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They who had formerly heard the frequent Sermons upon Loyalty preach'd over Tea an•• Coffee at Sam's Coffee-House, would hardly then have believ'd that ever any Clergyman of Lon∣don of that stamp, would have been seen in publick pickeering a∣gainst the Orders of his Prince, especially issued forth after ma∣ture debate in Council. I know not kow he can boast such a vast
stock of Loyalty as this Gentleman pretends to, when he shall be so homely as to tax the King with following Council to the Ruin of his Subjects. So that the business of this Pamphlet is to render his Majesty a person that follows ill Counsel to the Ruin of the Church of England's Party. Nor is it to be question'd but that this single Clergyman speaks the sense of many more, or at least would have many more believe, what he does. That what course soever they take they shall be undone. And yet we find that his Majesty has publickly declar'd it to be his Aim to fix his Govern∣ment upon such a Foundation as may make his Subjects happy in the injoyment of their Religion with freedom of Exercise, and their Property without Invasion. However this Loyal Town Cler∣gyman is an Infidel that will give no credit at all to the solemn At∣testations of the King in this particular. Nay he will have it, that both the one and the other side will conclude that they have undon them∣selves, and fall like fools; that is to say, should they have Read the Declaration in their Churches according to the order of Council. By which it is apparant that the Church of England men have a very bad opinion not only of the Declaration, but of the very de∣sign and meaning of it as if it were fram'd to draw them first into Inconvenience and then to undo them. For says he,