Fair-warning, or, XXV reasons against toleration and indulgence of popery with the Arch-bishop of…

Should not be persecuted, alas! for you—how modestly you insinuate—should not be persecuted? you mean no harm, only you would not be oppressed—very good, and how are you persecuted, your Priests are safe, your estates are entire, your way is connived at: and yet what pains you take to prove you should not be persecuted,—will you never leave your tricks—thus when you lived peaceably among us, you persuaded the World we eat you up, we oppressed, we tormented you;—in so much that some of your people take us for Devils and not for men, and think England is an Hell, or a Purgatory as well for Papists as for Ho•ses; Fie upon these Religious cheats, and devout frauds, is this the way to uphold an holy cause: what will ye lye for God, and do so great an evil, that any good may come thereof, God forbid:—should not be persecuted.—A subtle yet a palpable [Greek or Hebrew]: O sirs, this is not the first time you meant more then you spoke, i. e. should be tolerated, and at full liberty to deceive and be deceived; not be persecuted, that is in the English that was spoken in Queen Mary's days; persecute: we are not ignorant of your devices, we know that an Indulgence to vice is a punishment to virtue,— ⟨p. 25⟩that a toleration of error, is but a subtle oppression of truth; and an indulgence to you, is but a sly persecution of us: you know we desire not to persecute you, but to secure our selves: we make no Laws against your Religion,—but for our own: we only establish the truth we apprehend, and take care that we be not seduced to the errors we fear. If you will needs oppose these Laws which you know will punish you, undermine this truth which you know will prevail against you, and promote those errors which you know will undo you;—blame us not, your ruin is of your selves: we may say that we desire not you misery, (if you suffer any) but that you should turn from your evil ways, and live among us.

Should not be persecuted, alas! for you—how modestly you insinuate—should not be persecuted? you meane no harme, only you would not be oppressed—very good, and how are you persecuted, your Priests are safe, your estates are intyre, your way is connived at: and yet what paines you take to prove you should not be persecuted,—will you never leave your trickes—thus when you lived peaceably among us, you perswaded the World we eate you up, we oppressed, we tormented you;—in so much that some of your people take us for Devils and not for men, and think England is an Hell, or a Purgatory as well for Papists as for Hoses; Fye upon these Religious cheates, and devout frauds, is this the way to uphold an holy cause: what will yee lye for God, and do so great an evil, that any good may come thereof, God forbid:—should not be persecuted.—A subtle yet a palpable : O sirs, this is not the first time you meant more then you spoke, i. e. should be tolerated, and at full liberty to deceive and be deceived; not be persecuted, that is in the English that was spoken in Queen Maries dayes; persecute: we are not ignorant of your devices, we know that an Indulgence to vice is a punishment to virtue,—