JAcobites in general are a sort of Animals sprung from the Corruption of King James's Evil Go­vernment; and carry two shapes in one Body, like a Centaur, or the Irish Virgin with a Fish in her tail, half Protestant, half Papist. If they are of the Temporal Nobility, they believe the Glitter of their Ho­nour to be only the Reflection of King James's Favour, and that the Rays of their Grandeur cannot shine with that lustre as they ought, unless like Glow-worms Tails they may be permitted to glister in the dark of Popery and Tyranny. They are the Moun­tains of Arbitrary Power and Magnificence, which Tyrants erect to be the Atlasses and Colossus's to support Exorbitant Dominion. And many times they owe their Advancement to a Serraband well danc'd, the activity of their Bodies, or the allurements of lovely Features: And sometimes they are pickt out to combat (with Co­lours flying) all Authority of Law and Justice. They love Grandeur, but little of Nobility, which would [Page 2] teach 'em to ascend to Greatness by other steps than that of their Countries Ruine. They espouse the late King's Interest, as many men, when they grow Im­potent, marry their Old Mistresses. But the support and the Interest being feeble alike, 'tis only to make the World believe the Conjunction at last to be ho­nest. Or else they think it ill manners to desert the late King in his Spiritual Amours with the Whore of Babylon, because they know so well the proneness of their own Inclinations to their carnal Devotions: Thô on the other side, 'tis strange they should have so little Esteem for the Protestant Religion, because the Papists tell 'em, it came out of Henry the Eight's Cod piece. But certainly these Noble Jacobites are the oddest Courtiers in the World to worship a setting Sun; and that in his Winter Quarter too, when he can never expect to rise again, but he must be sur­rounded with Mists and Foggs, and Storms and Tem­pests, which his warmth will ne're be able to dis­perse.

These Noble Jacobites are a sort of soaring Politi­cians, that sin against all the Prospects of Sence and Reason in the Earth. Were they not banded about the Eyes like so many Sons of Venus, they who sit upon the Pinacle of the Kingdom, and have the opportunity of distant views, could not but with a clearer sight behold the sinking Estate of the rotten Interest which they labour to support: But the No­ble Jacobites are more sublime in their Politicks than others; they can see into a Mill-stone not only as far, but farther than other Men; and their exalted and piercing Imaginations make such holes in Futurity, that they can see through it as through a Cullender. Then taking their magnifying Glasses, they fancy they see their Idol King James far more pompous than [Page 3] ever; and conceit themselves pearching about his Throne, full plum'd with all the Glories and Prefer­ments due to their pretended Merits. And thus, they that flatter'd him out of his Throne, no less ab­surdly flatter themselves with Felicities of their own erecting, by restoring him again. All this while, pursuing that abominated Maxim of the Kings Inte­rest, and consequently their own, being separate from that of the Subject; they tell the World that they have nothing to do with the People, and thereby teach the People not to have any thing to do with them. The late King conferr'd Titles upon 'em, but their Titles afford 'em no Honour; for they no soon­er are invested with their Honour, but they debase it with pick-thank Sycophantrie, and Slavish Adu­lation: And sway'd by the powerful Instigations of a pusillanimous Ambition to be great only in shew, betray at once their King, Themselves, and their Coun­trey: for instead of advising the King as they ought, they give him such Counsel as they believe him in­clined to, and determine of his Welfare by his Desire; which is a kind of setting the Sun by the Dyal; so that the King never knows what time of day 'tis among his Subjects. Therefore it is that set before these Lordly Jacobites, the sight of a guilt Coach and six Horses, or a round Bag of Louy dors, they are easily perswaded to sacrifice the Welfare of a whole Nation to their own Ease and Plenty.

In short then, a true Jacobite Lord is a true Jeffe­ries, that is to say, an Abandon'd Slave to Despo­tick Tyranny; a Sejanus to his own Vices, who will humour a Tiberius, to the dispeopling whole Provinces, rather than lose the sordid Advantage of insulting over his Inferiours. A Jacobite of the first magnitude, is one that will take no warning by the [Page 4] fatal Precipices, from which he has seen so many of his own degree fall headlong. The Destinies of Bucking­ham and Strafford are so far cancell'd in his thoughts, that they prevail with him no more than the Fable of Phae­ton. It cannot be thought that all who were enno­bled by the late King, were of Ancient Descent, from Ancestor to Ancestor, which is the Reason why they cannot be altogether blam'd, if like the Statua­ries Cat, that would be starting after Mice after she was exalted to Humane Shape, they pursue those baser Ends which true Nobility scorns: However we are glad the Moral only can be fixed upon the Jaco­bite Race. 'Tis true, that some of these Noble Jaco­bites lay claim to Conscience, and upon that score pretend whole Ounces of Loyalty and Fidelity to King James: But 'tis a Character appropriated to these fort of Jacobites, that they never think; else they could never be so much mistaken in the distin­ction of Loyalty: For how can ever they be said to be Loyal to a Person that never was true to himself? Nor is it less absurd to believe they may be more Loy­al to any one particular Man, than to the Body of their Countrey in General: For by this means they fall under the severe Character of preferring the Ad­vantages of a single Person before the common Wel­fare. And then their Loyalty soon discovers it self to be no more than a factious Adherence to a discard­ed Prince, in hopes to wrest from the Kingdom by his Advancement, the disappointed satisfaction of their Ambitious Ends, which otherwise they give over for lost.

But what Virtues as well as Vices will not Self- Interest infuse into a Noble Mind? Of a sudden these Noble Jacobites are become the most Charitable and Believing Persons in the World: They believe that [Page 5] King James has forgot to forfeit his Promises and Protestations; they believe that he believes it is for no By-ends of theirs, but purely out of Pity and Compassion that they seek his Return: They believe they shall never be Closetted more, but that Sympa­thy and Antipathy, the Mass and Common-Prayer, will kiss each other upon his coming back, in two Chappels under the same Roof: They believe that his Italian Wife will Forgive 'em, his Priests will Pardon 'em, and that He himself will acquit, exo­nerate, and discharge 'em for assisting to lift him out of his Kingdom: They believe that young Per­kin was truly begot, and truly born at St. James's, and that he is lawful Heir to the Crown: They be­lieve the French King, like a Most Christian Prince, will foregoe all his private Contracts, and never sue neither him nor them with Fire and Sword for all the vast Summs he has lent upon the Mortgage of of the Brittish Dominions. All this, and more than this, too long to be enumerated, the Noble Jacobites believe, to that degree, that if their Faith were other­ways employ'd, there would not be an unruly Moun­tain in England.

But after all, this is their unhappy Misfortune, that all this extraordinary Belief of theirs serves only to betray their Weakness, if it may not rather be call­ed a kind of Frenzy; as if their living formerly so near the Rays of a Crown had tann'd and Blacka­moor'd their very Understandings; for it is not ratio­nal to think these Exalted Jacobites believe these Ab­surdities, as being in a Station to know better things by woful Experience; but it shews them how­ever given over to a fond or wilful Credulity, which is a Vice of Judgment, a feebleness like that of Mai­dens, to be twice deluded; so far from the Prudence [Page 6] of True Nobility, that we seldom find an Irrational Mouse that having once scap'd the Bait, will come near the Trap a second time. But there is this Di­stinction between true English Nobility and Jacobite Frenchify'd Nobility, that the one studies the Welfare, the other the Ruine of the People; one loves his Countrey, the other hates it; the one walks by the Rules of Honour and Justice, the other values him­self upon the Quirks of Policy; the one would be deem'd Wise, the other Crafty; the one would be esteem'd a good Common-wealths Man, the other a Cunning Politician; the one asserts the Nations an­cient Freedom, the other would be a eringing French Bashaw rather than a Peer of England; the one would redeem, the other sell the Kingdom. This sort of Ja­cobite Grandees, are the Hedge-Sparrows that hatch King Lewis's Cockatrice Eggs, in hopes that when England is become tributary to France, they shall be rewarded with whole Hesperian Gardens, full of Gol­den Pippins: Not considering that Princes most affect­ing Arbitrary Power, detest however a low-spirited Propensity to Slavery, and that all the Reward which the Senate received for their servile Submission to Tiberius, was only to be derided by that scornful Tyrant with the frequently repeated Sarcasm, of O ho­mines ad servitutem Paratos.

In short, such Noble-men as these are like Barren Mountains, that bear neither Plants nor Grass for Publick Use; they touch the Skie, but are unprofi­table to the Earth, and when they come to add the Unjustice of their Actions to the Worthlesness of their Persons, their Exaltation becomes the Curse of the People.

[Page 7]To come now to the Jacobite Clergy, (for may all those of the true Sacred Order of the Church of Eng­land, long enjoy the Honour and Veneration due to their Function!) I say then, to come to the Jacobite Clergy, they are such a Generation of Vipers, so envenom'd with the poysonous Pamphlets of the Observator, that you would swear they made it their business to swallow those weekly Pasquills; and that the sayings of that same Charming Author being digested in their Sto­machs, has turn'd to real Nourishment: They are a numerous Gang, and haunt S—'s Coffee-House in shoals, where they sit Croaking like Froggs in March against the Government. If they are of the Tribe of Levi, the only Reason to be given for it is this, that they are so butcherly inveterate against the Sichemite Whiggs, upon pretence that they have ravished their Sister Dina, the Church. They cannot Study for hearkening after News; and in Parliament time the Court of Requests is so crouded with 'em, as if the Popes Consistory sate in the Painted Chamber. If they can but get to be a Lords Chaplain, they pre­sently whip on a long Scarf; and then Lucifer was not prouder when he exalted himself upon the Mount of the Congregation in Isaiah: And yet these Scarfs are easily come by; for a Man that showed the Pup­pet-Play of the Creation of the World but t'other day, may lay Title to one, if he can but slubber over a few Prayers in a Ladies Family. They are a sort of meer Divinity Meteors, that run whisking up and down to misguide the wandring People, and vent their undigested Conceits, as the winde of their airy Fancies agitates 'em. You cannot perceive 'em to be Cripples, and yet there is not one of 'em but halts most conspicuously between God and Baal. They [Page 8] pretend to be Protestants, but with an extraordina­ry Inclination to Popery, that they may have two Strings to their Bow, and be ready upon the Return of their Idol, to fall down, and worship his Will and Pleasure. If the Church of Rome would but re­lease the severity of her Pennances, her work were done; for thô they are passionately for whipping of others, they do not much care to whip themselves. They are the Pompeys and Caesars of Divinity, that can endure neither Equals nor Superiours, and ra­ther than a Dissenter should get a Living among them, if it were in their Power, they would sacri­fice him to Molock; for they look upon the Dissen­ters as Forraigners that would eat the Bread out of their Mouths. They say that Nebuchadnezzar did ve­ry well to throw the three Dissenting Children in­to the fiery Furnace, because they would not con­form to the Church of Babilon by Law establish'd. Had they liv'd in the time of the Ten Persecutions, what clean work would they have made with those Nonconforming Christians! Or if any thing had sav'd a Remnant, it would have been their Doctrine of Passive Obedience. They idolize King James as the Heathen did their false Gods, first make the Idol, and then worship it. Tyranny's the Moloch to which they would offer their own Posterity; and their own Native Countrey the Place which they would make their Valley Gehinnon. They pretend to be true Sons of the Church, but use her no better than a Step Mo­ther, to offer the Price of her Preservation for the Redemption of her profess'd Enemy. And so doing, while they pretend to avoid their being Traytors to a pretended Prince, they betray not only the People which they mislead, but themselves; as if the Church [Page 9] would ever be able to give them suck, when they have assisted her Capital Foe to cut off her Nipples. Whence it is apparent, that they were never well read either in Scripture or Matchiavel, thô it shews as truly, that their Inclinations are more for the worst of Politicks than the best of Divinity. All this while, how they should be so charitable to the misfortunes of King James, is a wonder, having so little Charity one for another, there being nothing more frequent among them than Envy, Passion, Repining, and sup­planting of each other: And yet they are so insensi­ble as to believe that their King James does not see through them, (unless because they have made him their Idol, they think he has Eyes and sees not,) and that he knows he must satisfie the particular ends and aims of every individual Person, or else there will never be peace in Israel.

They would be the best Marks-men in the World, if they could but bring a great Gun as well as a little Text to bear upon any Subject whatever they aim at. To prove Episcopacy, they baulk all other Texts, and take this, Sirs, what shall I do to be sav'd? be­cause the Greek word, Sirs, signifies Lords, therefore they were Bishops that were spoken to. Another to preach up Kingly Government, chose for his Text, Seek first the Kingdom of God: Not the Common­wealth of God, nor the Aristocracy of God, but the Kingdom of God, Ergo, Kingly Government is the best Government. A third to disprove Non-Residence, finds out Mat. 1.2. Abraham begat Isaac: For that if Abraham had not resided with Sarah, he had never be­gat Isaac. Another undertakes to prove the unlaw­fulness of the Bill of Exclusion, from Job ch. 36. v. 21. [Page 10] It is not lawful to do evil, that good may come of it. Another to prove the Excellency of Monarchy, picks out Judg. 17. v. 6. In those days there was no King in Israel: for had there been a King in Israel, Micah had never made a Graven Image, nor had the Levites Concubine ever been ravishe'd. And thus their Ser­mons are a sort of Lampoons upon Scripture, while they make use of it only to put their Shamins and Tricks upon the People, and expose it dress'd up in wrested Interpretation, to the Diversion of the worst of Libertines. They pray to Heaven as if they be­lieved there were no God; or sought at least to make him the Author of their mischievous Contrivances. They pray for King James, spend all their most ser­vent Ejaculations in their Cups, and over their Cof­fee, for King James, as if they thought that God were a Favourer of Popery, Tyranny, Oppression and Slavery; and yet would have us think they be­lieve him to be the God of Mercy, Truth and Ju­stice. But whatever they would have us believe, 'tis but an ill sign of the good Opinion they have of it, to invoke Divine Favour upon the Enemy of their Religion, their Laws, and Liberties.

While they had the Power, the Hook of recalling the Penal Laws and Test would not take; but now they would recall the disappointed Angler, and ra­ther throw themselves into a precarious Toleration of a Popish Tyrant, than abandon Dominion over their Protestant Brethren. And thus they set up King James like the Brazen Serpent, thinking to be safe by looking upon him, when stung to inevltable Death by the fiery Serpents of Rome. Look into their Conversations, and you shall find 'em Wine bib­bers [Page 11] to excess, and frequently remov'd from the Coffee-house to the Tavern, to carry on the Electi­ons of Sheriffs and Parliament-men. And 'tis a shrewd sign they are no less addicted to the Smicket, because they love so much as they do to see Religion with her Heels upward. When they get into their Pulpits, they make 'em roar like so many Matrasses of Aurum Fulminans, under the Guard of an ignorant Chymist; you'd think they had been learning of the Fire-chawing Mountebanks to carry burning Coals betwixt their Teeth, their Breath is so hot: They fling about their Bombs and their Granado's against the Phanaticks, as if they were storming a Conventicle; every word is a Snap-dragon or a Flash of Lightning, enough to singe all the Pe­riwiggs in the Congregation. Strange, that such fiery men as these should be for Passive Obedience! But that's a Virtue which they only Preach to others, never practice themselves: They make use of Passive Obedience as House breakers do of the little Engines called Betties, to force open the Conscien­ces of all that will not bow to their Baal, and rob 'em of their Understandings. They are so far from Passive Obedience themselves, that never was any Hornets Nest in such an uproar as were they them­selves when their warm Livings were in danger. The Scripture says, Obedience is better than Sacrifice, but they cry Sacrifice is better than Obedience; for if all their Opposers were sacrific'd, there would be no need of Obedience: Touch but their Coppy-holds, and then instead of Passive Obedience they cry 'Tis better to Obey God than Man; and let their King de Jure make use of all his Right and Title to Command 'em, he shall as soon Command a [Page 12] Cabbin in a rough Sea, as get 'em to read any of his Acts or Declarations, if they but smell a Rat in 'em to the Prejudice of their Cheese. Their vain Hopes perswade them to Obey King James, and their groundless Fears to Disobey King William. Thus they hope in a Popish Prince, and are afraid of a Protestant King; abandon the Felicity they may justly expect from King William, and hope in the Courtesie which they can never expect from King James; like many Men that are afraid of Heaven, and place their hopes in the Devil's future Civi­lity.

They believe all the rest of the Nation but themselves to be Crows, and come with their Cher­ry-Garden Divinity to prove the difference between a King de Jure and a King de Facto; as a King de Jure that has forfeited his Right by Breach of Law, Breach of Faith, Breach of Oaths, Breach of all things by which a Sovereign claims his Sovereignty, were any more than a vain Terror of their own erecting. Heaven pull'd him down, and they would heave him up again. Now whether the Ancient Ro­mans or these Jacobite Levites were the wisest, must be left to Judgment; for the one trusted to a Goose to preserve their Copitol, the other to a Cock-match for the Restoration of their Exile: Indeed the Cock is the more Martial Bird▪ but the Goose was the more Fortunate: But they thought to have been Crowing again upon their own Dung-hills, and therefore they preferr'd a Cock-Match Plot before any other Plot. They had cry'd down the Popish Plot, and the Presbyterian Plot was of King James's own making, and fell with himself; but they thought [Page 13] might be Ten to One laid upon the Success of a Cock-Match Plot. However it were, by this you may discover the right Genius of a Jesuite and a true Jacobite, the one was for Dispeopling the Na­tion, the other for making a Cock-Pit of the King­dom.

I would fain exempt 'em from having any hand in the Miscarriage of our Fleet, a fatal Blow to the Ancient Honour of the English Nation, which all Europe but their Confederate the French King still laments: Since they that would betray their Coun­trey and their Deliverer, would betray their Savi­our; for Judas might perhaps not know how great a Personage our Saviour was, but no Man can be exempted from not believing in his Countrey.

The other sort of Levitical Jacobites, as they are more highly dignify'd, and farther stricken in Years, carry themselves with more Reservedness, and as they have gain'd a greater Reputation, so they are more dangerous to the Government; yet they walk upon the same grounds, and move up­on the same the Principles with the Inferiour Crew, who receive their Instructions from them; and when they are fully Lesson'd, like the little Spaniels that fall a yelping when the great Mastiff opens, follow the scent with a full Cry.

These Men being generally of low Extraction, cannot forgoe those mean and narrow Notions which their sordid Education infus'd into their Boyish Years, which makes them admire Advancement as poor Folks adore gaudy Cloaths; and having once [Page 14] tasted the sweets of Preferment, they so abhor their former Condition, that they place all their Felicity in this World. They study the Humour of the Court more than Women do the Fashions, and if they can but gain the Prince's Favour, they deal by the King as the Filou did by the Countrey-Fel­low in Bartholomew-Fair, that tickl'd his Ears 'till he pick'd his Pocket: Only it shews somewhat ug­ly, that they should rejoyce at the Missfortune of our Fleet, and that King William's Victories in Ire­land should sadden their Hearts.

Their Sermons are all Calculated for the Court Meridian, the continual Infusiory of Servitude and Wretchedness into all their Hearers: You might have known what a Clock 'twas at White-Hall by the Chiming of their Pulpits. They took their Text from the Minutes of the Private Cabal, and then fiting a Scripture shooe to it, sent it abroad Apparel'd in A Sermon Preach'd before the KING, By the Reverend such a One, D.D. If the King wanted one to tell the People, That though he com­manded what was contrary to the Law of God and Nature, the Subject was nevertheless bound to Obey with an absolute Passive Obedience; there was a Sib­thorp ready to bawl it out in his Pulpit. If the King wanted another to prove by Scripture, That he was not bound to Observe the Laws of the Realm concerning the Subjects Liberties and Rights, but that his Royal Will and Command in imposing Loans and Taxes without Consent in Parliament, oblig'd the Sub­jects Conscience upon Pain of Eternal Damnation; Manwaring, in his way to the two Fat Livings of St. Giles in the Fields and Stamford Rivers in Essex, [Page 15] does it to a Hair. These sort of dignify'd Jacobites deriv'd their Appellation from Jacobus Primus, who afraid of his English Nobility, caw'd the most sup­ple of his dignify'd Clergy, with his new invented Maxim of No Bishop, No King, for which they gra­tify'd him with the Title of a second Solomon; could they have found a hole in the Scripture to have made that Golden Maxim Canonical, they had done it; but the Scripture had been so often Translated before, that they durst not attempt it: However, they went so far, as to make Episcopacy Jure Di­vino, which was the same thing as to range it coequal with Kingship: And they were so much his Slaves, that they did all they could to make out the Truth of his Apothegm, and their gratitude for his Invention, by making all along the Scripture the Common Voucher and Asserter of Worldly Po­liticks.

When these sort of Dignify'd Jacobites come to be advanc'd near the Person of a Prince, they ne­ver make use of their Dignity to Correct him when he goes astray, nor to tell him of his Faults, but to sooth him up in his extravagant Courses: They tell him, That Kings breath not the same Breath with other Men; that they are not of the Race of Adam, but the Sons of Jupiter Ammon, &c. descended from Heaven, Booted and Spurr'd, to ride their Vassals the People. Moreover, That they are no more oblig'd by any Coronation-Oaths, than Lovers by their Vows to their Mistresses, but may dispense with the Establish'd Constitutions of the Kingdom at their own Will and Pleasure, and that they are accountable to none but God. For these [Page 16] good Services, and many more of the same Na­ture, they prevail with the Prince to enlarge their Encroachments upon the Civil Jurisdiction, and having gotten an Unjustifiable Power into their Hands, they call it the Church, no less Sacred than the Ark, have a care how you touch it: if the Lord do not smite the bold Adventurer, they will. A Popish Prince may do any thing but abridge them of this Power of theirs; if he does that, he is an Ʋzziah, he has invaded their Properties, and must be turn'd out of the Temple with a wither'd Arm; and then — 'tis lawful to send for a Prince of Orange to help 'em, 'tis lawful to devolve the Government into his Hands, and humbly to im­plore him to take Care of their Ark. But no soon­er are their Properties safe, and King William by the General Consent of the Nation advanc'd, in his own Right to a Vacant Throne, but they are offended at his Protestant Zeal, tell him they ne­ver sent for him to make him their Sovereign, but their Journey-man only; call him King de Facto, slight his Protection, and rather than acknowledge their Deliverer, would put on their Philistine Yoak again.

These are a moody sullen sort of Jacobites, that would make all the World believe there are but so many knowing, Pious Men in the Nation; and by an affected Ostentation of Conscience, would riggle themselves into the Honour of having all the Nation dance after their Pipes. They know the ill Consequences of their Example to the King­dom, and yet persevere in it; but they imagine the Humour will take, and therefore they presume [Page 17] upon it. Nor can they be insensible, that King James takes his Opportunity, and makes his Ad­vantage of their Bigottry. And yet so highly are these Dignify'd Jacobites conceited of themselves, that though the Righteousness of ten Men would have sav'd Sodom, they believe the streight-lac'd Tenderness of half the number enough to ruine England: At least they would have the Publick Good and Safety depend upon the overweening Reason of a few Obstinate Men.

These sort of Jacobites cannot but know the dan­ger of great Examples,

From whence we must conclude they are buoy'd up, and encourag'd by the more Politick Jacobites, on purpose to promote their Darling, King James's Interest. Thus with the Sorceress Circe, these dig­nify'd Jacobites see better things, but follow the worse — Not out of any Love to King James, for that's impossible, but out of a Picque to King William: Otherwise 'tis certain, that never any Di­vinity taught them to pretend a Reluctancy of Conscience that threatens the Fate of a whole King­dom: Nor can Piety grounded upon Error excuse any Man for designing Mischief to his Countrey: Or supposing a Man's Piety were seemingly well intended, neither will the Goodness of a Mans In­tentions [Page 18] excuse the Scandal and Contagion of his Example.

Others there are who are more Plyable and Complaisam, who being unwilling to come within the Lash of Acts of Parliament, think it their safest way to take the Oaths both to King William and Queen Mary: But these Men have a Trick to save themselves, they are Sharpers at Equivocation, ne­ver known among Protestants before, and are able to teach the Jesuites themselves to sing a Note above Ela: Thus the Chancellor of a certain Dio­cess in this Kingdom, being ask'd how he could take the Oaths to King William and Queen Mary, and act for King James? Oh! cry'd▪ He, though I took the Oaths, I never swallow'd 'em. And thus you see how near to a Reconciliation the Jacobites and Romanists are, they are link'd together against King William, like the wicked against David: But the Jacobites are so short-sighted, as not to see that were the t'others ends accomplish'd, 'tis a Friend­ship so ill order'd, it would never hold together; their Darling's good Fortune would soon unloose the Knot, and then they must come over the Stick for the Pope, or else not a bit of the Crust.

The greatest part of these Jacobite Dons were of King James's Promotion, or by his Interest when Duke of York, and fearing therefore to be laid aside, they would make the World believe that the Church of England will fall, should they be discarded; when others more Dignify'd, more Con­scientious, more Religious, more Fore-seeing, appre­hend no such Danger. They would make the [Page 19] World believe, the Reformation of the Clergy to be the Downfall of the Church.

Hence such a Bustle, such a Clutter, such a Hur­ry; hence so much Canvassing at Elections, such bauling out St. George for the Church, as if all lay at stake when nothing is in danger. Some of these great Jacobites conform on purpose to do Mischief, and they are the most dangerous; for they are able to give bad Counsel unsuspected, and their Friendship betrays, like Fire that embraces to con­sume. Some of these there are who are easily per­swaded to send about their Diocesan Letters to their Inferiour Clergy, upon their Filial Obedience to give their Voices for such a One, as being pitch'd upon by the Grand Cabal of the County for his Affection and Fidelity to the Church. And many times the same Pretence deludes others that mean better, with the same Hazard of their Reputation: As if it could be any Honour to the Church of England, to imitate the paltry Shifts and wicked Politicks of Brent and Graham. But a true Levi­tica [...] Jacobite cares not whom he amuses, nor whose▪ Example he follows, so he may but have the Honour to stand fair with Antichrist and King James. A true Levitical Jacobite cares no more for the Church than for the Alchoran, but he Wor­ships the Church Lands; and so he may but lye well and at ease, he matters not whether it be in the Abby of Glastenbury, or the Parsonage of Sims­bury.

[Page 20]However, these Levitical Champions for K. James draw after 'em some Numbers of the Gentry and Com­monalty of the Nation: Among whom of the Male Sex, there are three Degrees of Comparison. Some Sober, some more Loose, some most Extravagant. The Sober part are wheedl'd in by the specious pre­tence of the Churches Danger: Men otherwise of Honest Morals, but Credulous Bigotts, that pin their Faith without Examination upon their Instructors Sleeve, and believe that all they say is Gospel, thô they should tell 'em that High-gate Hill was made of March-pane. If they are men not so easily gull'd, they feel the Ladies Pulse, and if she be of their Party, Heavens! how the poor Gentlemans Ears are teaz'd between the Wife and the Doctor; and so they make themselves Masters of his Reason, as Poachers catch Partridges, astonish'd with the dinn of the Lowbell. Others Ambitious of a Seat in Par­liament, or a Magistracy in the County, though they see through 'em, and have perhaps as little Religion as themselves; however they close with 'em, and applaud their Zeal for the Church, to save the Expences of Canvassing, or Feasting the Corporati­on: But having studied well neither the Laws of God nor their Countrey, they render themselves so obnoxious to a more happy Revolution, that nothing can save 'em but an Act of Oblivion.

None of these are any more than the Crutches of a Crazy Government, which being once restored to a healthy Constitution, lays 'em aside as needless Sup­porters. Their Devotion is like Meat neither hot nor cold, which frighted the Devil from being a [Page 21] Serving-man; and their Loyalty is like a Woman's Affection, generally too much or too little. And for their particular Loyalty to King James, 'tis like an Ill Habit, which when a Man has once got, he can never leave it: However it serves 'em to make a noise with at a Tavern, for want of other Dis­course; or else like a cold Neats-Tongue, or a Dish of Anchovies to relish a Glass of Wine.

They have a pretended Kindness indeed for the Service-Book, and the Liturgy of the Church of Eng­land; but they are more for set forms of Oaths than set forms of Prayer, and preferr a brisk God damm 'em, before a sneaking Lord have mercy upon us. They know so little the true value of the Laws and Constitutions of the Land, that they were ready at any time to part with those Jewels for the Barley-Corns of Court-Favour. Tyranny therefore huggs 'em, and makes the same use of 'em as Tamerlane did of his Captive Bajazet, to get up and ride the People.

The looser sort are Persons wholly addicted to their Pleasure, that measure their Felicity by their Passions. These are Men that live most at ease un­der the Oppressions of Arbitrary Power, like those sort of Animals call'd Hog-lice, that breed and mul­tiply under the weight of great Timber-loggs. Un­der the strictness of Government they are like Fish out of the Water; in the looseness of absolute Ty­ranny, they are as merry as Summer Swallows in a Chimney. Having therefore experienc'd the Re­missness of King Jame's Reign, like Ivy to a Stee­ple, they cling to his Misgovernment, as being that which allow'd 'em the full swinge of their Licenti­ousness; [Page 22] and rather choose with Swine to wallow in the Mire of Voluptuous and Libertine Bondage, than breath the Air of Freedom, within the limited Impalements of the Law. They live like Brutes, by Sence and Appetite, not Reason; and having no more Understanding than Dorr-flies, buzz about the Dazle of a forfeited Crown, to their own Destru­ction.

They talk of Religion, as they that never travel'd talk of Forreign Countries. However, if you ask em of what Religion they are, they will tell you they are Protestants of the Church of England; if you misdoubt the Truth of it, they presently confirm it with a God Damm 'em but they are. Ask 'em why then they side with King James who is a Papist: Be­cause, quo' they, the Papists are better than the Pres­byterians: — Ask em how so, Because, cry they, the Presbyterians are worse than the Papists. Knock with your middle finger knuckle against the middle of their Foreheads, and you may hear the Concavity sound like an empty Cask. If it were search'd into, there would be nothing found in it but the Lees of Forty One Clamour half dryed up to nothing.

In short, what they think is Vanity, what they speak is False, whatever they approve is Bad, and whatever they disapprove is Good.

The most Extravagant sort are like the Wild Beasts of the Forrest, and almost of as many various sorts; Bullies, Beaus, Hectors, Bravoes, St. Nicholas Clerks, Alsatians, Mint-men, Rake-Hell and Skimm the Devil, and all the rest of the blessed Canaille of broken Trades­men, [Page 23] Pimps, and Suburb-Roysters,

All these are of the Society of Jacobites, that long for King James, as Women with Child long for Coals and foul Tobacco-Pipes. These were the Inhabitants and Free-holders of all the Towns and Counties in England, that had as many Christian and Sirnames as the King of Spain has Titles, to clap to a Loyal Ad­dress; and then the quaint Piece of Eloquence was carry'd to White-Hall, with a Label of Subscriptions that look'd like a Cluster of Bees before the Mouth of a Hive. And thus the Cheaters cheated themselves: They were Rampant then, they are now Couchant, and therefore they Pray for the lost Protector of their Vices; as Women Mourn at Funerals for the Dead, 'till they make themselves Drunk for Sorrow: When all the World be­sides rejects 'em, they think King James will receive 'em to his Mercy; as if he needed more Curses than he has already to blast his Prosperity.

[Page 24]Popery indeed is a Common-sewer for any Vicious Excrements; but these scoundrel Ja­cobites are so very wicked, that the Priests are afraid to let 'em dy [...] their Communi­on, lest the flames of [...]urgatory should not be hot enough to purifie 'em.

In short, they are the Dreggs and Caput Mortuum of Humane Society, fit for nothing but to be thrown upon the Dung hill: Or if they may be said to serve for any thing, 'tis only to provoke the Anger of Heaven, and to be the Combustiole Stuff to kindle the ge­neral Conflagration.

As for the Females, not to say any thing of the Modest and the Vertuous, who, consi­dering, the weakness of their Sex, may be ea­sily led away by their Jacobite Confessors, the Torrents of whose thundring Eloquence they are not able to withstand; the wonder is, how these Jacobite Infusions come to operate so ge­nerally upon the Common Harlots and Misses of the Town, since it cannot be presum'd that [Page 25] they have any such familiar Converse with the Jacobite Order. But so it is, that all the Su­burb Rahabs, and Daughters of Joy within the Walls, have universally espous'd the Jacobite Interest. 'Tis true, there was a Lady said, That she had rather be Mistris to a King, than Wife to the best Noble Man in England. And perhaps the same Ambition possesses our English Lais's, that since they cannot all ima­gine to embrace the Royal Person, they will hugg his Interest. They know that King James's Cause is the Whore of Babel's Cause; and then the Whore of Babel's Cause must needs be the Cause of all the Whores in England.

They know Idolatry to be a kind of Spiri­tual Fornication; and therefore 'tis no wonder that Carnal Harlots should adhere to Spiritu­al Whore-mongers. Besides, they are for a General Toleration; and for that Reason fa­vour those by whose means at length they hope to have the Penal Laws and Statutes taken off.

[Page 26]Others there are who think it a great piece of Ingratitude to forsake a Religion which has been so kind as to Canonize so many of their Sex, and gives 'em so easie an Absolution from their pleasing Transgressions. For a Female Jacobite, cares not that her Conscience should be heavier than her Fan; and therefore chooses that Profession that layes the least weight up­on it.

Yet some there are who think these Gyp­sies to be mistaken in their Politicks, for that thô the Roman Curtisans had some Reason for what they did, in stickling and caballing as they did to keep the Sodomite Cardinals from sitting in St. Peters Chair; yet our Strumpets are the greatest Fools in Nature, for striving to bring in the Italian Abby-Lubbers into England to spoil their Vocation: They little dream what terrible Rates will be set upon Night-Walkers and what an Excessive Excise will be put upon Chamber-practice.

[Page 27]Nevertheless, There are some who pretend to have a deep insight into succeeding Times, comfort themselves in the Hopes they have in their little Heliogabalus, who was what d'ye call'd it into the World at St. James's; that when he comes to reign over 'em, he will advance 'em into a Corporation of themselves, make Ha­rangues and Speeches to 'em, and dignifie 'em with the Title of his Commilitones, and Fellow Subjects, and be no less kind to them than that famous Emperour was endearing to the Curtesans of Rome. Expectations of conse­quence, and grounds sufficient for the English Trulls and Misses to plead so hard for an Ille­gitimate. But such Female Advocates as these for the Jacobite Cause do it more harm than good; such Syrens as they being lookt upon to be no less clapt in their Understandings than their Bo­dies. There is no fear of such Amazon's as these, notwithstanding their Attire for the Head, so like the Helmets of Tomyris and Penthesilea; and therefore we leave 'em to their several Cures, and their Dyet Drinks of Sarsaperill and Guaiacum.

[Page 28]However, By such a separation as this of the Goats from the Sheep, it may be easie to give a true Judgment of the Jacobite Cause by the Favourers of it, and to see what sort of Persons they are that seek for shelter under the Wings of Tyranny and Popery. And the quite contrary, it may with no less clearness be discern'd who are the Assertors of the King­doms Welfare, and the Safety of the True Pro­testant Religion, under the happy Auspices of KING WILLIAM and QUEEN MARY.