An
Antidote
against
Pretended
Caution
,
To
the
INHABITANTS
in
every
WARD
,
In
the
Choice
of
their
COMMON-COUNCIL
.
THE
Cautioner's
Advice
is
like
the
Wolf's
to
a
well-guarded
flock
of
Sheep
,
which
must
be
divided
that
it
may
become
an
easy
Prey
.
With
such
gentle
Policy
he
would
make
several
Religions
,
not
only
between
Protestants
conforming
to
Ceremonies
,
which
the
Wisdom
of
our
late
Parliament
has
left
indifferent
,
and
them
who
scruple
the
use
of
them
;
but
between
the
strict
adherers
to
them
,
and
those
who
believe
they
may
serve
God
acceptably
,
either
with
or
without
them
.
That
he
may
secure
success
with
Men
of
different
Capacities
and
Understandings
,
he
has
varied
his
Phrase
in
two
several
Editions
;
or
rather
some
Body
,
less
a
Stranger
to
common
Sense
,
has
lent
him
some
in
a
friendly
correction
,
with
a
small
sprinkling
of
Salt
.
One
Edition
will
have
it
,
That
our
Disease
is
grown
desperate
,
and
will
soon
be
incurable
,
unless
we
do
herein
countermine
our
Adversaries
.
It
seems
he
has
a
Faculty
of
curing
desperate
Diseases
.
Indeed
upon
correction
he
says
,
the
Disease
is
growing
desperate
.
There
,
he
says
,
the
Adversaries
are
both
vigilant
and
secret
(
and
so
most
dangerous
)
Agents
;
but
in
the
first
't
is
,
they
are
[
invisible
]
and
so
more
dangerous
:
and
indeed
most
of
the
Adversaries
to
the
settled
Religion
,
for
which
he
would
be
thought
very
zealous
,
are
of
his
own
conjuring
up
,
and
invisible
to
all
that
are
unacquainted
with
his
Spell
.
To
follow
the
Example
of
them
who
compos'd
the
Form
of
Prayers
for
the
Restoration
of
their
Prince
,
whom
they
say
the
Sins
of
Priest
and
People
have
kept
out
;
this
Writer
has
his
Litany
too
.
According
to
one
Edition
.
But
let
us
chuse
such
as
have
been
constant
to
our
settled
Religion
,
not
easily
swayed
by
Faction
,
nor
byass'd
by
Interest
,
joining
with
us
in
Worship
,
and
in
Design
with
our
Enemies
;
[
who
can
]
be
in
the
Morning
a
Church-man
,
and
in
the
Evening
for
Separation
,
[
and
if
the
Wind
turn
the
next
day
,
join
with
the
Papist
in
pulling
down
our
Fences
to
bring
in
Popery
]
By
which
our
Church
and
Government
is
first
divided
,
weakned
,
undermined
,
and
at
last
betrayed
.
From
all
such
,
as
from
our
worst
Enemies
,
let
us
pray
,
Good
Lord
deliver
Vs.
The
other
Edition
.
But
such
as
have
been
constant
to
our
settled
Religion
,
not
easily
swayed
by
Faction
,
nor
byass'd
by
Interest
;
joining
with
us
in
Worship
,
and
in
their
Designs
with
our
Enemies
,
be
in
the
Morning
a
Church-man
,
and
in
the
Evening
for
Separation
.
By
which
our
Church
and
Government
is
first
divided
,
weakned
,
undermined
,
and
at
last
betrayed
.
From
such
,
as
from
our
worst
Enemies
,
let
us
all
pray
,
Good
Lord
deliver
Vs.
Notwithstanding
the
great
noise
Men
of
that
Opinion
,
which
this
Writer
professes
,
make
for
Catholick
Communion
;
according
to
one
Edition
,
they
who
are
ready
to
communicate
with
Protestants
of
several
Denominations
,
are
to
be
prayed
against
as
the
worst
Enemies
to
the
Church
and
Government
;
Which
is
demonstration
,
that
such
Men
plant
both
,
upon
a
Bottom
divided
from
common
Protestancy
.
According
to
the
other
Edition
,
all
who
are
of
such
generous
Principles
,
as
not
to
confine
the
Reformed
Religion
to
a
Party
,
are
upon
that
account
uncharitably
censured
,
as
ready
to
join
with
the
Papists
in
pulling
down
our
Fences
to
bring
in
Popery
.
If
indeed
Ceremonies
are
the
Fences
,
some
will
say
they
have
many
Briars
and
Thorns
in
them
;
and
,
perhaps
,
many
good
Men
may
,
in
a
legal
way
,
be
for
pulling
them
down
,
or
here
and
there
opening
a
Gap
.
But
it
would
seem
strange
if
Papists
should
join
with
them
in
removing
those
Things
,
which
were
retain'd
for
their
sakes
by
our
First
Reformers
,
who
hop'd
to
win
them
over
to
us
,
and
found
the
benefit
of
such
their
condescension
,
till
the
Papists
were
forbidden
our
Communion
by
the
Pope
.
And
ever
since
they
have
slighted
the
Invitation
;
and
these
Fences
have
serv'd
only
to
keep
out
many
,
who
profess
the
Religion
settled
and
establish'd
among
us
.
They
who
labour
to
divide
its
Professors
,
therein
manifestly
serve
the
only
real
Adversaries
to
it
;
as
formerly
they
did
,
when
under
colour
of
Zeal
for
the
Church
,
and
Loyalty
to
the
Crown
,
they
resigned
the
English
Liberties
into
the
Hands
of
the
Papists
,
of
whose
Designs
and
Expectations
they
could
not
be
ignorant
.
But
they
thought
their
Merit
would
secure
to
them
the
Places
and
Profit
which
they
got
by
their
Treachery
to
their
Country
.
And
therefore
they
who
surrendered
Charters
to
have
their
own
Names
inserted
in
them
,
never
apprehended
any
danger
in
that
Clause
,
which
gave
the
King
a
Power
to
turn
them
out
at
pleasure
.
While
they
render'd
our
Religious
and
Civil
Rights
precarious
,
and
encourag'd
the
late
King
to
exercise
an
Arbitrary
Power
,
to
which
they
would
have
it
believ'd
that
he
had
a
Divine
Right
;
't
is
certain
,
how
much
soever
Religion
was
pretended
,
it
was
for
the
sake
of
having
the
Government
with
their
Party
:
they
had
so
weakned
and
impoverish'd
them
who
oppos'd
their
raging
fits
of
Loyalty
,
that
themselves
were
put
to
stand
the
Shock
alone
;
and
too
soon
found
how
much
better
it
would
have
been
to
have
come
earlier
to
that
Temper
with
Dissenters
,
which
then
they
held
forth
with
both
hands
;
and
it
was
almost
too
late
,
that
they
were
sensible
of
what
befel
them
by
standing
upon
too
narrow
a
bottom
.
But
when
the
court
complied
with
the
Temptation
,
in
finding
them
alone
to
receive
the
Effects
of
that
Power
,
which
they
had
incited
a
Popish
Prince
to
exercise
;
then
they
shewed
that
the
case
was
altered
,
when
themselves
were
to
suffer
by
it
:
Nor
were
any
more
forward
than
they
to
embrace
a
Deliverance
offer'd
by
his
present
Majesty
,
especially
as
soon
as
they
found
the
late
King
not
able
to
protect
them
.
Yet
many
of
them
soon
appeared
in
their
colours
,
and
made
it
evident
that
they
were
not
touch'd
with
any
Sense
of
Gratitude
to
their
present
Majesties
,
or
Concern
for
the
Publick
Good
.
But
their
Turn
being
serv'd
,
the
late
King
having
been
oblig'd
to
take
new
measures
,
and
giving
them
assurance
that
they
should
be
uppermost
,
they
were
for
trusting
his
Catholick
,
or
rather
Punick
Faith
,
and
sending
their
present
Majesties
back
uncrown'd
:
and
that
many
of
them
are
at
this
very
day
for
re-calling
the
late
King
is
past
a
Question
.
Some
,
tho
they
have
sworn
Allegiance
to
their
present
Majesties
,
maintain
that
the
late
King
has
an
inseparable
Right
:
Others
absolutely
disown
this
Government
,
and
refuse
to
give
assurance
of
Obedience
to
it
.
Some
Church-men
have
compos'd
a
Form
of
Prayers
,
wherein
they
pray
for
its
Confusion
:
and
't
is
to
be
fear'd
that
many
of
the
Laity
are
led
by
the
shew
of
Devotion
in
them
,
Our
holy
Religion
needs
neither
canting
nor
wheedling
to
set
it
off
.
First
Edit.
which
whatever
the
Cautioner
talks
of
canting
,
have
more
of
Cant
,
than
,
I
dare
say
,
is
ordinarily
to
be
heard
among
Dissenters
.
Of
his
Friends
it
is
to
be
believed
that
numbers
are
meer
Trimmers
,
who
stand
more
divided
between
two
Kings
,
than
those
,
whom
he
calls
Adversaries
are
between
the
Church
and
separate
Meetings
;
they
stay
for
the
Event
of
an
expected
Battel
before
they
think
fit
to
declare
themselves
.
But
surely
all
who
have
any
value
for
the
Religion
and
Liberties
of
this
Protestant
Nation
,
will
endeavour
that
no
Man
may
be
chosen
at
this
time
,
who
has
not
given
good
proof
of
his
being
entirely
for
the
Interest
of
King
William
and
Queen
Mary
;
and
therein
for
the
Defence
of
the
common
Protestant
Religion
,
which
't
is
to
be
hop'd
will
no
longer
become
a
Term
of
Reproach
among
us
.
Nor
ought
they
who
have
been
any
way
accessory
to
those
heavy
Grievances
,
from
which
their
Majesties
have
deliver'd
us
,
to
be
trusted
with
means
to
betray
this
Great
City
;
till
they
have
brought
forth
Fruits
meet
for
Repentance
.
This
Cautioner
advises
the
Inhabitants
within
the
several
Wards
,
not
to
chuse
such
as
shall
again
in
defiance
to
Prerogative
,
(
or
as
the
Corrector
has
it
in
defiance
of
Parliamentary
Priviledges
and
Prerogative
)
affront
the
Wisdom
and
Authority
of
our
Law-makers
,
in
pescribing
them
Laws
,
The
2d
Edit.
weighty
.
and
sending
obnoxious
Ambassadors
on
such
sacred
Errands
.
Wherein
he
shews
himself
to
wish
as
well
to
the
City
of
London
,
as
they
who
would
have
its
Charter
forfeited
for
petitioning
:
and
the
Exercise
of
an
undoubte
Right
of
English-men
is
made
an
Offence
against
Prerogative
,
and
breach
of
Parliamentary
Priviledg
.
Men
of
this
heighth
have
great
reason
,
with
this
Writer
,
to
observe
the
bleeding
case
of
the
Widows
and
Orphans
,
and
that
the
City
Government
is
out
of
frame
.
It
is
natural
for
them
who
have
felt
these
things
,
to
ask
who
they
may
thank
for
them
?
and
to
take
care
that
it
may
not
be
imputed
to
themselves
,
for
their
foolish
Confidence
in
Men
,
of
whom
they
have
had
such
woful
Experience
.
But
observe
the
great
Justice
of
these
Men
,
and
their
Equallity
in
relation
to
themselves
and
others
:
for
them
who
are
not
of
their
stamp
to
petition
concerning
the
subject
Matter
of
any
Bill
,
before
it
has
pass'd
into
a
Law
,
is
an
heinous
Offence
against
the
Prerogative
or
Priviledg
of
Parliament
,
they
know
not
which
.
Yet
it
is
very
allowable
in
them
to
abhor
Parliaments
after
they
are
dissolv'd
,
and
to
declaim
against
the
fullest
and
truest
Representatives
of
the
Nation
,
before
Corporations
had
been
put
out
of
frame
by
Arbitrary
Judgments
,
and
treacherous
Surrenders
:
And
after
the
great
things
which
this
present
Parliament
has
done
,
for
them
,
they
take
a
liberty
in
reflecting
upon
its
Wisdom
,
and
say
the
Government
of
the
City
settled
by
it
,
is
out
of
frame
,
and
their
Freedom
is
still
a
Bondage
:
who
therefore
most
affront
the
Wisdom
and
Authority
of
our
Lawmakers
,
is
left
to
more
equal
Judges
.
FINIS
.