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An historical review of the late horrid phanatical plot in the rise, progress, and discovery of the same.
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F. N. W.
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1684
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Wing W28; ESTC R6864
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and Priviledge of Parliaments the lawful Rights and Liberties of the Subject against all Incroachments and Vsurpation of Arbitrary Power whatsoever and endeavour intirely to disband all such Mercenary Forces as we have reason to believe were Raised to advance it and are still kept up in and about the City of London to the great amazement and terrour of all good People of the Land Moreover J. D. of Y. having publickly professed and owned the Popish Religion and notoriously given life and breath to the Damnable and Hellish Plots of the Papists in their wicked Designs against His Majesties Person the Protestant Religion and the Government of this Kingdom I will never consent that the said J. D. of Y. or any other who is or hath been a Papist or any ways adhered to the Papists in their wicked Designs be admitted to the Succession of the Crown of England But by all lawful means and by force of Arms if need so require according to our Abilities will oppose him and endeavour to Subdue Expel and Destroy him if he come into England or the Dominions thereof and seek by Force to set up his pretended Title and all such as shall adhere to him or Raise any War Tumult or Sedition or by his Command as publick Enemies of our Laws Religion and Country To which End in the Close they Bind themselves whose Hands are thereunto Subscribed and every of them jointly and severally in the Bond of one firm and Loyal Society and Association and do Promise and Vow before God that with their joint and particular Forces they will oppose and pursue unto Destruction all such as upon any Title whatsoever shall oppose the Just and Righteous Orders of the said Association and maintain protect and defend all such who enter into it in the just performance of the true intent and meaning thereof and least the said Work should be hinder'd for want of Discipline and Conduct or any Evil-minded Persons under pretence of Raising Forces for this Association should attempt or commit Disorders they would follow such Orders as they should from time to time receive from the then present Parliament whilst sitting or the Major part of the Members of both Houses Subscribing the said Association when it should be Prorogued or Dissolved and Obey such Officers as should by them be set over them in the several Countries Cities or Burroughs until the then next Meeting of the same or another Parliament and would give the same Obedience to it and those who should be of it Nor would they for any respect of Persons or Causes or for Fear or Reward separate themselves from the said Association or fail in the Prosecution thereof during their Lives upon pain of being by the rest of them Prosecuted and Suppressed as Perjured Persons and Publick Enemies to God the King and their Native Country To which Pains and Punishments they voluntarily Submit themselves and every one of them without Benefit of any Colour or Pretence to Excuse them In Witness whereof they were to put their Hands and Seals and agreed to be ready to accept others thereafter into the same Upon the whole let any serious Man debate what this amounts to less than rankest Treason where they come in the last Clause of it to the perfect point of Levying of War positively agreeing that they will Obey such Officers as either the Parliament or the Major part of the Members either Sitting or Dissolved or the Major part of the Subscribers of the said Association should appoint utterly Excluding their useless Soveraign from any Right or Directions therein But I suppose they thought it probable He would scarce have joined with them to have Destroyed Himself and His Guards The latter of which they Bind themselves to and consequently include the former Manifest and open Treason yet this plainly proved to have been taken in the Lord Shaftsbury's own Closet with Eight other Witnesses at the same time who severally Testified against him as rank Treason and Designs as ever Debauch'd a Nation obtain'd no more Credit with another of our Ignoramus Juries then if Contradictions or Impossibilitiesh ad been endeavoured at by them insomuch that the Innocent Lord was Discharged and a new Holiday added to the Kalendar of the Presbyterian Saints for his Deliverance which that the same might be conveyed to the Memories of their Posterity a Medal was framed where on one side thereof the Face and Title of our Hero was delineated and the Reverse presented us with a Palace becoming his honour the Tower of London with the Sun displaying his Beams o're the same adorning the Spires and Buildings of that almost Betrayed City with this Motto LETAMVR And Judg then if we had not cause for it to behold Treason pass Muster with Impunity and the most Notorious of Criminals Disgoaled and Usher'd in as on the Shoulders of Triumph with Songs and Io Paeans before him whilst Fires of Joy lighted his way into the Bosom of that Town he at the same time intended to lay waste as the sequel of this History shall Evince Audacious Impudence not to be parallel'd by former Presidents or practis'd in any Civil Government and yet the pretence is Zeal for the Publick Good the Catiline was his Countries Patriot the Bulwark of their Liberties the Defender of their Rights and Opposer of those Invasions that were pretended against them Oh well vail'd Hypocrisie Methinks I see the Devil in Samuels Mantle with his demure Priests about him Plotting to have no King in Israel that they might do what was right in their own Eyes Methinks I hear them Rejoycing at the Success of their Enterprizes and Confidently as of old Canting That Heaven is Auspicious to their intended Designs in that it so far favours them But alass the Day will not long last the Eye of Providence beholds the Counterfeit and is too watchful over his Chosen his Anointed David to let the Councels of this Achitophel succeed to the Enthroning the Rebellious Absolon in His stead or Defeat the Succession that by the Gift of Heaven as well as his own Merits is in all probability reserved for a more Wise and Glorious Proprietor One whose Fame like that of Solomons has already reached to the outmost Limits of the World and is justly the Admiration of the present as he shall be of future Ages who much about this time returned from an Honorable Exile in the Neighbour Realm whereunto the Malevolence of the said Aspiring Party had too long Confined Him to the Grief of all Loyal English-Men tho' the Advantage of that Country where he then Resided the Influence of whose Gracious Presence like that of the generative Rays of Light having there produced so general a Reformation and Increase of all sorts of Benefits to the Inhabitants that mentioning the same I cannot but give you a short Account thereof as the Pens of their own Writers have Confest that Men may learn to know he is not so Invaluable