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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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It will be a cause of increasing Sects and Sectaries, whose numbers will weaken the true Protestant Profession so far, that it will at least be difficult for it, to defend it self against them: And, which is yet further considerable, those Numbers, which by being troublesome to the Government, find they can arrive to an Indulgence, will, as their numbers increase, be yet more troublesome, that so at length they may arrive to a general Toleration, which His Majesty hath declared against; and in time some prevalent ⟨p. 38⟩Sect, will at last contend for an establishment; which, for ought can be foreseen, may end in Popery.
It will be a cause of increasing Sects and Sectaries, whose numbers will weaken the true Protestant Profession so far, that it will at least be difficult for it, to defend it selfe against them: And, which is yet further considerable, those Numbers, which by being troublesome to the Government, finde they can arrive to an Indulgence, will, as their numbers increase, be yet more troublesome, that so at length they may arrive to a generall Toleration, which His Majesty hath declared against; and in time some prevalent ⟨p. 38⟩S•ct, will at last contend for an establishment; which, for ought can be foreseen, may end in Popery.
It is a thing altogether without Precedent, and will take away all means of convicting Recusants, and be inconsistent with the method and proceedings of the Laws of England.
You know there is no end of humour and faction, Hooper procures K. Edw. 6. letter for a dispensation from certain Rights and Ceremonies offensive to his conscience, as the letter runs; The nonconformists in the beginning of Q Elizabeths reign, are only for alteration of some things offensive: The later nonconformists were against the Common Prayer, and most of the usage of the Church; at last they are against all Church government, discipline, orders and forms of worship, the people will have it so? and what will ye do in the end thereof.