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A42273 The grumbletonian crew reprehended being reflections upon the ungrateful and unmannerly behaviour of that new-upstart sect: occasioned by the scrupling to take the new oath of allegiance. Together with some good advice, to such of them, as are yet capable of it; and not too far advanced towards Bedlam. By Sir P. Philopolites. With allowance. Philopolites, P., Sir. 1689 (1689) Wing G2164; ESTC R223697 5,726 13

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THE Grumbletonian Crew Reprehended BEING REFLECTIONS UPON The Vngrateful and Vnmannerly BEHAVIOUR of that New-upstart Sect OCCASIONED By the SCRUPLING to take the NEW OATH of ALLEGIANCE TOGETHER With some Good Advice to such of Them as are yet Capable of it and not too far advanced towards Bedlam By Sir P. Philopolites Ingratus est qui gratiam bene merenti non reponit With Allowance LONDON Printed for Richard Janeway in Queens-Head-Alley in Pater Noster-Row MDCLXXXIX TO THE Grumbletonian READER THis Sheet was intended chiefly for thy Perusual wherein if I have Treated thee a little roughly at the beginning 't is only to be Reveng'd on thee for using the Government so But read on and thou will find I have endeavour'd by a more mild Method to reduce thee to thy Wits clog'd perhaps at present with a great many pretended Scruples which put altogether make not up one dram of Sence I know most of your Tribe have been lusty enough formerly to skip over Blocks which makes it an unaccountable thing to me how you come so feeble all of a suddain to stumble at Straws And as strange it is that they who us'd to swallow Camels should now strain at Gnats But thus have I seen the same Horse that rusheth without fear into the Battle to start at his own shadow And here I shall leave thee with thy Fellow-brute like Nebuchadnezzar amongst the Beasts of the Field till thy Vnderstandng returns unto thee Only take this along with thee because thou seem'st so in Love with Misery and Destruction That the Devil is in a very Swine much more one would think in a Man that should run down a steep Hill on purpose to be choakt But seeing thou art now rescu'd from Ruine whether thou would'st or no be not so fond of breaking thy Neck from off another Precipice which you may yet avoid The Government may possibly connive at your Sauciness to say no worse at present which you connot suppose it will always endure And consider how many some of you have been Instrumental formerly to hang out of the way for far lesser Matters than you now stand Guilty of your selves I therefore thus Advice and bid you Farewel and be Wiser ' ere it be too late Gibbets you know are Utensils of State. THE Grumbletonian Crew Reprehended BEING REFLECTIONS UPON The Ungrateful and Unmannerly BEHAVIOUR Of that NEW-UPST ART SECT c. THIS is our great Year of Jubilee wherein every Man may return to his Possession that was unjustly taken from him and every Bond-Man may be made free if he pleases But certainly they are very fit for Slaves who cannot find in their Hearts to be very thankful for their Liberty which being the Case of our present Grumbletonian Crew it were Pitty if they might not have leave to transplant themselves into some Catholic Country where they may have their Ears bor'd through to the Door Post in Token of an Everlasting Servitude and may solace themselves with the full Fruition and Enjoyment of all the good Effects of Popery and Arbitrary Power which now they have lost the Benefit of in England These Monsters of Ingratitude out-do the very Devil himself who was always pretty quiet whilst he was in Possession and never raged till he was in danger of being ejected But our Male-Contents seem to be possest with a New Sort of discontented Devil never heard of before and are such Renagado's from Common Sense that they prefer their being turn'd out of all rather than such a Settlement to the satisfaction of all reasonable and good Men as England never had the opportunity of before perhaps since it was a Nation That stiff necked untoward Generation of the Jews had their Murmurers indeed amongst them as well as we but 't was always when they were brought to some Streights and not immediately upon their Deliverance out of them A capricious Giddiheaded Humor 't is true indeed took them once of making a Captain and returning into Egypt whilst they were in the Wilderness But we never read that they were such down right Blockheads as to mention any such thing after they came into the Promised Land tho' they were forced to fight their Way through it We thanks be to God are put into possession all that is dear to us both as Men and Christians upon no harder Terms than to be thankful And would not any one in his Wits that knew our woeful Condition but some few Weeks since think us all mad that thought much of that But the Truth of it is we have had a Lucky Age on 't till of late for Knaves and Fools and now good Men dare to lift up their Heads the other Sort must be forced to pull in their Horns which Sort of Discrimination is grievous to them whose pretended Loyalty always consisted in wading through thick and thin in Order to keep themselves in a Capacity to do mischief And now that Trade fails the Poor Men are undone all of suddain and tho' they never knew what a good Conscience meant in all their Lives yet are now troubled with such Qualms as no Man can imagine or believe A new Oath of Allegiance amongst the rest is that which every Kitling Critic of this Tribe takes upon him to censure tho' I could never yet hear of any solid Reason given against it by the greatest of their Recusants Nor can any certainly be given God and the States of the Realm having so plainly pointed out unto us to whom it is due as by many Learned and Judicious Men have lately been sufficiently demonstrated in the Point So that after all I cannot see what should hinder the going down of this new Oath especially with a great many of the debauched Sort of these Murmerators Unless their Throats be so furr'd with God Dame's that no other Oath will slip And yet these Sort of strange Foplings as well as others help to make up the number of these Pretenders to a tender Conscience in this Matter and behave themselves so toward Authority as if they thought their ill behaviour upon that account would make an Attonement with God Almighty for the rest of their flagicious Crimes I need not here undertake by any Arguments of mine to justify the Public Proceedings upon the late miraculous Revolution that has been done already by those who were far more able to perform it But that which satisfies me as a private Person not at all concern'd in Public Affairs and I think ought to satisfy all others in my Station is this That every Soul according to the Apostles Rule ought to be subject to the Higher Power for that there 's no Power but of God. And that the Powers that be are ordained of God and thereupon whosoever resisteth the present Power he is under resisteth the Ordinance of God. Now consider we who are private Persons have been only Spectators throughout the whole Series of Divine Providence in this great Revolution We have indeed