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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

Popery for by the same power that he can dispense with the Penal Statutes against the Nonconformists he may also dispense with those against the Roman Catholicks and whosoever owneth that he hath a Right to do the first doth in effect own that he hath a Right to do the last for if he be allowed a Power for the superceding some Laws made in reference to matters of Religion he may challenge the like Power for the superceding others of the same kind and then by the same Authority that he can suspend the Laws against Popery he may also suspend those for Protestancy and by the same Power that he can in defiance of Law indulge the Papists the exercise of their Religion in Houses he may establish them in the publick celebration of their Idolatry in Churches and Cathedrals Yea whereas the Laws that relate to Religion are enacted by no less Authority than those that are made for the preservation of our Civil Rights should the King be admitted to have an Arbitrary Power over the one it is very like that by the Logick of Whitehall he will challenge the same absoluteness over the other Nor do I doubt but that the eleven Iudges who have gratified him with a Despoticalness over the former will when required grant him the same over the latter I know the Dissenters are under no small Temptations both by reason of being hindred from enjoying the Ordinances of the Gospel and because of many grievous Calamities which they daily suffer for their Nonconformity of making Applications to the King for some relief by his suspending the execution of the Laws but they must give me leave to add that they ought not for the obtaining of a little ease to betray the Kingdom and sacrifice the legal Constitution of the Government to the Lust and Pleasure of a Popish Prince whom nothing less will serve than being Absolute and Despotical And were he once in the quiet Possession of an Authority to dispense with the Penal Laws the Fanaticks would not long enjoy the benefit of it Nor can they deny him a Power of reviving the execution of the Law which is part of the Trust deposited with him as supreme Magistrate who have granted him a Power of suspending the Laws which the Rules of the Government preclude him from And as he may whensoever he pleaseth cause the Laws to which they are obnoxious to be executed upon them so by virtue of having an Authority acknowledged in him of superceding the Laws he may deprive them of the Liberty of meeting together to the number of Five a Grace which the Parliament thought fit to allow them under all the other Severities to which they were subjected Nor needs there any further evidence that the Prince's challenging such a Power is an Usurpation and that the Subjects making any Application by which it seems allowed to him is a betraying of the ancient Legal Government of the Kingdom than to consider that the most obsequious and servile Parliament to the Court that ever England knew not only denied this Prerogative to the late King but made him renounce it by revoking his Declaration of Indulgence which he had emitted Anno 1672. And as it will be to the perpetual Honor of the Dissenters to have chosen rather to suffer the Severities which the Laws make them liable unto than by any Act and Transaction of theirs to undermine and weaken either the Church or the State so it will be a means both of endearing them to future Parliaments and of bringing them and the Conformists into an union of Counsels and endeavours against Popery and Tyranny which is at this season a thing so indispensably necessary for their common preservation especially when though a new and more threatning Alliance and Confederacy with France than that in 72 the King hath not only engaged to act by and observe the same measures towards Protestants in England which that Monarch hath vouchsafed the World a Pattern and Copy of in his carriage towards those of the Reformed Religion in France but hath promised to disturb the Peace and Repose of his Neighbors and to commence a War in conjunction with that Prince against Foreign Protestants For as the Kings giving Liberty and Protection to the Algerines to frequent his Havens and sell the Prizes which they take from the Dutch is both a most infamous Action for a Prince pretending to be a Christian and a direct violation of his Alliance with the States General so nothing can be more evident than that he thereby seeks to render them the weaker for him to assault and that he is resolved if some unforeseen and extraordinary Providence doth not interpose and prevent to declare War against them the next Summer in order whereunto great Remises of Mony are already ordered him from the French Court. So that the Indulgence which he pretends to be inclinable to afford the Dissenters is not an effect of kindness and good Will but an Artifice whereby to oblige their Assistance in destroying those abroad of the same Religion with themselves Which if he can compass it is easie to foresee what Fate both the Fanaticks and they of the Communion of the Church of England are to expect Who as they will not then know whither to retreat for shelter so they will be destitute of Comfort in themselves and deprived of Pity from others not only for having through their Divisions made themselves a Prey to the Papists at home but for having been accessary to the ruine of a Reformed State abroad and which was the Asilum and Sanctuary of all those that were elsewhere oppressed and persecuted for Religion FINIS

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 Every Kingdom divided against it self is brought to desolation and every city or house divided against it self shall not stand Matth. xii 25. Dum pugnant singuli universi vincuntur Tacit. Printed in the Year 1688. IT is long since the Court of England under the Authority of the late King and his Brother was embarked in a design of subverting the Protestant Religion and of introducing and establishing Popery For the two Royal Brothers being in the time of their Exile seduced by the Caresles and importunities of their Mother allured by the promises and favours of Popish Princes and being wheedled by the Crafts and Arts of Priests and Jesuits who are cunning to deceive and knew how to prevail upon persons that were but weakly established in the Doctrine and wholly strangers to the practice and power of the Religion they were tempted from they not only abjured the Reformed Religion and became reconciled to the Church of Rome but by their example and the influence which they had over those that depended upon them both for present subsistence and future hopes they drew many that accompanied them in their Banishment to renounce the Doctrine Worship and Communion of the Church of England though in the War between Charles I. and the Parliament they had pretended to fight for them in equal conjunction with the Prerogatives of the Crown So that upon the Restoration in the year 1660. they were not only moulded and prepared themselves for promoting the desires of the Pope and his Emissaries but they were furnished with a stock of Gentlemen out of whom they might have a supply of Instruments both in Parliament and elsewhere to cooperate with and under them in the methods that should be judged most proper and subservient to the extirpation of Protestancy and the bringing the Nation again into a servitude to the Triple Crown And besides the Obligations that the Principles of the Religion to which they had revolted laid them under for eradicating the Established Doctrine and Worship they had bound themselves unto it by all the promises and Oaths which persons are capable of having proscribed unto and exacted of them Nor can any Now disbelieve his late Majesties having lived and died a Papist who hath either heard what he both said and did when under the prospect of approaching death and past hope of Acting a Part any longer on the present Stage or who have seen and read the two Papers left in his Closet which have been since published to the World and attested for Authentick by the present King. And had we been so just to our selves as to have examined the whole course of his Reign both in his Alliances abroad and his most important Counsels and Actions at home or had we hearkned to the reports of those who knew him at Collen and in Flanders we had been long ago convinced of what Religion he was Nor were his many repeated protestations of his Zeal for Protestancy but in order to delude the Nation till insensibly as to us and with safety to himself he had overturned the Religion which he pretended to own and had introduced that which he inveighed against And while with the highest asseverations he disclaimed the being what he really was and with most sacred and tremendous Oaths professed the being what he was not his Religion might in the mean time have been traced through all the signal occurrences of his Government and have been discerned written in Capital Letters through all the material affairs wherein he was engaged from the day he ascended the Throne till the hour he left the World. His entring into two Wars against the Dutch without any provocation on their part or ground on his save their being a Protestant State his being not only conscious unto but enterposing his commands as well as encouragements for the burning of London his concurrence in all the parts of the Popish Plot except that which the Jesuits with a few others were involved in against himself his stifling that Conspiracy and delivering the Roman Catholicks from the dangers into which it had cast them his being the Author of so many forged Plots which he caused to be charged upon Protestants his constant Confederacies with France to the dissobliging his people the betraying of Europe the neglect of the Reformed in that Kingdom and the encouraging the design carried on against them for their extirpation his entailing the Duke of York upon the Nation contrary to the desires and endeavours of three several Parliaments and that not out of love to his Person but affection to Popery which he knew that Gentleman would introduce and establish all these besides many other things which might be named were sufficient evidences of the late Kings Religion and of the design he was ingaged in for the Subversion of ours So that it would fill a sober person with amazement to think that after all this there should be so many sincere Protestants and true Englishmen who not only believed the late King to be of the Reformed Religion but with an insatiableness thirsted after the blood of those that durst otherwise represent him And had it not been for his receiving Absolution and Extreme Unction from a Popish Priest at his death and for what he left in Writing in the two Papers found in his Strong Box he would have still passed for a Prince who had lived and died a Cordial and Zealous Protestant and whosoever had muttered any thing to the contrary would have been branded for a Villian and an execrable person But with what a scent and odour must it recommend his memory to them to consider his having not only lived and died in the Communion of the Church of Rome in contradiction to all his publick Speeches solemn Declarations and highest Asserverations to his people in Parliament but his participating from time to time of the Sacrament as Administred in the Church of England while in the interim he had Abjured our Religion stood reconciled to the Church of Rome and had obliged himself by most sacred Vows and was endeavouring by all the Frauds and Arts imaginable to subvert the Established Doctrine and Worship and set up Heresie and Idolatry in their room And it must needs give them an abhorrent Idea and Character of Popery and a loathsom representation of those trusted with the Conduct and Guidance of the Consciences of Men in the Roman Communion that they should not only Dispence with and indulge such Crimes and Villanies but proclaim them sanctified and meritorious from the end which they are calculated for and levelled at And for his dear Brother and renowned Successor who now possesseth the Throne I suppose his most partial Admirers who took him for a Prince not only merciful in his