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A35694	The burnt child dreads the fire, or, An examination of the merits of the papists relating to England, mostly from their own pens in justification of the late act of Parliament for preventing dangers which may happen from popish recusants : and further shewing that whatsoever their merits have been, no thanks to their religion and, therefore, ought not to be gratified in their religion by toleration thereof by William Denton ...	Denton, William, 1605-1691.	1675 (1675)	Wing D1064; ESTC R16886	91,543	165

looks too like a slander to intimate it and it is our belief that the worse the men and their Religion are the more need they have of their own and other mens prayers to make them better but then they must be made to God and his Son and not to Pictures and Images nor yet to Stocks and Stones and those in a Language to themselves Intelligible It is is indeed the desire and design of our Souls that being converted our selves to strengthen our Brethren and to hinder some scabbed Sheep from infecting the rest of the whole Flock to hinder the traficking of your private Idolatrous Masses or the feeding His Majesties best Subjects with Fragments of Communions or to mock the weaker Brethren with prayers not understood or weary them with ridiculous Gestures and to binder the giving the Glory that is due to God unto Stocks and Stones Prayers understood or not understood to Saints Pictures and Idols Ave Maries and Beads Agnus Dei's and such Abominations which will never prevail with God for Blessings but will rather pull down his Curses and Judgments upon you Prayers to God and his Son are by God commanded and are acceptable to him without dispute to Wafers Saints and Pictures are not so it being indisputable Idolatry to give Divine Honour to a Creature to a Wafer God that Dogs Mice and Rats may eat Do but what our Saviour undeniably did viz. break and give to all Mat. 26.26 27 28. that all may be partakers one Bread 1 Cor. 10.16 17. Divide the Cup that all may drink thereof Do that which he commanded to be done who first ordained this Mystery Do that which St. Paul received of the Lord and delivered to the Church of Corinth 1 Cor. 11.23 24 25. Do that I say which the Primitive Church of Christ always did and you need not doubt of publick Allowance nor of publick places and oratories Do not make your selves wiser than God himself by putting a Padlock on the Scriptures which Christ hath commanded every man to search for in them ye think to have Eternal Life and they are they which testifie of me John 5.39 and which was taught Timothy from a Child and are able to make wise unto Salvation through Faith which is in Christ Jesus and is profitable for Doctrin for Reproof for Correction for instruction in Righteousness that the man of God may he perfect throughly furnished unto all good Works 1 Tim. 3.15 16 17. Do not go about to rob God of his Glory by denying the Work of his own hands and the Redeemed of his own Blood the Efficacy of the Scriptures with the assistance of his Spirit not us of our Senses as if we could not distinguish Bread from Flesh or the Juice of the Grape from the Blood of Christ Do not substract from Gods own Decalogue one of his own Commandments under the pain of Eternal Damnation add 14 new Articles to the Apostles Creed which squint more at belief in the Pope and Papal Definitions than towards God and his Word lest ye Incur the plagues denounced against such Arithmetick and your part in the Book of Life be taken away Rev. 22.18 19. Neither be of those many which corrupt the Word of God but as of sincerity but as of God in the sight of God speake and write in Christ 2 Cor. 2.17 These few of many are sins so gross that they go open before to Judgment and are as manifest as the Deeds of the Flesh which are Adultery Fornication Vncleanness Lasciviousness Idolatry Murders Revelings c. Gal. 5.19 20 21. which both God and Nations abhor and make Laws against and Prohibitions so that none can be deceived but such as are given up to a reprobate sense and unto strong delusions to believe Lies 1 Thes 2.11 § It is true you have reconciled some Proselytes unto your Church which hath made both King and Parliament so Industrious to preserve the rest from Infection and Seducements and by so doing you have made them two fold more the Children of Hell than they were before meer Samaritans Worshippers of they know not what whereby we have lost little and you have not got much For indeed it matters little what Religion Men profess if they live not according to to the Decalogue It is neither Circumcision nor Vncircumcision Gal. 〈◊〉 9. but a new Creature that availeth Gal. 6.15 For no man either knows or believes in God otherwise than the Devils do that doth not keep his Commandments And God knows the love of men towards him only by their keeping of his Commandments and by abstaining from that black Catalogue of sine Recorded Gal. 5.19 〈◊〉 without Holiness it is impossible ever to see the face of 〈…〉 comfort I know no medium between a Saint and 〈…〉 Purgatory b●tween Heaven and Hell 〈…〉 so it lies Heaven and Hell will divide the whole World at last As it hath been the unhappiness of former Ages so of this also that they that depart from evil make themselves a Prey and they that live Holily Godlily and Righteously in this present evil World are jeered and accounted but the off-scowring of the World Penitentiarii Asini Formal Fops But I fear when the King of Terrors shall Attacque the Copyholds of such Flowters and Magor-Missabib Fear and Terror shall be round about them and when they are drawing near to the Chambers of Death that then their Groans will be like the Groans of a deadly wounded man and their Hopes like the giving up of the Ghost and that then the 'l wish that both their lives and their deaths had been like those Formal Fobbs Therefore my hearty desire is That both this Dialogist and all the perverted reconciled Proselytes to Rome would return from whence they are fallen and repent and come out of that Inchanting City and Sink of sin that hath spawned more false Doctrins of a Scarlet Dye than all the Christian Churches in the World and be seperate and no doubt but this Church will receive them and our Kings and Queens will be their nursing Fathers and Mothers and you will become their Sons and Daughters else What fellowship can righteousness have with unrighteousness what Communion can Light have with Darkness What Concord can Christ have with Belial and what agreement can the Temple of God have with Idols Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate and God and this Church will receive you and God will be a Father unto you and ye shall be his Sons and Daughters 2 Cor. 6.14 15 16 17 18. § Reasons are as strong and convincing against Tolleration if the case be considered upon a Politick Account and Interest as well as upon a Religious for tordraw away Subjects to depend upon a Forrein Prelate or power from their Natural or Lawful Sovereign is in a Politick Consideration as the defiling of the Kings Bed and debauching of his Consort from him and this is that which makes Popery