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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 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. 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.
Reas. 23. If we had the happiest times for peace, plenty, prosperity and general satisfaction ⟨p. 18⟩to all people, when the severest Lawes against Papists were made,—then we ought not to mitigate those Lawes; the restraint of faction is our security, their indulgence is our danger: O the happy yeares of Queen Elizabeth when Papists durst not shew their heads; the blessed time of King James when a Priest durst not be seen;—we date our happinesse from that hour in Queen Elizabeths time that Popery was voted treason; we date our miseries from that time in the last yeares of King James that it was declared Tolerable; what calme, what peace, what quiet, what unity, order and uniformity before? what feares, what jealousies, what troubles, what dangers, what divisions and disorders since.
Reas. 24. And what you think would our fore-Fathers say, if they saw those whom they resisted unto blood, enjoining equal liberty with themselves: methinks Reverend Cranmer's ashes stir at the mention of the Toleration of Popery;—methinks the blood of Martyrs cries aloud. no Toleration of Popery; the Millions that have been massacred in Ireland, &c c•y how long Lord, good and true, will thou not avenge our blood on them that dwell on the Earth? shall God avenge? and will you indulge.