A26927:87
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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Ans. the Roman Catholic way was not the Religion of England, but the corruption of its Religion these thousand years: (Although however that's not the Christian Religion that is of a thousand standing only) our Religion was the Word of God for 1400 years, to which the Papist added their Idolatry, superstition, and tradition, these 900. years: the Religion of England was always contained in the Lords Prayer, the 10 Commandments, the Articles of Faith, the Doctrine of the Sacraments, the Order and Discipline we have now established by Law:—the corruptions of Rome were only of late brought in upon these foundations; and are now ⟨p. 28⟩removed by Law: and really it's strange that humane corruptions, such as Popery is, should claim the same right with Gods institution, such as Judaism was: one institution of God may give place to another by degrees,—though it give not place to the corruption of men not for an hour.—We have buried your way in honour, our care is how that it rise not again in dishonour. As the Primitive Christians suffered that generation of Jews which was bred up in Judaism to continue their own way, though they suffered neither Jews nor Gentiles to be bred up in it, in the next generation: so we used that generation we found here at first very civilly, but would not suffer any more to learn that way. The Apostles that suffered Jews to practice their way for the present, would not suffer them to teach it for the future: and we who indulged Papists in the first generation after the Reformation to live in their own perverse way, would not allow them to pervert others in the next generation: And as we would not force a Heathen (as he saith) to our way, so would we not suffer him to persuade others from our way; we would not compel Heathens or Papists (who in some places are little better then Heathens) to the truth, but we would restrain them that they should not seduce others to their errors.
Ans. the Roman Catholique way was not the Religion of England, but the corruption of its Religion these thousand years: (Although however that's not the Christian Religion that is of a thousand standing onely) our Religion was the Word of God for 1400 years, to which the Papist added their Idolatry, superstition, and tradition, these 900. years: the Religion of England was alwaies contained in the Lords Prayer, the 10 Commandments, the Articles of Faith, the Doctrine of the Sacraments, the Order and Discipline we have now established by Law:—the corruptions of Rome were only of late brought in upon these foundations; and are now