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Fair-warning, or, XXV reasons against toleration and indulgence of popery with the Arch-bishop of…
Fair-warning, or, XXV reasons against toleration and indulgence of popery with the Arch-bishop of Canterbury's letter to the King and all the bishops of Ireland's protestation to the Parliament to the same purpose : with an answer to the Roman-Catholics reasons for indulgence : also the excellent reasons of the Honourable House of Commons against indulgence, with historical observations thereupon.Fair-warning, or, XXV reasons against toleration and indulgence of popery with the Arch-bishop of Canterbury's letter to the King and all the bishops of Irelands protestation to the Parliament to the same purpose : with an answer to the Roman-Catholicks reasons for indulgence : also the excellent reasons of the Honourable House of Commons against indulgence, with historical observations thereupon.
London: printed for S.U.N.T.F.S., 1663
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The excellent Reasons of the Honourable House of Commons against In… › The Vote.
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In the latter end of King James his Reign there was a Toleration propounded, and immediately the Popish policy and Government was set up in opposition to ours,—they had Archbishops to our Archbishops, Bishops to our Bishops, their meeting of Priest to our Convocation,—their Mass to our Common Prayer: And so Cromwell told his Cronies in a thing called a Parliament in his loose time, that they had their Hierarchy settled, and that they had an orderly Government within his Government;—this, this it is to have a Schism established by Law.—
In the latter end of King James his Reign there was a Toleration propounded, and immediately the Popish policy and Government was set up in opposition to ours,—they had Archbishops to our Archbishops, Bishops to our Bishops, their meeting of Priest to our Convocation,—their Masse to our Common Prayer: And so Cromwell told his Cronies in a thing called a Parliament in his loose time, that they had their Hierarchy setled, and that they had an orderly Government within his Government;—this, this it is to have a Schisme established by Law.—
2. The Honourable House of Commons are against Indulgence to dissenters, because it will make the Government of the Church precarious, and Contemptible: What can a Bishop do, if there be parties to which all the guilty will betake themselves, to elude his Authority, he excommunicates, they separate ⟨p. 37⟩and excommunicate themselves: He cites, they undervalue him; He threateneth, they (as the Church wardens of Saint Anne Aldersgate) say they will try it with him, he would turn out a Parish-clerk like him of Black-fryers, he goeth to Law with him: The Indulged Party will be the receptacle of all the discontented, ambitious, turbulent, and guilty Persons which the Law threateneth, discipline correcteth: and justice punisheth.
2. The Honourable House of Commons are against Indulgence to dissenters, because it will make the Government of the Church precarious, and Contemptible: What can a Bishop do, if there be parties to which all the guilty will betake themselves, to elude his Authority, he excommunicates, they seperate