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to the Men of Suffolk, and the Promiſes of the French King to the Proteſtants in his Dominions, which ended in the infamous Maſſacre at Paris. Furthermore, they muſt extirpate Proteſtants with Fire and Sword, ſo ſoon as they are in a Capacity of doing it; as obtained in moſt of the Popiſh Dominions where Proteſtantiſm had once a Footing, particularly in Italy, Auſtria, Tuſcany, Savoy, Piedmont and France. This was the profeſs'd Deſign of the Spaniſh Armada, and the very Motive of the memorable Iriſh Maſſacre. And ſicklike, they muſt propagate and eſtabliſh the Romiſh Religion to the utmoſt of their Power: This was eminently the Caſe under that tyrannical Uſurper, K. James VII. And wherever Popiſh Princes have had Power on their Side, they needed no Spurring from the ghoſtly Fathers to exert themſelves this way, Popery and Cruelty being as inſeparable as Sin and Satan. (2.) The boundleſſ Toleration that this Pretender and his son promiſe in their ſeveral Manifeſto's and Declarations to give to all Sects, to profeſs what Religion they pleaſe, gives the ſtrongeſt Reaſon to ſuſpect, that, if they ſucceed, theſe Beasts of Prey, the Romiſh Prieſts, will be accounted the very Salt of this place of the Earth, and ſwarm amongſt us like Locuſts. This was the obvious Deſign of K. James the Seventh's Toleration : and how effectually anſwered the End propoſed by it, is no Secret. (3.) Suppoſing this Pretender not to be of a ſanguine Diſpoſition (which yet were as great a Miracle in a Papiſt, as the Wonder of a Woman clothed with the Sun was to John the Divine) yet, would not his and his Family's Example, and the Dependence which many behoved to have upon him for Preferment, Poſts, Honours and Penſions, gradually lead them in to Liking to Papery and Compliance therewith? And, (4.) It ſeems alſo rational to preſume, that his Abettors the French and Spaniards being of this infernal Faith, and the Highlanders and others his Helpers in Scotland moſtly attached thereto, theſe would have no ſmall Influence
