A53667:78
A brief and impartial account of the nature of the Protestant religion its present…
A brief and impartial account of the nature of the Protestant religion its present state in the world, its strength and weakness, with the ways and indications of the ruin or continuance of its public national profession / by a Protestant.A brief and impartial account of the nature of the Protestant religion its present state in the world, its strength and weakness, with the wayes and indications of the ruine or continuance of its publick national profession / by a Protestant.
London: printed by J.A., 1682
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.
For although the Wisdom, Justice, and Honour of the Nation in the Actings of the King as Supreme, of both Houses of Parliament, in the Judges and their Legal Administrations, with the Piety of the Church in the ⟨p. 38⟩Observation of a Day of Fasting and Prayer with respect hereunto, be every Day exposed to Scorn and Contempt in the Papers and Pamphlets of unknown Persons, by decrying the Plot, and vilifying the Discoveries of it (a practice never allowed, never tolerated in any other well ordered Government, as that which would tend to its Dissolution) yet all sober Men have sufficient Evidence of the Hand of God in these things, to make them an Argument of his Watchful care over the Protestant Religion.
For although the Wisdom, Justice, and Honour of the Nation in the Actings of the King as Supream, of both Houses of Parliament, in the Judges and their Legal Administrations, with the Piety of the Church in the ⟨p. 38⟩Observation of a Day of Fasting and Prayer with respect hereunto, be every Day exposed to Scorn and Contempt in the Papers and Pamphlets of unknown Persons, by decrying the Plot, and vilifying the Discoveries of it (a practice never allowed, never tolerated in any other well ordered Government, as that which would tend to its Dissolution) yet all sober Men have sufficient Evidence of the Hand of God in these things, to make them an Argument of his Watchful care over the Protestant Religion.
And unto all these things we may add, the fatal Miscarriages and miserable ends of such Apostates from the true Religion, as have not been contented to ruin their own Souls alone, but have been active and Instrumental in their Capacities, to draw or drive others into the same Perdition. Examples in this kind might be multiplied, sufficient to stop this sort of Persons in their career, if an open discovery of the Pit whereinto they will precipitate themselves, may have any influence upon them.