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<HEAD>The Copy of a <HI>LETTER</HI> &s;ent to Dr. <HI>Sherlock,</HI> upon the occa&s;ion of his Preaching at St. <HI>Mar|garet's</HI> on <HI>Jan.</HI> 30th. 1691.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>SInce the Wi&s;dom of tho&s;e Beneficent Patriots (who have &s;o illu&s;triou&s;ly pre&s;erv'd the Liberties and Privileges, and advanced the Trade, and Riches off the People, whom they repre&s;ent) hath cho&s;en you to be their Orator upon the approaching <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>30th.</HI> of <HI>Jan.</HI> &s;uffer me a Stranger to advi&s;e you to demean your &s;elf, as it becomes you, on that Day of pre|tended Fa&s;ting and Humiliation.</P>
<P>It is not enough that you deal tenderly with the memory of that great Saint and Hero his Royal Highne&s;s <HI>Oliver Cromwell</HI> (who by your own prin|ciples was the Lord's Anointed, and &s;et over the&s;e Nations by a De&s;igna|tion from above, by a continued &s;eries of mighty victories, which accord|ing to your arguing as truly di&s;cover'd him to be the Vicegerent of Heaven, as Prophecy did the Kings of <HI>I&s;rael)</HI> but you are obliged to &s;peak honora|bly of that eminent Benefactor to this People, who &s;et a Pattern to future Ages how to treat Tyrannical Kings. Make a Panegyrick in his prai&s;e, and rai&s;e your Voice to a due pitch, that the Audience may admire an Elo|quence adequate to the grandeur of the Subject; and that you may be in all things ju&s;t to your Principles, treat that Man, whom the la&s;t Age fond|ly made a Martyr, and fome few in this think &s;o as he de&s;erved; the Man, whom the People accu&s;ed of endeavouring to introduce Popery and arbi|trary Power; and who by following as undue cour&s;es, as his Son, brought him&s;elf to the Block; treat him magi&s;terially, and with that a&s;&s;uming, that is in&s;eparable from men of your profound parts; treat him, as you have done the <HI>little Writers</HI> among&s;t the <HI>Jacobites</HI> (whom in&s;tead of an&s;wering you contemn) or as your dear &s;pou&s;e treats you, when you fail of dutiful compliance; exalt your well furni&s;h'd Forehead, lift up your Voice like a Trumpet, that Voice that hath been all along &s;pared for this infamous oc|ca&s;ion; call upon the Nation to rejoice at the downfall of its Enemies, and exhort them to maintain their Rights again&s;t the incroachments of in&s;olent Princes, who &s;uck the blood, and prey upon the marrow of tho&s;e, whom they &s;hould gently govern, &s;ettle the Power of the People over Kings, and prove God an acce&s;&s;ary to all their pro&s;perous Rebellions and Perjuries. You know the vindication of the&s;e Opinions was the purcha&s;e of your <HI>Deanery,</HI> and men u&s;e to maintain what they have gotten, by &s;&uacute;ch methods as they got it by; I cannot call it Simony, that old Magician was a fairer Merchant, he would have purcha&s;ed the Gifts and Powers of the Holy Spirit (things of great excellency and u&s;e, while you leave the &s;acred a&s;&s;i&s;tances of the Church to &s;uch &s;illy Chapmen, and pur&s;ue the nobler quarry of its more &s;acred honors and revenues.</P>
<P>Advice tho&s;e grave Senators to make &s;olemn &s;anctions again&s;t all your former old ob&s;tinate Friends, coun&s;el them to e&s;tabli&s;h a Tax upon every man's head, like the <HI>Haracht Mus&s;lemen</HI> upon the poor <HI>Greeks;</HI> commend the example of tho&s;e &s;age <HI>Ottomans</HI> to the imitation of our no le&s;s wi&s;e and merciful <HI>Commons;</HI> who, even when they acknowledge the Bible to be the word of God, make it meritorious to murther all tho&s;e, who profe&s;s to live according to its Rules.</P>
<P>And whenever a <HI>Convocation</HI> &s;hall be call'd, in which your new Station gives you a place of cour&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> take care, as to retract your <HI>Anti&s;ocinian</HI> Writings (to put your &s;elf in the good graces of your new Primate) &s;o to condemn all your quondam Monarchical tenents, and make a publick &s;acri|fice of your <HI>Ca&s;e of Re&s;i&s;tance</HI> to the injured Gho&s;t of the <HI>Invincible Pro|tector;</HI> and before you do either of the&s;e, con&s;ult your Pillow, and your <HI>comfortable importance</HI> (whom you by fits love and dread, as the <HI>Indians</HI> do the <HI>Devil)</HI> make her, as you are wont, your Oracle; and believe me to be</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>January</HI> the 28. 1691.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your Faithful true Friend and Servant.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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