A55307:186
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.
The Bill proceeds next to a Proviso, That the Doors be not Locked, Barred, or Bolted, where there are Meetings: Then to the Relieving Constables, Church-Wardens, and the like Officers, that Scruple the Oaths that be long to those Offices, by admitting a Deputy: Then to the Repealing the Oxford Act (or Releasing the Penalty) to all such as shall take the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, and Subscribe to the Declaration aforesaid, and the Doctrinal Articles of the Church of England, with the exceptions of the former Bill: Upon the same Terms, Liberty is granted to any Person, to teach a School, or be a Tutor in a Private Family. It Proceeds to giving ⟨p. 128⟩Ease upon the same, to Dissenting Protestants, who Scruple the Baptizing Infants: Then to the Easing other Persons, who scruple Taking all Oaths; whom it shall suffice to say, That J. A. B. Acknowledge, Profess, and Testify, instead of J. A. B. Swear That, &c. According to the Words of the Oaths of Allegiance, and Supremacy. Then there is an Excellent Proviso, That no Persons who do not go upon Sundays, to some Congregation of Religious Worship, allowed by this Act, shall have any benefit at all by it.
The Bill is Long upon these Contents, and therefore upon Consideration also, that it hath been once Printed already, so that the Copy thereof is in the hands of many (when it is not so, nor could be so with the other) it is conceived best, to forbear any further Repetition. For indeed, if the whole Bill for Indulgence were waved, and one Clause only advanced into the Bill before for Comprehension (giving it the Title of a Bill for Comprehension and Indulgence both) it were rather to be Chosen, and easier Passed. That Clause should be to this effect.
The Bill is Long upon these Contents, and therefore upon Consideration also, that it hath been once Printed already, so that the Copy thereof is in the hands of many (when it is not so, nor could be so with the other) it is conceived best, to forbear any further Repetition. For indeed, if the whole Bill for Indulgence were waved, and one Clause onely advanced into the Bill before for Comprehension (giving it the Title of a Bill for Comprehension and Indulgence both) it were rather to be Chosen, and easier Passed. That Clause should be to this effect.