An Address Given in to the Late King James by the Titular Archbishop of Dublin / From the General Meeting of the Romish Bishops and Clergy of Ireland, Held in May Last, by That King's Order. Wherein Several Things Relating to the Popish Designs upon These Three Kingdoms, Are Discovered. The Original Whereof Was Found in the Late King James's Closet, in the Castle of Dublin, at His Leaving That City: And the Copy Whereof Was Found in the Titular Archbishop's Lodgings. Now Publish'd with Reflections on Each Paragraph.

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Reflections.

Here the Romish Clergy tell the World plainly, That the Restoring the Romish Religion, and the Romish Clergy to their Churches and Livings, merits no greater Resentment from the Protestants, than the making Roman-Catholick Corporations and Magistrates and Judges, the rendring all Roman-Catholicks capable of Offices and Employments, by putting the Government Civil and Military in their hands. I confess we are oblig’d to them for telling us so; Especially considering that in the last Reign some People look’d upon these last Innovations to be no great business; and were willing to concur, or at least tamely to consent to them. We see what a sense the Papists themselves had of these Violations of our Law: It was all one in their Eyes, as a Re-establishment of the Romish Religion and Clergy, which some of the Protestants themselves would not believe: And indeed the wiser part of the Protestants thought the one was as just as the other. And that the Royal Prerogative might be wrested by Corrupt Judges and Lawyers then in pay, to infer a power to do both.