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A54102 Annimadversions on the apology of the clamorous squire against the Duke of Buckinghams seconds, as men of no conscience Penn, William, 1644-1718. 1685 (1685) Wing P1252; ESTC R7073 7,000 8

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have scorn'd so base a Practice within five years after the Fact and in a Case wherein the whole Nation knows the contrary If Exclusion or no Exclusion be to determine the true from the false Church of England Men as pag. 7. the Proposition will be doubly false For there are men that were not for Exclusion that were not Members of the Church of England and there are Members of the Church of England that were for the Exclusion And to this charge in the Reply and the Defence he gives no Answer but Anger which for a Man to avoid when the Question lies upon it that grounded upon matter of Fact shows his fear of Success and that the weakness of his Cause But since the Dissenters by whole-sale are to bear the blame I do affirm the Excluders were Conformists and are yet Communicants of your Church and the greatest part of them upon Education and constant Practice too And that this is Truth and no Slander read the List and 't is a demonstration Nay I challenge the Gentleman to name six Persons of all the Excluders that dissent from the established Church Nor is this of yesterday for if we look back we shall see the most celebrated Bishops of our Church barring the Succession in the Law of the 13th and 27th of Q. Eliz. and when that Queen pleaded Conscience in not assenting to a Law to put our King 's great Grand Mother Mary Queen of Scots to Death the same Reverend Bishops undertook to remove the Scruple yet nothing but Away with those Disloyal Dissenters Own them then ingenuously that they are Members of your own Church and that their Defection began within your selves and that for all your Invectives and turning them over now to the Dissenters because your are ashamed of them they are in communion with you still and daily Conformists to the Worship and as such are admitted to the accustomed Rites and Priviledges of your Church Page 7. To charge all Addresses and the Oxford Parliament to the account of Dissenters is not wise any more than true for it is to give the greater Numbers to the dissenting party since it is plain how unequal they were that fell in with that excluding humor in the Kingdom But this is not all he has said to prevent the Legislative Goodness to Diss●nters They must not have Liberty lest it be charged upon the Government as a design to bring in Popery and Arbitrary Power I remember a Story of Harry Martin that when Cromwell came to dissolve the Rump to justifie his Action among other things he accused some of their Members of an evil Life saying Here sits a Drunkard and there pointing to him sits an Whore-master Harry Martin sitting between two sober grave men jogg'd them saying Which of you two does he mean The Dissenters must be blam'd of those that are Guilty 'T is hard to suffer for Faults and be chid of them that did them No 't was the Gentlemen of that Communion that impeach'd the Prerogative in the Declaration of Indulgence and set the Political capacity of the King in opposition to his National and to make their business more popular bestow'd that Comment upon it of a design in the Court to let in Popery and Arbitrary Government Upon the whole matter 't is not unworthy of some thought that this way of making Whigs and Fanaticks of all that in every Point come not up to a Hair though otherwise Men of Virtue Piety Wisdom and perfectly Church-men may prove of ill Consequence for it narrows where it is Wisdom to enlarge and greatens where Prudence enclines to lessen I mean the Credit of Number This makes me the more admire one Expression viz pag. 8. That the Members of the Church of England have turn'd over to the Dissenters all the Excluders and lay'd the Bill of Exclusion at their Doors and wash'd her Hands of them as Pilot did of our Saviours Blood Where besides the false Politicks of making so many thousand D●ss●nters in two Lines and that without all hope of Recovery he unhappily makes the Church of England men cowardly Pilot and the Excluders to answer the place of our blessed Saviour A pretty Allusion to credit the Church and disgrace Excluders This is not the happiest part of his Apology But I would have hoped that a man who shows not to want a share of Wit and Expression should be so disingenious as from the Author of the Defensive Sheet saying Take off the thing that Pinches and see then whether the Church men or the Fanaticks and Catholicks will be most governable To infer Pers●cute the Church men bestow the Bishopricks and Church Revenues amongst the Catholicks and Phanaticks and see which will be the best qualifi●d and most dutiful Subjects A rare Expedient May I not better say a rare Consequence as if easing Dissenters and not wringing their Backs were stripping the Church and cloathing Diss●nters in Velvit then which nothing less was thought of This Incharity and Injustice ruin all Such men cannot hope to escape the Judgment of God that are so Injurious in their Judgment to men But he is angry with his Grace the D. of Buckingham for leading the Dance and if a Dance it must be it is an old Country one at which he has been excellent of long time and who would not Dance to such a Fidler But how Transubstantiation comes to be beholding to the Duke whose Conclusion excludes it utterly of which a Boy of seven Years old is judge let the Gentleman consider once more However his Grace may happen to ask this Gentleman once in his Life if he be the man that charges him with leading the Dance to men of no Honour no Conscience no Honesty and that advocates a Cause of so much Treason and Impiety as is laid to the charge of Liberty of Conscience To the Dissenters Objection Pag. 10. he says in their Name That all the ill things they have done is because there are Laws made against them and that they would be quiet if they might have their Liberty and tells us That their ill and disloyal Practices in Queen Elizabeth's time drew the first Law upon them and that was the 35 th of the Queen But that is no Answer to the Objection for they were made dangerous as Conventicles are now by suspition and prevention not that they did any ill thing deserving that Severity but Church Refractoriness Bishop Whitgist was pleased to translate into Sedition The old way Indeed my Lord they are Enemies to Caesar and Exalters of another King one JESUS So that 't is begging the Question to ground this Law on the seditious Practices of the Dissenters and we are to learn when any of our Time had a toleration to abuse or when any such thing was in beeing to charge our Political or Ecclesiastical Calamities upon I only pray to be informed I say when where and how For I am intirely of his mind pag.