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A47904	The reformation reform'd, or, A short history of new-fashion'd Christians occasioned by Franck Smith's Yesterdays paper of votes, September, 2. 1681.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1651 (1651)	Wing L1287; ESTC R20451	18,779	40

THE Reformation Reform'd OR A SHORT HISTORY OF New-fashion'd Christians OCCASIONED BY Franck Smith's Yesterdays Paper of Votes September 2. 1681. LONDON Printed for Joanna Brome at the Gun in St. Pauls Church-yard MDCLXXXI THE PREFACE THE Author of Franck Smith's Paper Entituled Votes of the Honourable the Commons of England Assembled in the late Parliament at Westminster in favour of Protestant Dissenters is very little seen I perceive in the History of the Commons of Westminster and the said Protestant Dissenters He would never have stopt at a Broad-side else and almost the one half of that too spent in Remarque and Descant on the other Now with Honour to the Commons of 1680. and 1681. and with all Due Respect to whatever they did and to whatever they would have done I shall take the freedom to inform the People that the Commons of 1640. and 1641. did a great deal more for the Protestant Dissenters than ever these other Gentlemen either did or intended to do You 'l say perhaps That the Protestant Dissenters of the Forty-One-Edition did what they did for themselves and only out of a kindness to the Children of their own Mothers As to That Point let the matter e'en go as the Courteous Reader pleases We are not here upon the HOW' 's and the WHY' 's but in one word upon the FACT and you shall have it as plain as the best Authorities of those Times can tell the Story That is to say Husbands his Two Volumes of Collections and Scobel's Acts and Ordinances unto which I shall refer ye and you shall there see the Blessed Fruits of an Union of Dissenters and a Thorough-Reformation Monarchy Reduc'd within the Bounds of Law The King made a Glorious Prince in his Person and his Dignity provided for His People setled in Peace and his Royal Revenue in Plenty You shall there understand the meaning of Moderating the Exorbitant Power of the Bishops Clearing the Service of God of Anti-Christian Ceremonies and Human Inventions and setting up that which they call a Painful Conscientious and Gospel-Ministry in the Land You shall there learn what it is for the Subjects to be Secur'd in their Lives Liberties Consciences and Estates For you 'l find in the Holy Idiome That when a man is Imprison'd Transplanted put to Death Sequester'd Plunder'd His Person Life and Estate is said for so much to be Secur'd And so is his Conscience when he comes to be put a Ship-Board or Immur'd betwixt Four Walls for not taking the Covenant You will see there what is Intended by Securing the Person of the King and his Revenue Church-Lands Delinquents Estates c. And according to the Dissenters Lexicon The True Sense of EASING the People Were they not Eased of their Liberties their Fortunes their Lives their Governours and their Teachers What a Blessing it was to have a Wanton and a Plethorique Nation Eas'd of a matter of Sixty Millions of Money besides By-Blows And in short What can be a Greater Ease to any man than to have nothing left him either to Lose or to Care for And then to have a Blessed Assembly of Divines at last for his Confessors to Absolve him for the Contempt of God and his Commandments And who but the Protestant-Dissenters still for the Heirs and Executors upon this wonderful Revolution to all Changes of Government It is far from our Purpose or Desire say the Remonstrators Exact Collections Pag. 19. to let loose the Golden Reins of Discipline and Government in the Church c. Our Intention is only to Reduce within Bounds that Exorbitant Power which the Prelates have assumed unto themselves so contrary both to the Word of God and to the Laws of the Land to which End we past the Bill for the Removing them from their Temporal Power and Employments that so the better they might with Meckness apply themselves to the Discharge of their Functions Exact Col. Pag. 19. Well! And what was the Business all this while only The Preserving the Peace and Safety of the Kingdom from the Malicious Designs of the Popish Party Ex. Col. P. 2. And what were the Remonstrants next Only His Majesties most Humble and Faithful Subjects the Commons in the present Parliament then Assembled Ex. Col. Pag. 1. What might be the Drift of such a Rabble of Calumnyes Crouded up into that Remonstrance The Government wanted mending it seems and if his Majesty would but have minded his own Private Business and left them to manage Matters of State We doubt not say they but God will Crown this Parliament with such Success as shall be the beginning and Foundation of more Honour and Happiness to His Majesty than ever yet was enjoyed by any of his Royal Predecessors Ex. Col. Pag. 21. I shall not need to tell ye the kindness these People had for Protestant Dissenters when only Papists and the Canonical Sons of the Church of England under the Notion of Church-Papists were excepted from Time to Time out of all their Dispensations And not only the Episcopal Clergy but the Service-Book it self and all the Friends both of the Order and Discipline cast out of all Terms of Christian Accommodation The Pretext was Popery too But so soon as ever they had gotten the Prey in the Foot they presently laid down their Religion and took up the Booty and their Ostentation of Loyalty concluded in the Subversion o● the Monarchy as under the Colour of a Reforming Zeal they Overturned the Church And let not any pretend to Qualifie the Crime by Acquitting themselves of an Actual hand in the Horrid Regicide or in giving Advice upon that single Point The Majesty of the King was Murder'd in that very Remonstrance and the Doctrine and Design of it laid open the Way in a Direct Line from the Pen to the Scaffold But they themselves in the Third of their own Actions are the Best Expositors of their Thoughts and Designs so that without any further Comment I shall only Recommend ye to the Tract of their Proceedings as it stands upon Record in their own Writings Wherein I have been so far from forcing any thing beyond the Clear Import and meaning of it That I have been Partial rather on the other hand in Representing it less than I have found it When you shall plainly see and thoroughly consider the miserable Prospect of Wickedness and Slavery That I have here set before ye If Mr. Baxters Saints themselves should Rise out of their Graves again and tell ye what they suffer in another World for what they did in this Neither would you believe them though coming from the Dead if after all this you remain Insensible of so Fair a Warning THE Reformation c. AN Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament for the Ordering of the Militia of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales February 1641. Exact Collections Pag. 88. Resolved That this Answer of his Majesty is a Denyal to both Houses of Parliament concerning the Militia