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A41914 Great news from Ireland being motives of encouragement for the officers and souldiers who shall serve in the present war of Ireland. 1689 (1689) Wing G1723; ESTC R228916 6,369 4

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Great news from IRELAND Being Motives of Encouragement for the Officers and Souldiers who shall Serve in the Present War of Ireland Licens'd April 9th 1689. James Fraser Drawn from the Heads following I. THE General Inability and Incapacity of the Irish to Manage Employs of Trust and Power II. The Necessity of a standing Army and Garrisons in that Kingdom in times of Peace III. The Ecclesiastical Civil and Millitary Employs that must be in the hands of Protestants IV. The Number and Vallew of the said Employs V. The Advantages may be made by Officers and Souldiers in that Service over and above what those had in the last War. VI. The Cheapness of Land and Provisions and Improvements to be made in that Kingdom All which demonstrates the Irish War to be the most advantageous promising Service in Europe 1. HE that Reads the Ancient and Modern Histories of that Kingdom will there find the Irreconcileable Hatred the Irish have and ever had to the Brittish and will also find that as oft as they have had Power they have Exerted that Power as much as in them lay to the destruction of the Brittish Persons and Plantations 2. That when the Religion of the Crown and People of England was the same with that of the Native Irish yet their Hatred was the same then as now as appears by Giraldus Cambrensis by Spencer by Paccata Hibernia and in divers Acts of Parliaments before the Reign of King Henry the Eighth 3. More Sevear Laws were made against the Irish in those times then since the Reformation as may be seen in the said Statutes 4. Both before the Reformation of Religion and since it appears that whatever was the perswasion of the Crown of England in matters of Religion they still found it their Interest to Lessen and Discourage the Irish Interest and to Enlarge and Encourage the Brittish Interest in that Kingdom 5. King Henry the Eighth his Son King Edward the Sixth his two Daughters Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth though of different Interests in matters of Church and State still persued that End as by the Laws made in those times is Evident 6. Queen Mary who was a profest Papist and Persecuted Protestants in England persued the same End and Encouraged Protestants in that Kingdom as by the Statutes then made may appear 7. Those Governours who have most effectually persued those Ends have been ever Celebrated as the best Governours of that Kingdom and the best Servants to the Crown of England 8. The Crown of England and the respective Governours of that Kingdom knowing it Natural for a Conquered People to hate their Conquerours and as well knowing that the Numbers of the Irish were much Superiour to the Brittish They First Made several Laws to put the Chief Places of Trust and Power in that Kingdom into Brittish Hands as the Laws themselves Testifie and Secondly But finding this too weak a Ballance they then Settled and Established a standing Brittish Army for the Brittish further Security 9. Since the Reformation of Religion the Romish Clergy have Improved that Innate Hatred of the Irish to the Brittish to a higher Elevation than before as was too Evident in their last Rebellion in 1641 of which the Acts of Settlement and Acts of Attainder in the Reigns of Charles the First and Charles the Second are Records to future Ages The said Clergy having assumed to themselves an Absolute Sovereignty over the Consciences Lives and Estates of the Natives of their Communion have most Zealously Imposed and Infused such Principles as are most suitable and conducing to their own Ends and to the Ignorance and Barbarity of the deluded Natives As 1. That Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion 2. That there is but one Church and that is the Roman Catholick Church 3. That the said Church like Noah's Ark those only are saved that are in it and all lost that are without it 4. That they must believe as the Church believes 5. That the Priests are this Church 6. That the Priests have the Keys of Heaven Hell and Purgatory and they shut and open them as they please 7. That the Priest's Absolution is God's Absolution 8. That Obedience to the Church viz. the Priests is better then Sacrifice to God. 9. That Disobedience is worse then the Sin of Witchcraft and was the Sin of Corah Dathan and Abiram 10. That the Protestants are all Excomunicated Hereticks 11. That they are all Secluded Heaven 12. That Dominion and Propriety are founded in Grace and that Protestants having not Grace have no Right to Either 13. That Protestants are all Workers of Iniquity and ought to be destroy'd and that it is no more Sin to Kill a Heretick viz. a Protestant then to Kill a Mischievous Dog. 14. That an Oath taken on a Protestant Bible is no more obliging than if taken on Æsop's Fables 15. That Private Christians are not to Dispute Matters of Religion but are to receive that Knowledg from their Priests 16. That the Priests and not the People are accountable to God for the Peoples Mistakes in matters of Religion 17. That the Priests Pronouncing the Words of Consecration make a piece of Bread to be a God. And lastly That Private Christians ought not to have read or keep a Bible These and many other as Dangerous and Destructive Principles appears not only to be held and believed by these Ignorant and Barbarous People but are proved and that by a Reverend and no less Learned a Prelate then the present Bishop of Lincolne to be the Doctrines and Practices of the Papists and Cannons of their Church and are very suitable to Urbanus Octavus his Bull for Consecrating the Horrid and Bloody Rebellion in 1641. As is the Fountain such must be the Streams As is the Tree such must be the Fruit. A Learned Subtle and United Clergy Imposing and Improving these and the like Principles into an Illerate Immoral Loose and Barbarous People Byassed with Prejudice and Mallice against the Persons Professions and Laws of the Crown of England as they must needs advance the Irish Papists as aforesaid to the highest Elevation of Biggotry so it must needs render them unable and uncapable to receive any Places of Trust and Power from a Protestant Prince or to Exercise it over a Protestant People From whence it Naturally follows 1. That all Places of Trust and Power in the Kingdom of Ireland must be put into the hands of Protestants and 2. That the Numbers of these Biggotted Irish Papists being so disproportionable and their Hatred against the Brittish Protestants so Irreconcileable it further appears as aforesaid that the Brittish cannot be safe in Ireland without a good standing Protestant Army for their constant Security 3. That this Army put into the hands of Sober Vertuous Discreet and Experienced Officers will not only be a Security to the Protestants there but a Seminary to the Crown of England whence as occasion offers may be drawn good Officers and Souldiers