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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23722	The absolute necessity of standing by the present government, or, A view of what both church men and dissenters must expect if by their unhappy divisions popery and tyranny should return again		1689 (1689)	Wing A112; ESTC R9768	37,630	52

Cruelties which he commanded and encouraged his Minion of equal Piety and Humility S. Dominic to the utter desolation of a Populous Country and extirpation of the Inhabitants of whom the small remainder that escaped the Slaughter were constrained to fly for Refuge into Bohemia And the succeeding Slaughter of the Valdenses in the City of Merindoll and Villages adjoyning under the reign of Paul III and carry'd on by the Cardinal of Tournon and the Bishop of Cavaellon the Pope's Vice-Legate with that fury that not contented with the bloody Executions of the naked and harmless Inhabitants they said their very Habitations in Ashes and levelled them with the Earth And therefore so much the more is the Power of Rome to be fear'd and prevented in a Nation that values it's own welfare and security by how much it appears the most Cruel and Destructive Religion in the World as not deeming any People worthy to live upon the Earth but the Slaves of Papal Jurisdiction and for that Reason not content with petty Cruelties but still clearing her way to Absolute Dominion by General Massacres entire Desolations and utter Extirpations And therefore tho' it argue Folly and a womanish Fear to be scar'd with Rabble-Reports on purpose rais'd to amuse the Minds of the Vulgar Herd yet it is but common Prudence to have a watchful Eye over those that we see so frequently guilty of Impieties of the same nature and to be wary of being surpriz'd by such as are easily induced to act what has bin by their Predecessors so dreadfully committed already For that it still runs in their Blood and that they are the same People still unalterable in their Sanguinary Principles there is no need of going any farther then to begin with Queen Mary's Reign At what time England was become such a Theatre of Fire and Faggot as if Rome had design'd to have chang'd her imaginary into a real Purgatory over all this Land for the refining the Bodies of the Protestants a very uncharitable piece of Charity tho with this difference That the Sufferers could neither by Prayers nor Money obtain deliverance from this as her Adherents could both Pray and buy themselves out of their own So soon as Edward VI was dead the Lady Jane Daughter to the Duke of Suffolk whose Mother then alive was Daughter to Mary second Sister of Henry VIII was proclaim'd Queen of England and the Lady Mary King Henry's eldest Daughter put by the Succession the Nobility who then sat at the Helm being not a little apprehensive that she might entangle the Crown by marrying with a Stranger and more certainly assur'd well knowing her obstinate Bigottrie to the Romish Tenents in the time of her Brother's reign that she would alter the Religion which had bin us'd as well during the Life of her Father King Henry as in the Days of her Brother King Edward and so bring in the Pope again to the utter destruction of the Realm Upon this Mary retires into the Quarters of Norfolk and Suffolk and with such of the Commons as she could get together kept her self close for a while in Framingham Castle thither the Suffolk Men resorted to her and promised her their utmost Assistance provided she would not attempt the alteration of the Religion which her Brother King Edward had establish'd by Laws and Orders publicly enacted and received by consent of the whole Realm To which Condition she readily agreed with Promises so solemnly made That there should be no change of the setled Religion that no Man then could well have misdoubted her Thus gull'd by her feign'd Assurances the Suffolk Men stood by her and that so faithfully that with little or no Resistance she obtained the Crown But no sooner was she in Possession of the Sovereign Power but forgetting all her Promises and joyning Ingratitude to Treachery she forgat the Covenants made in Hebron and displacing the Orthodox and Learned Bishops which her Brother had advanc'd preferr'd in their rooms her own Popish Creatures and above all the rest those two Blood-suckers and mortal Enemies of the Reformed Religion Gardner and Bonner forbid Preaching and reading of the Scripture And when the Suffolk Men afterwards petition'd her to perform her Promise she returned them for Answer That seeing they who were but only Members sought to rule their Head they should one day know that she would make the Members obey the Head and to strike the more Terror into others pillory'd a Norfolk Gentleman for presuming in most humble manner to put her in mind of her Promise With no less Ingratitude did she prosecute Sir James Hales one of the Justices of the Common Pleas who had ventured his Life in her Cause as being the only Judge that had refused to set his Hand for her being disinherited by the Kings Will yet because he gave a Charge at the Quarter-Sessions conformable to the Statutes in Henry VIII's time against the Supremacy of the Pope and concerning Religion she imprisoned him in the Counter Marshalsea and Fleet where by the continual Discourses of the Warden of the Torments that were preparing for Heretics he was driven to that Despair as at last to lay violent Hands upon himself Queen Mary besides that she had bin bred up from her Infancy in the Maxims and Tenents of the Romish Church was naturally of a morose and sowre Disposition and being so bigotted as he was to the Church of Rome there was little Ground for the Protestants to expect any Favour but what they might hope for upon her Promises made to the Men of Suffolk But when she had broken those Promises and withal had advanced to the highest degrees of her Favour Gardner and Bonner then too late they were too well assured of what they had to trust to Gardner was a Man of a haughty and imperious Spirit crafty and subtle to his Superiors flattering and fair spoken to his Inferiors fierce and disdainful and against his Equals sturdy and envious so that his Emulation of Cromwel's Greatness especially for favouring Bonner for whom Gardner had no kindness at that time made him an utter enemy both of him and his Religion from which after the fall of Somerset he became so averse finding which way the Tide was like to turn that he continued a cruel Persecutor of it to his dying day For as for Divinity he had no more then to serve his turn as having alway addicted himself to those Arts and Studies that fitted him rather to be Great then Good. So that finding himself now at the highest Pinnacle of Authority to which his Ambition could aspire he abandon'd himself to those Maxims of Cruelty which he thought most proper to secure his Grandeur And therefore finding he must stand or fall by Popery he resolved to gratifie that Profession which had raised him No wonder then he were so severely Cruel for Cruelty and Popery are inseparable Nay there seems to be that deep Infection in Popery that the more