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The true Protestants watch-word, instructing all true Protestants what they ought to do in a peaceable way of opposition againt Popery, at this juncture of time. / By T.P. a friend to truth and peace.
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T. P., friend to truth and peace.
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1679
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Wing P120; ESTC R181395
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THE True Protestants WATCH-WORD INSTRUCTING All True Protestants what they ought to do in a Peaceable Way of Opposition against POPERY at this Juncture of Time By T. P. a Friend to Truth and Peace Vita unita fortior And a threefold Cord is not easily broken Eccles 4.9 10 12. LONDON Printed for H. B. Anno 1679. THE True Protestants VVATCH-VVORD THE holy Scripture of Truth tells us (a) Job 36.15 That God opens the Ear by Oppression and it would be a very great mercy to England if God would be graciously pleased to open the Ears of all true Protestants in this Nation by the Cry of Oppression and cause them to hear his voice (b) Mich. 6.8 9. Zeph. 1.14 15 16. In Romes Master-piece ordered by a Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament the first day of August 1643. to be Printed you have a particular Discovery of the Popish Plot and Treason against the late King Kingdom and Protestant Religion and to raise the Scotish Wars p. 13-26 and the Observations thereon p. 30-35 In the King's Proclamation for Banishing the Papists ten miles from London dated Octob. 30. 1678. He calls the then Popish Conspiracy A bloody traiterous Design of Popish Recusants against His Royal Person the Government and the Protestant Religion And in a Vote of the House of Commons approved by the House of Lords at a Conference Novemb. 1. 1678. Resolved c. That this House is of Opinion that there hath been and still is a damnable and hellish Plot contrived and carried on by Popish Recusants for Assassinating and Murdering the King and for subverting the Government and rooting out and destroying the Protestant Religion By this threefold Authentique Testimonies it doth undeniably appear that there hath been and still is a most cunning strong execrable Conspiracy contrived at Rome And for many years together most vigorously pursued in England with all industry policy and subtilty by many active and potent Confederates of all sorts to subvert the Government to re-establish Popery and to destroy the Protestant Religion Therefore it greatly concerns all true Protestants to consider seriously what they ought to do at this juncture of Time in a pious peaceable and righteous way against Popery and all Popish Recusants in England I am not ignorant that several Expedients have been and are proposed to accomplish a firm Union and mutual Agreement amongst all Protestants though otherwise of different Perswasions against our Common Adversaries the Papists but they have not proved Effectual to that End Yet there is at least in my Opinion a Medium which if we Protestants could all agree in the Knowledge and Practice of would certainly conduce very much unto the full accomplishment of this sweet lovely and innocent thing called Union and mutual Agreement among all true Protestants That Medium which I intend and humbly offer consists of two general and principal parts viz. first That Royal Law of our LORD Jesus Christ (c) Matth 22.39 Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self Secondly That fundamental Law of this our Nation called Magna-Charta with its Anathema administred in Westminster Hall the third day of May 1253. at the Restoring and Confirmation of the same Magna-Charta the King Lords and Commons being present and consenting to the same Anathema the words are these We Excommunicate Accurse and from the Benefit of the holy Church Sequester all that secretly or openly by Deed Word or Councel do make Statutes or observe them being made or that bring in Customs or that keep them being brought in against the said Liberties of Magna-Charta the Writers Law-makers Councellors and the Executors of them and all those that shall presume to Judge against them That we Protestants may agree in the Knowledge and Practice of that Law of our Soveraign Lord Jesus Mat. 22.39 Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self we must understand 1. That every true Protestant in England especially is our Neighbour 2. That to love him as our selves is to pity and compassionate him to help and succour him to relieve and preserve him when he is wronged injured unjustly oppressed and in danger to be destroyed yea and by all lawful waies and means to preserve his Life Liberty and Estate from the illegal Violence and Oppression of any person or persons whatsoever And the lawful waies and means which all true Protestants may and ought to use in this case are these viz. first They ought to make fervent and constant Prayer to Almighty God for the Protestants their Cause Lives and Liberties against the Papists and all their Adherents that seek to destroy them as before is evidently declared And herein all true Protestants ought to be unanimous as the Church was Ast. 12 1-5 But prayer was made by the Church unto God for him without ceasing and verse 12. And Psal 83. throughout Keep not thou silence O God hold not thy peace and be not still O God For in thine enemies make a tumult and they that hate thee have lift up the head They have taken crafty counsel against thy people and cousulted against thy hidden ones They have laid Conte and let us cut them off from being a Nation that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance For they have consulted together with one consent they are confederate against thee The Tabernacles of Edom and the Ishmaelites of Moab and the Hagarens Gebal and Ammon and Ammalek the Philistines with the Inhabitants of Tyre Assur also is joyned with them they have holpen the children of Lot Selah Go unto them as to the Midianites as to Sisera as to Jabin at the brook of Kison Which perished at Endor they became as dung for the Earth Make their Nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb yea all their Princes as Zebah and as Zalmunna Who said let us take to our selves the Houses of God in possession O my God make them like a wheel as the stubble before the wind As the fire burneth a wood and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire So persecute them with thy tempest and make them afraid with thy storm Fill their faces with shame that they may seek thy Name O Lord. Let them be confounded and troubled for ever yea let them be put to shame and perish That men may know that thou whose name alone is IEHOVAH art the most High over all the Earth Yea fasting and prayer in this Case as Esther Mordecai and the Jews did when Haman the Kings Favorite and his Confederates haâ— Plotted their Destruction Aesth 4.3.16 Secondly All Protestants as one Man ought every Man to arm himself that they might be ready to defend themselves when the blood-thirsty Papists Who have Conspired to burn their houses and Massacre their Persons and so destroy the Protestant Religion shall attempt their Hellish Plot as Nehemiah the Nobles the Elders the Rulers and all the Jews did generally yea every one had his sword guirded by his side the Labourer and they that bear burdens had weapons for their defence Read Nehem. 4.7 When Sanballat Tobiah the Arabians the Ammonites and the Ashdodites v. 8. Conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem and v. 12. And be upon them v. 11. And the Adversaries said They shall not know neither see will we come in the midst among them and slay them c. Thirdly The Protestants being provided with Arms for their own defence may and ought to Petition the King for their lives and to pray his Majesty and his Councellors for an Edict unto Lieutenants and the Deputies and Rulers or Governours of their respective Provinces Countries Cities Towns-corporate c. Wherein the King his Councellors may be desired to grant unto the Protestants in all his Dominions especially in England to gather themselves together and to stand for their Life to destroy to slay and to cause to perish all the Power of the Papists that shall assault them As Esther and Mordecai did in their case and danger which is Recorded in the Book Esther Chap. 7.1.2.3 Chap. 8.9 10 11. And touching the second Part of the Medium propounded viz. the Magna-Charta of England which fundamental Law of the Land of our Nativity will justify all true Protestants of this Nation in our due obedience to that Royal law of our Lord Jesus Christ afore-mentioned viz. Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self For I beseech all true Protestants to Consider we hold by one common Tenure all the outward Liberties Priviledges and Interests that we have in our lives estates and all other Proprieties that we have and the best Security that English men have for the holding thereof is the fundamental Law of the Land And therefore if this grand Security be violated in any one English-mans just Case every Mans Life Liberty Priviledg Interest and Propriety is invaded by that particular violation as well as his to whom the violation is done And my legal and just Defending his Right as my own is to love my Neighbour as my self Yea the security of our Lives Freedoms and Liberties is so firm by Magna-Charta and the fundamental Laws of the Land that though Dudley and Empson had a Law of King Lords and Commands to justifie them yet notwithstanding they were condemned and executed and the Act it self judged and declared illegal And it will be a difficult Task for any one to give a clear and true Instance of any Persons or Person except in time of war by which Justice may be obstructed that ever brake the Fundamental Laws of England but sooner or later it cost him his Life for the Breach he made upon them Nor is any thing more frequent in our English Annals than the cutting off Offenders for but endeavouring to Subvert the Fundamentals Laws of this Nation Now to conclude it doth behave all true Christians to lay aside all our differences and agree in this harmless Medium propounded for Unity and Safety of all true Protestants and the Protestant Religion against all the Hellish Plots Confederacies Treacheries and Designs of the Papists FINIS