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A26927	Fair-warning, or, XXV reasons against toleration and indulgence of popery with the Arch-bishop of Canterbury's letter to the King and all the bishops of Irelands protestation to the Parliament to the same purpose : with an answer to the Roman-Catholicks reasons for indulgence : also the excellent reasons of the Honourable House of Commons against indulgence, with historical observations thereupon.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1663 (1663)	Wing B1263; ESTC R15222	25,663	47

reason untill it be resolved on it was therefore resolved c. That in the close of the Reasons to be presented to His Majesty for the Vote of advice it being also added That this House will assist His Majesty with their Lives and Fortunes and That the Comittee appointed to bring in the Reasons do pen an Address for that purpose to His Majesty Do you observe their reasons against your suggestions 1. As to the promise of Breda you urge they say you should not trouble his Majesty further with it Reas. 1. Because it is not a Promise in it selfe but only a Gracious Declaration of your Majesties Intentions to do what in You lay and what a Parliament should advise Your Majesty to do and no such Advise was ever given or thought fit to be offered nor could it be otherwise understood because there were Laws of Vniformity then in being which could not be dispensed with but by Act of Parliament They who do pretend a Right to that supposed Promise put the Right into the hands of their Representatives whom they chose to serve for them in this Parliament who have Passed and Your Majesty consented to the Act of Vniformity If any shall presume so say that a Right to this Declaration doth still remaine after this Act Passed It tends to dissolve the very Bonds of Government and to suppose a disability in Your Majesty and the Houses of Parliament to make a Law contrary to any part of Your Majesties Declaration though both Houses should advise Your Majesty to it Against Indulgence that most Honourable House saith 1. That it will establish schisme by a Law In the 24.25 and 26. year of Queen Elizabeth the Non-conformists especially of Kent bestired themselves and procured the Lords of the Councell to write to Arch-Bishop Whitgift to take charitable consideration of their causes that the people of the Realme might not be deprived of their Pastors being diligent learned and zealous though in s●me points Ceremoniall they may seeme doubtfull onely in conscience not in willfulnesse Upon this though onely an intercession of the Councell they are incouraged to separate from the Church and upon the Earle of Leicesters Interest what would they do if they had a Law of their side they are hardned to hold a solemne Councell at Cambridge I think to answer our Convocation wherein they made decrees as they call them of such things as do seeme may stand with the peace of Gods Church see Bishop Bancrofts danger pos p. 46. they have a conference at Lambeth before the Lords of the Councell with the Arch-Bishops of Canterbury and York and the Bishop of Winchester Cambd●el 1584. and finding but favour no Law all this while on their behalfes in Parliament they erect a Presbytery at Wandsworth in Sunrey Bishop Bancroft Engl. scot 3. b. c. 1. Full. Cent. xvi p. 30 where Offices and rules are agreed on by 24. Presbyters in as much authority as our 26. Arch-Bishops and Bishops this way they settle in London a while after Altar against Altar Post against Post they became violent Anno 1575. and left the sober men Humphrey Fox c. they set up prophesying Anno 1580. and private meetings fasts and conferences they meet at Cuckefield in Suffolke threescore Ministers almost enough to make a convocation where they resolved what was to be Tolerated and what was to be refused again they meet at Cambridge where were many things very solemnly enacted in the year 1585. 1. A Parliament meets 2. Convocation sits 3. an Assembly of Ministers vying with the Convocation gets together they admonish they threaten they plot they get a 16. fold Petition drawn up for them Anno 1587. el 30. they Libel they met at a Synod in Coventry 10th of the 4. Moneth as they write where they resolved thirteen points against the Church Full. xvi Cent. 194. and drew up a discipline and form essential at all times which was tendered to all the classes far and near in England they humble themselves at Northampton for their former Conformity to the Church John test p. 6 Full. p. 196. they refuse Oaths tendred to them they talke of a bickering and then a battle as one Wiggington words it they sollicit the King of Scots assistance May 2. 1591. Hacket and Coppinger grow outragious and threaten the Queen and the Privy Councell at last they grew so odious at Court as Mr. Fuller writes that none durst appear in their behalfe and so they continued all King James his time and King Charles when we had peace untill at last this Schisme in the Warre was established by a pretended Law and England knowes very well what it is to establish Schisme by a Law In the latter end of King James his Reign there was a Toleration propounded and immediately the Popish policy and Government was set up in opposition to ours they had Archbishops to our Archbishops Bishops to our Bishops their meeting of Priest to our Convocation their Masse to our Common Prayer And so Cromwell told his Cronies in a thing called a Parliament in his loose time that they had their Hierarchy setled and that they had an orderly Government within his Government this this it is to have a Schisme established by Law 2. The Honourable House of Commons are against Indulgence to dissenters because it will make the Government of the Church precarious and Contemptible What can a Bishop do if there be parties to which all the guilty will betake themselves to elude his Authority he excommunicates they seperate and excommunicate themselves He cites they undervalue him He threatneth they as the Church wardens of Saint Anne Aldersgate say they will try it with him he would turn out a Parish-clark like him of Black-fryers he goeth to Law with him The Indulged Party will be the receptacle of all the discontented ambitious turbulent and guilty Persons which the Law threatneth discipline correcteth and justice punisheth 3 The Honourable House of Commons are against Indulgence Because It will no way become the Gravity or Wisedome of a Parliament to pass a Law at one Sessions for Vniformity and at the next Sessions the reasons of Vniformity continuing still the same to pass another Law to frustrate or weaken the execution of it The most happy constitutions are they that are maturely debated resolvedly enacted and not without great reason and much time repealed The first Parliament that ever was in England ordered that the same Assembly should not repeale and make Laws A Parliament Hen. the thirds time refused to alter a most inconvenient Law because they thought no inconvenience greater then Alteration of Laws so in K. H●n 7. Hen. 8. Q. Eliz. Reign 4 The Honourable House of Commons are against indulgence Because It will expose His Majesty to the restless Importunity of every Sect and Opinion and of every single Person also who shall presume to dissent from the Church of England It will be a cause of increasing Sects and