upon your Head the Crown may long Flourish FINIS Books lately Printed for Richard Chiswel THE Case of Allegiance in our present Circumstances considered in a Letter from a Minister in the City to a Minister in the Country A Sermon preached at Fulham in the Chappel of the Palace upon Easter-Day 1689 at the Consecration of the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum By Anthony Horneck D. D. The Judgments of God upon the Roman Catholick Church from its first rigid Laws for universal Conformity to it unto its last End. VVith a prospect of these near approaching Revolutions viz. The Revival of the Protestant Profession in an eminent Kingdom where it was totally suppressed The last End of all Turkish Hostilities The general Mortification of the Power of the Roman Church in all parts of its Dominions In Explication of the Trumpets and Vials of the Apocalypse upon Principles generally acknowledged by Protestant Interpreters By Drue Cressener D. D. A Breviate of the State of Scotland in its Government Supream Courts Officers of State Inferiour Officers Offices and Inferiour Courts Districts Jurisdictions Burroughs Royal and Free Corporations Fol. Some Considerations touching Succession and Allegiance 4 to A Discourse concerning the Worship of Images preached before the University of Oxford By George Tully Sub-Dean of York for which he was suspended Reflections upon the late Great Revolution Written by a Lay-Hand in the Country for the satisfaction of some Neighbours The History of the Dissertion or an Account of all the publick Affairs in England from the beginning of September 1688. to the Twelfth of February following With an Answer to a Piece call'd the Dissertion discussed in a Letter to a Country-Gentleman By a Person of Quality K. William and K. Lewis wherein is set forth the inevitable necessity these Nations lie under of submitting wholly to one or other of these Kings And that the matter in Controversy is not now between K. William and K. James but between K. William and K. Lewis of France for the Government of these Nations An Examination of the Scruples of those who refuse to take the Oath of Allegiance by a Divine of the Church of England A Dialogue betwixt two Friends a Jacobite and a Williamite occasioned by the late Revolution of Affairs and the Oath of Allegiance Two Sermons one against Murmuring the other against Censuring By Symon Patrick D. D. An Account of the Reasons which induced Charles the Second King of England to declare War against the States General of the United Provinces in 1672. And of the Private League which he entred into at the same Time with the French King to carry it on and to establish Popery in England Scotland and Ireland as they are set down in the History of the Duten War printed in French at Paris with the Priviledg of the French King 1682. Which Book he caused to be immediately suppress'd at the Instance of the English Ambassador Fol. An Account of the Private League betwixt the late King James the Second and the French King. Fol. The Case of Oaths Stated 4 to The Answer of a Protestant Gentleman in Ireland to a late Popish Letter of N. N. upon a Discourse between them concerning the present Posture of that Countrey and the Part fit for those concern'd there to act in it 4 to An Apology for the Protestants of Ireland in a brief Narrative of the late Revolutions in that Kingdom and an Account of the present State thereof By a Gentleman of Quality 4 to A Letter from a French Lawyer to an English Gentleman upon the Present Revolution 4 to Mr. Wake 's Sermon before the King and Queen at Hampton-Court His Fast-Sermon before the House of Commons June 5. 1689. Dr. Tennison's Sermon against Self-love before the House of Commons June 5. 1689. Mr. Tully's Sermon of Moderation before the Lord-Mayor May 12. 1689. A Letter written by the Emperor to the late King James setting forth the true Occasion of his Fall and the Treachery and Cruelty of the French. The Resolution of the Electors and the Princes of the Empire February 11. 1689. Containing the Reasons of their Declaring War against France Together with the Emperor's Concurrence with them in it and approving the same An Account of the late Revolution in New-England Together with the Declaration of the Gentlemen Merchants and Inhabitants of Boston and the Country adjacent April 18. 1689. Written by Mr. Nathanael Byfield a Merchant of Bristol in New-England to his Friends in London A Declaration of his Electoral Highness the Duke of Brandenburgh concerning the present War with France Directing his Subjects and Vassals and all other His Dependants how they are to demean themselves in their Trading Negotiation and all incident Occasions during the present War. As also a Letter sent from the Imperial Diet at Ratisbon to the Thirteen Cantons In Switzerland March 7. 1689. Exhorting hem to adhere to his Imperial Majesty and the Princes of the Empire in the present War against France
a Pestilent Heresie To this end tended the Erecting of Chappels for Popish Devotion and Publick Schools for Popish Education Was it for nothing that an Ambassador was resident at Rome And a Nuncio publickly entertained here for a constant Correspondence between England and Rome Why were all the Protestant Nobility and Gentry turned out of all places either of Honour Profit or Trust and Papists put in their Rooms What could be the design of that ducoy of Liberty of Conscience at a time when since the first beginnings of those unhappy divisions of Protestants here at home there was never less need of it When not any Protestant Party amongst us did so much as Petition for it when the Generality of Dissenters were so well satisfied with the Church of England that there were never fairer hopes of perfect Unity amongst us But this was the matter the division of Protestants amongst themselves would weaken the whole Body of them and render them the more capable of an easie overthrow a design which the wiser sort of Dissenters quickly saw and even the generality of them in a short time were satisfied in For since it 's as easie for the Arctick and Antarctick Poles to meet together or for the East and West to be in Conjunction as to reconcile Infallibility of one Religion with a Toleration of all the necessity of Extirpating all Hereticks with a Connivance at all Heresies all were easily convinced what such a Toleration tended to and none were entrapped in the Snare or trepanned with the Cheat but a few hot-headed Zealots ready to Sacrifice all to Ambition and Revenge What could be the design of putting Papists in for Heads of Houses Masters and Fellows of Colleges in our famous Universities What could be the design of Erecting a High Commission Court for Ecclefiastical Causes for the suspending and depriving of Bishops and Clergy which was justly termed the New Inquisition of England Why was that ensnaring Declaration so violently and yet so unnecessarily prest upon the Clergy to be read in Churches and Seven Bishops imprisoned and the whole Clergy of the Kingdom threatned with Deprivation for Non-Compliance If these things and a great many more will not satisfie men That there was a real Design of subverting our Religion I know not what will. Yet to demonstrate this matter to the full consider only the mighty endeavours that were used to abrogate the Penal Laws and Test in which the King used so much industry that he truly took methods too much below Royal Dignity to effect it What a mean office for a King to become an earnest Sollicitor of his Subjects to that which they could not in Conscience nor Honour yield to and then a disobliger of all his Kingdom for removing them from all places upon so necessary a refusal The design must be mighty great when Arts both so mean and so harsh were used to accomplish it But this was it The Papists had then stood upon even ground with all other Subjects and the great advantage of Authority on their side would quickly have raised their Ground above us the doors of both Houses of Parliament had been set wide open to them whence the House of Peers might quickly have been filled with new Creations and the House of Commons as quickly made Popish by Force or Fraud in Elections Corporations being framed and regulated agreeable to the design and what could be then expected but a sudden Establishment of Popery The whole Nation did see this Project so clearly that the greatest part of the Dissenters were so sensible of the mischief that though they had smarted somewhat hardly under the Lash of the Penal Laws but a little while before yet they would rather venture the Continuance of them than run the hazard of ruining the substance and being of the Protestant Religion amongst us nor could all the virulent Pamphlets thrown about to exasperate them by a Tragical Commemoration of their former Suffering by the Penal Laws ever perswade them so far out of their Senses as not to be fully assured that the Little Finger of the Popish Inquisition would be heavier upon them than the Loins of all the Penal Laws made since the Reformation against them And indeed to the Fidelity of that Party at that Critical time are we to ascribe a great share of the disappointment the Popish Party met with being much chafed that the Grand Cheat of the Toleration had no better success And as all these plain matters of fact are more than sufficient to convince us of the Mischievous Design of subverting the Established Religion in these Kingdoms so are they a plain and evident proof that there was certainly a Private League between the Late King James and the French King for bringing this to pass tho there were nothing else to evince is For it could never be hoped that the Popish Party here in England could do it their Strength and Interest were not sufficient to accomplish such a Design There was a fine Army indeed but most of them Protestants who would hardly be commanded by Popish Officers to ruine their Religion for men must certainly fight very faintly when the edge of their Swords is turned against themselves and their success is certain desolation to their Country From whence one of these two things must follow either that King James had no Resolution to change the Religion of this Nation the contrary of which appears by what hath been said and besides to say so is to put the greatest affront and dishonour upon the Late King that can be and calls his Wisdom and Discretion highly in question in the conduct of his Affairs that he should do all these mean harsh and suspitious things before alledged for no other end but to bring an obloquy upon himself to render his Government uneasie fearful and suspected and to disoblige all the three Kingdoms But if it cannot be admitted that a person of any common seuse or reason should be guilty of so much Indiscretion that might in the end prove so fatal to himself then we must acknowledge that some Foreign Power was certainly to be made use of since no reasonable man proposeth to himself any end but withall he proposeth means proportionate to that end in order to the acquiring of it and now we would fain learn what other Force can so much as come under the Probability of being made use of but the French And now that which makes this Design abundantly the more inexcusable in it self and the more insupportable to us is this That this Church and the Religion professed in it run such a great hazard from a Prince from whom the Members of that Church and Professors of that Religion had all the reason in the world to expect much kinder usage For I am sure never any Prince could be more highly obliged by Subjects than King James was by the Members of the Church of England both before and after he was King. Not
he hath no Children to enjoy the Crown after his own Death so that it plainly appears his Zeal for Religion his great concern for the bleeding state of these Nations his love to Justice did much more prevail with him to this Heroick and Glorious Undertaking than any concern of his own in the Case Now upon the whole if we despise so wonderful a Mercy and become so bereft of Reason as to be weary of Happiness and court perpetual Slavery and abandon our present Security and Tranquillity for those Miseries we have reason to look for upon such an unwise change What can we then expect but to be treated by God as the despisers of his greatest Goodness and to perish without so much as the pity of Men since we knew not how to prize a lasting Security when we had it in our Hands and consequently that our Relapse must be very miserable to us But if at last we propose to our Selves the Miseries that must unavoidably fall upon us if the Sins of this Nation so provoke God as to bereave us of that Happiness we now enjoy and if we be wise may entail it upon our Posterity by another Revolution some Men so eagerly desire we cannot but be convinced that a Relapse is highly dangerous I do profess that the Calamities that fatally attend such a Revolution are so tremendous and horrible that the very apprehension of them cannot but strike considerate Men into the greatest Confusion and Amazement we can expect nothing else but that our Miseries should occasion our being a Proverb and a By-word a hissing and reproach of Popish Nations who gape for our Ruine and greedily thirst after our Destruction and on the other Hand that we should be followed with Execrations and Curses from the Protestant World for so treacherously betraying that Truth we had so great a Zeal for that a Nation that glorified so justly in being accounted the Bulwark of the Protestant Religion should so fatally occasion the total overthrow of it I will but briefly recount some of those Mischiefs that any reasonable Man cannot but apprehend must overtake us upon such a Relapse if we consider with what Rage and Fury with what thirst of Revenge not only the late King whose natural Temper doth not much dispose him to a forgetting of Injuries but all of the Popish Party must return amongst us what are we to expect Is the late King ever the less a Papist than before Hath he abated any thing of his Zeal for that Superstition Have the Jesuits c. any other Sentiments of us and our Religion than they had ask the Protestants of Ireland and they will inform you who fly as fast out of that Kingdom as ever the French Refuges forsook France If we were so unjustly used when we had given no Offence what are we to look for when the worst of Crimes shall be laid to our Charge If our Religion 〈◊〉 â—ear lost our Laws and Liberties invaded when all the Obligations of the Earth were upon the Prince to protect them how utterly must all be lost when the Resentments of so late Affronts shall expose us to all the direful Effects of an ungoverned Zeal and enraged Revenge But besides How are we to expect that such a Revolution should be brought about I am very confident England and Scotland will never be willing to afford so great a Strength as is sufficient for such an Enterprize some hot-headed Men may assist a stronger Party from Abroad but they will never undertake to do it alone No no we plainly see it's an Irish and French Power must do this thence Men Money and Arms must come this is so certain that I do not believe any Man in the Nation so bereft of Sense as to expect it any other way And now what a Train of Miseries this Dragons-Tail draws after it is not easy either to be thought or exprest if ever such a dismal Calamity should befal us we shall want another Jeremiah to write the Lamentations of our Judah and Jerusalem I do not think that ever any Nation under Heaven was exposed to a more barbarous Desolation than this poor Nation must be upon such an unhappy Change. How hath the French King used his own Subjects to whom by the Oaths of God upon his Soul he owed all Protection and if so cruel at Home what are we Strangers to expect from his Armies but all the Outrages that attend an insulting Conquest of an Enemy who hath resolved our Ruine and sworn the Extirpation of our Religion If the cutting us off from being a People should be the price of it what are we to expect whose unhappy Connivance hath occasioned all his Greatness and whose Strength and Riches are the Shears that now clips his Wings from soaring to that height of Universal Empire he so vainly and proudly grasps at And the Truth is this is a great Misery that upon such a Change the Crown of England is most likely to devolve not from King William to King James but from King William to King Lewis of France which the great God of Heaven avert We have heard of Princes sposled of their Dominions by that King but never could hear yet of any Prince restored by him Can it possibly enter into the Thoughts of any reasonable Man that the King of France will employ his Forces by Sea and Land and spend his Treasures in conquering of these Kingdoms and then quietly deliver them up to another to possess who himself labours so deeply of the Dropsy of enlarging his Dominions that neither Faith of Treaties Laws of Nations Oath of God nor the sence of common Equity and Justice could ever yet bind him from making the most unjust Encroachments upon his Neighbours wherever he could And this is the more to be considered because it 's very easy to believe that the Popish Clergy of England would be willing enough it should be so King Lewis being more able to maintain his Conquest than King James can ever be supposed to be to maintain his Possession and their Security and if the Popish Clergy may justly be supposed to become so indifferent in this case it 's easy to foresee how the Laity of that Persuasion might be induced to a Satisfaction since these so slavishly and indeed so brutishly hang their Consciences at those Mens Girdles so that upon the whole King Lewis is like to be the only Gainer altho I am far from thinking that they who make this noise amongst us aim at any such thing yet it is worth their while seriously to consider whether it will lye in their Power to prevent or help it As for the Irish their Carriage to Protestants in King Charles the First 's Time and now to the Protestants at this very instant is more than sufficient to satisfy us what Measures we are to expect from them their natural Barbarity their constant Aversion to the English Nation their thirst after a Reprisal
upon Protestants Estates to make up the pretended Damages they have sustained their ignorant and blind Zeal for a rooted Superstition are too much to convince us with what Intentions they must invade us and what are like to be the Effects of their barbarous Cruelty In a word it's Papists are certainly to be employed to do this grand Feat who will be sure to give the Protestants that shall be so unwise as to assist them the same Thanks that Queen Mary gave those of Suffolk that the King of France hath given his Protestants and that the late King James did so lately give the Church of England they will find at last to their Cost the Effects of that unalterable Maxim amongst them That no Faith is to be kept with Hereticks But then how is it possible for us without the highest concern in the World to represent to our selves the Consequences of such a Change with relation to their present Majesties and the Princess Ann of Denmark I am very loth to insist too long upon this it s so extreamly Tragical Is this the Gratitude we owe to the most magnanimous couragious and charitable Undertaking that ever was to rescue three Nations out of the Jaws of Popery and Slavery Can we find in our Heart to expose our great Deliverer to so much Danger in his Person and Ruine in his Fortune who so readily ventured Life and Fortune for our Good Can we so willingly deprive our selves of all our Hopes reposed in these Protestant Branches of the Royal Family as for ever to render them uncapable of doing us any further Kindness or affording us any further Protection Have we so little sense of the most steadfast Constancy and the unmovable Fidelity of these great Persons to the Religion and Interest of these Nations which could never be byaffed by the Authority of a King and Father nor shaken by the violent Temptations and Assaults upon their Constancy Who by their fixed Resolutions to adhere to our Interests had the worst of Arts used to deseat them of their just Rights for would they have but complyed with the Designs projected against us I dare say neither they nor we had ever been troubled with a Prince of Wales Can we expect in another Deluge of Misery to have another Prince of Orange so successfully and miraculously to draw us out of it No no it 's to be hoped the Nation will never be prevailed upon to incur the Guilt of such Ingratitude to Persons we owe our Religion Laws and Liberties to We will never do that which will so justly expose us to the Censures of the World and render us unworthy in any Circumstances of any Foreign Assistance so utterly inconsistent with the Safety of those who afford it In a Word we will be so just to our Selves as not to entail Popery and Bondage to our Posterity for if we lose these great Persons where can we fix our hopes of any Relief Can we likewise without Astonishment think upon the Condition of Lords and Commons in this present Parliament in case of any such Change of Affairs without Horror Have we chosen so many worthy Patriots to represent us there only to expose them to the greatest Mischiefs Have they been so faithful to re-settle us into a most happy Condition by securing our Religion Laws and Liberties to be left at last to the Fury and Malice of Popish Vengeance Did the Famous Nobility and Generous Gentry of this Kingdom venture all for the Security of the Nation to no other purpose than to lose Honour Estate Life and all for their Zeal to their Religion and Love to their Country Surely as we cannot but believe that this must be the Consequence of such an unhappy Change with relation to the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom so it 's not to be doubted but that all England will conceive a just Indignation against such Ingratitude and will apprehend themselves obliged to espouse their Interest cordially and unanimously who have so wisely and with so much Courage secured to us all Things capable of our utmost Esteem In a word when we seriously consider the great Danger the Protestant Interest is exposed to all over Europe that nothing less is intended than the rooting out of that vile pestilent Northern Heresy as the Enemies of our Holy Religion are pleased to call it I hope we will think more than once upon it before we contribute so highly to the utter Subversion of the Protestant Religion in general every where as the cutting off of these three Kingdoms from it must necessarily occasion It 's well known that these Churches of Great Britain and Ireland and more particularly that of England have been justly look'd upon as the Bulwark of the Protestant Religion in general and therefore the Papists have used their utmost Fraud in undermining of her and their utmost Violence in raising up their Batteries against her assuring themselves if they could but once gain this Bulwark they would quickly and with Ease make themselves Masters of the whole Fort it 's well known that the French King durst never have used his Protestant Subjects as he both perfidiously and barbarously did if England had had the liberty to have espoused their Interest and it was justly look'd upon as a wonderful Thing that the King of England should be declaring himself so much for Liberty of Conscience here and yet on the other side of the Water the French King should be using all sorts of Cruelties upon those of our Religion wholly to extirpate it and yet King James should never become their Intercessor nor declare to that King his just Resentments of his Acting so contrary to his constant Principles especially when his using his Subjects so could not but strike all his own English Subjects into an Alarm and put them upon sadly divining what in all probability was like to be their own Fate in time Why have the Protestant Princes and States entered into so strong a Confederacy looking upon their present Majesties as the Chief support of it but upon the certain knowledg they had of a Design on Foot to ruin them and thus it may be easily conjectured what must be the Danger of the Protestant Religion abroad if England be rendred uncapable of giving Assistance to its Professors nay more if the strength of England be made use of to promote their Destruction But it s obvious this must be the result of the return of Popery and Slavery amongst us so that upon the whole Matter if ever such a Judgment from Heaven should overtake us as the return of this unclean Spirit of Popery and its Usher Slavery among us we cannot but expect that not only Seven but a Legion of Miseries worse then we have felt must return with it sufficient to make our last Case worse then our first The Case being so plainly thus is it possible that Men can ever be in love with such Miseries as these not only upon
themselves but upon their Innocent Posterity For the Word is Now or Never and Now and Ever And that we may never feel the Mischiefs of the last part of this Sentence I hope we will take Care to Secure the first that because not now therefore they never shall prevail upon us I beseech you Gentlemen who seem to be so willing to bereave us of our present Tranquillity and to contribute what in you lies to bring a Deluge of Miseries upon us in which you your selves must certainly be overwhelmed if ever you be truly Zealous for and faithful to the Truth of God profest in this Nation I pray you to consider with your Selves that if your Desires should succeed and you should be aiding and assisting to it what late Repentance and Horror must seize upon you while you shall sadly then when it is to late reflect upon that Destruction you have brought upon your Country and Fellow-Country-Men and it 's not to be doubted but at last upon your Selves too But if Men will continue obstinate in Mischief and are resolved to use their utmost Endeavours to rush us again into Confusions and to set all in a Flame it 's to be hoped his Majesty will have such a special regard to the Welfare of these Nations in which that of his own and all the Protestant Branches of the Royal Family is so closely wrapt up that he will most diligently inspect into the wicked Practices and most villanous Designs of such ill-minded-Men and indeed they ought betimes to bethink themselves what the whole Kingdom must think those Men worthy of who are Haters of their Peace and Contrivers of their Destruction for what ever Eyes they look with and whatsoever Prospective-Glass they make use of they must pardon us who can see nothing but lasting Misery attending their Projects and Designs and therefore however they may hope his Majestys Clemency which by their undutiful Language bold and ungrateful Speeches and insolent Attempts in the Face of a Nation resolved to continue their Happiness by most constantly adhering to his Majesties Interests they have already too much tryed yet they are Fools to imagine his Majesty will suffer his innate Lenity and Gentleness to be the greatest Cruelty to his faithful Subjects by extending it to Persons obstinately bent upon his and their Ruin nor can they dream that a whole Nation now secured of all that 's dear to them will much longer bear the bantering Affronts and not only undutiful but even Treasonable Practices of such Men who so carry themselves as if they longed for nothing more than our Destruction And just as I was writing this came to my Hands that Paper pretended to be a Declaration from King James the Second to all his Loving Subjects in the Kingdom of England Perhaps there was never a greater piece of Insolence acted in any Nation than dispersing of these in a Kingdom where there is a King de facto upon the Throne and the Resentment the House of Commons has shewed is a sufficient proof of what I have just now said but for the Paper it self it carries all the Marks of Forgery that possibly can be for would ever the late King tell his Subjects of England of his kind usage to his Protestant Subjects in Ireland who are so infallibly convinc'd of the contrary For why should so many of the Bishops and Clergy so many People of all Conditions fly out of that Kingdom even since his arrival there and leave their Estates and Habitations and cast themselves upon the Charity of England for a present Subsistance if this Libel were true Why even at this very Time do they embrace all opportunities of Transporting themselves into this Island with great Joy and Thankfulness If Protestant Persons Fortunes Religion were in so much Safety what makes the Protestants of Londonderry c. rather venture their Lives in their own Defence and endure the Perils and hardship of a dangerous Siege if the Protestants there were in so great Security Surely the Forgers of this Libel imagine it possible to put out our very Eyes and to hood-wink us to Destruction Can we ever think that Protestants will ever be safe or apprehend themselves so where the French domineer at the rate they must certainly be presumed to do in Ireland For it 's very reasonable to conclude that seeing Men Ammunition Money and whatsoever is necessary for War cometh from the French that King will nay must rule the Roast We will therefore believe our own Intelligence much better then this piece of Forgery viz. that the very Papists of Ireland are so apprehensive of the French Tyranny that they begin to wish for the mild Government of Protestant England rather than ly under the insupportable Tyranny of Popish France As for the large Promises made to England upon a surrender these Forgerers invite us to I have said enough already that Popish Faith can never be more truned by Protestants and we are very well assured that if it were possible for the Host of Heaven to come down upon Earth to be Guarantee for the Fidelity of Papists to Protestants in any Treaties made with them relating to Religion they would notwithstanding upon the first safe Opportunity violate them and if these blessed Spirits should take upon them the Desence of the Guarantee and the Honour of it they would presently disown their Patronage and deprive them of the Honour of their being their Intercessors and charge them with being Favourers of the vilest Hereticks for we would desire but one Instance wherein ever Protestants were used kindly by Papists where ever it was in their Power to use them otherwise Go on then Great Sir in the perfecting of that which your Majesty hath so gloriously begun and so magnanimously undertaken and have had the assistance of the God of Truth to the Joy of these Nations to the Despair and Confusion of your Enemies to the Security of the Protestant World your Majestie hath the Hearts the Hands the Purses of your People at your Devotion you have a Parliament who having engaged whatsoever is worthy of Men of Honour of Fortune of Religion for your Assistance will never be wanting to enable you to compleat Yours Theirs Ours nay Europe's Happiness You have the greatest Security of the Protection of that God who is the Disposer of Kingdoms by whom Kings reign who hath hitherto blessed you with Success to a Miracle You have in fine the best and most Glorious Cause even the preserving of these Nations to which God and Nature and a General consent of your People have given you such a close Interest and near Relation from all the Calamities that could befall either the Souls Bodies or Fortunes of Us and our Posterity This I am sure is the hearty Prayer of all that are lovers either of our Civil or Religious Rights and our secure peaceable and lasting enjoyment of them that your Enemies may be clothed with shame but