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<NAME>Judith Siefring</NAME>
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<HEAD>The Character of a WILLIAMITE.</HEAD>
<P>HE is One, who being lately Bug-bear'd out of his Wits, fancies him&s;elf &s;till haunted by the frightful Gho&s;t of Popery. He is always in Company tor|menting a Man's Ears with &s;ome di&s;mal Story; and tells you more Ro|mantick Lyes than ever &s;tood on Popi&s;h Legend for the Holy Promotion of Prote&s;tant Religion. Three times a Day at lea&s;t he &s;ays over little <HI>Chi&s;well</HI>'s News-Book with much more Devotion than his Prayers; and by a &s;trong Faith, and the hungry Fryars Ble&s;&s;ing <HI>[Be thou Fi&s;h]</HI> enters it into his Creed. He piou&s;ly commends Treachery and Rebellion to <HI>THE LORD'S DOING;</HI> and will not be &s;atis|fied, unle&s;s Providence work another miraculous Defection to make <HI>IT MORE MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES.</HI> He derives his venerable Name from a Rigid Presbyterian, and by con&s;equence does not hold him&s;elf obliged to Solemn Oaths, or any Sacred Tyes whatever. He has entertained &s;o deep a Love for the Second Commandment, that he is willing to part with any of the re&s;t in Exchange for it. Under pretence of rooting out Idolatry from off the Earth, he encourages Children to commit Paricide, and in bold Defiance to the Fifth Commandment Prays, <HI>That their Days may be long in the Land.</HI> He roundly maintains the Doctrine of <HI>Pa&s;&s;ive Obedience,</HI> by quietly &s;uffering his Lawful Sovereign to be drove out of his Dominions by Troops of Treacherous Subjects, and Crueller Strangers. With <HI>David</HI> he &s;ometimes complains (on a &s;udden Gripe of his Spirit) <HI>That ye have not kept the Lord's Anointed;</HI> but it is only, becau&s;e ye have given him a fair Opportu|nity to recover his own ju&s;t Rights again: As appears by his late &s;trange Defending the King's Title, that is, by taking a New Oath of Allegiance to the <HI>U&s;urper</HI> with a formal Declaration, that has no other meaning in it, that I know of, than <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">at he will &s;tand by the Pre&s;ent Unlawful Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors of the Crown with his Life <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span"> Fortune, though it be again&s;t the plain Dictates of his Con&s;cience. He wipes <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span"> Mouth in Innocency, and crys, I had no hand in the Expul&s;ion of my Prince; but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span"> tru&s;ts in God he &s;hall never &s;ee the Re&s;tauration. He views the Mi&s;carriages of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">nfortunate Ma&s;ter through a magnifying Gla&s;s, but turns the Pro&s;pective to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span"> on the woful Mi&s;eries have attended his own Creatures unnatural Inva&s;ion. He never &s;peaks of the Bi&s;hops being &s;ent to the Tower without Horror and Amaze|ment; but is now very well contented to have them <HI>Su&s;pended,</HI> and Doubts not to &s;ee them <HI>Deprived,</HI> for their malignant Scrupling to Perjure them&s;elves in their own Pre&s;ervation. He is a mighty Stickler for the Liberty and Property of the Subject, and yet tyrannically commands us to make a New Covenant with the Govern|ment for what all the Laws of the Land have already a&s;&s;ured us, is <HI>Meum</HI> and <HI>Tuum:</HI> And all this to give us no better a Title to our E&s;tates than One has to the Crown he wears; which is to la&s;t &s;o long as we give the Dutch Task-makers leave to Lord it over our Souls and Bodies. He confirms every Body in the Belief, that Things are too far gon ever to think of King <HI>JAMES</HI>'s Return into <HI>England;</HI> and at the &s;ame Time has a Di&s;tur&s;t he may prove no <HI>Conjurer:</HI> And therefore repre&s;ents Him as a Common Enemy, the Hater of his People, and &s;cares you with Fire and Fagot, and the Lord knows what, to call in your help to fulfil his malitious Prophecy. You will find him Flattering and Fawning upon every little Seclary, and has quite worn off that &s;tiff, rugged Humour of admitting none into his Communion but upon the Terms of Chri&s;t's In&s;titution, that he is now willing to depart from all the Anti|chri&s;tian Rites of Decency; and ever &s;ince he has heard of the Re&s;titution of Pre&s;|byters into the Church of <HI>Scotland,</HI> begins to talk with a great deal of Indifferency about his very Epi&s;copal Ordination, (well knowing the <HI>Reforming</HI> Spirit of our Governours.) Nay, he is grown &s;o Gentle and Complying, that he has laid a&s;ide <HI>the di&s;tingui&s;hing Character of the Church of</HI> England, (I mean his Loyalty) as a Title too Invidious and Un&s;afe for a Prote&s;tant Church to glory in; and does now with|out a Blu&s;h own him&s;elf as Religious a Rebel as the greate&s;t Fanatick Zealot in <HI>England,</HI> to <HI>hold the Faith in Unity of Spirit, in the Bond of Peace.</HI></P>
<Q><L><HI>&mdash;Nam quis</HI></L>
<L><HI>Peccandi finem po&s;uit &s;ibi? quando recepit</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ejectum &s;emel attrit&acirc; de fronte ruborem?</HI></L></Q>
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