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Excerpt from A Second Pacquet of Advices and Animadversions Sent to the Men of Shaftsbury: Occasioned by Several Seditious Pamphlets Spread Abroad to Pervert the People, Since the Publication of the Former Pacquet
If'it be objee'ted, that abundance ofthe engaged men, and molt of thofe that feem'd to favour the Fefiz'm, were never known to be afie&ed for Prerbytery, nor meant they any fuch thing To this I anfwer, Tis no matter whether they did affee't and mean it or no 5 we know what they mult have done at lalt For, ifthey once be drawn in to, vote and 361 along with a Party, whofe hufinefs hath been' by Prints and otherwife, to cry down the Natioml Charo/a Government 05 bilhops, they mult of necelfity, after they come to be throughly engaged, run along With them to overthrow it, and ereet the other in its room 5 they two, viz. Epzfcopeeie and Prerejter], being in the Proteltant Ghurches the onely Competitors for the National Farm and as long as our Nation is, and is ever like to be, 'for the having oftfome fuch Form, if the prime Leaderr and Pro jeeiorr lead you by thenofe to the driving out the one F orm, 'they are not {itch {hallow Politicians, as not to un derttand that you, as well as they, will of courfe, be nee ceffitated to let up the other And your Leaderrealfo themfelvesrthough perhaps they care for no Form nor Church-get if they -will'hold the ground they may hap to 9 get by'your help, towards their own greatnefs and advan t'age, ' will be under the fame necefiity of fetting it Up, though they really never liked it, nor intended it before yea, 'tis not improbable they may hap to come unto fuch a pats as to think well of-the old Form again, after they: by ruining it have obtained their own ambitious ends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
