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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25701	An apology for the Parliament, humbly representing to Mr. John Gailhard some reasons why they did not at his request enact sanguinary laws against Protestants in their last session in two letters by different hands.		1697 (1697)	Wing A3552; ESTC R170358	34,745	43

Complaint of Mr. G. against the Bishops is I need not stand to prove but I appeal to the Reader whether my Censure is not just If he had not been a rank Socinian or worse he would not when he pretended to write against the Socinians have so sliely and desperately wounded the Honour of the chief Defenders of the Orthodox Faith Indeed it looks a little odly that they should explain one and the same Article contradictory ways both of which can hardly be true but then since a way is discover'd whereby contradictory Expositors may both firmly hold the Orthodox Article tho they have different Notions of it I could wish that Mr. G. would not involve no not the Arminian Party in the same Condemnation with the Socinians for tho the Socinians also will agree to the Article if they may explain it yet they mu t be deem'd not to agree to the Article unless they will take up with one of the contradictory Explications which our Church can endure for I trow the Church may choose what contradictory Explications she will endure and is not obliged to endure all that may be offer'd that were not only to restrain her from imposing on backward Believers but subjecting her to be impos'd on by others which is prodigiously unreasonable But Mr. G. not only sliely intimates that the Bishops do not act their parts against Heresy having an Arminian Touch thereof themselves but that they actually stop the Course of Justice which he can never prove unless by the Argument of his own Impunity who so boldly calumniates and slanders them but however he intimates it and then pronounces that upon the failure of the Bishops the Magistrate is to look into 't The Roman Clergy take upon themselves all the Labour of convicting and condemning Hereticks and leave the Magistrate no trouble but to burn them but Mr. G. devolves the whole upon the Magistrate that is the meaning of those words The Magistrate is to look into it and he proves it to be their Duty because it is very just that every Man's hand should be against those Infidels whose hand is against every Man Which Argument is so happily form'd that it not only evinces it to be the Magistrate's Duty to burn Hereticks but it also proves that every Man is a Magistrate i.e. every Man that contributes to the burning of Hereticks his contributing to the burning of Hereticks constitutes him a Magistrate but I suppose he means that every Man who is constituted a Magistrate by his own Authority in taking upon himself to persecute Hereticks is a Magistrate only quoad hoc when the Heretick is burnt there 's an end of the Magistrate he becomes a private Man again Mr. G. would not do so extravagant a thing as to make every Man a Magistrate any longer than he had need of him to kill and burn But what if the lawful Magistrate does not and Mr. G's private Magistrate empower'd by his own Malice and ill Nature dares not defy the Toleration and push on the burning of Hereticks What then What then why then let them both look to 't he bombs them with Denunciations of Curses and Judgments from Scripture but the same not being levell'd against Patience and Long-suffering against brotherly Love and Charity against Toleration of Opinions which neither blaspheme God nor trouble the State it is reasonably presum'd that those minatory Bombs will neither in this World nor the next endamage the King or the Parliament who have enacted no Sanguinary Laws this last Session neither against Jews Turks nor infidels no nor against Church-Nominalists Socinian Unitarians nor real Tritheistick Trinitarians Thus I have examin'd the third Head and it appears that Heresy has not met the Opposition which Mr. G. could wish In the last place I will examine what Treatment he judges it to deserve Now here he comes in with a sage Aphorism or two There ought to be a Proportion betwixt the Distemper and the Remedy extream Distempers require extream Remedies And to prove the Extremity of the Distemper whereof he complains He tells us That to deny the Holy Trinity and our Saviour's Divinity is as much as in a Man lieth to pull our Religion up by the very Root and quite to overthrow it Which that the Socinians do he takes for granted tho those who are yet injuriously call'd Socinians declare that they only dispute some unscriptural Terms with us but are well satisfied with the sense put upon those Terms and Explications which a considerable Majority of the Church seem to be agreed in and together with them abhor the Tritheistick Doctrine abhor it as much as if it were Convocationally condemn'd only they would not give their consent for burning the Persons of the Tritheists whose Heresy tho very absur'd and of unhappy Influence yet is not worse than uncharitable and ill-natur'd Calvinism Farther to prove the extremity of the Distemper whereof he complains Mr. G. affirms that Idolatry and Blasphemy by which latter he will mean Socinianism are the two greatest Abominations in the sight of God and then with impudent Reflection on the King and Parliament he gives it us as his Judgment That to the Toleration of those two transcendent Wickednesses we may chiefly attribute the Cause of the heavy Chastisements which make the Nation uneasy i.e. expressing it in plain Words The King and Parliament have tolerated Popery and Socinianism and the Toleration of those two transcendent Wickednesses is the Cause of the War with the French and all the foul Miscarriages attending it of the debasing and clipping the Old and the scarcity of the New Money of the unseasonableness of the Weather of the rot among Sheep and the dearness of Mackeril One may be tempted to think that the Gentlemen of Mr. G's Kidney entertain the Opinion that the settled Course of Nature is sometimes chang'd by particular and special Providences for no other reason but that they may have the opportunity to charge this and that and th' other evil Accident on the Doctrines and Persons which for their Doctrines sake they mortally hate We are told that the Primitive Christians who for ought I know had as much Socinianism in them as the very Considerer himself were injuriously us'd just as they are now who are injuriously term'd Socinians If any evil Accident afflicted the Publick if Tiber overflow'd and damag'd the Country Christianos ad Leones throw the Christians to the Lions 't is long of their being tolerated that the Gods are so angry with the Romans Well! but Mr. G. reckons that he has fully shown the extremity of the Distemper Now let us see how he will proportion the Remedy In one place he declines the invidious Office and professes that he leaves it to the Piety and Christian Wisdom of the Parliament to find out and apply the true and proper Remedy but this is only a Copy of his Countenance and a Protestation against Fact for he 'll not trust the