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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34735	The counter-plot, or, The close conspiracy of atheism and schism opened and so defeated and the doctrine and duty of evangelical obedience or Christian loyalty thereby asserted / by a real member of this most envy'd as most admired, because, best reformed Protestant Church of England.	Real member of this most envy'd, as, most admired, because, best reformed Protestant Church of England.	1680 (1680)	Wing C6522; ESTC R10658	41,680	44

nay it seems next to a contradiction or moral impossibility that it should be otherwise for how can his knowledge admit such doctrines as are pointblank opposite to the sence and reason of Mankind or how can that be Faith which embraceth such as are inconsistent with the nature and rule of Faith Besides that the Supposition as first made would fitly serve which can never be thought of without horror to justifie the Effusion or stain the Innocence or elicit an Ominous Ebullition of the yet fresh and purest bloud of that ROYAL MARTYR But to return from this unacceptable digression Tell him therefore the lawful King must be obeyed whatever he is otherwise and you confound him away he cry's I see you are a disguised Protestant Tell another Schismatick God has given us a Natural Law distinctive of good and evil and such Faculties as duely exercis'd are sufficient to discern it c. he readily agrees to the words only he must reserve a sence for his own practice He is ashamed not to say as you do whilst resolved never to do what you say and the next news you hear of him he has transverst those very Faculties he is either Transubstantiating Bodies or Gelding Oaths or Deposing Kings or a sad pretty thing Absolving Subjects from the Law of their own Natures or to say all in a word he is Covenanting against his own Vows and so breaking the bonds blasting the dignities and consuming the persons of all men and things Sacred or Civil by the breath of that Fiery-flying-Serpent Good God! what Babels of Opinion and practice does the pride and ignorance of men erect against Thee every man is building like mad and every man will be a master and lay his own foundation One makes it of the smallest sifted particles of Atomical dust which he found by that same good luck that they had to meet there Another lays it only with dry loose stones thrown together by the withered and tremulous hands of some decrepit and uncertain Traditions doating enough to be thought old and old enough to be found rotten Another works it with hewn and squar'd and polish'd stone but joynted with the most untemper'd mortar of perverse reasoning and vain Philosophy a deal of good stuff spoil'd and worse than lost Another that saith he sees the vanity of these foundations yet builds such an irregular Superstructure as is only fit to stand upon these and worthy for whose sake these foundations themselves should be razed and overthrown Such mad work is there made by the lusts and interests of men with the most holy Religion and laws of God! But 't is well for us that in these confusions and against these extreams we are sufficiently directed and forewarn'd not to believe every spirit Joh. 4.1 therefore we are sure there are Spirits and that some are true and many are false and all must be try'd and that they may be tryed we have given us from God the Spirit Cor. 12. ● 10 the gift of discerning Spirits or distinguishing those glisterings among us which are not gold which pretend the Commission or Inspiration of God for the impulse or impetus of lust which make good and evil true and false to be but empty names or words that signifie nothing or nothing but the Will of the Supreme Magistrate and so necessarily infer this contradiction that the same things in several places are true and false and our Lord Christ must have been a false Prophet ●●viathan 250. because condemned by the Roman Governour and Mahomet a true Prophet because allowed by the chief Sultan which teach us that the Soveraign power beyond whatever hath yet been arrogated by any Pope may null the old Ibid. and make a new Canon of Scripture or none at all Now for these and a thousand more the like Spirits of error we may if we will find a plain rule of tryal in the word of truth where we see the genuine characteristick properties of the Spirit of God It is a Spirit of Truth therefore a good life with an erroneous judgment in Essential and Fundamental points necessary for Faith or Practice as in the great doctrine of Obedience to Governours which runs through the whole body of the Gospel if he allows or abets resistance in any case or if he ascribes infallibility to frail and sinful man or priviledgeth a Priest to do a greater Miracle than ever Christ did by Transubstantiating a piece of bread to make and eat his Saviour he must needs be led by a Spirit of error It is a Spirit of Holiness therefore to be Orthodox and yet immoral to have good opinions with bad practices to think right and to do wrong is to be led by the unclean spirit It is a Spirit of Vnity therefore to Reform by Schism to dissolve the Bond of Peace wherein the Vnity of the Spirit is to be preserv'd to separate or Absolve Subjects from their Obedience to teach them to swear to be forsworn or to lye for Gods sake is to be led by the Spirit of division whose name is Legion It is a Spirit of meekness and order therefore to despise dominions to excommunicate Kings or subvert Kingdoms is to be led by the Spirit Abaddon or Apollyon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rev. 9.11 the Spirit of mischief or destruction always working in the children of disobedience It is a Spirit of Sincerity working in us simplicity and singleness of heart therefore to lift up the Left hand to God and the Right against his Vice-gerent to hate Idols and love Sacriledge to declaim against the Prelacy of Conforming and Vote up the Papacy of Nonconforming Ministers is to be acted by the Spirit of Hypocrisie or the father of Lyes It is a Spirit of Knowledge or understanding therefore to level the Canon of Scripture with the Apocrypha to make the Word of God truckle under Tradition to advance Jesus against Christ or to propagate Religion by the Sword is to be led by the Spirit of Slumber the God of this world that blindeth the minds of men Thus let us Try the Spirits and by the fruits of Love Joy Peace Gal. 5.22.19 Long-suffering Gentleness Goodness c. or of hatred variance wrath strife seditions heresies c. we shall easily know them Yet because Vice borders close upon Vertue and is never without some colour or probability to set it off we are not to make our last judgment upon the Acts till we be first acquainted with the habits of men till we know the general current of their lives as well as the particular conduct of their designs and the means they use as well as the end they pretend to and when this is done let the Forms of godliness be never so artificially drawn the fire of Zeal and the light of Sanctity never so well painted let the Colours be never so fine ground and laid on with never so delicate a Pencil we shall see the

he remembers the Firing of London and the flagitious Atchievements and most nefandous perpetrations of that Parliament did I say I recal that word to vindicate this August and salutary name from that sink and draught of the body politick and so better notified to us by its like in the body natural and therefore I say not of that Parliament but of that same what do you call it The Rump Coccygis mariscae though he knows I say and remembers all these things yet he stifles the consideration of any claps them all down as it were under deck and holds the truth in unrighteousness and by gradual insinuations and artificial compliances as in sympathy with the tenderness imposes upon the credulity of his brother and at last which is the greatest shame and affront to humane understanding menages him into a very tool or engine to serve his turn and makes him thus unwittingly as unwillingly over reacht a property to his lust and Tows him from the shoar of his first and perhaps innocent Scrupling into the Main sea of Covenants and Associations and then as wind or tide pleaseth into the bottomless gulph and endless guilt and miseries of Sedition and Rebellion Schism and Sacriledge Anarchy and Confusion All which he most compendiously effects by working as was said upon his brothers mistaken Confidence till he has hammer'd it into the Presumption and then cast it under the obligation of regular Conscience though he knows as soon as he thinks on 't it can be nothing less as being confessedly influenc't by such considerations as are neither competible to the nature nor consistent with the rule of right Conscience Can that be an obligation of Conscience which may be cancelled by fear or danger which makes it my duty to oppose that Government to which I am Naturally a Subject and not that to which I am but accidentally or occasionally so which makes me Fear my Master abroad but not Honour my Father at home or which makes me deny my Prince and Sovereign that very power which I challenge to my self that he may not order matters concerning Religion or the Worship of God at least as well in his larger as I may and do and claim to do in my lesser Family How can it be Conscience or indeed common Justice that binds me to one and not to both Surely if the plea of danger be so good against the practice as to evacuate the obligation of any necessary duty we may as Logically well plead other or lesser inconveniencies in bar of all And if customary or affected Swearing shall be as graceful as native unaffected Eloquence if it be fashionable to be prophane or a credit to riot in the day time as God knows by the neighbourhood of some viler practises these are I am sure the less as I fear too little infamous I need not stop from going up to preferment upon such steps as these or if it should be a scandal to be Religious I may consult my advantage or reputation by being otherwise as well as I may think my self bound to innovate Religion establisht here in England where I fear no punishment but loos'd again in Italy or Turky where I cannot hope for impunity From these hudled premisses as we see by the stirring of the hangings that some body must be behind them we are reasonably excited to the necessary use of so much prudence and caution as may warrant us to suspect and distinguish our seeming friends and to detect and expose if we can our most secret enemies and that this our suspicion may not it self be suspected or the detection so much as questioned we will now draw back the curtain and present our Caballists as in Consult and in the very manner that every man may see for himself that as Naturallists report of the Basilisk that it kills or dyes by seeing or being seen the Conspiracy thus opened may defeat the Conspirators and the very enmity and danger of the Plot be turned into a security against it self But to clear the prospect that we may take the fuller view of the Club of Monsters and see besides the deformity of their single subsistences the greater ugliness of their social Confederate beings their monstrous politick Coitions and Copulations that when loose and singlest they are Foxes then and mischievously cunning but when in tayl'd and combin'd they are Dragons too and fatally pernicious the parting of the heads where the bodys are conjoyn'd compleats the Monster and however they ran cross in their premisses yet they never fail at the old Rendevouz to meet in and draw the firebrand into the knot of the same conclusion I say that we may discern all this we shall endeavour as Grammarians deal with their Anomala's which though fewer in number give them greater trouble than the whole multitude of regular words to bring them into particular Classes and under a more distinct and peculiar consideration The Enemies of Truth and by close and necessary consequence of Peace and Order we know to be very many but the chiefest of them like all other irregular things fall under one of the extreams Excess or Defect and are so reducible to Two sorts the Credulous Enthusiast and the Resolved Infidel he that lightly weakly easily believes any thing and he that seriously wilfully obstinately believes nothing he that in Practice believes every Spirit and he that in Print believes none We have liv'd to see such Meteors in Religion Wandring stars or glaring Comets We have seen multitudes of men and women like empty clouds exhal'd by the heat of strange fire of intemperate Zeal from the turgid misty Fogs of Pride and Ignorance combin'd in Faction and then hurried to and again by some violent eruptions issuing as it were out of the Central cavern of a Flatulent Hypochondriack body Rumpers and whirl'd about with perpetual Agitations upon the Vertiginous Axis of that Globe so that whoever he were that first gave us notice of a Publick constituted Officer as properly belonging to such as these Crack-fart though in the Name he affixeth to this Officer he seems not to have been modest above the rate or besides the complexion of his Sect yet in the thing or office it self he now appears manifestly pertinent and much beyond the intention of his wit We have seen Clouds bagg'd with poyson fixt and ponderous and spouting downright upon the bare-heads of the disciples of Leviathan That Monster with a witness so destitute of right reason as to be void of Religion too An Animal indeed but so far from Religiosum which must needs include Rationale that he has only a title and 't is pity he ever had that to bipes and implume With him it can't only rain in drops of problem or Opinion but it must pour too in spouts of the most daring and impudent affirmations He tells us roundly there is and for this very good reason when it once appears because there can be