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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30357	The ill effects of animosities among Protestants in England detected and the necessity of love unto, and confidence in one another, in order to withstand the designs of their common enemies, laid open and enforced.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1688 (1688)	Wing B5802; ESTC R11786	28,124	24

Temper and imbued with all gracious inclinations to our Laws and the Rights of the Subject but for one Orthodox in his Religion and who would prove a Zealous Defender of the Doctrine Worship and Discipline of the Church as Established by Law are by this time both undeceived and filled with resentments for his having abused their credulity deceived their exspectations and reproached all their gloryings and boastings of him For as it would be now the greatest affront they could put upon the King to question his being of the Roman Communion or to detract from his Zeal for the introduction of Popery notwithstanding his own antecedent protestations as well as the many Statutes in force for the preservation of the Reformed Religion so I must take the liberty to tell them that his Apostacy is not of so late a Date as the World is made commonly to believe For though it was many years concealed and the contrary pretended and dissembled yet it is most certain that he Abjured the Protestant Religion soon after the Exilement of the Royal Family and was reconciled to the Romish Church at St. Germains in France Nor were several of the then suffering Bishops and Clergy ignorant of this though they had neither the Integrity nor Courage to give the Nation and Church warning of it And within these five years there was in the custody of a very worthy and honest Gentleman a Letter written to the late Bishop of D●●by a Dr. of Divinity then attending upon the Royal Brothers wherein the Apostacy of the then Duke of York to the Sea of Rome is particularly related and an account given how much the Duchess of Tremoville who without being her self observed had heard the Queen Mother glorying of it bewailed it as a dishonor to the Royal Family and as that which might prove of pernicious consequence to the Protestant Interest But tho the old Queen privately rejoiced and triumphed in it yet she knew too well what disadvantage it might be both to her Son and to the Papal Cause in Great Britain to have it at that season communicated and divulged Thereupon it remained a Secret for many years and by vertue of a Dispensation he sometimes joyned in all Ordinances with those of the Protestant Communion But for allthe art hypocrisie and sacrilege by which it was endeavoured to be concealed it might have been easily discerned as manifesting it self in the whole course of his Actions And at last his own zeal the importunity of the Priests and the cunning of the late King prevailing over Reasons of State he withdrew from all Acts of Fellowship with the Church of England But neither that nor his refusing the Test enjoyned by Law for distinguishing Papists from Protestants tho thereupon he was forced both to resign his Office of Lord High Admiral and to stand excluded from the House of Lords nor his declining the Oath which the Laws of Scotland for the securing a Protestant Governor enjoyn to be taken by the High Commissioner nor yet so many Parliaments having endeavoured to get him excluded from Succession to the Crown upon the account of having revolted to the Sea of Rome and thereby become dangerous to the established Religion could make impression upon a willfully deluded and obstinate sort of Protestants but in defiance of all means of Conviction they would persuade themselves that he was still a zealot for our Religion and a grand Patriot of the Church of England Nor could any thing undeceive them till upon his Brothers death he had openly declared himself a Roman Catholick and afterwards in the fumes and raptures of his victory over the late Duke of Monmouth had discovered and proclaimed his intentions of overthrowing both our Religion and our Laws Yea so closely had some sealed up their Eyes against all Beams of Light and hardened themselves against all evidences from Reason and Fact that had it pleased the Almighty God to have prospered the Duke of Monmouth's Arms in the Summer 85. the present King would have gone off the State with the reputation among them of a Prince tender of the Laws of the Kingdom and who notwithstanding his own being a Papist would have preserved the Reformed Religion and have maintained the Church of England in all her Grandeur and Rights And tho his whole life had been but one continued Conspiracy against our Civil Liberties and Privileges he had left the Throne with the Character and under the Esteem of a Gentleman that in the whole course of his Government would have regulated himself by the Rules of the Constitution and the Statutes of the Realm Now among all the Methods fallen upon by the Royal Brothers for the undermining and subverting our Religion and Laws there is none that they have pursued with more ardor and wherein they have been more succesful to the compassing of their designs than in their dividing Protestants and alienating their Affections and imbittering their Minds from and against one another And had not this lain under their prospect and the means of effecting it appeared easie they might have been Papists themselves while in the mean time they had been dispensed with to protest and swear their being of the Reformed Religion and they might have envied our Liberties and bewailed their Restriction from Arbitrary and Despotical Power but they never durst have entertained a thought of subverting the established Religion or of altering the Civil Government nor would they ever have had the boldness to have attempted the introducing and erecting Popery and Tyranny in their room And whosoever should have put them upon reducing the Nation to the Church of Rome or upon rendring the Monarchy unlimited and iudependent on the Law would have been thought to have laid a snare for exposing the Papists to greater severities than they were obnoxious unto before and to have projected the robbing the Crown of the Prerogatives which belong unto it by the Rules of the Constitution and to which it was so lately restored And the despair of succeeding would have rendred the Royal Brothers deaf to all importunities from Romish Emissaries and Court Minions Neither the promises and Oaths which they had made and taken beyond Sea to introduce Popery nor their ambition to advance themselves beyond the restraint of Laws and the Controll of Parliaments would have prevailed upon them to have encountred the hazards and difficulties which in case of the Union of English Protestants must have attended and ensued upon attempts and endeavours of the one kind and of the other Or should their beloved Popery and their own be biggottedness in the Romish Superstition have so far transported them beyond the bounds of wisdom and discretion as to have appeared possessed with an intention of Subverting the Protestant Religion and of enslaving the Nation to the Superstition and Idolatry of Rome they would have been made soon to understand That the Laws which make it Treason to own the jurisdiction of the Pope or to