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A25258	Chuse which you will, liberty or slavery: or, An impartial representation of the danger of being again subjected to a popish prince; Character of a bigotted prince.	Ames, Richard, d. 1693.	1692 (1692)	Wing A2975AD; ESTC R213413	14,440	31

corner Were not their Actions as barefaced as the Sun And after all this and the Deliverance we Enjoy must we go into the House of Bondage again and put on those Fetters we so lately shook off Let the seeming warmth of this Parenthesis be a little excus'd yet I must confess such considerations as these are almost valid enough to justify a Passion and make Anger appear no Fault for were the Roman Catholicks the only Asserters of the Rights of the late King James the wonder would be little bodies often Sympathise at a distance and they by several Obligations are bound to wish him Success and while they terminate in empty Hopes let them still regale themselves with their airy Diet I pity the deluded Creatures but cannot blame them because they Act upon their own Principles and 't would be as unnatural for them not to Pray for his Return as for a Cardinal in hopes of the Popedom to wish success to the Protestant Forces or a Calvinist to Drink a Health to Monsieur Catinat But when a sort of Men guided as they pretend by the Dictates of an unerring Conscience shall at this time of day openly declare for an exploded Interest and these Protestants too Men no ways leven'd with Popery or any of her Doctrin's but Zealous Maintainers of the Church of England Devout and Pious Charitable and Just in the chief Employments of the Church and the Brightest of the Golden Candlesticks For these so openly to declare their Aversion to this Present Government and their Fondness for the Last is what does not a little elevate and surprise to use an Expression of Mr. Bays and comes almost as near to a Miracle as Transubstantiation A late very Eminent Doctor of the Church when the Prosecution was Violent against the Dissenters wrote a most Learned Tract concerning the Nicety of a Scrupulous Conscience wherein he very curiously Anatomizes the several Meanders and turnings of that invisible Operation and Proves that Humour Discontent and Interest do frequently wear the Livery of Conscience How nice soever some may be in point of Religion I wish these Gentlemen could acquit themselves from the forementioned Disguise with which they masquerade their Political Conscience One would wonder what strange bewitching Sophistry the Church of Rome makes use of to blind the Understandings of her Votaries to that degree that they are continually mistaking their own Interest and tamely to deliver up their Bodies Souls Reputation and Fortunes for the Reversion of Purgatory hereafter only for the slight gratification of their humours here and I appeal to the greatest asserter of King James his Interest if they can produce any Crown'd Head in England since the Conquest who was half so Infatuated and Bigotted to the Interest of the See of Rome as the late King Indeed we Read of a Religious Edward and a Pious Devout Henry but our English History cannot afford us one Instance of a Prince who would Sacrifice his own Honour his Kingdoms Safety his Interest Abroad and the Love of his Subjects at Home meerly out of a mistaken Zeal to the Advancement of the Romish Faith the most solemn Oaths and Protestations esteem'd do more than words of Course and that which was held Sacred amongst all mankind valued as nothing in competition with a Command from the Apostolick Chair The old Lady at Rome with all her Wrinkles has still some Charms to subdue great Princes and tho she has Abus'd Depos'd and Murther'd so many of her Lovers yet she finds every day some new Admirers who are proud of her Charms a Practice which comes as near a Miracle as any that Church in her Legends can boast of and I hope some passages in the late Reign are not so forgotten but they may serve to justify the truth of the Assertion Indeed for our amusement we were once told by a popular Pen That allowing a King upon the English Throne Principled for Arbitrary Government and Popery yet he was Clog'd and Shackl'd with Popular and Protestant Laws that if he had ne're so great a mind to 't there was not a Subject in his Dominions would dare to serve him in his Design How true this Assertion has since prov'd let any indifferent person judge the late King himself both dar'd and found no small number of his Subjects as resolute as their Master to alter the whole Frame of the English Government he found not Men only of his own Communion but Men of all Religions or rather of no Religion at all whose desperate Fortunes push't 'em on to the most daring Enterprises ' his single Command added Life to their Motions and no wonder he found Tools to Work withal when all the Obligations of Law were shrunk into the small compass of a Princes Will and the musty Lines of Magna Charta dwindled to a Sic volo sic jubeo Several other artifices were us'd to let us conceive a Popish Prince no such terrible Bugbear as common Fame represents him as that the Idolatrous Superstition of the Church of Rome was by a long series of time so worn off the minds of the People and the Reformation so strongly Rooted the Church of England so firmly Establish'd the Romanists so detested for their Innovations in Doctrin and Absurdity in Ceremonies c. that it was impossible ever to fix Popery here But alas 't was meer Delusion we quickly saw through the Juggle and the State-Quacks discover'd their Leigerdemain tricks too openly and had not Almighty God by a most surprising and almost unparllel'd Providence Deliver'd us I know not by this time but that the Name Protestant had been as odious in England as the Term of Hugonot is now in France and the Dominicans and Franciscans left their Cells in Lincolns-Inn-Fields and the Savoy to have Sung their Regina Coelorum in all the Cathedrals in England I am not Ignorant how some Persons do still Magnifie the Merits of the late King as to his Private Virtues as his being Descended of the Blood Royal his Inviolable tenderness for his Friend the exact Correspondency of his Mouth and Heart his Courage against the Dutch c. but these were glimmering Rays of his which shin'd upon some few only for when he came to his Meridian they chang'd their Nature and the scorching Beams of his Zeal for his Religion got the Ascenednt of all his other Accomplishments which so clouded his discerning Faculties that he mistook his Friends for his Enemies and his Enemies for his Friends the most sage and deliberate Advices given him in opposition to beloved Jesuits were censur'd as intrenchments upon his Prerogative and the single Ipse Dixit of Father Peters valued above the Joynt Council of the Realm the Colledges of Oxford and Cambridg esteem'd as Nurseries of Hereticks and the President and Fellows of Magdelen Colledg most illegally Ejected from their just Rights to receive upon the Foundation a sort of Sparks who were neither Schollars nor Gentlemen Priviledg

but our own groundless Fears and Jealousies in which unaccountable Humour if we still persist like the Seditious amongst the Jews we shall do our selves more Mischief within the Walls than our Enemies could possibly do without when the Glory of their City and Nation yeilded to the Arms of the Romans who could never have Conquered them had not their Murmurers within done more Execution to themselves than all Battering Rams of Titus could possibly Effect against their Walls But now to shew the Reverse of the Medal If King Jame's return to re-assume his justly Forfeited Right as no Human Reason can possibly suppose him to come in without the Assistance of the French let us consider what a Field of Blood will our Country be he coming in like a Conqueror will make us quickly Feel the Difference between the Easy Government we now Live under and the Insupportable Tyranny we must then endure his imaginary Zeal for the Defence of the Protestant Religion being long since quench't by the Affronts he pretends to have suffered by those of that Communion then will Rome Erect her Standard in Defiance to all the Methods of the Reformation and Popery become the standing Religion of the Nation It cannot be suppos'd that the Instructions he has Receiv'd from his great Patrone Lewis will easily be forgot and he who when in a private Capacity would ever hardly forgive one whom he suppos'd had done him Wrong will now be hardly brought to forget a National Indignity he will never certainly listen to any Overtures of Capitulation and 't is impossible to believe that things can be ever Accomodated between an Incens'd Prince and as he supposes a Rebellious People He has not so long Breath'd in the Air of France as not to learn its Tyrannical and Arbitrary Maxims and the as he thinks Meritorious Zeal of Propagating his own Religion will let him stick at nothing how Arbitrary soever to Establish it We may indeed imagin him to be of a Merciful Nature and that all shall be forgotten as if never done and that an Act of Indemnity will make all even again but those who are so blinded as to believe these fair Promises et them but look into an Act of his own Dated at his Residence in Dublin And in a Proclamation of his to his Pretended Subjects in Scotland May 4. 1689. He is most Graciously Pleas'd not only to Incourage his Friends to be Destoryers of Mankind but likewise offers them Pardons for such Inhuman Cruelties Telling them in the said Proclamation 'T is his Pleasure they should Rise in Arms and Assault and Destory and what ever Blood-shed and Slaughter Mutilations or Fire-raisings should be done to these Rebels as he calls the Scotch his Proclamation should be their sufficient Warrant for such Acts. If this is his Kindness for the Scotch Nation can we think the English will more civilly be Treated No no let us no longer Amuse our selves with Fancies of his Clemency and Kindness We live under a Government where we may be Hapy if we please and nothing but our Discontent can render us Miserable for as certain as there is a Providence if ever such a Fatal Revolution should happen not Savoy nor Piedmont nor all the places where the Arms of the French have Ravag'd were ever such Scenes of Blood and Confusion as England will be We are now in our Crisis and a few Months will in all probability determine the fate of Europe in General and of our own Country in particular and upon the Success of the Confederate Army Headed by our most Victorious Prince depends the Liberty or Slavery of the most Civiliz'd part of the World Postscript AT the conclusion of this Discourse I imagin some Smiling Reader finding fault and by his Looks would seem to tell me the Landskips are as ill Drawn as they are ill Design'd and that the Lyon is not so fierce as he is Painted nor will the Return of a Prince of the Romish Commifon be so Terrible to his Protestant Subjects as I would seem to represent But in Answer to this I must acquaint the Gentleman that I fear I have communited an Error on the other Hand and instead of adding fierce Colours to make the Piece seem Tremendous I have used such faint shadows as do not heighten the Picture Partiality and Prejudice are very ill Spectacles and but too often cause a false Medium I have seen a Picture which if one lookt Obliquely upon on the left Hand were represented the Heads of three fair Ladies but if you chang'd the Position of your Body and stood on the right Hand of the Design the very same Picture shew'd you a Monkey and two Parrots I know not on which hand my Reader 's Judgment stands which valued Faculty of ours we find to be very often deluded for if I may apply a place in Holy Writ very pertinent to this purpose only exchanging the Case of the Father for that of the Son they who form such terrible Ideas of the Imaginary Severities they feel under the present Reign where they are only beaten with Rods will at the Return of their Idoliz'd Prince be Chastis'd with Scorpions FINIS Books Printed for R. Baldwin NEW Predictions of the Fate of all the Princes and States in the World price 4. Sodom Fair Or the Market of the Man of Sin Containing a true Account of the Prices of the Pope's Pardons and Dispensations being a Treatise very useful and necessary for all young English Papists who intend to take Holy Orders or Travel through Italy and all such as intend to be cheated both out of their Souls and Mony To which is added the History of ADULTERY as it is now at Rome by Law Established with the Life of Clement the Sixth and Blasphemous Bull which he Published for the year of Jubile 1350. A Journal of the late Motions and Actions of the Confederate Forces against the French in the United Provinces and the Spanish Netherlands With curious Remarks on the Situation Strength and Rarities of the most considerable Cities Towns and Fortifications in those Countries Together with an exact List of the Army The Present State of Christendom consider'd in nine Dialogues between I. The present Pope Alexander the VIII and Lewis the XIV II. The Great Duke of Tuscany and the Duke of Savoy III. King James the Second and the Marescal de la Feuillade IV. The Duke of Lorrain and the Duke of Schomberg V. The Duke of Lorrain and the Elector Platine VI. Louis the XIV and the Marquis de Louvois VII The Advoyer of Berne and the Chief Syndic of Geneva VIII Cardinal Ottoboni and the Duke de Chaulnes IX The young Prince Abafti and Count Teckly