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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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Twenty five Reasons Against Toleration of Popery › Reason 10: Reason 10.
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Reason 10.
That Religion which destroyeth all civil Government is not to be Tolerated (shall Princes wink at their own ruin ⟨p. 9⟩Popery destroyeth all civil Government: Kings have no more power, subjects owe no more duty: then the Pope is pleased to grant the one and enjoin the other, shall we admit these among us that upon all occasions let loose the people to cut one another's Throat: and to destroy their sovereigns: who then may be safely: the Prince must daily look for poison and daggers. The people for Massacres and cruelties, all for dangerous attempts against the Lord and against his Anointed, who embroiled us in the late War was it not Papists? upon what principle did we Rebel, kill and take possession, but upon the principles of popery, if they did such mischief when checked and awed by Laws what will they do when tolerated? shall a Protestant Prince countenance them that may in conscience be bound to kill them as Heretics, shall the Prince look upon them as subjects who may upon the least occasion be absolved by the Pope from all fealty and Allegiance to the great danger of the Kingdom if they are Papists they cannot be indulged, for they are not subjects, if they are Protestants they need not be Indulged for they are and will be obedient and faithful, subjects as whole Profession states the Rightly of civil Government upon the most clear and firm principles, secure them by the most powerful obligation, and urgeth them upon the most efficacious imotives of reward and punishment in the world, shall we allow them that upon ruin of excommunication and damnation may not dare to be faithful: who must renounce their Religion i.e. obedience to the Pope, that they be Loyal.
That Religion which destroyeth all civil Government is not to be Tolerated (shall Princes wink at their own ruine ⟨p. 9⟩