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A37428	An enquiry into the occasional conformity of dissenters in cases of preferment with a preface to the lord mayor, occasioned by his carrying the sword to a conventicle.	Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.	1698 (1698)	Wing D835; ESTC R36086	13,515	16

his Ambition and Interest led him to pretend but that as it is in most Cases of Publick Revolutions was the Gloss however it was having satisfy'd his Pride by subduing the Supremacy of the Pop and Establishing his own his Interest next guided him to the Suppression Abbies and Monasteries the horrible Vices which were protected as were as practised in those Nests of Superstition giving his pretence of Piety a larger Scope and I 'll for once be so free with the Character of that Prince as to suppose what to me seems plain that neither This Religion or That 〈◊〉 of much moment in his thoughts but his Interest as the Sequel made plain by Seizure he made of the Revenues of the Church And yet the Justice Providence seem'd very conspicuous in that point That those Houses who 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the specious pretences of Religion and extraordinary Devotion have massed to themselves vast Revenues to the Impoverishing many 〈◊〉 and in the mean time practised secretly most unheard-of Wickedness 〈◊〉 under the same pretence of Zeal and Piety be suppressed and impoverished by a Person who meerly to serve his own Glory triumph'd over them tending Jehu like to shew his Zeal for the Lord. Some do assure us That the Eyes of this Prince were really open'd as to the Point of Religion and that had he liv'd longer he wou'd most effectually have establish'd the Reformation in his time but God who gave him that light if he had it however he might accept his Intention as he did that of David's building his House yet he reserv'd the Glory of the Performance to his Son King Edward the 6th of whom wondrous things are spoken in all our English Writers and more than we need suppose should be literally true yet was without doubt a Prince of the strictest Piety not only that ever reign'd but that ever liv'd perhaps since the Days of Josiah whose Parallel our Writers say he was The Reformation began in his hand not but that the Protestant Religion had been receiv'd in England many years before by the preaching of John Wickliff William Tindall and others and had many Professors and those such who gailantly offered their Lives in defence of the Truth But it got but little ground for Religion has but few Votaries while all its Professors must also be Confessors and while Exile or Martyrdom is all the present prospect of Advantage to be got by it None will dare to be Dissenters in times of Danger but such whose Consciences are so awaken'd that they dare not be otherwise But in the Hands of this young Prince the great work was begun and in a shorter time than could be imagin'd was finish'd and establish'd the Romanists fled or conform'd for we find but very few had any Inclination to Martyrdom if it had been put upon them Some indeed to show the Nature of their Religion Pleaded for Baal and rebell'd stirring up the Ignorant People to Murther their Gideon for throwing down the Altars of Baal but like the Ephramites of old their Shiboleth was their undoing God who thought fit to discover the Levity of those who had only Conform'd and not Reform'd who in exemplum Regis had took up this as they wou'd have done any Religion and also for the Tryal and Glory of his Church suffer'd all this great Fabrick however of his own Working to be overthrown at the Death of this good King and a Deluge of Cruelty and Popery overwheim'd the People in the Reign of the Queen his Sister But Popery found more Dissenters than the Reformation had done and the Impression Religion had made on the Minds of those who had sincerely Embrac'd it was not so easily Defac'd as the pretended Reformation of Others for the Glosses Men had put on their Actions only as a Cover from common Observation was soon discover'd when the Safety of owning their Old Principles render'd those Outsides no longer needful but where the True Religion had got footing in the Mind it was still the same whatever Alterations of Times might make it Dangerous and yet all People did not burn but some being persecuted in one City fled to another and Germany especially was a Sanctuary for the Distressed English Protestants that Country having been before-hand with us in the Reformation 'T was here that our Exil'd Clergy having Convers'd with the Learned Reformers abroad and particularly with John Calvin found that tho' they were Reform'd indeed from the Gross Errors of Popery and Superstition there was yet several things which might be further and further Reform'd and being willing to arrive to the greatest Perfection they were capable of in Religion that as near as possible they might pursue the Great Example of Christ Jesus whose Name they profess'd and for whom they cou'd most gloriously die they corrected in themselves those things which they saw needful and by Letters to their Brethren in England communicated their Opinions with their Reasons exhorting them to go on unto perfection as they had begun Some of the most Zealous for Piety and Holiness of Life rejected this Motion and Others as Zealous and Pious clos'd with it and the Disputes were carried so far sometimes as to invade the Charity of one another an humble Acknowledgment of which you have in a most Christian Reconciling Letter from Bishop Ridley to Bishop Hooper two of the most Glorious Triumphant Martyrs that ever confest the Truth of Christ at the Stake For the present the Fire of the Persecution as the Greater Light obscures the Less extinguish'd that of Dissention But when Queen Elizabeth rescu'd the Protestant Religion and the Church enjoy'd its Peace again the Debate reviv'd But the first Establishment of King Edward obtain'd so on the Minds of Men that the further Reformation was rejected the other Party being not at all convinc'd tho' over-rul'd submitted their Persons to the Laws but not their Opinion affirming That 't was the Duty of every Christian to endeavour to serve God with the greatest Purity of Worship that was possible and that this was the Purest Worship which came nearest to the Divine Institution which they believ'd the Establish'd Liturgy did not and therefore in Conscience they must be Dissenters It must be own'd That the Original Authors of these Disputes were Learned Devout and singularly Pious strict in Conversation to excess if that be possible and from thence in a sort of happy Derision were call'd Puritans of whom I shall say nothing but leave for a Record the last Speech of a Famous Foreigner who had seen the way of living among those Dissenters and speaking of the Words of Balaam Let me dye the death of the Righteous and let my latter end be like his cry'd Out Sit Anima Mea cum Puritanis Anglicanis I shall not take upon me to observe the Difference between these Primitive Dissenters and Our Present which is too plain nor to dispute the Substance of the Point in Debate between them and the Establisht