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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45154	A reply to the defence of Dr. Stillingfleet being a counter plot for union between the Protestants, in opposition to the project of others for conjunction with the Church of Rome / by the authors of the Modest and peaceable inquiry, of the Reflections, (i.e.) the Country confor., of the Peaceable designe.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.; Lobb, Stephen, d. 1699.	1681 (1681)	Wing H3706; ESTC R8863	130,594	165

the Hague having first bound him by his Oath not to reveal the same to any man living but to the Archbishop himself and by the Arch●ishop to the King This signified by Boswell's Letters of the 19th of Septemb. together with a general draught of the Design transmitted to Canterbur under the hand of Hab●●●●field himself the first Discoverer of the Plot On the receipt of which Dispatches the Archbishop giving directions to Boswell to proceed to a further discovery of it sends the Intelligence with all speed imaginable by his Letters of the 11th of the same Month to the King at York beseeching nothing more than his Secrecy in it that he would not trust his Pockets with those dangerous Papers and the business And so far both the King and he had very good reason to be sensible of the Dangers which were threatned to them But when the large Discovery was brought unto him transmitted in Boswell's Letter of the 15th of October he found some Names in it which discredited the whole Relation as well in his Majesties judgment as his own For besides this naming of some profest Papists as the Dutchess of Buckingham the Countesses of Arundel and Newport Montague Digby and Winter of whose Fidelity the King was not willing to have any Suspicion he named the Earl of Arundel Windebank Principal Secretary of State and Porter one of the Grooms of the Bed-chamber whom he charged to be the King 's utter Enemies and such as betrayed his Secrets to the Popes Nuncio upon all occasions all which his Majesty beheld as men of most approved Loyalty and Affections to him by reason whereof no further credit being given to the Advertisement which they had from Boswell the danger so much feared at first became more slighted and neglected than consisted with his Majesties Safety and the condition of the times which were apt to mischief For though the Party who first brake the Ice to this Intelligence might be mistaken in the Names of some of the Accomplices which were interessed in the Design whose relations unto those of the Church of Rome might give some ground for the mistake yet the Calamities which soon after fell upon them both the deplorable Death of the Archbishop first and his Majesty afterwards declare sufficiently That there was some greater reality in the Plot than some were willing to believe But it it had been a Maxime with King James his Father That Suspicion was the Sickness and Disease of a Tyrant which laid him open to all the subtle practices of malicious cunning And it had been taken up by this King for an Axiom also That it was better to be Deceived than to Distrust which paved a plain and easie way to all those Misfortunes which in the whole course of his Reign especially for ten years last past had been brought upon him So far Heylin By this 't is evident That the Papists were the first Contrivers of all that ruine which befel the King and Kingdom Church and State and that the first who received any impressions from their wretched Attempts were the Sons of the Church is as evident to such as consult Baxter Rushworth c. who it may be were ignorant of their Hellish Designs though 't is evident enough that Laud was acquainted with them For which reason it seems somewhat surprizing that notwithstanding his being so fully enlightned concerning it he still inclin'd to favour the Papist more than the Puritan concerning which party they had nothing but their ungrounded Surmises to occasion any ill thoughts of ' em For in the whole account Heylin gives of their Essays I find nothing but intimations of their Secret actings which 't is like were so secret that not one Overt Act can be given before there was an open breach between King and Parliament at which time the Papists come in as Auxiliaries to the King and the Puritan Party came in as such to the Parliament the King remaining to the very Death a Resolved Protestant which animated the Papist to do their utmost for his Ruine in which after they had in part accomplished their Devilish Design they strangely triumph'd I question not but that many of the Roman Faction were in both Armies in the one Openly in the other under a Covert and that they attempted to heighten the Division and at length turn'd all things into Confusion This I take to be a true account of the Transaction but why our Churchmen should thus glory as if they had no hand in it is not easie to conjecture Neither is it over-easie to imagine what the reason is that our Author should represent the Papist so favourably even when his Discourse against the Dissenters is so Invective For saith he We are aware Sir what a Popish Zeal would do and what a Factious Zeal has done c. q. d. We are aware of what the Papists would do not what they have done What the Papists have done must not be mention'd not one word of that Not one word of their old Rebellions and Insurrections not one word of the Gunpowder Plot not one word of the Plot discover'd by Andreas ab Habernsfield not one word of the Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey of the Assassination of Justice Arnold not one word of what they have done only what they would do A pleasant Insinuation as if the Papist never yet discover'd by any Overt-acts their Horrid Design c. 'T is the Factious Zeal only which has done somewhat But yet this is not to prepare the people to expect a Presb●terian Plot when there is none among Protestants but what is carried on by the Sons of the Church This is not to act suitable to the P●pish D●signs which were to destroy the King after they had prepar'd the People to believe the Presbyterians were Resolv'd for it Whether this was the Dean's Design in misrepresenting Diss●nters I could not tell but as to your self I must say That whatever your Design is if you had been hir'd by a Popish Plotter you could not more effectually do his work for him and that the Protestant Gentry who mind the Substantial part of their Religion more than an indifferent Rite cannot but deeply resent these your Proceedings Is it not most obvious that notwithstanding the loud Cries we have had of the Factious and Seditious Principles of Dissenters the Dissenters have approved themselves when under the severest Censures and Pressures of our Clergy to be men of another Character That notwithstanding the many Prophetical and Historical Discourses among our Church-men of a Presbyterian Plot no such thing could be fastned on a Protestant Dissenter the Design of the Papists being the real Destruction of hearty Protestants though Sons of the Church under the name of Presbyterians Read Mr. Dangerfield's Discovery of that Sham-Presbyterian Plot and you 'll find My Lord Duke of Monmouth the Lord President the Lord of Essex brought in by the Papists as Presbyterian Plotters Although 't is well