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A66478 An historical review of the late horrid phanatical plot in the rise, progress, and discovery of the same. F. N. W. 1684 (1684) Wing W28; ESTC R6864 41,811 36

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AN Historical Review Of the Late HORRID PHANATICAL PLOT IN THE Rise Progress AND DISCOVERY Of the SAME LONDON Printed for Arthur Jones at the Flying-Horse near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet 1684. To the Right Worshipful Sir Peter Daniel Knt. Alderman and Sheriff Of the CITY of LONDON SIR I Am not Insensible how great a Presumption I Commit in casting my self and the ensuing Treatise at your Feet Nor without a great Measure of Confidence which your repeated Favours have often Emboldned should I ever have Attempted the same For which as in the first place I am Obliged to Entreat your Pardon so in the next your Acceptance As Inducements whereunto I have no Gilded Commendations to Adorn the Present no Flowers of Rhetorick or Eloquence to Embellish the same All that I can say in its Behalf being no more than what the Loyalty of my Intentions was in Writing it I did it for a good End to Expose the Nations Worst Enemies and Unriddle their Plots and Conspiracies And tho hereby I 'm Assured of Contracting the Ill-Will and Censure of too many who are and in spight of Heaven it self will continue Incorrigible I shall Despise their Malice and under the Umbrage of your Patronage Rest secure Nor indeed could I ever have made Choice of a better Security to defend my well designed tho mean Performances then Prefixing your Name thereunto All Good and Loyal Men Revere it and the Worst have an Awe and Regard for 't so strong are the Charms of Vertue that where she cannot Absolutely Conquer Inbred and Establisht Vice yet the most Vicious Esteem the Victor and in their Hearts acknowledg her Powers Your Early Loyalty Triumphed in the Worst of Times when Goodness was out of Fashion you Wore it The prevailing Faction could neither Shame nor Fright you and your Practice made good your own Maxim That steady Loyalty is the surest Foundation of the Kingdoms Felicity But Pardon me Dear Sir if I break off in a Theme I could never say Enough and all that could be said were much too little and give me leave to Conclude with my Wishes for your Temporal and Eternal Happiness who am Your Obliged and Humbly Devoted Servant F. N. W. An Historical Review Of the Late HORRID Phanatical Conspiracy c AS Previous to the Relation of the late Phanatical Plot to shew the unreasonableness as well as Impiety of the same It will not be unnecessary to take a short Scheme of the Times wherein the same happened To which end we need look no further back in our Annals then the days we have lived in nor certainly can we meet with in all the past Records of ours or any other Nations any instances of Ills so Infamously Notorious as those which these may afford us pretermitting such which an Act of Oblivion did but too mercifully bury in Silence tho our Memories cannot obliterate the same seeing the like Actors and Actions designed on our present Theatre as fatally made up the Tragedy of our late Disasters which brought as well the best of Kings to the Ax as the best of Governments to Anarchy and Confusion The Night of suffering under which we then lay was so long and tedious that our hopes were almost inveloped in its shades and despair had got so strong a possession of our Spirits that we lay groaning under our burthens with Tempers as unactive and frozen as Slavery and Fear could make them to complain was a Crime to redress a Treason the first a certain Forseit of our Estates the latter of our Lives When Providence Almighty Providence for no less could Finish our Redempton raised up our beteared Eyes to behold the Day-star which ushered in the Morning of that Felicity we have since enjoyed in the happy Restauration of his Majesty A day which in all future ages will be certainly Recorded amongst the most fortunate this Isle was ever blest with A day wherein Religion and Monarchy like two Winter'd Roots that had been long buried in the Grave of Earth began to Sprout and put on the Springing Livery of Summer and Increase A day wherein Right like an Intercepted Current flowed again in its own Channel and visited those Banks from which it had been so long estrang'd Our Churches reduced from Stables and Garrisons to the Temples of the Omnipotent Our Benches from Seats of Injustice to those of Law Equity and Conscience Our Preachers disarrayed of their Buss Disarmed of their Swords and discarded from these pretences to give Place to the Judicious and Pious Our Doctrines purged of Schism and Heresy and in short whatever was in it self Relig●ous Peaceable Just and Righteous took the upper hand of Atheism Hypocrisy Confusion and Deceit Nor was the shine of this Glorious hour like the Promising Beams of a Beauteous Morning which was soon overshadowed by the rising Clouds of a weeping Noon but so settled and Established were its resplendent Rays that under the Universal Influences thereof our Vineyards increased and our Barns were fill'd with the replenished Harvest of all sorts of Happiness in so great a measure that certainly no Nation in the whole Universe not our own in the most Celebrated times of Peace and Plenty could ever boast the like 'T was then we began to see the difference between a Tyrant that had Usurped his Masters Throne by feigned Artifices and Injurious Arms and preserved the same by close Impiety and holy Cheats and a Lawful Prince whose undoubted Right gave him as Indisputable a Title thereunto as his Merits have since shown him worthy thereof The noise of War and Bloodshed was drown'd in the still Waves of slowing Peace No seige Alarm'd the Muses Palace or dispers'd their Votaries the Citizen was fearless of and safe from Plunder the Plough-man unaffrighted could Sing at his Labours knowing his propriety to their Increase and each Man under his own Vine bless the Patron of their safety Happy happy had we been could we have been thus contented but so luxuriant is the temper of too many amongst us that Heaven it self should it have showred down Gold into their Chest and Treated them with Celestial Viands yet they alas Would never have been contented but like the Murmuring Israelites in prospect of their Canaan have lookt querulously back to their Egyptian Bondage and longed for the Onyons and Garlick they there fed on a greater Instance of which I would boldly challenge all Histories to give me an account of then this which now Employs my Pen Which I 'me affraid will scarce in future Ages receive its due Credit it being so unreasonable in it self and so Impious in its design a design not only to have destroyed the Ancient Government of three Realms the Established form of the best Religion and the continued Calm and Serenity we had so long enjoyed even then when Christendom was embroyled in Blood and Arms and scarce one corner of the European World besides our own was disengaged but also that