Bum. _These are hard words_, Citt; _but he told me further_, don't _You_ Justifie _King-Killing_ (_says he_) as well as the _Jesuits_? Only _They_ do't with _Pistol_, _Dagger_, and _Poyson_; and _You_ come with Your _Horse_, _Foot_, and _Cannon_: _They_ proceed by _Excomunicating_, and _Deposing_; by _dissolving_ the _Character_, _first_, and _then destroying_ the _Person_; and just so did _You_. _First_, ye _Depos'd_ the _King_, and _Then_ ye _Beheaded Charles Stuart_. And then you need never go to _Rome_ for a _Pardon_, when every man among you is _his own Pope_. The Fanaticks Clear'd. _Citt._ Now your Answer must be This; That we had, _First_, the _Warrant_, for what we did, of _an Extraordinary Dispensation_. (as appear'd in the providence of our Successes) _Secondly_, we had the _Laws_ of _Necessity_, and _Self-preservation_ to Support us. And _Thirdly_, the _Government_ being _Coordinate_, and the _King_ only _One_ of the _Three Estates_; any _Two_ of the _Three_ might deal with the _Third_ as They thought _Fit_: Beside the _Ultimate Soveraignty_ of the _People_, over and above. And now take notice, that _the same Argument_ holds in the _Subversion_ of the _Government_. Bum. _Now you have Arm'd me Thus far, pray'e help me on, one step farther; for I was hard put to't not long Since, about the businesse of the_ Protestant Religion. _What is_ That, _I pray'e, that ye call the_ Protestant Religion? Of Dissenting Protestants. _Citt._ You are to understand, that by the _Protestant Religion_ is meant the _Religion_ of the _Dissenters_ in _England_, from the _Church_ of _England_; As the _First Protestants_ in _Germany_ 1529. (from whom we denominate our Selves) were _Dissenters_ from the _Church_ of _Rome_: And So _Call'd_ from the famous _Protestation_ they enter'd against the _Decree_ of the _Assembly_ at _Spires_, against _Anabaptists_. Bum. _So that I perceive We_ Set up _the_ Protestant Religion; _we did not_ Destroy _it: But they prest it Then, that the_ Church of England _was a_ Protestant Church, _and that the_ Jesuites _had only_ Design'd _the_ Destruction _of it, where as_ We _did_ Actually Execute _it_. _Citt._ Your Answer must be, that the _Church_ of _England_, though it be a little _Protestantish_, it is not yet directly _Protestant_: As on the Other side, it is not altogether the _Whore_ of _Babilon_, though a good deal _Whorish_; and therefore the Reply to That must be, that we did not _Destroy_, but only _Reform_ it. Bum. _Why I have answer'd People out of my Own_ Mother-Wit, _that we did but_ Reform _it_. _And they told me again, the Cutting of it off_ Root and Branch, _was a very Extraordinary way of_ Reforming. The meaning of Root and Branch.