The dissenter's sayings, in requital for L'Estrange's sayings published in their own words for the information of the people / by Roger L'Estrange.

Notes on Sect. 13.

IN (A) we have only Men of Blood, pressing for Blood; and nothing less than the Blood of a Tender, a Religious, a Protestant, and their Native Prince, will content them. The War is now transferr'd from Popery to Tyranny: The Masque is taken off; and it is down∣right Treason, and Blood that is Charged upon him by the Army. And what was it, but the Dissenting Pulpits that put these Diabolical Thoughts into their Hearts; These Bloody Words into their Mouths; and the very Swords into their Hands? Who but the Godly, Peace∣able Ministers, the Zealous Protestants, (as They make bold to call themselves) and just such Protestants, as Ministers, to a Scruple. Murther, Blood, Cruelty, Tyranny, says Brooks, (B) and see then how this Parricidal Evangelist bellows for the Execution of Justice; which was, in English, the King's Murther. In (C) you have ano∣ther of the Stamp, pressing the same Point, and upon the same Foundation too; (for shedding Innocent Blood) with an Insinuation of no less than the Mind of God for their warrant. In (D) you have one of our Re-reformers bestriding two Kings at a Step. And in (E) ano∣ther of the same Tribe, with the Rights of the Church in one Scale, the Blood and Treasure of His Sacred Majesty, and so many Thousands of his Loyal Subjects, in the other, and all too little to weigh against a

Cross, and an Altar. (F) Is only a Defence of the Execution, by a Regicide: And in (G) the Change of Government approved by a Republican.

To wind up all now in a word. The Presbyterians (you see) hold Toleration to be the Source of all Heresies; utterly Unlawful, Insuf∣ferable, Impious, and Destructive, both of Church and State. The Independent qualifies it, with some Restrictions, to their own advan∣tage; but Episcopacy and Presbytery find no Quarter. They are at War among themselves, upon an Inconsistency of Principles; and openly profess their reciprocal Animosities to be matter of Conscience. The Ci∣v••l Government passes with them for Tyrannical, and the Ecclesiasti∣cal for Antichristian. They stick to their Covenant to the Death; and the Roman Papacy it self, even in their own accounts of it, is not more bloodily Rigorous in Impositions upon Conscience, than the Papal Presbytery, according to the Testimony of their Words and Actions. The Imperial Authority of the Crown is wholly swallow'd up in the Transcendent Usurpations of the Kirk. Their Positions are not only Ruinous to the Peace of This Government, but to the very Being also of Government it self. Their very Assembly of Divines, did not only Animate the Sedition, and Encourage the bringing of the Late King to the Block; but several eminent Members of it pass'd an approbation of that Vnspeakable Villany, after the Fact was committed; and frighted the People, in their Pulpits, out of their Christianity and Allegiance, into an Enthusiastick Rage, after Confusion and Blood.

Sum up all This now; and try if you can Reconcile These People, in their Practices and Opinions, even to their very Selves.