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A77439	A brief history of the rise, growth, reign, supports, and sodain fatal foyl of popery, during the three years and an half of James the Second, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland Together with a description of the six popish pillars, the Anabaptists, Presbyterians, Quakers, Independents, Roman-Catholicks, & popish church-men. The perpetual addressers of the King.		1690 (1690)	Wing B4600; ESTC R229470	22,583	35

and Bishops of St. Asaph Ely Chichester Bath and Wells Peterborough and Bristol were Summoned before the Lords of the Council and after Appearance were committed to the Tower June 8th but Bailed out came to their Tryal and were Acquitted unto the great joy of the People though to the great Grief of all Addressers During these times were strict enquiries made after all Ministers who refused to read the King's Declaration in their Churches by the Lords Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Affairs but the Chancellors in most parts delaying the Returns farther time was given But e'er the day appointed came no a new face of Affairs happen'd About these times also came in new Addresses thick and three-fold congratulating for the Birth of the Prince of Wales But in these Addresses the several Pillars of Popery appeared not distinctly as before But in all Corporations Grand Juries and meetings of Justices which at that time were fo far Purged as most of them were either Papists or Popishly inclined or Anabaptists Presbyterians Quakers or Independents All which promoting the Design Addresses innumerable ceased not until the King himself Addressed beyond Sea But at length news arrived of His Highness the Prince of Orange preparing as if he would Invade England whence King James being immediately smitten with a sudden astonishment sent for His Pillars about him the Presbyterian Ministers the Independents the Anabaptists the Quakers the Roman-Catholicks and the Popishly inclined who all protested that they believed the Prince of Wales to be undoubtedly his Son And one Dr. Bates being Spokesman for the Presbyterians spake with great confidence how much they were bound to believe His word and so said they all and promised to assist him to the utmost Also many or most of those Ministers Presbyterian or Independent who had fled into Holland for shelter because of the Duke of Monmouth's or the Earl of Argyle's Insurrections wherein they had been concerned had returned home and laid themselves at the King's Foot and were admitted to kiss his Hand and were esteemed White Boys Some also of the Gentlemen returned and became great Sticklers of King James but the preparations from Holland damp'd all For King James Drooping in Spirit all His Pillars could not keep up His Heart For on the last or September the Bishop of London was restored to his Dioecess On October the 2d came forth the general Pardon and the Charter was restored to the City On the 5th the Ecclesiastical Commission was Dissolved And on the 12th the Bishop of Winchester had a Commission to restore the Rights of Magdalen Colledge Oxford Whence followed the restitution and Fellows On the 17th all Rights were restored to the Corporations Hence all the Pillars of Popery beginning to reel and totter on November the 5th His Highness the Prince of Orange Landed But after some face of Resistance for some time appearing at Salisbury on November the 26th His Majesty returned to London from Salisbury The 11th of December he privately withdrew from White-hall On the 12th the Lord Chancellor was Taken and carried to the Tower On December the 16th King James returned to White-hall and on the next Morning went quite off And His Highness the Prince of Orange came to St. James's And thus fell flat all the Sir Pillars of Popery May it please God that Truth may flourish and that Popery appear no more But God's Will be done Let all good Men do their Duty and then Blessed shall be the Dead who Die in the Lord and their Works shall follow them

repent of His Princely favours to them in vain bestowed Or else they have hereby declared themselves a company of meer empty flattering Sycophants promising that which they never intended And now was it true as is said in the Address then are they themselves the Men bound to bring in King James against all sense of the Opinion of His most Excellent Majesty King William in His Declaration expressed and of the late Parliament in declaring the Government of the Kingdom by King James to be Forfeited by reason of Mis-government Or if otherwise they say what they never intended Then is no Credit to be given to any thing they say their Tongues are no Slander the Anabaptists in and about London are a Profligate People of the Sperm of John of Leydon and Knipperdoling a company of branded Hypocrites never to be believed or trusted They pretend to have an absolute Confidence in King James as to His tender care of the Peace and quiet of His Subjects they pretend to strive against all Dissenters with Emulation to do more for Him than all of them They pretend to be bound to Wish Pray and Fight and to do all that may be done that His Majesty and the Prince of Wales His Son and His Government may be Blessed And so by consequence they must hold that all opposers ought to be Accursed And yet these Men cry'd out against the late choosers of New Members That they would bring in King James again On May the 10th was presented to the King The most Humble Address of the Anabaptists in Leicester-shire Wherein these also acknowledge as the former Their Thankfulness for the King's Declaration and promising most faithfully and ambitiously to Serve Him with their Obedience and Loyalty in all ways to ihe best of His Advantage Praying for Him and His Posterity And on May the 14th came in more of the same from Exeter in the same County On May the 17th was Presented the Humble Address of the Independents and Anabaptists of Gloucester-shire Magnifying His Majesties Wisdom and Clemency with Hyperbolical Language stiling Him the Rightful Father of His Dominions Praying Him there may be a Total Abolishment of the Poenal Statutes concerning Religion and promising Him Exemplary Loyalty and concluding with Long Live and Reign King James the Just. On May the 21st was Presented The Humble Address of the Anabaptists of Stafford Derby and Nottingham shires promising Their utmost Loyalty to Him even unto the making of Him Great throughout all the World And at the same time came forth another Address of the Anabaptists of Che-shire Shrop-shire and Stafford-shire stiling His Majesty A Prince by Heaven designed for the highest Pattern of Royal Goodness and true Policy and promising to serve Him with such ready Obedience and stedfast Loyalty to the utmost of their Capacity in their Station as it shall not be possible for any other Subjects to exceed On May the 28th was presented to His Majesty the Humble Address of the Anabaptists of the City of Bristol acknowledging promising and wishing much after the manner as those before On June the 18th was Presented the Humble Address of the Anabaptists of Kent acknowledging promising and wishing like their preceeding Brethren acknowledging the King though a Zealous Papist yet the most tender and affectionate Prince that ever sway'd the Scepter of His Empire out-doing all expectation and desert of His Subjects promising Submission to Him under God and that unfeignedly in all things commanded them by Him Praying that God may grant Him whatsoever may be needful for His then present and future Happiness On June the 29th was Presented to His Majesty the Humble Address of the Anabaptists of Middlesex Hertford Bucks Oxon Warwick Northampton Lincoln Huntington Bedford Cambridge Essex Kent Surry Sussex Southampton and Dorset-shires Confirming with very Hyperbolical Compliments all things afore promised and owned by the rest of Their preceding Brethren And after all these was presented yet one more Humble Address of the Anabaptists of Oxford Abbington and Wantage with the same Flatteries and Warranties as their Fellows They had once afore Addressed in that of the Counties of Oxon and Berks But it seems these Anabaptisto-Papists could not rest so without a peculiar application so proud it seems they were of their Interest in a Popish Prince And by all these Addresses it appears plainly that not only the most part if not all the Anabaptists in and about London but all over England have voluntarily and freely engaged themselves unto their utmost to aid and assist King James in taking off the Test and all Poenal Laws and by consequence to open the ancient Floud gates of Stoppage and to let in an Inundation of Popery to over-run and drown not only the Church of England but also the whole Kingdom with an overflow of Popish Oppressions Now true it is that Liberty of Conscience is a matter not reasonably of any Power to be denied unto any of its Subjects and cannot be spoken against But Liberty of Schism is quite another thing and such as Holy Writ utterly Abhors It is the will of God that all Christians be of one mind Eph. 4.1 2 3 4 5 6. 1 Cor. 1.10 And we know what an heinous thing it was esteemed by St. Paul That there were Divisions in the Church the Members dividing and separating into Parties ver 11 12 c. And these things both Magistrates and Ministers ought to remedy to the best of their skill And in Old times they were always esteemed good Kings who punished Innovations in Religion and that with Severity And the Apostles in the New Testament were as urgent to the same purpose to reject all Hereticks Tit. 3.10.2 Joh. ver 9 10 11. and 3 Joh. ver 9 10. Such Paul accurseth Gal. 1.8 And wisheth such Perverters who trouble the Church that they might be cut off Gal. 5.12 Consider we therefore that the Anabaptists being a pernicious sort of People dangerous both to Church and State wherever they have crept into Power As was manifest at Amsterdam and after at Munster in Germany and since in England in times of the late Rebellion And are a Sect that do hold Dectrines destructive to the Peace of Church and State denying the Power of the Civil Magistrate in many things and do maintain a Church against a Church and Altar against Altar in the same Church and set up Lay Preachers and maintain Re-baptizing All which Doctrines being by the General Councils in purest Primitive times Forbidden and Accursed and declared to be Schismatical and Haeretical cannot be called matters of Conscience no more than Theft and Fornication can be so called Against Re baptizing see Can. 4. Apost and Can. Prim. Carthag confirmed by the Can. Secund. Concil Oecumen Constant. against Lay-Preachers and setting up Altar against Altar see Can. 16 and 17. Concil Millev and all the first six General Councils Now whatsoever is Condemned by any of the Six or at least Four first General

Councils cannot be maintained as matter of Conscience it being plain matter of Schism And all Schism is by the Magistrate to be punished equally with Murther and Adultery and therefore not to be Tolerated And yet we see how friendly these Haereticks and Schismaticks the Anabaptists and Papists do Hug each other no Hand and Glove did ever better fit one the other It was six Weeks after the Anabaptists e'er any other Sect advanced the poor Men of the West only excepted who being Pardoned their Lives had just cause to be thankful But Thousands of their Fellows had not that opportunity And yet on April the 30th the Presbyterians Quakers and Independents came in altogether of a Cluster Whereof the Presbyterians marched in the Front whose Humble Address was presented to His Majesty by the name of Several Ministers of the Gospel in and about the City of London commonly called Presbyterians Who Acknowledging with great joy His Majesties Royal bounty and Christian judgment and Fatherly inclination to Them and Their just security under His Protection And promising with a constant Emulation that They will strive to be most forward and faithful in Their Allegiance to His Person and Crown do wish and pray He may enjoy a long Reign over Them The Anabaptists were forward in their Promises but these appear as it were their Rivals striving to outdo them At the same time also was Presented the Humble Address of Their Brethren and Kinsfolks of Westminster Who the Place and stile considered do evidence these Anonymous Addressers to have been Mr. Alsop and his Flock who presenting the Addrese spake as follows Oh that we had but Windows in our Hearts that Your Majesty might see our Loyalty Bespeaking themselves much to the same purpose with the London Presbyters but in a more gilded Stile and Hyperbolick Language do promise high both by Prayers and Endeavours to contrive a most blessed Union between the King and His Papists on the one hand and Themselves on the other Which things seriously weighed read but their Promises and Subscriptions and then who will be judge let him speak but plain truth and so tell who are in earnest those Men whatever they give out who are for the bringing in again of King James the Second and a Popish Government Or if not then say at least what pitiful Flatterers have been those London Presbyterians Ministers of the Gospel and Loyal Subjects of Westminster but Men of a Punick Faith no more to be believed than the Impostor Mahomet who by his Golden Promises drew in a third part of the World to be his Proselytes in expectation of his coming at a Thousand years end to give them the Rule all over the World But his day being long since come and gone the good Man forgetting his Word fell fast asleep and his Faith became transmigrated into a very Lie And such was the Faith of these doubty Presbyterians unto King James when he stood most in need of them On May the 14th was presented The Humble Thanks of several Subjects of Exon and the County of Devon Nonconformists Acknowledging His Majesty Their free Gracious and wonderful Deliverer Declaring that They had no hand in the Rebellion of 85. And that they do heartily hate that and all Rebellion upon any pretence whatsoever That they are thankful for the Liberty given by the Declaration of Indulgence the 4th of April 1687. And do promise all due Obedience and pray for God's greatest Blessings on His Majesty Now all other Addressers were wont to say in their Addresses what Perswasion they were of Only the Presbyterians as if ashamed to appear plainly courting Popery in many of their first Addresses concealed their name of Presbyterian But by the name Noncon almost proper to that Sect alone and by the Stile we humbly conceive what these Addressers were the Brethren of Mr. Knox and Buchanan and lineally Descended from that Generation of the Assembly of 48 who held King Charles the First while the Independents and Anabaptists cut off His Head And yet loe how demurely they can wipe their Mouths like the Whore in the Proverbs Ch. 30.20 saying they have done no hurt and how much they abhor Rebellion upon any pretence whatsoever while at the same time it is the known Principle of those of that Perswasion That their Kings may be Excommunicated called to account and Condemned and Executed See Buch. de jure Regni c. On May the 21st was presented The Humble Address of the Nonconforming Loyal Subjects of New-Castle upon Tyne Acknowledging wonderful Thanks for His Majesties Indulgence stiling him a Peaceably disposed Prince and promising cheerful and dutiful Obedience to Him and to serve Him at their utmost Hazard On May the 25th was presented The Humble Address of the Dissenting Subjects of Taunton in Somerset-shire Acknowledging His Majesties Indulgence to be a greater Obligation to them to Duty and Allegiance than all the Oaths Tests and Subscriptions that could have been Imposed Promising His Majesty shall never repent of those Favours to them And wishing and praying that all the Blessings of Heaven may for ever Crown His Sacred Majesty On May the 28th was presented The Hamble Address of the Presbyterians of Bristol proclaiming their Acquaintance with His Majesty of Old and before He came to the Crown and how in those days He had promised His intentions of Indulgence to them Declaring that they question not in the least His resolution to preserve this their Happiness with the injoyments of their Properties according to the assurances of His Declaration since they knew it to proceed from a mature Judgment and a Principle rooted in His Majesty And promising to out-do all Men of their Capacity in all such things which have a tendency towards the promoting the Peace and Prosperity of His Majesties Reign And praying for Him with imploring words that His Majesties self and Family viz. The Prince of Wales may abound with the best of Blessings Loe we what a Discovery is here confessed out of this Address of a Confoederacy between the Papists and Presbyterians of long standing in order to promote the King's Declaration of Indulgence for Liberty of Conscience or rather of the common Schisms that both those Sects are guilty of But who will think that these Presbyterians of Bristol were the only Men of such Confoederacy without their Brethren of London And if not then let any reasonable Man be judge who they are that are for the bringing in again of King James and not only so but are obliged by promise so to do and have no ways to disengage themselves unto him left but by proclaiming themselves the greatest Impostors in nature the loudest Liars and veriest Vilains living For it is manifest to all the Kingdom that how much soever in King James's time the Properties were Invaded of the Church of England men yet those of the Presbyterians Anabaptists Quakers Independents Roman-Catholicks and Popish-Churchmen were never stirred On June the