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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.
5. That Laws and Executions may make some men Lie and Dissemble, and Consent against their Consciences to Impositions: but of all men such are the sharpest and most enraged Enemies; And none upon Earth will be more ready to revenge themselves upon the Imposers, than they will be, whenever an opportunity be offered to them. Thus in the Days of Queen Mary, many dissembled, and assented to the Roman Impositions, to preserve their Estates and Lives, but they retained their Old Opinions, and conceived a mortal hatred against those that put them on those straits and difficulties, as Dr. Burnet observes (Hist. Refor. part 2. page 364): And there is no doubt but they were the keenest, and most eager Enemies to the Romanists, in the Days of Queen Elizabeth, when they had the opportunity of revenging themselves upon them.
5. That Laws and Executions may make some men Lie and Dissemble, and Consent against their Consciences to Impositions: but of all men such are the sharpest and most inraged Enemies; And none upon Earth will be more ready to revenge themselves upon the Imposers, than they will be, whenever an opportunity be offered to them. Thus in the Daies of Queen Mary, many dissembled, and assented to the Roman Impositions, to preserve their Estates and Lives, but they retained their Old Opinions, and conceived a mortal hatred against those that put them on those straits and difficulties, as Dr. Burnet observes (Hist. Refor. part 2. page 364): And there is no doubt but they were the keenest, and most eager Enemies to the Romanists, in the Daies of Queen Elizabeth, when they had the opportunity of revenging themselves upon them.
6. That it is not impossible, but the same measure that some mete to others, may be measured to them again; and that those that Impose upon the Faith and Consciences of others, may be Imposed upon themselves with the same, yea far greater Tyranny and Rigour. The Papists are endeavouring to subvert our Government and Religion; they have had Designs upon the Person and Life of our Sovereign, and some men think they still have; and I know no reason to imagine that they have forsaken them, unless they be convinced in their Judgments that there is no possibility of prospering, or being successful therein, which