_South_'s Sermons, which now amount to _six Volumes_, make Reading _Jests_ and _Banter_ upon _Dissenters_, the religious Exercise of good Churchmen upon _Sundays_, who now can serve God (as many think they do by hearing or reading Sermons) and be as merry as at the Play-house. And _Hudibras_, which is a daily High-Church Entertainment, and a Pocket and Travelling High-Church Companion, must necessarily have a very considerable Effect, and cannot fail forming in Men that Humour and Vein of _Ridicule_ upon _Dissenters_ which runs thro' that Work. In a word, High-Church has constantly been an Enemy to, and a Ridiculer of the _Seriousness_ of _Puritans_ and _Dissenters_, whom they have ever charg'd with _Hypocrisy_ for their _Seriousness_. "After [89] the Civil War had broke out in 1641, and the King and Court had settled at _Oxford_, one _Birkenhead_, who had liv'd in _Laud_'s Family, and been made Fellow of _All Souls College_ by _Laud_'s Means, was appointed to write a Weekly Paper under the Title of _Mercurius Aulicus_; the first whereof was publish'd in 1642. In the Absence of the Author, _Birkenhead_, from _Oxford_, it was continued by _Heylin_. _Birkenhead_ pleas'd the Generality of Readers with his _Waggeries_ and _Buffooneries_; and the Royal Party were so taken with it, that the Author was recommended to be Reader of _Moral Philosophy_ by his Majesty;" who, together with the religious Electors, it is justly to be presum'd, thought _Waggery_ and _Buffoonery_, not only Political, but _Religious_ and _Moral_, when employ'd against _Puritans_ and _Dissenters_. IX. King _Charles_ the Second's Restoration brought along with it glorious _High-Church_ Times; which were distinguish'd as much by _laughing_ at _Dissenters_, as by persecuting them; which pass for a Pattern how Dissenters are to be treated; and which will never be given up, by _High-Church-men_, as faulty, for ridiculing Dissenters.