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A70628 A Most serious expostulation with several of my fellow-citizens in reference to their standing so high for the D.Y.'s interest at this juncture of time 1680 (1680) Wing M2919A; ESTC R14647 5,553 6

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A MOST SERIOUS EXPOSTULATION With several of my Fellow-Citizens In reference to their standing so high for the D. Y's Interest at this Juncture of time Gentlemen I Hope no discreet and honest Person will look upon it as any Presumption but as necessary Counsel humbly to caution you my Brethren with my self in time well to consider whither you are running What it is that you are doing Above all it behoves you to consider it at this time why should we delight in our own Destruction and help forward our own Ruine Perhaps you may think that 's strange and impossible that any should be so weak but yet 't is no new thing for some to be blinded deluded and beguiled 't is but what is and hath been too common in all Ages though certainly for any Nation or Number of men to endeavour or effect their own Destruction is one of the severest Judgments of God that can befall a People I pray God none of you may come under this Curse of having Eyes and Ears and see and hear not Hearts and will not understand 2. But 't is to be feared that too many among you are running headlong the Path-way of Destruction by endeavouring to foment Division amongst those that are Protestants and not only to keep open but to widen the Breach betwixt the Church of England and other Protestants of different Perswasions whereas neither of you can ever be safe if you do not both unite and joyn hand in hand against the Common Enemy viz. the Papists and Popery as the Case now stands with us This indeed may be unminded by many of you by Reason there are so many Blinds daily endeavoured to be put upon us under the Notion of the Church of England whereas the Name of the Church of England is only made use of by the Jesuite Party as the Papists Stalking-horse and not by the true Sons of the Church of England but to blind them as Coleman's Declaration runs all in the name of the Church of England though designed and penned by him and other Papists the greatest Enemies in Truth to the Church of England And no Doubt but most of the Pamphlets that now come out under that Notion are of the same Stamp forged by the Jesuits those Fire-brands of all Europe you may easily guess at them by their Extenuating the Plot and advising us not to have any Fears but to lessen our Guards in the City by their endeavouring to create and encrease the Divisions betwixt those of the Church of England and other Protestants which I am sure no sincere hearted Son of the Church would do at this time but would disown and disclaim all such Proceedings as spurious you may easily know of what Kidney they are by their pleading for a Popish Successor c. Now Sirs permit me to expostulate the Case and tell you whoever you are that are for the D's Interest in the Circumstances as he now stands with England are you not most certainly if you do but rightly understand your selves for these three Interests viz. First for the Pope and Papists Interest Secondly for the French Interest Thirdly for Arbitrary Government I pray you consider you that are for the D. in the Circumstances he hath at present brought himself and the Nation under by his Adhering to and so much countenancing the Papists and French Interest are you not in plain English against these three things though it may be ignorantly yet in the sequell it may prove so viz. 1. Against the Interest of the Church of England and the Pretestant Religion 2. Against the Interest of England your Native Country 3. Against the Interest of all Parliaments and so against your own Freedomes and Liberties as you are Englishmen Solomon says A wise mans Eyes are in his Head and are not a Fool 's too Yes but he makes no Use of them to foresee the Evil and avoid it and that we may not come under that Denomination let us most seriously ponder and consider these Particulars for 't is no less than your Religion your Lives your Liberties your Estates and your All that is concerned in the Consequence of it Now to demonstrate not only the Probability of its being so but the Certainty of it and the Impossibility of its being otherwise in all humane Appearance I shall beg of you but to consider of these things over again viz. First If you stand for the D's Interest do you not undoubtedly so far stand for the Pope and Popish Interest yea Jesuites and all the worst of Papists and by this you will give the greatest Blow to the Church of England that ever it had since it was a Church pretend what you will for the Church of England while you are for the D. you are certainly the greatest Enemies of it if you are for a Popish Successor or the D. as a Romanist you are in Truth Enemies to the Church of England in Particular and the Protestant Religion in General For can you once imagine that by bringing in a Popish Successor you will not inevitably set up Popery Will such a Successor think you have so much Love for another Religion as his own or for those of another Profession whom by his Perswasion he is obliged to esteem all damned Hereticks as for those of his own therefore will it not naturally follow that he will advance the one and discountenance and depress the other nay do you forget that so far as he could he lately did the same when he was in Power so that the most ready way to get into Office or Preferment was either to turn Papist or be a Favourer of them and then such were quickly brought in made Governours of our Castles and Garrisons Captains and Colonels of our Forces yea even Captains of our Men of War besides hundreds of Places at Court no less than Lord High Treasurer of England witness Clifford and lately one of the Clerks if not more under the Treasurer Danby must be a desperate subtle Roman Catholick for it seems he could find none so fit for him and what will the Effect of this be in a little time think you Will not this be a great weakening to the Church of England to lose so many Members as by these doings have within this ten years been seduced from her and so many of her Members turned out and kept out of Places of Trust Profit and Honour whilst her Enemies are placed in them and will not this think you cause great Numbers to become Roman Catholicks some for Favour some for Fear some for Offices and others for Profit and by Perswasion besides very many by Example who look upon it as a great Piece of Godliness or at least good Policy to be of their Princes Religion I wonder any man can be so weak as to think these Doings will make for the Intrest of the Church of England surely such must strangely be infatuated and Besides consider for you to endeavour