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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65851	Christian reprehension of confusion, ranterism, cruelty, and opposition to spiritual order and Christian liberty in brief reflections first on a conceited pamphlet untruly stiled Spiritual order and Christian liberty proved consistent in the Churches of Christ, and impositions upon the consciences of believers &c. found antichristian and destructive to both, signed R.G. : secondly on A brief history of the rise, growth, reign, supports, and suddain fatal foil of popery, and description of six popish pillars, by a hidden author / by G.W. and S.C.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; S. C.; Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1690 (1690)	Wing W1909; ESTC R27590	7,961	14

same Punishment with which they punish Murderers and Adulterers and not at all to tolerate them By this time we see what is the ground of his Anger that makes him busle thus the Anabaptists Presbyterians Independents and Quakers are not hanged a days for being such as Murderers are but what sort of Man this is may easily be guest at and upon Inquiry we shall find him a Stone in the Building of the sixth Pillar of Popery viz. a Popish Church-man retaining in him some of the worst Dregs of Popery viz. Cruel Persecutions unto Death for all such as he is pleased to brand with Heresie or Schism which all Protestants look upon as the avowed Principle of Papists and so it seems it is his And it was he or such Church-men as he is that were the Cause of such Cruelties and Barbarities upon account of Religion here in England from the Years 1680. to 1686. In which they set the Informers a work to Ruin many Hundred good Families in this Kingdom and filled the Goals with fourteen or fifteen Hundred Innocent Prisoners who suffered under their Cruelties as Trophies of the great Power and Rule that the Popish Church-men had in those days I say Popish Church-men for the real or moderate Church-men do generally excuse themselves of that work as much as they can and do deny Persecution for Conscience-sake to be any Principle of their Church and do lay the Fault upon such bloody Hunters and Drivers as this History-man who while they seemed to be Members of the Church of England by their Cruelty and Feircness against Dissenters brought this Ignominy upon their Church and put an oppertunity into the Hand of a Popish King when he came to ease the heavy Burdens which they had so Cruelly laid on and to put a stop to the Ruinous Practices of the wicked Informers which they had made the Pillars and Supporters of their Church as a Great Father of their Church being told what a shame the Informers were to his Church said That a Ship could not be built without some crooked Wood implying the Ravenous Informers as necessary to the uphold or building the Church as crooked Wood to building a Ship and thereby to Ingratiate himself in the Hearts of the greatest part of the Kingdom by the ease he gave them either from their Sufferings as Dissenters or from the Slavery and Drudgery they lay under as Officers in their respective Places being all at the Call and Command of those wicked Varlets to Ruin their honest Neighbour how when and where they pleased to Require them Now after they had I say provided such a Means for the Popish King to Ingratiate himself and if possible to sweeten the Minds of his Subjects into a better Opinion of him and his Government then they had conceived he took hold of the oppertunity given and in a good measure emptied the Goals stopt the Informers Trade caused some to be punished for their notorious Perjury others fled for it and then he put out a Declaration to stop such Cruel Proceedings till Remedy might be found for all People to have a legal right to Worship God as they were perswaded was most acceptable to him as of right they ought But when these poor Dissenters were thus delivered by a Popish King from their Protestant Fetters then those pretended Pretestant Persecuters grew exceeding angry both with him and with the Dissenters that he had set at Liberty and fain would they be at the Old Trade again if they could But because their Horns are shortned for goring that way now they are trying other ways to bring mischief upon us and because he thinks the best way in these Times to bring Suffering upon us is to set us forth as Supporters of Popery and thinks thereby to raise up a Protestant Zeal against us for it may be he thinks others as much void of Sense and as much subject to Blood Enmity as himself for they must be very silly that will be kindled by his falacious way of Argument into bitterness against us For Example He affirms the poor Quaker to be one of the Pillars of Popery but when we go to seek for demonstration why they addrest King James Ay but what did they say They returned their Grateful Acknowledgements for the Ease and Freedom they Enjoyed from their Cruel Persecutions the Popish part of the Church of England had laid upon them and humbly desired he would go on to ease them from the Grievances and Oppressions that still lay upon their tender Consciences Now let all Rational Men judge whether this hath any the least savour of supporting Popery might not as much have been said to the Grand Senior if lie had been Regnent here without any just cause to impute Turkism to them And doth not this bold daring Man at the same time spit his Venom against all the Gentlemen pertaining to the several Inns of Court and against most of the Grand-Jury-Men and Corporations among whom I know there be better Protestants than he is but who is so bold as blind Bayard And how much cause hath this man to Rage against us after this furious rate to tell the World we are a Pillar of Popery Paganish Men without any Conscience damnable Hereticks c. pag. 22 23. But in the Conclusion of that Paragraph through forgetfulness or some other ill Accident the man pulls down all this fiery Pile about his own Ears and tells us That these Quakers would not Vote for the New Members in London for fear they might be Instrumental to bring in King James again Can any Man that is in his Sences think this History-maker was in his when he blundred out this Nonsence which if put together reads thus The Quakers are one of the Pillars of Popery for they would not Vote for the New Members for fear they should bring in King James again and it is even as good Logick to say the Quakers are a Pillar of Popery for they thankfully acknowledged a Popish King's kindness for delivering them from Cruel Prostants Popish Persecution But after all this methinks I find more cause to suspect this Historiographer to be himself really Guilty of what he would fasten upon others namely supporting and upholding Popery for he is one that would in a hidden sly way Advance Popery for he gives it such Magnitude in his History which he transmits to futer Ages as I believe the most Arrogant Jesuite in France would not have dared to do For mark he hath presented very near all the People of England save a piece of the Church of England to be in the Interest of upholding and supporting Popery for if Anabaptists Presbyterians Quakers Independants and part of the Church of England be all concerned as he said how doth he think a piece of the Church should grapple with the other piece and all the other Interests besides So that it seems to me as if his business or task were whoever set him to work to shew the People of this and other Nations the Popish Interest in a Multiplying-Glass That if they will not love yet they may at least fear it and to make the Protestant Interest very diminitive This is not like one that wrote in King Jame's days that there were not Papists enough in England to make all the Coal-Fires in London at once But if this History-man be to be credited the Popish Interest must be looked upon very formidable still for Five of his Six Pillars are still what they were and four of them are more firmly settled than they were then by the Act of King and Parliament for ease of tender Consciences by which it appears the Government and Wisdom of the Kingdom did not see with this man's Eyes they did not think it the best way to hang people for dissenting in some points of faith or worship every Circuit and Assizes as Murderers commonly are served And truly it is hard for a man of his evil temper to retain so much venom in himself but he must vent it against some body and I perceive the Government should have a snare of it if he durst but curst Cows have short Horns He reflects what he durst upon the Magistrate page 11. for not doing their duty namely in not hanging up all that dissent from any of the Canons of the first six or at least four general Councils as they do murderers But if this man would come into the Light we might see him I am perswaded it would be easie to prove him a dissenter from several of the Canons of these very Councils but I would not have him hanged for it but live and learn to be wiser and honester and to repent him of his Rashness and learn to love his Neighbours and not thus Cain-like to grudge the Rain and Sun-shine to men of better Principles than himself and perhaps when we know him they will out-do him in Practice and Conversation also However I mean to leave him at present with the Exhortation of an Unerring Teacher Whatsoever you would that Men should do unto you do ye unto them and then he will write no more Books to procure his Neighbours to be hanged for Conscience-sake till he is willing to be Hanged himself upon the same score THE END