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A43661	A letter sent from beyond the seas to one of the chief ministers of the non-conforming party by way of reply to many particulars which he sent to the author in a letter of news / by a lover of the established government both of church and state.	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.	1674 (1674)	Wing H1855; ESTC R12608	16,745	38

one or two short Chapters in the beginning of Mr. Smith's Discourses concerning these Distempers of the Soul and you shall find what I have said proved with more Demonstration than you can gainsay and with more Plainness and Perspecuity than I am confident you would wish to see But besides the Schism and Enthusiasm the Bloudy Wars which you formerly made in the State under pretence of the Glory of God and the Reformation of the Reformed Religion have given many Inconsiderate men occasion to suspect that all Religion like that of most of your Leaders is but a Politick Engine which men use to make themselves Popular and Powerful that they may afterwards act with good colour whatsoever their Interest shall suggest And furthermore to consider That the great Pretenders of the Spirit and Power of the Christian Religion which with respect to Magistrates teacheth nothing but to obey or suffer should notwithstanding Preach up Rebellion against their Rightful Prince Fight Him from Field to Field Remove Him from Prison to Prison and at last most Barbarously put Him to Death is such an Absurdity against the Principles of right Reason so repugnant to the Laws of our own Nation and so inconsistent with the Peaceable Doctrine of the Gospel that besides the Atheists it hath made it hath and ever will constrain men of honest Principles and just Resentments to Persecute you with Satyrs and Exclamations to the end of the World I had not here presented that Tragical Scene of the King's Murther but that I have had so many unpleasant Occasions to hear our Nation Reproached with the Scandal and Dishonour of that Inhumane Fact Particularly It was my bad fortune to be at a station in Paris where there were met about two hundred Persons to read the Gazets at that very same time when that of England came full charged with the News of Burning the Pope in Effigie at London This Feat did at first surprize that Roman Catholick concourse of People but after a little recollection they ceased to wonder saying in every company as we passed along It is not so strange that the English Devils should do this who formerly Murthered their King And another time it was my ill luck also to be at the same place when the London Gazet brought us the News That the House of Lords had taken into consideration the growth of Atheism in our Nation Whereupon some French Gentlemen of my acquaintance seriously enquired of me the Causes of so much Atheism amongst such a Thinking and Solid People I assigned the same Reasons which I have written above besides some others not so fit to be mentioned as the most probable Causes thereof And as I hope I did not misinform them so I am confident I did not unjustly charge you in any particular especially with the Murther of the King For there were no Accessaries in the Murther of that Sacred Person neither was it the last stroke only that fell'd the Royal Oak but you and the Independents like the two Sacrilegious Priests of Jupiter are equally guilty of the Crime the one for Binding the direful Victim and the other for putting the Knife to his Throat But to be short where I am so unacceptable I 'le conclude my Argument with a Fable A Principal Ship which for many years had been Sovereign of the Seas was at last Attacked by a Tempestuous Wind which the Devil raised and notwithstanding all the Help that could be made to save her was driven by the force of that malignant Wind and split upon a Rock The very same instant she dashed upon the Rock the Wind ceased and being afterwards cursed by the Sea-men for the Wrack of the Royal Charles for so the Capital Vessel was called answered You charge me most unjustly my Friends It was not I but the Rock as you saw that split your Ship The Moral of this Parable is very obvious and if the Application thereof or any thing else that I have written may conduce to awaken your Conscience and reclaim you from Schism I shall think my pains well bestowed But if you and your seditious Brethren will still persevere to assault the Church on one hand as fast as the Romish Priests do undermine her on the other her daies are like to be but few and evil and except God encline the Heart of our Magistrates to put the Laws in Execution against them and find some effectual means to reduce you you may live to see her Ruine accomplished which you both alike desire and expect How numerous you are the World can ghess and if the Accounts which we receive from the Fathers of Intelligence of several Orders be credible there are at least three thousand of them which find entertainment and success in our Nation But in the mean time till her hour is come she struggleth against both like her Saviour against the Pharisees whose true Disciples in part you both are they representing those sworn Enemies of the Gospel by the Cabala of their ridiculous and impious Traditions and you representing them in their Hypocrisie Pride Envy Evil-speaking morose and censorious Dispositions c. which are Sins scarce consistent with Humanity much less with Grace as likewise in observing many Fasts and making long Prayers with design not to serve God but to delude the People And therefore I wonder not that you are such malignant Enemies to the Church of England since that Pharisaical spirit which reigneth so much amongst you is a wicked Pusillanimous spirit that affects to be seen in the Head of Parties and Dictate amongst the Ignorant and loves as much to Rule as it hates to Obey But would you once be so sincere as to subdue your Pride lay aside your Prejudice inform your Ignorance and forsake your dearly beloved interest for the Truth it would not be long ere we should see you joyn with the Church of England without troubling our Senators to bring you in with an Act of Comprehension Your Pride appeareth in Heading of Parties and in the Pleasure you are seen to take in the Multitudes that run after you and in your boasting that without you the Souls of People would starve for want of knowledg Your Prejudice is an effect of your Pride and discovers it self together with your Ignorance in not submitting to those Invincible Reasons which you cannot answer And as for your Interest the greatest Paradox of all that is evident enough to me who have so often heard many of you glorifie your selves in the Number and Riches of your Followers boast of their Affection to your sacred Persons and brag of the great Sums you have collected in your Congregations which makes the King's Chappels as you arrogantly call your Conventicles better places than most of the Churches of which He is Patron And therefore never complain that you live either worse or at greater uncertainties than you did before For by your pretensions to Poverty and Sufferings and by other unworthy