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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 14: Reason 14.
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Reason 14.
They are not to be tolerated who turn all Religion to interest and formality; will you endure them that teach poor men no more religion then 1. the advancement of one to be head of the Church; For let us believe what we will, if we deny that the Pope is head of the Church, we are damned.) 2. then a few formalities and ceremonies: will you suffer poor men to rest in a form of Godliness denying the power thereof: will you let Christianity turn a piece of Pageantry, and all Christians walk in a vain show: will you not once appear before that God that is to be worshipped in Spirit and in truth: and can you forbear it when you look abroad and see the Holy and Blessed God mocked with histrionical, gaudy, vain babblings, childish canting, saying and hearing they know not what; God forbid we should countenance that in the world by a Christian Religion, whose business is to mock God with an unreasonable Service, and to set up man in an unreasonable pomp, greatness, dominion, and tyranny over the world. O shall the spiritual and inward frame and power of Religion be turned to an outward show.
They are not to be tollerated who turn all Religion to interest and formality; will you endure them that teach poor men no more religion then 1. the advancement of one to be head of the Church; For let us believe what we will, if we deny that the Pope is head of the Church, we are damned.) 2. then a few formalities and ceremonies: will you suffer poor men to rest in a form of Godliness denying the power thereof: will you let Christianity turn a piece of Pagentry, and all Christians walk in a vain shew: will you not once appear before that God that is to be worshiped in Spirit and in truth: and can you forbear't when you look abroad and see the Holy and Blessed God mocked with histrionical, gawdy, vain bablings, childish canting, saying and hearing they know not what; God forbid we should countenance that in the world by a Christian Religion, whose businesse is to mock God with an unreasonable Service, and to set up man in an unreasonable pomp, greatnesse, dominion, and tyranny over the world. O shall the spiritual and inward frame and power of Religion be turned to an outward shew.