A55307:93
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. 10.
Having besought our Civil, and most especially our Ecclesiastical Governors, to consider these few things now discoursed, I proceed to make some Answer to the Objection; What would you have? And in general I reply, I am no Advocate for Universal Liberty, that men should be left to believe, speak, and do as they list. I would not that permission should be given to any to blaspheme God, ridicule the Christian Religion, decry and burlesque all Morality, and laugh at the day of Judgment, and a State of Rewards and Punishments. I would not that men should be permitted to Preach Rebellion, and Mutiny the People against their Prince; nor that they should be allowed to sow Sedition, or teach such Doctrine as will subvert Order, and destroy all Peace among men; for these things, and others of like nature, I am no Patron. Let these be prevented by all just care and endeavours, and let such as offend in any of them undergo the sharpest punishments.
HAving besought our Civil, and most especially our Ecclesiastical Governours, to consider these few things now discoursed, I proceed to make some Answer to the Objection; What would you have? And in general I reply, I am no Advocate for Universal Liberty, that men should be left to believe, speak, and do as they list. I would not that permission should be given to any to blaspheme God, ridicule the Christian Religion, decry and burlesque all Morality, and laugh at the day of Judgment, and a State of Rewards and Punishments. I would not that men should be permitted to Preach Rebellion, and Mutiny the People against their Prince; nor that they should be allowed to sow Sedition, or teach such Doctrine as will subvert Order, and destroy all Peace among men; for these things, and others of like nature, I am no Patron. Let these be prevented by all just care and endeavours, and let such as offend in any of them undergo the sharpest punishments.