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A36148
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The Dissenter unmask'd being some reflections upon the behavior of the dissenters towards the Church of England in the last reign to this present time.
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1691
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Wing D1682; ESTC R30981
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Prince of Orange Lands and we shall see whether there is any Trust to be confided in such sort of Cattle There is a great consternation over all England King James had been very Tyrannical over the Church of England and therefore doubted of their Loyalty to him but he had been kind nay a Father to the Dissenters and therefore ought to expect assistance from them as they had Religiously protested in their Addresses What! not a Man among our grateful Dissenters neither Personally nor from the Press nor-Pulpit take the part of a King who had delivered them out of Captivity who brought them out of the Land of Aegypt out of the House of Bondage What! will those Godly People forsake their Benefactor now he most needs the effects of their Promises Will none of them lend their assistance to a Man who had freed them from the Long-Nails of the Whore of Babylon What! the Lambs of God! the very Emblem of our Saviour absolutely Pure and Innocent and yet promise what they hardly ever meant or at least never did perform To reflect upon it would make the most Brazen Blush but our Dissenters Foreheads are hardned a degree above Steel it self or else they could not reflect upon those large Promises and the Non-performance of them without a Guilt which would be as evident in their Countenances and as lasting as Cain's Mark. I remember once I saw a Dissenter turning over the Gazetts in the last Reign and Monstrum horrendum his Face kept it's accustom'd Colour without the least sign of a Confusion which in any but a Phanatick would have bespoke a matter as strange as that of Pryn Bastwick and Burton who fell together by the Ears when they had No Ears Nor is their Carriage towards the Church of England less notorious in This Reign than in the Last They are so daringly Impudent as to say they don't question but the Lawn Sleeves and the long Gown will make them as good a Bonfire in Smithfield as did the Goods of the Spanish Embassador in the Strand It was but the other day that a Worthy and Learned Man heard some of this Crew in a Coffee-House near the Temple say They question'd not but the Fast for King Charles's Martyrdom would be put down Good God! To what Impudence are these Perjur'd Time-servers arriv'd I wonder they did not Petition in the last Reign to gratifie King James that the Thanksgiving for the Fifth of November might be rac'd out of the Kalendar They told a good Member of the Church of England That they hop'd the Lord would put the Sword into Their hands and then the measure which We measur'd to Them might be measur'd to Vs again How is this the nature of the Lamb Is it Revenge and Pride that entitles us to that sacret Epithet of Holy Lambs and Followers of the Living GOD Sure these Men are little better than Atheists when they seem to cast so little regard to the Almighty as to appropriate to themselves the very same Name and Title which is given to the Supream Being and yet at that very time design never to perform the thing they promise and are hatching Revenge and Malice against their Enemies The Church of England is now look'd upon by these Men as the meer dross of the Primitive Religion and ought to be cast away that the Members of it are defil'd with the Sins of the Dragon and that the Bottomless Pit will receive them at the end What is this but depriving God of his Mercy and taking away one of the greatest Attributes of the Deity by condemning their Fellow Christians to the Bottomless Pit But to insist no more upon their barbarous and unchristian Expressions let us take a survey of their Behaviour only I am not going to Vindicate the Bishop of Ely but is it not a horrid Shame that that Learned Man should be expos'd by every saucy Pamphleteer and that with all the scurrilous and opprobrious Titles that Hell can invent and they publish And not only Him but for his sake the whole Church must be villify'd by this Rabble of Writers whose Style is as nausceous as their Sense and both as inconsistent as the Covent-Garden Sermons Is it not a wretched Shame that a Fellow who Styles himself the O r should have the Impudence to call upon the Reverend Bishops to clear themselves as though it was not below the Dignity and Eminency of those Learned Prelates to be at the beck of a saucy Scribler that Writes for Bread and who I believe values Religion just as much as his Brethren when it will consist with his Interest to continue it I know they think they have already their Foot in the Stirrup and that they shall speedily mount the Saddle but I have reason to belâ—â—â—â— His present Majesty's Prudence is too great to repose any 〈…〉 in such unfaithful Perjur'd People who never were True 〈…〉 â—heir own Interest I know they carry a very fair outside to King 〈…〉 but if we scan their Principles we shall have reason to think they love him no more than the great Turk For if they love a King as King then they love Monarchy but they hate Monarchy therefore cannot love a King I shall conclude this Paper with this Expression That if His Majesty whom God long preserve in the Throne of England should rely upon these People upon the account of any Love they pretend to Him He will be found to have trusted to a broken Reed if ever He should have occasion to try Them And that though too many of our Church of England have been Wheedled away from valuing this present Government with as great a Veneration as is really due to it yet I don't question but there are above an hundred for one who will be True to It if so there will not be much need of depending upon a People whose very Hearts seem to be compounded with those Two Ingredients of Malice and Falsehood From whose Principles Libera nos c. 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