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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56270	An answer to a paper entituled The case of the Protestant dissenters of Ireland in reference to a bill of indulgence, represented and argued.	Pullen, Tobias, 1648-1713.; Boyse, J. (Joseph), 1660-1728, attributed name.	1695 (1695)	Wing P4193; ESTC R222510	6,780	7

the strict execution of Penal Laws is a Practice that has a just Odium left upon it but are sorry That the just Odium left upon it among us should be wholly confin'd to us and that this Practice should have no Censure nor Reflection cast upon it among our Neighbours And 't is strange that the Author should say that there is so apparent a contrariety in it to the mild and merciful Genius of our Holy Religion seeing he can't but know the time when it was an avow'd Doctrine and a General Practice among the Presbyterians and Independants to bar the Members of the Church of England from the Free Exercise of Divine Worship according to their Consciences And 't is as strange that this Practice should be so apparently contrary to our Holy Religion and have so mischievous Effects upon the publick Peace here in this Kingdom and yet be thought so great an Evidence of a truly Christian Zeal and so effectual an Instrument of publick Good in Scotland and how possibly can our Author hope That all Protestants are in this Point come to a better Temper than to gratifie their Enemies by Ruining their Brethren when there is so plain a Demonstration of the contrary unless he be of Opinion that what is accounted a Warm and Sanguine Temper of Religion there is to be esteem'd the raging Heat of a malignant Feavor here Fourthly as concerning the establishing Toleration by a Law the Reason why some may be against it is not as our Author do's invidiously insinuate that they wait for a more favourable opportunity of Reviving the former Severities but that they may still have it in their Power to shew their Tenderness to their Dissenting Brethren and may prevent or repress the misdemeanors that some Nonconformists may possibly be Guilty of if they had a Legal Toleration as also that they may secure the Established Religion they profess against the Dangerous Consequences they fear from a General Indulgence And Lastly as to what he says concerning His Majesties Declaration I desire this Author to consider more seriously whether there be not some others in the Three Kingdoms besides the Protestant Dissenters of Ireland to whom One great end of His Majesties Declaration is yet unaccomplish'd and whether there be a Law made to cover the Protestant Episcopal Clergy in Scotland from Persecution on the Account of Religion By all which it may plainly be perceiv'd That 't is not by force of the Authors Arguments for the Necessity or Reasonableness of Toleration but purely in compliance to the importunate Desires of our Dissenting Brethren that the Members of the Establish'd Church are inclin'd to grant 'em a General and Legal Indulgence as Parents do often humour their Children in giving 'em those things they eagerly desire which tho' pleasant to their Pallates are yet many times prejudicial to their Health And now I proceed to the Second Desire of the Protestant Dissenters which is That there may be no such Clauses annext to this Bill as would disable 'em from serving their King and their Country which in plain terms is no more than this That whereas the Ease to Tender Consciences was the only thing they formerly desir'd they now Claim it as their due to be admitted also into all Honourable and Profitable Employments and without these whatever Ease may be given to their Consciences 't is to be fear'd they will have no quiet in their Minds But let us hear our Authors Auguments for granting this Bill of Indulgence without a Sacramental Test annext First he tells us That the Sacrament Test in England was chiefly design'd against Papists but 't is also plain it was intended against Protestant Dissenters too for tho' none but the former be mention'd in the Title yet the latter are included in the Body of the Act and if the Zeal of the English Dissenters against Popery in the late times has not exempted them from a Sacramental Test our Dissenting Brethren in this Kingdom cannot with Modesty expect that their late Services should Intitle them to any such Immunities Secondly He tells us such a Test for disabling Protestant Dissenters for any publick Service is against the common Protestant Interest of Ireland Our Circumstances indeed vastly differ as he says from those of England for here the Established Church is more in Danger than there by the Protestant Dissenters as well as by the common Enemy In England one unmixt People does compose the main body of the Nation which continues still the same but here we are made up of several Nations and there is a daily Accession of great Numbers from a Neighbouring Country of whom the meaner sort are generally of a different Communion from the Establish'd Church Tho' the Nobility and Gentry to their great praise be it spoken are generaly Conformists 'T is possible inded as he Observes That the Irish may be more Numerous if there should be a General Peace and I may add That 't is highly probable that the Papists will grow much more Numerous if there should be a General Indulgence and therefore notwithstanding our Authors Opinion we cannot think it Reasonable to give the Protestant Interest a wider Bassis here than it has in Holland which is a Place of greatest Liberty in Matters of Religion where all Protestants are not equally capable of Employments without Religious Tests As to what he says concerning the Danger of a future Rebellion we hope that by the late Acts of Parliament made against the Papists and the diligence of the Magistrates in putting them in Execution the Irish may be disabled for any New Insurrections or if we should fall into the same unhappy Circumstances that we have been lately in we have Reason to believe Notwithstanding the Authors disadvantagious Representation of the Temper of the Dissenters wherein he intimates that the excluding them from publick Offices would incline 'em in future Dangers to desert the publick Service the foreboding of which seems equivalent to an Advice to them and a Menace to us Notwithstanding this I say we have Reason to believe that the Consideration of the common Safety and their Gratitude for their Indulgence which they now expect would engage 'em to shew an equal Zeal to what they did before tho' they should not be wholly on equal Terms with us since they could not reasonably hope for so kind a Treatment from the Papists as they have had from us Thirdly To what the Author says to prove That it does not seem agreeable to the Judgment of the Parliament of England that any such Test should be impos'd here I answer That as the Substituting the New Oaths and the Declaration or Test against Popery instead of the Oath of Supremacy did not Repeal the Statute that enjoyns the Sacrament Test in England so neither can it with the least shadow of Reason be alledged That the English Act for the Abrogating the Oath of Supremacy in Ireland c. ought to be construed as