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 is a fair acknowledgment of a Design to establish the Roman-Catholick Religion in Ireland, which they expresly say, King James had declared to them, and had previous thereto given them Directions and Incouragement about it. One would think, The Titular Archbishop of Dublin, and the rest of the Gang, needed few Directions to go about so meritorious a Work as the Establishment of the Catholick Religion: But it seems King James his Zeal has outgone even theirs in this point. He has not only given them Directions about it, but incourag’d them in it. And we know the word Incouragement, is a very entensive one; as including not only promises to assist, but means and power to bring about. And we have no reason to doubt, but King James, though he thought not himself oblig’d to keep his word so often given to English Hereticks; yet He would not fail to merit Heaven, by keeping firm with those People He imagin’d had power to lock Heaven against him in case of a failure. And here by the by, I think it but just, His Confessor should absolve him from the obligation of his Promise to the Titular Archbishop of Dublin, and the rest of them, since the entire Ruine of his Affairs in Ireland, has put him out of capacity to keep his word to them.