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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59336	The present state of England in relation to popery manifesting the absolute impossibility of introducing popery and arbitrary power into this kingdom : being a full confutation of all fears and apprehensions of the imagined dangers from thence, and particularly of a certain pamphlet, entituled, The character of a popish successor / by E. Settle.	Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.	1684 (1684)	Wing S2711; ESTC R35168	63,695	38

upon occasion to show themselves in their proper Colours The Villany of which Damnable Falshood is sufficiently apparent from the forementiond Indulgence For why such a Dispensation Why a playing the basest of Hypocrites and Bantring with Religion Sacraments nay GOD himself as such a Dispensation is no less when under so universal an Impunity there was not the least Occasion for it There 's a natural Pride in all Religions to avow their own Principles and no Man like St. Peter denyes his Master unless like him too under some Apprehension of Danger in Owning him And therefore these papal Dispensations must be the Second Part of Otes his Commissions and nothing but the Restless Malice of Schisme and the Diabolical Spirit of Rebellion can raise so false an Alarum of popery and bugbear the Ignorant Rabble by so vile and so cursed an Imposture But to return to our Standing Army An Army of Papists is not to be had and an Army of Atheists is as unseizible as the other For whatever dissolute Debauchees might possibly be culled out as the Character tells you of no Religion nor Principles for a few particular Officers the whole Gross of an Army of the same Stamp is not in rerum Naturâ For if a popish Successour will have an Army of English-men he must take them as he finds them the loose and poorer sort of Rabble the Bore and Peasant the Refuse of the Shop and the Plough which are ever the Composition of Armyes in a Kingdom not so extraordinary peopled as England and these must be the Hands that this popish Successour must raise for his Standing Armyes And if so how far the Genius of the Commonalty of England lyes towards such a popish Vndertaking and this No-popish Army shall push on to these All-popish Designs is worthy our Consideration Here 's an Army expresly rais'd for a Forreign Invasion or the like and on the quite contrary intended to cut our own Throats at home rays'd for the Kingdom 's preservation used for its downright Destruction and all this forsooth because their Arbitrary popishly Affected Officers shall pull off the Vizor and wheel about and at the word of Command the whole Army after them But the Quaery is Whether they 'll obey that Command and be so tamely indifferent pro or con in their Obedience to act the most opposite thing to what they were raysed for and maintain perhaps the only Cause that they abhor I confess in the Quarrels of Princes and States as to Forreign Engagements the vindicating of a National Honour or the enlarging of Dominion c. Armyes are generally of their Leaders Inclinations and it boots lit●le possibly to an English Army whether ingaged against a Dutch or a French Enemy But in Domestick and Intestine Jarrs the Favour of the Cause ever animates the Arm that fights it In all the popish Rebellions or Massacres whether in Ireland Piedmont or Paris whether for or against the Prince or in all the several Hugonot Rebellions in France or any other Kingdoms of Europe when Religion was the Quarrel 't was not the Command of the Leader but the Principle of the Party adhering to him that was ever the First Mover on both sides And a popish Cause in England can never move but upon the same Axle And nothing is more i●le than to fancy such an Extravagance in any People or Religion in the World as to swallow such Implicite Obedience to Princes as to do any Thing or all Things because Commanded 'T is not the first time that through prejudice to the Person or the Cause disgusted Souldiers have shot through their Captains instead of their Enemies Heads and the Fate of Kuniski amongst the Cossacks is no Original of the Kind nor is it any such Rarity in History to find whole Armies turn Deserters and not only set up new Leaders but new Soveraigns too And truly upon engaging an English Army under so Bloody a popish Standard what Assurance can this popish Successour propose to himself not so much of going through with so crabbed a piece of Work but even of his own meer Safety under the Protection of such Hands and Swords to uphold him What Security shall he or indeed can he in common reason expect from the Stubborn obstinate English Hands a People too apt to fly in the very Face of Princes upon a less Provocation than so ungrateful a piece of Service and that upon raising an Army for any such kind of purpose he has not put the Sword into their very hands that may guide it to his own Throat whil'st possibly they shall be opportunely raised for some more Darling-protestant Favourite to step into the Head of them and dismount not only their popish Officers but popery too and the very Royal popish Nimrod himself nay and perhaps use him with as little Remorse as the Turkish Janizaries have done several of their less hated Grand Seigniours under a much more Trivial Disgust But to give an Example out of our English Chronicles of the Obedience and Loyalty of English Armyes to a King they hate I shall only refer the Reader to the Fate of King Richard the Third at Bosworth Field Baker tells us that Richard's Army was double the Strength and Number of his Adversarys the Earl of Richmond's Yet see the Infidelity of an English Army to a Prince under the popular Dissatisfaction and Prejudice A great part of his Army raised for his preservation was actually ingaged in his Destruction For the Lord Stanly by a Revolt with 2000 Horse Sir William Stanly with a party of 3000 more and with these Sir Walter Hungerford Sir John Savage Sir Brian Stanford Sir Simon Digby all Commanders who withdrew likewise with their Respective Inferiour Souldiers amounting between them to the Majority of Richard's whole Army turned all to the Earl of Richmond and carryed the whole Fortune of the day to the Victorious Enemies Side to the Loss both of Richard's Crown and Life together Nay he goes further and expresly tells us that in this Battle Henry Earl of Northumberland a Commander of Richard's Party never strook Stroke as likewise many other who follow'd him moreout of Fear than Love which Neuters upon the same Revolt as the Lord Stanly might undoubtedly have withdrawn their party to Richmond too So that upon that dangerous and Fatal Rock the people's Aversion how easily are the Crowns and Lives of princes Shipwrack't and what little Trust can Monarchs repose in the Strength and Swords of Armies whose Hearts are not Theirs But alas if Richard the Third found such Treachery from a Revolting Army and an Antipathy so destructive to him What Truth or Faith is a popish Tyrant like to find from Armies under a more universal and inveterate Detestation For wherein was King Richard's Crime so great I mean as to the people 'T is true he Mounted the Throne by the most Inhumane of Murders And from that only Grievance proceeded the Defection