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A49360 The loyal Protestants vindication, fairly offered to all those sober minds who have the art of using reason, and the power of suppressing passion by a Queen Elizabeth Protestant. Queen Elizabeth Protestant.; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. 1680 (1680) Wing L3360; ESTC R5421 6,225 10

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the truest Protestants and their greatest Enemies For it 's against Us that all these malicious Plots are levell'd And they have only set you up as Tools and Instruments to compleat their design For alas there is hardly one amongst all your Parties hath writ so Judiciously and Rationally against the Church of Rome as to deserve either a Learned Papists reading or answer And now must our Bishops Doctors and Divines be the only Champions for the Protestant Religion against the Romanists And yet must their Hearers and Followers be branded with the Ignominious Names of Half Protestants Church Papists and Protestants in Masquerade For shame forbear these unchristian slanders or else all foreign Protestants will say that you want both manners and modesty or which is worse brains and reason Go on if you please with your trade of Calumniating But thus plain we will be with you to acquaint you that our Eyes are so open as to see you use one way and the Papists use another way to destroy and Ruine the Church of England with its Protestant professors And we declare That from our knowledge of you Both we expect no Quarter or mercy from either of you For the Church of England men have already endured two Persecutions the one of Fire in the Reign of Queen Mary the other of the Sword in our late Unnatural Wars when men of your own kidney Plundered Sequestred Imprisoned Hanged and Beheaded many Thousands for no other Crime but that they were Loyal Subjects and Queen Elizabeth Protestants And now we are Expecting to fall under a Third Persecution But whether it will come from the Papists or You we cannot as yet so easily Discern Lastly Because you so arrogantly call your selves The Protestants and the True Protestants and so scoffingly call us the Half Protestants and Church Papists and Protestants in Masquerade We therefore send you this Challenge Go if you dare with us into Westminster-Hall to the Assizes and Quarter-Sessions before the Judges and Justices of the Peace and there if you dare take with Us the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Renounce with us the Doctrine of Transubstantiation and the Solemn League and Covenant Subscribe with us the Declaration of the Unlawfulness of taking up Arms against the King And bring with us your Certificates of Receiving the Sacrament according to the Church of England This This is the Test and Shiboleth to distinguish Protestants from Papists and not your Form of Petition which lately went in Procession and should your boasted multitudes of Subscribers be brought to this Touchstone we know that three parts of five would run a great danger of being convicted for Recusants by Law for many of you who proudly call your selves the True Protestants will as stifly deny the doing of these things as the Rankest Papist in England In love therefore I desire you to refrain from the Villifying us with the filthy characters of Protestants in Masquerade and Church Papists since that we have been so kind to you for many years as not to put you upon this Tryal which we know would be as ungrateful and prejudicial to you as any Papists And if you cannot out of Modesty and Charity yet out of Interest learn to be more Sober and Moderate to your fellow Natives and Protestant Brethren and do not Calumniate the Honest Church-men of England who Pray for you and love you better than you do your selves and would be glad to have you to joyn with them in all lawful and justifiable ways for the overthrow of all Popish Plots and the Preservation of that Protestant Religion which is Established by Law And now let all the World Judge whether We or You are Half-Protestants and Protestants in Masquerade since that We will abide by those Legal Tryals and Touch-stones which are the National Discriminations between Protestants and Papists and You or the major-part of You refuse these Tests as well as the Papists and as long as You stand in the Refusal of them You are but Papists in a Protestant disguise FINIS