speciAL

coLLeccioNS

t)OUQLAS

LibRARy
queeN's uNiveRsiiy
AT klNQSrON
kiNQSTON

ONTARIO

CANADA

SHORT HISTORT,
AND

VINDICATION
O

T H

REVOLUTION.
COLLECTED
Out of

the

N G

O F T H E

Learned Bifliop

Burnet,

AND
Dr.
Tantum

N N

E T.

Relligio potuit fuadere

Jufqiie

datum

malorum

feeleri!

LONDON:
Printed in the Year m.dcc.xvi.

Short Hiftory, &c.

SINCE
on which

the Lav/fulnefs of the Revolution,

others,

his

Majefty's Title is founded,

fome, and condemned by

qutftion'd by

is

is

it

to Jay in one

on v/hich

thought convenient at this Jundure

View an Account of the Principles

is

it

eftablifhed,

with what

is

offer'd in

Defence by Bifhop Burnet j together with the

Advantages gained by the Parties concerned, ta-

its

ken

from

chiefly

the

Learned Dr.

Hi-

Kenneths,

England,

Vol. 5d.
story
the Prince of Orange, the Dutch and
EngUJJj being chiefly concerned, I fhali firft lay
down v/hat the Bifhop offers in Defence of the
and then the Account he gives of
two former
Principles by which he juftifies the Condud of

of

Now

the latter.

As for the two former, he tells

K. James's AmbafTador * " prefs*d
**-:aiTd--the

Patron Cardinal CibOi

us,

That

the

Pope,

to "admit the

Rome

**

King

"

and Verfailks, and Taid when that was brought

to mediate between the Courts ci'

*'

about,

Preface to hi& Sermons, printed in 1713. p. 9.

(3
*.'

**

"

"
**

"

about, the two Kings would effedually ferve

the Caufe of the Church, and begin with the

This the Pope told

Dcftrudlion of Holland.
to the Head of the hnperial Faftion at Ro?ne,

who wrote it to the Emperor, and the

peror vvrote to the Prince of Orangey"*

told

it

to the States

who f " faw

War

Emwho
with,

France (on other Accounts) unavoidable, and

being generally believed that France and
" England were engaged in a ftrifl Alliance, it
" was free to them to begin the War where they
** hoped the Enemy was weakeft".
And now what can juflify the Prince o^ Orange
and States of Holland, if King Jameses and the
French King^s Defign to ruin them and their Re^ligion cannot ? Or what better Authorities could
they have for the Truth of it, than the Pope and
the Emperor's taking Care to prevent it, by informing the Prince of Orange what Danger
the Proteftant Religion was in?
Which will
undoubtedly be fecure for the future, fince the
Pope is againft the Growth of Popery^ and
the Emperor become Guardian of the Protejlant
*'

*'

it

Religion.

" But

was generally believed that Francewere engaged in a ftrid Alliance

And this was undoubtedly a fufficient Reafon
for the Prince of Orange and Dutch to believe it,
and depofe King James for it. For could what
it

" and England

\s

generally beitevd be poITibly falfe

and

is

it

Crown,

And

W2S,

not Hi^h Treafon^ and a Forfeit of his

for a

Monarch of England

Alliance with Prance ?

This

to

make an

will either juitify

the

Preface to his Sermons, printed in 171 3. p. 9-

*lbid.

the Dutch., or I

am

4)

fare nothing can,

Pretences being diredliy contrary to

of Chriftianity, Nature,

their other

all

the

Laws

For *

and Nations.

as

Spaniards) folemnly aflured Kin^

james^ that their Preparations were not againft
England., fo he was fo far from deflgning them

they (and

tlie

the leafl Injury, that he

would not

fo

much

as -f

confent to their beiag invaded

tho* he had fufBcient Reafon to think they were contriving his
,

Ruin

Which Behaviour as
rum Holland,

plainly difcovers his

Intentions to

as

refufing a

his

[|

French Army v/as a Proof he defigned to govern

by a French Power in England.
In (hort, fome Body told fome Body, that the
King of France and King James were for intro-

ducing Popery

to prevent which,

the Pope, the

Emperor, the Prince of Orange, the Dutch, and^

EngUJh, abdicate King James, and enter into an
Alliance to make the King of France fubmit to
the Pcpe*s Authority.
I come now to confider what the Learned Bifiiop offers in

ting to their
Firfl,

but his

Defence of the

new King.

He told

EngliJJj for

fubmic-

And,

,.'

us the EngliJIj v^ere conquerecT;

Book being

burnt by Order of the Parliaexpired with it ; and the

liament, the Notion

Lawfulnefs of

refilling

the

Supreme Magiftrate

of which Principle the Bigenerally prevailed

following
Account.
us
the
fhop gives
,

*\.
**

this

" About

the

peftiferous

End

of the eleventh Century,

Dodrine took

its

Rife,

and

" was

Hill. p. 488.

Pailoral Letter, p. 2

-[.Sermon
Edition.

at

Ibid. p.

489.

II

Ibid. p. 4S8.

Govent-Garden Church, 1674.

p. 4;.

lall

5)

" was fiift broached and vented by Pope Gre" gory VII. commonly called Hikdebrafid.''*
And in his Sermon on the 30th of J^inury^ 16S0,
p. 15. he tells us, " the reiolving all Power into
the People was firft taken up by the Affertors
of the Pope's depofing Power ; for they argued, that

if it

belonged to the People, then

the Pope, reprefenting the Univerfal

Church,

Rights did accrue to him j fo that in

their Names he was to difpofe of Crowns as
he pleafcd."
And in his F'lndicath-a of the
Church and State of Scotland, p. 69. he thinks
it better truftcd in
the Pope's than the People's
Hands So that this Principle of Power in the
People, is, according to the Bifliopj both of Popifh Origin, and for the Pope's Intereft j tho*
all their

we

are

ciple
ftant

now made

to believe

by which we can
Revolution, and

it

is

the only Prin-

juftify the glorious

illuftrious

Prote-

Hanover Suc-

ceffion.

LaflJy, There are fome few pretend the Difference of Religion j but as that was never men-

by the Convention, and is * directly conChurch of EyiglarJ\

to tiie 23d Chapter of the Prtfbyterians Confef.
fion of Faith \ to the Dodrlne and Pratflice of
our Saviour and his Apoftles, which, as the Bifhop exprefies it, t " do fo exprefly dilcharge
all BuQing and Fighting on the Pretence of
Religion, that we muff either fct up for another Gofpsl, or utterly rejecl what is fo formally condemned by the Author of this- we
tioned

trary to the Do(flrine of the

profefs to believe ;"

And

it

being only a Novel

* Sermon ^^Covent Garden Church, 16-4.

Ibid. p. 41.

p. 4;-.

(6)
vel Popifl) Notion to
ligion a

make

the Difference of

Bar to Government,

a Proteftant's

flirthcr

think

it

Re-

not worth

Confidcration.

And now with what Face can any

for the Pretender ? Or, how can
tender claim the Crown if a Papijl

Papifi be
the
?

Pre-

We

fee

was by a Popijh Principle and a Pope's Advice, that King Jam^s was dcpofed
and therefore the Pretender muft either proteft againft
his Infallibility and Supremacy, which is in Efit

fect

to turn Protefiant

the Revolution^ which

tenfions to the

is

or allow the Juftice of

to deftroy his

own

Fre-

Crown.

In fhort, no Protefiant can on thefe Principles

Revolution without embracing (as the

Bifhop words itj * one of the mod pejliferous
Popi/Jj Opinions i nor any Papift condemn it
widiout renouncing tlie Pope's Infallibility and
Supremacy, as well as the Authority of all thofe
Councils in which this Dodrine hath been con-

juftily the

firmed.

But left any Ihould doubt the Pope's being fo

deeply concerned in the EvgliJJj Revolution, I will
juft mention one or two of the Advantages he
gained by it.
And,
Plrjl, He got the Oath of Supremacy in England to be abrogated ; which was the firft f Thing
King William did, and the laft any other
Prince fince the Reformation would have done i
it being always efteemed in England the greateft
Security againft Popery, and looked on by the
Papifts as their great Rock of Offence.
Secondly,

* Sermon

at

C5=v^/-GW* Church, 1674.

Hift. p. 514.

p. 46.

(7)
Secondly,

By

Means he formed a Grand AlliFrench King; in the very firft Article

this

ance againft the

of which, the Emperor, the Dutch, and King lFi//i.im,
fvvore that they would make no Peace * '* with Lewis
" XIV. till he has made Repiration to the Holy See

whatfoever he has aled againft it, and till he

void all thofe infamous Proceedings
*' againft the Holy Father Inrtocent XI."
Thefe were the Proceedings in France againft ths
Pope; which King James was fo far from endeavouring to get abrogated, that he had them printed here in
England ; for which, and for retufing to come into the
Pope's Meafures, his Ambaflador at Rsme was treated
after the rudeft Manner, made the Jeft of that Court,
and forced to retire with Difgrace ; for, as my Hiftorian obferve5,t " Innocent having an Averfion in his
*'

for

" annul and make

to a Faiion he knew King "James was embarked in, which he never took Pains to diftemble,
*' was not over-fond of an EtnbaJJj from a Prince who
*' was in an Intereft he had long wifli'd to fee humbled,
" King James met with nothing but Mortifications
'* at Rome, in the Perfon of his Jmbajfador."
This Fan ion was made up of the French King-,
Church, and Parliament, who were defirous and endeavouring to throw ofF the Roman Bondage ; in which
Defign King James, it feems, was embarked.
And was there not therefore fufficient Reafon for tire
Pope to depofe him, and be for King William^ who
*'

Nature

*'

would acknowledge the Grand Alliance to J be the

Work of God alone, as it is in the Preamble to the Articles agreed on at the Congrefs ; and who fwore never
to make Peace with France till the Pope had Satisfaction ; which he religioufly obferved, as may be feen b/
the 4th Article of the Treaty with Spain
tho* he fa
the 3d Article where the Proteftants
little regarded
wee mentioned, that they and their Intercils ucie
;

entirely facrificed at
^/'s Hift.

Vol. III.

the Peace of Ryfivick.

p.

739

See

A^v;-

40.

As
* Hift.

p.

574.

Ibid,

p 460, 461.

-J:

Ibid

p. 574.

Emperor, he got us to fight his Battles,

and propofed greater Things to himfelf; but it was
then thought juft that the Englijh and Dutch^ who had
borne the Burden of the VVar,* fhould have, the one
the Glory, the other the Advantages of Peace
which
was accordingly made againft the Emperor's Confent,
and without including him in it ; infomuch^ that he
enter'd a publick Proteflation againft what was done ;
and yet the Perfons concerned in it were fo far from
being impeached of High Treafon, that no Acknowledgments were thought fuificient to reward the Service

As

for the

they had done.

The

Dutch were well paid for fending f us a Kitg,

Money and Trade from us, and have gained a
fine Country and ftrong Barrier from the French.
The Prince of Orange got a Crown.
got our

And we above Twenty Years ruinous War ; an Expence of above One Hundred and Twenty Millions of
Money, with a prodigious Effufion ot Blood ; the
Eftablifhment of Piefbytery on the Ruins of Epifcopacy
and in the Church of England a woful
in Scotland
Schifm and a SucceiTion of Prudent, Pious, Proteftant
an imparPrinces ; together with a Free Parliament
tial Diftribution of Juftice, and a glorious Profpel for
us and our Pofterity ; every Way anfwering the Merits
of an EngliJ}} Revolution, a Scotch Reformation^ and an
-y

-,

Hanover
*

Succejfion.

Hift. p. 738, 739.

I'oid.

FINIS.

p.

534-