promoted Priests What Security were they to Corporations when Jeofferies roared out the King 's Will. Old Maynard when King William told him he had out-lived most of his Profession truly answered him That if He had not come over he had over-lived the Law it self And we had seen the French Tyrant in one part of his Reign subvert all the Laws of his Country and destroy all the Liberties of his Subjects He was going on in the same Design Licet non passibus aequis And why should not he hope and we fear that what was done at our next Door was poffible to be done here 'T is true the Nation was in as little danger of loving him then as they are now of wishing his Return But those Fears and Jealousies which he rails at in the last Page and here commends had signified nothing if he had gone a little further in these Methods He resolved to have no Parliament but such an one as would engage before hand to betray their Country and comply with him in every thing And was it likely an oppressed People could manage a wise and discreet Treaty with such a King in such a Parliament He foresees it will be objected That K. James being a Friend and Ally of France could not want French Forces to compel the more obstinate sort of Hereticks which is a dreadful but a certain truth and he gives no satisfaction by his Sham-Reasons to the contrary First K. James he thinks was not so lost to all Discretion and Morality to accept French Troops for now you must know he is to be represented very Discreet and he that was so easily drawn in by his Enemies to act against his Judgment is now so wise and wary that for fear of ill Consequences he will not admit any Succors from his Friends to help him to save a Million of Souls Credat Judaeus Apella He that was training up many of the old Race of murdering Irish for this meritorious Work would not if occasion had been have scrupled adding French Dragoons And our Authors Morality is not to be relyed on when he saith K. James refused French Succours at the Revolution for 't is well known the King of France's Hands were full elsewhere he having then made a violent and treacherous Invasion upon the Empire and besieged Philipsburg For his Intelligence from England was that he relyed on he believed that this Kingdom was falling into a Division and a Civil War that would be so equal and last so long that he might finish his Conquests in Germany and yet come time enough to compleat our Ruin while we should have been destroying one another Otherwise K. James if he had not wanted time and his Ally-Forces ready would no more have refused French Troops to keep the Prince from coming in than he now scruples to use them for turning him out But he pretends it was not the French King's Interest to lend K. Pag. 44. James any Forces to assist him in the Conversion of England But suppose he were bent upon it and would hazard three Crowns on Earth for it as his saying was and chanced to be opposed in it by his stubborn Subjects K. Lewis must not let his dear Friend sink or suffer by following his Example especially since he was sure as long as this King was in Power he could not want one that would stand by him in all his Vsurpations and Cruelties without Reserve And I dare affirm the greatest part of the Nation firmly believes That within a little time King Lewis would have sent and King James have accepted a Body of booted French Apostles for this religious Work To divert with rational Fear our Author starts an improbable Paradox and for three Columns together pursues it with full cry viz. That the French K. rather wishes England should remain Protestant than become Papist because forsooth he is in no danger of an Invasion while the Nations continue to be of different Religions Which frivolous and false reasoning deserves no Answer so that I will make a few brief Remarks upon it and dismiss it First Pag. 45. he hath learned of the Jesuits to suppose England was always terrible to France till Queen Elizabeth's Reign and to blame the Reformation for this Whereas it is well known that the English lost their hold in France in the Reigns of Hen. 6th and Queen Mary two Popish Princes and none of our Kings were ever more courted by France than that Illustrious reformed Queen who broke the dangerous growth of the most Catholick King tho' her Subjects and his were of different Religions Secondly he falsly supposes all the French are zealous Catholicks whereas those of the Roman Communion there the Clergy excepted are no Bigots and there are many thousands who have by Cruelty been forced to declare for Popery that yet are Protestants in their Hearts and the French King knows that if he be invaded by a Protestant Prince these Men will endanger him by a Revost Thirdly we observe that many Catholick Countries have been so Barbarously harrassed and their Princes so injured by the French K. that without any regard to his Profession He who shall be the happy Instrument to humble France will be gratefull to the greatest part of Christendom because the Mounsieur usurps upon Papist and Protestant without distinction Lastly I must observe that the French King 's late inhumane Usage of the Protestants hath made him odious especially to all reformed Nations and our English have lately shewed they will and can fight as bravely against France as ever their daring Ancestors have done Wherefore all this Banter of the Author's is a false Alarm designed to make us secure on that side where our danger is To this he adds another Fiction of K. James his offering us to carve out our own Securities Pag. 26. and dreams of lasting legal full and happy Settlements we might have had under him But when and to whom were these Offers made the Prince made Offers to him and desired a Parliament might be called but K. James burnt the Writs and fled from the Treaty dreading nothing more than a Legal Settlement to tie up his Hands Promises he had made many especially in his Distress but alas he had taught us they were Insignificant and it was plain enough the Irish and French were always his Darlings For the English Nation he never loved them yea his parting Letter shews his Hopes viz. That we should be so divided as to send for him again upon his own Terms He therefore that would not stay to redress any thing nor endure either a Treaty or a Parliament for fear of being bound to secure us by Law and now attempts to break in upon us by Force He is to answer for all the Money and Lives spent in our own necessary Defence We desired to be quiet under him and neither began nor continue this War further than for the safety of our Religion and Liberties
condemned upon their bare Confession extorted with assurance of Pardon nor hanged up with Healths drank and Huzza's He throws all this upon the Ministers but we have not forgot the Triumphs at White-Hall upon the News of these Barbarities which K. James himself repeated to the Foreign Ministers with much Joy and called that bloody Circuit Jefferies his Campaign Nor how that Butcher was put into the King's Bosom and advanced for executing these merciless Orders he had received Pollexfen was only put into that Commission to grace the bloody Scene with some Colour of Law of which heavy Imployment he acquitted himself so well that Complaints were made of him And this Government promoted him only for his Skill to a Post where there were no Lives concerned The bloody Temper of Kirk could not recommend him to K. William whose Life as well as his Reign here shew he is merciful perhaps to excess 2. That illegal and terrible High-Commission set up to trample upon Law to turn out all honest Clergy-men and put Popish Priests in their places to Fine Imprison Banish and what not the Innocent as well as the Guilty this is hastily passed over with this sorry Excuse that one of the Actors in it is now after four Years but only in a fair way to be preferr'd by K. William and this too after begging Pardon for his Faults 3. He catches at the word all and denies that all good Protestants were turned out and that all Places of Trust and Profit were filled with unqualified Men. But the Phrase may be justified since tho some who called themselves Protestants kept their Places yet they could neither be zealous for nor sound in that Religion who promised to comply with a Catholick King in all the Methods he took to destroy it And if any one of them scrupled at any thing immediately he was cashiered and an unqualified Man generally put in his Place All that he can say to the rest in a Lump is That the E. of S. and L. C. forced K. James against his own Inclinations to prefer Father Peters to the Privy-Council to model the Irish Army and Government to elect Magdalen-College-Fellows to regulate Corporations closet Gentlemen and to imprison and try the Bishops Well English Men are good-natured and must believe King James had no Zeal for Popery no Love for Father Peters no Desire to get a Popish Army no hankering after Arbitrary Power no Intent to have a Parliament preingag'd to take off Penal Laws and Tests no purpose to bring Friars into Colleges and Churches no Anger against the Bishops for petitioning Risum teneatis Amici Alas he was trick'd into all this by the P. of O. his trusty Agents and poor Gentleman never smelt the Plot He had many Catholicks in his Court and Council but never heard or trusted any of them but was wholly guided by pretended Protestants But if any be so void of common Sense as to believe and admit this Stuff yet it must be granted this unlucky Apologist throws more Dirt upon K. James than he wipes off and to make him seem innocent describes him as the easiest and most unthinking Creature alive pretending he was drawn in by two bantring Sycophants to do the most illegal Acts and the most ungrateful to his People and all this against his own Inclinations as well as true Interest Were this true he might be indicted as a Non Compos and his Capacity to govern questioned but being horribly false it will follow the People of England were in danger of losing the Liberties and Religion by a Prince of such a Temper such Inclinations and one that was set upon such destructive Methods And thus our Excuser runs upon one Rock to avoid another and can no way bring his Master off safe Yet he goes on Page 15. without blushing to call K. James's Heat to advance Popery nothing but the natural and eafy Passion of shewing some little Favour to them of his own Religion And feigns that two Lords hired by the P. of O. forced him to do that which above all things he desired Now I wonder this Prince should be so prodigal of his Mony to squander it away upon Agents to perswade a Man to gratify himself to drive him on to that which his Priests would certainly make him do gratis He thinks we never heard how K. James led F. Peters into the Council by the Hand and made a Speech in his Commendation to that Board or he durst not say he was averse to his Admission into the Council We know he was the first Adviser and Promoter of Quo Warranto's in his Brother's time and furiously drove on Regulations in his own And doth this Dauber think to prove K. James was against those Measures by his telling an easy Peer who had drudged for him in that vile Imployment that these Methods were against his Judgment If he did say this it was Protestatio contra Factum and shews the Credulity of the Peer not the Sincerity of that Prince who had convinced Mankind that to serve a Turn he could say one thing and mean another His Proof from some Mens Brags since the Revolution is equally weak because when Reputation or Interest alone are considered many will boast of more than they ever really performed nor did I ever hear that any one has boasted of this But he saith the Prince promised divers Places here before he set out from Holland and this he takes for an infallible proof that he aimed then at the Crown But it must be noted that he came to redress Grievances and especially the filling Places with unqualified Men so that if the Treaty had gone on and K. James stayed many places must be supposed to be made void And he who had done the Nation this Service might justly expect the Favour to recommend some of his Friends to those Vacancies tho he never expected to be King of England But besides all this it is positively affirmed that no such Promises were made to any Persons some were disgusted others quite lost because no such Promises were made to them As for his Order to the French Ambassador to depart the Kingdom this was not till the Administration was put into his Hands and the Trust reposed in him required him to discharge one who was likely to be a Spye upon his Counsels and one whose Interest it was to betray him and hinder the Nation 's Settlement His Parallel is yet a bolder Step than his Apology Page 16. for he undertakes to shew K. William to be as guilty of Misgovernment as K. James And first he saith his Inclinations to Arbitrary Rule are as great as the late King 's because K. William sent a Message to the Parliament not to put too many Limits upon the Prerogative lest they forced him to leave us But as no such Message was ever sent so suppose it had been is this Check to the Republicans so arbitrary as K. James's declaring
is delivered from Popery and Slavery and remains in Peace while the War is carried into another Country And Ireland is rescued out of the Claws of French-men Tories and Rapparees Our Government is settled in Church and State and all his Endeavours to aggravate the Price of these inestimable Blessings turns upon himself For when we have paid as he saith as much as we are able to bring things to a Settlement it cannot be expected we can or ought to pay more to unsettle us again A tyred Horse can endure no Addition to his Load If we can spare but a little more to maintain our Defender I hope we shall not find Money to pay the late King's Debts to the French contracted by his own Wilfulness nor shall we willingly pay Money to hire Executioners to destroy us If the Payments will not draw the Nation to Mutiny Page 59. he hopes the ill Success of our Arms will and to make this Falshood pass he spits all his Venome at our brave King on whom as on the Darling of Heaven and Delight of Mankind either Victory or at least Honour and Safety always attends It hath been observed indeed of K. J. that he ever brings ill Fortune to the side he takes and never won a Battel in his Life But for this mercernary French Pen to turn this Character on King William who hath so often delivered oppressed Nations and conquered their Oppressours or reduced them to Reason is the height of Impudence His Victories in England Ireland and Flanders will be writ in the Leaves of Fame when the Great Monsieur will only be remembred for his Cowardice and Treachery K. William's reducing a whole Kingdom last year and beating the French Fleet this Summer were great Actions and his daring their whole Army by Land shews that if through others slackness the French have the Advantage yet he hath entirely the Honour of this Campaign wherein K. Lewis hath had such Experience of our King's Valour and Conduct as will give him Reason by an honourable Peace to endeavour to make us his Friends And if we get no more for all our Charge but Security and Quiet while the War endures and a profitable Peace at the End of it we need not murmur or if we do it should be against that Common Enemy who disturbs all that are within his Reach He owns a Debt to the French King Page 5◠but supposes his tender Regard to his Honour and Glory will make him forgive it and not require Payment as the Dutch have done But first as to the Monsieur if he believe Honour to be the only Reward of Vertue he hath taken the worst Measures in the World to get true Glory having not got one Inch of Ground nor a single Town by true Valour and Bravery nor omitted any thing tho' never so mean or wicked which he thought tended to set up his only God his Interest and will Honour keep such a Prince from demanding Payments for his Men and Money his Ships and Ammunition lent to serve our late King he that will burn a whole Country to Ashes and turn 500 Families a begging in a day or two only for not paying him Contributions when they owe him nothing nor cannot raise it will his Generosity allow England to dye in his Debt Secondly Secondly The Dutch desire no more than that Hire was promised them for their Men and Ships and they deserve it for helping us now in our extream Danger as we once before did assist them when they beat out Slavery and Persecution Payments of this kind are tollerable but to repay the French King for fighting against us is so gross a Folly that English-men cannot be guilty of it As to Religion it is the Glory of our Nation that we are so tender of it so zealous and so careful to preserve it The only Scandal to our Church being this that so many Pretenders to it are ready to joyn with Papists to destroy it But these Gentlemen are but a small Number the greatest part of the Nation are not so easily wheedled or threatned out of their Religion their Liberties their Estates and Lives they know their Foes from their Friends and understand when they are well so that this plausible Writer with all his Rhetorick will not be able to spread the Poyson of his Sedition so far as his Hopes flatters him To conclude Pag. 61. Finding his Arguments will not make K. William and his People fall out and part to make room for his dear Master he falls to Praying and Flattering desiring God to encline our King's Heart to take his Counsel who mortally hates him shamefully slanders him and every where represents him as the worst of Humane Race and after this with a smooth Hypocrisie even humbly desires him freely to give up that Crown which he hath been urging the Nation to take from him But where such Folly is cried up as Heroick King William's Eyes are open enough to see the dull and obvious Cheat And One would imagine he durst not offer such palpable Shams to so Great and Wise a Prince But 't is plain he hath so accustomed himself to Falshood and Sophistry that he can blush at nothing and begins to dream that our present King is such a Creature as he represents King James to be One that was advised by his mortal Enemies to the ready way to ruine Himself and all his Friends But after all his elaborate Harangues he must e'en be content to see King William despise his Railing and his Flattery the Nation detest his seditious Counsel and God cast out his foolish Prayer who hath most graciously preserved our King and our Countrey hitherto and till he do utterly abandon us and deprive us of Grace yea of Common Sence we cannot be so weak as to promote this fatal Restauration which he so vehemently recommends FINIS A Catalogue of some Books lately Printed for Robert Clavel at the Peacock in St. Paul's Church-Yard ☞ THE State of the Protestants of Ireland under the late King James's Government in which their Carriage towards him is justified and the absolute Necessity of their endeavouring to be freed from his Government and of submitting to Their present Majesties is demonstrated The Fourth Edition with Additions Bede Venerabili Opera quaedam Theologica nunc primum edita necnon Historica ante à semel edita accesserunt Egberti Archiepiscopi Eborocensis Dialogus de Ecclesiastica Institutione Aldhelmi Episcopi Scireburnensis Liber de Virginitate ex codicae antiquissimo emendatus A Defence of Pluralities or holding Two Benifices with Cure of Souls as now practised in the Church of England L. Annaei Flori Rerum Romanorum Epitome interpretatione Notis illustravit Anna Tanaquilli Fabri Filia Jussu Christianismi Regis in usum Serenissimi Delphini De Presbyteratu Dissertatio Quadripartita Presbyteratus Sacri Origines Naturam Titulum Officia Ordines ab ipsis Mundi primordiis usque ad Catholicae Ecclesiae consummatam Plantationem complectens In qua Hierarchiae Episcpalis Jus divinum Immutabile ex Auctoritate Scripturarum Canonicè expositarum Ecclesiasticae traditionis Suffragiis breviter quidem sed luculentèr asseritur Martindal's Art of Surveying The Frauds of the Romish Monks and Priests set forth in Eight Letters lately written by a Gentleman in his Journey into Italy The Third Edition Observations on a Journey to Naples wherein the Frauds of Romish Monks and Priests are farther discovered By the Author of the former Book Forms of Private Devotions for every Day in the Week by a Method agreeable to the Liturgy With Occasional Prayers and an Office for the Holy Communion and for the time of Sickness Compendium Graecum Novi Testamenti Continens ex 7059. versiculis totius N. Testamenti tantum versiculos 1900. non tamen integros in quibus omnes universi Novi Test voces una cum versione Latina inveniuntar Auctore Johanne Leusden Philos Doctore Linguae Sanctae in Academia ultrajectina Professore ordinarie Editio Quinta Roman Forgeries in the Councils during the First Four Centuries Together with an Appendix concerning the Forgeries and Errors in the Annals of Baronius By Thomas Comber D. D. Prebend of York The END