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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25380	A gentle reflection on the modest account, and a vindication of the loyal abhorrers from the calumnies of a factious pen by the author of the Parallel.	Northleigh, John, 1657-1705.; Andrews, John, fl. 1734-1735.	1682 (1682)	Wing A3121; ESTC R9495	25,676	20

strengthen'd their Party by the weakness of a young Duke It was they made the profess'd Religion a pretence for all the Desolations that attended a miserable War It was they drew up the primitive Association and were the first Founders of an Holy League Lastly 't was they fell a cutting the Throats of the poor Hugonots and distinguish'd themselves in the bloody night at Paris with a white Scarf on their Elbows And by your endeavouring to remove Guards one would think you design'd the same way to cut off Popish Abhorrers and make your green and blew Streamers serve for the same purpose they us'd their white And so we may ee'n conclude this Paragraph with an bearty Prayer as well as your Lordship does his with a faint Wish That God would preserve the King and keep us out of the hands of all bloody Papists and as cruel and inhumane a sort of Protestants Your Lordship has not only the Subtilty of the Serpent but the Venom too and that you spit forth all now here in this place in arraigning the best Actions of the Duke for the worst Plot and Conspiracy and making his passing the Test in Scotland a fair step to the destruction of the Protestant Religion Is the swearing to preserve the present establish'd Religion the way to subvert it Are not the Bishops there as competent Judges of what will undermine the Church as your Lordship who profess your self a Friend to Protestant Dissenters and such as would blow her up And han't they thank'd his Majesty for his sending his Royal Brother and testified their satisfaction of his Zeal for our Church But these you will say are all bless'd with a Torish Humility as your new phrase has it though upon other occasions you can dignifie them with their old Appellation of proud Prelates But my Lord do you think that the Field-Preachers there to whom you must be a Friend if to the dissenting Ministers here do you think I say they show what is more expedient for the good of the Church in refusing the Test than those spiritual Lords did in passing it Do you think that the Rebels at Bothwell-bridge did not make a fairer step to the destruction of the Protestant Religion than as you maliciously suggest his Royal Highness and the Parliament have done since But we must give people leave when they are nettl'd with Passion and Revenge to be transported into Lyes and Absurdities and Malice is alway the greatest Enemy to Truth and Reason Your next Paragraph falls foul again upon Abhorrers whom you look upon as a pitiful Faction when all honest people take them for true Loyalists But waving the absurdity in calling them factious which none can reasonably apply but to such as oppose the Government in Church and State their Numbers are not so small as to be pitiful or contemptible two or three thousand Free-holders are said to subscribe that of Derby and then more I am sure by much than could be gotten out of any County in England to your Petitions And could your Lordship but get the favour and opportunity to consult the List you would find them more numerous and much to your dis-satisfaction and also amongst them many persons that have serv'd their Countrey in Parliament and been Members of that Honourable Assembly to whom you pay so great a Deference But it is a little harsh Censure for you to suspect all the Countrey-Sheriffs for ill men and their under-Sheriffs for Rogues Could we but get an indifferent person to decide the Controversie he would with more reason judge your City-Officers for such Gentlemen commonly vers'd in the jugling Tricks of Buying and Selling and all the methods of a priviledg'd Knavery such as first set about packing of Juries and alarming the Nation with an obstruction of Justice And won't you allow the King and his Council to be as honest and wise and as fit to prick the one as your City-Rout and Rabble who chooses the other I can't imagine what you mean by this elaborate task and all this fruitless pains you take to prove the number of Abhorrers so small and insignificant unless your meaning be only this to show plainly that you contend for a Party and have sent abroad your Muster-masters to take a List of all your Voluntiers or else have got your Association to stalk about the Kingdom incognito and now upon comparing the Subscribers of that with those of our Abhorrences find your selves the stronger by a million or thereabouts but I fancy were this really so you would never suffer this Abhorring and Protesting to go on so quietly Yet my Lord I 'le debate though not the truth yet the Reason of this Matter still more fairly with your Lordship Give you all that the prejudic'd Party can desire and for a while suppose this Paper of Association a meer Sham and a piece of Forgery or in your own phrase A red Herring trail'd through the Kingdom to make a noise yet still why must all those that detest and abhor it be traduc'd as Popish only because they dislike a Paper that is in it self treasonable and which your own selves presume unwarrantable at least by your seeming to renounce it There is every year a Zeal as hot as the Flames themselves shown against his Holiness in Pasteboard and in God's Name let them still in that Matter express their Resentment But you would think it a hard Censure my Lord to traduce all that innocent Rabble in Fleetstreet for Puritans and Fanaticks only because they express such an Abhorrence to that painted Effigie when all this while this is but a Pope of their own making And why then must all those be vilified as Tories Hounds and Popish Abhorrers that only dislike declare burn and protest against a paper'd Idol of a Common-wealth in whose Forehead is writ Treason as well as Abomination in the others Now when I have been so fair as to yield to your Lordship in his own Postulatum and yet the Corollary deduc'd will detract much from that Reasoning and Modesty you pretend to what will become of those Pretensions when it appears a demonstrable Proposition that this Scheam of Rebellion was drawn by your own Party and truly found where it was sworn to be And therefore for those Considerations tender'd to us in the beginning of your Book let us offer these to you toward the end of ours Consider this Engine and design how much it looks like the Workmanship of your State-Projectors And though the end seem'd somewhat honest pretending to unite a divided Nation consider it will never be compass'd in animating a factious and a zealous Crew 't is a Work only now for Omnipotence it self to heal our Breaches and cure our Divisions and the Union of God's people will never be perfected by your Protestant Ioyners and such Agents of the Devil Consider how likely that Faction is to contrive such an Association which has been so well vets'd in drawing up so

many Covenants and how improbable it is that those who enter'd into a League to fight against Charles the First should associate themselves for the preservation of the Second But these are but such Arguments I confess as the Schools call â probabilibus that which makes it demonstrably plain are the Shifts your Party use to avoid the Imputation whose Answers when they are question'd about it are like those of conscious Criminals full of Distraction Sometimes they fancy the truth of its being found not plain enough and then they deny the Matter of Fact then they begin to distrust that Refuge and stand up for its defence backing it with a President in Queen Elizabeth's time and pray my Lord Would you not take the young Bear to be the Whelp of such a Dam if you found her licking the little unform'd Monster into shape Then for its being found in the Closet we have a plain positive Oath and that of a very credible Witness The Keys sworn to be deliver'd by your Earl s own hand his Servants by when the Papers were put up and the Bag seal'd And sure his vigilant Domesticks would never suffer their Master to be so grosly abus'd had they put up other Papers than were found and brought Treason in their Pockets when they came to search for it My Lord It was the same poor defence Colledge made to the finding his treasonable Ballads and when nothing else could confront the Evidence it was insinuated as if they were laid there by the Searchers And you would do well to use some better Arguments for so great a person whom you would prove innocent than they did for a rascally Joyner whom all impartial people thought guilty But nothing makes it more unquestionable than those poor Shifts you use in questioning it You say Gwin dares not swear it and any one by what you say there to the contrary would swear you don't deny it and all your Argumentations look so conscious and guilty that they betray the very Cause they pretend to defend Among Heads that have but one grain of studied Logick or natural Reason 't is alway presum'd that nothing can be like it self and what-ever has any Reference must have another Extream to which it may refer and then what need of all this Comparison and Similitude if there be nothing found with which you would compare it What need has your Lordship to talk of Queen Elizabeth's Association as a Parallel if nothing since has been contriv'd like it by your Friends and Associates But you will say There has been a pretended one put upon you Then my Lord let me ask you Would you take all this pain to justifie a piece of Treason forg'd by your Enemies Did any of your Party write in favour of the Papers found in the Meal-Tub If these are your Measures and best Politicks what better Encouragement can there be for Shams and Forgeries than by writing Panegyricks and favourable Parallels on those Treasons of which you are suspected and accus'd You very civilly will allow his Majesty a Prerogative to call a Parliament but like the curs'd Cow that gives a little good Milk which she presently kicks down with her heels or Mr. H-t that defends the Bishops in his Book and blows them up in the Post-script your next Lines talk of having them conven'd frequently and sit usefully that is indeed whensoever your selves please and as long as your Faction shall think fit or till Grievances are redress'd and the Bill of Exclusion pass'd But for these Matters I may with better Authority use your own words in the business of the Charter Assure your Lordship It will be long before it be done But I would fain have you fix my Lord that indefinite Term of Frequent Parliaments Is your Lordship for Triennial ones again The Consequences of that were too fatal to expect such another unreasonable Grant And besides it is not above a twelve month since that your Lordship had one and that to your Mind too and therefore as yet no Reason to complain But if great Emergencies as you say shall determine the Prince to convene his States sure you may give him and his Council leave to judge whether they are really so or not Otherwise Dr. Oater's Quarrel with the Scotch Knight or the Disappointment of the City-Feast may by some be thought Matter of great Emergency and worthy the Consideration of a Parliament neither will the People my Lord as Things stand now be all of your Sentiments in thinking his Majesty's Friends and Counsellors humble Tories stupid Fools or designing Villains the best opinion you can have of them for not advising his Majesty as you think fit to call a Parliament We know those that gave worse Advice both for the Kingdom and all Christendom beside those that in their best regreted the Success of their own Councels and maliciously took now and then a few good Measures lest others should do it for them I can't apprehend my Lord what that distance of Time is in which without a Parliament our Liberties would expire and our selues on a sudden be shackl'd into Slaves We han't seen one for a whole year and perhaps may not for another and yet after many expir'd I dare swear our Magna Charta will be still the same though your City-Charter may not We will allow you Parliaments to be the Subjects Birth-right but then I hope we are not born to all sorts of Parliaments that Position my Lord would make you put in for a Right to that in Forty one since by special Act declar'd Traitors Your Lordship proposes by way of smart Interrogatory Whether the King's Prerogative in appointing the day will deprive us of the Right of having them in such a time and his Power of dissolving can render them useless to us I confess to men of your own Principles and Sentiments 't is impossible to answer them for such are resolv'd to take it for granted that the not letting them sit when they please is a deprivation of the Right of the Subject and the dissolving them when the King pleases is that which makes them useless whereas there are as great Men and as good Head-pieces who think the quite contrary And that his Majesty's appointing the day is the only Security we can have for their Sitting Perhaps without it we might have a Convocation of Rebels but not a Parliament a major part of Members treasonably associated but never an House of Commons lawfully assembled And then in this Case also differing so far from your Opinion that they think the only thing that can make them useful is the King's Power to dissolve them I confess to men that make an House of Commons to patronize all their Irregularities to countenance all those gross Abuses they put upon the Government to such a Dissolution is a useless thing indeed and deprives them of the making an honourable Assembly a pretended Abettor of all their scandalous Actions