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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65328	The way of peace, or, A discourse of the dangerous principles and practices of some pretended Protestants ... being certain brief ... writings of several learned Protestant authors : with divers additions perswasive to peace / by the author, a Protestant of the Church of England.	Protestant of the Church of England.	1680 (1680)	Wing W1162; ESTC R9234	23,498	32

punishment and must suffer what God shall command because what he commands they would not do as Grotius speaks Now dear Country men Truth hath a Cognation with the soul as one speaks so Lyes and Impostors are no more able to make resistance against the power of Truth breaking forth then darkness is able to dispute with light Yea Truth is the Off-spring of God and mother of Peace Let us from the considerations aforesaid be exhorted to abhor that which is evil and cleave to that which is good Let us weigh things well in the balance of reason for shall it be said of us English men that we are the greated Fools or Mad-men in the world that when Nature hath by our situation made us as it were impregnable as against forreign Enemies that when they have not been able to hurt us that we have destroyed our selves by our ungovernable and tumultuous tempers by our Disobediences Rebellions and Contempts of lawful Authority Is not Order Rule and Government the sinews of the Universe Is it not that which upholds Kingdoms and Nations yea the whole world And can there be any such thing as Government without due orderly and peaceable subjection of Subjects to their Prince the Prince to command according to his Laws and his Subjects to obey And doubtless the just Prerogatives of the Crown and the Subjects Liberties are consistent one with another and when there is no incroachments made on either part the Prince and People are very happy Protectio trabit subjectionem subjectio protectionem But alass are we not become Fools or Children in understanding and are not able to call to mind the actions of the other day Cannot we call to mind the years Forty-one and Forty-two with the mad and tumultuous proceedings of those times together with the sad and doleful effects thereof what then was the consequence of the loud clamours against Popery and Prelacy and of the seditious Petitionings the factious supporting and countenancing of that Factious and Disloyal Cabal that Pest and Plague of the Nation which involved us in War Blood and Confusion till at the last we had lost our Religion Laws and Liberties and were reduced to a perfect condition of Slavery to a company of Red-coats a Mercenary Army and in that sad condition must have lain to eternity had not the Almighty miraculously delivered us by the happy Restoration of his Gracious Majesty that now is And can we now hate the effects and yet be in love with the cause And are we so void of reason as not to consider that now the same causes will in all probability produce the like or as bad effects especially when there seems to be a Transmigration of souls when the same souls now seem to animate other bodies Or rather that there are the like ill spirits raised and conjured up from the bottomless pit by some Diabolical and Schismatical Conjurers of our times who make use of the names of God and Religion as charms to that purpose Are we not yet sensible that there are Juglers and Cheats in Religion among us that the piae fraudes are not only to be found at Rome But I beseech you consider that the power of Truth as one speaks is victorious in sober men and will not suffer us to be cheated with false shews Oh what Religious and glorious pretences have been made use of in our late times of Confusion for the effecting the horridest and foulest facts And can we be so senseless not to perceive that there are some among us begin the same dance again by clamoring against Popery and Prelacy and prosecuting lately Petitions and thereby as it may be justly thought counting their numbers as formerly But let all true-hearted Protestants not fear their thousands or ten thousands so long as they cannot make God of their number And whereas to palliate if not justifie the proceedings of those times of Usurpation they would indeavour to make the King one of the three Estates To say no more they may find their vain fanfie and opinion disowned even by Calvin himself in his Institutes who there maketh the Prince distinct from the three Estates I beseech you dear Country-men to consider That true divine zeal as one observes is no Coribantick fury but a calm and regular beat guided and managed by light and prudence always acknowledging a due subordination to that Authority Civil and Ecclesiastical that is over us And shall we be nevertheless so infatuated and transported by our passions and humours upon the discovery of a late Popish Plot as to be Seditious Tumultuous and Ungovernable and not to be able to recover our reason again and consult soberly our own safety and will we not be governed and ruled by our Prince and Governour Shall we rather like a company of mad men with flambeaux and fire-brands in our hands set all on fire about us And may not the Papists triumph at our follies and say among themselves what unwise people are we to trouble our heads with Plots and lose our Lives Liberties and Estates when we need run none of these hazards but only sit still and have a little patience and the pretended Protestants in England will do our work for us that is to say ruin and destroy the Church of England the chiefest strength of the Protestant Religion yea they will sooner effect it themselves than we can by all our plots and designs Mark iii. 25 For a House divided against it self cannot stand And how can the Phanatick party in reason reproach and hate the Papists for those Crimes and Villanies of which they are so grosly guilty themselves For did the Papists plot and design the destruction of the King and State by the Gunpowder Plot And did not the Presbyterian and the rest of the Phanatick party also afterward by Gun-powder and Guns Swords Pistols and Bullets and a cruel and wicked Rebellion not only design but effect and accomplish the destruction of the King and State There was this only difference between them The Papists were always unprosperous and unsuccessful in their wickedness but the Phanaticks were most prosperous and successful in theirs Now let all impartial and sober men judge which of these two wicked Adversaries is most to be feared and provided against either the wicked Papist that hath been disappointed in all attempts or the industriously successful and fortunately wicked Phanatick the first being not a fortieth part of the Nation and the latter it is much to be feared bearing the same proportion in number to true Protestants in England as the Mahumetans bears to the Christians at this day in the world The Plots also of the one viz. the Papists being fully discovered and thereby prevented But the designs and subtil Contrivances of the other although in malice little inferior to that of the Papist lying still under ground undiscovered saving what was manifest by the Scottish Rebellion last year And further they are least under