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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47801	An answer to the Appeal from the country to the city	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1679 (1679)	Wing L1197; ESTC R36247	27,086	41

us in mind of the Rebellion of Forty-one and the Regi●…idal Principles of Seventy-nine mind us of the Regicide it self of Forty-eight For these Principles and Practices are nothing in the World but the Venom of the Old Cause swallow'd and Spew'd up again and all the Treasons of the Consistory are cast upon the Conclave As if the Murther of Charles the First by the Treachery of Mock-Protestants were ever the less Detestable because the Two Harries of France were Assassinated by Profest Papistss These are the Puritan Iesuits that turn the Bible into a Nose of Wax that make God the Author of Sin that Depose and Murther Kings by a Text and Intitle their Sacrilege and Treason to the Inspirations of the Holy Ghost These are the Straight-lac'd Christians that make less scruple of Robbing the Altar than of Kneeling at the Communion They can swallow the Blood of Widdows and Orphans and yet Puke at a Surplice Let me ask the worthy Gentlemen of the City now which of the two carry'd them the easier the Schismatical and Sacrilegious or the Episcopal Tantivy Or which they take for the more dangerous Enemies our Appellants young Beggarly Officers or their Old Acquaintances Pen Fulks and their Fellows who violently thrust out the gravest and most substantial of their Citizens as the late King has it and took in Persons of desperate Fortunes and Opinions in their places Let them compare the Appellants Courtiers too with the Old Sequestring Plundring and Decimating Committees with their Court Marshalls and Major-Generals when London was made little better then a shambles and their Merchants only Cash-keepers to the Tyrants at Westminster and then against his Over-hot Church-men we 'l set the Mechanique Pulp●…teers and Tub preachers that not only divided the people from their Sovereign but Wives from their Husbands Children from their Parents and Preacht away Apprentices by Droves into Rebellion Carrying the Schism through Church and State into private Families This is the Blessed change that is now propounded and laid before us Lastly says he the chief and most dangerous of your Enemies are Papists who to make sure of their own Game allure all the three forementioned Parties to their side by the arguments aforesaid Their design is to bring in Popery which they can no ways effect but either by a Popish Successour or by the French Arms. There is no doubt of the danger of the Papists but still while the Government has One Enemy in Front it is good to secure the Flank and Rear from another So that the Ci●…yes only safety lies in the mean betwixt the two Extremes of Popery on the One hand and Lib●…inism on the Other The Former he says can never be effected but by a Popish Successour or the French Arms. See now how this hangs together the same Faction clamour'd against the late King just at this rate and yet there was no prospect at that time of a Popish Successour but yet Popery was charg'd most injuriously as all the World can Witnesse upon the King himself And then for the French Arms so far was his Majesty from calling them in to his assistance that upon the Scottish Rebellion they were Sollicited and Implor'd into a Confederacy against him And yet we remember to our griefs that those very Rumours and Apprehensions of Popery even when there was not any Danger of it east us all into Confusion And now our Appellant to shew how good an English-man he is as well as a Subject enters his Protestation a little lower in the same Paragraph that he would rather of the Two Live under a French Conquerour then the Duke as Successour I must acknowledge says he in the next clause that there is some Coherence between the Beginning of the Late Civill Wars and this our present Age. For as well then as now the Ambitious Papists and French Faction were the chief nay the only Incendiaries which set us all in flame That the French Cardinal did Artificially improve the Turbulent Humour of the English and Scottish Schismaticks to the advancing of the Interest of France and to the Embroyling of these Kingdoms I make no question But to call them the Only Incendiaries is to give the Lye to the constant current of History and the known Certainty of Fact even within our own remembrance How were the Papists and French Factions concern'd in the Scottish Uproar of 1637 and a hundred Sacrilegious Tumults after that in the course of the Rebellion and to set him right now in his Calculation of his Majesties French-friends we shall enform him that the Kings Principall supplies of Men Arms Money and Ammunition were furnished from Holland He tells us further that the Catholique Cause like the Chesnut in the Fable hath ever since Q. Marys days been in the Fire and that both then and now the Papists make use of the Episcopall and Court-parties ●…law to take it out the First of these they allure to their assistance by the Fright of Presbytery the Latter by the apprehension of a Republique tho' nothing is lesse Designed or more Improbable 'T is a hard case to have to do with an Adversary that has neither Candor in his Reports nor any force of Argument in his Reasonings and yet it is the more tolerable here because it is all that either the Story or the Cause will bear He makes the Episcopal and Court-Party to be the Passive Instruments of the Church of Rome for the advance of Popery ever since the Reign of Queen Mary which is so notorious a mistake that Queen Elizabeth and the Hierarchy in Her Reign oppos'd the Errours and the power of that Church with all possible constancy and Resolution King Iames made himself famous by his Pen as well as by his Practices upon the same Subject The Late King lost his Life in the defence of the Reformed Religion and his Majesty that now is hath manifested his affection to the Church of England as by Law Establisht in despight of all Calumnyes and through extream difficulties with the highest Acts of Solemnity Imaginable And now on the other side let but any man trace the History of the Schismatiques from Queen Mary to this Instant and the restlessness of that Faction will appear through every step of his way and that whensoever the Papists prest upon the Government on the One hand the Separatists never fail'd of pinching it on the Other And yet again whereas he talks of the fright of Presbytery and the apprehension of a Republique as neither designed nor probable there 's no man of Thirty years of Age but knows the contrary and that this Nation was actually enslav'd to that Double Tyranny under pretence of delivering us from the danger of Arbitrary Power and Popery Nay and but two lines further he charges the Late King for countenancing Papists no less then This which to every honest man is constructively a Vindication of them