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The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must…The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must…
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.
London: printed for Tho. Simmons, 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.
But I will take liberty to advertise them, that ⟨p. 2⟩if they please, they may spare their Passion, and restrain their Wrath; they may keep it in reserve for some other occasion; for I am utterly above the reach of it, and shall be no more concerned in their Revilings, than the Moon in the barking of little waspish Dogs.
Nevertheless, if their Impotence be such, that they cannot forbear; and if the reek of their own vomit be fragrant and aromatic to them, I shall not envy them that pleasure Let them enjoy all the satisfaction they can find in it, I shall receive no more injury by what they say, than by what they dream; and peradventure there may be as much worth, weight and sense in the one, as in the other.
Nevertheless, if their Impotence be such, that they cannot forbear; and if the reek of their own vomit be fragrant and aromatick to them, I shall not envy them that pleasure Let them enjoy all the satisfaction they can find in it, I shall receive no more injury by what they say, than by what they dream; and peradventure there may be as much worth, weight and sense in the one, as in the other.
I honour my Sovereign; I love the Government in Church and State; I hate both the Civil and Ecclesiastical Piques and Animosities that are maintained and kept up among us, against all the Sense and Reason of the World; and I wish with all my soul, that the several Parties in this Nation, would lay aside their Prejudices and Passions, and impartially study the things that belong to our Common Peace: I am sure 'tis high time to do it, and I fear if it be delayed a while longer, 'twill be too late to attempt it. There's a Gentleman at Paris, and another at Rome, that looks through their fingers, and laugh at our Divisions, and hope to make good advantage by them in due time; and I make no doubt but that by their Emissaries they do, and will endeavour to continue the Breaches, and hinder all Coalition among us.