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A34762
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The countries vindication from the aspersions of a late scandalous paper (nick-named) Robert Tell-Truths advice in choice of the next Parliament in which his popish designs are fully discovered and detected / by a lover of his king and country.
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Lover of his king and country.
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1679
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Wing C6573; ESTC R20996
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of the World and enemies to Mankind who brought him also to his miserable End and it can and is now prov'd that the Jesuits had in that Trayterous and horrid murder a principal hand Quis Talia fando sustinet a lachrimis After this dismal Tragedy was over and we in the height of distraction and the Land in a Chaos of confusions estrang'd from peace and settlement God in Judgment remembred mercy and by his Miraculous Providence our blessed Prince like the glorious Sun after our dismal Nights and sharp winter of afflictions appeared in our Horizon to our almost distracting-joys receiving his People with open arms of Clemency to which his People ecchoed with all loyal expressions of grateful affections and duty our Government of Church and State establisht and we now in the apprehensions of peace and safety every man expecting to sit down under his own Vine and Fig-tree enjoying the fruits of his labours in which the Papist had more than an equal share through the Grace and Princely bounty of our King not suspecting their designs and they boasting themselves as his most loyal subjects Whilst they were in this unquestionable credit and all the severe Laws against them laid asleep infinite swarms of Jesuits Priests and Friers and all sorts of Orders like the Egyptian Plague of Locusts came in amongst us perverting the Kings Subjects contrary to Law compassing Sea and Land to gain Proselytes in which they have prov'd too successful and amongst those many hundreds seduced to lay their foundations sure they have rob'd our Nation of the most Heroick Victorious Prince next Apparent Heir to the Crown This we may remark as an infallible confirmation of their damnable Plot a Treason of the deepest dye never to be forgiven by any Protestant and a quarrel never to be reconciled they had wounded us in our several Members before but in this they stabbed us to the very heart and now it began to be fair day their designs obvious the ruin of King and Kingdom with all the artifice that Hell could secretly and cunningly contrive and had been as certainly executed had not the infinite mercy of God taken care of us unmaskt their designs and discovered their horrid Plot by the prudent faithful and unquestionable Informations of Dr. Oates Mr. Bedlow Dugdale and others who under God preserved the Life of our most Gracious King and with him our Lives Liberties Religion and all that 's dear to us for which faithful important service they deserve the best of Rewards here and their Names to be written in Characters of Gold Chronicled to posterity and though their serious and most congruous Evidences back'd with many most undeniable Circumstances have past an Examination by His Majesty and Council and by two Parliaments successively and lasty by all the Judges of the Nation in fair full and Legal Tryals confirmed and the Conspirators justly Convicted and brought to punishment yet such is the blinded wilfulness of many and the malicious Impudence of others that notwithstanding all and the Murder of brave Sir Edmundbury Godfrey to boot they would fain wash their hands in Innocency and are still playing their Game in new disguises imposing a belief upon the world that the danger lyes in the Dissenting Protestants but the Devil cannot detect them for one act of Disloyalty since His Majesties Restauration whilest you have been plotting all this while and wrought your designs into Treasonable Acts of all kinds and yet by the help of your Principles special Merits and Absolutions as innocent as the Child unborn But Sir these fig-leaves will not cover your nakedness you cannot catch English-men in Cobwebs nor can you and all your Popish Masquerado's dance in your Nets but you must be seen Noscitur ungue Leo the Devil is known by his Cloven-foot and your Characters are written in the flames of London and in indelible Characters of Blood which cry for judgment to Heaven against you Take heed therefore you that forget God Christianity and Morality lest he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver you 't is not the least happiness that you are known to the world you cursed Jesuits What was your behaviour when you were banish'd Franc when you were expell'd the Venetian Territories and other States where they found you Firebrands that would have destroyed their Kingdoms and Commonwealths Who Murder'd the French Kings No Puritan no Godly party no honest Countrey man Phanatick Priests and Jesuits are principl'd for those Butcheries You are too well known by the bloody Colours and the Noble Cavalier that fought Conscienciously for his King found such ill success with you in the late War you robbing him of his Lawrel and of the due Rewards of his blood and sweat will never hand with you again All your wheadles will never gâ—â—â—â—â—â—n from the Church of England nor make him insensible of the safety of his King nor less carâ—â—â—â— of the Interest of England by well-Elected Parliaments neither shall all your false insinuations prevail to make the world believe That either our Parliaments or People would put down Bishops a Trick to put the design off your selves that you may better without suspicion do the worâ—â— no Sir we honour that Government and by Gods Grace will stand to it and revere our Grave and Learned Bishops whom we look at under God the best Bulwarks against your Tyrannies Popish Innovations The next thing he brings out of his Box is a new Shiboleth or a distinction betwixt the honest Countrey-man and Courtier and indeed there is a great difference for the honest Countrey-man is for the honour peace and safety of the King and Kingdom takes care and labours hard to get money to support the King and Government and this Courtier detested by all and comes under the reproachful distinction is a pernicious piece of Luxury a Drone a too-fac'd Janus that has crept into the Confines of the Royal Palace where he fawns and flatter till he has obtain'd so much countenance as can get him into some Trust and observing how the wind blows turns his Sails so readily that in time he dare attempt with Commendatory Letters an Election in some petty Burrough where he must drink away an honest Countrey Gentleman and by the strength of a publick Purse he is chosen by those pitiful Sâ—ts that understand no other danger or advantage than the profit of the present Carowzing he is now return'd and sits having neither honour honesty nor estate necessary qualifications for the trust of others Lives and Estates his work is then to make up his stake by any device I cannot compare it better than to the practice of some Knavish Master of a Ship who being intrusted by his Owners with a goodly Ship and fraught with a valuable Cargo he having no part in either takes up on Bottom Râ—â— as much money as ever his credit can possibly stretch to and having made up his Market the next best opportunity when