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^^^HAVE with great Pleafure bb-
^ I ^3 ferv'd the good Difpofition of the

fober and reafonable Part of the
(^ Kingdom on the Report of the
Pretender's threatning Us with an InvafioHi
They feem to be animated with the fame Spi-
rit as drove our laft Popiih King out of this
Ifland, and will, i doubt not defend it againft
all Pretenders to the Dominion of it, which
our Laws have fettled on a Proteftant Line,
who are happily in Pofieffion of it, and will
mofl: certainly maintain it^ to the Confufiont
of all their Enemies.

The Abhorrence every honed thinking Mast
mufl: have of an Invafion, fupported by French
and Irijh Cut-throats, by fugitive Criminals ,
^nd beggarly defperate Tories , will doubtlefs

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increafe in the Minds of all good Subje(9:Sj
and have fo good an Effed:, as to make them
judge with more Deliberation for the Future,
and not be impos'd upon by the fpecious Pre-
tences of thofe who call themfelves the only
True Sons of the Church, but are indeed the
Sons of Sedition and Rebellion , and would
fave themfelves from the Punifliment they
have fo juftly deferv'd, by the Ruin of their
Country and Religioti.

Is there a Man of Common Senfe in the
Kingdom, who can flatter himfelf, That the
Pretender would have it in his Power, if it
was in his Will,to Support the Church oi Eng-
land. When his pretended Father was fent
by Lewis the XlVth to Ireland ^ had he not
the Count d' Avaux to attend him, on Pur-
pofe to prevent his doing any Thing in Fa-
vour of the Proteftants of that Kingdom ? Not
that King James had 'the leafl Inclination of
himfelf to be favourable to Them : But while
there was a Party in England^ who under the
Denomination of Church - of - Enghnd- Men^
promoted on all Occafions his, and the Popifli
Intereft ; fome of his Counfellors, as the Lord
Powisy the Lord Dover, &c. ad vis 'd him, tho'
they were Papifts , to be more Gracious to
the Proteftants : But the French Minifter
would allow of nothing but Plundering, Mur-
dering ; nothing but Fire and Sword, Rapes and
Racks, would fatisfy the French Counfellors he
brought from France with him. Nay, 'tis ob-

fervablc

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fervaWe, That the French King obhged him
to take the very Officers with him, whom he
himfelf had made ufe of on the hke Employ-
ment, Monfieur Mamau^ and Monficur Rofen^
who were the very Men that were fent to
Languedoc to Dragoon the 'French Proteftants,
to Plunder and Spoil their Houfes, Ravifli theii^
Wives and Daughters, Torture themfelves,
their Fathers and Sons ; and commit Cruelties
which are not to be parallel'd in all the Hifto-
ries of the Bloody Pagan Perfecutions.

I know it will be objecfled, That we aflert
without Proof; Thus the Jacohites in England^
while King James was deftroying the Prote-
ftants in Ireland ^ afTerted , That the latter
liv'd in the full Enjoyment of their Liberties
and Properties; and that all the Reports of
their being Robb'd and Murder'd were ground-
lefs and malicious. They will now doubtlefs
treat our juft Apprehenfions of the like Ufage
from his pretended Son, as Vifionary and
Chimerical. They will tell us of the Fair
Things he Promifes in his Declarations, and
efpecially of his good Will to the Clergy,
whom he is to dGchre Independant oftheStatey
as Le/ley writes in one of his treafonable Let-
ters. They will not look back to the barba-
rous and arbitrary Condud: of James the lid ;
to his Breach of Laws and Faith : They will
infift upon our trufting to the Word of his
pretended Son ; and putting our Selves, our
Religion and Eftates, entirely into his Hands,

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and let him do with Us, as he, aod his French
and Irijh Counfellors fliall think fit. What
then can we expec5t from a Perfon, who from
an Infant has been intruded to look upon us
as a Rebelhous Heretical Nation, devoted to
Deflrudion, as fpon as the Papifts could effeij:
it ? What can we expedl from one who has
been told that the Crown of thefe Kingdoms
is his Birth*right,and that he has been unjuftly
kept out of it by his Slaves ; that he has been
forc'd to live on the Charity of the, French
King, when the Revenues of Great-Britain
and Ireland zt^ his Due ; to which, they fay^
lie has as good a Title as either of us has to
his Houfe or Land ? Will he be more careful
of our Church, and our Properties, than King
James was?

Will hc' who never knew what it was to
live in a Country where Liberty was hear^
of, or vidiere it was treated otherwife than as
Rebellion and Fadtion, be more tender of our
Conftitution than our abdicated King; who
after having taken fo many Oaths to maintain
it, gave it up, not only to his own Will, but
the Will of his Benefactor, the French King?
King fames h^iA 2l Potent Adverfary in King
William , and a Powerful People to drug-
gie with , after he had invaded Ireland.
It was therefore good Policy in him to tem-
porize at leaft with the Proteftants; yet fuch
was his, and his Protedor's the French King's
Inveteracy to them, that contrary to good

Policy^

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Policy, he fufFer'd his Jrilh and French Soldi-
ers to ufe thern worfe than ever the Dragoons
of France treated the Hugonots. What muft
we look for then from the Pretender to the
Throne he Abdicated, when by an /r/y^, French^
and tory Power he has pofleft himfeif of the
Sovereignty ; when he has no Dutch or Ger-
nian League to fear; when we have no Dehve-
rer to have Recourfe to ; when the French
King, being ftrengthned by the Alliance of a
Popifli Prince in Britain^ fliall give Law^s not
pnly to him, but to all Europe ; u'hat will our
Revolution be termed, and all the Ads fubfe-
quent to it ? Every Man that has paid a Penny
to fupport tjie War againfl France and King
James, will be deem'd Guilty of High Trea- ^
fon. In a word, every Proteftant that has a |
iPenny to lofe, will be a Traytor and Rebel,
and he that has not, lie at the Mercy of French
and Jl'ri/h Murderers. It cannot be otherwife ;
and yec how are the (lupid and blind Populace
hurry d on by Fadion to contribute to the
Ruin of that Floly Church for which they
affed fo much Zeal > Can any one believe
th^t the French King will fufFer the Impoftor
to be lefs dependant on hitn than Kmg James
was > That after he has Subfifted him Seven
and Twenty Years, and been at Twenty or
Thirty Millions Charge about his pretended
Father, Mother, Himfeif and their Followers,
that he will let him be any thing better than
his Viceroy, or ever leave him fo niuch Au-
thority

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thority as one of !his Lieu tenant-Generals of a
Province oi France > And what mull: they think
will be the Confequence of our being fubjed:-
ed to the Tyranny of Lewis XIV? Will he
forgive our reducing him to a Condition vi^hen
he fcarce thought himfeJf fafe at Ferfailles \
the many hundred Millions he has expended,
and the many Difgraces that his Arms wer0
attended with ? Will he pardon us for rob-
bing him of the Glorious Title of Ever ViElo^
rious > Will he fpare us, that fpares not his own
Natural Subjeds? Will he content himfelf
with our Eftates and Liberties? Shall our Re-
ligion and Lives be left us, and fhall Beggery
and Slavery attone for Herefy > Will he not
extirpate us as an Heretical, Stubborn, perverfe
People, and not fuffer us to be on the fame
fad Terms with one of his own miferable Pro-
vinces^ Muft not the Pretender owe all to
him ; and what can hinder his recovering the
Debt with a word of his Mouth, if ever we
Ihould be fo wretched as to come into Subjecti-
on to him.

As there is nothing that gives a more lively
Idea of things, thanlnftances of the like which
have happen'd before, I (hall take from a ve-
ry credible Author, a Clergy-man, a Paflage
relating to the Hiftory of Ireland^ when King
James was there; and from thence may we
reafonably conclude, what a Shadow of a
Prince the French King intends the Impoftor
ihall be.

Before

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Before King James left France^ King Lew{s
oblig'd him to covenant with him that the
French fliould be put into Pofleflion of Duhlin,
and all the Places of Strength in Ireland: Ac-
cordingly, on the 3d of May^ 1689, Three
Battallions of French enter'd the City of Duh-
lin^ and the Count de Lauzun their General
fent to Collonel Lutterel the Governor to de-
liver the Keys of the City and Caftle ,• Lutte-
rel anfwer'd, he would firft acquaint the King,
which he did, taking the Lord Mayor and Al-
dermen with him ; the Governor and his Po-
pifti Attendants told him, They had thitherto
venturd their Lives and Fortunes in his Defence ^
and therefore hoped he would fiill entruft them
with the Government of Dublin, and not giv,e
the French an ahfolute Authority over them. To
whom he reply 'd, that he was engagd to his
Brother of France, to give the Government of
Dublin to the Count de Lauzun, and could not
recede from it. Upon which, the French Ge-
neral had the Keys of the City delivered to
him ; but Lauzun would not let the French Sol-
diers mount the Guard till he had alfo the
Keys of the Caftle, and the next Day they
alfo were brought to him. After this, the
French very commonly fwore, they had no King
lut King Lewis, and would ohey no Orders hut
the Count de Lauzun 5 ,• and they grew fo info-
lent to the Irifli as well as Eogliih, that the Pa-
pifts themfelves frequently complain d of them to
King James, hut could never have any Redrefs,

The

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The Reverend Author fays farther, " The
French had not been Two Days in Dublin^
*' when they murder'd Two or Three Prote-
" ftant Clothiers in a Part of the City call'd
" th^Comh^ for that great Crime of proteding
" their Wives from being made Prollitutes to
" their Luft,- of which inhuman Ad: no notice
*^ was ever taken, tho' King James was com.
*' plain'd to about it. About the fame time
•* fome of therh took a CountreyMaid, who
" came to Market with her Father, arid Ra-
" vifh'd her in the open Street at Noon-Day.
*^ Many fuch barbarous pieces of Villany were
«' perpetrated by them,- arid their Leaders
i^ moved in Council, that the City fliould.be
*' Burnt if they could not keep it ; whereup-
*' on the Irijh City Papifts, and thofe of the
" Army, apply'd themfelves to King James^
*' reprefenting to him, That the Catholicks
*' would be great Sufferers by that as well as
" the Proteftants, and .they humbly and ear-
" neftly intreated him not to give way to
" any fuch Council. It would be endlefs
if I fhould go about to produce Examples of
the Superiority of the French in Ireland, and
the barbarous and bloody Ufe they made of
it. What need is there of Proof by FadJ ? The
Reafon of the thing is its own Evidence ; and
whereever the Pretender prevails, he afts in
entire Subordination to his Benefador, and
muft be as much a Slave to his Will, as th6
poor deluded Britons muft be to his. Is the

Impoftof

Impoftor worth a Groat of his own; hsis ht
a Fifhing Boat, has he a Footman, but what he
niuft buy, and fubfift by the Frenc/j King's
Alms > And whate vet Artifice the French Court
may make ufe of to colour their Adions, with
whatever -Evafions they may excufe the A0i-
ftance they give him, it is impoffible for him
to Arm and Maintain a Company of Foot, or
hire a Bilander to Tranfport him to Britain^
without he is aflifted diredly or indirefily
by the French. His pretended Father King
James was to have delivered up Portfmouthy
Flimouth ^ and Hull^ before he went from
England^ for the Supplies of Men and Ships
Monfieur Bonrepos offer'd him in the Name of
the French King his Mafter. Now if Lewu
the XlVth cou'd demand Three fuch Towns
in England oi King James^ when he was upon
his Throne, and had not an Enemy in Arms
againft him in the Three Kingdoms, what will
he not exadt of his pretended Heir, for the
Supply he furniflies him with ? What lefs than
the Three Kingdoms will content him ? How
could all the Powers of Europe prevent their
falling into his Hands > Thefe Confiderations
are fo natural,fo obvious, and withal fo terrible
and afFeding, that they need no Exaggerati-
on. Every Reader will tremble at the Thought;
and let this juft Terror fo alarm him, as to
animate him to a vigorous Defence of the In-
valuable BlefTings we now enjoy, in a Protefiant
King and Liherty.

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Having fliewn that it will not be left in the
Pretender's Power to fecure our Holy Church
from the Perfecution of Papifts, and French
Idolaters; I might now argue, that it will
not be in his Will, th^t he would not do it if
he could, that his fair Speeches are more Gri-
mace than thofe of his pretended Father to the
Privy Council and Parliament, on his Acceffion
to the Throne. But fure fuch a Task is need-
lefs. It Cannot be imagin'd that a Creature of
thtFreiich King's, Taught from his Childhood
to look on the Proteftants of the Church of
England Z.S in a damnable Herefy ; and to hold
that no Faith is to be kept with them, when
the Interefls of the Church of Rome are con-
cerned : I fay it can't be imagin'd that fuch a
Perfon will ever have the leaft Forbearance
with fuch an Heretical Generation as he deems
the Church of England Proteftants to be; but
will follov/ the Example as well as Inftrucftion
of his Protestor, in rooting out our Religion,
and redoring the Papal Tyranny in this King-
dom. When his Fiditious Father was once
apply'd to by Colonel Sarsfield to give a Com-
miffion to a Kinfman of his, who was a Pro-
teftant, for whofe Fidelity the Colonel ofFer'd
to be Bound : He repjy'd, He would trufl no
Church of England Man, And a little while
after, coming from Chapel, he faid to fome
Courtiers, who were talking of the Proteftants,
that they flunk in his Voftrils. If they were fo
OiTenfive to him who had his Breeding among

them,

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him, who had been one himfelf, and ow'd
his Converfion only to the Arguments of that
rare Cafuift Colonel Richard Talbot^ after-
wards Earl of TyrconneU as the latter bragg'd
when he was his Deputy in Ireland ; What
Offence muft they give to the Tnipoftor who
has been bred up under a Confejfor ^ Queen
Mary of Modena^ the greateft Bigot to Popery
in Chrtfiendom ? One may fuppofe how kind
he wou'd be to the Church of England^ by the
French King's Kindnefs to his own Proteftants.
But our Condition mud be worfe ; we cou^d
not be baniili'd for Religion, Lewis wou'd be
every where Matter ; all Europe oiull follow the
Fate o^ England; there wou'd be no Country left
to receive us, or our Religion wou'd be left td
HO Country. Galley s^ G'thhets^ Whips^ and Wheels^
all that French and Irifh Cruelty and Revenge
cou'd invent mull: necelTarily be our Lot.
Poverty and Want wou'd be, the leaft of our
Plagues; we (hou'd think our felves happy to
preferve our Religion at the Price of all other
Bleffings, at lead, if there reraain'd Virtueand
Confcience among us. But alas! we muft be
Poor, we muft be Slaves, we muft be Idola-
trous; or be Rack'd, be Slaughtered, and the
very Name of Englifhman and Proteftant be
loft for ever. 7 hat the Pretender wou'd treat
you thus, if you were Subjedl to him, is not
to be doubted, from the Spirit and Pradlice
of his Proted:or. Can he poflefs himfelf of
Three Kingdoms by the help only of his Irifh

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and 7(7ry Fugitives i» Suppofe it were poflible,
as it is not, that he cou'd reduce us by as fmall
a Band of Followers, as the Duke of Moftr
mouthy joined by the Giddy Riotous Rabble,
which is the beft of his Pretences ; when his
Work was done, wou'd not Friendfhip, Gra-
titude, Religion, and Intereft, bind him faft
to the Frefich King ? Wou'd not our Strength
and Riches be quickly made the Inftruments
to bring all People, efpecially Proteftants, in-
%Q the fame deplorable Circumftances as our
felves. About a Year ago there was a Report
indpftrioufly fpread in £«g/W,that the Preten-
der was turn'd Proteftant ; it was alfo rumour'd
Three Years ago, and that vile Wretch Eoper
Printed it for News, that LeJIey was gone to
Convert him, to hinder our being troubled
with Coma-overs. When this Report had pre-
vail over fome thoughtlefs credulous Tories,
and they began to give Credit to it, left the
fapifts of the Three Kingdoms, on whom the
WrenchYMg makes his main depeadance, fliou'd
be difcouragM by fuch a Rumour, it was pre-
fently declared in the Paris Ga^ette^ that it was
groundlefs , and that the Impoftor difown'd
any fuch Converfion. LeJley goes farther in
pne of his Treafonable Papers, and fays, He
p refolved not to deceive his good Suhje^s^ ly
telling them he has renounced Popery ; on the con^
trary^ he ajfures them he never voilU And that
tfory Prieft argues, that 'tis for the Intereft
and Security pf the proteftant Religion that

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he never (hould. For, continues that Irilhman,
If he owns himfelf a Proteftant, the Church
of England'Mtn would think themfelves fe-
cure , and not be on their Guard againft Po-
pery, which he might ftill privately Encou-
rage, if not openly Countenance, under the
Colour of Troteflaniifm ; whereas, if he was a
Papift, the lead Step he took in their Favour
would be obferv'd with more Jealoufy. Thus
argues that Mfh Miffionary. And what if it
were obferv'd! What if he ferv'd all the Col-
leges in England^ as his pretended Father did
that of Magdalen in Oxford-^ and all the
Churches as he ferv'd C/'riy/'Church in Dub-
liif, and the reft of the Proteftant Churches
in Ireland^ What if he took away all the Pri-
vileges of the one, and all the Worlhip of the
other ? The deluded enflav'd People muft not
refift ; and if they did refill , what would
Refiftance fignify, when he had the Power
of Great' Britain^ fupported by thzt of France^
to maintain him in his Arbitrary and Cruel
Government ? What Benefit would it be for
the Britons to perceive that he intended to
make them Slaves, Beggars, and Idolaters, if
they fhould Turn, and become fuch Papifts
as the Converts of France : Would that fav?
their Liberty and Property > Muft they not
be Slaves ftill, be firft ruin'd in this World,
and damn'd in the next ? 'Twas a Maxim a-
mong King James's Counfellors , That he
ihpuld ifnpoverilh his ^ubjeds iirft, in order

to

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to enflave them afterwards ; I could prove this
by a Thoufand Inftances, it is too well known
to need any Evidence. I will not infift upon
the Tmmenfe Treafure that would be imme-
diately fwallow'd at once, I mean the Stocks
and Funds of the Exchequer^ which would
prefently be as bad as the Fund of the Hotel
de Ville in Taris^ the beft Fund in France^
which was lately Seventy Six per Cent, Dif-
count , and now is not much better. The
Impoftor would have a. Ready Prefident to
follow that of his pretended Uncle King
Charles the lid. He would (hut up the Ex^
chequer^ and beggar all the money'd Men in
the Nation at a Blow ; nor would there be
much Occafion for his Minifters to ftretch
their Inventions to find out a plaufible Pre-
tence, to raife fuch a damnable Outrage on
Property 5 they would only fay, All thefe Funds
were traiteroufly given to make War upon our
Dear Ally , the Mofl Chrtflian King^ and to
keep our Self out of our Dominions^ &c. All
Lands belonging to the Church, whether in
the Hands of Fapifts or Proteftants, would
infallibly be redor'd. The Papifts w^re no
more fpar'd than the Proteflants in the A^ of
Repeal^ paft by King 'James in Ireland:, where-
ever any Abby Lands were found, the Church
would prefently lay her Holy Paw upon them.
And as above half of the Lands in Britain
were formerly Church Tenures, above half of
the Nobility , Gentry , and Freeholders of

England

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England would be beggar'd to enrich the
Shoals of Britijhy Jrifh^ French^ and all Sorts
of other Priefts that would get together
from all Parts of Europe^ to ftock this poor
Country , and poflefs the Eftates taken from
the Religious Houfes in Henry the Vlllth's
Time, and fince. This too would be one of
the lead of their Sufferings ; the remaining
Portion of their Eftates would be held preca-
rioufly , and fubjecSed to grievous Taxes by
Proclamation, a Practice fet up by King James
after his Abdication. Their Perfons, as well
as Eftates, would be Ibbjecft to the Will of a
Popifli Tyrant, and this now Happy and Flou-
rifliing Nation be reduc'd to the utmoft Di-
ftrefs and Defolation.

I have in feveral Places of this Difcourfe,
made mention of King Jawes's Condud in-
Ireland^ becaufe he was there in almoft the
fame Circumftances as his pretended Heir
would be in England. With this Difference
however, that the Latter would have lefs Re-
ftraint upon him, and no Body to pleafe but
his Friend and Patron the French King ,• where-
as King James had a Party in Great- Britain to
impofe upon, by Pretenfions of Favour to
the Proteftants, and yet under that Reftraint
did he deal worfe by them, both with refped:
to their Liberties and Properties, than ever
the French dealt b)^ his Subjeds. He put
Copper on them for Silver, by one Proclama-
tion dated the 4th of Fclruary^ i68j. He

feiz'd

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feiz'd upon their moft Merchantable Commo-
dities, by another Proclamation of the fame
Date. And the very fame Day pubhfli'd ano-
ther to levy a Tax on them of 20000/. a
Month. Here are Three Laws of his own
making, more Defpotick, and more invading
on Property, than any Edid the French King
ever Publi(h*d. Inftead of A&s of Parlia-
ment, your Money would be forc'd from you
by Orders and Commands. Inftead of a
Houfe of Commons, you would be taxM by
Irijh Commiffioners ; and inftead of Colle-
dors, your Taxes would be levy'd by Grana-
diers and Dragoons. For whatever our abdi-
cated King did after his Abdication, will moft
certainly be refind upon by his pretended
Heir ; and all his Maxims, all his Meafures
be improved, to advance one of the moft
grievous and deftrudivc Tyrannies, by which
a Free and Chriftian Conftitution was ever
fubverted.

I am fatisfy'd I have faid nothing but what
every honeft and thinking Man is apprized
of already ,• yet I could not avoid to remind
him of it at this Jundture, when the Enemies
of the Government will be very induftrious
to corrupt Mens Judgment, and delude their
Faith by falfe Fads, and falfe Arguments:
Some of thcHi, fuch as Welton^ Sacheverely
Smith, &c. among the Clergy ; as Catltney
Mawhood^ Silky &c. among the Laity, will o-
penly aflert the Impoftor's Right, and arraign

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the Government, as they did KinglV/JIiam's for
Ufurpation. For thefe the fame Laws, and the
fame Lodgings are prepar'd, which the Draper
Mawhood^ and his Partner Pace, are like to
make tryal of. Others will, inftead of attack-
ing King G^^/'g^ , entertain you with Panegy-
ricks on Queen Anne ; The Peace ; The Ajjiento ;
and, The Glorious Advaoiages procured for us
by the Late Minifters. Others will wifli, as
they tell you, Things may go well ; but only
they are afraid that fome '^itxi drive too fait.
Thefe Wellvo'ijhcrs are errant L)ar$ ; they wiOi
fiis Majefty no better than the profefs'd
Friends of the Pretender, and will be ready
to declare for him as foon as they think they
can do it with Safety. Some will flirug up
their Shoulders and fay nothing , that they
may have the Benefit of Interpreting that Po-
litick Shrug of theirs afterwards, on which
Side they pleaf^ ; either for the King, or the
Pretender. In a word , every Man that does
not heartily and openly declare againft the
Invaders, ought to be looked upon and treated
as an Enemy to the Conftitution : A Mark
ought to be fee upon them, that they may al-
ways be diftinguilh'd from its Friends by the
Refentment and Difregard of our Governors :
They will be ready enough to change their
Tone when the Danger is over : They will
find a hundred Excufes for their Malignity and
Indifference : They will have Proofs to bring
you of , an extraordinary Zeal againft the Im-

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poflor and his Abettors : They will difown
their Delinquency, or Neutrality. But let ic
not avail them ; let us all have an Eye on fuc|i
dangerous or infignificant Britons ; and let e-
very true Lover of the Church and Liberty,
fignalize his Loyalty lo the King, and his
Zeal for our Religion, at this important Jun-
cture. Our All is at Stake, if the Pretender
comes among us ; and to be lukewarm and wa-
ry, when we have no other Chance to preferve
it but the Prefervation of the -Government,
denotes the mod fatal Stupidity ; and that we
are unworthy the Deliverance which Provi-
dence fent, us a fecond Time in King Georges
Acceffion to the Throne.

If any where 1 have feem'd to be appre-
hen Ave of an Invafion from the Pretender,
and his Irifh and French Cut-throats^ it is not
an Apprehenfion that rifes from Fear of the
Succefs of fuch an Attempt , while we have
fo great and fo good a King to protedl us, and
fo Wife and fo Loyal a Parliament to fupport
Him. There is no Inftance in Story that e-
ver a Conftitution fo well eftablilh'd was fub-
verted. But that (hould be fo far from ren-
dring us too fecure, that it fliould animate us
all to exert our felves to chaftife the Infolence
of thofe Invaders, and their Abettors ,• and to
take hold of this Occafion to fupprefs that
Fadion for ever, by putting the Laws in
Force againft them in Execution, with the
Severity that fuch Robbers and Rioters de-

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fervc. Since His Majefly came to the Crown,
He has not done one Ad: of Government but
what ought to have gain'd the Hearts of all
His Subjedls, for whofeGood he did it : His
Condudt has been like a true Father of his
Country ; and I defy the mod inveterate, the
mod interefted Jacolite in England ^ to name
me one Inftance in His Reign, where has not
appear'd fo much Goodnefs and Clemency, as
ought to render Him as much the Delight of
the Britons^ as Titus was of the Romans. This
I fay out of the Fulnefs of my Soul, and no
Motive of Flattery or ExpecStation of Advan-
tage. I never made any by any Government,
and fliould have a mean Opinion of my felf,
if I {hould embark in a publick Quarrel for
private Intereft only. I know it gives a lau-
tlable Spirit to certain Genius's :.And I, for
my own Part, matter not from what Motive
another Man ferves the Government, if he
does it any Service : But (ince all the World
are not fo complaifant, fince they have more
Delicacy^ and will have every Prefent that s
made them, come from the pureft Hands ^ I
thought fit to own to them, that I fpeak from
the fame honed Principle from which I folli-
cite them to adt, and with a fix'd Purpofe to
do in every Thing, what I wou'd have done
on this emergent Occafion, as far as it lies in
my Power : My Zeal is not afteSed or mer-
cenary \ the Caufe is the moft glorious and
neceflary that a People can have. There is

D z ^ nothing

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nothing fo valuable that can be put in the Ba-
lance with any Weight againft it. Lbt us
now defend our Sovereign's Rights and our
own, with the Courage and Fidelity worthy
the Name of Britofis and Proteftants, and we
ihall fecure cur felves againft the Infults of Fa-
cSicn It was high Time to put an End to it
by the utmofl: Rigor of the Law, and the fuU
Strength of the Arm of Juflice, before the Im-
poftor threatned to difturb us. But thefe arro-
gant Threats of his ftiow that the Mobs and
Riots, by which we have been alarm'd lately,
have really been fo many Attempts in his Fa-
vour. The P^ehels that have burnt the Meet-
ing-Houfes, made the Church a Pretence on*
ly. Does the Church encourage or ailow of
fuch Wickednefs > Is Drunkennefs a Token of
Zeal, and Curfes a Sign of Devotion? Can
one fuppofe that thefeVilIains meant anyThing
iTiOre than to make a Tryal of their Strength ;
to fee what Numbers they could get to-
gether, and what Encouragem.ent they could
give the Pretender by it, to put himfelf at
iheir Head. We may depend upon it, Religi-
on "was no more in their Intention than io
their Pradice, and that they were his Forlora
Hope, which we ought to have fall'n upon,
and cut off in their Rife ; and to have had no
niore Mercy for thofe Incendiaries than for fo
many Banditti Men, or Rapparees.

Thp

The only Objedion that the hotted Tory
in Britain can make to King G^^rgf's Govern-
ment, is the Change of the Minijlry. Not to
infift on the Arguments made ufe of by them-
felves, when Queen Anne changed Her Mini-
fters ; every one of which is much ftronger
in the Cafe of King George ; I will appeal to
the Confcience of even fuch a tory^ Whether |
he does not verily believe that Oxford^ Bo-}

linghroke^ H — /, &c were His Majefty's!

Enemies > Whether thofe that made the late
fcandalous and ruinous Peace, were not Friends
to France^ and confcquently to the Pretender ?
And whether fuch Men w^ere proper to be
trufled by his Prefent Majefty ? Men whom
we now fee impeach'd of the mod horrid
Treafons againft their Queen and Country,
Do they not own the Charge by running from
their Tryal > If it be faid that they run from
a Majority ; can one think they would run
without carrying their Guilt along with them?
Who can be fafer than in the Judgment of the
Parliament of Great-Britain > What can In-
fluence the Voice of fo Auguft an Affembly,
but the Neceffity of doing Juftice to an injur'd
Nation > Are not the FacSs made Plain in the
fleport of the Committee of Secrecy ? Was not
the Peace treated of with Mefnager at firft,
without any Warrant from the Queen > And
• did not our Minifters, and our General, Adi
in Concert with the French^ before the Peace
wz,s concluded, and while we were bound by

Honour,

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Honour, Interefl:, and many folemn Treaties,'
to Atl in Concert with our Allies ? Was not
this to betray their Countrey, and their
Queen, in both Council and Adion > Is not
to Betray, Treafon > And ihall another Prince,
who was Himlelf Injured and Affronted by
them, truft thofe Traytors ? There is not a
Tory in Britain, but when he divefts himfelf
of Paflion and Pique, when he thinks ferioufly
of the Condition we were in before the Peace,
and the Condition we are now in ; there is
not a Tory in Britain^ however outragious he
may be for the Lofs of his Place, or his Penfi-
on, but does in himfelf believe that thofe Mi*
niflers deferve the Punifliment from which
they fly ,• and I do not in this leg the Quejii-
ofiy it being a Maxim as old as Politicks, that
thofe that Love the Treafon, Hate the Traytor*
Yet the difgracing of the Parricide and his
Brethren, was made ufe of to Colour the Out-
rage of the Rabble, fpirited up by the Jaco-
lites; and the Duke of Ormond was huzzaM
out of the Kingdom by the very Rabble that
pretended to Support him. When a Man
by his Weaknefs or Vanity has made his Name
Dangerous to the publick Peace ,• it is fafeft
for him to run that Countrey where he has
been the occafion of fo much Uproar and
Mifchief : For to fuppofe he did not Counte-
nance and Reward them, is as foolifli as to
have done it. There were a thoufand ways for
him to have difown'd them, and he took not

one

one of them, but fuffer'd the poor thoughtlefs
Wretches to make ufe of his Name in their
Riots, without any manner of Reproof. What-
ever it is for himfelf, 'tis furely bed for
his Country that fuch a Man fliou'd be out
of it.

I have been the longer on this Head, the
Change of the Minifters, becaufe it is the on-
ly one which the Jacohites can take any han-
dle of, fince his Majefty's coming to the
Crown, to objed: by it to his Government.
And how reafonable, how neceffary it was to
change them, is obvious to every Man of
common Senfe. Since therefore their Difaf-
fedion is fo ill-grounded, and fo Ungrateful,
may we not affure our felves, that Creatures
who are guilty of fo much Folly and Ingrati-
tude, are ripe for any further Mifchief, and
ready to contribute to enflave us by the French,
to revenge their own Impotence to enflave Us
Themfelves. What Precautions fliould we
then take againft them > Should we not be on
our Guard both at Land and Sea? Can w^e be
fafer than in an Army rais'd by King and Par-
liament for our Defence ? Is there the lead
Shadow of Reafon for the vain Objections of
thofe that wou'd terrify us with the ill Confe-
quence of a Standing Force ? Has not the Par-
liament limited the Term of their Pay to a
Year, and will they pay them longer than
they think them of abfolute Neceffity ? Mc
not thefe Forces* to be Commanded by a Ge-
neral

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neral and other Oificers, who have been fight-
ing for Liberty thefe Twenty Years and niore;
Difgracd and Injur'd by the late Minifters,
purely becaufe they would not fall in with
their Meafures to Enflave us, by deftroying
the Balance of Power , and giving up all to
France ? Do thefe Tories, who aff ed: fuch an
extraordinary Concern for Liberty, when they
rail againft our Army, really believe that the
Whigs^ whom they have charg'd from the be-
ginning with Commonwealth Principles, intend
to deflroy our free Conftitution, and Eftabhlh
an Arbitrary Government ? Or can they ima-
gine that a Prince whofe Virtue is as much
fear'd by his Enemies as his Power, will break
in upon thofe Laws which he is come to de-
fend, and which he has fo often and fo fo-
lemnly declared he will maintain ? Or that a
Prince who Govern'd his other Dominions,
before his Acceffion to this Crown, where his
Government was not confin'd by Statutes^ with
fo much Juftice snd Clemency, wou'd change
hisCondud in his new Kingdom? What Folly,
what Madnefs, has pofleft thefe Men ? They re-
notince Truth and Reafon, as well ^s-Moderari-
on and Charity^ when they commence Tories ;
and fure it will never be our hard Fate to be
Ruin'd by fuch Madmen and Fools !

Had not the Pretender prefum'd to threaten
to Invade us ; had he not got an Army toge-
ther for that purpofe > does, not the General
Corruption that appears among the inferior

Clergy,

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Clergy, and from them defcends to the meaner
part of the People, make it abfolutely necefla-
ry to Strengthen the Kings Hands with another
Force, if the Civil is deficient. The Rifings of
the Rabble are like the Irruptions of the Sea,
the Breaches are eafily made up at firft, but
they fpread if negledled, and frequently be-
come too powerful to be repelfd by common
Methods. That the Civil Magiftrates have
been Remifs in the Difcharge of their Truils
in Lancajhire^ Staffordjhlre^ and other Places,
is too notorious to need any Evidence. Where
they have adled, they have been infulted,
beaten, and wounded. The Rioters have im-
pudently own'd, and in fome Corners Pro-
claimM the Pretender \ to fpeak of whom, as
of their King, is Treafon ; and fliall us fuffer
his Majefty's Title to be affronted at the Plea-
fure of every drunken Mob > If they grow too
ftrong for the Qlvil Arms^ lliall we not make
ufe of the Military > Is not His Majefly's
Caufe more our own than His ? He can be
Great and Happy without us ; and without
Him we are Slaves and Beggars for ever.
Shall we bear any longer with the foul Mouths
of a debauch'd and infolent Populace > Shall
we fee our peaceful Neighbours have their
Houfes plunder'd and burnt by them, and not
lend our Afliftance to prevent it > And how
can it be done effe(ftually, but by being on our
Guard againft Foreign Force, which thofe Re-
bels will always be inviting over till they are

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cruih'd, and the Fad:ion fo fupprefs'd as not to
dare to murmur againft the Government that
proteds them ? Had there been one Man in the
Three Kingdoms a Sufferer by it in his Pro-
perty or Liberty, contrary to the known Laws
of the Nation ; Had the Prerogative been
ftretch'd beyond the Bounds, or had our
Church been betray 'd in its Rights and Privi-
leges,tho' that would not excufe the Violence of
thefe Non-Refifting Rebels, yet it would give
fome Pretence to their Fury ; whereas now
they have none but the Title of the Impoftor
to aflert, which is Treafon ,• and we cannot
give too much nor do too much to root out
all thofe Tray tors, that have giv'n their Coun-
try fo much Difturbance, and been the Occa-
fion of a New Expence, the moftNeceflary that
this Nation were ever at for the Maintenance
of their Liberties and Properties.

How long did the Government forbear with
the Offenders ? they wou'd not fee their Crimes,
in hopes they wou'd repent of it, and be re-
claim'd of themfelves; inftead of which they
grew more and more Infolent, and turn'd the
Arms they rais'd againft Presbytery^ againft the
Conjlitution, When they found the Juftices of
Peace, Mayors of Towns, Conftables, and O?.
thers, who at firft might by a vigorous Oppo-
fition have eafily fupprefs'd and panilh'd them,
were lazy and negligent, or rather perfidious
In the Difcharge of their Duty; they were
embolden'd by Impunity, and inftead of High-
Church

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Church and Ormoni^ chang'd the Word to Stu-
art and jf^wa the third ^ a new and infallible
Proof of what has been always urg'd by the
Whig-Writers ; th2Lt Church is only tht Pretence^
and the Impoflor has always been the Quarrel,
Thefe Wretches defy'd the Civil Power ,• they
knew Sacheverell had corrupted the Hands it
was put into by the late Managers^ and that it
wou'd not be eafy to change them before they
had made their Campaigns, and given the Pre:-
tender an Opportunity to attempt fomething
againfl: their Sovereign : They made a Jeft of
Conftables and Militia ; nay, they were fo da-
ring in London^ as to drive them by whole
Companies, like fo many Sheep before them,
as they ferv'd a Captain and his Company in
Smithfieldy and another at St. D^;;7?^«*s Church
in Fleetfireet. Till the Militia is thoroughly re-
form'd,and the Command of them given every-
where to Men of Fidelity and Courage, it
would be an unaccountable Folly in us not to
rejoyce at a better Security provided for us by
King and Parliament, and to fleep. fafely un-
der the Guard of a great Force at Sea and
Land fufficient to repel all Foreign Enemies,
and to fupport the Execution of Juftice on the
Domejlick.

Had the Government in purfuance of Trea-
ties, apply *d for AflTiftance to Allies Abroad, be-
fore we had arm'd at Home ; what Clamour
would have been made againft bringing in
Dutchmen and GerwanSy tho' both Germans and
Ex Dutch^

[a8]

Putchmen are much better Friends to Great Bri-
tain than the Tories are. Their Cry would not
have been Wooden Shoes ; they are reconcird
to the Poverty and Pain of being fo fhod, but
prefently we fliould have heard of Amloynayth&
Pepper-Tradey^nd the giving up our Commerce
to the Dutch. How careful they were of it,
appeared by their Treaties with France and
Spain ; but no matter, they can bawl for Trade
this day, and againft it the next , as it ferves
a prefent Turn. In a word , they are not at
all afraid of fuffering by the Force that is rais'd
in either their Rights or Liberties, but that it
wall hinder others fuffering by their Fadiion
and Fury ; and the more they are griev'd at it,
the more have we Reafon to be glad. Every
Thing that difpleafes the Friends to the Pre^
tender, is furely Matter of Joy to the Friends
to the Conftitution, which is inconfiftent with
the Impoftor's Claim.

As to the Charge of 6 or 7000 Men, and
a Squadron of Men of War, it will not, toge-
ther with the Current Expences of the Year,
amount to as much as One Year's Publick
Charge, after the Queen's Peace j as they call it,
i was concluded. And fliall we grutch fo
fmall an Expence to preferve our Church, our
Liberty, our Eftates, our All, which the late
Parliaments and Miniftry exceeded to main-
tain the Authority of thofe Minifters which
h-ad brought every Thing into Danger from ^
State ot the greateft Security. We fpent above a

Hundred

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Hundred Millions to reduce the Exorhitant
Power of France, in a juft and necefTary War,
and the Late Traiterous Minifters by an Infa-
mous Peace made that Power more Exorhitant
than ever it was before the War. Shall we
think much of a . Hundredth Part of that
Expencc to deliver us from the Peril they
brought us into. We are fure that what
is given will be apply'd to thofe Ufes.
That it will be manag'd by Men of Integrity
and Capacity, and not by a Sot void of Ex- \
perience, Application, and Honefty : We know
that it is for our own Sakes that the, Govern-
ment is oblig'd to be at an extraordinary
Charge ; and that there is no other Way to fe-
cure to us our Lands, our Funds, our Goods,
and even our Bread. Shall we think much
of parting with a Trifle to fecure the Whole >
no furely, I truft there is not a True Prote-
ftant in Briton^ but would be willing to go
through the laft immenfe Charge of a War,
rather than be a Slave to France^ and her Pre-
tender. GOD be thank'd, there will be no
Occafion of fuch an Expence, in Cafe we are
zealous and watchful at this Time to baffle the
Defigns of our Enemies now, and Jacolitifm
will no more be met with, but in the Records
of our Courts of Juftice. What aProfpeft of
Security and Glory have we behind the little
Cloud that now hangs over us, which will in-
fallibly fall on oljr Enemies, if we are faithful
and refolute in the Righteous Caufe of our

Church

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Church and Country > There is nothing that
ought to difcourage us in the Defence of it :
We have a vidorious Fleet and Army , com-
manded by Faithful and Fortunate Generals
and Admirals, whofe good Fortune was but
the juft Reward of their Valour and Condud".
We have the Strength, the Riches of our
Country, on our »Side. We have the Religi-
on, and the Virtue ; but above all, we have
that GOD, who has within our Memories
wrought Two wonderful Dehverances for us;
the Firft from King Jameses Tyranny, and the
Second from that of the Late Minifters. What
have the Pretettder^ and his Alettors to Sup-
port them, but the Purfe and Power of a bea-
ten beggar'd King , who difowns his Preten-
ces, and dares not afljft him, but in Private,
and by Stealth ? Who are his Generals and
Counfellors , but Criminals and Fugitives ;
who are defperatc enough to chufe rather to
die in the Field than on the Scaffold and Gib-
bet ; The fad Choice which their Guilt has
left them, hs for the Mohs and Riots we have
lately feen and heard of ; it is not to be
doubted but the Fa^ion made their utmoft Ef-
forts to gather as great Numbers together as
they could raife, by Drtinkennefs and Muti-
ny : And what has all their terrible Infurredli-
ons amounted to, 4 or foo loofe Fellows at
a Time, enough . to do Mifchief to People
unarmed ; but who, at the Sight of a Squa-
dron of Dragoons , np more numerous than

HarUys

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Ilarlefs Squadron of Peers, would fly to their
Holes and Hovels, from the Hands of the Hang-
man and Beedle. We may depend upon it,
that this Attempt of the Impojlor is the Effed
of Defpair in Himfelf and his Followers. They
conclude from the firft Year of His Maje-
fty's Reign, that through the whole Courfe
of it , his Subjeds will have Reafon to
thank Heaven for fo good and fo gracious a
Sovereign ; that his Virtue will triumph o-
ver Fadtion, and his deluded Enemies return
with Shame and Remorfe to their Duty :
That then there will be nothing left for them
but Want , Difgrace , and Mifery, that like
Cain they will be mark'd out to be avoided
and detefted by all Mankind ; and that they
had better die in Battel than in Jayls : For
they have nothing before them but all the
Curfes that attend Traytors to their King and
their Country. Shall we be afraid of fuch
Vagabonds , headed by a Creature of the
FrenchYi\n^s^ who knows lefs of his Beginning
than he feems to do of his End ? I cannot
fuppofe that our ill Ufage under the laft Mi-
niftry, did in fo fiiort a Time difpirit us in
fuch a Manner, as to render us more bafe and
daftardly than our Anceftors. Wat Tyler had
another guefs Mob at his Heels than the Ira-
poftor is like to have, no lefs than 100,000
Men, and all within the City of London ; yet
did the Lord-Mayor, and his Followers only
difperfe them in an Inftant, when they came

to

to a firm Refolution to oppofe them to the
utmoft. Perkin Warleck was another fort of
a Pretender than the Chevalier de St. George ;
he was aififted by the French King ^ by the
Duke of Burgundy ^ then almoft as Great as
the French King , by the Scots King, at that
Time a formidable Enemy to England^ when
fhe had any other. He had alfo another Name
to pretend to, that of Plantagenet^ a Royal
Race, Famous for Heroes. He had a Mob
to affift him, as well as all thefe Princes. He
landed , and march'd his Army a Hundred
Miles in the Coifntry ,• yet what was his For-
tune, the Stocks firft, the Pillory next, and the
Gallows at laft. There was no Hundred Thou-
fand for his Head. He had liv'd in the Court
of France^ and Burgundy , as a King ; had his
Guards and Officers, and fome half-witted
beggarly Engtifh Lords to follow him. Yet
without the lofs of a Hundred Men on the
Side of Henry the Vllth, except at Exeter^
which the Townfmen defended againft him.
He was forc'd to fcamper for it, and betray'd
in the End by his own Attendants , to the
Gallows, he had fo well deferv'd by his Trea-
fon and Invafion. There never was an Impo-
ftor that came, not to a miferable End, how-
ever, for a Time he might feem to flouri(h :
And it would be a hard Cafe, if we who bad
beaten his Protecftor the French King from one
End of Europe to the other , fliould not now
be able to beat a Creature of his, accompa-
ny'd

ny'd by a few ftarvling Fugitives , and cow-
ardly Mercenaries. Neverthelefs, tho' we do
not fear him ,• tho' we have no Reafon to bea-
fraid of him, and all his Abettors, yet we
may by too much Security , fo expofe our
felves, as to have juft Grounds for Fear here-
after. If we are too negligent of our own
Defence, or have too much Lenity for his
Friends, we fpare them at our own Coft, and
are the Inftruments of our own Peril. I
would not be miftaken, That I think we
ought to end the Difpute , as the Tories would
end theirs on the like Occafion. I am not
for ufing Arms where Juftice can have its
Courfe, and only to Support the Execution of
the Laws, which at this Time cannot be too
general nor too rigorous. Let the Fadrion
confider, That whatever Expence we and
they, are at ,• whatever Trouble they may
come into , they themfelves have been the
Occafion of, by their Mobs and their Info-
lence. Could they imagine that the People
of Great-Britain , who have done fuch great
Things for the Liberties of Europe , would
part with their own, in Complacency to the
rotten Part of the Ckrgy, and the vileft Part
of the Multitude ? Did they think that fuch
a Wretch as Sacheverel could really by his
Nonfence and Impudence overturn a Conftitu-
tion, founded on fo many Excellent Laws ?
The Enemies to the Government are a lewd,
noify Rabble, and their Rage is fo loud and

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tumultuous , that it has been very terrifying
and troubleibme in many Places ; But alas !
\^as ever a Great Nation conquer'd by its own
Mobile. The Roman Slaves fought with their
Mailers under Spartacus , but are the Britijh
Slaves, our Modern Tories^ to be compar'd to
thofe of Rowe^ Have their Mobs a Spirit of
Liberty to infpire them ? And is their Damarey

or indeed their 2i Spartacus > The Britijh

Slaves are fo by Choice ; thofe of Rome were
foby Compulfion^and yet when they ftruggled
with their Matters, in what did it end but their
Deftrudion ?

Let us add to all the encouraging Confi-
derations before mentioned, drawn from tem-
poral Reafons , That of the Prayers of our
Reformed Church, The Reverend Clergy have
already addrefs'd His Majefty in Convocatioft^
and given Him AfTurance of their Duty/ and
of their Endeavours to keep their Flocks firnj
to theirs. Thofe that feem to Countenance
the Caufe of the Pretender^ whom they have
abjur'd, are fo wicked in their Morals, that
one cannot i-magine any Caufe they are en-
gaged in will Profper. Weltotty Sutton^ Sache-
verely and the reft of that miferable Crew,
have abjur'd the Impoflor ; what Hopes can
their Followers have of Succefs, when thof0
that lead them are fo loofe and irreligious?
'Twas an admirable Saying of one of the Par;
liament Generals, in a Battel with the C^t/^-
li^a^th^ latter, as was their Manner, came on

curfing

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curfing and fwearing, like their Succeflbrs the
Modern Tories : The Parliament's General
hearing them , turn'd about to his Men, and
with a Voice and Look afTur'd of VicStory,
cry'd, Come on my Men^ they Blafpheme^ the
Day is our own. Thus it is with the Fadiion j
if they ered a Bonefire, or demolifh a Meet-
ing-Houfe ,• if they Toaft Ormonde Sacheverel^
or the Impofior^ 'tis with moft horrible Oaths
and Execrations : Can fuch Men as thefe be
Proteftants ? No furely, They are rather Devils
incarnate, and nothing but Perdition will at-
tend them both in this World, and the next.

FINIS.

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