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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 15: Reason 15.
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Reason 15.
That Religion that allows men the greatest liberty to sin is not to be tolerated, &c. Shall you who have power given you to restrain evil, allow a Religion that gives the greatest liberty to it. In vain are you Kings, if you allow ⟨p. 12⟩that way which can dispense with all oaths and obligations of Subjects unto Kings. In vain will you make Laws against profaneness, if you indulge a Religion (if I may so call it) which may give indulgence to all profaneness. In vain will you punish, if you suffer men to think the Pope may pardon. In vain do you trust your Subjects upon their oaths and promises, if you countenance that Religion that teach men to equivocate, to speak one thing, to mean another. In vain do you profess the Protestant-Religion, if you allow that Religion that gives men liberty to dissemble any Religion, to be Anabaptists, to be Quakers, to be any thing to promote their own cause. Will you permit that way which leads men to these abominable courses. My soul come not thou into their secrets. Shall the poor people be given over to believe Lies and Legends: and when they have seen their ridiculousness and folly, at last come to believe nothing; their holy frauds and cheats, making most of the ancient writings uncertain: a mischief as we cannot express, so they cannot repair.
That Religion that allows men the greatest liberty to sin is not to be tollerated, &c. Shall you who have power given you to restrain evil, allow a Religion that gives the greatest liberty to it. In vain are you Kings, if you allow ⟨p. 12⟩