A
LETTER
,
Containing
some
Reflections
,
on
a
Discourse
,
called
Good
Advice
to
the
Church
of
England
,
&c.
and
upon
three
Letters
from
a
Gentleman
in
the
Country
to
his
Friend
in
London
,
about
the
Repeal
of
the
Penal
Laws
and
Tests
.
SIR
,
I
Have
at
last
procured
a
sight
of
the
Book
stiled
Good
Advice
to
the
Church
of
England
,
Roman
Catholick
and
Protestant
Dissenter
;
and
of
the
three
Letters
from
a
Gentleman
in
the
Countrey
to
his
Friend
in
London
;
which
as
they
are
written
by
one
and
the
same
person
,
so
he
endeavoures
in
all
of
them
to
make
it
appear
to
be
the
Duty
,
Principles
,
and
Interest
of
the
Parties
mentioned
,
to
abolish
the
Penal
Laws
and
Tests
.
Now
tho'
I
'm
dayly
in
expectation
of
seeing
such
an
Answer
returned
to
those
Papers
,
as
will
both
give
the
Author
cause
to
wish
he
had
been
otherway's
imploy'd
when
he
wrote
them
,
and
make
the
Court
Faction
asham'd
of
the
Elogies
they
have
heapt
upon
him
for
his
service
;
yet
it
may
not
be
amiss
in
the
mean
time
,
to
shew
in
a
very
few
pages
,
that
't
is
not
any
considerable
strength
in
those
Discourses
,
which
hath
given
them
a
Reputation
,
but
the
Interest
of
some
to
have
every
thing
accounted
unanswerable
that
is
published
in
favour
of
their
Designes
,
and
the
folly
and
weakness
of
others
,
which
makes
them
believe
that
to
be
nervous
,
in
whose
success
they
imagine
their
ease
to
be
wrapt
up
and
involved
.
I
think
it
is
universally
acknowledged
,
and
I
'm
sure
it
can
be
demonstratively
proved
,
that
they
are
written
by
a
Quaker
;
and
this
ought
to
render
us
jealous
both
of
the
motives
influencing
unto
it
,
and
of
the
end
to
which
they
are
designed
to
be
subservient
.
For
first
,
the
affinity
of
several
of
the
Religions
Principles
of
that
Party
,
with
some
of
the
material
Doctrines
of
the
Romish
Church
,
may
notwithstanding
the
Charity
which
we
retain
towards
the
bulk
of
them
,
make
us
justly
apprehensive
,
that
one
or
more
of
their
Leaders
are
intirely
in
the
Interest
of
the
Church
of
Rome
.
For
as
the
Popish
Emissaries
know
how
to
put
themselves
into
all
shapes
,
for
the
increasing
and
heightning
divisions
among
●●o●estants
,
and
for
the
exposing
as
well
as
supplanting
of
our
Religion
;
so
the
design
promoted
in
the
foresaid
Papers
,
of
destroying
all
the
Legal
Fences
against
Popery
,
and
of
letting
the
Papists
into
the
Legislative
and
whole
Executive
Power
of
the
Government
,
gives
the
world
too
much
ground
to
suspect
out
of
whose
mint
and
forge
writings
of
this
stamp
and
mettle
do
proceed
.
Secondly
,
It
should
not
a
little
contribute
to
augment
our
Jealousie
,
that
they
who
without
being
false
to
their
Religious
Tenets
,
can
not
join
to
assist
Protestants
,
in
case
the
Papists
should
attempt
to
cut
our
Throats
,
or
endeavour
to
impose
their
Religion
upon
the
Nation
by
Military
force
;
should
of
all
men
study
to
overthrow
that
Security
which
we
have
by
the
Test
Laws
,
whose
whole
tendency
is
only
to
prevent
the
Papists
,
from
getting
into
a
condition
to
extirpate
our
Religion
,
and
destroy
us
.
Is
it
not
enough
,
that
they
have
rob'd
the
Kingdom
of
the
Aid
of
so
many
as
they
have
leavened
with
their
Doctrine
,
in
case
the
King
upon
despairing
to
establish
Popery
by
a
Parliament
,
should
imploy
his
Janizaries
to
compel
us
to
receive
it
,
and
should
set
upon
the
converting
Protestants
in
England
,
in
the
way
that
the
French
Monarch
hath
converted
the
Hugenots
;
but
that
over
and
above
this
,
they
should
be
doing
all
they
c●n
,
to
deprive
us
of
all
the
Legal
Security
,
whereby
we
may
be
preserved
from
the
Power
of
the
Papists
?
Surely
't
were
not
Charit●
and
good
Nature
,
but
stupidity
and
folly
,
no●●o
suspect
the
tendency
of
such
a
design
,
when
we
find
〈◇〉
pursued
and
carried
on
by
a
person
that
stiles
himself
a
Quaker
.
But
then
when
besides
this
we
find
〈…〉
Mr.
William
Pen
,
who
is
the
Author
of
those
●●●ers
,
and
the
great
Instrument
in
advancing
●his
●●●ection
,
we
have
the
more
cause
to
suspect
.
〈◇〉
●●nistruous
thing
at
the
bottom
of
it
.
For
fi●st
▪
〈◇〉
is
under
those
Obligations
to
His
Majesty
,
which
as
they
may
put
a
biaz
upon
his
Understanding
,
so
they
afford
ground
enough
to
Protestants
to
look
upon
him
no
otherway's
than
as
one
Retained
against
them
.
'T
was
through
his
present
Majesties
Intercession
with
the
late
King
,
that
he
obtained
th●
Proprietorship
of
Pensilvania
,
and
from
his
Bounty
that
he
had
the
Propriety
of
three
whole
Counties
bordering
upon
it
superadded
thereunto
.
And
as
this
can
not
be
but
a
strong
Obligation
upon
so
greateful
person
as
Mr.
Pen
,
why
he
should
effectually
serve
the
King
,
and
make
his
will
in
a
very
great
degree
the
measure
of
his
actings
;
so
it
ought
to
be
an
Inducement
to
others
to
be
the
more
jealous
of
all
he
say's
,
and
not
to
surrender
themselves
too
easily
either
to
his
Magisterial
Dictates
upon
the
one
hand
,
or
to
his
smooth
Flatteries
upon
the
other
.
He
must
have
either
laid
a
mighty
merit
upon
the
two
Royal
Brothers
of
both
whose
Religion
we
are
at
last
convinced
,
or
he
must
have
come
under
Obligations
,
of
doing
them
very
considerable
service
in
reference
to
that
which
they
were
most
fond
of
compassing
;
otherway's
we
have
little
cause
to
think
,
that
he
would
have
been
singled
out
from
all
the
rest
of
the
Kingdom
,
to
be
made
the
object
of
so
special
favour
and
of
so
eminent
liberality
.
For
tho'
there
might
be
a
debt
owing
to
his
Father
Sr.
William
Pen
,
yet
they
must
be
extreamly
weak
who
conceive
there
was
no
other
motive
to
the
forementioned
Donation
,
save
Honor
and
Justice
in
the
two
Royal
Brothers
for
having
it
discharged
.
Seeing
many
of
the
noblest
Families
in
England
,
who
had
spent
their
Blood
,
and
wasted
their
Estates
in
fighting
for
the
Crown
,
while
Sr.
William
Pen
was
all
along
ingadged
against
it
,
were
not
only
left
without
all
kind
of
Compensation
,
for
what
they
had
eminently
acted
,
and
as
eminently
suffered
in
behalf
of
the
Monarchy
,
but
could
never
get
to
be
reimbursed
one
farthing
of
the
vast
Summs
,
which
they
had
lent
the
late
King
and
his
Father
upon
the
Security
of
the
Royal
Faith
.
Secondly
,
Mr.
Pen
hath
too
far
detected
himself
in
these
very
Discourses
,
not
to
give
us
ground
to
suspect
what
they
are
calculated
for
,
and
whereunto
they
are
subservient
.
For
besides
his
justifying
the
Kings
turning
so
many
Gentlemen
of
the
Church
of
England
out
of
all
Office
and
Imploy
,
by
saying
,
they
are
not
fit
to
be
trusted
who
are
out
of
the
Kings
Interest
;
he
further
tells
us
,
that
the
King
being
mortal
,
it
is
not
good
sense
,
that
he
should
leave
the
power
in
those
hands
,
that
to
his
face
shew
their
aversion
to
the
Friends
of
his
Communion
.
(
Letter
first
)
?
For
as
this
implies
no
less
,
than
that
they
ought
to
have
the
whole
Legal
and
Military
Power
of
the
three
Kingdoms
put
into
their
hands
,
that
they
may
be
in
a
condition
to
preclude
the
right
Heir
from
Succession
to
the
Crown
,
or
prescribe
such
Laws
to
Her
as
they
please
,
in
case
they
should
think
fit
to
admit
Her
;
so
a
very
small
measure
of
Understanding
,
will
serve
to
instruct
us
,
what
the
Papists
esteem
to
be
an
aversion
to
them
,
and
in
what
manner
,
had
they
the
power
in
their
hands
,
they
think
themselves
obliged
to
treat
us
upon
that
account
.
And
as
we
have
had
occasion
to
know
too
much
of
his
Majesties
Temper
and
Design
,
as
well
as
to
whose
Guidance
he
hath
implicitely
resigned
himself
,
not
to
be
sensible
what
he
esteems
his
Interest
;
so
we
need
no
other
evidence
what
it
amounts
unto
to
be
in
it
,
than
the
seeing
so
many
displaced
from
all
share
in
the
administration
,
whose
Quality
gives
them
a
Right
,
and
their
Abilities
a
fitness
for
the
chiefest
and
most
honorable
Trusts
;
and
whom
as
the
King
,
by
reason
of
their
services
to
himself
as
well
as
the
Crown
,
can
not
lay
aside
without
the
highest
ingratitude
;
so
their
known
Loyalty
to
his
person
,
and
zeal
for
the
grandure
of
the
Monarchy
is
such
,
that
nothing
could
take
them
off
from
concurring
in
his
Councels
,
and
promoting
his
Designes
,
but
the
conviction
they
are
under
,
of
their
tendency
to
the
subversion
of
Religion
,
and
the
altering
of
the
Legal
Government
.
And
as
we
have
reason
to
suspect
what
the
foresaid
Papers
are
intended
to
promote
,
both
upon
the
account
of
the
Author's
being
Quaker
,
and
because
not
only
of
the
many
Obligations
he
is
under
to
His
Majesty
,
but
his
being
so
intirely
in
his
Interest
,
as
appears
by
his
influence
into
Councils
,
the
great
stroke
he
hath
in
all
Affairs
,
and
from
his
being
one
of
the
Kings
principal
Confidents
;
so
upon
looking
into
those
Discourses
,
we
find
several
things
obtruded
on
us
for
truth
,
and
proposed
in
order
to
wheedle
and
insnare
us
into
an
abrogation
of
the
Laws
enacted
for
our
security
,
which
to
every
ones
knowledg
are
so
palpably
false
,
that
we
have
all
the
ground
that
may
be
,
both
to
question
and
suspect
his
sincerity
,
and
to
conclude
that
his
Masters
do
not
purpose
to
confine
themselves
within
the
bounds
that
he
is
pleased
to
chalk
out
for
them
;
and
which
he
undertakes
they
shall
be
contented
with
for
their
allotment
.
For
what
can
be
remoter
from
Truth
?
than
that
the
Test
Laws
were
designed
as
a
Preamble
to
the
Bill
of
Exclusion
,
(
as
he
phrases
it
Letter
first
)
and
that
they
were
contrived
to
exclude
the
Duke
of
York
from
the
Crown
,
(
as
he
expresseth
it
P.
15.
of
his
Good
Advice
,
&c.
)
when
it
is
most
certain
that
as
the
Test
in
73.
was
made
long
before
there
were
,
or
could
be
any
thoughts
of
it
,
and
was
enacted
by
a
Parliament
against
whose
Loyalty
there
can
be
no
exception
;
so
their
was
a
clause
in
the
last
Test
Act
,
by
which
it
was
provided
that
he
should
not
be
obliged
to
take
it
.
Again
what
can
be
more
repugnant
to
experience
,
than
that
the
King
only
desires
ease
for
those
of
his
Religion
;
(
Good
Adv.
p.
44.
)
and
that
the
Papists
desire
no
more
than
a
Toleration
,
and
are
willing
upon
those
Terms
to
make
a
perpetual
peace
with
the
Church
of
England
,
(
Good
Advice
p.
17.
)
For
do
we
not
dayly
see
Protestants
turned
out
of
all
Places
of
Trust
,
Authority
and
Command
;
and
Papists
advanced
into
all
Offices
Military
and
Civil
?
Could
the
King
have
been
contented
with
a
Non-execution
of
the
Laws
against
those
of
his
Communion
,
and
could
they
have
been
satisfied
with
such
an
Indulgence
,
and
have
modestly
improved
it
:
'T
is
not
improbable
but
that
such
a
behaviour
,
would
have
so
far
prevailed
upon
the
ingenuity
and
good
nature
of
the
generality
of
Protestants
,
that
without
needing
to
have
been
importuned
,
they
would
have
repealed
all
the
Penal
Laws
against
Roman
Catholicks
.
But
the
methods
which
have
been
pursued
by
his
Majesty
and
them
,
shews
both
that
they
aim
at
no
less
than
the
Domination
,
and
that
we
must
be
very
willing
to
be
deceived
,
if
we
either
credit
Mr.
Pen
or
suffer
our selves
to
be
influenced
by
him
,
after
his
obtruding
upon
us
for
truths
,
matters
which
our
very
senses
inable
us
to
refute
.
It
may
justly
make
us
question
his
sincerity
,
and
beget
a
suspition
in
all
thinking
people
,
of
the
sinistruous
design
these
Papers
are
adapted
unto
,
when
we
find
him
endeavouring
to
cajole
the
Nation
to
an
abrogation
of
the
Laws
,
by
which
our
Religion
and
safety
are
secured
,
by
telling
us
that
the
Kings
word
is
enough
for
us
to
rely
upon
if
they
were
gone
,
(
Good
Adv.
p.
49.
)
and
that
he
could
easily
pack
a
Parliament
for
Repealing
them
,
if
he
did
not
seek
a
more
lasting
and
more
agreeable
security
to
his
Friends
,
(
Letter
third
p.
12.
)
and
that
if
they
were
abolished
,
't
is
below
the
Glory
of
our
King
,
to
use
way
's
so
unlike
the
rest
of
his
open
and
generous
principles
,
as
to
endeavour
to
get
a
Parliament
afterwards
returned
,
that
is
not
du'ly
chosen
(
Letter
second
p.
15.
)
and
that
he
is
a
Prince
of
that
Honor
,
Conscience
,
and
generous
nature
,
as
not
by
invading
the
Rights
of
the
Church
of
England
,
to
become
guilty
of
an
injustice
and
irreligion
,
he
hath
so
often
,
so
solemnly
and
earnestly
spoken
against
(
Letter
second
p.
11
)
He
must
needs
take
us
to
be
strangely
unacquainted
with
the
whole
Tenor
of
the
King
Actings
in
England
as
well
as
in
Scotland
and
Ireland
,
and
to
be
persons
of
very
weak
understandings
,
and
of
an
easie
belief
,
if
he
think
we
are
to
be
imposed
upon
,
and
decoy'd
by
such
Topicks
as
these
,
to
abolish
the
Tests
;
or
that
after
what
we
have
seen
and
felt
contradictory
to
those
Panegyricks
,
and
inconsistent
with
those
beautiful
and
lofty
Characters
fastned
upon
his
Majesty
,
we
should
believe
Mr
Pen
to
mean
nothing
but
well
and
honestly
towards
the
Protestant
Interest
,
in
what
he
so
earnestly
solliciteth
the
Church
of
England
and
the
Dissenters
in
the
forementioned
Papers
to
concurr
and
consent
unto
.
I
do
acknowledg
,
that
what
he
hath
said
about
Liberty
due
to
men
in
matters
of
meer
Religion
,
and
by
way
of
rebuke
unto
,
and
reflection
upon
the
Wisdom
and
Justice
of
those
that
either
are
or
have
been
for
persecution
,
is
very
strong
and
convincing
;
but
I
must
withall
add
that
it
is
all
at
this
time
very
needless
and
impertinent
.
For
the
Church
of
England
is
so
sensible
of
the
iniquity
as
well
as
folly
of
that
method
'
,
that
there
is
no
ground
to
suspect
She
will
ever
be
guilty
of
it
for
the
future
.
They
whom
no
Arguments
could
heretofore
convert
,
the
Court
(
whose
Tools
they
were
in
that
mischievous
and
Unchristian
work
,
and
by
whom
they
were
instigated
to
all
the
severities
which
they
are
now
blamed
for
)
by
objecting
it
to
them
as
their
Reproach
and
disgrace
,
and
by
seeking
to
improve
the
resentments
of
those
who
had
suffered
by
Penal
Laws
to
become
an
united
party
with
the
Papists
for
their
subversion
,
hath
brought
them
at
once
to
be
asham'd
of
what
they
did
,
and
to
Resolutions
of
promoting
all
Christian
Liberty
for
the
time
to
come
.
And
should
there
be
any
peevish
and
ill
natur'd
Ecclesiasticks
,
who
upon
a
turn
of
Affairs
would
be
ready
to
reassume
their
former
principles
,
and
pursue
their
wonted
course
;
we
may
be
secure
against
all
fear
of
their
being
succesful
in
it
,
not
only
by
finding
the
majority
as
well
as
the
more
learned
both
of
the
dignified
and
inferior
Clergy
,
unchangeably
fixed
and
determined
against
it
,
but
by
having
the
whole
Nobility
and
Gentry
,
and
those
Noble
Princes
whose
Right
it
will
be
next
to
ascend
the
Throne
,
fully
possessed
with
all
the
generous
and
Christian
purposes
we
can
desire
,
of
making
provision
for
Liberty
of
Conscience
by
a
Law
.
Nor
can
I
forebear
to
subjoin
how
surprizing
it
ought
to
be
to
all
Protestants
,
that
while
Mr.
Pen
expresseth
so
much
charity
for
the
Papists
,
he
entertaineth
so
little
for
the
Church
of
England
.
He
would
perswade
us
,
that
if
the
Penal
and
Test
Laws
were
abrogated
,
the
Papists
would
be
so
far
afterward
from
seeking
to
shake
the
Constitution
of
the
Church
of
England
,
or
from
breaking
in
upon
the
Liberty
that
is
now
wouchsaved
unto
Dissenters
,
or
from
endeavouring
to
make
their
Religion
national
;
that
they
would
not
only
be
contented
with
a
bare
Toleration
,
but
that
upon
their
enjoyment
of
ease
by
Law
,
they
would
turn
good
Countrymen
,
and
come
into
the
Interest
of
the
Kingdom
,
(
Lttter
first
.
)
Whereas
at
the
same
time
he
would
have
us
believe
,
that
all
the
Protestations
of
those
in
the
Communion
of
the
Church
of
England
for
exercising
moderation
in
time
to
come
,
are
but
the
Language
of
their
fear
;
that
their
Promises
are
not
to
be
trusted
;
(
Good
Adv.
p.
54
)
and
that
the
Dissenters
deserve
to
be
begged
for
Fools
,
should
they
be
satisfied
with
any
less
assurance
,
than
the
abolition
of
the
Penal
and
Test
Laws
,
(
ibid
.
p.
55.
)
'T
is
enough
not
only
to
excite
our
jealousy
,
but
to
stirr
up
severer
passions
,
to
be
told
at
a
season
when
we
know
what
the
Catholicks
are
doing
in
France
,
and
in
most
other
places
where
they
have
any
power
,
that
the
Papists
through
having
burnt
their
fingers
with
persecution
,
may
be
grown
so
wise
as
to
do
so
no
more
;
and
yet
to
have
it
asserted
in
the
same
Page
,
that
they
who
can
be
prevailed
upon
to
believe
,
that
the
Church
of
England
is
sorry
for
what
She
hath
done
,
and
that
She
will
not
be
guilty
of
such
a
thing
again
,
have
little
reason
to
quarrel
at
the
unaccountableness
of
Transubstantiation
.
(
Good
Advice
p.
8.
)
Nor
is
it
becoming
one
who
stiles
himself
a
Protestant
,
no
more
than
it
is
consistent
with
Truth
,
to
extenuate
our
being
scandal'd
at
the
severity
upon
Protestants
in
France
,
by
affirming
that
he
can
parralell
some
of
the
severst
passages
in
that
Kingdom
,
out
of
the
Actions
of
some
Members
of
the
Church
of
England
in
cool
Blood
,
(
ibid
.
p
7.
)
And
tho'
I
have
all
the
kindness
imaginable
for
Mr.
Pen's
person
,
and
am
loath
to
think
otherway's
of
him
as
to
his
Religious
principles
,
than
as
his
avowed
profession
discovers
him
;
yet
these
and
diverse
passages
more
of
that
kind
,
together
with
the
accession
he
must
necessarily
have
had
to
the
apprehension
and
imprisonment
of
Mr.
Gray
,
&c.
for
abandoning
the
Benedictine
Order
;
are
things
I
can
neither
reconcile
to
the
title
he
assumes
,
nor
to
his
many
Discourses
for
Repealing
the
Test
Laws
.
And
to
speak
freely
considering
the
Nature
of
our
Laws
against
Papists
,
and
that
it
was
their
manifold
Treasons
,
and
only
our
care
to
preserve
our selves
,
that
both
gave
the
first
rise
unto
them
,
and
has
necessitated
their
continuance
;
I
know
neither
how
to
construe
that
Assertion
of
Mr.
Pen's
(
Good
Adv.
p.
13.
)
that
the
Principle
which
the
Church
of
England
acts
by
,
justifies
the
King
of
France
and
the
Inquisition
;
nor
that
other
(
Letter
first
)
of
there
having
been
eight
times
more
Laws
made
for
ruining
men
for
their
Conscience
,
since
the
Church
of
England
came
to
be
the
National
Establishment
,
than
were
all
the
time
that
Popery
was
in
the
Chair
.
Nor
can
this
be
designed
to
any
other
End
,
but
the
giving
the
Church
of
Rome
the
commendation
of
Mercy
and
Moderation
above
a
Protestant
Church
.
For
as
't
is
certain
,
that
the
one
Law
of
burning
and
extirpating
Hereticks
,
was
a
thousand
fold
worse
,
and
hath
produced
infinitely
more
Sanguinary
effects
,
than
all
the
Laws
and
Rigours
that
the
Church
of
England
can
be
charged
with
;
so
there
is
nothing
can
be
falser
,
than
that
either
her
Principle
,
or
practice
,
do
parralell
or
justify
the
barbarous
and
brutal
severities
of
the
Fr●nch
King
,
and
the
Inquisition
.
Moreove●
were
all
Protestants
agreed
that
Liberty
in
meer
matters
of
Religion
should
be
immediately
granted
in
a
Legal
way
;
yet
I
do
not
see
how
the
Papists
should
pretend
to
any
benefit
by
it
,
or
be
able
to
lay
a
just
claim
to
a
share
in
it
.
So
that
the
foundation
which
Mr.
Pen
goes
upon
,
of
mens
having
a
Right
to
be
indulged
in
matters
of
Religion
,
is
too
narrow
to
support
the
structure
he
raiseth
upon
it
.
For
tho'
there
may
be
somethings
retained
in
Popery
,
which
may
be
called
matters
of
Religion
;
yet
in
the
bulk
and
complex
of
it
,
it
is
a
Conjuration
against
all
Religion
,
and
a
Conspiracy
against
the
Peace
of
Societies
,
and
the
Rights
of
Mankind
.
'T
is
one
of
the
Crimes
as
well
as
Miseries
of
this
Age
,
that
out
of
a
dread
of
some
,
and
in
complacence
to
others
,
we
have
avoided
representing
Popery
in
its
native
colours
,
and
calling
it
by
the
Names
properly
due
into
it
.
But
I
have
alway's
thought
,
that
't
is
better
faile
in
our
Courtship
to
men
,
than
in
our
duty
to
God
,
and
fidelity
to
the
Interest
of
Jesus
Christ
,
and
the
safety
of
mankind
.
Nor
do
I
doubt
but
that
they
will
be
better
approved
in
the
great
day
of
account
,
who
Character
Persons
,
Doctrines
,
and
Practices
as
the
Scripture
doth
,
than
they
,
who
that
they
may
accomodate
themselves
unto
,
and
be
acceptable
with
the
world
,
speak
of
them
in
a
softer
stile
.
Now
if
either
Blasphemies
against
God
,
or
Tyrannies
over
men
;
if
either
the
defacing
the
Ideas
of
a
Deity
,
or
corrupting
the
Principles
of
vertu
,
and
moral
Honesty
;
if
either
the
subverting
the
foundations
of
natural
Religion
,
or
the
overthrowing
the
most
essential
Articles
of
the
Christian
Faith
;
if
either
the
most
avowed
and
bold
affronts
offred
to
heaven
,
or
the
bloodiest
and
most
brutal
outrages
executed
against
the
best
of
men
;
if
all
these
be
sufficient
to
preclude
a
party
from
the
benefit
of
Liberty
due
to
people
in
Religious
matters
,
I
am
sure
,
none
have
reason
to
challeng
it
in
behalf
of
the
Papists
,
nor
cause
to
complain
,
if
it
be
denied
them
.
Can
there
be
any
thing
more
unreasonable
,
than
that
they
should
claim
a
Toleration
in
a
Protestant
State
,
whose
Principles
not
only
allow
,
but
oblige
them
to
destroy
us
,
as
soon
as
their
power
inables
them
to
do
it
?
Is
not
the
Doctrine
of
the
Popes
Supremacy
,
and
his
having
a
Right
to
Depose
Kings
,
and
absolve
Subjects
from
their
Allegiance
,
together
with
that
of
breaking
Faith
to
Hereticks
,
and
the
extirpating
all
those
who
cannot
believe
as
the
Church
of
Rome
doth
,
mighty
inducements
to
those
whom
they
have
baptized
with
that
name
,
and
to
whom
they
long
to
exercise
that
courtesie
,
for
the
Repealing
of
the
Penal
and
Test
Laws
against
Papists
?
Nor
a●e
these
Principles
falsely
charged
upon
them
,
but
they
are
the
Oracular
Decisions
of
their
General
Councils
and
Popes
,
whom
they
stile
Infallible
.
So
that
Mr.
P●●'●
Book
and
Letters
,
which
seem
to
have
been
written
not
so
much
in
favour
of
Dissenting
Protestants
,
as
of
Roman
Catholicks
,
can
little
advantage
the
latter
,
even
allowing
the
Principle
which
he
goes
upon
,
and
admitting
all
he
hath
said
for
mens
Right
to
Liberty
in
meer
matters
of
Religion
,
to
be
unanswerable
.
And
his
telling
us
(
Good
Adv.
p.
42.
)
that
Violence
and
Tyranny
are
not
natural
cons●quences
of
Popery
,
do
's
only
discover
his
kindness
to
Rome
,
and
the
little
Friendship
and
care
he
hath
for
the
Protestant
Interest
.
For
we
know
both
the
Principles
of
their
Religion
too
well
,
and
have
at
all
times
experienced
,
and
do
at
this
day
feel
the
effects
of
them
too
sensibly
,
to
be
deluded
by
this
kind
of
Sophistry
,
and
imposed
upon
by
so
palpable
a
Falsehood
,
to
abandon
the
means
of
our
safety
.
Wheresoever
any
Popish
Rulers
Act
with
Gentlness
and
Moderation
towards
those
whom
their
Church
hath
declared
H●●●●icks
,
't
is
either
because
there
are
Political
Reasons
for
it
,
as
might
be
easily
shewed
in
reference
to
all
those
States
and
Governments
which
he
mentions
,
or
because
there
are
some
Princes
of
the
Roman
Communion
,
in
whom
the
Dictates
of
Humane
Nature
are
more
prevalent
than
those
of
their
Religion
.
But
should
the
gentle
Temper
of
the
English
Nation
,
sway
them
beyond
the
strict
obligations
of
duty
,
and
make
them
willing
to
Repeal
the
Penal
Laws
against
Papists
;
yet
to
do
it
in
their
present
Circumstances
,
and
at
such
a
conjuncture
as
this
,
were
the
highest
act
of
folly
in
the
world
,
and
a
betraying
both
their
own
safety
and
that
of
their
Religion
▪
Had
the
Roman
Catholicks
forbore
to
assume
a
liberty
till
it
had
been
legally
given
them
;
they
had
been
the
more
capable
objects
of
such
a
Grace
;
but
to
bestow
it
upon
them
after
they
have
in
contempt
and
defiance
of
all
our
Laws
taken
it
,
't
were
to
justify
their
usurpation
,
and
approve
their
crime
.
Could
they
have
been
contented
with
the
private
practice
of
their
worship
,
and
the
nonexaction
of
the
penalties
to
which
our
Statutes
make
them
liable
,
without
leaping
into
all
offices
of
Trust
and
Command
,
and
invading
our
Seats
of
judicature
,
our
Churches
,
and
our
Universities
;
their
modesty
might
have
wrought
much
upon
the
generosity
&
candor
of
all
sort
of
Protestants
;
but
their
audacious
wresting
all
power
into
their
hands
,
and
their
laying
aside
all
those
that
have
either
any
zeal
for
our
Civil
Rights
or
for
the
Protestant
Religion
,
is
enough
to
kindle
our
further
indignation
,
in
stead
of
influencing
us
to
thoughts
of
moderation
&
lenity
.
And
should
we
once
begin
to
cancel
our
Laws
,
according
to
the
measure
and
proportion
,
that
they
break
them
and
usurp
upon
them
,
no
man
can
tell
where
that
will
terminate
;
and
they
will
be
sure
to
turn
it
into
an
encouragement
to
further
attempts
.
For
having
in
compliance
with
their
impudence
,
and
to
absolve
them
from
the
guilt
of
their
crimes
and
Treasons
,
abrogated
the
Laws
against
popery
,
they
will
not
faile
in
a
little
while
to
betake
themselves
to
the
same
Methods
,
for
obtaining
the
abolition
of
all
the
Laws
for
Protestancy
.
'T
is
but
for
the
King
to
declare
,
that
he
will
have
all
his
Subjects
to
be
of
his
own
Religion
;
and
then
by
the
Logick
of
the
late
Cant
which
he
used
in
his
Speech
to
the
Council
at
Windsor
,
that
they
who
are
not
for
him
are
against
him
;
we
must
immediately
either
turn
papists
,
or
be
put
in
to
the
same
list
with
them
,
&
be
thought
worthy
of
the
same
Royal
Displeasure
,
which
they
are
become
obnoxious
unto
,
who
can
not
find
it
to
be
their
duty
and
interest
to
destroy
the
Tests
.
And
Mr.
Pen's
argument
of
being
afraid
of
his
Majesties
&
the
Papists
Power
,
&
yet
to
provoke
it
,
(
Good
Adv.
p.
43.
)
will
hold
in
the
one
case
as
well
as
in
the
other
.
Nor
do
I
see
but
that
the
court
may
improve
an
other
Topick
of
his
against
us
(
ibid
.
p.
44.
)
viz.
that
we
were
ill
Courtiers
by
setting
him
up
,
first
to
give
him
Roast
meat
,
and
then
to
beat
him
with
the
Spit
,
by
refusing
to
be
of
his
Religion
.
To
which
I
may
add
,
that
the
brutal
severities
exercised
towards
Protestants
in
France
and
Piedmont
,
are
but
ill
inducements
to
prevaile
upon
a
Reformed
Nation
to
give
liberty
to
Papists
.
'T
is
an
axiom
founded
in
the
light
of
Nature
,
as
well
as
an
Oracle
of
Revelation
,
that
with
what
measure
any
do
mete
unto
others
,
it
shall
be
measured
to
them
again
;
and
that
whatsoever
any
would
that
we
should
do
to
them
,
they
should
do
so
to
us
.
Would
the
Papists
once
perswade
Catholick
Rulers
to
give
indulgence
to
those
of
our
Religion
;
it
would
be
an
argument
that
they
acted
sincerely
in
their
pleading
against
Penal
Laws
for
matters
of
Religion
;
and
would
mightily
provaile
upon
all
of
the
Reformed
Communion
to
Repeal
such
statues
as
are
Enacted
against
them
.
But
while
they
continue
and
increase
their
persecution
against
us
in
all
places
where
they
have
power
;
I
do
not
see
how
they
can
reasonably
expect
,
that
we
should
believe
them
either
to
be
just
or
honest
,
or
to
deserve
any
measure
of
lenity
.
Reprizals
are
the
only
methods
,
whereby
to
bring
them
to
peaceable
and
equal
Terms
.
Had
protestant
Princes
&
States
,
given
Papal
Soveraignes
to
understand
,
that
they
would
act
upon
the
same
square
that
they
do
,
and
retaliate
upon
those
of
the
Romish
Faith
,
whatsoever
should
be
inflicted
because
of
Religion
upon
those
af
ours
;
I
have
ground
to
think
that
the
Clergy
in
France
and
Savoy
,
would
have
had
more
discretion
,
than
to
have
been
Instrumental
in
stirring
up
the
late
persecutions
,
&
of
instigating
Rulers
to
such
unparralelled
barbarities
.
'T
is
not
many
years
since
a
Prince
in
Germany
begun
to
treat
protestants
with
an
unjust
severity
,
and
to
banish
them
his
Countrey
,
contrary
to
his
word
,
and
the
stipulation
he
had
made
with
them
;
but
upon
the
Duke
of
Brandeburgs
both
threatning
&
beginning
to
do
so
by
the
Roman
Catholicks
in
his
Dutchy
of
Cleve
,
the
other
Prince
immediately
forebare
his
rigour
,
and
the
Protestants
had
fair
Quarter
allowed
them
.
And
therefore
if
Mr.
Pen
and
his
Catholick
friends
,
instead
of
reproaching
the
Church
of
England
of
justifying
by
her
principle
the
King
of
France
and
the
Inquisition
,
would
prevaile
for
abolishing
the
one
and
for
putting
an
end
to
persecution
by
the
other
,
they
would
thereby
do
more
for
inclining
the
Nations
to
Tolerate
papists
,
than
either
by
all
their
invidious
Satyr's
against
the
conformable
Clergy
,
or
by
their
Panegyricks
upon
a
Popish
Monarch
and
the
Romish
Church
.
In
the
mean
time
,
't
is
most
unreasonable
for
them
to
demand
or
expect
,
and
unwise
as
well
as
unseasonable
,
for
British
protestants
to
consent
to
the
abrogation
of
the
Tests
,
and
the
Repealing
of
the
Penal
Laws
against
papists
.
Moreover
tho'
't
is
possible
that
we
might
defend
our selves
against
the
dangers
that
might
ensue
upon
it
,
had
we
a
prince
of
our
own
Religion
on
the
Throne
,
yet
it
would
be
to
surrender
our selves
unto
their
power
,
and
to
expose
our selves
to
their
Discretion
,
should
we
venture
to
do
it
while
a
Papist
of
his
Majesties
humour
hath
the
weilding
of
the
Scepter
.
One
of
the
main
arguments
,
by
which
Mr.
Pen
would
perswade
us
against
all
apprehension
of
danger
from
the
Papis●●
,
in
case
the
Test
and
Penal
Laws
were
abolished
,
is
the
inconsiderableness
of
ther
number
in
comparison
of
Protestants
,
(
Good
Adv.
p.
49.
)
And
yet
if
there
be
so
many
ill
men
in
the
Nation
,
as
he
intitimates
(
Letter
3d
.
p.
12
)
who
being
of
no
Religion
,
are
ready
upon
the
motives
of
wordly
interest
,
to
take
upon
them
the
profession
of
any
,
were
it
not
for
fear
of
being
at
one
time
or
an
other
called
to
an
account
:
I
do
not
see
but
that
as
the
Papists
through
having
the
King
on
their
side
,
are
already
possessed
of
what
he
stiles
the
Artificial
strength
of
the
Kingdom
,
why
they
may
not
in
a
short
while
,
were
those
Laws
once
destroyed
by
which
the
Atheistical
and
profane
sort
of
men
are
kept
in
aw
'
,
come
to
obtain
too
much
of
the
natural
strenth
of
it
,
and
raise
their
number
to
a
nearer
equality
to
that
of
Protestants
.
And
tho'
they
should
never
multiply
to
any
near
proportion
,
yet
we
may
easily
imagine
,
what
a
few
hands
may
be
able
to
do
,
when
authorized
by
a
popish
Soveraign
,
and
seconded
by
a
well
disciplined
Army
commanded
by
Roman
Catholicks
,
could
they
once
get
to
have
a
share
in
the
Legislation
,
and
to
be
legally
stated
in
all
places
of
Trust
and
Power
.
What
need
we
had
of
a
legal
security
for
our
Religion
,
in
case
of
a
papists
coming
to
inherit
the
Crown
,
not
only
the
late
King
who
thorowly
knew
his
Brothers
temper
and
bigottry
,
but
those
Loyal
Zealots
who
with
an
unhappy
vigour
opposed
the
Bill
of
Exclusion
,
were
sensible
of
;
and
therefore
besides
all
the
security
which
we
have
for
our
Religion
by
the
Statutes
in
Force
,
they
offered
many
other
provisions
for
its
protection
,
and
several
of
them
very
threatning
to
the
Monarchy
,
which
we
might
have
had
estab●ihed
into
Laws
,
if
through
our
persuite
of
the
point
of
Exclusion
,
we
had
not
been
so
improvident
as
to
despise
and
reject
them
.
He
that
dares
attempt
so
much
as
he
hath
done
,
in
opposition
unto
and
defiance
of
all
our
Laws
;
what
will
he
not
have
the
confidence
to
undertake
,
and
be
in
a
condition
to
accomplish
,
if
these
obstructions
were
out
of
his
way
.
The
penal
Laws
can
not
prejudice
the
Papists
in
this
Kings
Reign
,
seeing
he
can
connive
at
the
non-execution
of
them
;
and
the
Repeal
of
them
now
,
can
not
benefit
the
Papists
when
he
is
gone
,
because
if
they
do
not
be
have
themselves
modestly
,
we
can
either
reestablish
them
,
or
enact
others
which
they
will
be
as
little
fond
of
.
But
their
abrogation
at
this
time
,
would
infallibly
prejudice
us
,
and
would
prove
to
be
the
pulling
up
of
the
Sluces
and
the
throwing
down
the
Dikes
,
which
stemm
the
deludg
that
is
breaking
in
upon
us
,
and
which
hinder
the
threatning
waves
from
overflowing
us
.
And
whereas
Mr.
Pen
would
obtrude
upon
weak
and
credulous
men
,
that
if
these
Laws
were
Repealed
,
the
King
is
willing
to
give
us
other
for
our
security
,
and
that
he
would
only
exchange
the
security
,
and
not
destroy
it
,
(
Letter
2d
p.
11.
)
he
must
pardon
us
,
if
we
do
not
easily
believe
him
,
after
what
we
know
of
his
Majesties
natural
Genius
,
and
Religious
Bigottry
,
and
after
what
we
have
seen
and
experienced
in
the
whole
course
of
his
Government
.
And
if
there
be
no
other
way
of
giving
the
King
an
opportunity
of
Keeping
his
word
with
the
Church
of
England
,
in
preserving
her
and
maintaining
our
Religion
,
but
the
Repealing
of
the
Penal
and
Tests
Laws
,
as
he
intimates
unto
us
(
Good
Adv.
p.
50.
)
we
have
not
found
the
Royal
Faith
so
sacred
and
inviolable
in
other
instances
,
as
to
rob
our selves
of
a
Legal
defence
and
protection
,
for
to
depend
upon
the
precarious
one
of
a
bare
promise
,
which
his
Ghostly
Fathers
,
whensoever
they
find
it
convenient
,
will
tell
him
it
was
unlawful
to
make
,
and
which
he
can
have
a
Dispensation
for
the
breaking
of
,
at
what
time
he
pleaseth
.
Nor
do
we
remember
,
that
when
he
pledged
his
Fath
unto
us
in
so
many
promises
,
that
the
parting
with
our
Laws
was
declared
to
be
the
condition
upon
which
he
made
and
undertook
to
perform
them
.
Neither
can
any
have
the
confidence
to
alledg
it
,
without
having
recourse
to
the
Papal
doctrine
of
Mental
Reservation
.
Which
being
one
of
the
principles
of
that
Order
under
whose
conduct
he
is
,
makes
us
justly
affray'd
to
rely
upon
his
word
without
further
security
.
However
we
do
hereby
see
with
what
little
sincerity
Mr.
Pen
writes
:
and
what
small
regard
he
hath
to
his
Majesties
honor
,
when
he
tells
the
Church
of
England
,
that
if
She
please
and
like
the
Terms
of
giving
up
the
Penal
and
Test
Laws
against
Papists
,
that
then
the
King
will
perform
his
word
with
her
(
Good
Adv.
p.
17.
)
but
that
otherway's
,
it
is
She
who
breaks
with
him
,
and
not
he
with
her
.
(
ibid
.
p.
44.
)
Tho
something
may
be
said
,
for
the
Repealing
of
all
Penal
Laws
,
in
reference
to
every
perswasion
that
is
called
Religion
,
how
incongruously
soever
it
may
claim
that
Name
;
yet
't
is
inconsistent
with
the
safety
of
all
Civil
Government
,
and
a
plain
betraying
of
the
Civil
Liberties
,
as
well
as
the
established
Religion
in
great
Brittain
,
not
to
allow
the
procluding
those
from
places
of
Trust
,
of
whose
fidelity
we
can
have
no
assurance
.
And
therefore
as
all
that
Mr.
Pen
hath
alledged
for
abolishing
the
Tests
is
miserably
silly
;
so
he
hath
thereby
too
manifestly
detected
the
small
regard
he
bears
to
the
safety
of
the
Kingdoms
and
the
Protestant
cause
,
not
to
be
suspected
in
every
thing
else
which
he
hath
more
plausibly
and
reasonably
asserted
.
For
as
all
Governments
have
an
unquestionable
Right
to
use
means
whereby
to
preserve
themselves
;
so
't
is
not
only
lawful
but
expedient
that
they
should
have
Tests
,
by
which
it
may
be
known
,
who
are
fit
to
be
trusted
with
the
Legislative
&
Executive
power
.
Without
this
,
no
Constitution
can
subsist
,
nor
Subjects
be
in
any
security
under
it
.
Neither
can
any
Reasons
be
advanced
against
the
Test
Laws
,
but
what
are
of
equal
force
against
exacting
oaths
of
Allegiance
,
and
promises
of
Fidelity
from
those
,
whom
the
Government
thinks
meets
to
Employ
.
One
might
think
,
that
Mr.
Pen
should
allow
as
much
to
the
Parliament
of
England
,
as
he
challengeth
to
himself
in
his
Government
of
Pensiluania
.
For
I
find
that
not
only
such
shall
be
precluded
from
a
share
in
the
Government
there
,
who
shall
either
be
convicted
of
ill
Fame
and
unsober
Conversation
,
or
who
shall
not
acknowledg
Iesus
Christ
to
be
the
Son
of
God
,
and
Saviour
of
the
world
,
(
Chap.
2d
.
of
their
Constitutions
and
Laws
)
but
that
none
shall
be
either
chosen
into
Office
,
or
so
much
as
admitted
to
chuse
,
but
who
solemnly
declare
and
promise
fideli●●
to
William
Pen
and
his
Heirs
:
(
Chap.
57.
)
This
I
take
not
only
to
be
equivalent
unto
,
but
something
more
than
our
Tests
do
amount
unto
.
For
whereas
there
may
be
several
whom
the
Quakers
may
judg
persons
of
unsober
Conversation
;
who
may
be
true
to
the
Civil
Interest
of
their
Country
,
and
willing
to
the
utmost
of
their
power
,
to
preserve
the
peace
and
promote
the
prosperity
of
it
;
we
have
no
ground
to
believe
the
like
of
Papists
in
relation
to
the
welfare
and
safety
of
a
Protestant
State
.
And
that
not
only
because
they
acknowledg
a
forraign
Jurisdiction
inconsistent
with
and
paramount
to
ours
;
but
because
they
are
obliged
by
the
principles
of
their
Religion
,
whensoever
they
find
themselves
able
,
to
destroy
and
extirpate
us
.
I
'm
sure
that
the
Motives
which
in
73
,
and
78
enforced
to
the
Enacting
of
the
Test
Laws
,
do
at
this
season
plead
more
effectually
for
the
continueing
them
.
Nor
had
we
so
much
cause
then
of
being
afraid
of
Popery
,
or
to
be
apprehensive
of
having
our
Religion
overturned
by
Papists
,
which
were
the
Inducements
to
the
making
of
〈◇〉
;
as
we
have
ground
to
dread
it
at
this
time
,
and
to
be
jealows
of
it
under
the
present
conjuncture
.
And
the
more
that
the
Roman
Catholicks
,
and
their
Advocates
,
press
to
have
these
Laws
abolished
,
the
more
fear
they
excite
in
us
of
their
design
,
if
they
knew
how
to
effect
it
,
and
make
us
the
more
resolved
to
hazard
all
we
have
to
maintain
them
.
For
as
no
Papist
is
prejudiced
by
them
in
his
person
or
property
;
so
they
are
the
most
innocent
and
moderate
security
we
can
have
for
the
preservation
of
our selves
and
of
our
Religion
.
Nor
could
any
thing
justify
the
Wisdom
of
the
Nation
in
being
without
them
so
long
,
but
that
we
were
not
till
then
suspitious
of
the
Religion
,
of
the
Regnant
Prince
,
nor
apprehensive
before
of
the
misfortune
of
having
a
Popish
successor
.
And
whereas
Mr.
Pen
tells
us
,
that
it
were
ridiculous
to
talk
of
giving
liberty
of
Conscience
,
and
at
the
same
time
imagine
that
the
Tests
ought
to
be
continued
:
(
Good
Adv.
p.
59.
)
We
may
not
only
reply
,
that
Liberty
of
Conscience
has
no
Relation
to
mens
being
admitted
unto
Civil
Trusts
,
but
that
the
same
is
practiced
in
several
states
and
Governments
both
Popish
and
Protestant
,
and
in
Pensilvania
it self
,
where
I
suppose
Liberty
of
Conscience
is
allowed
.
For
as
we
find
freedom
wouchsaved
ro
men
in
matters
of
Religion
both
in
Holland
,
and
in
diverse
protestant
States
in
Germany
,
without
their
being
capable
of
Claiming
a
share
in
the
Magistracy
;
so
tho'
the
Protestant
Religion
be
tolerated
in
Collen
,
yet
it
is
with
a
preclusion
of
all
of
that
Religion
from
Authority
.
Whatsoever
else
Mr.
Pen
say's
upon
this
head
,
is
so
despicably
weak
that
as
I
neither
judg
it
worthy
to
be
taken
notice
of
,
nor
have
Room
to
do
it
;
so
I
am
confident
that
be
his
Religion
what
it
will
,
which
by
reason
of
his
late
Papers
I
have
more
Reason
to
suspect
than
ever
,
he
writes
as
much
against
his
conscience
and
judgment
,
as
again●●
the
Pattern
and
example
which
he
hath
sett
us
in
Pensilvania
.
I
confess
the
Dissenters
,
are
under
more
temptations
,
than
other
Protestants
,
to
wish
for
,
and
to
endeavour
the
abrogation
of
the
Penal
Laws
.
And
as
this
makes
them
to
be
the
more
particularly
applied
unto
by
the
Court
for
the
promoting
of
it
;
so
it
renders
them
the
more
liable
to
be
influenced
by
Discourses
of
the
nature
and
complexion
that
Mr.
Pen's
are
of
.
But
I
hope
they
will
consider
,
that
the
preservation
of
the
Protestant
Religion
to
themsel'ves
,
their
posterity
,
and
the
Kingdom
;
is
more
valuable
than
a
little
temporal
ease
,
and
which
they
only
hold
by
the
precarious
tenure
of
the
Kings
word
.
Surely
they
can
not
be
so
infatuated
as
to
think
that
the
Papists
love
them
,
or
that
they
will
trust
them
any
longer
,
than
they
have
occasion
to
use
them
.
I
would
think
,
that
it
should
both
make
them
blush
to
find
themselves
cupled
with
Roman
Catholiks
in
courts
and
Employments
,
while
their
follow
Protestants
are
shut
out
,
and
make
them
jealous
that
they
are
only
made
use
of
for
some
mischievous
and
sinistruous
e
〈…〉
They
can
never
hope
to
lay
such
a
merit
u
〈…〉
the
Court
,
as
the
Church
of
England
hath
〈◇〉
;
and
her
reward
may
forewarn
them
wha●●●ey
are
to
expect
,
when
they
have
done
the
●●b
that
is
allotted
for
them
.
His
Majesties
sir
〈…〉
ty
in
giving
liberty
to
Dissenting
protestants
,
may
●e
easily
guessed
at
,
by
his
ordering
26
,
poor
Scotts
Dissenters
to
be
sent
to
the
Barbados
for
slaves
;
and
this
both
since
the
Emitting
of
his
first
Proclamation
for
a
Toleration
,
and
without
the
having
any
thing
objected
to
them
,
but
what
concerned
their
Consciences
in
matters
of
Religion
.
The
Terms
upon
which
Phanaticks
are
to
enjoy
his
Majesties
favour
and
how
long
they
are
to
expect
the
continuance
of
that
mighty
Grace
,
we
have
declared
by
himself
,
as
they
stand
recorded
in
my
Lord
Melfort's
Letter
to
the
Presbytrian
Ministers
in
Scotland
.
Namely
that
he
intends
to
continue
their
liberty
,
if
he
have
sutable
encouragement
and
concurrence
from
them
in
their
Doctrine
and
practice
,
and
if
they
concurr
with
him
in
removing
of
the
penal
laws
.
This
is
the
Task
that
they
are
indulged
and
preferred
for
,
and
't
is
a
wonder
they
do
not
foresee
that
their
destiny
will
be
one
and
the
same
,
in
case
they
have
once
done
it
,
as
if
they
do
it
not
.
This
is
the
Fountain
of
all
his
Majesties
friendship
to
them
;
and
the
glorious
assertion
of
its
having
been
alway's
his
principle
that
Conscience
ought
not
to
be
constrained
,
and
that
none
ought
to
be
persecuted
for
meer
matters
of
Religion
,
is
at
last
dwindled
into
this
,
that
he
will
give
them
liberty
so
long
as
they
will
concurr
and
cooperate
with
him
in
his
introducing
●f
popery
,
and
till
they
have
destroyed
the
Laws
by
which
our
own
Religion
is
fenced
about
and
defended
.
Certainly
't
is
high
time
to
consider
,
what
this
is
which
is
exacted
of
them
,
and
what
hazard
they
not
only
expose
the
Nation
and
the
Gospel
unto
,
but
what
guilt
they
derive
upon
themselves
if
they
undertake
and
pursue
it
.
Nor
can
they
promote
th●●●●ealing
of
the
Penal
Laws
against
Papists
,
and
the
Test
Sta●●es
;
without
running
themselves
under
the
guilt
of
perjury
,
and
the
making
themselves
chargeable
before
God
,
with
all
the
blood
that
was
shed
in
the
war
between
King
Charles
the
first
and
the
Parliament
.
For
an
one
of
the
Articles
of
the
solemn
League
and
covenant
,
was
to
endeavour
to
extirpate
popery
;
so
the
countenance
and
incouragement
which
that
Prince
gave
to
Papists
,
was
a
main
ingredient
in
the
State
of
the
Quarrel
for
which
they
drew
their
swords
against
him
,
and
in
the
assertion
whereof
so
many
thousands
lost
their
lives
.
Can
they
now
be
willing
to
act
in
direct
opposition
to
that
Covenant
which
rather
than
renounce
and
disclaim
the
obligatory
force
of
,
many
of
them
have
suffered
so
much
?
or
would
they
have
the
guilt
of
all
the
blood
lye
upon
them
which
was
shed
in
the
former
long
and
fatal
war
?
I
'm
perswaded
that
many
,
who
are
most
foreward
,
to
persue
the
abrogation
of
the
Tests
and
penal
Laws
against
Papists
,
never
gave
themselves
leave
to
think
what
they
are
hurried
unto
.
Mr.
Pen
tels
them
,
he
will
begg
them
for
fools
,
if
they
do
it
not
(
Good
Adv.
p.
54.
)
and
I
darc
take
upon
me
to
say
,
that
they
are
most
execrable
knaves
and
villaines
,
if
they
do
it
.
Is
it
possible
they
should
be
so
deprived
of
al
understanding
,
as
〈◇〉
to
perceive
themselves
meerly
trick't
upon
,
and
〈◇〉
use
of
for
Tools
to
promote
a
design
which
other
〈◇〉
e
the
wisdom
and
integrity
not
to
be
Instrumental
in
〈…〉
hen
Jeffries
who
a
while
ago
'
said
on
the
Bench
,
she
〈◇〉
a
Fanatick
,
and
I
will
shew
you
a
knave
,
and
that
'
twa●
〈…〉
ossible
to
be
a
Fanatick
and
not
to
be
a
Rebel
;
should
now
caress
them
as
his
Majesties
best
and
most
Loyal
Subjects
,
and
tell
them
upon
their
being
advance
to
Offices
,
that
he
is
glade
to
find
honest
men
come
to
be
employed
,
which
was
the
complement
he
lately
bestowed
upon
Sr
John
Shorter
.
'T
is
likely
they
may
be
told
,
that
if
they
will
fall
in
with
the
Papists
for
destroying
the
Church
of
England
,
that
they
shall
be
secured
from
the
Resentments
of
the
next
Heir
,
by
having
the
Monarchy
made
dissolvable
into
a
Republick
upon
his
Majesties
death
.
And
this
would
seem
to
be
what
Mr.
Pen
intends
,
when
the
tells
us
,
that
such
a
Bargain
will
be
driven
with
the
Kingdom
,
as
will
make
the
Church
of
England
think
that
half
a
loaf
had
been
better
than
no
bread
;
(
good
Adv.
p.
43.
)
and
that
one
year
will
show
the
trick
,
and
mightily
deceive
her
▪
●●d
the
opportunity
〈…〉
being
preserved
lost
,
and
an
other
bargain
driven
mightily
to
her
disadvantage
.
ibid
.
p.
42.
)
But
as
it
will
be
impossible
for
Papists
and
Dissenters
,
should
they
conspire
together
,
to
be
able
to
effect
it
,
considering
the
interest
which
her
integrity
in
the
protestant
Religion
,
and
her
tenderness
for
the
Rights
and
Liberties
of
the
Kingdoms
,
have
justly
acquired
unto
her
;
so
it
were
both
the
most
foolish
as
well
as
criminal
thing
,
which
any
pretending
themselves
Protestants
can
be
guilty
of
,
to
be
in
any
measure
accessory
unto
it
.
For
as
there
is
nothing
in
reference
to
their
own
Religious
liberties
,
and
the
priviledges
of
the
Nation
,
which
they
may
not
undoubtedly
expect
,
from
her
justice
as
well
as
from
her
mercy
and
moderation
;
so
there
is
no
means
left
within
our
vieu
,
either
to
give
a
lasting
Peace
and
a
firm
settlement
to
three
distracted
Kingdoms
,
or
to
bring
the
Protestant
interest
into
such
a
condition
as
may
ballance
the
Papal
grandure
in
Europe
,
and
give
check
to
the
rage
of
persecution
in
all
places
,
but
her
happy
advancement
to
the
Thrones
of
great
Brittain
and
Ireland
▪
when
it
shall
ple●s●
〈…〉
his
Majesty
.
Untill
which
time
,
I
hope
all
who
call
themselves
Protestants
,
will
submit
to
the
worst
of
fate
,
rather
than
to
fall
under
the
curse
of
this
Age
,
and
ignominy
with
all
that
shall
come
after
,
for
becoming
an
united
party
with
the
Church
of
Rome
,
in
any
of
her
designes
how
plausible
soever
they
may
appear
.