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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31186	The case of the suspended bishops considered in which the unreasonableness of their descent from the present government and the mischievous consequence that hath attended it, is demonstrated.		1691 (1691)	Wing C1168; ESTC R3534	16,373	38

Safety of the Government s this Address of our Grand-Jury was III. Our Addressers have by their ordinary inadvertence and Folly insinuated that the Bishops needed a Pardon which truly they did not for they humbly pray the like Favour viz. a Pardon might be extended to their Pious Bishops particularly their Diocesan Whatever Thanks they pretend to pay the King 2ure I am the Suspended Bishops owe none to those Gentlemen who desire a Pardon for them when they themselves I hope are sufficiently perswaded they need none And if a Man had been design'd to redicule these Reverend Fathers it could not been better done than begging a Pardon for them that had appear'd in the last Reign with so much Zeal for the Liberty and Religion of their Country and had suffered a Confinement like that of the Primitive Martyrs under Dioclesian among Murtherers and Traytors to use our Authors own words upon that Score IV. Our Addressers have stumbled unhappily upon the Word Serving their Majesties in their several Provinces One would have thought these Zealous Votaries should rather have used the word Serving God Almighty for the Office of Bishops does more immediately rafer to that than to the Service of any Earthly Monarch It 's an ordinary Expression to Serve God in the Work of the Ministry but it 's a new one to Serve the King in it And I believe these Reverend Persons will be of my Opinion The word Provinces comes in as much from the Purpose for by Provinces when referring to the Bishops of England are meant two the Districts of Canterbury and York and that of York is already happily filled So that the word Province should have been used only in the Singular Number to mean that of Canterbury now Vacant otherwise it was not good Sense But to answer this Address in one word There is no Government in the World that ever allowed Men to enjoy the greatest Offices and Dignities in it that would not acknowledge the Government it selof some one way or other And there can be no greater Presumption nor Affront done the Government than for a Handful of Men to present a Petition or Address which is all one for continuing these Men in Offices which the Law and all the Rules of Policy incapacitate them for There is no Honest Man but could heartily wish these Reverend Bishops might have their Consciences satisfied in point of the Oaths but until they satisfie the Law by taking them we must regret their Misfortune without wishing them in Offices the Law cannot allow them to enjoy There is no question but whenever they shall get over their Scruples the King will shew as much Kindness to them as he has been pleased to shew One of their Coat of late upon his getting over his We have some hopes that the Pungent Reasons which prevail'd with this Reverend Parson to change his Sentiments as to the Lawfulness of the Oaths may at length prevail with the Bishops too And it 's from thence the World is in so much Impatience to see that New Convert's Reasons in Print I know not if I be obliged to follow this rambling Apologist through all the Impertinencies in the rest of his Pamphlet But I cannot enough admire the wonderful Application he makes of the Fable about the Camels getting from Jupiter crop'd Ears instead of Horns and all this our Author is at pains to relate meerly for the sake of a fine single Epithet in calling Crop'd Ears a Sanctisied Dress What a Leanred Man must this be that can go back the length of Esop's days only to have a Nonsensical Fling at the Dissenting Ministers whom such Learned Authors as himself have sometime for what Reason no body knows Nicknam'd Crop'd Ear'd Parsons But I would fain know of this Gentleman whither if he himself had been to ask a Boon of Jupiter it might not have been as much his Interest to desire him to crop his Ears as to give him or allow him to keep Horns the one being more visible and making perhaps a greater Noise in the Neighborhood than the other could possibly do especially if hidden by a Perriwig He spends almost all the rest of the Pamphlet in vindicating the Grand-Juries making their Address to the King and not to the King and Parliament It 's not worth the pains to consider whither they should have Address'd it to the King or to the Parliament or to both for whatever way they were to do it they were to lose their pains and to meet with that Just Disdain such a Folly deserves The Poor Man after this falls into one of the Saddest Fits of Fury against the Presbyterians that can be and no body knows what has given occasion to this Paroxism of his Was it because they condemn'd the Gloucester Address At that rate he might have with the same reason belsh'd out his Venom at the Better and Learneder part of the Church of England who have unanimously condemn'd this Address as much as the Presbyterians as being more concern'd for the Reflection such a Folly brings upon the Church But how he comes to spend so much time and so many Invectives against Doctor du Moulin for writing against some Mistakes in the Discipline of the Church of England I know not The Truth is I thought both the Man and his Book had been forgotten but it 's probable our Author is Master of so few Books that it 's no wonder he takes pains to cite so many Passages out of one that has casually fallen into his Hands There is very few I know that approves du Moulin's Heat against the Discipline of our Church but there are others of the other side nothing behind him in invectives against the Dissenters from the Church We have had both before and of late several who have gone to that length of Animosity against the Dissenters as for their meer Sakes to Vnchurch all the Protestant Churches in Europe because of the want of the Order of Bishops among them And it 's very likely this Uncharitableness of the Church of England against the Protestants abroad and particularly of the French Church whereof Doctor du Moulin was a Member might animate the Angry Old Man as our Author calls him a little beyond his Design and beyond Rea2on and Decency too So that Dr. du Moulin and our Author may even forget one another since they are equally in the wrong to one anothers Party The Author Raves when he tells us the Reason why People are displeased with his Gloucester Address is because it 's in Favour of Men that are Bishops and for their being so This is a rediculous and malicious Reflection there is no body but has a great Veneration for the Order and for a great many Learned Pious and Worthy Persons that compose it But indeed our Author will have much to do to reconcile the Generality of Mankind at least Protestants to the Conduct of the Suspended Bishops It 's not because they were