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A69915	A plea for the Non-Conformists giving the true state of the dissenters case, and how far the Conformists separation from the Church of Rome, for their Popish superstitions and traditions introduced into the service of God, justifies the Non-Conformists separation from them for the same : in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Calamy, upon his sermon, called, Scrupulous conscience, inviting hereto : to which is added, A parallel scheme of the pagan, papal and Christian rites and ceremonies : with a narrative of the sufferings underwent for writing, printing and publishing hereof / by Thomas De Laune.	De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685.; Danson, Thomas, d. 1694.; De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685. Eikōn tou thēriou.; De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685. Narrative of the sufferings of Thomas Delaune.	1684 (1684)	Wing D893; Wing D891; Wing D892; ESTC R12757	93,215	122

St. Paul for the Temple of Diana so it was at London St. Nicolas for Neptunes And all Saints for PANTHEON They build new Temples East and West and Worship as the Heathens did towards the East And do by their Priests consecrate first the Ground Then the Temple upon which it stands Altars are erected in them and sumptiously adorned and Statues placed on them with lighted Candels which they Worship a Feast of Dedication is annually kept to the Honour of the Saint the Temple is consecrated to which is spent with Revelling and Jollity And this as Gods House they pay great Reverence to There having been no conse crated place or holy Ground since the dissolution of the Temple by Gods appointment to build Temples or holy places for Worship The true Worshipers who worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth are truly his Chnrch and House where ever they meet be it in Wood Field House or Barne so saith the Apostle with all who in every place call upon the Lord Jesus Christ our Lord 1 Cor. 1. 2. Whose House are ye Heb. 3. 8. The most high dwelling not with Temples made with Hands as saith the Prophet What House will ye build me Or what is the place of my Rest Who Filles Heaven and Earth Act. 7. 48 49. No Altars and Candels Worshiping East and West or Feasts of Dedications in Christs Church being all Pagan and Papal inventions 5ly The times of their Worship 5dly The times of their Worship 5thly In respect to the time of Worship They divided their days into Fasti feast days Profaesti Working days and Intercisi hafe holy days The feast days they dedicated in the Names and to the Honour They divided their days into Feasts Fasts Vigils and Working days as their Kalender mentions their Feasts dedicated in the Names the And to the honour of The firist day of the Week is the Christians Sabbath and the only standing time for Rest and Worship to be Observed Holy unto the Lord The other six days being appointed of their Gods werev ery many some of their Capital Feasts were these viz. Their Saturnalia kept several days together in December with Eul-game Mrs. of Misrule Mascarading and all Debocheries adorning their Temples and Houses with green Leaves and Boughs The Epiphony from the appearing of their Gods Their Proserpinalia or Feasts of Candles In February Their Palelia or Shepherds Feast on Midsumer-day Their Florialia on May-day with great Jollity by the young People of both sexes scattering Boughs and Flowers and Dancing about May-poles Their Ambervalia or Procession when they begged a Blessing on their Gods upon their Fields and Fruits The Feast Easter to that Goddess in April They had their Bacchanalia their Ceralia their Venalia their Panathenea a Feast to all their Gods Canonical houres for Sacrifice and Devotion and a Jubile or yeare of Rest their Saints or Gods are very many some of their Capital Feasts are these viz. Christmas their Saturnalia Observed directly both in time and manner as theres was with Eule-games Mrs. of Misrule Mascarad's Debocheries adorning their Houses and Temples with green Leaves and Boughs The Epiphony Feast as ther 's Also Candlemas the purification of the Virgin Mary In February as their Proserpinalia or Candle Feast Ther St. John Baptist on Midsomer-day as their Palelia Also Philip and Jacob on May-day kept as their Floras Feast time and manner Also procession or Perambulation in Rogation Week time and manner with their Ambervalia Also the Feast of Easter time name and manner They have their Whitsonales for their Bacchanalia Their Allsaints for their Panathenea Canonical houres for Service and a year of Jubile for Rest for Labour As the forth Commandment Orders viz. Remember to keep Holy the Seventh Day Six Days shalt thou Labour and do all thy Work The Pope that changer of times saith Thou shalt Labour but Three or Four Days the rest are his Holy days No set times either for Feasts Fasts or Vigils are appointed by Christ which are only to be Observed as accasion is Administred All their Holy days and Festivals celeberated in Honour of the Papal and Pagan Gods Numens or Daemons are an abomination to the Lord and a great oppression to the Nations God requiring but a 7th part of time for his publick Worship and Service and they exact half if not two Thirds of it for the Worship and Sevice of their Idols 6thly Their Priesthood 6thly Their Priesthood 6thly In it's Ministry They had Superior Priests viz. Flamins and Arch-flamins for Sacerdotall service in their Provinces and Diocess and Inferior Priests distinguished by dignify'd names Tonsures Orders Habits the dignifyed Priests were those who attended on the Capitall Temples as the proper Priests of Jupiter Appollo Minerva Vesta Diana Venus Cybel some of which were called Dialia Martialia Querinalia Augures Saliens Fecialls Their Priests were either superior viz. Bishops and Arch-Bishops for Sacerdotall service in Provinces and Diocess or Inferior distingushed by dignifyed Names Tonsures Orders Habits the dignify'd clergy were those who attended the Capitall or Cathedrall Churches as Deans Chaptrs Prebends Arch Deacons And the more inferior Priests who have care of Sacred Celebrations in the cures or Parishes calledi Cureats Parsons In Christ Church there are only two sorts of Offices and Officers by his New Testament appointment viz. Elders and Deacons the Elders to administer Ordinances and Govern the Church     And Deacons to make Provision for to visit and take care of the Poor none of the Minestry distinguished from the Layety by Habits or Tonsuers which are all Pagan and Papal Inventions and Abominations The prohibition of And more inferior Priests who had the care of the sacred Celebrations in the cures called Curiones there were proper Habits for all the Priesthood and particular Vestments for their Divine Service viz. Albes Tunicles Amicts they had Tonsures and shavings so the Priests of Isis Diana Jupiter divers orders of Priests whereof most Caelebate to whom Marriage was prohibited as the Priests of Vesta Minerva Appollo and those of Cybil whowere castrated Elected and concecra ted according to the Ritual of Numa and put in to their cures by the Pontifex maintained according to their Ecclesiastical constitution the Pontifs by Annates Oblations and the Priests by Benesices Offerings Obsequies c. Vicars Deacons answearing their Curiones they have proper Habits for the Clergy and particular Vestments for their holy ministrations viz. Surplices or Albes Chasubles or Tunicles Vailes or Amicts to which they add Coaps Ephods Miniples Zones c. They have Tonsuers or Shaveings of their Orders and most whereof Caelebiate to whome marriage is forbiden Elected and consecrated according to the Popes canons and put into their Cures by his Authority maintained according to their Ecclesiastical customes the Popes by A●nates Oblations c. The Priests by Benefices Offerings Oblations Obseques c. Marriage being a Doct●●ne of Devils Elected and Consecrated according to

that they might take hold of his words that they might deliver him unto the Power and Authority of the Governour And they asked him saying Master we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly neither acceptest thou the Persons of any but teachest the Way of God truly Is it lawful for us to give Tribute unto Caesar or not There was the catching Question And to which though by his Practice working a Miracle to pay Tribute Mat. 17. 27. and his present Answer he stopt their Mouthes yet it would not serve his turn but stoutly do they accuse him of the very Sedition and Treason They designed to make him guilty of And they began to accuse him saying We found this Fellow perverting the Nation and forbidding to give Tribute to Caesar saying that he himself is Christ a King and they were not Caesar's Friends who said otherwise Luke 23. 2 c. Upon which he was cast condemned and put to Death and the Inscription wrote over him to justifie his Crucifixion was THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS Though he was altogether Innocent having done no violence Neither was Guilt found in his Mouth but under all their Mischief and Spite with Meekness and Patience committed himself to him who judgeth Righteously Giving us therein also an Example how we should behave our selves under like Circumstances And so they dealt with his Followers afterwards did they not draw Jason and the Brethren unto the Rulers of the City crying These that have turned the World up side down are come hither also And these do all contrary to the Decrees of Caesar saying There is another King one JESUS and they troubled the Rulers of the People when they heard these things Acts 17. 6 7. And so they laid many and grievous things against Paul which they could not prove viz. That he was a Pestilent Fellow a Mover of Sedition throughout the World Acts 25. 7. and 24. 5 And what was this for but the preaching and practising the Precepts and Doctrine of the Gospel to make men holy and happy And did they not so deal with the Christians in the days after the Apostles as Justin Martyr's and Tertullian's Apologies and Origen's Defence against Celsus make manifest How all manner of Evil is charg'd against the Dissenters in those dayes ●alsly How Vicious and Seditious in their Conventicles What Despisers of Dignities What Enemies to C●sar And whatever publick Evil or Calamity be●ell it must be laid to the Christians charge and to the Lyons they must go right or wrong for the same If Ner● has a mind to burn Rome it is but laying it to the Christians charge and that 's enough And was it not just so they dealt with our fore-Fathers the Waldenses Wicklivists Lollards and the Protestants in the Marian dayes as Turbulent Factious Seditious Resisters of Authority c. And may we not truly say as it was then so it is now And may not you your selves who so carry it to your dissenting Brethren expect the same measure from that Generation of men if they should get an advantage again in this Nation as our Saviour tells you Mat. 7. 1 2. It is no new thing you-see to have Innocency and Truth falsly and injuriously charged and treated as Sedition and Treasor And may not the dissenting Party notwithstanding all the Rage Noise and Clamour the many Provocations by malicious Prosecutions invading of Properties Priviledges c. Worrying of Informers and Souldiers Fines Confiscations Imprisonments the Deaths both in City and Country these two and Twenty Years challenge the worst of their Enemies to come forth and produce any one thing wherein the Dissenters as Dissenters are justly to be charged with Sedition Treason or Rebellion in this Nation but that under all they have behaved themselves meekly patiently and submissively as becomes their holy Profession And as for this horrid Slander of being all engaged in a late Plot their Principles leading thereto 't is like all the rest If to have been under the highest Provocations and in the Exercise of the greatest Patience under them renders them guilty it may be something Otherwise if Proofs be necessary to make People guilty why have not the Witnesses appeared But this is but a pretence for have they not suffer'd long before any Plot was talkt of But as to this 't is said Have not several been imprisoned some fled and others executed about the Plot That several have been imprisoned some fled and some executed who have been reputed Non-Conformists is very true and so have many more of the Conformists I presume four for one of the other Will it therefore be a fair way of Arguing Because so many of the Conformists are said to be in the Plot therefore all the Conformists of the Nation are guilty and ought to be severely handled I remember it was thought a very unfair way of proceeding of old because Coll. Wagstaff transgressed in the West that therefore my Lord of Kingstone must be punished in the North nay the whole party decimated for the same If some of the Non-Conformists are found Tardy upon good Proof let them suffer the Penalty of the Law but let not the Innocent be judged and punished with the Guilty muchless let not the Principle of Non-Conformity be judged because some have miscarried under that Profession for by that Rule may not the purest state of the Church both in the Old and New-Testament be censured and judged who had their Chora's Judasses and Diatrophesses amongst them His Majesty in his Speech to both Houses gives us a good Rule hereupon viz. Let us look forward and not backward and never think of what is past except men put us in mind by repeating faults we had forgot and then let us remember no more than what concerns those very Persons But have they not appeared of late years very zealous and forward in Elections of Parliament-men and other publick Officers in City and Country It is true they have so and so have the Conformists also ten for one to their Number both in City and Country but what Transgression is that What Law have they broke in Voting according to their Consciences by endeavouring to bring such into Trust and Authority as they have judged most Able and Honest to serve their Country in a time when we are told by the King and four Parliaments of a POPISH-PLOT to subvert the Government and to Ruin us in all our concerns But this as to Heresie Schism Treason Rebellion and Plotting that are charged upon us I do ingeniously and fully so far own and acknowledge in my own behalf and in all others that I know of this despised reproached Number that if to worship the God of our Fathers in the way of his own appointment believing all things which are written in the Law and Prophets be esteemed Heresie we are Hereticks as K. Charles the first answered the Popish Marquess as before That if in Dr. Pierce's words to