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A69802	The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, A farther vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance and knavery unjustly charged on them by Mr. Zachary Taylor in his two books about the Surey demoniak in a letter to himself.	Carrington, John, d. 1701.	1698 (1698)	Wing C642A; ESTC R173402	30,143	34

object they are constant Tools of Popery And for my Information you bring a Book called Philanax Anglicus to prove They Cut off the Royal Martyr's Head Pag. 5. Solution I answer excepting against the Witness a Papist We have Mischief too much from such villanous Witnesses who account nothing unlawful to say or do against Hereticks to promote the Catholick Cause This Book was written with a Design to cast the Odium of K. Ch. I. on the Prorestants except some few whom he calls if I remember right Protestants of Integrity I suppose he may mean such as B. Goodman Parker of Oxf. or Barrow to whom add if you will your Dr. Heylin This Book was Answered so well by Dr. Owen that he was highly Caressed by some Great Ministers of State in King Charles the Second's Time that for certain were no Dissenters But if you except against him as a Party I shall refer you to a Canon of Canterbury in the same Reign and Chaplain to K. Ch. II. Dr. Peter du Moulin who Answered that Book and calls it Purum putum Mendacium Right Metal of Untruth and calls the Author Philopapa and Dedicates it to the then B. of London Sheldon Now would you not be angry if I should call you Tool of Popery because from them you derive your Authority to call Dissenters so Again you refer me to a Book I suppose called Foxes and Firebrands an Author may be of the same Kidney Now to be even with you I have already given you two for two and to gratify you I 'll add a third viz. King Charles the Second's Declaration or Proclamation appointed to be Read in Churches Annually before Jan. XXX Obj. But you send me also to fresher Instances to prove that Dissenters are Tools of Popery viz. Addresses and Speeches to the late K. J. Solut. I will refer you to Cart-loads of Addresses and Abhorrences and Sermons Cursings Exclusioners and their Posterities which may be as much worth as Dissenters Addresses and Speeches Besides you may add if you will R. Rev. and Rev. Caresses and Speeches at Chester and the Clergy meeting him also And whose Tools were they I am ashamed to name these things but you extort them Dat veniam Corvis Now how should Dissenters please some Fools One while they are the Papists Tools for their Disloyalty and in the next Breath they are Tools for their Loyalty Now since the happy Establishment of King William on the Throne I suppose you and Dissenters are agreed in your Loyalty But some Jacobite would if he durst ask you How you could dispence with your Doctrine of Non-Resistance and Passive-Obedience and your Subscription That it 's not Lawful c. But Dissenters do heartily Bless God for such a Revolution And for Mr. Jolly's Speech and Dissenters Addresses at that Time you mention there was none presented nor did Mr. J. make a Speech 2. Farther I had said Lev. pag. 9. What are they to be Blamed for Are they to be Blamed for their Fasting and Praying Did they use Popish Exorcisms or Popish Ceremonies Now to prove they had done nothing to be Blamed for in their Fasting and Praying because whether it was a Cheat or whether it was a Natural Distemper yet they supposing and believing here was a Devil and the Man really being under a great Affliction they Fasted and Prayed according to the Advice of St. James Chap. V. If any be afflicted let him Pray And what is here to be Blamed or what was here done tending to Popery Now what say you now 1. You blame their Prayers because they were upon a Supposition and would justify Papists Prayers to Saints 2. You charge me with misrepresenting your Words and with Fabulous Stories Obj. You say If the Supposition be false the Worship is Superstition And by asserting this I am a Friend to Quakers and Papists if a Supposition be the Ground of Devotion For Papists pay Adoration to the Sacrament of the Altar on the belief that Christ is personally there and they Pray to Saints and Angels on supposition they can hear Lett. to Apost p. 6. With several impertinent Reflections nothing to the Argument Sol. To this I say 1. Mr. J. and the rest did not make a Supposition of it for they did verily believe that D. was a Demoniack and thought there were the same Symptoms with some Demoniack in the Gospel which I remember not that you have offered any thing against 2. But because I said they Pray'd on that Supposition that Dugd. was a Demoniack they were not to be blamed therefore I answer That all Worship upon a Supposition is not Superstition For their Prayers were not Supersticion Because 1. Their Prayers for Dugd. were to a lawful Object God in the Name of Christ and not like the Papists Adoration of the Sacrament Now here some Fanatick would fall upon you and say Whether is more excusable he that adores the Sacrament of the Altar that believes Christ is there Personally c. or he that adores the Altar or before it when Christ is not there either Personally or Representatively Unless they suppose him there when there is no reason to believe it this indeed is Superstition with a Witness 2. Dissenters Prayers were not only to a Lawful Object but for a Lawful Thing that God would release an afflicted Man and one they thought a Demoniack from the power of Satan And that their Prayers were not Superstition upon this Supposition may appear by alike Instances as suppose you be absent from your Wife and Children I hope you Pray for them when at a distance supposing and believing them to be alive but it 's possible at the same time some of them may be dead and you know it not Will this Supposition which is not then true make your Prayers Superstition K. Ch. II. was Pray'd for publickly after he was Dead for it could not be known at this distance Were your Publick Prayers then for him Superstition Obj. 2. You charge me with misrepresenting your Words and Fabulous Stories Pag. 5. because I had said That you deny that a Natural or Preternatural Distemper can be attended with a Devil and that it was no good Argument to prove that Dick's was no Possession because a Distemper Lev. Pag. 7 8. Sol. 1. I did not say these particular Words were yours But I 'll tell you why I judg'd the Argument to be yours 1. From P. 22. of Sur. Imp. to P. 28. you go about to prove Dugd. 's Fits to be a Cheat or that there was nothing in his Fits but what was Natural Doth it not hence follow that here was no Devil Which to prove you fetch in the Authority of Dr. Willis Ratcliff and Buckley Ratcliff saith Pag. 30. These strange Gestures and Actions were not Diabolical but Preternatural Whence you draw this Conclusion You see by the help of my good Friends I may hope to parallel the Surey Gambals and satisfy all unbiass'd Persons from the