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A46813	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.	Jenner, David, d. 1691.	1683 (1683)	Wing J657; ESTC R32980	46,367	116

of the Beaufront Protestants Now if this be a truth as verily it is then pray Sir seeing as you pretend that you wrote your Book onely to ease your own Conscience and that poor Dissenters may not be damned by being excluded our Church why then Sir will you damn the Conscientious Papists by excluding them for you do in your Book exclude all the Papists as the Onely Common Enemy to our Church and State As if the Dissenters were no Enemies to either as if they dear innocent Souls had no Gall or Bitterness no Malice or Ill-will against the King and his Government Sir you are become an eloquent Tertullus a great Apologizer for not onely some but even all the Dissenters When in Page 108 and Page 114 of your Book you declare to the whole world in these very words Their Innocency and your own good opinion of them Protestant Reconciler p. 113 114. saying I Sincerely profess I know not any pure Malice Obstinacy and Wilfulness which can certainly be applied unto the Case of the Dissenters Surely Sir you will for once eat your words and Confess That you know some yet Surviving who entred into a Malitious Scotch-Covenant against the late King and obstinately raised a Bloudy-War against Him and his present Majesty and you know farther That They have not as yet Openly declared their Repentance and sorrow for so doing Ergo You know some that still continue Obstinate and Malitious as the Learned Dr. Womack and Faulkland have informed you Surely Sir you knew or at least have heard of Oliver Cromwell and his Malitious Army that Murthered King Charles the First and you know many of that Army do yet survive without declaring the least Abhorrency of that Horrid Action Ergo Did you never know nor hear of Tho. Venner and his Company who in 1660 shot and fired at the King 's peaceable Subjects in London Streets and pleaded They did it out of a Tender Conscience and for King Jesus his sake And is there not one Fifth Monarchy Man of all your Acquaintance Did you never hear of a late Malitious Association carryed on by the Beaufronts and the Dissenters against the King and the Church Government The which if you will believe the King 's late Declaration would in all likelyhood had it took effect have proved more fatal and destructive to the King and the Church of England as now established than ever the Scotch Covenant And I pray Sir don't you know one of these Associatours Did you never know Stephen Colledge that was hang'd at Oxford I wonder in what County you live For in all Counties the Associatours exceedingly abound both Beaufronts and Dissenters And 't is observed that the Beaufronts are of this humour That they will on Sunday Morning go to their Parish-Church and in the Afternoon to a Conventicle in the Afternoons they will never come to Divine Service nor to Catechising nor to Exposition on the Church Catechism though never so profitable and large yet if there be no Sermon in the Pulpit they will turn their back upon Divine Service and either go to another Church where there is no Catechising but a Sermon or to a Conventicle or else they will stay at home and Scurrilously Rail at the King and Bishops and be sure at their own Parson and complain that he is lazy and idle although he be never so laborious and painfull in his Exposition on the Church Catechism and in instructing old and young according to the Church Canons in the Desk Yet because he does not in the Afternoon ascend the Pulpit and beat the Cushion he cannot escape the Virulency of their Tongues And Mr. Reconciler in one County a Canonical Parson being sent for to Preach before his Diocesan he was thereby prevented from Reading Divine Service the next day which fell out to be an Holy-day at his own Parish Church Hereupon it happened that the Dissenters and Beaufronts in the said Parish who never came to Divine Service on Holy-days went from House to House in the said Town railing on the said Parson tauntingly saying Look ye Neighbours ye see what care the Parson has of his Parishioners Souls He is gone out of Town and has left no Body to Reade Prayers to morrow it is very true for we have been with the Clark to know the truth And if we should die before Sunday we may all be Damned for all the Parson's care of us A Vengeance on him and on all his Tribe They mind onely the Fleece and not the Flock c. And yet you must know that when the said Parson is at home he never misses if he be well the Reading of Divine Service on Holy days at his Parish Church no although he has had no other Auditours but the Walls and those few of his own Family And when the said Parson has as he often has called upon the aforesaid Dissenters and Beaufronts to frequent the Divine Service on the Holy-days They have answered him to his very face and complained That Holy days were first of the Pope's Superstitious Appointment And that they doe more hurt than good for they make Servants idle and bad Husbands And farther said they What need we goe to Church on the Week-days Sunday is enough God required but One Day in Seven We can Pray at home as well as at the Church Come Sir we must tell you that you have a Pope in your Heart and that makes you so Superstitious as to Observe Days of Man's Inventions And now pray Mr. Reconciler be ingenuous and tell the truth What think you of this true Story for it is no Romance Do you not think these men were and all men like them are Malitious Obstinate and Turbulent But because you profess you know not one of them pray Know you not one Associatour or Beaufront besides your Dear Self in all your Town and Country Know you none of the Men of Shaftsbury Or Are they and all your Acquaintance since Stephen Colledge his Execution transformed from Associatours into Abhorrers from Knaves into Honest Men If so it is very good News But if not then pray Sir What makes you plead so earnestly in their behalf as even to Damn the King and Government if they do not Humour you in Granting to the aforesaid Factious Beaufronts and Dissenters a speedy Condescention But to wave this Digression and to return to our former Querie Pray Sir tell us What Reason is there That the Dissenters should be indulged and the Papists prosecuted Or why should the Dissenters onely be saved by an Admission into our Church-Communion But the Papists though never so Religious be Damned by an Exclusion for according to your Doctrine If Exclusion will damn the one it must also damn the other But you will object and plead 1. That the Papists are Idolaters and therefore ought not to be indulged But I pray Does not Doctour Owen in totidem verbis say the like of us How that all the

Commotions and Insurrections against their Princes As was Thomas Muntzer one of the first Anabaptists in Europe who gathered a great number of Common people together upon the account of Religion and Tender Conscience and Headed them in a Bloudy Rebellion against the Princes of Germany Though it pleased God that this Religious Traytour was overcome in Battel and deservedly executed for his Treason It would be endless to enumerate all their Treasonable Principles for with them as with all others the Proverb is true Mores sequuntur Humores Mens Practices are the Natural Results and effects of their Principles And therefore forasmuch as the Anabaptists Principles are Treasonable and Anti-Protestant Declaring against The King's Supremacy in Church And His Monarchy in State We may and ought to Conclude them as we did the Presbyterians and Independents To be No PROTESTANTS CHAP. V. The Quakers No Protestants THis is a Sect of Men who also pretend to Religion and like bad Weeds have in a very short time grown high and numerous within this our pleasant Garden of England And truely they are outwardly whatever they be inwardly more modest than the three former Dissenters in that these men knowing their own Principles and Practices to be directly opposite to the Protestant Religion have not presumed as did the three other to Name themselves Protestants But have been Content to pass under the Denomination of The PEOPLE of GOD Commonly Called QVAKERS And as for their Tenets and Principles no man is able to give a perfect Account of them They being a Maniple of Confusion Nor are they among themselves agreed what are their own Doctrines and Principles Witness their own Writers who Contradict one another Onely in these particulars they all agree 1. To deny The King's Supremacy 2. The Churches Episcopacy 3. The Lawfulness of taking an Oath and of Swearing before a Civil Magistrate And in one thing they are out of a Principle of pretended Sanctity more Rude and Inhumane than any of their Dissenting Brethren In that they obstinately refuse to pay to the King or to any Person whatever the Common Civility of outward Respect and Reverence and do deny the King and all Magistrates the Civil Honour and Complement of the very Hat And this is to be noted That although the Quakers will not Swear in their own Persons Because it is a sin to Swear yet they will desire and sometimes hire others to take an Oath and Swear for them and to sin in their stead as frequently they doe in the case of Burying in Woollen onely nay sometimes they will procure Knights of the Post to Swear for them Persons who never saw their Dead either laid forth wound up or Buryed and yet have Sworn and made Affidavit before the Justice of the Peace onely upon the Credit of their Word As the Writer of these Lines once discovered and advised the said Quakers to take up their Dead out of the Grave and to get a true Oath to be made according to Law the which advice they within the time did follow and saved their forfeiture In truth this Action of the Quakers in getting others to Swear for them seems to us very like David's killing the poor Man's Lamb to save his own But forasmuch as the Quakers abhor a Reconciliation with the Episcopal-Protestant Church of England We therefore think it had been more proper for the Reconciler to have urged Arguments rather for their Conviction than for their Reconciliation For untill He has convinced them and the other Dissenters of their Errours and Disloyalties it is Impertinency not to say Teason for him or any other to persuade the King and Government unto a Condescention towards them or such as them who are all by their Principles obliged for ever to be Enemies to The King's Supremacy And as Impertinent and Ridiculous is it for the Reconciler to persuade his Mother as he calls the Church of England to be reconciled to such as these This being to persuade a Reconciliation Between LIGHT and DARKNESS Between YEA and NAY Wherefore seeing these things are impossible we do from the Premisses Conclude The Quakers As we did their former Brethren In DISSENTION Not to say In INIQVITY To be No PROTESTANTS CHAP. VI. The RECONCILER'S Design proved to be as Pretended IMPOSSIBLE HAving hitherto given the Reader a short account of all the most considerable Sects in England and proved them to be No Protestants We now presume That the Reconciler cannot but by this time perceive his own Mistake and Confess That the TITLE of his Book is False And that he has gratified by Printing it no Party of Protestants but the Beaufronts alias Whigs and Trimmers who are of no Religion Because they are of every Religion according to their company and interest And we hope he will acknowledge his Pretended Design if true to be impossible Because Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists Quakers and All Dissenters if true and constant to their own Principles will ever remain such i. e. Dissenters for no Soap can wash the Blackamoor white And therefore it is utterly impossible for the Church of England to be Reconciled to them Unless the Reconciler would have the Church of England to Vn-church her self and become the Mother and Patroness of all Sects and Religions at one and the same time Now if this should ever happen to be as the Reconciler desires may be pray What an uggly Monster what a deformable Beast must the Church of England be even worse than the Scarlet-coloured Beast in the Revelations Rev. 17.3 which was full of Names of Blasphemy full of Abominations and Filthiness But we cannot imagine the Reconciler's Brains to be so shallow as ever to think Impossibilities feasible as he must if ever he thinks it feasible to reconcile the Episcopal Church of England and the Dissenters whilst they continue such In our apprehension the Reconciler may as well plead for the Church of Englands Condescention to and Reconciliation with the Papists as with the Dissenters For the Dissenters are as dangerous to the King and his Monarchy and to the Church of England and her Episcopacy as the Papists And therefore if the Dissenters may be brought into the Body of our Church and be indulged because of their tender Consciences notwithstanding their erroneous and treasonable Principles Then pray Mr. Reconciler Why may not the Papists also for the same reason be indulged For Thousands of the Papists have proved themselves to be men of great Conscience by their constant Loyalty to the King in Temporals notwithstanding their Obligations to the Pope in Spirituals as also by strict and frequent Fasts according to their Churches Orders and by their daily devotions and great Charity even to their very Enemies as well as to their Friends and by their sober inoffensive Lives by these and other instances you may see that the Papists do not onely prosess but also live Christianity in many degrees above the generality of Dissenters or