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THE ILL Effects of Animosities AMONG PROTESTANTS IN ENGLAND DETECTED: AND The necessity of Love unto, and Confidence in one another, in order to withstand the Designs of their Common Enemies, laid open and enforced.
Every Kingdom divided against it self, is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against it self, shall not stand.
Dum pugnant singuli, universi vincuntur.
Printed in the Year 1688.
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IT is long since the Court of England, under the Authority of the late King and his Brother, was embarked in a design of subverting the Protestant Religion, and of introducing and establishing Popery. For the two Royal Brothers being in the time of their Exile seduced by the Caresles and importunities of their Mother, allured by the promises and favours of Popish Princes, and being wheedled by the Crafts and Arts of Priests and Jesuits, who are cunning to deceive, and knew how to prevail upon persons, that were but weakly established in the Doctrine, and wholly strangers to the practice and power of the Religion they were tempted from; they not only abjured the Reformed Religion, and became reconciled to the Church of Rome, but by their example, and the influence which they had over those that depended upon them both for present subsistence and future hopes, they drew many that accompanied them in their Banishment, to renounce the Doctrine, Worship, and Communion of the Church of England, though in the War between Charles I. and the Parliament, they had pretended to fight for them in equal conjunction with the Prerogatives of the Crown. So that upon the Restoration in the year 1660. they were not only moulded and prepared themselves for promoting the desires of the Pope and his Emissaries, but they were furnished with a stock of Gentlemen out of whom they might have a supply of Instruments both in Parliament and elsewhere, to cooperate with, and under them, in the methods that should be judged most proper and subservient to the extirpation of Protestancy, and the bringing the Nation again into a servitude to the Triple Crown. And besides the Obligations, that the Principles of the Religion to which they had revolted, laid them...