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A47844	Discovery upon discovery in defence of Doctor Oates against B.W.'s libellous vindication of him, in his additional discovery, and in justification of L'Estrange against the same libell : in a letter to Doctor Titus Oates / by Roger L'Estrange.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1680 (1680)	Wing L1239; ESTC R30937	35,956	42

of God as Friends This was the almost Insupportable Aggravation of his Calamity In fine both Plots and Partys were influenc'd alike by Fallacies and Impostures both in Religion and State From This Parallell if you please Sir I will proceed to an Application of what is Past to our present Use and purpose I could wish that every man that had any part whatsoever in the promoting inflaming or upholding of our Late Troubles would now upon This Occasion lay his hand upon his Heart and tell his Story What a variety of Errours and Corruptions would This Tale truly told afford us Alas I was but young says one and meerly drawn in I meant no more Hurt to the King God knows then to my own Heart cries Another They told me the King was gotten into the Papists hands and that they only intended to bring him back to his Parliament But when I was once In there was no getting out again I never thought says a Third that it would have gone so farr but I should have been well enough content to have seen some Grievances Redrest One had a Father or a Son on the Kings side and he took the Other to save stakes Some were frighted into the Cause by Stories of German Horse Massacres c. I was in the Parliament-quarters and my Estate must have gone for 't if I had not comply'd One had a good Office a Benefice or an Estate to lose a Family to provide for Another had a Court-grudg and took his Revenge or fought only for Pay as a Soldier of Fortune And at This rate people were hookt in some through weaknesse but with good Intention Others by Interest Fear or Misguided Conscience and not one man of a Thousand that Acted Originally against the Government either by Malice or Design I would have these people that have been thus seduc'd themselves soberly to reflect upon it We are all of us Flesh and Blood alike why may not Other men be missed as well as we Or why should we grudg Others the same measures of Tendernesse and Remission that we our selves have received Well but those are Papists and the Other are Schismatiques The Papists are men of dangerous Principles and so are the Fanatiques but then some of the Dissemers are better then Other and so are some of the Papists If the Papists lie under the Lash of the Law so do the Non-Conformists and in short This Plot we hope has miscarry'd the Other succeeded and yet only the Express Murtherers of the King were singled out for Exemplary Iustice and all the rest of the Criminals and Common Actors in the Rebellion were pardon d in the Conspiracy that took effect Now let me ask you Doctor if you would have the Innocents Men Women and Children promiscuouly exposed to more Rigour in the case of a Plot that is disappointed then the Nocents were on the Other hand where an Unparalleld Rebellion took place Give me leave now Sir to put a question not to the Reason and Equity of the Thing but to the Conscience and Modesty of the Men For let the Prosecution on the part of the Government be never so necessary there may yet be some Regard had to the Circumstances of the Prosecutors I would have those men I must confess that have been so Frankly pardon'd Themselves even for the Consummated Destruction of Three Kingdoms be a little Tender in pressing an utter Extirpation of an Entire Party because of a Conspiracy among Some Particulars of That Perswasion and a Conspiracy too that is crusht by Providence in the very Egg. What would you think on 't Sir if you should see a Company of fellows that have been in at a hundred Robberyes and Murthers Themselves and got their Pardons and still keep their Bootyes what would you think I say to see These men of all Others the fiercest sticklers for Extremityes upon Other Felons that had only design'd the Outrage which they themselves had actually accomplisht Besides Sir that it seems to Carry a very suspicious Countenance to have Those men pretend the greatest zeal for the Safety of the Government that are most Notoriously known to be Disaffected to it And yet upon the Mayn we finde none so eager and prone as some of these people are to Calumniate the Iustice of the Nation by Remonstrances and Clamorous Addresses and by Violent Importunities to Precipitate Councils as who should say We are the Arbitrators of the great Affairs of the Government and take more care of it then the Government does for it Self Pray'e take notice Doctor that This is intended only of Licencious and Illegall Proceedings with due Submission to all Forms Orders and Resolutions of State And that I do not speak of any sort of favour toward Criminals and more Especially in the matter of Sir Edmund Bury-Godfrey and this late barbarous Inhumanity upon the person of Mr. Arnold which I look upon to be two Instances allmost Unpardonable And I do here protest before the Living God if I either knew or could make a farther Discovery or if I ever can get the means of doing it I would and I will though the neerest Friends I have in the world deliver them up into the hands of the Law Now as there appears some affinity betwixt the Case and Danger of both the Extreams as to the Government be pleas'd to enform me Sir if there may not be allow'd some Proportion also of Compassion from the Government in the matter of Mitigation and Redress toward both these Partyes To which opinion I finde my self induced by these following Considerations but with great readynesse to be overrul'd by better Judgements In the First place Doctor we are all of us Christians and cannot take a surer Measure for the Government of our Lives and actions then the precepts and practices of Our blessed Saviour He commands us in the Gospell to Blesse those that Curse us to do good to them that Hate us And These Precepts to his Disciples he made good upon the Crosse in praying for his very Crucifyers Our Saviour reprov'd his Disciples for urging him to call for fire down from Heaven There was no calling Rogue and Rascall but the great work of our Redemption was wrought out with Meekness and Patience And there is a regard to be had likewise to the matter of Humanity as we are all of us Men and liable to the same Infirmityes and Errours It is the Condition of being forgiven Our selves the forgiving of our Neighbours and it concerns those men of all others that do the most need and presse for Relaxation and Mercy Themselves not to oppose it in some degree to Others And it is another Consideration as we are Fellow-subjects and Members of the same Community for all Dissenters from the Rule are equally liable to a Cheque from the Government and ly under the Same Ty of Conformity and Obedience It does not belong to me Sir to speculate upon Political Expediences one way