1. No Papist. ‘FInding the Town in a Tumult, the Sea before me and the Enemy behind me, I took a Boat and with much difficulty Escaped— Le'Strang's Apology. p. 4.’

This a Specimen of the Gentlemans Valor, the Wits are seldom Celebrated for Hero's, he defies his Enemy you see with his Posteriors and running away is, as Familiar with him, as his own Fiddle or Madam Bs. Base-viol.

2. ‘A Citizens Skul is but a thing to try the temper of a Soldiers Sword upon, Ibidem. p. 48.’

This is spoken out of Pure Affection to the Citizens, and shews their Pates are good for something else, besides Petitioning. A Popish Successor will confirm the truth of this Aphorism.

3. ‘The Very mention of a Parliament Inrages them, and there is reason for it, their Heads are forfeited, and if the Law lives, they must Perish: But all this while, are not we in a good Condition, when the Transgressors of the Law, must be the Judges of it, Ibidem. p. 51.’

The Devil himself sometimes speaks truth, though, against his Will. But the Pri­vate Cabal will con him no thanks for this Description.

4. ‘We do further Engage in the presence of Almighty God, that if any Person or Persons impose upon us any other Government, Inconsistent with or destructive of Parliaments, we will prosecute him or them as Betrayers of the Peoples Rights, and Subverters of the Fundamental Laws of the English Nation, Ibidem. p. 52.’

Is not this to Justifie an Association: But have the People indeed any such Rights and Fundamental Laws, Sir Poll, we thank you. And resolve Sixteen more of your Dialogues shall perswade us to part with them to any such Tories as you talk of, who would Impose Devillish Popery and French Slavery upon the Free-born Protestant People of England.

5. ‘Of Men will be Damn'd, they had better Dam Rich than Poor, and keep their Lacquies and their Whores, and at last go to Hell in Triumph, Ibidem. p. 93.’

Our Author has endeavored to put this wholsom Doctrine in Practice, and Tugg'd hard at the Quill this many a fair day for a Secretaries place, or some other Court-Preferment. And 'tis no small grief to him, that after all, he should be disap­pointed and go to Old Nick, a Beggar.

6. ‘As there's no Fool to the old one, so there's no Knave to the old one I bidem, p. 95.’

Undoubtedly this Oracle is pronounced from Experience, for the Author himself is got to his grand Climacterick.

7. ‘ Friendless abroad and Comfortless at home, as Guilty and as Desperate as Cain, Ibidem p. 47.’

This is an abrupt part of a Prophesie and you must send to some Holy-Road, for an Interpretation.

8. ‘That there are Rogues, there is no question, but yet I should be loath to pass for one, Ibi­dem, p. the last.’

Can you blame our Author therefore for protesting before the King and Councel, and Swaggering since in Print, that he is no Papist, nor any more concerned in the Plot, than the Pope of Rome.

9. ‘The Independents Murthered Charles Stuart, but the Presbyterians Killed the King; State Divinity Printed 1661. The Presbyterians brought him to the Block, the Indepen­dents Murthered him; the Presbyterians held him by the Hair, whilst the Independents Cut off his Head. The Presbyterians bound and prostituted the Virgin, and the Inde­pendents were the Ravishers: Relapsed Apostate, p. 120. Printed 1661.’

These are very Edifying sayings which have been worn threadbare in the Pulpit, and made two Hundred and Fifty little Parsons pass in spight of Nature and Truth at once both for Wits and Loyalists.

10. ‘Bless us from a Gun! State Divinity, p. 22.’

So say I too; and all its Paper-Bullets. But how the Squire will answer this rash Ejaculation to his Trusty Friend Harry is left to be determined by the Criticks Spiritual and Temporal at Sam's.

11. ‘Are not Knaves and Fools, the greatest part of the World? Ibidem, p. 29.’

Can ye blame the Squire then, for Herding with the Biggest Party!

12. ‘There are some People believe, that I write for an Halter and have a mind to save my longing, Ibidem, p. 44.’

The Laborer is worthy of his Hire, and no doubt, but in due time, the Gentleman may have both his Desires and Deserts in this particular.

13. ‘Heark ye Gentlemen! Between Jest and Earnest I have away of Fooling, will go near to put your Gravities out of Countenance; Relapsed Apostate in the Introduction.’

This looks like the very Syre of Heraclitus Ridens. And indeed for Religion in Jest and Fooling in Earnest, there's not a Merry-Andrew in all the Town can Match his (late) Worship.

14. ‘What Peace can they expect from others that are at War within themselves, whose very thoughts are Whips, and their own Consciences their own Tormentors? Ibidem, p. 4.’

This may be one main Reason why our Dog-Towzer, that has been a Pestilent Con­ney-catcher in his time, is always Snarling and Barking, and can never lye quiet in his Kennel.

15. ‘Betwixt Hanging and Transplanting all Men of different Opinions there must needs ensue a Pleasant State of Concord. Ibidem, p. 116.’

Yet this is that very Pleasant State, this Worthy Author if he had but as much Power as Malice, would reduce us to.

[Page 3] 16. ‘A furious Bussle the Presbyterians make with the Silly People for fear of Popery, Ibid p. 140.’

This was a Preparatory Lullaby, that Popery might catch us Napping and none dare speak against it for fear of being stigmatized for Presbyterians.

17. ‘'Tis not every Bodies Lot to Live like a Knave and Dye like an Honest Man, A Whip, A Whip, in the Preface.’

Is Saul also amongst the Prophets? sure the Man is turn'd Fortune-teller and presa­ges his own Destiny.

18. ‘I defie Malice it self to charge me with any sort of Malevolence toward the Church or State, which even a Packt Jury would dare to give credit to. Further Discovery. p. 3.’

This you are bound to believe on pain of Curse Canonical; for so choice was his Innocence, that he durst not trust it in the hands of the Highest and most Honor­able C [...]urt in the Nation, but fled and sneakingly sent his Wife to pretend he durst not appear for fear of Man-takers and Bumbailies, How A Licenser, and a Pa­tentee and a Gazetter, and a Justice, and the Devil and all, and yet want a Protecti­on for the Shoulder? This 'tis to Play all Night at Lantreloe with Rooking Ladies.

19. ‘I defie any Man to produce another Gentleman in the Kings Dominions under my Cir­cumstances, that hath Suffered so many Illegal, Arbitrary and mean Injustices from a­ny of the Abusers of the Kings Bounty, insomuch that after One and Thirty Years Faithful Service to the Crown, the Bread hath been taken out of my Mouth, and in a large proportion Shared amongst some of those very People that pursued the late King to the Block-English-mans Birth-Right, p. 14.’

Alas poor Towzer! he can Open you see against Majesty upon occasion and upbraid the King with his Services, and in effect charge him with Ingratitude and Injustice; yet still the Gentleman may vaunt his Loyalty, though 'tis not the Cause, but the Crust he values.

20. ‘You may as well bring Heaven and Hell together as to Reconcile those People, call'd Ea­naticks or Non-conformists and Dessenters to any Terms of Piety or Civil Order, Further Discov. p. 18.’

What follows then, but you must Cut their Throats or Knock out their Brains to rid the World of such Incorrigible Hereticks, as your good Friends in Ireland did in the famous 41. This you would be at, but Curst Cows, God be thanked, have short Horns.

21. ‘Religion is a Spiritual Notion, out of the reach of Violence, and neither to be Invaded, nor kept out by Force, Ibidem. p. 20.’

Why then need the Government trouble it self with making Laws either to exclude Popery or suppress Presbytery.

22. ‘Who knows not, that Interest Governs the World, and that for Reasons best known to themselves, he that is a Protestant in his Heart, may be induced rather to appear a Pa­pist; and the other, though a Papist in his Heart, may find it his Interest yet to seem a Protestant, Ibidem, p. 30.’

The first part of this is unsupposable, because Protestants can have no Dispensations to help them out, but the latter clause is a very truth and 'tis Forty to one, but this Author is an instance of it.

[Page 4] 23. ‘Confound us, if we do not agree and Resolve to serve God and Honor the King, Ibidem. p. 47.’

‘Let the World Renounce me, If I am less Innocent than I say I am or less dutiful, then I have been, State Divinity, p. 61.’

‘I am (by my hopes of Heaven) a true Son of the Church of England, Furth. Disc. p. 2. All this is true by the Faith of a poor Gentleman, that has worn his Doublet out at the Elboes in His Majesties Service, Reformed Catholick, p. 3.’

‘By the Everliving God, it is false as if he swore, I had come down the Chimney on a Broomstick, Le Strange, no Papist.’

Swearing is so natural to this Worshipful Son of the Church, that you see, he can­not forbear it in Print. But who knows not the Proverb—he that will Swear, will lye.

24. ‘We find the Court dangerously thronged with Parasites, Knaves represented to the King for Honest Men, and Honest Men for Villains. Caveat for Caveliers, p. 12.’

Had any Body else said half so much, it had been an Arraignment of the Govern­ment, and at least three quarters Treason, but this thinks, he has License to a­buse either Court, Parliament, City, Country, or the Protestant Religion, when­ever the humor takes him, or H. B. for satisfaction of old Scores calls upon him for a Pamphlet.

Some Additional Reasons to prove Roger Le Strange, No Papist.

• First, because he says and swears he is none in this Juncture, when 'tis very much his In­terest to be thought not to be so. Though formerly when the Papal Stream ran high he acknowledged (as 'tis attested by Unbiassed proof) that he was of that Church, whereof the Pope was Head.
• 2. Because a Man that never practised any serious Acts of Religion in his Life, ought rather to be accounted an Atheist, than a Papist.
• 3. Because amongst all the Swarms of his sticht Tomes and six-penny Volumes, he never wrote one line against Popery, though he has translated Father Bona the Jesuit, to render that party more Acceptable for their Devotions, but on all occasions and in­deed without any, has claw'd off Protestants and endeavored to Widen the differen­ces between them, as heartily as either Philanax, or Goddin, or Serjeant could do for their Guts.
• 4. Because ever since the Discovery of the Popish Plot, he has endeavored to Ridicule all the Evidence, and to shamm it upon the Presbyterians, and divert the chase against Pa­pists, and smooth the way for the Meal-tub-Plot and Fitz Harrises &c.
• Lastly, Because that after all this Bussle and so many charges against him, and the nume­rous trifling Apologies, he has pestered the town with. He never yet durst pretend or offer the least-shadow of Proof. That for 18 long years together viz. between the year 1660 & 1678. he ever did frequent his Parish Church, according to Law or received the Sacrament there, as the Rubrick requires, now if he never (ordinarily) came at any Protestant Church, nor Communicated in its Sacraments in so many years, (and if he had, no doubt, but he would have told us of it) does it not roundly follow, that he is a notable true dutiful Son of the Church Establish't, very fit to be her Champion, and to upbraid those that agree in her Doctrin, and often joyn in her Communion? But since the Plot broke out and he was more violently suspected, and charged for a Papist, he has (as he pretends) gone to Church sometimes and taken the Sacrament in Hol­land, and is not this, (though, for 18 years before he made no Conscience on't) enough to prove him a sound Church man and no Papist? Yes, verily, and therefore be satisfy­ed, for that's all the Substantial Reason that (after all his Fooling) you are ever like to get from him.