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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89126	A midnight touch at an unlicens'd pamphlet, called, A vindication of the arch-bishop, and several other bishops		1690 (1690)	Wing M1999; ESTC R226557	1,294	1

A Midnight Touch At an Unlicens'd Pamphlet CALLED A Vindication of the Arch-Bishop and several other Bishops VVE do justly term and esteem him who Abdicated the Throne no other than the late King yet we find in the Paper this day published Five Clergy-men in defiance of an Act of Parliament calling themselves W. Cant. W. Norwich F. Ely Tho. Bath and Wells Tho. Peterburgh It would have given great offence if there had been added Richard Baxter Rector of Kederminster yet a good Lawyer affirmed in a Coffe-house but two hours since that he hath as good a title to Kederminster as the other five have to the Names which they assume to themselves and presume to write and that they ought only to have subscribed William Sancroft William Loyd Francis Turner Tho. Ken. and Thomas VVhite late Bishops if they pleased It is as certain that there is a third Plot as that there is a New Liturgy and that there is a Lambeth Club the Paper now published confesses but whether Holy or not I know not and for ought I know the inserting that Epethete holy both to theirs and the Jacobite or Devil-Tavern-Club may be a good reason for saying 't is Abusive It seems by their Paper that they are put under a necessity of holding Meetings or Conventicles at Lambeth in their present difficulties to advise how to keep good Consciences which looks as tho 't were no easie thing to them to do it Indeed They tell us that they heartly and incessantly pray for the Peace Prosperity and Glory of England which is well tho' as to the words we find them not in their Liturgy and Methinks we want the Addition of these words under the Auspetious Government of our dread Soveraign Lord and Lady King VVilliam and Queen Mary We are not to seek for their meaning when they talk of bearing their Cross but their prating of seeking the good of their Native Country is so ambignous and uncertain that for ought I know should Mareschal D. Humiers come which God forbid VV. C. would call for the Keys which he delivered to my L. L. and put them into his Hands and then conclude that he had done the Church and his Country a great piece of service I do think that 't was not so much for the sake of Wit or Honesty as for the well understood word as they call it de Wuting that their Vindication was published and therefore I declare that rather than see the Throne of our rightful and Lawful King and Queen who now possess it overthrown I shall rejoyce to see all who refuse to Pray and Fight for its support de VVitted Their late Reverences declare themselves ready to sacrifie their All to prevent Popery and the Arbitrary Power of France from prevailing over them for they have the Persecution of the French Protestants fresh in their Memories 'T were to be wisht that these Non-Resisting and Non-Assisting Gentlemen would now in their difficulties and whilest under the Cross when they tell us that they remember the Persecution of the French Protestants acknowledge the Error and wickedness of their Persecuting those of England for till they do so there are a Censorious sort of People amongst us who will conclude that tho' some of our Clergy-men would not have the Arbitrary Power of France to prevail over them yet that they do wish and hope by that Power to prevail over and yet again to trample upon English Protestants When Mr Randal Taylor emits his next Paper which is to declare the Absent Brother of Glocester's concurrence I shall endeavour to read it at a more seasonable hour and to find a little more leisure than I now have to speak to this Point