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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34201	Concavum cappo-cloacorum, or, A view in little of the great wit and honesty contain'd under a brace of caps, and wrap'd up in the querpo-cloak of a phanatick in some reflections on the second part of a late pamphlet, intituled, Specvlum crapegownorum, being a dialogue between True-man and Cappocloak-man / by an honest gent. and a true lover of all such.	Honest gent. and a true lover of all such.	1682 (1682)	Wing C5692; ESTC R18924	46,034	73

are afraid of the Country's coming in upon them True-man Why What 's the matter with them They are not afraid of hanging are they They know well enough they need not fear that for their old Crimes are pardoned which they cannot but know did too well deserve it for greater than they were cannot easily be committed and yet I am very confident they might communicate if they would do it quietly and orderly with most of the Churches in or near London and never so much as be put in mind of any of them if their own guilty Consciences did not accuse them But a bad Excuse you know Neighbour is better than none at all for one would think if they were truly penitent for their Faults they could not be so enraged by their being told of them Cap-cloak-man But further you 'r told pag. 7. ibid. that they will conform and that one Mr. Read hath led the way and that he tells you himself That he had advised with his Brethren of the Ministry who did acknowledge the lawfulness of using the Liturgy and that his Principles are these That Obedience to the Magistrate in things lawful is a Duty that a Form of Prayer is lawful and that Communion in such Churches is lawful True-man I should be glad to see these Principles put in practise by him and his Brethren the Ministers When I see they come to their Parish-Churches as the Law requires and do joyn in the Liturgy of our Church and in all the Acts of Communion with her then I shall have some Reason to think they have such Principles but whilst they go on to make Divisions amongst us to set up Conventicles against our Churches and Altar against Altar amongst us I cannot help it if notwithstanding all the pretences of their Principles I still believe them to be the most senseless hypocritical and perverse Schismaticks that ever the World knew for I must needs tell you these mere promises of theirs will never obtain any Credit amongst us that know how frequently they have fall'n off from much higher Obligations and how much further than barely saying and acknowledging the lawfulness of Communion with our Church some of them have proceeded and yet have continued in their Separation As for instance Mr. Baxter in his Cure of Church-Divisions hath by such Arguments as neither he nor any Dissenter can ever fully answer proved not only that it is lawful but a Duty to unite with our Church and yet instead of practising accordingly he hath ever since kept up a Schismatical Conventicle nay hath made it his business to undermine not only the Reputation of our most eminent Church-men but the very Foundation of our Church it self witness his Pamphlet against Dr. Stillingfleet 's Sermon and his whole bundle of Lies in his History of Episcopacy I might also here add your Lay-Brethren who for the sake of an Office by which they may serve their Cause and Party stick not at the highest Acts of Conformity i. e. the receiving the Sacrament according to the established Rites of the Church of England and yet as soon as ever they have done run away from our Communion with as much seeming-Zeal as though we were mere Pagans and worshipped the Devil in our Churches but this is so well known to be their common practise that I need not further mention it Cap-cloak-man If their Words and Promises will not do if you read on to pag. 10. you may find full and satisfactory Arguments that may convince you that they are real Conformists to the Laws of both Church and State True-man Aye marry Sir that would be Logick indeed the Philosopher that endeavoured in spight of his own eyes to prove that Snow was black or he that would prove there could be no such thing as motion when his Tongue wagg'd all the while I think had an easie Task in comparison of this Cap-cloak-man Well well the Wit of man is much and though your Prejudices may be great possibly if you consider his Arguments they may remove them True-man Oh! by all means let us hear them Consider them say you I will put on twice as many Caps as the famous Night-cap-Brother T. Goodwin ever wore but I will duely consider them Cap-cloak-man First then as to the Civil Law His two first Arguments pag 7. clearly prove that the Law-makers did never intend those Penalties against us that are Dissenters but against Seditious Persons for the Penalty is grounded upon the Supposition that an Insurrection may be hatch'd at such Meetings but no such thing was done Ergo. True-man The Intention of our Law-makers in that very Act was grounded upon the sense of what had been done in the late times when our Conventicles had preach'd the best of Kings out of his Throne and Life and they well knew that what hath been done may be done again to prevent which they thought it necessary to hinder all such men that under the cloak of Religion hide their Faction from all opportunities of doing the same thing over again and therefore though it was possible to be true that none of the Dissenters themselves have any factious Designs Yet because the Papists even the worst of them the Jesuits have disguised themselves under the shew of peaceable Dissenters as Dr. Oats tells us that twelve of them were particularly sent into Scotland to preach in the shape of Presbyterians all manner of Sedition they that give such Seditious Preachers all Opportunities by their separate Meetings to raise Insurrections amongst us do transgress the very intention of the Law however innocent they may be in their own designs Cap-cloak-man What then you make no difference betwixt our Dissenters and the Papists themselves True-man The Law I think makes none For by our Laws all that do not come to their parish-Parish-Church and constantly conform to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England are called RECVSANTS whether they are Papists Brownists Presbyterians Anabaptists or Independents though perhaps some one particular Law may make a difference the Law in general makes no distinction amongst them For the Liturgy of our Church being establish'd by the Laws of our Land as is plain by the Act of Uniformity whosoever doth not conform to it is therefore guilty of the breach of the Law let his opinion in Religion be what it will and of the design of the Law too which is not only to prevent Seditions but to establish for ever an Uniformity in our Church Cap-cloak-man But you do not take notice what is too truly said p. 7. line 28. that this Law was obtain'd by some part of the Clergy for their own advantage c. True-man Take you Dissenters without an excuse for your selves and reflections upon others and hang you But it is no matter whether there is any sense or reason in them or no it is all one if they be but fairly insinuated the mobile or at least some of them will believe them and