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A Second beacon fired humbly presented to the Lord Protector and the Parliament by the publishers of the first : with their humble petition, that they would do what may be expected from Christian magistrates, in suppressing blasphemous books.
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Fawne, Luke, d. 1666.
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more and more and chiefly in London and the North parts of England where there was a meeting lately of about Two thousand Quakers And that this four leaven threatens the leavening of the whole lump and that too soon though it should not be compleated untill by age or death you be called off the stage when the Lord shall examin how you have improved your Talent And what a Popish or what a Paganish Parliament shall we have then if any Where then will be our Laws Magistrates Religion Ministry Liberties Strength when a Papist or a Nero taking the advantage of our confusion shall get into the saddle though by the stirrup of a pretended Fifth Monarchy If you should judge us too presumptuous in this addresse as we hope you will not our apologie is that through grace we are Christians that judge it no great adventure to appear before the Rulers of this world in so good a cause sith we are used to frequent admittance into the presence of the King of Kings our dear Lord and Master And if it shall be blamed as discovering the nakednesse and wounds of our dear Country to the Churches and Nations round about we hope that reason will plead for us that you cannot cure these wounds untill they be discover'd and search'd and that if such Books and blasphemous Opinions were not suffered to be spread all the Land over we had not troubled You with the mention of them The Premises considered we humbly renew our Petition to his Highnesse the Lord Protector and the Honourable Parliament and heartily implore You by God and Mans Expectations your own publique Professions and Engagements and as ever you expect to appear before God with comfort who hath put power into your hands to doe much for his beloved Spouse and Cause That you would stir up your strength and your zeal against the Enemies of both the souls and bodies of the people of this Commonwealth by suppressing of Popish Blasphemous Antimagistratical and Antiministeriall Books which are the nursery of Errour Idolatry and Rebellion Putrefaction and Shame of a Nation Provocation of Divine vengeance and high-way to eternall perdition And to the end so good a work may be accomplished and effectuall means may be applied we shall humbly offer our Proposals if commanded how it may be done without any trouble to the State In the mean time begging leave that without offence we may say we humbly conceive that we shall despair of ever seeing a sufficient Redresse in this case unlesse the way of Licensing Books by faithfull able men that are sound in the Faith be strictly enjoynd and an equitable Penalty laid upon all that Print and Publish or cause to be Printed and Published any Book not Licensed and the said Penalty to be recovered by any that shall prosecute the Offender at the Common-Law with good encouragement to the Prosecuter And lastly Least the Parliaments great Affairs about Warre and Peace should hinder such an Information as this from being heard we doe beg in the Name of Christ of all persons of all degrees whether Ministers of the Gospel Gentlemen or others by what Names soever distinguished that are or would be esteemed real Friends to true Religion the Lord Protector the Parliament and Commonwealth of England that they would improve all the Interest they have both in God and men in authority for the effectual Suppression of such Books as are destructive to the Religion and welfare of these Nations Octo. 9. 1654. And the Petitioners shall ever pray c. Luke Fawne Samuel Gellibrand Joshua Kirton John Rothwell Thomas Vnderhill Nathanael Webb
A Second BEACON FIRED Humbly Presented to the LORD PROTECTOR AND THE PARLIAMENT By the Publishers of the First With their humble Petition that they would do what may be expected from Christian Magistrates in suppressing Blasphemous Books For Sions sake we cannot hold our peace ANCHORA SPEI LONDON Printed for the Subscribers hereof 1654. A Second Beacon Fired THat supream Magistrates ought to have a care of their peoples souls in keeping from them the pestilentiall infection of Idolatry and Blasphemy as well as of their temporall weale is so well known unto You as also the danger of knowing the Masters will and not doing it that it would be needlesse for the most able men to teach You and therefore great presumption in us But for the danger that these Nations are in of being overspread with Popery Socinianisme and inchanting Quakerisme may not be known to many of You or at least through other great affairs not throughly considered of as through Gods blessing it may be upon a true and faithfull information Be pleased therefore to give us leave to reminde You 1. Of the contrivances and actings of the Papists to introduce their Religion 1. By sending forth their Emissaries disguised under the name of Army-men Church-members and Anabaptists as we are able to demonstrate 2. By their setting up an Hierarchy and Consistory consisting of an Arch-Bishop with other dependents on him in this Nation as appears by the Lord Protectors testimony in his late Speech viz. We know very well that Emissaries of the Jesuites never came in those swarmes as they have done since these things were set on foot And I tell you that divers Gentlemen here can bear witnesse with me how that they have had a Consistory abroad that rules all the affairs of things in England from an Arch-Bishop with other Dependants upon him And they had fixed in England of which we are able to produce the particular Instruments in most of the Limits of the Cathedrals an Episcopal-power with Arch-Deacons c. And had persons authorized to exercise and distribute those things who pervert and deceive the people Thus far the Lord Protector 3. By their publishing in the years 1650 1651 1652 18 severall sorts of Popish Books in the English tongue an Impression of each in all as we have cause to judge no lesse then 30000 and all printed in London we are sure the Names whereof do here follow 1. The Golden Treatise of Vincentius Lirinensis 2. The Verity of Christian Faith 3. The Felicity of a Christian Life 4. The Profit of Beleeving 5. Saint Austin's Care for the Dead 6. Parson's Resolutions 7. Sales his Introduction 8. The lost Sheep returned home or The motives of the Conversion to the Catholike Faith of Tho. Vaine D. D. 9. A Missive to his Majesty K. James by Dr Carrier 10. The Love of the Soul by G. M. 11. A Manifest touching Mr. W. P. Aversion from the Protestant Congregation and his Conversion to the Catholique Church 12. The Examination of the late Act of the Convocation at Oxford containing their Reasons against the Scottish Covenant and Presbytery 13. The Right Religion Evinced by L. B. 14. Prayer to the Saints Vindicated by F. P. 15. A prudent and secure Choice being a sure Land-mark to all those who have been tossed to and fro in these wavering times by H. G. 16. A Treatise of Schisme by Scot 17. The Christian Sodality or Catholique Hive of Bees by E. P. alias Gage as is said 18. The Christian Moderator All which we humbly minded the Parliament of with the Contents of each Book in a Book two years ago printed called The Beacon set on fire And we are very sure that since that time there hath been printed divers Impressions of other Popish Books not there named 2. Of the great increase of Socinianisme Quakerisme and other fundamentall Errours 1. By the publick meetings and Exercises that Socinians have in London and elsewhere every week blasphemously holding and teaching their damnable doctrines 2. By the like meetings of Quakers in London whose opinions are Blasphemous Paganish Antiscriptural and Antichristian even as the former 3. By the Printing and Publishing many thousands of Books containing Blasphemous Hereticall and Antimagistraticall opinions tending to unchristian and disorder the people of the Nations and introduce Paganisme Popery Socinianisme and Libertinisme A tast of the loathsome poysonous blasphemous Errours contained in the foresaid Books we do herewith humbly present unto you to provoke your zeal against them A Catalogue of some of those Blasphemies and Errours that have been Published within these two or three years last past 1. THat no Opinion is damnable or that a man may be saved in any Religion A Discourse touching the Peace of the Church Chap. 5. 2. That Christ is a meer man not having any other nature besides his humane nature Bidles Confession of Faith Article 3. 3. That the holy Ghost is not God but only the chief of the ministring Spirits Bidle 4. That God hath a similitude or shape hath his place in the heavens hath also affections or passions Bidles Preface to his Catechisme 5. That in case any assurance of the unchangeablenesse of Gods love were to be found in or regularly deduced from the Scriptures it were a just ground to any intelligent man to question their Authority and whether they were from God or no Redemption Redeemed p. 335. 6. That water-Baptisme is to be laid aside Dell the Doctrine of Baptisme 7. That if any man consider diligently he will finde the Scripture and all ordinary Catechismes are at so wide a distance that he will begin to question whether the Catechists gave any heed at all to what they wrote and did not only themselves refuse to make use of their reason but presume that their Readers also would do the same Bidles Preface to his Catechisme 8. That Christs death did not reconcile God to us but only us to God Bidle Catechisme p. 68. 9. That we are not justified by Christs imputed righteousnesse but by faith and by good works Bidle Catech. p. 82 96. 10. That the wicked shall not live for ever in torments but shall be annihilated and utterly perish after the judgement Bidle Cat. p. 133 135. 11. That the righteous enter into life for their good-works Bidle brief Script Catch 12. That the Sacraments in use among us are not appointed in the Scripture Farnworths Answer to a Petition 13. That the light of God that is in all meu viz. naturall conscience the spirit of a man being the candle of the Lord is sufficient if we give heed unto it to discover all sin inform us of all duties change our wils turn our hearts from all sinne unto God to delight in God and to shew us the way to salvation And that this light within every man is the grace of God and that spirit which searcheth all things even the deep things of God yea that it is Christ in us