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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56271	A defence of the Ansvver to a paper intituled The case of the dissenting Protestants of Ireland in reference to a bill of indulgence, from the exceptions lately made against it.	Pullen, Tobias, 1648-1713.	1695 (1695)	Wing P4194; ESTC R220583	32,654	30

is under God to be ascrib'd to the happy influence of the many excellent Discourses Writ against the Papists by the Episcopal Glergy in the late Times For it is particularly observable that amongst the vast number of those admirable Tracts only two were Written by Dissenters one of which was by Mr. H. Care and 't is not certainly known what Communion he was of But this is certain that what ever censures might have been pass'd heretofore on the Dissenting Clergy for being Trumpeters in State Tumults and Seditions they too nearly resembl'd such kind of Persons in the Religious War of Disputes between Protestants and Papists in the late Reign For tho they made the greatest noise yet they did the least Service tho they founded to Battle yet they were very little engag'd in the Action And unless the Walls of Rome like those of Jericho fall by the noise of the Trumpet and not by the Force of the Assault they will have no Considerable share in the Honour of the Conquest but if the most effectual way of Apprehending or Rooting out the Popish Robbers of our Churches be merely by raising the Hue and Cry and not by a hot and close Pursuit I look upon our Dissenting Brethren as having the best Weapons for this part of spiritual Warfare And since the Writings of the Conforming Clergy have been of late so eminently serviceable in preserving the main Body of the Protestants in these Kingdoms from lapsing into Popery the Vindicator had no occasion to upbraid us with our unsuccessfulness in drawing over Dissenters to our Communion for tho our endeavours in this Pious and Charitable undertaking are not so uneffectual as he suggests yet the reason why no greater Number of Nonconformists have of late been Reconcil'd to the Establish'd Church is mainly to be ascrib'd to the unwearied Labours of the Dissenting Preachers in raising unreasonable prejudices and in fixing an Invincible Aversion in their Hearers to our Ecclesiastical Discipline and Constitutions For tho they pretend to be the Greatest promoters of Edification yet 't is undoubtedly true that they have made it no small part of their business to Widen those Breaches in Gods Church which they should zealously have endeavour'd to Close But tho the Nonconforming Preachers have been the chief yet not the only Fomenters of the Divisions among the Protestants in these Nations which are indeed in a great measure imputable to the prodigious Licentiousness and the uneven Management of Affairs in a late Reign The Dissenters having perhaps just Occasion at some times to despise the Government for its too easie Condescentions and at other times to abhor its Rigour in too severe an Execution of the Laws against 'em Whereas the Civil Magistrates Behaviour to his People should resemble that of discreetly tender Parents to their Children not indulging their Follies by an imprudent Fondness nor punishing their Faults by too harsh a Correction but by constantly keeping a strict hand over 'em which will prove the most effectual means of preventing or restraining their Exorbitancies And truly the present state in this Kingdom does seem in a more especial manner to require the watchful Eye of the Government in observing and a prudently strict hand in managing the Publick Affairs For tho the Vindicator tells us that this present Toleration can tempt none to leave Scotland yet I 'me sure it has not hindred many Thousand Families from coming thence and settling in this Nation within these Five Years and 't is observable that the Dissenting Ministers among 'em are all zealous for the Covenant and 't is not to be doubted but that the whole Body of the People excepting some few Highlanders are of the same Persuasion with those Teachers And all of 'em being lately come from a Kingdom where Episcopacy is abolished and Presbytery established and having solemnly sworn to exterpate Prelacy and their Aversion to our Ecclesiastical Polity being so deeply rooted in their Natures and their Obligation to destroy it so strongly inforc'd upon their Consciences there is great reason to fear that when their Power and Numbers are increased they will employ their Utmost Strength and most Vigorous Endeavours to Overturn now their hand is in this Truly Apostolical Government of the Established Church And therefore for the preservation of the publick Peace and Safety of the Nation 't is adviseable that we should deal with their Preachers at their first coming over as 't is usually done with those that come from a Countrey infested with the Plague they should all be oblig'd to perform their Quarentine and undergo some Religious Tests and Probations before they be publickly allow'd to Preach in their Conventicles Neither may the Civil Government of this Nation be less reasonably allarm'd with it's Danger from the Cameronians who are lately Landed here and dwell among us and are not so inconsiderable in their Numbers as the Vindicator re-presents 'em For he tells us he could hear of few or none left in this Kingdom By which I perceive he is as great a stranger to the State of this part of Ireland as he imagins me to be to the Publick Affairs of Scotland But the next mistake or rather disingenuity he is guilty of within a few lines after is of greater Consequence and more Unpardonable where he tells us that the Avou'd designs of extirpating the Protestant Dissenters were declar'd in the many Sanguinary Laws pass'd against 'em both in England and Scotland and that there were later Ones in Scotland that made it Capital to be present at their Meetings To which I Answer That as I never heard of any so I 'm inform'd by some that have reason to know this matter better than the Vindicator that there is not one Sanguinary Law in England against Protestant Dissenters And touching Scotland I do not find that there was any Sanguinary Law enacted against Protestant Dissenters in that Kingdom except one which was August the Thirteenth 1670. Wherein 't is Declar'd that whereas Field Conventicles are the Rendezvous of Rebellion and tend in a high measure to the Disturbance of the publick Peace He that shall Preach or Pray in such Field Meetings shall be punish't with Death and Confiscation of Goods and every person present at such Field-Conventicles shall be fin'd toties quoties in the double of the respective Fines appointed for House Conventicles And that this Act was to continue in force only for three Years unless his Majesty think fit it should continue longer By which 't is observable First That the occasion of making this Act was because Field-Conventicles were Rendezvouses of Rebellion Secondly That no Person was to be punished with Death but he that Preach'd or Pray'd in those Field-Conventicles For Thirdly All others that were present at those Meetings had only a double Fine impos'd upon ' em And Fourthly This Act was to continue in force but for three Years unless the King viz. King Charles the Second who was Remarkable