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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
THE SAMARITAN. › Section 14: SECT. Ult.THE SAMARITAN. › Section 14: SECT. Ʋlt.
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.
There are some few Additions more inserted as necessary thereunto for the obtaining its end, the reasons whereof appear in their own light, yet is it Judged fit, that public notice be given of two or three of them.
There are some few Additions more inserted as necessary thereunto for the obtaining its end, the reasons whereof appear in their own light, yet is it Judged fit, that publick notice be given of two or three of them.
The One of them is the Parenthesis about the Beginning, where the Thirty-Nine Articles are imposed on every Minister to Subscribe, which notwithstanding the Exception of Three of the Articles, do yet require more Caution. Whosoever have read a Book, called, A ⟨p. 116⟩part of a Register, wherein there is a Relation of several things in reference to the Nonconformists in Q. Elizabeths days, they will find that there was nothing so grievous to them and exasperated them then against the Bishops so much as the Subscriptions of those times, and the Subscription to the Articles was one among the rest; which makes me wonder what our good men did now mean, to impose the Subscription of these Articles so rigidly upon all, for the enjoyment of the benefit of either of their Bills, of Union, or Indulgence. They know not really what it is they were a doing, for if the Persecuting Spirit should be raised hereafter about this Subscription, and the thing be so pressed that all who Subscribe not, shall be Prosecuted by the Law, there were like to arise greater troubles to tender Consciences, and scruples more unanswerable, then could be about the Cap and Tippet, the Surplice and Cross, in those days. The doubtfulness of many about the Ceremonies is not to be compared to a Conviction of Conscience, that a man must not Subscribe to any point which he believes untrue. By this means therefore should these Articles of the Church, intended for Peace, become the instruments of Torment, and be had in the greatest Detestation, which consequently will defame, and then ruin the Protestant Religion. There will be Persecution in the Church, that's certain, for the Devil will have it so: There will be Tender