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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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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.
You know there is no end of humor 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 onely 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.
5 The Honourable House of Commons are against Indulgence, to dissenters. Because,
It is humbly conceived, That the Indulgence proposed will be so far from tending to the Peace of the Kingdom, that it is rather likely to occasion great disturbance. And on the contrary, That the asserting of the Laws, and the Religion established, according to the Act of Uniformity, is the most probable means to produce settled Peace and Obedience throughout Your Kingdom: Because the variety of Professions of Religion, when openly indulged, doth directly distinguish men into parties, and withal gives them opportunity to count their numbers; which, considering the animosities, that out of a Religious Pride will be kept on foot by the several Factions, doth tend directly and inevitably to open disturbance. Nor can Your Majesty have any Security, that the Doctrine or Worship of the several Factions, which are all Governed by a several Rule, shall be consistent with the Peace of Your Kingdom.