wonderfully great together all the while that the Design was managing against the Earl of Strafford And here in England in the Declaration which King Charles I. set forth concerning the Success of the Battel at Edgehill on October 23. 1643. he hath left this Memorial to all Posterity All Men know the great member of Papists which serve in their Armies Commanders and others the great Industry to corrupt the Loyalty and Affection of all our loving Subjects of that Religion the private Promises and Vndertakings that they have made to them That if they would assist them against us all the Laws made in their prejudice should be repealed The Popish Party also used the same perswasive methods in the late Days of King James the Second to allure the Dissenters to join with them for the pulling down the Established true Religion and how effectually this Bait was swallowed by them and into what a hellish Confederacy these two Brethren in Iniquity enter'd together for the Destruction of the Church of England their many scandalous Addresses and other their libellous Invectives against the Church of England which were stuffed with the most inveterate Hatred Rancour and Malice that Hell could devise against it do abundantly testifie nor can I better express suitably to their deserts how foolishly as well as criminally they acted in those Days inconsistent with Prudence Honesty and their former Clamours against Popery and Arbitrary Government Then in the Words of a late Author their Friend and Favourer who professes a great deal of kindness for them in many Pages of his Book Entitled A Representation of the threatning Dangers impending over Protestants in Great Britain before the coming of his Highness the Prince of Orange In this Book notwithstanding the good will he shews to the Dissenters and his undeserved Censures and Reproaches of the Church of England which very spitefully do abound in it yet when he came to consider the Dissenters siding so much with the Papists and the brave opposition the Members of the Church of England made against Popery it drew from him smart reflections on the one and very high Commendations of the other according to the just Merits insomuch that by reason of the Dissenters many flattering Addresses and their countenancing and defending the King 's Arbitrary unjustifiable Proceedings he says of them Pag. 44. The World has just ground to say That the Phanaticks are not governed by Principles but that the measures they walk by are what conduceth to the private and personal Benefit or what lies in a tendency to their loss and prejudice and that it was not King Charles II. his Vsurping an Arbitrary and Illegal Power that offended them but that they were not the Objects in whose favour it was Exercised And Pag. 46. he saith this of them Notwithstanding all the danger from Popery that the Nation was exposed unto and all the hazard that the Souls of Men were in of being poisoned with Romish Principles yet instead of Preaching or Writing against any of the Doctrines of the Church of Rome they agreed among themselves and with such of their Congregations as approved of their procedure not so much as to mention them but to leave the Province of defending our Religion and of detecting the falshood of Papal Tenets to the Pastors and Gentlemen of the Church of England And being asked as he knew of some that were why they did not preach against Antichrist and confute the Papal Doctrines they very gravely replied That by preaching Christ they did preach against Antichrist and that by teaching the Gospel they refuted Popery which is such a piece of fraudulent and guileful Subterfuge that I want words bad enough to express the Knavery and Criminalness of it It was but the other Day that the conformable Clergy were represented by some of the Dissenters not only as favourers of Popery but as endeavouring to hale it in upon us by all the methods and ways that lay within their Circles and yet now the whole Defence of the reformed Religion must be entirely divolved into their Hands And when all the sluces were pulled up that had been made to hinder Popery from overflowing the Nation they were left alone to stem the Inundation and prevent the Deluge They among