plainly If the Dissenters will not be satisfied However the King and Governours ought to Indulge them and Leave the Event to God And if by such an Indulgence the Dissenters shall destroy all our Church-Government and bring in Confusion among us God's will be done However the King and Governours must doe their Duty and INDVLGE them and then Leave the Event to God And if the Pragmatical People shall usurp an unlawfull power to themselves and shall chuse their own Bishop and every Parish Priest Volens Nolens the King or any Proper Patron God's will be done However the King and Governours must doe their Duty and give the People their Liberty and then Leave the Event to God If Dissenters should as they did in 48 Mutiny Rebell and Cut off this King 's Sacred Head as they did his Fathers and destroy all Good Order and Government in Church and State as formerly under the fair Pretence of Liberty of Conscience if so God's will be done However The King and Governours must doe their Duty that is Indulge the Dissenters and meekly resign up their Lives and Concerns to the Mercy and Courtesie of their Rebellious Enemies and then Leave the Event to God Now should this Rule of the Reconciler's take place in its full Latitude without the due use of Means for the Support of Government and for the Suppression of Vice Rebellion and Treason Then there would be nothing but Anarchy and Confusion in Church and State Which evil Design to bring to pass has been the great endeavour of All the Reconciler's Arguings For the main force of all his Arguments for Condescention to the Dissenters have tended to nothing more than to break down the Hedge of all our Good Laws and Orders for Vniformity and Conformity and to introduce an Unbounded Licentiousness and Confusion And therefore we may very truely Conclude The Reconciler's Design in Publishing his Book as Managed by him to be Malitious and Treasonable towards the King the Church and the State as now Established CHAP. VIII The Reconciler's Proposition Proved to be False His Proposition is this scil THat Things Indifferent considering the Circumstances our Church and State at present are in ought not to be Imposed by the Legislatours Prot. Recon c. 1. p. 4. as Conditions of Church Communion This Proposition as it is propounded by the Reconciler is to be considered two ways 1. Simply and Absolutely in it self 2. Relatively as it refers to the present Circumstances our Church and State are in In both respects it will appear to be false 1. For take it Absolutely as simply considered in it self And then his Proposition which is the main hindge and Herculean Pillar on which his whole Book depends runs thus scil That at no time Things Indifferent ought to be imposed upon the People as Conditions of Church-Communion The Falsity of this Proposition is Proved 1. By the Testimony of Sacred Scriptures to the contrary 2. By the Authority and Canons of the first and most Ancient Councils And by the examples and practices of the Primitive Christians in their Church-Government 3. By Reason and the Natural Grounds of Ecclesiastick Polity and Government All these speak the expediency and lawfulness if not Necessity of imposing Things Indifferent as Conditions of Church Communion The prosecution of these Arguments at large we shall leave for an entire Discourse of it self And at present onely touch briefly upon them in their order And therefore as to the first 1. Several Instances in Canonical Scripture speak it lawfull to impose things Indifferent as Conditions of Church Communion For God in the very first founding of all good Order and Government between Himself and Mankind did Impose a thing in it self Indifferent to wit the not eating of the Forbidden Fruit as a necessary condition of Communion and Fellowship with Himself And God Excommunicated Adam and Eva his presence his love and favour for not observing that Ceremony and Imposition of not eating the Forbidden Fruit which fruit might have been eaten as well as any other fruit in the Garden of Eden as Clem. Alexandrinus notes had not God by a strict Imposition commanded the contrary on purpose to try the sincerity of Man's obedience to him his Lord and Creator And farther under the Mosaical Law God Himself and Moses by his Command Imposed many indifferent and unnecessary things as necessary conditions of Church Communion such as All or most of the Levitical Rites and Ceremonies were whose observation was injoyned upon pain of Excommunication and sometimes of Death in case they were wilfully neglected And God gave Authority not onely to Moses and Aaron but also to other his Vicegerents such as the Judges and Kings of his chosen people the Jews to impose things Indifferent as Terms and Conditions of Church-Communion such as the use of Bloud Oil Salt and other things in their Sacrifices such as the use of Garments Ephods Veils and Surplices and Bowings in Divine Worship Washings and Purifications of their very Garments And all manner of Musick such as their Superiours especially such as King David and King Solomon should judge most conducing to God's Glory and to the better stirring up of the Peoples Devotions and Affections in the Worship and Service of God The Imposition of Holy Days is the Imposing of a thing Indifferent for all Days in themselves are alike And yet God highly approved of Queen Esthers and her Uncle Mordecai's Imposition of the Holy-Days called Purim upon the People for ever to be solemnly kept as necessary Conditions of Church-Communion And it is to be noted that this Imposition was laid upon the People without any Command from God in time of Banishment when the Church was in Persecution yet even then in such Circumstances as those did Queen Esther use her Authority as to the Imposing of things Indifferent And if so then surely much rather may Kings and Queens use the same Authority in times of Prosperity The Feasts of Dedication of the Temple and of the Altar but especially of the Wall of Jerusalem Dr. Keller Tricen l. 1. c. 5. part 8. p. 23. was in it self a Thing Indifferent and yet they were so strictly Imposed as that whosoever wilfully neglected their Observation was under an Anathema Maranatha And it is very Remarkable that our Lord Jesus Christ who came to fulfill all Righteousness and to set an unerring pattern and example of Obedience unto all under Command Did himself approve of the Feast of Dedication instituted by the Macchabees l. 1. c. 4. v. 59. Judas and his Brethren with the whole Congregation of Israel Ordained that the days of Dedication of the Altar should be kept in their season from year to year by the space of eight days For St. John 10.22 It was at Jerusalem the Feast of the Dedication and it was Winter and Jesus walked in the Temple c. So that if you read on our Saviour Christ did not onely honour with his Presence
to the Reconciler The King and Governours continue the Imposition of things Indifferent through want and defect of Piety and Prudence And now pray Is not this Reconciler worthy of Reproof to call his King and Governours Vngodly Imprudent What can he call them worse In our thinking it is all one as if the Reconciler had Mounted the Stage at New-Market where the King was much about the Time when his Book came forth and there had made Proclamation in the open Market and Harangued the Discontented People with such Phrase as this O Brethren Be wise and look to your selves for our King is a Fool our Governours are all like him unwise and imprudent they are as he is ungodly wicked men and for want of Grace and through Defect of Piety and Prudence Therefore it is That they continue the Imposition of things Indifferent upon you for I will assure you had they the Wisedom and Prudence which is from above or were they acted by a Spirit of Grace and Holiness They would ease Mens Consciences and would soon take away these Heavy Yokes and Burthens I mean the Imposition of things Indifferent from off your Necks But alas Dear Brethren I tell you and so does Doctour Tillotson tell you That the King and Governours want Piety and Prudence And that is the very Reason of their Impositions Now What is all this But a New Plot against the King and Government What is it But to Alarum the People First That the King and Governours are Vngodly Imprudent Secondly That according to Calvin's Doctrine Because they are Foolish and Vngodly they are therefore unfit for Government And Thirdly Because they are Vngodly Imprudent and Vnfit for Government Calv. Instit l. 4. c. 20. Therefore the People may Oppose them and may as Calvin and Knox Taught Depose them Thus in our apprehension the Reconciler again Sounds the Trumpet to a New Rebellion Odiously and Malitiously misrepresenting the King and Governours unto the People as Idiots and Fools as Wicked and Vngodly SECT VI. According to the Reconciler The King and Governours are the Destroyers of the Work of God and the Murtherers of Myriads of Souls for imposing things Indifferent The Reconciler's own words are IF I durst says he make the Parallel Protest Recon c. 4. p. 98. it unavoidably would be this That since Superiours by using of their Power in the Commanding of these things Indifferent doe that which accidentally and through the weakness of Dissenters doth Minister unto that Schism which is Destructive to them it may be feared that they i. e. the King and Superiours destroy the work of God and unnecessarily cause the Souls to perish for whom Christ died And Page 99. He adds Were I worthy to advise my Governours Ibid. p. 99. I would say Hast thou O King power in these things Indifferent Have it to thy self before God and use it to that end for which alone he gave it for Edification and not for Destruction Here is plain English and there is no need of an Oedipus to unriddle and find out the Odium and Scandal cast upon the King and our Superiours And in Page 195 The Reconciler has these words to the same purpose A Scandal says he in the Nature of it being Spiritual Murther Prot. Recon c. 6. p. 195. it is to me a wonder how Men that is the King and Governours can think it is consistent with Christian Charity to enjoin any thing unnecessary whence by experience they i. e. the King and Governours know the Murther of innumerable Souls is like to follow Now must it not oblige Superiours to lay aside a thing Indifferent as all the Ceremonies are for the preserving of many Myriads of Souls from Ruin It being then not necessary for Superiours to Command things Indifferent Page 196. much rather should they Quit them than be as they are Accessory to these sad Consequents of that Command to wit the Murther of so many Myriads of Men God Grant says he That our Lawgivers the King and Governours may make the due Inference from the Premisses c. Now Good Sir What Inference would you have us think the King and Governours in Honour and Justice should make from your Premisses But to Reward the Traytour according to his Treason unless he shall timely Repent Openly Recant and beg Mercy which God grant he may and then we hope the King's Clemency will be farther signalized in Pardoning so Notorious an Offender SECT VII The King Commands Men to Sin according to the Reconciler When he Commands their Obedience as to things Indifferent The Reconciler's own words are MOreover this may be farther Argued Prot. Recon c. 6. p. 200. That Qui non vetat peccare cum possit jubet He that being a Superiour as is the King doeth not what lawfully he may for the prevention of his Subjects Sinning does Command his Subjects to Sin Now it is confessed by our Superiours that if they please they may abate these Impositions of things indifferent And it is also certain that the not abating of them is the Occasion of the Schism and so of the Great Sin of many of their Subjects How then will they avoid according to this Rule Qui non vetat peccare cum possit jubet from commanding their Subjects to Sin when they may but will not prevent their sinning Most Excellent Logick The King and Parliament Command by Law that whoever calls the King Fool or Papist shall be hang'd A certain Rebellious Fellow wilfully transgresses that Law And is hang'd for it Ergo Because the King and Parliament had Power not to make that Law and after they had made it they had power to Repeal that Law But would not Therefore the King and Parliament Commanded that Rebel to Sin and therefore the King and Parliament are doubly Guilty First Of the Rebel's Sin Secondly Of his Death in not preventing both by Repealing the said Law For according to the Reconciler Qui non vetat peccare cum possit jubet SECT VIII The Reconciler's Rule for the King and Governours to Observe in case any Evil Consequents should happen through the Dissenters Disobedience after a Condescention Granted to wit To leave the Event to God The Reconciler's own words are IF says he it be Objected Prot. Recon c. 10. p. 326. That should our Superiours Indulge Dissenters in these Matters the Dissenters would never be contented with the Abatement of three Ceremonies unless as Dr. Womack urges we should also yield up the Churches Government and leave the Bishop and every Parish-Priest unto the Choice of the People The Answer and Rule To this says the Reconciler I Answer if so God's will be done however let us doe our Duty and Abolish these three Ceremonies scil Cross in Baptism Kneeling at the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper and Bowing at the Name of Jesus let us doe our Duty And leave the event to God c. That is to speak
BEAVFRONS OR A New-DISCOVERY of TREASON UNDER The FAIR-FACE and MASK OF RELIGION AND OF LIBERTY of CONSCIENCE In an ANSWER to the Protestant Reconciler In which is PROVED That the Protestant-Reconciler Encouraged the New Discovered Plot by his giving out unto the People That the King and Governours were and are the Betrayers of their Liberties And therefore Deserve Death By One of HIS MAJESTIE' 's Chaplains LONDON Printed for Charles Morden Bookseller in Cambridge MDCLXXXIII REVERENDO Admodum in Christo Patri Doctissimóque Antistiti ac DOMINO D. SETHO EPISCOPO SARISBVRIENSI Nec-non NOBILISSIMI ORDINIS à Periscelide Dicti Cancellario Tractatum Hunc In Summae Observantiae Symbolum Humillimè Dicat Dedicátque Ecclesiae verè Anglicanae Filius Observantissimus TO THE READER COURTEOUS SIR IT is humbly conceived that this TREATISE small in its Bulk but great in its Weight will be Acceptable unto all who Love their King and Church Because it so Seasonably Discovers the Plots and Designs of the Enemies to Both. And although the Authour was fully Satisfied That the Dissenters Principles were Treasonable and inconsistent with the Safety of our English Monarchy and of our Churches Welfare Yet he little thought They would so soon have given the World a Proof thereof as they have done in their NEW PLOT against the King's Most Sacred Person and against His Royal Highness the Duke of York which by Divine Providence is so happily discovered and we hope Totally Prevented Stephen Colledge's and their Treason detected fully Answers the Reconciler and proves sufficiently That no Condescention can safely be Granted unto the Dissenting Brethren untill they have openly Renounced their Traiterous Principles and have given some Better Signs of their Loyalty For as this TREATISE Foretold so now their New Treason Discovered has proved it to be a Truth that they are and will be as Dangerous if not more than the Papists And this Plot together with the Popish Plot does clearly evidence farther this Truth also That our King and Governours have no true Friends to trust unto but onely the True Episcopal-Church-Men of England For the Principles of all other Parties lead them into Faction and Rebellion from which Good Lord Deliver Vs July 2d 1683. THE Contents CHAP. I. THE True Notion of a Protestant p. 1. CHAP. II. The Presbyterians no Protestants p. 8. CHAP. III. The Independents no Protestants p. 17. CHAP. IV. The Ànabaptists no Protestants p. 29. CHAP. V. The Quakers no Protestants p. 36. CHAP. VI. The Reconciler's Design as pretended proved to be Impossible p. 40. CHAP. VII The Reconciler's Design proved to be as Managed Malitious and Treasonable towards the King and Governours both of Church and State p. 60. SECT I. The Reconciler gives out to the People That our King and Governours are the Authours of our Present Schisms and Factions p. 61. SECT II. According to the Reconciler Our King and Governours are Proud Men and The Plagues of the Earth For Imposing things Indifferent p. 67. SECT III. According to the Reconciler Our King and Governours Deserve Death For Imposing on the People things Indifferent p. 68. SECT IV. The King and Governours according to the Reconciler are Traytours to the Common-wealth and Betrayers of the Peoples Liberties for Imposing upon them things Indifferent And that therefore the People ought not to yield to their Impositions But ought to Rebell and vindicate their Christian Liberty p. 70. SECT V. The Reconciler scandalously affirms That the King and Governours want Piety and Prudence And that therefore it is they Impose upon the People Things Indifferent p. 74. SECT VI. According to the Reconciler The King and Governours are the Destroyers of the Work of God and are the Murtherers of Myriads of Souls for Imposing things Indifferent p. 77. SECT VII According to the Reconciler The King Commands Men to Sin when he Commands their Obedience as to things Indifferent p. 79. SECT VIII The Reconciler's Rule for the King and Governours to observe in case any Evil Consequents should happen through the Dissenters Disobedience after a Condescention granted to them to wit To leave the Event to God p. 81. CHAP. VIII The Reconciler's Proposition to wit That considering the Circumstances our Church and State at present are in Things Indifferent ought not to be Imposed by the Legislators as Conditions of Church-Communion This Proposition if taken absolutely and simply in it self is proved to be false p. 84. Secondly It is proved to be false and unseasonably Propounded if taken Relatively in Reference to the Circumstances our Church and State are in at present p. 96. CHAP. I. The true Notion of a PROTESTANT NEver was the Christian World more abus'd with any Word under the Pretence of Religion than with this of Protestant And especially in this Our Factious and Disloyal Age and Country In which this Word has been and still is made odious and a very Covert for all Religious-Male-Contents in Church and State For All Parties and Sects that would not be deemed Papists have Christened and Styled themselves Protestants Although they have been and still are the most erroneous vitious and dissolute Persons in the World both as to Principles and Practices And for as much as a Late Authour Entitles himself and his Book THE PROTESTANT RECONCILER But has not told his Reader Who are the Persons he understands by Protestants We therefore entreat the said Reconciler to inform the World What he means by A Protestant For if by Protestants the Reconciler understands All those men who disown and Protest against the Name of Papist Then in truth the Turks and Jews may as deservedly be called Protestants But if he says that by Protestants he means All Christians who Renounce Popery Then he would doe well 1. To define what is Popery 2. To let us know who are the Persons that renounce Popery so defined For by Popery the Church of Rome means the Pope's Supremacy and whoever denies that is no Papist at Rome Let his other Opinions be never so Canonical And by Protestantism the Church of England understands the Pious Doctrine of the King's Supremacy in Opposition unto that of the Pope's And whoever denyes the King's Supremacy is no Protestant in England Let his other Tenets be never so Orthodox Wherefore Once again We request the Reconciler not to amuse the World with any Bug-Bear Words But in plain English to Unridle Who and What are the Persons he discriminates from all others by the Specious Title of Protestants For if the Reconciler be a genuine Son of the Church of England as now established which we very much doubt He cannot but know That our Church and State own and acknowledge None to be Protestants in England but onely such who in their Consciences and Principles allow of and Protest for The King's Supremacy And by the King's Supremacy we mean Full. Ch. Hist l. 9. p. 53. A Power in the King given to him by Almighty God to Restore Religion when
Clarke a Noted Presbyterian writes of Knox. How that in Queen Maryes days Clark's Martyrol p. 293. Mr. Knox fled into Germany where at Frankfort an English Congregation was setled who served God after the English Rubrick published by King Edward the Sixth But Mr. Knox coming thither disturbed the aforesaid Congregation and made a Schism among them for Knox cryed down the English Service-Book And drew up a Liturgy which was says Clark the very same with that used at Geneva which Calvin had composed But Dr. Cox a Prelatical Man stood up stoutly in Defence of the English Service Book And he complained to the Magistrates That Mr. Knox his Doctrine and Discipline was inconsistent with the safety of Monarchical Government And that he had Preached and Published Seditious Doctrine against the Emperour All which being proved Mr. Knox fled to Basil And there he set up the Genevian-Anti-Monarchical Discipline Afterwards upon the Death of Queen Mary the said Mr. Knox went into Scotland And infected that Nation with his Presbyterian Doctrine Preaching That Kings are to give an Account of their evil Government not onely unto God but also unto the People who entrusted them with the Magistratical Power And that Vngodly Princes such as are all Popish Princes are no less enemies to Christ than was Nero c. And there in Scotland the said Knox set up his Scotch-Kirk and Presbyterian Consistory which assumed to its self a Power over Kings to that Degree as that King James the Sixth of Scotland and First of England who knew them too well to trust them said He would never admit of the Presbyterian Government in England G. G. Ch. Hist of Gr. Brit. p. 268. lest every Jack and Tom in the Consistory should Censure Him and his Council as they had done in Scotland And as thus Calvin in Geneva and Knox in Scotland setled Presbyterian Consistories in Opposition to Monarchy Episcopacy and all Regal Supremacy So did Whittingham Cartwright and Travers who every one of them had been New-principled at Geneva come over from beyond Sea and endeavoured to settle the Like here in England To which purpose One of them broached his Anti-Monarchical Principles at Cambridge being there made a Professour and slily poysoned That Fountain with the putrid waters of Geneva's Lake for which he was Deposed Another of them did the like in the Temple at London being chosen Lecturer thereof And there he infected the other sort of Gown Men even the Lawyers for which he was Silenced They i. e. the Presbyterians thus having got as they thought both Law and Divinity on their side proceeded so high as to fix their Consistories in several places of this our Land In all which Consistories they Declared against Subscription to the English Rubrick and against the Queens Supremacy and the Orders of Bishops Priests and Deacons and against the Ceremonies of the Church And thus they would have run on to an higher rate even to the unsetling the Established Government both in Church and State Had not Queen Elizabeth interposed her Authority and by her care and prudence soon put a stop to their carreir The like did King James in Scotland soon after by the advice of Bishop Bancroft who before Queen Elizabeths Death kept correspondence with King James and discovered to him the Inconsistency of the Presbyterian Principles and Consistories with Monarchy in that they Deny'd The King's Supremacy And King James was so far convinced of the truth of what he Asserted Heyl. Life of Arch-Bishop Laud p. 62.63 as that when he came to the Crown of England he caused several eminent Scotch-Divines to be Consecrated Bishops according to our English Rubrick And sent them hence back into their own Country and placed them in several Diocesses in Scotland And by their Prudence and Assistence King James restored His own Supremacy and the Protestant Episcopacy again in that Kingdom which ever since has had a Being there though not a Well-Being by reason of the late Bloudy-Rebellions made against the King by the Presbyterians who all were and still are under an Oath and Covenant to maintain their Consistorian Power against the King's Supremacy and the Churches Episcopacy which verifies King James his Proverb No BISHOP No KING And what the Presbyterians have been in Scotland the very same have they been and still are here in England For they All are still if not by Oath yet by Principle against The King's Supremacy And therefore we may safely conclude them to be No PROTESTANTS CHAP. III. The Independents no Protestants THis Sect and Generation of People are as Dangerous to the State and Church as the Presbyterians and in some respect worse Because they are against a National Church which the Presbyterians acknowledge They make every Individual Gathered Congregation An absolute Church Independent on all other Congregational Churches And therefore are they called Independents So that Every Individual Independent Congregation is invested with a Supremacy of their own And challenge to themselves a Power to Censure Condemn and to Excommunicate any man whether Magistrate Prince or Peasant And that which excells Popery it self The Independent individual Church will allow of no Appeal from their Sentence whether right or wrong unto any other Power And the Reason for it is this scil Because They own no Power on Earth to be above them They being a perfect Church of themselves have the Supremacy absolutely within themselves Hence it is that Dr. Owen the greatest Independent in England says and that very consistently with his own Independent Principles That all Church Power is Originally in the People Owen's Vindica p. 37. who have the casting Vote in their Congregational Church And this is the Professed Doctrine of the Independent Churches in New-England Whose Supreme Magistrates are all chosen Annually by the People of God that is * This is one of their Fundamental Laws Vid. New-England Statutes And if our King should par pari referre in Old England then none should be chosen or Chuse Parliament-Men but onely Protestants i. e. Onely such who are for the King's Supremacy and the Churches Episcopacy by the Members of the Independent Congregations and by no other For in New-England Let a Man be never so vertuous and sober so rich and wealthy yet if he be not a Member of some of their particular Independent Congregations He is not capable of giving a Vote for a Governour nor of being chosen a Governour among them And as all Governours in New-England are chosen by the People so all their Governours and Magistrates if they err and transgress in Government or become wicked and vitious in manners they are all subject to the censure of the People and the Church for in New England none is to be a Governour or Magistrate but he who is endued with Grace and is Godly in their Sense Their great State Maxim being this scil Dominium Fundatur in Gratia That All Dominion and Government
the Governours for Commanding Obedience in things Indifferent are the Disturbers of the Churches Peace SECT III. According tot he Reconciler The King and Governours Deserve Death for imposing things Indifferent The Reconciler's own Words are YOu Superiours Sect. Recon c. 10. p. 329. King and Governours disturb the Church much more Sinfully than the Dissenters by laying such Snares as shall unavoidably procure it i. e. a disturbance and then taking occasion by it to make a greater disturbance by your Cruel Execution ☞ If the Fly offend and deserve death by incautelously falling into the Spider's Web What doth the Spider that is the King and Governours deserve that out of her own Bowels Spread this Net in the way and kills the Fly that is taken in it Your own Actions most concern your selves try therefore whether you doe well in Commanding and Punishing as well as whether others offend in disobeying Thus far the Reconciler for which he again quotes Mr. Baxter Now What Sense can there be made of this Similitude between the Fly and the Spider but this to wit That the Venemous Spider is the King and the Governours who lay Snares for the People by Imposing on them Strict Laws for the Observation of Ceremonies and things Indifferent And that the Harmless innocent Fly are the Dissenters who are caught in the Snares of the Laws made by the King and Governours and for their Rebellion and Disobedience are either put to Death or Cruelly Punished And therefore according to the Reconciler as the Spider Deserved Death for making Webs by which the Fly was Caught So does the King and Governours deserve Death for making Laws by which the People are Caught and Restrained their Liberty and their Tender Consciences Imposed upon as to things Indifferent Never let this Authour any more Write against the Jesuits for their Treason untill he quits himself of the same SECT IV. The King and Governours according to the Reconciler are Traytors to the Common-Wealth and Betrayers of the Peoples Liberties for Imposing upon them Things Indifferent And that therefore the People ought not to yield to their Impositions But ought To Rebell and Vindicate their Christian Liberty The Reconciler's own Words are BOth these things that is Prot. Recon c. 5. p. 160 161. the Superiours King and Governours Imposing things Indifferent and requiring Subscription to them Both these things do put a necessary abstention and restraint upon us as to the use of these things if therefore says the Reconciler by so doing i. e. the Superiours our King and Governours if they in effect Betray our Liberties Dissenters ought not to yeild to them in the least nor should good Christians by a Vow restrain themselves from the free use of things Indifferent And as bad or rather worse Treason does the Reconciler utter p. 338. Where he plainly Suggests Two things by which Suggestions he extremely prejudices and incends the-Giddy-Vulgar against the King and his Government He Suggests 1. That the King and Governours are going about to Betray the City and Common-Wealth unto the Enemy 2. That therefore The Subjects May and Ought to Rebell and Vindicate their own Privileges For the Subjects may says the Reconciler neglect and transgress the Orders and Commands of their King and Superiours In hopes of a Greater Good The Reconciler's own Words are Secondly I Answer with the Learned Camero Prot. Recon c. 10. p. 338. That even Order may be not onely laid aside but even neglected and transgressed for a Greater Good As when a Citizen doth volantarily rise up against a Magistrate who is endeavouring to Betray the City to the Enemy or a common Souldier against a Rebellious Officer Never did Hugh Peters Preach and Print greater Treason For upon the pretended force of this very Treasonable Argument of the Reconciler's did Oliver and the Rump with their Rebellious Army cut off King Charles the First His Head Pretending to the People That the said King was going about to bring in Popery and to Betray the City of London and the whole Nation to their Enemies and deprive them of their Liberties And because as they alleged that He Imposed such Ceremonies and Orders upon Tender Consciences as would Damn the Souls of Myriads Therefore it was that the late Rebels made War against the said King and Murthered Him And loe Here is a Second Hugh Peters one that styles himself not onely a Protestant but a Priest nay a Cathedral-Man and therefore Doubly obliged to the King and the Church yet loe Here is Such an One That dares publish in Print That it is not onely lawfull but necessary to Neglect and Transgress the Magistrate's Orders and to Rebell if so be The Subjects apprehend a Greater Good will accrew to them thereby That is to say If the Subjects do fear that Myriads of Souls will be Damned by the King 's and Magistrates Impositions But may and will be Saved by their Rebellion and Transgressing such Orders and Impositions Then according to the Reconciler the Subjects May and Ought to Rebell The Reconciler's own words farther are Now says he Charity is greater than Faith Ibid. c. 10. p. 338. and therefore is a greater Good than Order in Extrinsecalls and the Salvation of Souls is the end of Order That therefore must be better than the Means and consequently Order may be transgressed when it is Necessary for that end to be so That is in plain English The King 's and Governours Orders and Laws may Lawfully be Transgressed Treason and Rebellion may Lawfully be Committed whenever the People shall think for their Greater Good and Ease it should be So. Thus the Reconciler takes the Liberty and Confidence to speak out that Treason which the Shamefaced Dissenter dares onely conceive in heart and mind And which of the Two is the most Malitious and dangerous to the King and his Government we will leave to others to determine SECT V. The Reconciler Scandalously affirms That the King and Governours want Piety and Prudence And therefore it is that they impose upon the People Things Indifferent FOr Proof of this the Reconciler quotes Doctour Tillotson though very Falsely The Reconciler's own words are If then this be not done to wit Prot. Recon Preface p. 19. an Abolition of things Indifferent it must be in his Judgment that is in Dr. Tillotson's Judgment through defect of Piety and Prudence in some men that is if he writes sense Tillots Serm. on St. John 13 34.34 p. 28. through defect of Piety and Prudence in the King and Governours especially of the Church for of such Dr. Tillotson treats in his said Sermon or through Consent with what is reasonable in others c. Now that the Reconciler means the King and Governours by what he says is evident Because he knows and confesses that it is in the power of none but onely of the King and Governours to alter the Imposition of things Indifferent And therefore according