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A29318	Brethren in iniquity, or, The confederacy of Papists with sectaries, for the destroying of the true religion, as by law establish'd, plainly detected wherein is shewed a farther account of the Romish snares and intrigues for the destroying the true reformed religion, as professed in the Church of England, and established by law, and for the introducing of popery or atheism among us : clearly shewing from very authentick writers and testimonies, that the principal ways and methods whereby the papists have sought the ruine of our religion and church, from the beginning of our Reformation, to the present times, and by which they are still in hopes of compassing it, are by promoting of toleration, or pretended liberty of conscience, and that for above these sixscore years the papists have so craftily influenced our dissenters, as to make them the unhappy instruments of effecting their most pernicious designs, which they contrived for, the subverting our church and state.		1690 (1690)	Wing B4382; ESTC R6507	50,245	71

Correspondence there was between these two Parties that seemed so contrary to each other That Jesuits and other Romanists were the Hatchers of those miserable Broils and Troubles which befel our Church and State in the late Times of Confusion and Usurpation and were the chief Causers and Fomenters of the Persecutions and Clamours against the King Bishops and the other Loyal Orthodox Clergy appears by Father Sibthorp's Letter to Father Medcalfe part of which is as follows And now saith he they are pulling down that Wall which at once adorned and defended their way I mean their Government their Vineyard as they used to say is laid waste that the wild Beasts of the Forest may come in and upon this Ground we proceed so sure that however things happen we shall have the Advantage for either this Attempt will prevail against the Governors and Government of the Church or it will not If it doth then all the ablest and wisest Men are like to be removed and their Places filled with weak ignorant Men and ductile Worldings that will always be on the stronger side and their Ends will be easily obtained But if there be any Opposition Murmuring and Discontents either it will provoke the Discontented to open Defence and Resistance or not If not then their Discontents will hurt none but themselves if it do then either they will be crushed in the beginning or be able to bring it to a War If the first then we shall have the day and this to boot That they shall lie under the Odium of Rebellion and be trod the lower so as to be the less able ever to rise and we shall with ease drive on the Change to a higher degree in Opposition to so odious a Party But if they be able to make a War of it either they will be conquered or conquer or make Peace The last is the most unlikely because Jealousies and Engagements will presently be multiplied so that an apparent Necessity will seem to lie on each Party not to trust the other and the flames are easier to be kept in But if so unlikely a thing should come to pass yet it must needs be to our Advantage for we will seem openly to appear for the King and so in England and Ireland we shall be considerable He will remember that he was helped by us and look on the Puritans as Rebels and take his next Advantage against them or at least be at a greater distance from them than before for such a War will never out of his mind nor will he think himself safe till he hath disabled them from doing the like again Again if one Party Conquer it will be the King or the Puritans if the King prevail then will the Puritans be totally trod down and we by whose help the Victory is got shall certainly be incomparably better than we are if we have not presently all our will for our Fidelity will be cried up the Rebels will be odious so that their very Names will be a scorn and there will be no great resistance of us But if the Puritans get the Day yet shall we make great advantage of it For First They will be unsetled and all in pieces and not know how to settle the Government Secondly We shall necessitate the Puritans to keep the King a Prisoner or else put him to Death if they keep him Prisoner his Diligence his Friends and their own Divisions will either work his Deliverance and give him the Day again by our help or at least will keep the State in a continued Unsetledness and will be an Odium on them If they cut him off which we will rather promote least they should make use of his Extremities to any Advantage then first we shall procure the Odium of King-killing to fall upon them which they are wont to cast upon us and so we shall disburthen our selves Secondly we shall have them all to pieces in Distractions for thirdly either they will then set up a new King or the Parliament will keep the Power changing the Government into a Democracy the first cannot be done without great Concussions and new Wars and we shall have an opportunity to have a hand in all and when it it is done it may be much to our Advantage The second will apparently by Factions and Distractions give us footing for continual Attempts But to make all sure we will secretly have our Party among the Puritans also that we may be sure to maintain our Interest which way soever the World goes This Politick Letter of Father Sibthorp being written some little time before the late Civil Wars the Event and other Discoveries like this shews to whom the contrivances of that abominable Rebellion and Usurpation is owing and how much the Papists love to fish in our troubled Waters This Letter was printed in the Year 1663. in the Book called A Word in Season or the great Plot for restoring Popery by opposing Vniformity a very useful Book wherein several Discoveries are made of the Papists Intreagues how much they have tamper'd with our Dissenters fomented our Divisions and thereby promoted the Growth of Popery in our Nation Mr. Richard Baxter's discovery and Confession how much the Papists insinuated themselves among the several sorts of Sectaries for the restoring of Popery and the destroying our Church and State in his Key for Catholicks pag. 326 327 c. THE persecuted Nonconformists of the Protestant Party tho' they were most averse to Papists yet had some of the Popish Brood at last crept in among them not only to spy out their Minds and Ways but to head the Party and sow among them the Seed of further Discontent and Errour and to make them a Nursery of various Sects For every where by their good Will the Jesuits will have some If you ask me for proof of this I shall at this time give you the words of the Jesuit's Letter recited by Mr Pryn Introd pag. 90. I cannot chuse saith the Jesuit but laugh to see how some of our own Coat have reincounter'd themselves you would scarce know them if you saw them and it is admirable how in Speech and Gesture they act the Puritans The Cambridge Scholars to their woeful Experience shall see we can better act the Puritans then they have done the Jesuits They have abused our sacred Patron St. Ignatius in jest but we will make them smart for it in earnest I hope you will excuse my Merry digression for I confess it to you I am at this time transported with Joy to see how happily all Instruments and Means as well great as lesser co-operate to our purposes c. How far they crept into all Societies under the name of Independants is opened by so many already in Print as there needs no more be added to it And it is a thing notorious that they have crept in among the Anabaptists and fomented that Sect. The story of the Scotish Missionary that pretended himself a

is ours now is the fatal blow given to the Protestant Religion in England See this in Bishop Saunderson's Preface to his first Volume of Sermons A great deal more to this purpose may be seen in Dr. Stillingfleet's Preface to his Excellent Book entitled The Vnreasonableness of Separation And though he Printed this Book in the Year 1681. yet as if he had on him the Spirit of Prophecy when he wrote it he hath fully discovered the Popish Intrigues and exposed to publick View their Designs and ways of proceeding as they are now managed against our Church in Concurrence with the several Dissenting Parties who have been made from the Infancy of the Reformation the Instruments to effect their Contrivings The Advice that the late Earl of Sh ry and the Lord Cl d gave the late King in Company with the Grand Cabal in the Year 1671. which Cabal were Bu m Sh ry Ar ton L dale H is and Cl d taken out of the Dream or Gambol WHilst a confused Chat in the Cabal Had many mov'd none heard but speak did all A little Bobtail'd Lord Vrchin of State A Praise-God-bare-bones Peer whom all Men hate Amphibious Animal half Fool half Knave Begg'd Silence and this pur-blind Counsel gave Blest and best Monarch that e'er Sceptre bore Renown'd for Honour but for Vertue more The Lord spake last hath well and wisely shown That Parliaments nor new nor old nor none Can well be trusted longer for your State And Glory of your Crown hates all Check-mate That Monarchy may from his Child-hood grow To Man's Estate France hath us shown You know Monarchy is Divine Divinity it shows That he goes backward that not forward goes Therefore go on let other Kingdoms see Your Wit 's their Law that absolute Monarchy A mixt hodge-podge will now no longer bear Caesar or nothing you are now brought here Strike then Great Sir for these Debates take Wind Remember that Occasion 's bald behind For Gain is sure in this if wisely play'd And sacred Votes to the Vulgar not betray'd But if the rumour once should get on Wing That we consult to make you absolute King The Plebeians Head the Gentry forsooth Would streightway snore and have an aching tooth Least they I say should your great Secret scent And you expose in nulling Parliament I think it safer and a better skill To obviate than overcome an ill For those that head the Herd are full as rude When the humour takes as th' following Multitude Wherefore be quick in your resolves and when You have resolv'd execute quicker then Remember your Great Father lost the Game By slow procedure mayn't you do the same An unexpected unregarded Blow Wounds more than ten made by an open Foe Delays do danger breed the Sword is your's By Law declar'd what need you other powers We may Impolitick be judg'd or worse If we cann't make the Sword command the purse No Art nor Courtship can your Rule so shape Without a force it must be done by Rape And when 't is done to say they cannot help Will satisfie enough the gentle Whelp Phanaticks they 'll to Providence impute Their Thraldom and immediately grow mute For they poor silly Souls think the Decree From Heaven on them although from Hell it be Wherefore to gull them do their hopes fulfil With Liberty they are halter'd at your Will Give them but Conventicle room and they Will let you steal their English Man away And heedless be till you your Nets have spread And pull'd down Conventicles on their Head Militia then and Parliaments Casheer A formidable standing Army rear To mount you up and up you soon will be They 'll fear who ne'er would love your Monarchy And if they fear no matter for their hate To Rule by Love becomes a sneaking State Lay by all Fears care not what People say Regard to these will your Designs betray When bite they cann't what hurt can barking do And in short time we 'll spoil their barking too Make Coffee-Clubs talk more of humble things Than State Affairs and Interest of Kings Thus spake that ridgling Peer when one more grave That had much less of Fool but more of Knave Cl d. Began Great Sir it gives no small content To hear such Zeal from you ' gainst Parliament Wherefore though I an Enemy no less To Parliaments than they my self profess Yet let me tell you 't is a harder thing Than they suggest to make you absolute King Old Building to pluck down believe it true More danger in it hath than building new And what shall prop your Superstructure till Another you have raised to suit your Will An Army shall say they content but stay From whence shall this new Army have its Pay For easie and gentle Government awhile Appear must to this Kingdom to beguile The Peoples Minds and so to make them free For raising old and making better new For Taxes with new Government all will blame And put the Kingdom sure into a Flame For Tyranny hath no such lovely look To take Men with unless you hide the Hook And no Bait better bides than present Ease Ease but their Taxes and do what you please Wherefore all wild debates laid by from whence Shall Money rise to do this vast Expence Call our first thoughts thus well resolved we In other things much better shall agree Join then with Mother-Church whose Bosom stands Ope to receive you stretching both her Hands Close but this Breach and they will let you see Her Purse as open as her Armes shall be For Sacred Sir by guess I do not speak Of poor she 'll make you rich and strong of weak At Home Abroad no Money no nor Men She 'll let you lack turn but to her agen And let me add Great Sir you know its Season Salts all the Notions that we make in Reason And now a Season is afforded us The best e'er came and most propitious Besides the Summs the Catholicks will advance You know what offers you are made by France And to have Money and no Parliament Most fully Answers your design'd intent And thus without tumultuous bruit or huff Of Parliaments you 'll Money have enough Which if neglected now there 's none knows when Like opportunity may be again For to Extirpate what combined be Both Civil and Religious Liberty There 's Money enough you 'll have to exalt the Crown Not stooping Majesty to the Country Clown The triple League I know will be objected As if that ought to be by us respected But who to Heretick or Rebel pay'th The Truth engag'd by solemn Faith Debaucheth Vertue by those sacred things The Church profaneth and abuseth Kings Faith Justice Truth Plebeian Vertues be Look well in them but not in Majesty For publick Faith is but a publick Thief The greatest Cheat in Nature's vain Belief The Judgment of several eminent Presbyterian Divines concerning the usefulness of an established Vniformity in the Church for the Preservation of the

that concerns the eternal Salvation of the Soul wherein to erre cannot but be most dangerous and destructive Diversity of Religion disjoints and distracts the minds of Men and is the seminary of perpetual Hatreds Jealousies Seditions Wars if any thing in the World be and in a little time either a Schism in the State begets a Schism in the Church or a Schism in the Church begets a Schism in the State that is either Religion and the Church is prejudiced by civil Contentions or Church Controversies and Disputes about Opinions break out into Civil Wars Men will at last take up Swords and Spears instead of Pens and defend by Arms what they cannot do by Arguments Once for all It is the preservation of Religion and Reformation of it which you have covenanted to endeavour and not a Liberty of Opinion that will consist with neither It is the Extirpation of Heresie and Schism that you have covenanted which if it be connived at why doth the Apostle reprove the Corinthians for their Schism so much and why doth the Lord Jesus commend the Angel of the Church of Ephesus for trying those which said they were Apostles and were not And why is the Angel of the Church of Thyatira reproved for suffering that Woman jezebel who called her self a Prophetess to teach and seduce If once we come to this that any Man be suffered to teach what he pleaseth to seduce whom he list to be of what Faith or Religion seems good in his own Eyes farewel Covenant farewel reformed Religion farewel the Peace and Glory of England if that day once come It is not usual nay it is not possible that they which love God sincerely should desire to cherish differing Religions For it is most certain He that admits contrary Religions believes neither of them In another Sermon at Paul's Feb. 8. 1645. p. 12. Mr. Newcomen saith If it be lawful for every Man to entertain and hold what Opinion he pleaseth how differing soever from the Opinion and Judgment of the rest of the Church yet because this is his Opinion and his Judgment is perswaded of it he must follow his own Judgment and that this Liberty of practising his Judgment be as some say Liberty of Conscience part of the Liberty purchased by Jesus and to restrain it is in their Language Persecution Tyranny c. If this were true surely Paul did very ill to charge the Corinthians with so much Authority to be of the same mind and of the same Judgment 2 Cor. 13.11 Might not some among the Corinthians have said to Paul This is a hard usage this is to rack a low Man to the same length with a taller and to cut a tall Man to the stature of one that is low as Procrustes did by his Guests to suit his Bed What the same Judgment and the same Mind Will not Paul allow difference of Lights and Sights Might not some one among the Corinthians have said What if I am of Opinion that there is no Resurrection what hath Paul or any Man to do with that It is my Conscience and it is my Liberty what hath any Man to do with my Conscience more than I with his Might not Hymeneus have said What if it be my Opinion That the Resurrection is past already 2 Tim. 2.18 what hath Paul to doe with that Yes saith Paul If ye persist obstinate I will Excommunicate you I will deliver you up to Satan that you may learn not to blaspheme 1 Tim. 1.20 Certainly this shelter this Asylum of Error falsly called Liberty of Conscience was not thought of in former Times See more of the sinfulness and very mischievous Consequences of Toleration in the Book of the Learned Presbyterian Minister Mr. Thomas Edwards entitled The casting down of the last and strongest hold of Satan or a Treatise against Toleration and pretended Liberty of Conscience wherein by Scripture sound Reason Fathers Schoolmen Casuists Protestants Divines of all Nations Confessions of Faith of the reformed Churches Ecclesiastical Histories and constant Practice of the most pious and wisest Emperors Princes States the best Writers of Politicks the Experience of all Ages yea by divers Principles and Proceedings of Sectaries themselves as Donatists Anabaptists Brownists and Independants the unlawfulness and mischief in a Christian State or Kingdom both of an universal Toleration of all Religions and of a limited or bounded of some Sects only are clearly proved and demonstrated with all the material Grounds and Reasons brought for such Tolerations fully answered Printed 1647. Mr. Edmund Calamy his Opinion concerning the Sinfulness of Separating from the publick Assemblies Take heed of separating from the Publick Assemblies of the Saints I have found by experience that all our Church Calamities have sprung from this Root He that separates from the publick Worship is like a man tumbling down a Hill and never leaving till he comes to the bottom of it I could relate many sad Stories of persons professing Godliness who out of dislike to our Church-meetings began at first to separate from them and after many Changes and Alterations were turned some of them Ranters some Quakers some Anabaptists some direct Atheists But I forbear you must hold Communion with all those Churches with which Christ holds Communion you must separate from the Sins of Christians but not from the Ordinances of Christ Take heed of Unchurching the Churches of Christ least you prove Schismaticks instead of being true Christians Mr. Edmund Calamy 's Godly Man's Ark Epist. Dedic to the Parish of Aldermanbury Direction Fourteenth A Sentence of Mr. Richard Baxter concerning the evils and great danger of leaving Parish Churches Consider this 'T is the Judgment of some That thousands are gone to Hell and ten thousands upon their march thither that in all probability had never come there if they had not been tempted from the Parish Churches for the enjoyment of Communion in a purer Church Mr. Richard Baxter 's Epist to separate Congregations Mr. Baxter his Sence of the Evils of different Rites and Opinions and of the necessity of Vniformity to preserve the Church From diversity in Opinion and external Rites resulteth Dislike thence Enmity thence Opposition thence Schism in Church and Sedition in State the State not standing secure without the Church nor the Church without Unity nor Unity without Uniformity Votes of the Honourable House of Commons Feb. 5. 1662. upon reading his Majesty's gracious Declaration and Speech c. Die Mercurii 25. Feb. Regni Car. 2. Regis 15o. Resolved nemine contradicente THAT the humble Thanks of this House be returned to his Majesty for his Resolution to maintain the Act of Uniformity Resolved also That it be presented to the King's Majesty as the humble Advice of the House That no Indulgence be granted to the Dissenters from the Act of Uniformity Part of their Address which contains their Reasons against Toleration is as followeth After all this we most humbly beseech your Majesty to

used and the Government as in an ague divided between hot and cold sits no wonder if Laws so unsteadily executed have failed of their effect But if the Government shall think it sit to imitate that prudent excellent Princess and in instead of shewing any fear of the Dissenters put the Laws moderately in execution against them we shall no doubt in a short time find the good effects of it in the happy uniting them to the Church of England to the great disappointment and grief of the Papists And till this be done we can expect no other than Confusion and disorder in the Church and Distraction in the State And the Book that was written in the Oliverian days by a learned Presbyterian intituled Wholesome Severity reconciled with Christian Liberty licenced by Ja. Cranford will justifie such a proceeding against the several sorts of Dissenters and vindicate it from the odious Imputation of Persecution In which Book there is this memorable sentence That Liberty of Horesie and Schism is no part of the Liberty of Conscience which Christ hath purchased for us but that under these fair colours and handsome pretexts Sectaries infuse their poison their pernitious God-provoking Truth-defacing Church-ruinating and State-shaking Toleration The Character which the Great and good Arch-bishop Whitgift gave of the turbulent Spirits of the Puritans is very considerable in a Letter of his to the Privy Council which was occasion'd by a Paper of some Suffolk Ministers True it is saith he they are no Jesuits neither are they charged to be so but notwithstanding they are contentious in the Church of England and by their Contentions they minister occasion of offence to those which are seduced by Jesuits and give the Sacraments against the Form of publick Prayer us'd in this Church and by Law establish'd and thereby increase the number of them and consirm them in their willfulness They also make a Schism in the Church and draw many other of her Majesty's Subjects to the misliking of her Laws and Government in Causes Ecclesiastical so far are they from perswading Men to Obedience or at least if they perswade them to it in the one part of her Authority in Causes Civil they disswade them from it as much in the other in Causes Ecclesiastical so that indeed they pluck down with the one hand that which they seem to build with the other And is is truly observed by Doctor Tompkins in his Pleas c. Pag. 141. That notwithstanding all the Zeal which the Non-consormists doe declare against Popery it is well known that they have and as their Interest leads them can still join both Counsels and Arms together The leading Men of both Parties in Ireland were wonderfully great together all the while that the Design was managing against the Earl of Strafford And here in England in the Declaration which King Charles I. set forth concerning the Success of the Battel at Edgehill on October 23. 1643. he hath left this Memorial to all Posterity All Men know the great member of Papists which serve in their Armies Commanders and others the great Industry to corrupt the Loyalty and Affection of all our loving Subjects of that Religion the private Promises and Vndertakings that they have made to them That if they would assist them against us all the Laws made in their prejudice should be repealed The Popish Party also used the same perswasive methods in the late Days of King James the Second to allure the Dissenters to join with them for the pulling down the Established true Religion and how effectually this Bait was swallowed by them and into what a hellish Confederacy these two Brethren in Iniquity enter'd together for the Destruction of the Church of England their many scandalous Addresses and other their libellous Invectives against the Church of England which were stuffed with the most inveterate Hatred Rancour and Malice that Hell could devise against it do abundantly testifie nor can I better express suitably to their deserts how foolishly as well as criminally they acted in those Days inconsistent with Prudence Honesty and their former Clamours against Popery and Arbitrary Government Then in the Words of a late Author their Friend and Favourer who professes a great deal of kindness for them in many Pages of his Book Entitled A Representation of the threatning Dangers impending over Protestants in Great Britain before the coming of his Highness the Prince of Orange In this Book notwithstanding the good will he shews to the Dissenters and his undeserved Censures and Reproaches of the Church of England which very spitefully do abound in it yet when he came to consider the Dissenters siding so much with the Papists and the brave opposition the Members of the Church of England made against Popery it drew from him smart reflections on the one and very high Commendations of the other according to the just Merits insomuch that by reason of the Dissenters many flattering Addresses and their countenancing and defending the King 's Arbitrary unjustifiable Proceedings he says of them Pag. 44. The World has just ground to say That the Phanaticks are not governed by Principles but that the measures they walk by are what conduceth to the private and personal Benefit or what lies in a tendency to their loss and prejudice and that it was not King Charles II. his Vsurping an Arbitrary and Illegal Power that offended them but that they were not the Objects in whose favour it was Exercised And Pag. 46. he saith this of them Notwithstanding all the danger from Popery that the Nation was exposed unto and all the hazard that the Souls of Men were in of being poisoned with Romish Principles yet instead of Preaching or Writing against any of the Doctrines of the Church of Rome they agreed among themselves and with such of their Congregations as approved of their procedure not so much as to mention them but to leave the Province of defending our Religion and of detecting the falshood of Papal Tenets to the Pastors and Gentlemen of the Church of England And being asked as he knew of some that were why they did not preach against Antichrist and confute the Papal Doctrines they very gravely replied That by preaching Christ they did preach against Antichrist and that by teaching the Gospel they refuted Popery which is such a piece of fraudulent and guileful Subterfuge that I want words bad enough to express the Knavery and Criminalness of it It was but the other Day that the conformable Clergy were represented by some of the Dissenters not only as favourers of Popery but as endeavouring to hale it in upon us by all the methods and ways that lay within their Circles and yet now the whole Defence of the reformed Religion must be entirely divolved into their Hands And when all the sluces were pulled up that had been made to hinder Popery from overflowing the Nation they were left alone to stem the Inundation and prevent the Deluge They among

the Phanaticks that boasted to be the most avowed and irreconcilable Enemies of the Church of Rome were not only become altogether silent when they saw the Kingdom pestered with a swarm of busie and seducing Emissaries but were turned Advocates for that Arbitrary Paper whereby we were surrendered as a prey unto them and did make it their Business to detract from the Reputation of the National Ministers The Members of the Church of England wrote then above 220. Books against Popery when there were not above one or two writ by the Non-conformists as is to be seen in the late Lift or Accompt that was published of them who with a Zeal becoming their Office and a Learning which deserves to be admired did set themselves in opposition to that croaking fry and did enough by their excellent and unimitable writings to save People from being deluded and perverted if either unanswerable Confutations of Popery or demonstrative Desences of the Articles and Doctrines of the Reformed Religion can have any efficacy upon the minds of Men. And this Author farther saith Among other fulsome Flatteries made to his Majesty by an addressing Dissenter he found this hypocritical and shameful Adulation namely That if there should remain any Seeds of Disloyalty in any of his Subjects the transcendant Goodness exerted in his Declaratian would mortifie and kill them To which he might have added with more Truth That the same transcendant Goodness had admost destroy'd all the Seeds of their Honesty and mortified all their Care and Concernment for the Interest of Jesus Christ and for the Reformed Religion Their old strain of zealous Preaching against the Idolatry of Rome and concerning the coming out of Babylon my People were grown out of Fashion with them And whosoever should come into their Assemblies would think for any thing that he there heard delivered from their Pulpits that she which was the Whore of Babylon a few Years ago were now become a Chaste Spouse and that what were heretofore the damnable Doctrines of Popery were of late turned innocent and harmless Opinions And as they are already arrived to believe a Roman Catholick the best King so they may in a little time come to esteem Papists for the best Christians This and a great deal more to the same purpose you may find in this Book of smart reflections upon the Dissenters scandalous and abominable wicked Confederacy with the Papists for the subverting the true reformed Religon The Troublers of our Israel being thus plainly manifested to the World and a true Discovery made in the several Collections from whence the Evils and Miseries did principally arise that have befallen our Church and State since the days of Queen Elizabeth unto these present times and which will undoubtedly bring Ruine Confusion and Disorder on both if not seasonably and effectually redressed for so the Fountain of Truth and Wisdom tells us Matth. 12.25 That a Kingdom divided against it self is brought to desolation and every City or House divided against it self cannot stand The foregoing accounts are therefore humbly offer'd to the serious perusal of our Church and State-Physicians the Parliament and Convocation to find out and apply proper means and remedies for the preventing the farther growth of these mischiefs which not only threaten but genuinely tend and hasten to the destruction of the true establish'd Religion and of our Nation And that they may zealously go about this good work and effectually finish it it is the Interest and Duty of all good Christians to pray for them both as we are taught in that excellent Form in our Liturgy That God would be pleased to direct and prosper all their Consultations to the Advancement of his Glory the good of his Church and the Safety Honour and Well-fare of their Majesties and Kingdoms That all things may be so ordered and setled by their endeavours upon the best and surest Foundations that Peace and Happiness Truth and Justice Religion and Piety may be establish'd among us for all Generations And it is no less the Duty of all that profess themselves Members of our Church to be sincerely minded and not to be mockers with God but earnestly to seek and endeavour after the freeing us from those evils which we pray to be delivered from in our Litany viz. From all Sedition privy Conspiracy and Rebellion from all false Doctrine Heresie and Schism from hardness of Heart and contempt of God's Word and Commandments and that after the putting up these Petitions in the Church to the Throne of Grace that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of Truth and hold the Faith in Unity of Spirit in the bond of Peace and Righteousness of Life and that God would give to us and all Nations Unity Peace and Concord and bring into the way of Truth all such as have erred and are deceived none of us may be found such wretched self-condemners in our Practice and wicked Prevaricators with God and the Church as to act directly contrary to what we pray for in the promoting of a Connivence Toleration or Libertinism which will establish Schism propagate and multiply Heresies breed Discord and Divisions and will also impower and commission Satan to sow his tares and to seduce multitudes from the ways of Truth Peace Unity and Righteousness and when people are left at Liberty in matters of Religion to do what seemeth good in their own eyes they seldom do what is good in the Lord's eyes but are laid open to great Temptations of being drawn away into the paths of the most dangerous errors Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that which he alloweth Rom. 14.22 Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he reap Gal. 6.7 St. Paul's Prophecy of the Downfal and Suppression of seducing Separatists or Dividers 2 Tim. 3.8 9. Now as Jannes and Jambres Aegyptian Magicians withstood Moses so do these also resist the Truth men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the Faith But they shall proceed no further for their folly shall be manifested as theirs also was FINIS