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A52460 The parallel, or, The new specious association an old rebellious covenant closing with a disparity between a true patriot and a factious associator. Northleigh, John, 1657-1705. 1682 (1682) Wing N1301; ESTC R5814 50,196 36

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Vengeance must follow the violating the Contract but Damnation too and every dastard Delinquent that hath not an Heart like one of Matchiavil's compleat Rogues stout enough to go through all this Villany must be prosecuted with a Pillory here and Damn'd as a perjured Person hereafter I know the Italian Bandities and our English Highway-Man though but common Out-laws on the same terms the Subscribers of this Association would be punish one another many times by mutual agreement and that according to the Penalties of those very Laws of the Kingdom they daily violate But however though such exact Justice be observed amongst Thieves and Robbers it cannot extenuate the guilt of those Murders and Villanies they commit And why all the Blood that is shed all the Plunder that is committed by such a select Band of Covenanteers is not as much a Violation of the Laws as Murder and Robery I cannot understand then it seems also no Hope of Fear or Reward must separate these resolute Fellows If so I would ask these Gentlemen whether the Fear of God and the Devil the Hopes of Heaven and Happiness may not also be excluded by so universal a Negative If they say they only mean by it the allurements of Men or Terrours of some earthly Powers Then it had been but prudently done to have mollified it with some such Limitation If they make no such excuse for it then I think it stands still a daring piece of Atheism and resolute profaneness neither were they to separate themselves during Lives so this is a most excellent and vigorous prosecution indeed they are not so much as to think themselves absolved from this Oath though the reasons and occasions for taking it were quite removed and obviated for 't is such an indispensable Obligation as must not cease but with their breath and they swear to hold their Combination by the same Tenure some do their places with a Durante Vita so that suppose by an untimely death or a natural one the Duke that unhappy Burden of this lamentable Song were removed they still oblige themselves to obey what Orders they shall receive from those Perpetual Dictators so long as they enjoy Breath and Life to put them in Execution And all this notwithstanding a surviving King or Protestant Successor how near this would have come to the nature of a Common-wealth I submit to the determination even of those men that think all Republican Designs at this time so ridiculous and impossible Thus having with as much patience and moderation as such a provoking Subject would permit paralell'd examined the nature tendency of this specious Association it self by comparing each particular Paragraph we will now make some observations on the whole complicated Piece of Digested Treason And then expose those little Subterfuges that Varnish of reason and argumentation they are forced to fly to that defend it like sinking Mariners catching at every little Board and Plank to buoy up the head of so desperate a Cause This whole Scheam of Rebellion will upon a careful perusal be found in some places of such an unlimited extent in others full of mental reservation sometimes you meet with a deep Equivocation then with a plain Lie here some factious insinuation and at last perfect treasonable Positions that one would swear the Council of a Conclave Hell and a Republick had all consulted the form and manner of the drawing it up And each inserted its Paragraph according to their several abilities of Equivocating Lying and Speaking Treason First none are Excluded that will but come in and take this Oath For they swear to protect all such as shall enter into it in just performance of the true Intent and meaning of it so that if Turk Jew Infidel or any Heretick in the World that is no profess'd Papist come and subscribe he is presently to be protected and defended I know that in the Preface to this Pious Work 't is only extended to all True Protestants but that general appellation is so indefinite that I do not see why it may not comprehend an Army of Tartars if they will but land here and protest against the King and Government then it is so Extensive that all Adherents must be destroyed so that the King by denying his Royal Assent to dispossess his Brother of his unquestionable Right and the Lords the passing the Bill in the Higher House being in all reason to be judged Adherents to the Duke must be cut off every mothers Son which certainly would be a worse piece of business for the Peers then heretofore their being Voted Vseless Vseless Trunks they would make them indeed now when by such an Association they would go near to lose their heads Secondly all this old Chiming and Ding Dong about Liberty and Property that must ring through the Country on the communicating this new Covenant and charm the listning Clod-pate like a merry Peal of Bells on a Holyday is nothing else but Mental Reserve and meer Equivocation For first by the name of Liberty cannot be meant that of enjoying the Freedom of their persons from confinement as every good Subject may well expect so long as he lives in Conformity to the Laws that would justly confine and punish him if he did not for ●hen it would have been but a piece of impertinency to have inserted it for the whole Nation at present enjoys all this therefore it must necessarily follow that all that can be employed in this Ambiguous Phrase Liberty by such Associators is a Liberty of rebelling with impunity a License to perpetrate all those villaines for the obtaining of which the specious Pretence of Liberty can but possibly be suggested and which indeed is now adays upon all occasions so cunningly pretended that I don't see but in a short time the whole Kingdom may set up for Levellers and Libertines every poor beggarly Rascal plunder his wealthy Neighbour till he make the squares even every bloudy Villain stab shoot and murder all that oppose his Designs whilst the suppressing this Barbarism shall be thought an infringing of Liberty Forbidding the Israelites to spoil the Aegyptians and then no wonder if they murmur against Moses and Aaron in their Tents And then by Property can never be meant the keeping of their Possessions in quiet so long as there is no one that disturbs them in it But if they are resolved to be their own Tormentors out themselves from their Tenements by voluntary slight run away as if they would leave themselves behind haunted by their own Shadows fancy French Armies at Purbeck Navies at Portsmouth and then depopulate their Habitations of their own accord Certainly this can't be charged as a Severity on the Government as seizing their Properties or else Carelessness in the Magistrate in not defending them If the Rabble will like a Flock of Crows or Wild-Geese at the Garring or Cackling of one of their Centinels presently take the Alarm and with a terrible Cry be streight on