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Beaufrons, or, A new-discovery of treason under the fair-face and mask of religion, and of liberty and conscience : in an answer to the Protestant reconciler ... / by one of His Majestie's chaplains.
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Jenner, David, d. 1691.
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to the Reconciler The King and Governours continue the Imposition of things Indifferent through want and defect of Piety and Prudence And now pray Is not this Reconciler worthy of Reproof to call his King and Governours Vngodly Imprudent What can he call them worse In our thinking it is all one as if the Reconciler had Mounted the Stage at New-Market where the King was much about the Time when his Book came forth and there had made Proclamation in the open Market and Harangued the Discontented People with such Phrase as this O Brethren Be wise and look to your selves for our King is a Fool our Governours are all like him unwise and imprudent they are as he is ungodly wicked men and for want of Grace and through Defect of Piety and Prudence Therefore it is That they continue the Imposition of things Indifferent upon you for I will assure you had they the Wisedom and Prudence which is from above or were they acted by a Spirit of Grace and Holiness They would ease Mens Consciences and would soon take away these Heavy Yokes and Burthens I mean the Imposition of things Indifferent from off your Necks But alas Dear Brethren I tell you and so does Doctour Tillotson tell you That the King and Governours want Piety and Prudence And that is the very Reason of their Impositions Now What is all this But a New Plot against the King and Government What is it But to Alarum the People First That the King and Governours are Vngodly Imprudent Secondly That according to Calvin's Doctrine Because they are Foolish and Vngodly they are therefore unfit for Government And Thirdly Because they are Vngodly Imprudent and Vnfit for Government Calv. Instit l. 4. c. 20. Therefore the People may Oppose them and may as Calvin and Knox Taught Depose them Thus in our apprehension the Reconciler again Sounds the Trumpet to a New Rebellion Odiously and Malitiously misrepresenting the King and Governours unto the People as Idiots and Fools as Wicked and Vngodly SECT VI. According to the Reconciler The King and Governours are the Destroyers of the Work of God and the Murtherers of Myriads of Souls for imposing things Indifferent The Reconciler's own words are IF I durst says he make the Parallel Protest Recon c. 4. p. 98. it unavoidably would be this That since Superiours by using of their Power in the Commanding of these things Indifferent doe that which accidentally and through the weakness of Dissenters doth Minister unto that Schism which is Destructive to them it may be feared that they i. e. the King and Superiours destroy the work of God and unnecessarily cause the Souls to perish for whom Christ died And Page 99. He adds Were I worthy to advise my Governours Ibid. p. 99. I would say Hast thou O King power in these things Indifferent Have it to thy self before God and use it to that end for which alone he gave it for Edification and not for Destruction Here is plain English and there is no need of an Oedipus to unriddle and find out the Odium and Scandal cast upon the King and our Superiours And in Page 195 The Reconciler has these words to the same purpose A Scandal says he in the Nature of it being Spiritual Murther Prot. Recon c. 6. p. 195. it is to me a wonder how Men that is the King and Governours can think it is consistent with Christian Charity to enjoin any thing unnecessary whence by experience they i. e. the King and Governours know the Murther of innumerable Souls is like to follow Now must it not oblige Superiours to lay aside a thing Indifferent as all the Ceremonies are for the preserving of many Myriads of Souls from Ruin It being then not necessary for Superiours to Command things Indifferent Page 196. much rather should they Quit them than be as they are Accessory to these sad Consequents of that Command to wit the Murther of so many Myriads of Men God Grant says he That our Lawgivers the King and Governours may make the due Inference from the Premisses c. Now Good Sir What Inference would you have us think the King and Governours in Honour and Justice should make from your Premisses But to Reward the Traytour according to his Treason unless he shall timely Repent Openly Recant and beg Mercy which God grant he may and then we hope the King's Clemency will be farther signalized in Pardoning so Notorious an Offender SECT VII The King Commands Men to Sin according to the Reconciler When he Commands their Obedience as to things Indifferent The Reconciler's own words are MOreover this may be farther Argued Prot. Recon c. 6. p. 200. That Qui non vetat peccare cum possit jubet He that being a Superiour as is the King doeth not what lawfully he may for the prevention of his Subjects Sinning does Command his Subjects to Sin Now it is confessed by our Superiours that if they please they may abate these Impositions of things indifferent And it is also certain that the not abating of them is the Occasion of the Schism and so of the Great Sin of many of their Subjects How then will they avoid according to this Rule Qui non vetat peccare cum possit jubet from commanding their Subjects to Sin when they may but will not prevent their sinning Most Excellent Logick The King and Parliament Command by Law that whoever calls the King Fool or Papist shall be hang'd A certain Rebellious Fellow wilfully transgresses that Law And is hang'd for it Ergo Because the King and Parliament had Power not to make that Law and after they had made it they had power to Repeal that Law But would not Therefore the King and Parliament Commanded that Rebel to Sin and therefore the King and Parliament are doubly Guilty First Of the Rebel's Sin Secondly Of his Death in not preventing both by Repealing the said Law For according to the Reconciler Qui non vetat peccare cum possit jubet SECT VIII The Reconciler's Rule for the King and Governours to Observe in case any Evil Consequents should happen through the Dissenters Disobedience after a Condescention Granted to wit To leave the Event to God The Reconciler's own words are IF says he it be Objected Prot. Recon c. 10. p. 326. That should our Superiours Indulge Dissenters in these Matters the Dissenters would never be contented with the Abatement of three Ceremonies unless as Dr. Womack urges we should also yield up the Churches Government and leave the Bishop and every Parish-Priest unto the Choice of the People The Answer and Rule To this says the Reconciler I Answer if so God's will be done however let us doe our Duty and Abolish these three Ceremonies scil Cross in Baptism Kneeling at the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper and Bowing at the Name of Jesus let us doe our Duty And leave the event to God c. That is to speak
BEAVFRONS OR A New-DISCOVERY of TREASON UNDER The FAIR-FACE and MASK OF RELIGION AND OF LIBERTY of CONSCIENCE In an ANSWER to the Protestant Reconciler In which is PROVED That the Protestant-Reconciler Encouraged the New Discovered Plot by his giving out unto the People That the King and Governours were and are the Betrayers of their Liberties And therefore Deserve Death By One of HIS MAJESTIE' 's Chaplains LONDON Printed for Charles Morden Bookseller in Cambridge MDCLXXXIII REVERENDO Admodum in Christo Patri Doctissimóque Antistiti ac DOMINO D. SETHO EPISCOPO SARISBVRIENSI Nec-non NOBILISSIMI ORDINIS à Periscelide Dicti Cancellario Tractatum Hunc In Summae Observantiae Symbolum Humillimè Dicat Dedicátque Ecclesiae verè Anglicanae Filius Observantissimus TO THE READER COURTEOUS SIR IT is humbly conceived that this TREATISE small in its Bulk but great in its Weight will be Acceptable unto all who Love their King and Church Because it so Seasonably Discovers the Plots and Designs of the Enemies to Both. And although the Authour was fully Satisfied That the Dissenters Principles were Treasonable and inconsistent with the Safety of our English Monarchy and of our Churches Welfare Yet he little thought They would so soon have given the World a Proof thereof as they have done in their NEW PLOT against the King's Most Sacred Person and against His Royal Highness the Duke of York which by Divine Providence is so happily discovered and we hope Totally Prevented Stephen Colledge's and their Treason detected fully Answers the Reconciler and proves sufficiently That no Condescention can safely be Granted unto the Dissenting Brethren untill they have openly Renounced their Traiterous Principles and have given some Better Signs of their Loyalty For as this TREATISE Foretold so now their New Treason Discovered has proved it to be a Truth that they are and will be as Dangerous if not more than the Papists And this Plot together with the Popish Plot does clearly evidence farther this Truth also That our King and Governours have no true Friends to trust unto but onely the True Episcopal-Church-Men of England For the Principles of all other Parties lead them into Faction and Rebellion from which Good Lord Deliver Vs July 2d 1683. THE Contents CHAP. I. THE True Notion of a Protestant p. 1. CHAP. II. The Presbyterians no Protestants p. 8. CHAP. III. The Independents no Protestants p. 17. CHAP. IV. The Ànabaptists no Protestants p. 29. CHAP. V. The Quakers no Protestants p. 36. CHAP. VI. The Reconciler's Design as pretended proved to be Impossible p. 40. CHAP. VII The Reconciler's Design proved to be as Managed Malitious and Treasonable towards the King and Governours both of Church and State p. 60. SECT I. The Reconciler gives out to the People That our King and Governours are the Authours of our Present Schisms and Factions p. 61. SECT II. According to the Reconciler Our King and Governours are Proud Men and The Plagues of the Earth For Imposing things Indifferent p. 67. SECT III. According to the Reconciler Our King and Governours Deserve Death For Imposing on the People things Indifferent p. 68. SECT IV. The King and Governours according to the Reconciler are Traytours to the Common-wealth and Betrayers of the Peoples Liberties for Imposing upon them things Indifferent And that therefore the People ought not to yield to their Impositions But ought to Rebell and vindicate their Christian Liberty p. 70. SECT V. The Reconciler scandalously affirms That the King and Governours want Piety and Prudence And that therefore it is they Impose upon the People Things Indifferent p. 74. SECT VI. According to the Reconciler The King and Governours are the Destroyers of the Work of God and are the Murtherers of Myriads of Souls for Imposing things Indifferent p. 77. SECT VII According to the Reconciler The King Commands Men to Sin when he Commands their Obedience as to things Indifferent p. 79. SECT VIII The Reconciler's Rule for the King and Governours to observe in case any Evil Consequents should happen through the Dissenters Disobedience after a Condescention granted to them to wit To leave the Event to God p. 81. CHAP. VIII The Reconciler's Proposition to wit That considering the Circumstances our Church and State at present are in Things Indifferent ought not to be Imposed by the Legislators as Conditions of Church-Communion This Proposition if taken absolutely and simply in it self is proved to be false p. 84. Secondly It is proved to be false and unseasonably Propounded if taken Relatively in Reference to the Circumstances our Church and State are in at present p. 96. CHAP. I. The true Notion of a PROTESTANT NEver was the Christian World more abus'd with any Word under the Pretence of Religion than with this of Protestant And especially in this Our Factious and Disloyal Age and Country In which this Word has been and still is made odious and a very Covert for all Religious-Male-Contents in Church and State For All Parties and Sects that would not be deemed Papists have Christened and Styled themselves Protestants Although they have been and still are the most erroneous vitious and dissolute Persons in the World both as to Principles and Practices And for as much as a Late Authour Entitles himself and his Book THE PROTESTANT RECONCILER But has not told his Reader Who are the Persons he understands by Protestants We therefore entreat the said Reconciler to inform the World What he means by A Protestant For if by Protestants the Reconciler understands All those men who disown and Protest against the Name of Papist Then in truth the Turks and Jews may as deservedly be called Protestants But if he says that by Protestants he means All Christians who Renounce Popery Then he would doe well 1. To define what is Popery 2. To let us know who are the Persons that renounce Popery so defined For by Popery the Church of Rome means the Pope's Supremacy and whoever denies that is no Papist at Rome Let his other Opinions be never so Canonical And by Protestantism the Church of England understands the Pious Doctrine of the King's Supremacy in Opposition unto that of the Pope's And whoever denyes the King's Supremacy is no Protestant in England Let his other Tenets be never so Orthodox Wherefore Once again We request the Reconciler not to amuse the World with any Bug-Bear Words But in plain English to Unridle Who and What are the Persons he discriminates from all others by the Specious Title of Protestants For if the Reconciler be a genuine Son of the Church of England as now established which we very much doubt He cannot but know That our Church and State own and acknowledge None to be Protestants in England but onely such who in their Consciences and Principles allow of and Protest for The King's Supremacy And by the King's Supremacy we mean Full. Ch. Hist l. 9. p. 53. A Power in the King given to him by Almighty God to Restore Religion when