Mr. Roger Le Stranges sayings with brief notes to prevent misapprehensions.

Mr. Roger Le Stranges sayings with brief notes to prevent misapprehensions.

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Mr. Roger Le Strange's SAYINGS With Brief NOTES to prevent miſapprehenſions. And ſome Additional REASONS to prove him,

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Mr. Roger Le Strange's SAYINGS With Brief NOTES to prevent miſapprehenſions. And ſome Additional REASONS to prove him,

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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.’

Comment.

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.’

Comment.

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.’

Comment.

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.’

Comment.

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.’

Comment.

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 Ibidem, p. 95.’

Comment.

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.’

Comment.

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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.’

Comment.

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.’

Comment.

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.’

Comment.

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.’

Comment.

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.’

Comment.

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.’

Comment.

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.’

Comment.

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.’

Comment.

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

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

Comment.

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.’

Comment.

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.’

Comment.

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.’

Comment.

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.’

Comment.

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.’

Comment.

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.’

Comment.

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] 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.’

Comment.

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.’

Comment.

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.

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LONDON, Printed for Langley Curtis on Ludgate-hill. 1681.

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