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The Character of a modern Whig, or, An alamode true loyal Protestant
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1681
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THE CHARACTER OF A Modern WHIG OR An Alamode True LOYAL PROTESTANT HE is a Certain Insect bred in the Corruption of the late Rebellion and is for the most part a Traytor Ex traduce At his Majesties happy Restauration he lay stupified without Sense or Motion but began by little and little to crawl with new life in the warmth of the Act of Oblivion and afterwards wantonly basked himself in the Rays of Royal Indulgence and Toleration till the old Poisonous Ferment began to work and float afresh and furnished him with Vigour and Insolence sufficient to hiss Venom in the Sacred Face of his Great and Gracious Preserver And though he be sufficiently Conscious of the black Ingratitude and repeated Provocations with which he hath all-along abused and affronted the King's God-like Patience and Forbearance yet the Fool hath had the Impudence to flatter himself with Agag and say Surely the bitterness of Death is past little thinking that he is still reserved to be hewed in pieces before the Lord. His Aspect is generally Meagre and Malicious as representing on the one side the Puritanical Fool on the other the Political Knave His Profession I cannot call it Religion is of the Geneva-Stamp not that his Conscience or Prudence ever engaged him in a judicions Inquest or sober Tryal of this or any other or that his Wit and Judgment were ever capable Rationally to discern and choose for in Speculations of this kind Nature and his Education have removed him but one degree from an Idiot but his Father begetting him in the hot Zeal of this Persuasion and his Dam all that while fixing her teeming Fancy with Adulterous lust on their able Holder-forth he was moulded a strong Presbyterian in the very Womb and so proves a rank Phanatick by the Pure force of Imagination and Extract Nor hath he himself been since wanting to improve these natural Dispositions and Exalt the Rebellious Genius he derived from his Sire and Dam for observing or rather being told that the Presbyterian Principles stood in the greatest Opposition to the Established Government he hath with irreversible Obstinacy Espoused the good Old Cause and with the Sacred Solemnity of a Sacramental Vow hath devoted himself Life and Fortune to the utter Extirpation of Prelacy and the Royal Race of the Stuarts To effect all which and that he may the more safely and indiscernibly accomplish his porfidious Designs he lies perdue in the unsuspected Covert of a Protestant and though that word for ought he knows of the rise and reason of it may be Hebrew for a Baboon yet he assumes and affects it upon all occasions because he fancies that it denotes and signifies distinction and opposition and he loves all things and terms of Separation and Contradiction at his very heart But farther observing that many wise and honest men have plainly discover'd that this Religion of his and as he manages it proves in the consequence of Affairs no better than an Antimonarchick-Heresie therefore the better to supply all its defects and answer all objections against it he Palliates its apparent Falshood and Treachery with the specious Epithets of Truth and Loyalty and with unparallel'd Impudence he once for all roundly stiles himself a true Loyal Protestant He hath been hatching Rebellion and working under-ground the Subversion of Church and State for these many years past but hath bestir'd himself with all imaginable Application since the breaking out of the horrid Popish-Plot as imagining that he might with more Success and Safety spring his own Mines which he had carried on to the very Foundations of the Government at a time when we were wholly taken up in detecting the Trains and Treacheries of the Romish Pioneers And this hath afore-time in all Ages since the Reformation been his Usage then more especially to disturb and divert his Governours with Petitions Grievances Toleration Comprehension and a thousand Tricks and Artifices when he hath seen their Endeavours and Intentions bent and busied another way and engaged in Rescuing us from the Imminent Dangers of our Popish Adversaries The Plot Entry and Arbitrary Government is his dayly Out-cry the Common place and burden of his Seditious noise and clamour and the Pretences of his impertinent Fears and Jealousies whatever his Factious humour dislikes is Popish and where the Case will not admit of a positive direct Plea then Popishly affected doth the business and any thing that bridles and restrains his Licentious Insolence and Seditious Practices is Arbitrary and Tyrannical But for all the loud Huâ— and Cry he makes after the Plot himself hath proved the chiefest hinderer of its full and home discovery so that 't is now almost quite spent and lost in running down a Channel of almost three years distance from its first Spring and Fountain He plainly foresaw that 't would thwart and prevent his Designs if it had forthwith been Traced to the Fountain head and there stopt and ended presently as it might very easily have been when we were at the near distance of 78 and 79 he rather Chose to Wire-draw it at length with Tricks and Finesses as having many Stages of devices that were to run parallel with it and many Plots and Stratagems of his own that he cou'd never Accomplish without this Pretence and Exclamation that there hath been and is still a horrid Popish Plot c. That is Still doth his business And thus he hath kept the Plot at Bay for these three years to amuse and divert us whilst all the while he is in the hot and eager Pursuit of other Game He endeavours to Poison the people and Scare the Nation into Rebellion by Libelling the best King and Government in the world insinuating malicious and groundless Suggestions of imminent Popery and Tyranny by horrid Stories of Smithfield Flames Irish Massacres c. by the Villanous Prints of Carr Curtiss and a whole Pack of scurrilous Scoundrels and by a Thousand Artifices dayly hammer'd out on the Forge of Faction by Republican Operators 〈◊〉 their respective Cabals In a word he hath done all he can to reduce the State of these Kingdoms to present Blood-shed and Desolation hoping thereby to make his own Markets purchase his Revenges and glut his Malice or at least hide his abominable Head due long since to Publick Justice in the general Confusion Again our true Loyal Protestant to shew how highly he Values his Sovereigns Content and Quiet is frequently tormenting him with his impertinent Petitions and that about things as much beyond the reach and judgment as they are beside the duty and proper business of the Sawcy Petitioner especially since he knows how that his Majesty hath Proclaimed not an Aversion only but a general Prohibition to such Dangerous and Seditious Mustâ—r-Rolls and Factious Pragmatical intermedlings But his greatest Artifice and the Court Bugbear as he thinks is the perpetually making the King's Ears ring with Clamours about the Succession so that instead of a Joyful and Dutiful Exclamation of Vive le Roy he is dayly Saluting him with a Memento mori This was so harsh and grating to Queen Elizabeth that she returned a sharp Reprimende to such as motion'd it telling them besides That it was to dig her Grave before she was Dead Our Modern Whig I say would lay these Kingdoms in Blood and present Pesolation the better forsooth to prevent the imaginary Evils of a pretended Popish Successor and such Chimaeras as his factious Fancy only hath Conceived in the Womb of Futurity and bare Poslibility His tender Conscience can easily dispense with Disinheriting a Royal Prince of his undoubted Right to Three Crowns upon a supposition only of being of an Opinion different from himself and yet nothing can serve his own turn but Repealing Acts of Parliament to indemnifie his Scismatical Separation and that he may neglect the Service of God and break the Laws of the Land with absolute Impunity This he prettily Stiles Uniting his Majesties Protestant Subjects though in effect and intent 't is no better than admitting the Trojan Horse a Magazine of mischiefs within the Walls and we should quickly find that a Ruit alto a Calmine would be the Fatal Consequence in our Church He knows well enough that he hath Blasphemed his R. H. beyond all hopes of Pardon that therefore his All is at Stake there is now no Retreat his Case is desperate and he must now push it home in his own Defence This is our True Protestants Loyal Behaviour towards the Children of that Royal Father who was so lately Murâ—ered by his Faction whereas if he had but the least Grain of his so much boasted Loyalty or indeed of Christianity he would strive to Expiate that loud-Crying Guilt and shew his deep abhorrence of that Fact by paying strict Allegiance to the present Possessor of the Throne though he were the worst of Tyrants and by not opposing his R. H the rightful Successour though he were a profest Mahometan He hath all along Danced to the Jesuits Pipe and Steer'd by his Compass we know but of late he hath openly profest and avowed such Doctrines as these That 't is lawful to take any Oaths whatsoever with a Mental Salvo for the sake of the good Old Cause That no Faith is to be kept with the Tory-Party That the self-same Evidence in one Case is Truth and very Oracle in another Perjury and Subornation and that Truth and Justâ—ce may Salvâ Conscientiâ be nipt in the bud by Ignoramus when Billa Vera wou'd be an ill President prove prejudicial to the Cause and of bad Consequence when his nearer and dearer Friends turn comes to be Concerned c. To Conclude a Modern Whig is the very Spawn of Antichrist the Counterpart to Popery the Jesuits Bum-Crack the Shame of the Reformation and the Scandal of Christianity FINIS LONDON Printed for John Smith in Great Queen-Street Bookseller 1681.