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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77654	Heraclitus ridens redivivus; or, a dialogue between Harry and Roger, concerning the times	Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.	1688 (1688)	Wing B5060A; ESTC R231683	11,174	13

to present an Address or get a Commission to regulate some ●tubborn Corporation He looks as if he had a spite to the Tests and Penal Laws Har. Let me alone I 'll warrant you I manage him to advantage and if I do not make him as rank a Repealer as any is in England I 'll forfeit all the gain of my Occurrences Rog Well I 'll take my leave of you and at our next meeting shall expect an account of your Transactions and in what forwardness Affairs stand for a Parliament Farewel Enter an Honest Dissenter Dissenter Gentlemen I am sorry I have disturbed you and that I should be the occasion of breaking up so choice and select a Meeting My business is only with you Harry and not so urgent neither but that I can retire and call upon you at your leisure Harry Sir you are heartily welcome I am never so engaged but that I am always ready to wait upon a Person of your Character Your's I am sure is publick Business and since I have not of late seen your hand to an Address I doubt not but you come now at least some Hundreds strong Diss That is not at present my business You must know there is a small place in his Majesties service lately fall'n vacant which lies so conveniently in my Neighbourhood that as it may not be of such advantage to another so no one perhaps can so easily attend the duty with so much diligence as my self and therefore since I am told that now all Offices are disposed of without distinction I hope by virtue of former acquaintance I may beg your Interest on my behalf Har. Before I can appear your Friend you must answer me first to some few Questions for no man must expect his Reward before he can say his Catechism Will you whenever there is a Parliament call'd endeavour to choose such men as will take off the Iests and Penal Laws Diss What is the meaning of this Har. You must know then that no one is to be either promoted to or continued in an Office who will not answer affirmatively to this Question Diss Why this is encountring Test with Test setting one nail to drive out anothe● if a man be not qualified for an Office but upon such conditions You seem to send up as ha●d things as those you would have ●b●gated For what is the difference between your obliging a man to abjure the Test and 〈◊〉 Laws requi●ing him to renounce Transubstantiation but only this that for my part I think ●en●●uncing Transubstantiation to be the more innocent Har. There is a greater difference than you may ●magin for the Declaration that is required by the Law is a violence to a Mans conscience 't is obliging m●n to renounce an Article of his Faith whe●eas the Tests are matters purely politick they were promoted by a Faction and designed only to gratifie a Party which is pleased to call it self the Church or England Diss Hold there Harry these words are something too severe let me tell you you cannot make the enacting of these Laws to be the business of a Faction without putting the late King and his Parliament at the very head on 't and it does not become you to speak so irreverently of a Crowned Head tho it he in ashes But suppose a man should believe in his conscience that the Tests are a great security to the Protestant Religion that the consequence of repeating them will be the introducing of Popery as I must necessarily think of those many Noble and worthy Gentlemen who lately lost their Employmen's upon this very questian is not the turning of such a one out of his Office which perhaps is his whole subsistence for not contenting to ●●eal those Tests not only a privative but according to your wise distinction a positive inflicting of penalties on the score of conscience Occ. N 〈◊〉 9 For as not he that in 〈◊〉 his whole Religion to be in danger as much concerned in hi●●●●science as another that is to ●ende o● one single Article Har. But these are groundless apprehensions the Protestant Religion will be secure without these Tests and I have over and over proved that they are but Mud-walls Surely you have never seen my Occurrences Diss Ay that I have and at the same time that I could laugh at your Jests I was offended at your scurrilities and now you put me in mind I have seen your Paquet of Advice from Rome too there I remember you say That no mortal man can imbrace or countenance the Popish Religion but either a designing Knave or a ca●ol'd self will'd Fool. Pacq. vol. 3 p. 15 Now I cannot believe that you look upon either of these Characters to be very honourable Har. I wou'd have the Papists be admitted into Offices as well as other Subjects and they may sometimes happen to have better abilities to serve the King Country than those that wou'd excuse them Occur Numb 9. Diss Certainly Harry thou art made up either of Knavery or Forgetfulness tho I am afraid Knavery is the chief ingredient in thy composition Have not you said in your Paquet that you cou'd wish we ware fairly rid of two and fifty thousand Papists yet you believed durst undertake to prove the King should not loose one good Subject by the bargain Pacq. vol. 1. p 143 Har. You should not so spightfully recollect my former Opinions you shou'd consider not so much my old faults as my present arguments and if my carriage at this time may make you entertain any hard thoughts of my person tho you may not believe the man yet I hope you will be convinced by his reasons Diss Why truly whenever I see a Fore-head of B●a●s I am apt to believe that what is within is of no better mettal To ●●e always false and shifting is methinks a tempe so mean and creeping so ve●y like the ●ace of the Serpent that to be overcome by such a one's Insinuation is not to be perswaded 〈◊〉 betrayed Har. Is i● 〈◊〉 unreasonable that the Papists should b●●ebarred of those privile●g●s and advantages which they are born to And since they are under an equal obligation of d●ty with other Subjects way should not they have the same right as 't is in o●●e Countries whe●e Protestants and Papist have an equal share in the Government Occur Numb 9. Diss Prethee shew me but one Country where there are but four Papists to one Protestant and the Protestants allowed to enjoy equal priviledges with the Papists If this cannot be done why then should the Papists of our Nation look upon it as unequal dealing in this government to keep them from Offices when their number is not as yet perhaps above one in two hundred unless they assume some extraordinary priviledges to their persons as well as their Religion and pretend that their very Civil Rights are Catholick Har. But these Test-Laws are unjust they set up an inquisition into mens

the Pope to part with the Franchises as bring them to pray to the People in an unknown Tongue T'other day a Friend of ours I suppose after reading my project of Accommodation asked a Church-man in case the Church of Rome should give up Transubstantiation what would the Church of England part with in order to a reconciliation And what dost think the Church-man offered in exchange Har. Why the Nine and thirty Articles I suppose Rog. I protest only Passive-Obedience and I wou'd no more take that Principle from them then I wou'd unshackle a Mad-man Passive valor is a virtue I love in an Enemy and 't is as necessary for our preservation that they hold this Doctrine as 't is for the Grand Seignior that a Bassa believes that of Fatality when he is to undergo the discipline of the Bow-string Har. I give the Church of England men for lost and therefore for my part my Province shall be to gain the Dissenters I think the wind blows fairest from that side Rog. Prithee Harry how cam'st thee to be either beloved by the Papists or believed by the Dissenters I am sure you have spoke as severe things of the Papists as ever I did of the Fanaticks and yet by a sudden turn you are become as gracious as if you were a Convert of some considerable standing Har. I perceive you don 't understand the virtue of Holy Water this powerful sprinkling will immediately restore a man to the state of Innocence Had Adam but known this easie receipt he would never have been at the expence of Fig-leaves You must know I have all my old sins forgiven me and I am now as clean as if I had been over head and ears in Jordan Rog. But all thy washing will not clear thy contradiction thy Pacquet of Advice and the Weekly Occurrences are as opposite as Fire and Wa●er and I wonder how thou canst so shamefully prevaricate without one single blush to alter thy Complexion When I was press'd hard with my former opinions I set off the false coin with some plausible Varnish and always distinguished where I could not fairly deny But thou wou'dst fain cheat even in spite of day-light th● juggle is so easily detected that by thus openl● publishing thy Shame one wou'd think this ●as● was given thee not so much that thy Master had need of thy pain as to oblige thee to a penance Har. Puh Sir Roger you know words are wind and why should one no more than t'othe● be tied to one point of the Compass he that ca● turn and double upon a Stage is always applauded for his performance and why may not a dexterous change of Opinion be as much commended for the activity of the Brain as the other is for the agility of Body Rog. In troth Harry I much confess thy Brain is of a very singular constitution and thy late Writings are such Originals that for my part I think thou deservest to have a patent for Scribling thou art of late the very Darling of the Papists and thou carriest on the business of Rome so vigorously that I do not doubt in a short time to see thee Secretary to the Conclave Har. Why I believe I do them no small service with my Occurrences I take from them the odium of persecution by fixing it upon the Church of England I fill the peoples heads so full with Penal Laws that there is no room left for the Inquisition and if any one blabs about Q Mary's days I immediately stop his mouth with the Thirty fifth of Elizabeth Rog. But you are very frugal in giving Instances of the Severities of the Church of England not above one in a Paper Har. You must know he that has not much Butter must spread it thin I must make the most of what I have for I am afraid hereafter I am not like to have from that side any more Examples But if you observed I manage matters to the best advantage When once upon a time there was taken from a Quaker a Warming-pan for the Church dues I put in a notable inuendo and hinted that 't was then cold weather what think you may not that be called the Warming-pan Persecution Rog. Ay That was indeed hot and firy to take a Warming-pan from a Quaker was a little too unchristian whom not only the Season but his Religion obliged to frequent fits of shaking Har. And now you talk of your distinguishing I think I have had lately a notable fetch that way too When I had in one of my Occurrences accused the Clergy of London of cheating the Poor of Sion Colledge in keeping from them the Charity of their Founder Occur Numb 11. And the malice and falshood of my accusation being unluckily published I was hard put to it to avoid the Charge of Evil Speaking Lying and Slandering therefore in my next Paper I did protest that in my former Story I did not intend to reflect upon the London Clergy Occur Num. 12. So that here is the Clergy of London and the London Clergy make up a very serviceable Distinction Rog. Your Occurrences then I perceive are to insult over the Church of England and thereby to divert the Papists and gain the Dissenters Har. You are in the right on 't this Church of England you know is our greatest obstacle it vexes me to think that an heretical Church shoud be by Law established these Laws are such unlucky ways of forfeiting that they stand more in our way than Walls and Bastions Could we but once level their Work you would not find it long before we fell to storming and I think we have already made some considerable advances Rog. And do the Dissenters come on kindly Har. Why truly some of them are p●etty forward and we favour them accordingly we do as the Patriarch did of old he that comes in first receives the Blessing if they promise fairly then we place them in convenient stations we put them in such posts that are something for their honour as well as for our use Rog. I must confess for my part I am not for advancing the Dissenters too much and tho I cannot but approve of their present behaviour yet I am not for trusting them too far for they are slippery Creatures Har. Tru●ting them quoth a Why who does Have you ever seen a Dissenter at the head of a Regiment have you ever heard that any of them was made Lieutenant of the Tower or Governour of a Garrison The Offices they are generally put into are places of Expence and not profit If any of them has a Mandat to be Mayor or Alderman of a Town he is so precarious in his Office that he dares not make one false step upon pain of another Regulation and withall they commonly act in confunction with Papists so that they are no more than Vnder-Workmen they are only employed not trusted Rog. Here is a Dissenter coming I guess he comes to beg your assistance Harry either