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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48411	The Life of Boetius recommended to the author of the life of Julian		1683 (1683)	Wing L2024; ESTC R20135	33,660	110

abominable Lyes and Contrivances against Church and State but for preventing Ten thousand more for these Loyal and Worthy men have after much Fatigue and repeated Out-cries taught the Seditiou● Scriblers or rather their Grave Directors a little Orthography that is to spell now and then true a passage not false in every word as also some little caution in their ill-design'd insinuations and Comments since they dare not proceed in their former impudent and prodigious way of vindicating here and defaming there which must had it continu'd have insensibly inflam'd the whole Nation for they now find by woful experrience That Truth will out next day and that all things are at length nay presently answer'd to their loss And now I am mentioning these Excellent men and how outrageously they have been us'd by the KETTS or True Protestant Mechanics of the Age because they zealously stood up as I said for His Majesty and all His faithful Followers and Servants I cannot pass by Mr. DRYDEN's Case since it so particularly shows us according to my Design the Nature and Folly of the Herd who to make some little noise or evasion will run down their very darling Arguments and most specious pretences without the least care or regard for this Gentleman ● looking doubtless upon Neutrality or Idleness as a piece of Ingratitude as well to that Mighty Giver of the Talents He enjoys as to to the Great Monarch who has still been so Indulgent and Kind thought fit to describe the Kingdoms Miseries and their Cause in POEMS that convinced the very Factious in Their Iudgment and tryumph'd over every f●culty of theirs exc●p● that Diabolical Will which as we see resists even GOD Himself No sooner then had he publish'd his happy Thoughts which pleas'd many an honest man but the Hornets were presently about him too and to give him as they thought his mortal wound they printed his Elegy upon Cromwel with great clamour and joy But whether they have hurt Him or Themselves most by it I desire the Reader to judge For how hideously have they bawl'd against every Royallist who twitted them and that with great Reason and Necessity with FORTY ONE the KING's MURTHER c. because it intrench'd forsooth on the Act of Indemnity when as that Amnesty or Pardon never intended had man the power of knowing Thoughts and future Actions the forgiving of any but those that were sorry for their former Crimes and consequently resolv'd to be afterwards True Subjects What impudent ●ools therefore a●e They who throw the said Elegy into the Author's Dish who has not only the genuine and true Plea of Inconsideration for himself● as being when he wrote it a young Graduate or Boy newly come to Town but also which is much more his latter apparent Duty to his King both in Words and Actio●s ought most effectually to vindicate hi● Whereas no Transgressors are charged with the late Rebellion or any thing belonging to it but Those who manifestly ●un now to Sanctuary with polluted hands and with their former blackne●s of Intention Nay if we consider this Accusation as to Mr. Dryden and interpret it verbatim what can it mean but this You wrote Sir once in praise of Cromwel and therefore are a ●reat Villain for opposing any body that either writes or acts at present against your lawful King and Master And truly thus in effect that is to say as to the matter of Fact stands their Justice to any one whom they decry and calumniate But to draw to a conclusion for the present tho' the Subject abounds with such Supersluit● of Matter as to render the sterilest fancy exuberant I will in imitation of the SQUIRE having already given him Preface for Preface Story for Story and Section for Section end my Treatise ● also with my end of writing it which is I must needs say to remind the Reader of our late Miseries and of our happiness by the King's Return To let Him see the True Protestant DESIGN viz. That of Subverting the Gevernment and of bringing us again into our former Bondage under the threed-bare pretences of the fear of Popery to give Him also a short account of their Religion in spec●lation and practice and then to shew their disobedient Principles and restlessness who will have even JULIAN in their mouths when they themselves are the most abandon'd APOSTATES that ever were And so transcendent and particular are they herein that notwithstanding their publickly owning themselves Seperatists their constantly frequenting Conventicles their openly writing and exclaiming against the Superstition of the Church of England yet for the Office of a SHERIFF shall Mr. Bethel himself go to Church Assist at the Common Prayer and then not only receive the Communion at an Altar surrounded with Rails and from a Priest in his Surpliss but with the horrible as they some●imes cry and unsufferable aggravation of Kneeling also What Mercy therefore can the most compassionating Government ●hew to such a sort of People Or what would tender Origen were he alive think could become of them at the Day of Iudgment The Papists have perchance some thing to Mo●lifie an ●asie Magistrate with when he really see● both Great and Small among them leave Imployments suffer Confiscations endure ●mprisonments and the like for what what they think and call Conscience This also makes several good Men to commiserate not a little the Quakers who believing their way of Worship conformable to Gods command will bear afflction and loss rather than forego it so that 't is evident no Dissenters from the Church of England have any Conscience except these two and therefore none but they could the Legislative Power with prudence Indulge deserve any favour or connivance all the others meeting meerly out of Faction and Interest to the great damage of the Government These are the Motives to wit Interest and Faction that cause the SQUIRE instead of quieting the minds of his Party and endeavouting to bring them to ●heir due Obedience to declare against Gregory's Tears and Prayers and to instill Fear if posible into the Silly and furnish at the same time the harden'd and inveterate with his best pretences these also moved him so earnestly to wish not only the unnatural tearing a ●rother out of the King's Arms who humanly speaking is His sole Bulwark and Defence but to aim by His Exclusion from the Crown at the subversion of our most Fundamental Laws which must certainly have created unexpressible Troubles in our Age and most dismal consequences here after and lastly these made him so malitious against a Prince of Valour a Prince of His word and a Prince of that virtue and conduct that His Goodness has thaw'd the very Orcades and Thule and His matchless Prudence in spight of His late mighty disadvantages rendred Scotland even quiet and united notwithstanding its turbulent temper during the Reigns of Queen Mary King Iames Charles I. and Charles II. till now Nay when every thing is

of all BISHOPS as he maliciously stiles him is next condemn'd to a Bonefire at Temple-Bar or in Smithfield In the next place how will a Papist chuckle and crow at the asse●●ion it being what the Bellarmines the Baronius's the Ignatians and the rest of their greatest Hect●rs have ever aim'd at F●● on ●he one side the Church of England is render'd by him to be a pitiful silly thing and no more to be heeded or minded than an old woman's chat or tattle and on the other side the Pope and his ●reatures are applauded as excellent Architects rational in their fabric and in fine what not only out of fo●m sake for otherwise he would be hang'd for a down-right Papist he doubts forsooth whether the foundation be so firm and solid as it should be So that still without the trouble of breaking ground and intrenching he gives a subtle Priest the Counterscarp at a dash I mean he puts him without more ado upon the desirable and ●ushious Topic of the CHURCH a Notion which he continually dreams on and is no sooner started but he runs division without end as the famous Whitaker hints to the Iesuit Campian in these words Catholici vestri turbulentis aliarum disputationum procellis jactati in isto Ecclesiae Portu libenter acquiescunt This is the Recipe which every Papist makes so many brags of which he offers to the Rich and to the Poor to the Scholar and to the Fool. This is the Hook with which he catches your Bristows your Bellassis your Berkshires and the rest of them and this is the Bait which they lay for the great Dutchess as well as for the low and humble Chamber-maid Is not then this Conventicler for I 'll never own him a Minister of the Gospel a rare Champion of the Reformed Religion that shoots thus hand over head among them he calls Protestants even without any caution or pre-arming them But what will not blind malice do or what will not a mad-man venture who dares not only as may be seen all along in his Scandalum magnatum equal himself tho' a mean Parson to a Bishop of London but represents himself so that any body that knows nothing but what the Libel says must take him for a far better man than the Earl of Northampton's Son a Family not only Illustrious for the rank it has in the Catalogue of Peers and of Note as being a Compton but to be honour'd esteem'd for the signal Loyalty of a Father for those faithful and eminent Sons spes crescentis Iuli for the hopes of a Grand-son that may perchance out-vie that Noble and Great Subject his Great-grand-father Enough then of Hickeringill an honest man one may swear when upon a Heady pique he could presently herd himself with a Race of Animals made blacker than ●iends in his own Curse ye Meroz Enough I say now of honest Hick who has yet this excuse left for himself and Mr. Iulian that several True Protestants long before them have in their very Hue's and Cry's against Popery zealously taught their Flock the horridest Tenets which they brand any of the Red-letter'd Gallants with as may be seen at large in the late King's Scotch-Declaration Having therefore done with JULIAN's Life and being come now to the Section of passive Obedience how can I with good manners pass by this Aphorism of that Primitive Saint the True Protestant Mr. Goodman in his very Treatise Of Obedience For there he tells us in express terms That altho' Popes for sundry Enormities have deposed Kings by unlaw●ul Authority the reason yet that moved them so to do was Honest Iust and meet to be received and executed by the body of every Commonwealth Is not this an excellent way of destroying Babylon And are not Papists like to repent and be asham'd of the Principles and Actions laid to their charge if this Puritan Divinity be true But Mr. Iulian has out gone all his bold Predecessors many a furlong for he dares not only call St. Gregory's counsel of Prayers and Tears in time of Persecution Treason but spends several pages against this following position That the Gospel is a suffering Doctrine and so far from being prejudicial to Caesar ' s Authority that it makes him the Minister of God and commands all its Professors to give him and all that are in Authority under him their dues and rather to die than resist him by force To which he answers That at this rate under a P●pish Successor the Lives of all Protestants shall ly at the Mercy of any Iustice of Peace And then he runs on in his old gibbe●is● to the very end of the Chapter 'T is n●t my intention as I mentio●ed in the beginning to answer him in all particulars for that has been amply and excellently done already only now then I mmst take leave to shew you the Devil by his Claw or clove● foot and consequently to let you see what a TRUE PROTESTANT is to wit One that cares not what he grants or what he deny's so it conduces in his poor Iudgment to his private design which is the destruction of the Monarchy This shall make him therefore to paint JULIAN a Cherubin or at least a Lamb or very moderate Prince on the other side to describe the Primitive Christians especially the most fam'd for Learning and ●iet● to be a Company or Legion of Thebean Coxcombs or else more Factious and Rebellious than the Fallen Angels This shall oblige him also to furnish the Papists as has been shew'd with Arms both Defencive and Offencive ane this shall cause him like a true Huntsman to let the Hare which with great eagerness and Crys he has long persu'd get home to her Forme that he may have at a seasonable and Critical time the advantage of another chase ● And truely seeing I am talking of JULIAN and of a True Protestant I must not pass by the Hugonet BLONDEL who to confute forsooth Purgatory as his Adversary Crasset shows decry's the famous and long celebrated Prophesies of the SYBYLS as forged making the most Ancient Christians the Forgers tho JULIAN himself who sought all manner of means to disparage Christianity never question'd the Books nor taxt its professors with any Cheat. But now before I end with JULIAN I must tell my Reader that the● Popish Writers have had the start of this his SQUIRE for as he draws inferences from his Master against them with by-blows home to purpose against the Church of England so they have their Remarks too upon this famous Man not very advantageous I 'l assure you to true Protestants For whosoever consults Gualterus a Iesuit eminent for History he shall find the four following and only Observations upon that Apostate And by the way I must add this that his drift all along is to make the Calvinian Doctrine to agree ad amussim even to a hair with some old condemn'd Heretic or