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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65050	A vindication of their Majesties Wisdom in the nomination of some reverend persons to the vacant arch-bishopricks and bishopricks occasioned by the scandalous reflections of unreasonable men / by a minister of London.	Minister of London.	1691 (1691)	Wing V534; ESTC R29265	13,123	30

I Have been according to my Opportunities not a negligent Observer of the Genius and Humour of the several Sects and Professions in Religion and upon the whole matter I do in my Conscience believe the Church of England to be the best constituted Church this day in the Christian World and that as to the main the Doctrine and Government and Worship of it are excellently framed to make men soberly Religious securing men on the one hand from the wild Freaks of Enthusiasm and on the other hand from the gross Follies of Superstition Dr. Tillotson in a Sermon before King CHARLES the Second A VINDICATION OF THEIR MAJESTIES Wisdom In the late NOMINATION of some Reverend Persons To the Vacant Arch-Bishopricks AND BISHOPRICKS Occasioned by the Scandalous Reflections OF UNREASONABLE MEN. By a Minister of London LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1691. AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER READER THere are three sorts of Persons whose Spirits I know so well that I am very well satisfied before-hand I shall not want their unseemly as well as unkind Reflections for several things said in these few sheets The first is the man so resolute for the late King James that he cares not if the whole Kingdom was nothing but a Common Slaughter-house and the Inhabitants thereof were involved in an utter ruine together with our Religion and Liberties provided King James was at the Helm again The other is the very High flown Church-man who rather than part with something that is but like the pairings of his Nails will venture the whole Constitution of the Church The last is the loose Whigg who notwithstanding all his former Professions of satisfaction if he might enjoy the Liberty of his Conscience without molestation yet still is very uneasie as if nothing would content him but the Power of a Committee-man or Sequestrator and is daily extolling the Justice of the late Civil War and where he dares justifying the Murder of that Incomparable Prince King CHARLES the First Now Reader to be plain with thee as I expect bad words from these persons so I will promise thee to be Easie under them because I think it much more for a mans Credit to be spoke Ill than Well of by men of such Kidneys for such spirited men have been the Bane of all sorts of Society Religious as well as Civil in most Ages of the World And therefore if thou findest any thing that cuts with too keen an Edge and looks too sharp in the following Treatise I must begg thee to believe it is intended only against such Bigots as these and not against any good man whatever For I am not afraid to tell the World that wherever I meet with a good and modest man let him be of any Opinion or Perswasion never so different from my own yet I love him as a Friend and according to my power will treat him as a Brother Farewell A VINDICATION OF THEIR Majesties Wisdom In the NOMINATION of some BISHOPS TO THE Vacant Sees THere is nothing in all the Ages of Christianity hath done more Mischief to the Church of God than violent Prejudices and Passionate Resolutions to adhere to those Prejudices tho' never so hastily and groundlessly taken up either against Things or Persons for through the influence of these Men have been deaf to all Argument and Reason to all wise and cool Thoughts and Discourses and you can as well almost remove a Mountain as stir these Men from their fixed and determined Opinions and Perswasions so hastily taken up It is no doubt but this is the main Reason of so many Mens otherwise Men of Consideration in the World both for Learning and other Qualities standing out and declaring against the late Revolution and whispering nay the more is the pity publickly abusing the Government as it is in the Hands of their present Majesties whom God grant long to live and to succeed in all their Just and Pious Undertakings and impeaching all those Conscientious Persons that having taken the easie Oaths imposed by Authority upon them as Men that have forsaken the Principles of the Church of England and turned their backs upon their former Obligations to the late King James and withall in gratification of these Principles of Prejudice are now full of nothing but Rage and Fury which they vent by all manner of unseemly Words and Speeches upon their Majesties late Nomination of those worthy Men to fill up the Sees of the Bishopricks vacant by their Predecessors denying to take the Oaths enjoyned them by the Supreme Power of the Kingdom Alas you cannot come into the Company of some sort of Men but your Ears are filled and dinned with nothing but the Church the Church Oh the Church is utterly destroyed put into the hands of false Loons who will betray her Rites break down her Fences set up Presbytery or else countenance Anarchy and Confusion and give up the Order of Bishops together with the grave and solemn and therefore necessary way of publick Worshipping of God by a stated Liturgy and that is not all but they must be cryed down too as Men of no Honour nor Conscience in taking the Places of Men so good and deserving And what particular brands of Infamy and Reproach are fixed upon the Reverend Learned and Pious Dean of St. Pauls whom their Majesties have Nominated to the See of Canterbury things which as he is altogether unworthy of so thanks be to God he is a Man of that Christian Courage and of that great Prudence that he knows how to do his Duty to God and to their Majesties Persons and Government without being ruffled or discomposed by such unmannerly and base Reflections which have no Original but from the corrupt and disingenuous malicious and revengeful minds of those who have been all along Enemies to him because he hath been a steady Friend to Truth and Christian Moderation and hath lived bewailing but no wayes countenancing or encouraging those Passions of all Sides and Parties which have been the Bane of Religion it self as well as of the Safety and Honour of the Church of England And therefore because the Clamour is so great and runs so high and the effects of it may be of so very destructive Consequence to their Majesties Government both in Church and State I will endeavour to do Right to those Reverend Persons who have so greatly Merited by their learned Pens and Pious Lives as well as to their Majesties Wisdom at this time in pitching upon Men to succeed those who have voluntarily quitted their Stations in the Church and I do not doubt but to make it plain that the Church of England is so far from being in danger of ruine by these worthy Men that she will gather strength more and more and look with a more acceptable Countenance amongst the general part of the Nation yea even Dissenters themselves who are but tolerably wise and thoughtfull It is very