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The abhorrence, or, Protestant observations in Dublin, upon the principles and practices of the Protestants at London
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1689
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Wing A96; ESTC P2239
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The ABHORRENCE OR Protestant Observations in Dublin upon the Principles and Practices of the Protestants at London A popish thing und er the mask of a Church of England man Abdicraunt DOMINUM et Abducerunt Populum ad Nequitiam 3. April 1690. Published Saturday February the First 1689. IN all Ages some Prodigies or Monsters have appeared amongst Mankind that have been ingenious at the peril of the Publick such who compass their ends not by fairness and strength of Argument but by insinuating themselves into Mens affections by all the basest Method of subtilty and adulation which sort of flattery is indeed a Collective accumulative baseness being compounded of the most sordid hateful qualities incident to Mankind viz. Lying Servility and Treachery each of which being detestably deformed singly must certainly in conjunction make up a most loathsome ugly Gu lt But not to trouble our selves to search for Precedents in former Story we see before our eyes more than sufficient much more than future Ages will ever credit We behold indeed so much that after one Century the truth of these things shall be taken for feigned Hyperboles or abominable Lyes Who will ever believe this general Defection Who can imagine that Bishops Noblemen c. would ever Harlotize that Sacred Character of Nobilitas est sola atque unica Virtus and suffer themselves to be ingender'd with Treachery Nay that such Men who bear so great a Character in Church and State would ever see nay assist so foul a Monster as Treason to deflower their Virgin Loyalty and at once to Rob the Glory of the Reformation the Church of England of all her pretence to the Beauty of a most Pure and Primitive Christianity O horrid O abominable Invitation Religion that Sacred Name that true interest of all Christians Souls is continually abus'd to palliate and countenance the most abominable Undertakings And Men of turbulent and restless Spirits will be sure to find or make some pretences or occasions of Quarrel under the most Just and Equal Government But as such Proceedings stand in respect to Religion the Reverend William Sherlock D. D. foreseeing what might come to pass as well as what had happen'd in the World declares in a Sermon on Sept. 9th 1683. Pap. 11. 13. There is nothing more expresly contrary to the revealed Word of God than Treasonable Plots and Conspiracies against Sovereign Princes Christian Religion says he is the greatest Security of Government both in its Precepts and Examples it commands EVERY Soul to be subject to the Higher Powers and threatens Eternal Damnation against Rebels And as things now stand were there any true concernment for Religion can We imagine that the most prosest Atheists the most lewd profligate Wretches the greatest Monsters and Prodigies of Wickedness as many of our Inviters are notoriously known to be should be so Zealous for Religion These two Words says the Bishop of Ely in a Sermon upon the sme day p. 17. of the wicked Polititian Caiaphas Venient Romani are effectuall Incentives to stir up the People to Cry Crucisie him Crucifie him Always says that Reverend Prelate Popery Popery serves the turn of any great Incendiary to break through all Divine and Humane Laws And John Fitzwilliams D. D. on that day Preaches to all Christians That Subjects withdrawing their Obedience from their Lawful Prince is a denying the Authority of God a shaking off Gods Government from their Shoulders that even the Almighty should not Reign over them They have not rejected Thee but Me that I should not Reign over them 1 Sam. 5.7 Treason against the King says this Reverend Divine is a kind of Sacriledge and Revolt from him an Apostacy from God and a Resisting him an Opposing of God Rebelling against him Fighting with God The setting up a Counterfeit Prince against the True One an introducing a Plurality of Godheads the Obeying of an Usurper Idolatry the slandering his Annointed and his Footsteps a Blaspheming of God the blaming his Conduct a quarrelling with Providence c. To these may be added the Suffrage of many more the best and most Learned of the Church of England By which it is fully evident our Principles of the Principles of the Church are for Loyalty And I will now challenge the most Malicious Abdicator even Burnet himself who has thrust in his black Face to bespot her Beauty to shew me the contrary otherwise than by the Complexion of his own accursed Actions And further the Laws of our Countrey are in this case adequate to those of our Religion and do attaint Those that Invited the Frince of Orange of the highest Crime that can be committed in respect to Civil Government upon earth and Condemn for High Treason those that maintain the Invitation First it is a known Maxim of the Common Law That the King of England holds his Power from and is accountable to none but God Rex Anglia sub nullo nisi tantum sub Deo Bracton And by the Statute Law 25. Edw. 3. cap. 2. To compass or imagine the death of the King Queen or Prince of Wales To levy War against the King or adhere to his Enemies to give them Aid or Comfort within the Realm or elsewhere is High Treason And by the Statute 13. Car. 2. cap. 1. If any intend to Depose the King or to levy War against him or to move or Invite any Strangers to Invade any of his Majesties Dominions is also High Treason Inviolably to keep and Religiously to observe which Laws all the Nobility Lords Spiritual as well as Lords Temporal Clergy Lawers and the greatest part of the whole Gentry of England besides most of the Tradesmen and inferiour sort of People one time or other upon some manner of occasion have Sworn and upon the Holy Evangelists declared That it is not Lawful upon any account whatsoever to bear Arms against the King or against any that are in Commission under him And likewise That his Majesty James the Second is the Only Supream Governour in all his Dominions And that They will do their utmost to resist Any Forreign Prince that shall Invade him But alas When I reflect upon the sad and dreadful Complexion of the Times when I behold the Monstrous Ingratitude and Treachery of Some persisted in with such an Obstinacy as is not to be found but in Apostate Angel who cannot and amongst Traytors and Rebels who will not Repent However I say some of Us may speak for our selves yet I must and will blame Those whose Undutiful Actions made the first Scene in this Bloody Tragedy of Rebellion Those who have boldly ventur'd upon peril of their own Damnation to streign a point of strict Duty and dispence with the before-mentioned Laws of Conscience and of our Countrey having nothing to plead for themselves but that old pernicious Principle of Doing Evil that Good might come thereof Our Church the Bulwork and Glory of the Reformation The most Pure and Apostolical Church upon Earth who as the Bishop of Ely in his Sermon before cited Pag. 33. says Never takes the Sword against her Lawful Sovereign was never in that Danger as now Now is the time says our Adversaries that Heresy is swallowed up in Atheism Now is that lamentable time wherein with horror we behold the sad Convulsions of our beloved Reformation Our Churches are now to be new Moulded into all the sordid and slovenly Methods of the Coventicle Our Episcopal Rites and Jurisdictions into all the Faces of Calvinism and Presbitery And I tremble to think what Satisfaction must be given to the Divine Vengeance for that vast effusion of Christian Blood c. that is now like to be spilt in the damnable progress of this most Unnatural and Impious Rebellion This Paper shall Weekly demonstrate our Loyalty to the King whom you have most barbarously Abdicated to the great Scandal of Chrianity it self You shall upon all occasions find us Abhorrers of this Rebellion Our Actions shall speak our Fidelity Sworn to James the Second whilst You pay your Perjur'd Allegiance to the Vsurper And we will Now begin to set our selves heartily to do His Majesty Right against your Invasion in order to send the War home to you who so Wickedly began it Dublin Printed for Alderman James Malone Bookseller in Skinner Row