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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58385	Reflections upon the murder of S. Edmund-Bury Godfrey the design of Thompson, Farwell, and Paine to sham off that murder from the papists : the late endeavours to prove Stafford a martyr and no traitor, and the particular kindnesses of the Observator, and Heraclitus to the whole design, in a dialogue ; with a dedication from Mrs. Cellier.	Cellier, Elizabeth, fl. 1680.	1682 (1682)	Wing R731; ESTC R36706	39,638	35

Heaven order'd it That this unfortunate Gentleman should fall by the bloudy hands of those that seek the Nations ruine to awaken the drowsie Kingdom whenever it should grow careless of its safety How much then does it concern all True Protestants to be careful and vigilant when they see the Papists so sedulous to exercise into perpetual oblivion the murther of that Person whose Body Heaven permitted them to sacrifice that so his Soul might be as it were one of the Guardian Angels of their Safety and Religion In the next place he endeavours to complement the Two Houses of Parliament out of their Honour their justice their reason their understanding their prudence and all that advances the Lustre the Grandeur and the high Reverence due to the most Aweful and most Renowned Assembly under Heaven telling them with a fawning snarle with all due submission to the Government in defence of the Innocent That it is not impossible nor altogether without President That a lawful Authority proceeding secundum Allegata probata should be abused and consequently drawn into a mistake by the malice and perjury of wicked men How meanly how lowly does this Mushrom of a Memoir-monger after his sneering complement think of the Lords and Commons of England That which good manners would not impose upon an ordinary Sessions of Oyer and Terminer he most audaciously throws upon the Two Houses of Parliament weakness and mistake and to be cajoll'd by the malice and perjury of wicked men After so many daily Debates and Consultations after so many siftings and scannings of charge and proof the high wisdom and prudence of the Two Houses of Parliament was led away by weakness and mistake to give credit to the malice and perjury of three or four inconsiderable malicious and wicked men and so to proceed to the effusion of innocent Bloud What is this but to charge the Two Houses of Parliament either with folly or impiety the most egregious in the world An indignity for the Nation not to endure There is no question to be made but that Mr. Impartial's allegata probata all his Probables and Improbables all his contradictions and absurdities were duly way'd and ponder'd with all the thoughtful diligence and sedulity that justice and conscience could invent Which not being to be call'd into doubt there is no reason in the world for the Nation to believe that so much justice so much conscience so much elaborate prudence could err The truth of which he himself confirms while he brings an Argument to undermine their Reputation by saying All have not been convicted who were impeached and try'd at the Bar but as some have been condemned so others have been acquitted Which apparently shew'd the equality and impartiality of their Proceedings and that they were not in quest of innocent Bloud but onely sought the deserved punishment of those that were guilty And therefore for such a Flyblow of a pretended Protestant to go about to taint the honour and justice of the Two Houses of Parliament whom he confesses so fair in their Proceedings was an unparallel'd piece of arrogance then which nothing more confirms the truth of the Plot and the Crimes of his Employers So that he might have reserv'd his crafty Cringes and his Presidents for some High German Senate of Mum brewers in the Land of Brandenbourgh Lastly to excuse tho Instances given of Popish Malice and Bloudiness from the Examples of Q. Maries Cruelties the Irish Barbarism the French Massacre c. he recriminates upon the Protestants in Germany France Bohemia and Holland But that is not the Point for there is a great difference between a Massacre or a Persecution and a War though it be a Rebellion wherein there are preceeding expostulations something of a seeming 〈◊〉 pretended claim or grievance but in Massacre or Persecution there is nothing but propense Villany and impiety Had the Christians bin in Arms against their Emperors they could not have bin call'd Persecutions and the Christians had bin in the wrong but as they were Persecutions we find how infamous they have render'd those Emperors Rebellions are headed by Persons of high Quality as the Dutch by the Prince of Orange a free Prince of the Empire that in France by the Coligny's and consequently reduc'd into a formal Hostility Massacres are only tumultuary Riots and Surprises of the Innocent Rebellion pretends a seeming Provocation but Massacre destroys without exception of Sex or Age those that dream'd no harm So that nothing can be more foul more wicked more malicious more spiteful more inhuman more faithless treacherous and destructive to the bonds of Human Society And this is the Charge we lay upon the Papists besides that of Rebellion For if we should muster up the Rebellions of the Papists against their Princes they are innumerable and frequently authoriz'd by the Pope himself As for that same execrable Murder of the Late King Charles the Second of Blessed Memory as it was never committed so it was never own'd but always condemn'd and abominated by all the true Professors of the Protistant Religion It was the nefarious Act of a nefarious Usurper who having at his Devotion an Army which he had long headed with a successful and dareing Conduct took the opportunity when the Nation was quite try'd out with an intestine War of near Twenty Years standing as it were to conquer the whole Kingdom to seize and murder his distressed Sovereign and instead of a King to make himself a Tyrant All this the Protestants lamented and bewailed while the Tyrant having like Otho and Vitellius unjustly invaded the Imperial Dignity environ'd with and engadg'd and well pay'd Hodge-podge of Veteran Levellers Fiftmhonarchy-men an such like Enthusiasts not worth the name of Protestants and ador'd only by those that sought more the preservation of their unlawful Purchases then the good of the Kingdom trampled not only over all true Religion but Morality But should we number up the Murder of Kings committed by Papists we should find more then one Richard the 2d and Edward ●d were both Depos'd and Murder'd by their Popish Subjects Henry the ●d Henry the 4th of France were both murder'd by the Contrivance of their Popish Subjects and openly justify'd by the Priests of that time nay the Murder of the one was applauded even by the Pope himself in a Publick Harangue What does your Worship think of the Emperour Henry the Seventh who was by a Predicant Frier of the Order of St. Bernard murder'd with a piece of the Eucharist sop'd in Poyson By which the Monk evinc'd two things the impiety of the Popish Religion and the folly of Transubstantiation as if the Real Body of Christ could be capable of such a damnable Infection The Emperor Frederick the Second was Excommunicated by Gregory IX with that Impudence that the Cardinals themselves were asham'd of it and express'd their dislike and tho that Pope dy'd yet the Papal fewd continu'd so that at length