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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25452	Animadversions upon that proclamation of September 13, 1692, entituled, For the better discovery of seditious libellers		1693 (1693)	Wing A3205; ESTC R38496	10,982	4

which must do somewhat to oblige all Parties and all sides lest the seeming or called Godly should reprove it as the Universally Righteous will nevertheless as it is now retained by the Sinful silence of the first Sort and by their Consenting with the Deeds of them All the Churches are to know that the Almighty God could and as he is Holy and True so he would preserve increase and add to their Numbers if they did not overp●ss the Deeds of the Wicked yet they prosper Jer. 5. Ver. 28. For they imagine that hereby they continue this their Priviledge and therefore they have omitted Mar. 23.23 from whence it appears that omission of Duty is a Sin and that Christ will enter into Judgment for the same to speak forth all God's word against all manner of Sin and Transgression in all people from the greatest of them to the least of them for so indeed it ought to be spoken forth and declared But such is the untoward Nature of Men who are weary of the best things if they have them long and they are desirous of Novelty and Variety tho' it be unlawful That as they will do ten times more in Loans and Gifts to an unjust Possessor than to a rightful King Even so the Religious also will hide their Eyes from the breach of almost all the other Commandments of God as if the whole of Religion and what he required of Man was to provide against and keep out Popery People are kept hoodwinkt or deluded with false Notions or rather they do take up with half the thing not understanding it throughly and wholly Thus it is both as to serious and common Matters Suppose we give an instance in this Iast When the French were moving upon the Waters the Summer before the Date hereof It was given out throughout all this Nation to make the people more unanimous in Opposition of them That they came to spoil and make a Conquest over this Country They did not then come so near as to send out their Declarations and make their pretences known But if they had and declared accordingly That they came only to restore the deprived King and that they did covet and design no more but barely to effect this and they would be contented only with the Charge of the Expedition paid with some moderate Gratuities to the Sould ers and Seamen and henceforward these Nations should abide by one another in Unity peace and Concord If the usual Consultation Treaty and Security was had hereupon The people of England might credit and fully rely on these their so far seeming reasonable and just demands all one as they did take the P. of O's Word to let him come in when he had before declared that he did not intend to make a Conquest over them Indeed there is somewhat more to be considered in the disparity of the Numbers and Power which the one hath over what the other had But the Word and promise of the Princes and Potentates of the Earth are much alike that there is no sure Trust or Reliance to be given to any of them They were wont to speak in old time saying Thou shalt surely ask counsel at Abel and so they ended the Matter 2 Sam. 20. Ver. 18. As we are allow'd yea and commanded to search the Scriptures so any one at his leisure may read the four following Verses as they he open in the Bible I am one of them that are pea●eable and faithful in England It seemeth hard and unequal to me that a whole Nation should be endangered to be ruined and swallowed up by Strangers and Foreigners for the Ambition and Contention of two Men Whereas Right might be done in a peaceable and prudent way without their Aid or violent Int●rposure and Medling upon the terms of universal Forgiveness not one man excepted But if one is so stiff as not to grant that as I suppose he would with all his Heart be glad to be re-admitted in upon those mild and equitable Conditions which will make him both revered and loved for it is neither Duty nor yet Wisdom to speak or behave ones self proudly in the day of distress They are Adversarie● to the King 2 Sam. 19. Ver. 22. and hinder his Restauration who dictate otherwise notwithstanding their ignorant Zeal and vain Talk for him And if the Offenders are afraid to trust to this as W●●kedness and Guilt is Timerous and Suspicious it being what is natural and usual that they who have transgressee without a Cause should be also f●arful without a Cause that is without a True Cause Then let all those that are indeed Criminals stand by themselves for there is no reason why others who as yet are not so should make themselves criminal also in defending them And let him come singly to punish them whilst all others stand persectly Neuter and disinterested as to that Cause only in defence of their Country to stop the Incursion and Spoil of strangers and Robbers The right understanding and acting a●cording to this Truth would go a great way towards the bringing and setling Peace again in our Borders And though people now say the Righteous and Loyal party would bring the French in Yet herein they say falsly for if ever the French should come in which tho' at present unlikely and that Word according to the Divine Method in Psal 89. throughout and Jer. 37. 10 seems to be falsified at first to exercise the more our Faith therein nevertheless Yet nothing is impossible with God who knows which Side will have the worst of the War at long run Yet not we but themselves would cause this breaking in of Foreigners and Strangers For the original Cause and first Occasion is to be lookt back into Who invited another to come in when all things were quiet before he moved upon the Waters To disturb quiet Things that is properly Sedition as Rebellion is the breaking out into the open Act of Hostility And then they did drive their King out to seek his Bread in that Neigh●our Country where he supposed that he might sooner have it And because he enought himself not safe among the Children of them who Murthered his Father therefore He was forced ●o take Sanctuary among Stranger Here he sho●ld rather have abode quiet and not sought to have Recovered his Kingdom again by ●lood and Force of Arms. But yet he did and doth still betake himself to those Methods which is usual for Sovereign Princes when they have been Dispossessed to do in like Cases Which same Plea and Saying tho it may seem a little allowable in Fore Humane Yet it will in no wise excuse or justifie him at the Bar of God ●or the Blood that hath been spilt on this Occasion However they are much more inexcusable who first Rebelled against him and do still endeavour to keep him out with the Price of Blood and with the loss of so many thousand ●en's Lives than Himself is who seeks

after this manner to be Re-instated again They are Sinners and Trangresors on both sides Though his Rebellious Subject● are the greater From hence came those Wars and Fightings among us So th●t after the way which they barely accuse others of Sedition and Rebellion Themselves in very deed have been proved guilty of the same In the very same manner it may be Answered as to what they call False Infamous and Scandalous Libels A Libel signifies a little Book Here again they are befo●e hand to term it so in these 3 Epithets which herein are true Proper and Opposite Becavse in what t●ey call such Libels their own False infamous and Scandalous Doings are spoken and treated of So that this Reproach offered by them must a●so cease for it is truly turned upon themselves and it doth not justly belong to the Authors of such Writings but to themselves the Actors of such things Wherein they have Erred and a●e Deceived and they do still go aside from the Way of Truth whereby they are become a Shame and In●amy even to Turks and to the other Nations and they have made the Name of Protestantism to slink Gen. 34.30 among the Superstitious Inhabitants of this and other Lands whilst t●ey have given occasion to both to say Tuese are the Dis●ipl●s of Jesur Christ the Prince ●f Peace and they call themselves of the Pure Res●●ned Religion who break and sa●ifie their O●●●s dis●●nour and dispbey their Parents they kill and murther one another I do hereby enter my Protestation against th●se Deeds of such Nuncupative Protestants They are become a Scandal and Rock of Offence not so much to them who ca●s themselves so but to all Real and Universal Christians such who have respect unto all the Commandments and not keep some and neglect others as the manner of many is Every Libel see Coke's Reports Le case de Libellis famosis is to the Scandal of the Governments and to the Breach of the Peace But when there is an Actual breach of the Peace already in this and more especially in the Neighbour Nations which hath so been for these four Years Those Words of Truth and Soberness which do exhort to fill and compose these troubled Waves Pr●stat m●tes componere fluctus and which shew us the only good and right way how it may be all retrieved and healed and made up again without the farther Less of so much as one Man's Lie mo●e viz. By changing this New and wr●ng Constitution into the Antient and Rightful Government This doth in us wise break the Peace but would Establish it Nor yet doth it widen but it would repair the Breach Only there it Strength and Will wanting to make it close and keep together But then indeed it is a scandal to the present Governour for Governour and Government are two distinct things in that sometimes they take upon them to Govern who ●ave no Right so to do that themselves should not be govern'd by the Law of God That they should so long live and act in the breach of sundry of God ' Commandments whereby they are in real danger of future Condemnation and of going away into everlasting Punishment That Q●e would admire unless they were deluded and deceived by Sathan who holds them Captive at his Will and it is to be ●ear'd that after all the Warning which hath been given they will at last fall into the hands of this Roaring Lion ●ho they can give sleep to their Eyes and slumber to their Eyelids day after day and nig●t after night as they do until they throughly amend their ways and their Doings and unti they throughly execu●e Judgment between a Man and his Neighbour Jer. 7. Ver 5. Lest they should Sleep the Sleep of Death and their Souls should be ●athere● with the Sinners and Transgressors of former Generations By these Words That ye ●hroughly execute judgment between a Man and his Neighbour is or may be understood according to the Meaning and Requiring of the Spirit of God at his Day for the H●ly Ghost in the Penning and Giving forth or the Scriptures hath provided and ordained them for a Law to all Persons Times and Places Generations and Countries That they do righten See the Marginal Reading of lsi● ● Ver. 17 Adjust and Determine the Matter between King James and t●e Prince of Orange according to the instruct on or Wisdom justice judgment and Equity Prov. ● Ver. 3. But until they do this How can they have any peace in their Consciences unless they did act in the Deceivableness or Unrighteousness and had im●ibed in strong Delu●ions But th● Knowledge of t●e Truth would break this inward stupidity in which sense it doth break the peace within which is the most tronolesome kind of any nevertheless it is better so broken than kept And as the same Truth doth ba●ely recite reprove and discover their scandalous Doings and as it doth lay open their Falshood and Hypocrisy They do thus conceive Enmity against and utter Error concerning it Whatever the● now do to prevent and hinder the goings forth of His Eternal Truth because by the publication thereof some few Thoughts of their Hearts are revealed Herein they do provoke the Lord to iealousy Are they stronger than be Or how canth●y help when the Dead small and great shall stand before God That themselves shall not ap●ear also And then all the Thoughts of all their Hearts will be Revealed all the Words of every Tongue will be Declared and all the Deeds of their past Life will be manifested and judged As to the Reward promised by the Workers of Iniquity I have several times thought as I have heard or read that Portion of Scripture When thou sawest a Thief then thou consentest with him Psal 50. Ver. 18. That as there are three sons of Thefts and Robberies so they do use the like Methods There is a little Degree a middle Sine and the greatest of all The first Sort is when a Pocket is pickt or any thing taken away privily or when two or three or half a dozen do Rob upon the High-Way These are Liberal and Bountiful to Oslers Tapsters and Inn-keepers and the others will bribe it off to prevent their own Discovery what they do easily come by they d● as frankly part withal The middl● Size is when a hundred or two do Rob together in a Company as in some parts of Italy the Desarts of Arabia and Sea Pyrates These do not fee altogether so much because they do depend upon their Numbers outward Strength and Force and their Designs are open and Bare-faced to take violently away But as the yrate told Alexander The greatest Robbery of all is W●en Kings and Gen●rals with their Arm●es co s●oil and disposs●ss whole Countries Or when they do take a whole Kingdom or Principality away at once Of this there are two sorts either open Hostility which seems fairest because then Others can stand upon their Guard and Defence The other