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A97184
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A vindication of the English Catholiks from the pretended conspiracy against the life, and government of His Sacred Maiesty discovering the cheif lyes & contradictions contained in the narratiue of Titus Oates. The 2. edition with some additions: & an answer to two pamplets printed in defence of the narrative. Jtem a relation of some of Bedlows pranks in Spain, & Oate's letter concerning him.
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Warner, John, 1628-1692.
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Wing W912C; ESTC R229731
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bore armes against his Majesty thousands according to their duty fought for him This the Rebels knew therefore where they preuailed Papists were persecuted ether as publick enen yes or priuate â—pyes Yet you say they were cheif Actors in the Rebellion How many lost their â—â—ues in Battle How many were killed in cold bloud How many lost their estates by confiscation or then Liberty by imprisonment How many were banisht their Country meerely for being Papists we would be silent in these matters rest content with the Testimony of a good conscience to God the Glory of hauing don our Duty before men did not your slaunders force vs to remember them Wherefore to your impertinent questions I giue pertinent answers Who contriued the Rebellion Presbiterians Who inflamed Partyes Passions Presbiterians Who carryed on the War with Purse hand The Presbiterians Who broke the Vxbridge treaty the Presbiterians Who imposed the Couenant The Presbiterians Who defeated all designs of Peace The Presbiterians Who enslaued their Country The Presbiterians Who ruined the King The same Presbiterians For it was wisely obserued by an vnderstanding man that the Presbiterians Killed the King the Independants murthereâ— Charles Stuard The Presbiterians laboured indeed to hinder the last horrid Act of thaâ— Tragedie but their past following Actions perswade they did not this cut of loue to their King but to themselues For they entertained no serious thought of restoring his Majesty till they found the sword which they had wrencht out of his hand stolen out of their owne by their younger brother Rebel the Independant felt the smart of it on their own shoulders And when they offred it to its Ryght Owner it was on such Conditions as should lock it in the scabbard keep themselues the Key so as it should be neâ—ther drawn nor vsed but by their Directions Yet these are your Assertroâ— of Monarky which they bind vp hand foot with Chaines Papists its Ennemy who leaue it the full Liberty of the Law Keep then the Durt of your Rebellion which you still loue to your selues throw it not at others who hate it by a Principle of Religion Your liues were by law forfeited for treason you enjoy them only by the King 's gracious Pardon When you pretend to Innocency you renounce that Pardon forfeit that only tenure of your breath make your selues obnoxious to the Penaltys due by law to Traitors J P. p. 16. rifles all hystoryes he can think on copyed cheifly out of E. C'S Narratiue which hauing been answered already in a particular book may excuse me the trouble of writing it ouer againe Yet I will answer you in breif The Presbiterians in Parliament began with disarming Papists persecuting them as they did of late Then they proceeded towards the rest in his Majesty's Dominions threatned to destroy all in Ireland root Branch Thus they were the tru causes of that horrid Rebellion Let vs heare the late King The preposterous rigour vnreasonable seuerity which some men carryed before them in England was not the least inâ—entiue that kindled blew vp into horrid flames the despair of discontent Despayr being added to their former discontent the feares of vtter extirpation to their wonted oppressions it was easy to prouoke to an open Rebellion a people prone enough to breakâ— out to all exorbitant violence The Rebels were exasperated to the most desperate Resolutions Actions by being threatned with all extremityes not only to the known heads cheife incendiarys but euen to the whole community of the nation resoluing to destroy all root branch men women children Thus his late Majesty By whom you see the charge of that Rebellion is brought to the Dore of those who promoted that preposterous rigour seuerity who those were I need not tell you And the readinesse with which the Irish accepted a Cessation of Armes when without it the Protestants would haue been destroyed as the King sayd shewed that they sought only selfe preseruation not Destruction of others As to the Albigenses Piemontois they were Rebels to their natural Princes suffred as such not for Religion but for open actual resisting them And as for that common reproach of a Clement Rauaillac we may as easily find a Polirot an Andelot amongst the Huguenots It is no more reproach to a great body to haue had a wicked villain of it then to the Apostles to haue had a Iudas Yet if this were a reproach you are more obnoxious to it I leaue your seditious doctrines come to your practice you came into the world like the Cadmean brood all armed your seuerall Princes almost assoon felt your hands as they saw your faces In Geneua you cast of the authority of your Bishop Prince of the town In hygher Germany you shaked the Authority of Charles V. In lower Germany you withdrew many Prouinces from the Obedience of their King You vsurped vpon Rudolphus the Emperour in Transiluanta vpon Christiernus in Denmark vpon Sigismond in Swedeland you fought for the Crowne of France against Francis II. Charles IX Henry III. In Charles IX 's time you coined mony in the name of one you held for King In England you set vp Iane Grey against the lawfull heyr Queen Mary You bore armes against another Mary Queene of Scotland brought her into restraint forced her to depose her selfe fly her Country kept her Prisoner nineteene yeares at last barbarously put her to a violent death by the hand of a common executioner a thing till then neuer executed on a soueraigne nor since but by your selues on her Grandson Your perpetual insolencys against your Soueraignes your encroachments on the Royal Prerogatiue the seditious maximes you aduance are known too well both at home abroad I challeng you to shew that euer any Catholick designed vpon his Prince what you haue acted on yours Charles I. Remoue this beam out of your eye before you point at a moth in ours Thus much to J. P. Anonimus charges the commotions in Scotland on Papists because Richelieu had a hand in them Which althô supposed to be tru yet is nothing to the purpose For that great Prelate Minister of state was a subiect to a foreigne Prince not bound by any Allegiance to any but his own Master whose interest he was obliged to promote by all lawfull meanes he did it to the astonishment of all the world Why did that Prelate addresse himself if he did so to Presbiterians not the Professors of his own Religion The reason is cleere he knew the Catholicks to be so fixt in their Allegiance as no art no promise could remoue them from it the Presbiterians to be meer Gun-powder soe that the least sparke would set them on fire blow all to pieces And your Apology it self is a sufficient proof of this doth a foreign Minister of state