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england_n	duke_n	king_n	york_n	7,865	5	9.8357	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31692	The character of a Jacobite by what name or title soever dignifyed or distinguish'd / written by a Person of quality.	Person of quality.	1690 (1690)	Wing C1976; ESTC R9049	14,237	32

Piety were seemingly well intended neither will the Goodness of a Mans Intentions excuse the Scandal and Contagion of his Example Others there are who are more Plyable and Complaisam who being unwilling to come within the Lash of Acts of Parliament think it their safest way to take the Oaths both to King William and Queen Mary But these Men have a Trick to save themselves they are Sharpers at Equivocation never known among Protestants before and are able to teach the Jesuites themselves to sing a Note above Ela Thus the Chancellor of a certain Diocess in this Kingdom being ask'd how he could take the Oaths to King William and Queen Mary and act for King James Oh! cry'd He though I took the Oaths I never swallow'd ' em And thus you see how near to a Reconciliation the Jacobites and Romanists are they are link'd together against King William like the wicked against David But the Jacobites are so short-sighted as not to see that were the t'others ends accomplish'd 't is a Friendship so ill order'd it would never hold together their Darling's good Fortune would soon unloose the Knot and then they must come over the Stick for the Pope or else not a bit of the Crust The greatest part of these Jacobite Dons were of King James's Promotion or by his Interest when Duke of York and fearing therefore to be laid aside they would make the World believe that the Church of England will fall should they be discarded when others more Dignify'd more Conscientious more Religious more Fore-seeing apprehend no such Danger They would make the World believe the Reformation of the Clergy to be the Downfall of the Church Hence such a Bustle such a Clutter such a Hurry hence so much Canvassing at Elections such bauling out St. George for the Church as if all lay at stake when nothing is in danger Some of these great Jacobites conform on purpose to do Mischief and they are the most dangerous for they are able to give bad Counsel unsuspected and their Friendship betrays like Fire that embraces to consume Some of these there are who are easily perswaded to send about their Diocesan Letters to their Inferiour Clergy upon their Filial Obedience to give their Voices for such a One as being pitch'd upon by the Grand Cabal of the County for his Affection and Fidelity to the Church And many times the same Pretence deludes others that mean better with the same Hazard of their Reputation As if it could be any Honour to the Church of England to imitate the paltry Shifts and wicked Politicks of Brent and Graham But a true Levitica● Jacobite cares not whom he amuses nor whose Example he follows so he may but have the Honour to stand fair with Antichrist and King James A true Levitical Jacobite cares no more for the Church than for the Alchoran but he Worships the Church Lands and so he may but lye well and at ease he matters not whether it be in the Abby of Glastenbury or the Parsonage of Simsbury However these Levitical Champions for K. James draw after 'em some Numbers of the Gentry and Commonalty of the Nation Among whom of the Male Sex there are three Degrees of Comparison Some Sober some more Loose some most Extravagant The Sober part are wheedl'd in by the specious pretence of the Churches Danger Men otherwise of Honest Morals but Credulous Bigotts that pin their Faith without Examination upon their Instructors Sleeve and believe that all they say is Gospel thô they should tell 'em that High-gate Hill was made of March-pane If they are men not so easily gull'd they feel the Ladies Pulse and if she be of their Party Heavens how the poor Gentlemans Ears are teaz'd between the Wife and the Doctor and so they make themselves Masters of his Reason as Poachers catch Partridges astonish'd with the dinn of the Lowbell Others Ambitious of a Seat in Parliament or a Magistracy in the County though they see through 'em and have perhaps as little Religion as themselves however they close with 'em and applaud their Zeal for the Church to save the Expences of Canvassing or Feasting the Corporation But having studied well neither the Laws of God nor their Countrey they render themselves so obnoxious to a more happy Revolution that nothing can save 'em but an Act of Oblivion None of these are any more than the Crutches of a Crazy Government which being once restored to a healthy Constitution lays 'em aside as needless Supporters Their Devotion is like Meat neither hot nor cold which frighted the Devil from being a Serving-man and their Loyalty is like a Woman's Affection generally too much or too little And for their particular Loyalty to King James 't is like an Ill Habit which when a Man has once got he can never leave it However it serves 'em to make a noise with at a Tavern for want of other Discourse or else like a cold Neats-Tongue or a Dish of Anchovies to relish a Glass of Wine They have a pretended Kindness indeed for the Service-Book and the Liturgy of the Church of England but they are more for set forms of Oaths than set forms of Prayer and preferr a brisk God damm 'em before a sneaking Lord have mercy upon us They know so little the true value of the Laws and Constitutions of the Land that they were ready at any time to part with those Jewels for the Barley-Corns of Court-Favour Tyranny therefore huggs 'em and makes the same use of 'em as Tamerlane did of his Captive Bajazet to get up and ride the People The looser sort are Persons wholly addicted to their Pleasure that measure their Felicity by their Passions These are Men that live most at ease under the Oppressions of Arbitrary Power like those sort of Animals call'd Hog-lice that breed and multiply under the weight of great Timber-loggs Under the strictness of Government they are like Fish out of the Water in the looseness of absolute Tyranny they are as merry as Summer Swallows in a Chimney Having therefore experienc'd the Remissness of King Jame's Reign like Ivy to a Steeple they cling to his Misgovernment as being that which allow'd 'em the full swinge of their Licentiousness and rather choose with Swine to wallow in the Mire of Voluptuous and Libertine Bondage than breath the Air of Freedom within the limited Impalements of the Law They live like Brutes by Sence and Appetite not Reason and having no more Understanding than Dorr-flies buzz about the Dazle of a forfeited Crown to their own Destruction They talk of Religion as they that never travel'd talk of Forreign Countries However if you ask em of what Religion they are they will tell you they are Protestants of the Church of England if you misdoubt the Truth of it they presently confirm it with a God Damm 'em but they are Ask 'em why then they side with King James who is a Papist Because quo ' they the