behind_, in their _Good Wills_, and _Affections_: Nay, and in their
_Communicating_ with the _Church_ in the _Morning_, and in the
_Afternoon_, with the _Schism_: And pray will you Note in them, One
Thing _More_ too. 'Tis worth the while, when they _Ramble_ from their
_Own Parish_, to _Observe_ whither they go: For I have known the very
_Streets Throng'd_, out of Distance of _Hearing One Word_ that the
_Minister says_, with the _Same Superstition_, that the _Quakers Flock_
to the _Door_, when they are _Lock'd-out_ of the _Meeting-House_: In
which Case, It has yet the _Semblance_ of a _Private Meeting_; And in
Truth, looks liker a _Political Muster_, then a _Religious Exercise_:
But Heark ye for One Word, before we go any further; Suppose a Man
should have sayd about the _Beginning_ of _July Last_, in a _Brisk
Reply_ to a _Reflexion_ made upon the _Western-Rebells_; (at that time
in their _Pride_ and _Glory_) [The King has as Loyal Subjects in That
Army as Any are in T'other.] Wouldst thou have me, in Construction of
_Common Sense_, and _Honesty_, look upon _That Person_, to be,
Effectually Come over, and in the _State_ of _a True
Church-of-England-man_; only for _Keeping_ the _Law_, with his _Heels_,
when he _Breaks_ it, with his _Tongue_, and _Doctrine_? Now this is more
then I Owe ye, upon the Matter in hand: For you have Carry'd the
_Question_ quite _back_ again, from the _Non-Con-Ministers_, to the
_Generality_, and the _Multitude_ of the _Dissenters_: which is a Point
Wholly _Excepted_, and out of the _Limits_ of _Our Debate_: For All
their _Conventicles_ without a _Mouth_, are _Monsters_; Meer
_Nullities_, & _Bilks_, without a _Teacher_: So that I have _Restrain'd_
my _Applications_, Singly, to the _Rabbi's_ of the _Faction_, as
_Including_, and _Implying_ the _Sense_, and the _Intent_ of their
_Disciples_: Nay and _so far Including_ it, that they are _Barely_, the
_Passive Instruments_ of their _Leaders_. Now These _Heads_ of the
_Divided Parties_, are a sort of People, that do not, by any Means, fall
within the _Charitable Prospect_ of _Your Qualifications_: For they
_Stand-off_, in _Contempt_, and _Defyance_ of the _Orders_, & _Censures_
of the _Church_, and of the _Law_, as much at _This Instant_, as _ever_
they did. Their _Followers Maintain_, and _Support_ them in That
_Stubbornness_ of _Disobedience_; And so the _Opposition_ stands yet
_Firm_, in _Effect_, though with _Less Noise_ of _Menace_, and _Tumult_.
The _Branches_, 'tis True, are _Lopt_; but the _Root_, not so much as
_Touch'd_; Nay, and in such a Condition of _Vegetative Virtue_, and
_Vigour_, that it wants nothing but _Time_, and a _Favourable Season_ to
make it _Sprout_ again. And This you may Assure your self of, that
Nothing less then an _Utter_, an _Open_, a _Solemn_, and an _Irrevocable
Divorce_, betwixt _These Libertine-Seducers_, and Those that have been
_Trepann'd_, and _Inveigled_, out of the _Bosom_ of the _Church_, into
the _Arms_ of the _Schism_: Nothing I say, less then Some such
_Unalterable Act_, or _Decree_ of _Separation_, can ever _Secure_,
either the _Church_, or the _State_ from the _Pernicious Consequences_
of this _Intelligence_: For betwixt _Blind Pity_, and _Foolish Zeal_, on
the _One_ hand, and all the _Arts_, of _Moving_, and _Provoking_ Those
_Passions_, and _Affections_, on the _Other_, there is _kept-up_, and
_Cherish'd_, a _Communication_ of _Reciprocal Kindness_, between them,
that keeps the _Fire alive_ still in the _Embers_, 'till by _Degrees_,
it _Blows-up_ All at last into a _Common Flame_. Now take away _These
Bellows_, and _T'other Sparks_, and a man may _Sleep_ in his _Bed_,
without _Dreaming_ of _Conflagrations_, or the _Dread_ of Rising with
his Throat Cut.
_Trim._ I will not Excuse some _Hot-Headed Blades_, that let their
_Tongues_ run before their _Wits_; And make it a Point of _Honour_, to
_Brave_ All the _Terrors_ of _Death_, and _Dungeons_, in defence of the
_Cause_ that they have _Undertaken_. The _Less said_, the _Better_;
Though a Body cannot, in _Generosity_, but have some sort of
_Compassion_, for a Man that Suffers _Death_, with _Constancy of Mind_,
Even in a Mistaken Cause, if it be according to his _Conscience_.
_Obs._ If these _Impressions_ were _Inbred_, and the _Errors_ purely
their _Own_, it would be a _Point_, not only of _Good Nature_, but of
_Common Justice_, and _Humanity_, to have a _Tenderness_ for _People_
under an _Invincible Mistake_: But you have Started the _Strongest
Argument_ in the World, against your _self_ here, by _Enforcing_ the
_Necessity_ of Clearing the _Stage_ of the _Seditious Oracles_, that
_Inspire These Desperate Resolutions_.
_Trim._ Why All matter of _Violence, Heat_ of _Dispute_, and _Clamour_
of _Argument_, is at an _End_. You hear no more of your _Scottish_, and
_Western Declarations_; No more _Competitors_ for the _Crown_; or
_Confederates_ for a _Republique_: And therefore prethee, _let_ us be at
_Peace_ while we _May_ be at _Peace_; and do not stand _Puzzling_ the
_People_ with _Danger_, where _No Danger is_.
_Obs._ Soft and Fair, _Trimmer_; those _Declarations, Practices_, and
_Attempts_, are not to be _Repeated_ again in the _same Age_: But there
are _more ways to the Wood then One_: And 'tis All a case, to a man
that's _Robb'd_, whether the _Thieves_ came in at the _Door_, or at the
_Window_. 'Tis very Right, That, since the Breaking of the _Rebellion_,
the _Non-Cons_ lay their _Fingers_ upon their _Mouths_; and not _One
Word_ of _Late_, upon the Subject of _Liberties_, and _Properties_; or
of the Danger of _Tyranny_, and of _Arbitrary Power_: But All other
_Grievances_ are Now _Swallow'd-up_ in _One_: They are All in _Tears_
for fear of the _Protestant Religion_; and _That's the Topique that's
now Carry'd-on, through All Shapes, Figures, and Disguises_.
_Trim._ We shall have fine Work, Next Bout!
_London_, Printed for _Charles Brome_, at the Gun in St. _Paul's_
Church-yard.
Vol. 3. =Numb. 202=
THE OBSERVATOR.
_The way of Promoting_ Fears, _and_ Jelousies. _The_ People _meerly_
Passive _in the Bus'ness. Both Parts seem to_ Contend _for the_ Same
Common Principles. _The_ Rise of Jelousies.
=Saturday=, August 21. 1686.
_TRIMMER._ The _Accommodating_ of Words, Phrases, and Texts to the
Matter in hand, with the Interjecting, here and there, of Certain
_Emphatical Winks_, and _Innuendo's_, to the _Common People_, will do
the Bus'ness of _Fears and Jelousies_, you need never _Doubt_ it,
without any more Ceremony.
_OBSERVATOR._ I do no more _Doubt_ it, then I do, that a Proper Remedy;
Rightly Prepar'd; and Administer'd in the _Due_ Time and Proportion,
will _Work_ such or such an _Effect_. But the _Skill_ lyes, in the
Judgment of the Distemper; The Constitution of the Patient; The Choice
of the Physick; The Prescription of the Composition, the Preparation,
and the Dos. Now _Your_ way of _Operating_, is only the Mechanicall
_Part of the Bus'ness_; and no more, then the giving of a _Box_, a
_Gally-pot_, or a _Glass_, with a Note of _Directions_, out of _One_
hand into _Another_: which Any _Porter_ that Plyes at the _Next Corner_,
would do as _Dext'rously_, as ever a _Doctor_ of the _College_. The
_Difficulty_, and the _Mystery_, is Over, before _You_ have any thing to
_Do_ with it: The _Poysonous_, and _Intoxicating Draught_, Prepar'd; The
_Multitude_ set a-Gaping for't, and Your _Office_, is only at last, to
_Pour it down their Throats_. There's Matter of _History_, and _Fact_,
enough, 'tis true, to _Satisfy any man_, that People may be made as
_Mad_ with _Cant_, and _Gibberish_, as if they had taken _Henbane_; and
that _the_ Sting _of_ Jelousy, will put them out of their _Wits_ as soon
as _the_ Biting _of a_ Mad-Dog: But we are in the _Dark_ all this while,
for the Rise, the Progress, and the Methods of Enflaming _Jelousies_, to
bring'em up to that _Pitch_. Prethee let me Understand a little of their
Birth, Growth, Discipline, and Education; How they are Fed, Nourish'd,
and Entertain'd? What's the End, and Use of them? What Language do they
_Speak_; or how comes it to pass, that the _Same_ Words, and Phrases,
without _Any Intelligence_ with _Grammar, Logique, Common Usage_, or
_Propriety_, should _Transport_ Some _Men_ into _Outrages, Palpitations
of the Heart, Horrors_, and _Tremblings_, both of _Mind_, and of _Body_;
and yet Work no more upon Others, then they _did_, before the very
Letters of'em were taken out of the _Alphabet_? I do not call ye to a
_Strict Shrift_ upon _Every Point_, but I Expect you shall say
something to the _Whole Matter_; for a _Few Words_, in Order, will give
a man more _Light_ to the _Reason_ of a Thing, then as many _Volumes_,
in Confusion.
_Trim._ You are in the _Right_; that the _Craft_ lies in the Project,
and the Preparatory _Manage_ of this Affair, and that the _Danger_ is
gone too _Far_, when the _Mine_ is already _Wrought_; the _Powder
Dispos'd_, and nothing wanting to the _Final Execution_ of the
_Mischief_, but the _Lighting_ of the _Match_, and the Applying of the
_Coal_ to the _Train_. You have _Well_ and _Truly_ enough _Observed_,
the _Wonderfull Force_, that _Some Certain_ Words, and Phrases have;
upon the _Affections_ of the _Multitude_; without the Least _Shadow_ of
any Logical, Grammatical, or Philosophical _Reason_ for the _Operation_
of them. Now you must know, that _These_ Words, and Phrases, are made
_Use_ of, and _Understood_, in the way of a Cypher, or a Jargon, and not
according to the _Ordinary Acceptation_ of them, in a _Regular_ way of
_Writing_, or of _Speaking_; So that, Effectually, the _Efficacy_ of
such _Words_, and _Phrases_, is given for _Granted_; and how they come
to _Obtain that Force_, remains the _Single Question_.
Now towards the _Understanding_ of this Matter, you must Consider, that
no _State_ can be _Supplanted_, but by _Turning_ the _Peoples Hearts_,
against the _Persons_, & the _Actions_ of their _Superiors_: So that in
_All Conspiracies_ to _Destroy_ a _Government_, Fears & Jelousies, are
_the_ Corner Stone _of the Babel_. Their Hearts are no sooner _Lost_,
but they withdraw their Bodies too, and so, by _Degrees, Erect_ Laws,
and Religions of their Own; and look upon themselves, by This time, as
in _Another Commonwealth_.
_Obs._ 'Tis most _Certainly True_; and that in this _Separation_, they
set-up an _Interest_ of _Direct_ Spite, as well as Opposition, to That
of the _Church_, and of the _State_.
_Trim._ This is the very Course, and Progress of a _Popular Jelousy_:
But pray take Notice as we go, that the _People_, are thus far, _Meerly_
Passive; and _Contribute No Otherwise_, to the _Ruine_ of the
_Publique_, then _a_ Snapping Sea does, to the _Sinking_ of a _Vessell_,
when the _Billows_ are _Hurry'd-on_ by the _Violence_ of an
Irresistible Tempest: if the _Winds_ would but let the _Waves alone_,
they'd be _Quiet_. When they come once to Gather into [Private
Meetings,] (or as you call them, Conventicles) you may _Then_ accompt
upon it, that they are as good as put to _School_, to _Learn_ the
Mystery of their _Profession_. For there are Canting-Schools, as well as
Reading-Schools: and under This _Discipline_, they come by _Insensible
Degrees_, to part with their _English_ Tongue, as well as with their
_English_ Principles, and Manners. Nay, and Effectually, to take up such
_Uncouth, Novel_, and _Strange_ Thoughts, Opinions, and Practices, that
it looks, as if the English-Man, the Christian, and the Subject, were
all lost in a Disguise. They are now, you must know, under New Lords,
and Consequently, under New Laws; where they are _Train'd-up_ to _New
Ways_ of Understanding Things, and to a _New Idiome_ of Expressing them.
Religion, Law, Government, Conscience, Good Manners, are so _Sacred_ in
Themselves, that the _Worst_ of Men cannot but _Pretend_ a _Veneration_
for them; but how to _Baffle_, or to _Elude_ the _Force_, the
_Obligation_, and the _Authority_ of them; and, at the Same Time, to
set-up for the _Asserters_, and _Supporters_ of _These Publique Rights,
Privileges_, and _Duties, There_ lies the _Difficulty_ of the
_Undertaking_.
_Obs._ That is to say, how to _Resolve_ Religion, into an _Empty_
Notion: To Talk Christianity into a Paradox; and, with Christ in our
_Mouths_, at _London_, to _fall down_, and _Worship_ Mahomet, in _Buda_:
How to _Confound_ Gods, and the Governments Friends and Enemies, so as
to make the _Common People_ take _One_ for _T'other_. Now This can be no
way done, but by setting-up the Counterfeit of Religion, Law, and
Conscience, against the _Genuine_, and _Authentique_ Original; and by
making Evil, to be Good, and Good, to be Evil.
_Trim._ You must _Note_, further, that in This _Opposition_, the Main
Cause appears to be the _very Same_, on _Both sides_; and _Both Parts_
seem to _Contend_, for the Same Common Principles, of _Divine Worship_,
and of _Civil Obedience_.
_Obs._ Only the _One_ Flies to the _Invisible Lights_ and _Dictates_ of
the _Spirit_, in Matter of Religion; (taking Fancy for Revelation) and,
in the Matter of Government, has Recourse to Certain _Unaccountable
Whimsies_, of [Powers Reserv'd,] where there _never was any Power at
all_; & _These Fooleries_, they _Trump_ upon the _Little People_, under
the _Pompous Name_ of [_FUNDAMETALS_;] while the _Rulers_, on the
_Other_ hand, Stick to the Law, to the Text, and to the _Approved Sense_
of the Best Interpreters of Both, for their _Guide_.
_Trim._ Very Good! And after they have _Departed_ from the Common Rule,
and _Divided_ themselves from the Common Interest; it is but Reasonable
to _Expect_, that they will Set-up Another Interest, and Another Rule to
_Themselves_.
_Obs._ Well! But how do they _Manage That Province_ all this while, as
to the _Subject_, I mean, that we were _Speaking_ of?
_Trim._ Why their way is, only to put _Religion_, and _Government_ in
_Another Dress_; but under the Name, of [Religion,] and [_Government_,]
_Still_; and then to lay on a _Superstructure_, Answerable to the
_Foundation_; I speak of the Leaders only; for their Disciples are
_Blanck Paper_; and ready for _any Impression_. They _Talk_, to the
Ears, and to the Passions of their _Hearers_, not to their
Understandings: and their _Auditors_ gather more of their _Meaning_,
from their _Gestures, Actions, Countenances_, and from _Pathetical
Tones_, then from the _Words Themselves_. As for _Sense_, or _No Sense_,
'tis _all a Case_; for 'tis the _Jingle_, not the _Matter_, that does
_Their Bus'ness_. The _Less_ the People Understand, the _More_ they are
Edify'd; for they take the _Congruities_ of Carnal Reason, for Vain
Philosophy; and Incomprehensible Nonsense, passes for _the Work of the_
Light Within. Their _Religion_ lies alltogether in Groan, and Rapture:
_They Sacrifice to the_ Unknown God; and in One Word; They _Supply_ the
_Want_ of Knowledge, with an _Excess_ of Zeal; and when they cannot
_Understand_ the Plain English of a _Discourse_, they Wrap Themselves up
in the Mystery. The making of a _Party_, & the Saving of their own
_Skins_, are the _Two Main Points_ of the _Leaders_; and therefore, they
_Cover_ themselves under Ambiguity, & Riddle; & Compass those Matters,
by _Theatrical Gesticulations_, & _Actions_, which they dare not
_Venture_ upon, in _Words_ at _Length_, or by the _Dint_ of _Argument_;
for there is no _Law_ against _making of_ Faces, _and Dusting of_
Cushions, They are told _Mightily_, and _Plainly_, of _Heaven_, and
_Hell_; but in such a _Manner_, that they will _Never Allow_ God, and
the Government to be _Both of a side. Schism_ is Dignified with the
_Name_ of Conscience; the Story of their _Grievances_, is the
_Bitterest_ of Satyrs; Their very Petitions have the force of
_Invectives_; and the _Smoother_, the _Softer_, you find the _Surface_
of them, the _Falser_, and the more _Dangerous_ they are at the
_Bottom_: For betwixt the Persecution that is _Insinuated_, on the part
of the _Government_, & the Innocence, the Piety, and the Modesty, on
that of the Sufferers, Nothing can more Provoke, a _Horror_, and
_Indignation_ for the _One_, or a _Tenderness_, & _Compassion_, for the
_Other_.
_Obs._ That is to say, among Those that are not _Well Enform'd_, in the
_Reason_, and _Equity of the Cause in Question_.
_Trim._ Come Come. I tell ye _Nakedly_ how things Are, and not how they
Ought to be: and I speak of _Those Men_ too, that neither Do, nor Will,
nor Can make a _Right Judgment_ upon the Matter in _Issue_. They do not
take down _Reasons_ in Connexion; neither do their _Teachers_ so much as
Offer at'em; But _their Work_ is, only to _Feed_ Itching Ears, and
Humours, with _New-Quoyn'd Words, Affectate Phrases_: And briefly, to
_Instruct_ their _Disciples_, by _Signs_ and _Tokens_, like so many
_Dancing Horses_ to fall Lame upon all Four, for the _Pope_; to
come-over, for the _Grand Vizier_; and at the very _Sound_ of Babylon,
Anti-Christ, or Absolute Power, to Snort, and Boggle, as if they _Smelt
Fire_. If I may tell ye the _Arrant Truth_, and _Simplicity_ of my
_Heart_; This is the very Train of a Popular Institution. They are
Tutor'd, and Inur'd, to the Assuming of such and such _Passions_, upon
such and such _Occasions_; and they do All their _Ayres_, and _Tricks_,
by the Direction of the _Hand_, or _Eye. They Dance_ to _Sounds, Hints,
Nodds, Forms_, and _Syllables_; not to the force of _Fair Reasonings_,
and _Natural Conclusions_; Nay, they are Taught, when to be _Angry_;
when to be _Pleas'd_; and their very _Inclinations_, and _Aversions_,
are none of their _Own, Neither_: The _Whole Bus'ness_, in short, is
Artifice, Manage, and Practice; for _All their_ Mistakes, _and_
Mis-understandings, _take the_ Same Biass.
_Obs._ I do _Observe_, indeed, that they Shelter themselves under the
_Dark Prophets_, and the _Revelation_. The _Number of the Beast_, they
have all at their _Fingers Ends_; the _Geneva-Bibles_ are _Thumm'd_ over
and over, at the _Same Texts_: As upon the Subject of the _Groves_, &
the _High Places, Christian Liberty, Will-Worship, Humane Inventions,
Idolatry, Superstition_, &c. There's not a _Verse_ in the whole _Bible_,
against _Persecution_, but makes them Shake their Heads at the
_Government_. Popery by _Interpretation_, is Episcopacy: The _Liberty_
of the Subject, has an _Aking Tooth_ at the _Prerogative_ of the Prince:
But finally; such and such Terms, and Forms of Speaking, are, by Common
Consent, to pass for _Current_, under such or such a Sense, and
Meaning, how _Contrary_ soever, to their _Proper_, and _Genuine
Signification_, or _Import_. But this speaks only to the Propagating of
_Jelousies_, not to the Rise of them.
_Trim._ If you Ask me the [Rise] of _Jelousies_, I must _Answer_ ye,
that they are _Begotten_ betwixt Ambition, Avarice, Hypocrisy, Craft,
Malice, and Disloyalty, on the _One_ side; and Ignorance, Obstinacy,
Blind Zeal, and an Impetuous Temerity, on the _Other_.
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following as no opening bracket was found in the text.