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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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. 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.
Reas. 23. If we had the happiest times for peace, plenty, prosperity and general satisfaction ⟨p. 18⟩to all people, when the severest Laws against Papists were made,—then we ought not to mitigate those Laws; the restraint of faction is our security, their indulgence is our danger: O the happy years of Queen Elizabeth when Papists durst not show their heads; the blessed time of King James when a Priest durst not be seen;—we date our happiness from that hour in Queen Elizabeths time that Popery was voted treason; we date our miseries from that time in the last years of King James that it was declared Tolerable; what calm, what peace, what quiet, what unity, order and uniformity before? what fears, what jealousies, what troubles, what dangers, what divisions and disorders since.