A26927:60
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 20: Reason. 20.
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.
Reas. 21 That which we pray against we should not allow: we pray against Popery— &c. shall we not deliver our selves from all false Doctrine and Heresy, when we pray, from all false Doctrine and Heresy good Lord deliver us: Do we pray that Antichrist may be destroyed; and yet do we uphold him? do we set a solemn day, viz. 5. of November, to thank God that he delivered us from the superstition, Idolatry, Heresy, Tyranny and cruelty of Rome: and shall we admit them? O do nothing against your Faith, do nothing against your prayers.—
Reas. 21 That which we pray against we should not allow: we pray against Popery— &c. shall we not deliver our selves from all false Doctrine and Heresie, when we pray, from all false Doctrine and Heresie good Lord deliver us: Do we pray that Antichrist may be destroyed; and yet do we uphold him? do we set a solemn day, viz. 5. of November, to thank God that he delivered us from the superstition, Idolatry, Heresie, Tyranny and cruelty of Rome: and shall we admit them? O do nothing against your Fai•h, do nothing against your prayers.—
Reas. 22. If the Papists may with a safe conscience conform with us; then we ought not to comply with them but they may conform with us;—therefore, &c.—our Religion is the same it was in the beginning of Queen Elizabeths Reign, but when they came to our Churches, they heard our prayers, and our Sermons, why can they not do it now? yea many of them come to our Churches now,— why may they not all do so? the Pope forbids them they say:—and do they deserve an indulgence from our Magistrates, who will rather obey a foreign Power, then submit to our laws; they are not worthy of protection, much less of favour among us that own a foreign power, which they assert for disobedience to our own.
Reas. 22. If the Papists may with a safe conscience conforme with us; then we ought not to comply with them but they may conform with us;—therefore, &c.—our Religion is the same it was in the beginning of Queen Elizabeths Reign, but when they came to our Churches, they heard our prayers, and our Sermons, why can they not do it now? yea many of them come to our Churches now,— why may they not all do so? the Pope forbids them they say:—and do they deserve an indulgence from our Magistrates, who will rather obey a foreign Power, then submit to our lawes; they are not worthy of protection, much less of favour among us that own a forreign power, which they assert for disobedience to our own.