The observator observed, or, Animadversions upon observations on the history of King Charles wherein that history is vindicated, partly illustrated, and severall other things tending to the rectification of some publique mistakes, are inserted : to which is added, at the latter end, the observators rejoinder.

Addenda to the Observator Observed.

PAge 6. l. 8. After the end of the Paragraph. But if any de∣mand what made King James so stout an adversary of the Arminians, the Observator hath an answer ready minted, an exceeding good one I assure you, and for which the Ar∣minians have reason to thank him: Reason of State, he saith, it was, and King-Craft: how so? because [the Arminians were united into a party under the command and counte∣nance of Olden-Barnevelt, and by him used to undermine the power of Maurice then Prince of Orange] so then by the Ob∣servators own inference, Reason of State and King-Craft will not tolerate the Arminians in a Commonwealth; and if so, they well deserved the name of a Faction, as he page 73. most aptly stileth them, as men having as strong a tang of the Jesuites in Practical, as Dogmatical concernments; and in∣deed a Faction, a turbulent, seditious Faction, the united Pro∣vinces found them all along from the first of their spawning there; more especially in that wicked conspiracy of Barne∣velt who suffered most condignly upon that very account 1619, and in no less damnable and hellish plot, about three years after, wherein the States sitting in Councel at the Hague, and after them all other anti-Arminian Magistrates were destined to slaughter: but this plot aborting and mis∣carrying, the next was to murder the Prince of Orange, to seise upon the Magazines, to displace all Officers both mar∣tial and civil, and commit an horrid Massacre upon all of different belief; all which was by a blessed providence discovered and prevented, four of the principal conspirators hanged, and the rest some imprison'd, others banisht. This was the deportment of the Observators Faction in the Ne∣therlands, an argument they are none of the best Subjects, be their Doctrine as Orthodox as they pretend.

Page 10. l. Penult. At this mark * But seeing the Observa∣tor so disliketh this impulsive of Irregularity, I will take it

again & by exchange afford him another for it, which though not so publiquely declared, yet was by knowing men in those affairs beheld as the real and genuine cause of this Commission, and that was the Archbishops refusal to license Dr. Sibthorp's Book. But be the impulsive to it what it will, sure I am Sr. Henry Martin told the Bishops they would incur a praemunire did they act by this Commission, and that Legally the Commission which should impower them ought to proceed from the Archbishop, not from the King: to whose advice the Bishops did so far listen as they superse∣ded and forbore to act untill a while after they obtained leave and Commission from the Archbishop.

FINIS.