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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04502	The true Protestants appeal to the city and countrey	Nalson, John, 1638?-1686.	1681 (1681)	Wing N120; ESTC S124400	6,597	4

THE True Protestants APPEAL TO THE City and Countrey Gentlemen and worthy Fellow-Citizens and Subjects I Have overcome my self for your sake in two difficulties which it may be have hindred many an honest man from speaking necessary Truth the one is Fear the other an expectation that some other Person better able to discharge it would have undertaken the Province For the first I considered why should any Englishman be affraid to make Use of his Native Liberty to speak the Truth and discharge his Conscience especially when so many busie men are become so bold not only to whisper but loudly to proclaim Disloyalty and are not satisfied to curse the KING in their Thoughts in their Bed-chamber but are advanced to the confidence to Print and Publish such Reflections upon His most Sacred Majesty and the Government as now by Law Established as makes the Ears of Loyal Subjects tingle I confess I waited with impatience to see some bold and generous Pen endeavour to arrest the Torrent and stem the T●de but h 〈…〉 ted in 〈◊〉 Expectation deterred I suppose from what is every true Englishman and good Protestants Duty by a prevailing timorousnesse lest they should be branded with the infamous Names of Jesuit Papist or Popishly affected I expect the same Fare but yet Names which are only the Scum and Foam of Arbitrary and Popular Defamers shall never affright me nor ought to do any Person out of the Duty we owe to God our King and our Countrey I perfectly hate and abhor all Popery Superstition and Innovation in the Church and all that know me who are not inconsiderable either for number or Quality know me to be a true Church of England-Kings-Protestant I do no less detest and abhor all other Schismatical Practices and Perswasions Treacherous and Disloyal Doctrines and Actions of Commonwealth-Protestants and all those whether Papists or Schismaticks who though they disclaim the odious Doctrine yet agree in the horrid and abominable Fact of King-killing Let them either or both look never so demurely upon the matter and endeavour to wash their hands of it by accusing one another this thing was not done in a corner but in the face of the Sun and then avowed by Dissenting-Protestants both in the Publick Memoirs of their Usurpation and in their private Prints and the Innocent Blond of the Just as well as their own Impenitent Hearts are Witnesses that I am no false Accuser And whatever good Opinion others may have of this Generation of men I am not to Dissemble but tell them such Truths as may prick them to the Heares and wound them into True Repentance and that they lye under a more heavy Guilt than the very Jews for the Apostle excuses them in a great measure of the Guilt of Innocent Blond I know Brethren that ye did it ignorantly for had ye known the Lord of life and Glory ye would not have crucified him they would have had Pilate alter his Superscription from This is the King of the Jews into That he said he was the King of the Jews But these shameless and Unblushing men slew their Natural Liege Lord with the impudent Formalities of pretended Justice banished the Lawful Heir and took Possession of the Vineyard till the Lord of the Husbandmen with his own wonderful hand brought him back again in Peace I hate all the silly Popish Arts of shamming Plots upon the Presbyterians there is no need of it the whole Nation is sensible of their Design by their Endeavours we know the men and their Conversation All honest men believe the Popish Plot and have a Detestation both against the Principles and Practices of Popery and it would be more vigorously prosecutes if Commonwealth Protestants did not endeavour so visibly to make a hand of it to play their own Game and if it either suffers in its Reputation or by delays we are obliged to Dissenters for it who by their mutinous seditious Behaviour their Elevated Hopes insolent and opprobrious Language against the Church and Kings Protestants have put it beyond dispute that they are attempting to play the Old Game again and having got a real Popish Plot resolve to make that do the same Feat which before they did under the bare Pretence of one viz. the Alteration and ruine of the Government established both in Church and State Let them never think to put out our Eyes quite with the dust which they raise and the prefaces of Loyalty which they make their Predecessors did the very same and I think were the better bred and more mannerly of the two but if they mean as they say why do they look so like the Ass mumping Thistles at abhorring the Traiterous Position of taking up Arms by his Authority against his Majesties Person It is the Duty of every good Subject to endeavour all he can to preserve the Life of his most Sacred Majesty the Protestant Religion and Government in Church and State as it is by Law now Established against all Persons who shall attempt to take away the one or alter and subvert the other but not one Commonwealth Protestant that will agree to say or swear this and if they neither can nor will do it Judge all ye People what Protestants what Christians they are Truth needs no little Arts to support its Credit it is Design that uses Paint and Varnish We King and Church-Protestants say we love both and will sincerely endeavour according to our often repeated Sacred Oaths to support maintain and defend both the King and the Church but the Commonwealth-Protestants are as ' fraid to take these Oaths as unwilling to keep them Quakers will not swear at all Independents Presbyterians Anabaptists c. are abhorrers of the Oath of Supremacy unless their Pope Interest gives them a Dispensation to get into an Office or Capacity to affront the Government they say they love the King and the Protestant Religion and the Church but they equivocate as bad as Jesuits in the last and I fear dissemble in the first Their Transactions indeed have of late been admirable and incomprehensible in Defence of the Government and Protestant Religion as for Instance First The Government hath been aspersed and in Print too and we know by what hands with a Design to introduce Popery and Arbitrary Government and which is yet most incomprehensible a damnable most hellish and execrable Plot is discovered sworn and believed of the Papists to take away the Kings Life and to subvert and alter the Government both in Church and State Now for my part I believe the Popish Plot but whosoever believes the other whatever he pretends cannot believe that for they make admirable and incomprehensible Non-sence of it that the Papists should be plotting to ruine their own Interest and Design to subvert a Government that was endeavouring to bring in ●opery Secondly In order to the preservation and support of the Government all Occurrences of State are and have been perverted to defame