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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.
SECT. XIII.
Although it be plain enough from what I have discoursed, that I plead the Cause of none but Tolerable Dissenters, and am Advocate for no Persons or Churches that maintain pernicious Errors, and are impenitent and incorrigible in them: Yet to prevent all Misunderstandings, I do again here subjoin, That I plead not the Cause of such as subvert the Christian Faith, in the great Essentials of it, which the Jews, Mahometans, Socinians, and all other Infidels do. I would not have Men permitted to Preach down Jesus Christ, and the Gospel, and to Preach up mere Theism, or the Religion of the Antique or Modern Heathens; nor of such as Preach Immorality and Licentious Profaneness. I would not have Men permitted to encourage or justify Violence or Rapine, Sensuality or Lust, Rebellion or Treason, or any thing that is plainly Wicked, and condemned by the Light of Nature, as well as the Doctrine of Christianity: And of this kind are many Popish Doctrines, as is evident to all Men, that have conversed in the Writings of their Casuists, and such as have the Conduct of Conscience among them. Particular Instances whereof may be seen in the Mystery of Jesuitism, and the Jesuits Morals, by any Man that hath a ⟨p. 104⟩desire to be satisfied concerning them: Nor of such whose Doctrines are inconsistent with Civil Government, and Public Peace; and such is the Doctrine of the Romanists. A Papist (if he be true to the Opinions and Decrees of their own Popes and Councils) must be a Rebel, and a Traitor, whensoever his Holiness pleases to command it. This hath been sufficiently proved by many Authors, and is obvious enough to such as read their Books: And if there be any other Sect or Sort of People, that maintain such Doctrines, as do disturb the Peace of Mankind necessarily and truly, (and not occasionally, and by accident, for so the Gospel doth it) I have nothing to say on their behalf.