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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140226.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>AN ANSWER TO A PAMPHLET CALLED, The True Prote&s;tants Appeal TO THE CITY and COUNTRY. BEING A VINDICATION OF THE Di&s;&s;enting Prote&s;tants In General; And Mr. Sheriff Bethell In Particular.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">By a Truer Prote&s;tant.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Couragious Friend, Fellow Citizen and Subject;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Am glad I have found thee &s;o great an Abhorrer of Popery, but I could have been more glad, had&s;t thou named &s;ome of tho&s;e many Per&s;ons of Quality, thou &s;o boldly mentione&s;t, who had been acquainted with thy Name and Principles, &s;o fully as thy Pen has declared it. If thou art &s;o famous for thy Hatred to the Roman Principles, to Super&s;tition and Innovation, why no Name at the end of thy Pamphlet? And why &s;hould&s;t thou be afraid to let thy Labours come to a publick Te&s;t? They creep into the World like the LADY <HI>GREY'S</HI> APPARITION; MADAM <HI>FANSHAW'S</HI> TOUCH, and &s;uch like forbidden Fruit: they &s;teal out of thy Clo&s;et into the Pre&s;s, and &s;o into the World, flying like <HI>Owls</HI> through the <HI>Dark Corners of the Earth.</HI> A &s;hrewd Su&s;pition we have, that thou art not what thou pretende&s;t to be; &s;uch as thou art are mo&s;t to be &s;u&s;pected for <HI>King-killing Tenets;</HI> and I fancy thou ha&s;t got the wit to cry out <HI>Whore</HI> fir&s;t. <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> now rail again&s;t <HI>Papi&s;ts;</HI> crafty are they grown in this Treacherous Age: But we will hope for better things from thee, be|cau&s;e thou ha&s;t told us in Print, <HI>That many Per&s;ons of Quality</HI> (though namele&s;s, and not to be found) <HI>do know thee to be a</HI> TRUE CHURCH OF ENGLAND-KING'S-PROTESTANT. But give me leave to tell thee, <HI>That's an ill Bird that be&s;hits its own Ne&s;t.</HI> To lay the Burthen of Royal Blood wholly upon <HI>Di&s;&s;enting Prote&s;tants,</HI> is too great a load for them to bear, &s;ince the King's Evidences have &s;o fully di&s;covered, that the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> had a Finger in that Pye, and were too highly concerned in &s;hedding that <HI>Royal</HI> and <HI>Innocent Blood.</HI> The Parliament &s;trove to <HI>Unite the Di&s;&s;enters,</HI> thou to <HI>De&s;troy them;</HI> &s;o much are we beholden to one that calls him&s;elf a <HI>Church of England-Kings-Prote&s;tant;</HI> whom I imagine to be of Par&s;on <HI>Thomp&s;on</HI>'s Principles.</P>
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<P>Thank you, dear Friend, that at la&s;t you are come to acknowledge a PLOT; but I doubt, if the denying it would have done thee any Kindne&s;s, we &s;hould rather have had it a <HI>Sham Presbyterian Plot</HI> from thee, (as much as thou &s;eeme&s;t to hate it) then a <HI>real Popi&s;h Plot,</HI> as Ju&s;tice <HI>GODFREY,</HI> Ju&s;tice <HI>PYE,</HI> Ju&s;tice <HI>ARNOLD,</HI> have &s;o &s;adly experienc'd it: But I would fain know who they are whom thou reckone&s;t <HI>Common-Wealth Prote&s;tants;</HI> doubtle&s;s thou meane&s;t our la&s;t <HI>Parliament,</HI> for they rais'd the Du&s;t thou &s;peake&s;t of; they were Rigorous to bring the Plotters to Ju&s;tice, and made Prefaces of Loyalty in all their Addre&s;&s;es; yet what Scribler a Moneth ago dur&s;t have taken the freedom to have branded them with &s;uch black Reflections as thou ha&s;t done.</P>
<P>I never heard that <HI>Presbyterians, Anabapti&s;ts, Independants, &amp;c.</HI> refu&s;ed to take the <HI>Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy;</HI> but rather that they were willing to buckle to any rea&s;onable Command: And I have heard &s;uch whom thou laboure&s;t to &s;tigmatize with the greate&s;t Guilt, wi&s;h well to the King and Kingdom, and pray zealou&s;ly, and (I believe) heartily for them both.</P>
<P>And le&s;t thou &s;hould&s;t &s;ay, this was written by a <HI>Quaker,</HI> an <HI>Anabapti&s;t,</HI> an <HI>Indepen|dent,</HI> or a <HI>Presbyterian;</HI> let me tell thee, as I have a Soul to be &s;aved, I am a <HI>Church of England-King's-Prote&s;tant;</HI> which thou pretended&s;t to be. I reckon my &s;elf a <HI>Prote&s;tant,</HI> and &s;o do all that know me; and I am known by many Per&s;ons of no incon&s;iderable Quality.</P>
<P>I find its thy greate&s;t Grief, to &s;ee that there is more Unity like to be among&s;t the <HI>Di&s;&s;enting Prote&s;tants,</HI> than ever was heretofore; and I doubt thou art jealous, that if they hold together, &s;uch <HI>Church of England-King's-Prote&s;tants</HI> as thou art, when weighed in a true <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> Scale, will be found too light in thy Profe&s;&s;ion, and <HI>Mene Tekel</HI> will be thy mo&s;t proper Motto, for all &s;uch <HI>Papi&s;ts in Ma&s;querade.</HI></P>
<P>Thou &s;aye&s;t,
<Q REND="margQuotes">All the Indu&s;try imaginable is u&s;ed to repre&s;ent &s;uch Per&s;ons to be the fitte&s;t Repre&s;entatives of the People, who have been in actual Arms again&s;t his Maje&s;ty and his Royal Father: Nay, as it is credibly reported, one was re|commended to a Neighbouring Burrough, who was not only of the Council of State, and had abjured <HI>Charles Stuart,</HI> but had &s;aid beyond Sea, at the time of the Murther of the late King, That rather than he &s;hould want an Executioner, he would come over and do the Office.</Q></P>
<P>Some are &s;o bold and impudent as to be &s;patter Mr. Sheriff <HI>BETHEL</HI> with this Calumny; and they do not &s;tick to &s;ay, that he wrote &s;o from beyond the Seas; and why? He is known to be an <HI>ab&s;olute Enemy to the bloody-minded Papi&s;ts,</HI> a Man of a <HI>Sober Life,</HI> a Man of <HI>great parts,</HI> and very <HI>Zealous</HI> for the <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Kingdom's &s;afety,</HI> and all &s;uch men mu&s;t expect to have Thanks returned only by &s;uch Pens as thine. Find me out one man that is Vigorous and Active for our &s;afety, and if he e&s;capes this Fate, let me be choak't with <HI>Godfrey's Cravat.</HI> Sir <HI>William Waller</HI> he is extream|ly Indu&s;trious to pre&s;erve the <HI>Prote&s;tant Religion,</HI> and the <HI>Peace</HI> of the <HI>Kingdom,</HI> What's he in your Opinion? Without doubt a <HI>Heretick,</HI> a <HI>Schi&s;matick,</HI> an <HI>Enemy to the KING,</HI> a <HI>Di&s;turber of</HI> I&s;raels <HI>Quiet,</HI> a <HI>Di&s;&s;enter,</HI> or at be&s;t but a <HI>Common-Wealth's Prote&s;tant.</HI> We doubt not but our pre&s;ent <HI>Lord Mayor,</HI> being eminently Active and Serviceable for a general Good, &s;hall in a little time have the &s;ame <HI>particular Thanks</HI> from &s;uch a <HI>Prote&s;tant Pen</HI> as yours is; but alas! &s;uch <HI>Eagles</HI> as the&s;e are, do not ca&s;t an Eye upon every <HI>Rook</HI> or <HI>Jack-Daw;</HI> they mind more lofty things, than &s;uch lying Pamphlets; whil&s;t your Tribe is bu&s;ie like Moths to eat up their Reputa|tion, they are only Solicitous to wrap them&s;elves and us in PEACE here, and in GLORY hereafter.</P>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>J. B.</HI> 1681.</P>
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