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A39372
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The second epistle to the truly religious and loyal gentry of the Church of England written by Edmund Elys ...
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Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.
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1687
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Wing E693; ESTC R19490
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others and that by which we may destroy them The Papists by the Abrogation of those Laws wou'd have no more Power over us than they have now and much less provocation to Malign us I leave it to this Man to give a Flourish of Rhetoric I am only for a Word to the Wise. Tho he 's pleas'd to make some Sceptical Reflections on those words of mine Divine Love and Heavenly-minded sure I am there is such a Thing as a Principle of Divine Love which sways Me in this Undertaking if upon daily and hourly Examination I know any thing of the Tendency of my own Thoughts and Affections I have heard of some Clamors against Me as if I undertook to vindicate the vain Pretence that some make of tender Consciences in that Passage in my former Epistle because they cannot do what their Consciences supported by the concurring Judgments of thousands of sober and learned Men oblige them not to do I shall entreat you to consider that in those words I plainly suppose that 't is probable that a Man may be put to death by those Laws meerly for following the Dictates of a real Tender Conscience which implies such an Abhorrence from all Known Sin and from what a Man conceits that he certainly knows to be a Sin that he would die rather than do it It cannot be suppos'd that a Traytor or Rebel can be such a conscientious Man. That we ought to have a favorable regard to Tender Consciences this Kingdom has been admonish'd again and again by that incomparable Heroic Sufferer JUDGE JENKYNS And now I shall beseech you to consider what prodigious mad Conceits those Men who murther'd Arch-Bishop Laud upon pretence of Iustice were driven unto by their bloody Hatred and Inhumanity against the Papists stir'd up by the confident Harangues of William Prynne and other indefatigable Self-conceited Scriblers Some of the Articles against the Arch-Bishop the Accumulation whereof they feign'd to be High-Treason were these That his Grace enjoyn'd the saying Second Service at the Communion Table bowing at the Name of Iesus the setting of Rails about the Communion Table standing up at Gloria Patri In one of the Printed Books of the Presbyterians they say that it is impossible that the Common-Prayer should please God because it pleases the Papists Being agitated with such furious Conceits what Hellish Contempt have they shewn of our Sacred Liturgie Away they cry with those Rags of Popery those Scraps of Prayer Away with their Gloria Patri their Te Deum their Three Creeds their Epistles and Gospels yea Horresco referens and away with the LORDS Prayer too the saying of the LORDS Prayer is no better than a Charm Thus they are so affrighted with Popery that they run out of their Wits and out of their regular Profession of Christianity yea some of them in plain terms defy'd the Christian Religion by denying the Godhead of our Blessed Saviour What a preparation was this for the reception of that most damnable Heresie of the Socinians Viz. to teach people to abhor those Forms of sound Words which contain the clearest Expressions that could ever be compos'd of the Fundamental Points of Christianity plainly and directly opposite to all the cursed Errors condemn'd by the Four First General Councils I pray God we may all have the Grace to assent to what is True to love what is Good tho we find it amongst the Papists I shall give you no further trouble at present but to beseech you to joyn with Me in Praying continually that all His Majesties Subjects may duly observe that Injunction of the Blessed Apostle Let your moderation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be known unto all Men. The LORD is at hand I am Your Affectionate Brother and faithful Servant T. E.