A26927:5
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
TO THE KINGS Most Excellent MAJESTY,
May it please your Majesty,
I Have been too long silent, and am afraid, by my silence, I have neglected the duty of the place it hath pleased God to call me unto, and your Majesty to place me in. And now I humbly crave leave, I may discharge my conscience towards God, and my duty to your Majesty. And therefore I beseech your Majesty, give me leave freely to deliver my self, and then let your Majesty do with me what You please. Your Majesty hath propounded a Toleration of Religion: I beseech you Sir, take into your consideration, what the Act is, next what the Consequence may be. By your Act you labour to set up that most damnable, ⟨image 3⟩and heretical Doctrine of the Church of Rome, whore of Babylon. How hateful will it be to God, and grievous unto Your good Subjects, the true professors of the Gospel; that your Majesty, who hath often disputed, and learnedly written against those wicked Heresies, should now show Your self a Patron of those Doctrines, which Your Pen hath told the World, and Your Conscience tells Your self, are superstitious, idolatrous, and detestable. Besides, this Toleration which You endeavour to set up by Proclamation, cannot be done without a Parliament, unless your Majesty will let your Subjects see, that You will take unto your self a liberty to throw down the Laws of the Land at your pleasure. What dreadful consequence these things may draw after them, I beseech your Majesty to consider. And above all, lest by this Toleration, and discontinuance of the true profession of the Gospel, whereby God hath blessed u, and under which this Kingdom hath for many years flourished, Your Majesty do not draw upon the Kingdom in general, and your self in particular, Gods heavy wrath and indignation Thus in discharge of my duty towards God, to your Majesty, and the place of my calling, I have taken humble boldness to deliver my conscience. And now, Sir, do with me what you please.