A26927:88
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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Reas. But shall the old Protestant, who confesseth Rome a true Church, and himself derived from her, persecute her,—and call her a Whore, let the Presbyterian, &c.
Answ. Let the world know that the old Protestant bears as little honour to the corruptions of Rome, as the Presbyterian; and that the Presbyterian bears as much honour to the truth of Rome as the old Protestant: and that both (for we will not by your Artifices be divided any further then needs must) own her as a true Church, though they do not own her as a corrupted Church.—They will allow the Church of Rome, and they maintain their own here: they condemn not them that live in communion with the Church of Rome, because they have the foundation of Religion.—They allow them not the same privilege with those of their own communion, because they build dangerous things upon that foundation: ⟨p. 29⟩we own all Protestants for Christians; yet we hang them for murder and felony: so we own Papists for Christians, yet we punish them for superstition and Idolatry.—
Answ. Let the world know that the old Protestant bears as little honour to the corruptions of Rome, as the Presbyterian; and that the Presbyterian bears as much honour to the truth of Rome as the old Protestant: and that both (for we will not by your Artifices be divided any further then needs must) own her as a true Church, though they do not own her as a corrupued Church.—They will allow the Church of Rome, and they maintain their own here: they condemn not them that live in communion with the Church of Rome, because they have the foundation of Religion.—They allow them not the same priviledge with those of their own communion, because they build dangerous things upon that foundation: ⟨p. 29⟩we own all Protestants for Christians; yet we hang them for murder and felony: so we own Papists for Christians, yet we punish them for superstition and Idolatry.—