Notes upon §. 6.

IT is but suitable that the Blasphemy, Heresy, and Sedition that went to the Framing of this Oath of Conspiracy, should be follow'd with an answerable measure of Wickedness, in the promoting of it, and in the Execution: Whereof you have here Three Notorious Instances. (Num. 1, 2, 3.) And a Clause that draws Blood upon the King himself. (4) A Brand upon all the Refusers of it; (5) And another Sanguinary Clause. (6) A Protestation against Soveraign Authority. (7) And a Jesuitical Exposition of the meaning of it. (8. 9.) The Breach of it, no less than a Sin against the Holy Ghost. (10) And the Murther of the Late King Iustifi'd, upon the Obligation of it. (11) The Malice of the Confederacy own'd at the last Gasp. (12) A most Impious and Phantastical Exagge∣ration of the blessed Privileges of that Brand. (13) The Cheat. (14) And a Foppish Allusion to the pretended Solemnity and Sacredness of it. Page  37 (15) So that upon the main, the Covenanters do assert, First, the In∣dissolvable Tye of That Oath: Secondly, the Intent of it to be the Dissolution of the Government: And in the Third place, so often as every they move for a Toleration, they do as good as desire the King in plain Terms, That he will be Graciously pleased to give them leave to serve his Majesty as they did his Father.