A Book, Entituled, A Discovery of Treason, Printed at Cambridge for Charles Morden, a Bookseller there, and commonly said to have been Penn'd by Mr. Jenner of Gaius College, one of the King's Chaplains, and Prebendary of the Church of Sarum, hath publickly under­taken to prove Dr. Whithy (Praecentor of the same Church, and Confessedly, the Author of The Protestant Reconciler) Guilty of Treason; an Encourager of the New Plot; a Giver out unto the the People, That the King and Gover­nors were and are the Betrayers of their Liberties; and therefore deserve Death. This in General; and in the Title Page of the Book.

[Page 4] In the Book it self (beginning at p. 60) 'tis proved against the said Daniel Whitby, D. D.

• 1. That his Design is malicious and Treasonable, not only towards the King, but also towards the Gover­nors of Church and State, Pag. 60.
• 2. That he scandalously makes the King and Governors, The Authors of all our present Schism and Factions, Pag. 61.
• 3. That he affirms an Horrid Schism, with all its dreadful Consequences, to have been Caused (he does not say Occasioned) by the Imposition of them, throughout the Body of the Nation, pag. 62.
• 4. That according to the said Dr. Whit­by, in his Libellous Book; The King and Governors, are proud Men, and the Plagues of the Earth, for Imposing things Indifferent, p. 67.
• [Page 5] 5. That he the said Dr. Whitby, hath east a great Lye on the King and Go­vernment.
• 6. That according to him the said Dr. Whitby, The King and Governors de­serve Death, for Imposing things In­different, p. 68, 69.
• 7. That (according to him the said Dr. Whitby) the King and Governors are Traitors to the Common-wealth, and Betrayers of the People's Liberties: and that the People ought not to yield to their Impositions; but ought to Re­bel, and vindicate their Christian Li­berty; p. 70, 71, &c.
• 8. That never did Hugh Peters Preach and Print greater Treason than the said Dr. Whitby; upon the pretended force of whose Treasonable Argument, Oliver and the Rump, with their Re­bellious Army, cut off King Charles the First his Head, p. 71, 72, 73.
• [Page 6] 9. That the King and Governors are af­firmed by Dr. Whitby, to want Piety and Prudence, in their imposing upon the People things Indifferent, p. 74, 75.
• 10. That the said Dr. Whitby does again sound the Trumpet to a New Rebellion, odiously and maliciously mis­representing the King and Governors unto the People, as Idiots and Fools, as Wicked and Ʋngodly, p. 76.
• 11. That according to him the said Dr. Whitby, The King and Governors are the Destroyers of the work of God, and the Murderers of myriads of Souls, by imposing things Indifferent, p. 77.
• 12. That he the said Dr. Whitby, feigns the King to command Men to sin, when he commands their Obedience to things Indifferent, p. 79, 80.

Having Collected this single dozen of remarkable things in that Book, which [Page 7]its Author hath Entituled, A New Dis­covery of Treason, and faithfully cited the several Pages wherein the Proofs are to be seen by every Reader; and where the Pages of Dr. Whitby, in his Libel­lous Book, Entituled, The Protestant Reconciler, are cited also: I do not wonder that the said Libel was made an Example of at Oxford, where 'twas pub­lickly Condemned to be Burn'd Alive, like an Arrant Witch; because it had been known too well to have Bewitched silly Creatures of each Sex with Rebelli­ous Disaffections both to the King, and the Church of England. And Rebelli­on being a Sin like the Sin of Witchcraft, 'tis not strange the Witch was burn'd. Nor do I wonder, that the Author of the New Discovery of Treason, has stig­matiz'd Dr. Whitby as the Scurrillous Reconciler, p. 66. or as a second Hugh Peters, p. 72. or as a Janus with two [Page 8]Faces, p. 65. whose Practices in a Ca­thedral (for the Keeping of Four Pre­ferments, enough for Four Better Men) do flatly contradict his Arguments for Non-Compliance, and Non-Conformity. Nor do I wonder, that the People do Nick-Name him Whigby, who has bro­ken all the Statutes of God and Man, to Patronize the worst things in our Modern Whiggs; and to make them much worse than before they were. I do not wonder, that Mr. Thomas (a ve­ry loyal and learned Writer) hath, in his excellent Remarks on the Prote­stant Reconciler, put the saddest Dilem­ma on Dr. Whitby, that ever was put by a good Logician upon an ill one: A Dilemma, which evinceth him to be the worst of Men or Monsters, let him take which part he will, p. 4. Nor do I wonder, that Mr. Thomas hath proved the Railings of Fanaticks to be made [Page 9]by Dr. Whitby, his own intirely, pag. 4. and 5. And that by three several Ca­nons now in force, to wit, the Fourth, Sixth and Tenth, Dr. Whitby stands sen­tenced unto an Excommunication, pag. 5 and 6, &c. Nor do I wonder, that Mr. Thomas (though of the greatest Mode­ration) has told the World in plain Eng­lish, That he (the said Dr. Whitby) has plaid the Knave with two Kings, pag. 10. for he proves the Accusation by unan­swerable Arguments, pag. 11, 12, 13, &c. And other Arguments there are, which never yet came to that Author's Ears. I do not wonder, that Dr. Womock, (now Lord Bishop of St. Davids) in his most excellent Book, entituled, (Suf­fragium Protestantium) hath publickly Gibbetted Dr. Whitby, as the weakest of Logicians, and worst of Men. Nor do I wonder, that such an Apostate, in his Protestant Joyner, has shew'd his Malice [Page 10] against the King's Commissioners at the Savoy, pag. 39, 40, 197, 198, 199, 330, 331. against the right Reverend Bishop Taylor, Bishop Davenant, Dr. Potter, Dr. Tillotson, Dr. More, Dr. Burnet, Mr. Falk­ner, Judge Hales, and others, in too ma­ny Passages of his Libel to be here num­ber'd up, though I have them ready. Much less do I wonder at his Abuses of the Learned and Reverend Dr. Stilling­fleet, as hypocritical and sensless, pag. 297, 298, 301, 302, 363. or as a Man of weak Evasions, pag. 81, 82. much less yet at his avowed Partiality to the Schisma­ticks, pag. 202, 203, 205, as far as to pag. 208. and again, p. 320, 363, 364. Last of all, I do not wonder, that such a Monster of Ingratitude to his own very good Lord, from whose Bounty he hath his Bread, should reproachfully brand so great a Prelate, as the right Reverend Bishop of Sarum, under the Notion of [Page 11] Patron; To whose Instructions and Exam­ple, Discourse and Counsel, he owes the small Improvements which he hath hitherto at­tained: Yea, from whose Favours and Pro­tection, he derives the Comforts and Sa­tisfactions of his Life; yes, and the En­couragement of all his Labours. By all which sly Insinuations, under the colour of a Complement in a Dedicatory Epistle, 'tis hard to say, how many ways he hath publickly injur'd so great a Father of the Church; as if the whole Crop of Mis­chiefs which his Protestant Reconciler had done in England, had taken Root from his Lordship's Discourse and Bounty. I say, I do not wonder at any one of these E­normities, or at all put together: I do not wonder at his Zeal, his impertinent Zeal, his Zeal against Knowledge, (ra­ther than without it) for the Bill of Ex­clusion; or at the Timeing of his Libel against the Government, when the King [Page 12]was at New-Market, design'd for Slaugh­ter in his Return. I do not wonder at any Wickedness which hath proceeded, or may proceed from the worst of Men: An Episcopal-Presbyterian, a Canonical-Cathedral-Fanatical-Anarchical-Repub­lican, an Antimonarchical-Cromwellian-Shaftsburian-Royalist; an half-faced, whole-faced, two-faced Brother.

But I and multitudes do wonder from day to day, and think we can never won­der enough, that after so many lesser Cri­minals have been Hang'd, Drawn and Quarter'd, for fewer Crimes, less notori­ous than in Print; this Protestant Joyner, in whose Printed Libel Stephen College still lives, is not yet Indicted by any Grand-Jury, for the Sedition, or the Trea­son whereof he stands charged by Mr. Jenner, (if he is as really as reputedly the Author of the Book, which occasions mine) but still lives wallowing in his ma­ny [Page 13]and great Preferments, and slips his Neck out of every Collar prepared for, and due to him; meerly by the Verbal Mockery of a pretended Recantation, which cost him nothing but the Plea­sure of out-witting his Governors, by a Part acted in a Comical way; besides the Pleasure of being known (by that Side-wind) to have been indeed the Au­thor of that Famous Book, whereof till then he was but suspected. And the Comical Recantation (in but one transi­ent Observator) had this remarkable Be­ginning: I Daniel Whitby, D.D. Chan­ter of Sarum, and Rector of the Parish-Church of St. Edmunds, in the City and Diocess of Sarum, having been the Author of a Book, called, the Protestant Recon­ciler, which through want of Prudence and Deference to Authority, I have caused to be Printed and Published; am truly and heartily sorry for the same, and for the E­vil [Page 14]Influence it hath had upon the Dissen­ters from the Church of England, Establsh­ed by Law, or otherwise, &c.

Now, though the Loyal and Learn­ed Author, who Penn'd and Publish'd The New Discovery of Treason, hath pro­ved the Design of the Protestant Recon­ciler to be nothing but Anarchy and Con­fusion in Church and State, (pag. 82.) which is a greater Treason than that for which by Law he is to be Hang'd, (pag. 80.) Yet so far hath he been from being Executed at Tyburn, or Degraded from his Priesthood, or under Excom­munication, or Imprisonment for Life, or so much as suspended from any Pro­fits of his Preferments, that under the Notion of Recanting, he has owned that Libel which was the Joy of his poor Heart, and the Delight of his Evil Eyes; that which made him so dear [Page 15]to the Disaffected of every sort; and lastly, procur'd him Letters of Thanks from the Anabaptists of Munster, from the New-England Congregations, and from the Quakers of Pensilvania. All Three Printed at London for Benjamin Took, 1683.

Whosoever shall well consider, what a Judgment was pronounced in the Court of King's-Bench in Trinity-Term, vicesimo nono Caroli Secundi, against Mr. Joseph Brown, meerly for Publish­ing an unlicensed Book, called, The Long Parliament Dissolved; and shall com­pare the signal Favor which was shewn to the said Brown, by the same House of Commons; which the very next Day fell so severely on Mr. Thompson, (now Dean of Bristol) will justly wonder, that our Grand-Juries have been as of­ten [Page 16]in a deep Sleep, as Dr. Whitby, and his Sedition, (supposing it does not amount to Treason) hath been omit­ted in their Indictments.