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A42050	A modest plea for the due regulation of the press in answer to several reasons lately printed against it, humbly submitted to the judgment of authority / by Francis Gregory, D.D. and rector of Hambleden in the county of Bucks.	Gregory, Francis, 1625?-1707.	1698 (1698)	Wing G1896; ESTC R40036	38,836	57

But to whom ought the Care of this be committed Doubtless to Men of Integrity Learning and Judgment to Men who are able at first view to distinguish Vice from Vertue and Truth from Error and with such Men is the Church of England stored Men of such Parts and Piety that we cannot without breach of Charity so much as once suspect that they would to gratifie any Party stifle any Book which might tend to the advantage of the Christian Church or the common benefit of Mankind Notwithstanding this our Author thought fit to tell his Friend the Parliament-Man that of all other Persons the Clergy-men of our Church are the most unfit to be trusted with the Regulation of the Press and for that he gives this Reason namely because they would allow no Books to be published save only such as tend to establish their own Opinions that is in plain English they would permit no Books to be printed which tend to subvert the fundamental Articles of the Christian Faith and for that Who can justly blame them That the Articles of the Church of England are Sound and Orthodox hath been proved over and over by such Scripture Arguments as Priests and Jesuits Arians and Socinians or any other Heretick never yet could nor ever can overthrow and if any Books which contradict them be offered to the Press 't is fit they should be stifled in the Birth and if they chance to be brought forth by stealth 't is fit they should immediately be cast into the Flames that being the quickest way to cleanse them from that Dross that is in them But however to prevent as much as may be the further increase of dangerous Books which by good Words fair Speeches and seeming Arguments may do much Mischief amongst the illiterate Vulgar 't is very necessary that all Writings offered to the Press about Matters of Religion should carefully be examined by Conscientious and Judicious Divines and that no general Liberty should be allowed to Men of all Sects to write and to Printers to publish whatever they please There are amongst us in this unhappy Age Hereticks of several denominations of whom St. Paul saith Their mouths must be stopped and for that he gives a very just Reason when he tells us They subvert whole houses teaching things which they ought not Now if there ought to be a Muzzle clapped upon the Hereticks mouth there is far greater Reason that there should be a restraint upon his Pen and Press For 't is impossible that any Heretick should do so much Mischief with his Tongue as he may by his Writings words only spoke and heard are transient but words written and printed are permanent an heretical Tongue can do no harm but by a personal Conference but an heretical Pen may do much Mischief to Men at a distance the wrong that may be done by heretical Discourse alone can reach but the present Age but heretical Books may injure and poyson the Souls of Men in after Ages And since there are too many such Books published amongst us it is the great Concern and should be the great Care of our Governours to see that there be no more lest if their Number increase without controul they may by degrees considering the ignorance instability and credulity of Men subvert the Faith of the Son of God and endanger the Souls of Men. But SECT III. 2. THIS Author argueth for an unlimited Liberty of the Press not only for its own great Usefulness but from the Consideration of several grand Inconveniences which as he saith would follow should the Press chance to be restrained and the first which he names is this First The restraint of the Press tends to make Men blindly submit to the Religion they chance to be educated in and to take it up without any trial To this I answer thus This Argument may hold in Popish Kingdoms where the People for want of means cannot and for fear of their Inquisitors dare not examine the Principles and Practices of the Roman Religion But the same Argument pleaded in and against the Church of England is of no Force for it proceeds upon a false Ground and hath a Fallacy in it for here is non causa pro causa the restraint of the Press is here assigned as the Cause or at least the great Occasion that Men take up their Religion upon Trust though indeed it be not so The matter of this Charge is true and as it cannot be denied so it is much to be lamented that great Numbers of Men even amongst us do indeed take up their Religion barely on Trust Protestants they are but why are they such only because it was the Religion of their Parents that wherein they were trained up from their Childhood 't is the Religion established by our Laws generally professed in our Nation and preached in our Churches These I fear are the only Motives upon which the far greatest Part of Men do by a blind and implicite Faith take up their Religion There is a vast multitude of Men who are constrained thus to take up their Religion upon trust by an invincible Necessity Men who were never blest with a liberal Education never taught to read Men so dull and stupid that they cannot apprehend much less remember the Strength of an Argument and surely Persons under such ill Circumstances are in no Capacity to judge for themselves but must rely upon the Judgment of their Teachers and upon their Credit and Authority take up some Religion or other or else they can take up none at all and this is the great unhappiness of many Thousands I fear even in the Church of England But besides these there is another sort of Men bred up in the Principles of Learning Men of compleat Knowledge and good Ability to judge betwixt Vice and Vertue Truth and Falshood and how frequently how earnestly do we exhort such Men from our Pulpits to prove all things to try the Spirits but alas 't is much to be feared that we lose our Labour that Men will not spare any time nor take any pains to examin their Religion but rather take it up at a venture just as they find it Now if a Man takes up his Religion upon trust when he need not do so he runs himself both into sin and danger a sin it certainly is because a breach of those fore named Commands and a great danger it is because instead of a Juno he may embrace a Cloud instead of a true Religon he may close with a false one But where lieth the Fault Upon whom or what must this sin be charged Sure I am that in this case a restraint upon the Press is innocent and cannot be justly blamed For were not Men obliged to examin the Matters of their Religion long before the Art of Printing was invented And was not the neglect of this Duty a sin in former Ages when there was not so much as one Press in all the

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