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A55499 A Christian caveat to all loyal subjects, or, A looking-glass displaying the foul face of phanaticism ... A. P. 1684 (1684) Wing P3; ESTC R14437 11,685 23

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Murder of their Soveraign Massacres must all be good and lawful to order and advance what they call Religion and the good Cause that they may fish in troubled Waters and lord it over Prince and People Now Tim what think you of these Firebrands who break nothing but Flames and Confusion to Kings and Kingdoms Tim. In verity Phil I did not think so much wickedness could have layn hid imwardly under the outside of so much piety but now I see all is not Gold that glisters and that Phanaticks are dangerous People teaching such Doctrines so destructive of Monarchy I begin to be your Convert and shall for the future look more narrowly into their Actions The Second Lesson Of Phanatical treasons cruelties and bloody practices Timothy I Have well consider'd what you told me about Phanatick Principles against Kingly Government and am amaz'd and confounded at it For I took the Papists only for such Regicides and all the bloody cruelties that have been acted in several places our Preachers tell us have been caus'd by Jesuits and Papists for the Catholick cause Phil. Beleive me Tim you Phanatick Preachers are not to be credited who think all lyes lawful for the good old cause as they call it You see already by most evident testimonies of their own Books their horrid Pinciples against Regall power and I shall make it as clear that their bloody Practices have been answerable to their doctrines the cursed fruit of so bad a tree Tim. Make that good once and I will then confess the Saints have thiir failings as well as others Phil. After Luther began to gather followers in Germany these Phanati●k Principles rais'd such rebellions in those parts against the Emperor that above a hundred thousand were slain in those wars accompanied with such miseries as made Germany an object of pity to all Christian hearts Did not the same prodigious doctrines put Bohemia into a miserable combustion that these new Saints might possess the Earth and Lord it over their Lawful Governours What tragedies did the same principles act in Switzer-land to the overthrow of Government and the ruine of all Order and Religion where they prevailed Did not the furious Calvanists by vertue of the same principles rebel against their Bishop and Prince and make themselves Masters of his Goods and Territories What bloody cruelties prophanations sacriledges murthers treasons rebellions were acted by these headstrong Zealots in France cannot but force tears from those who read the Chronicles of those times And did not the Hollanders with some other Provinces rebel against their Leige Lord and King and possess themselves of his Rights and Dominions annimated by these horrid doctrines Neither can Kings ever expect better where Phanaticks are strong enough to head a party against the Government Tim. I never knew this before But I was told Phil that the Papists and Jesuits were the cause of all those stirs and insurrections Phil. They impose upon you Tim 't is nonsense to say so All those places enjoyed peace and quiet till these Phanaticks arose and became Incendiaries by these wicked doctrines Did not Knox and his fellow Martial Gospellers raise a horrid rebllion against their Lawful Soveraign Queen Mary of Scotland and force her to fly to save her life What think you Are all the tragical cruelties sacriledges murthers blood shed and Miseries attending civil wars to be laid to the charge of the poor innocent Queen or these firebrands I know they talk much of bloody Papists in Ireland but I have been told by those who were actually in the warrs there that the Phanatick Zealots did equalize if not out do them in their butcheries But to come home did not these Presbyterian principles raise the late rebellion here in England against our gracious Soveraign Charles the first and murd●r the best of Princes in so barbarous a manner as justly renders them detestable to all Posterity And were not the Phanaticks now again endeavouring by a most horrid and bloody Conspiracy to act the like or worse tragedy to ruine King and Kingdom and make poor England a field of blood to fill all places with massacres horrours and confusions And all this being annimated and set on fire by these principles these wretched principles Insomuch that 't is observ'd by a Protestant Doctor in his Caveat for Princes against Presbyterians Page 93. That in this last Century of years there have been more Princes depos'd and murthr●d for their Religon by Protestants of integrity as they call themselves then in all the others since Christs time by the attempts of Roman Catholicks For indeed these cruelties and bloody Conspiracies are the natural fruit of their rebellious Principles but such Papists as have rose in arms against their Sovereign have been taught better things Witness that famous Decree of the Sorbonists whereby they condemn the doctrine of deposing King and absolving their Subjects from their sworn allegiance to be pestilential damnable doctrine and to be abhorred of all men as new false erronious contrary to Scripture giving occasion to schisms derogatory to the Authority of Kings depending on God alone hindring the conversion of Heretical and Infidel Princes destroying the publick peace and tempting subjects from their obedience and animating factions and rebellions against Princes which Sorbon Sentence was approv'd by the whole Ecclesiastical body of France and declared in a publick admonition to the King Dec. 13. 1625. Tim. I do not much value what the Sorbon Doctors say though I cannot quarrell with this decree But I am covinc'd Phil especially by the last instance of the Conspiracy which though the Godly Party endeavour to excuse or deny or extenuate by lyes and forgeries as in the case of the Earl of Essex yet 't is so evident by self-confession and proofs irrefragable that who now denyes it may as well say it is not day when the Sun shines And truly I begin to be weary of their company now I plainly perceive I cannot be a Phanatick and at the same time a good Subject Phil. Pray Tim take notice also that those great pretenders to Religion are grown to that degree of Madness as to take part with the Turk against Christianity For our Mahometans Christians here because they were too far off to assist the enemies of Christ with their hands did as much as they could help them with their tongues by praying for their success against the Christians Tim. Indeed I like it not I see the hatred of Popery has made them almost cease to be Christians The Third Lesson Of Phanatical Pride Philonax LET me tell thee Tim they who judge of Religion by the actions of some particular persons shall never be able to justify any though never so pure and holy in it self For seeing their Religion teaches otherwise why should that be condemn'd for their extravagancies If some Roman-professors have behav'd themselves with pride arrogancy and others of the same Church condemn them for it 't is evident that such