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A28555 An apologie for the Church of England against the clamours of the men of no-conscience, or, The Duke of Buckingham's seconds E. B. ... Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699. 1685 (1685) Wing B3447; ESTC R5027 7,692 14

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variety of Flowers may grow on the same Bank so may Protestants and Papists live in England Vnion in Affection is not inconsistent with disagreement of Opinion c. Considerations moving to a Toleration and Liberty of Conscience page the 3d Consideration the 6th The Pensilvanian tells us he cannot but admire His the Answerer's Wisdom Manners or Justice in his Reflections upon the Roman Catholicks after the Assurances that so great an one of their Communion has given him and his Friends of their Security and Protection page the 26th And now are not the Roman Catholicks bound to give him thanks for his great Civility to them who have done worse both by them and the great Man of their Communion than barely to reflect on them though they have done that sufficiently too Remember the Character of a Popish Successor the Virulent Appeal to the City Julian the Apostate the Fanatick Plot the use these Good Men made of the late Toleration and tell me if these are not a sort of Trusty Friends for Roman Catholicks to rely on Doubtless it is as little their interest to procure a Toleration for the Dissenters as it is that of the Church Men as things now stand and they are wise Men and know it and if the Liberty of Conscience-Men were not Num-skulls they would never have made these fulsome Applications at this time of the day Well but whatever the Dissenters have been there are three or four small Pamphleteers will give the King their worshipful words for their good behaviour for the Future In good time But suppose it proves otherwise what then Why he is deceived they good Men will cry who could have thought it But I will answer this in the Words of the Noble Peer the late Earl of Shaftsbury a special Friend of theirs If a French Nobleman saith he should come to dwell in my House and Family I should think it concern'd me to a●k what he did in France for if he were there a Felon a Rogue a Plunderer I should desire hem to live else-where and I hope your Lordships will do the same thing for the Nation if you find the same cause Now there is no need of an enquiry here we have tryed them and know by experience what they are and then his Lordship will inform us what we are to do But we are told all the ill things they have done is because there are Laws made against them and they would be quiet if they might have their minds As to the first of these ex malis Moribus bonae oriuntur Leges there was ill and disloyol Practices against the State by Seditious Sectaries before there was any Law made against them Look into the preamble of the 35 of Eliz. c. 1. which was the first Law that was made against them and see if be not so and as for all the rest we can remember upon what occasions they were made And now if they were so turbulent before there was any Law and have been so unruly and ungovernable notwithstanding the Laws have hung over their Heads and have some times been seasonably Executed upon them what may we expect they will be when the Laws and with them all Fear and Aw is removed Men of Wisdom will try as few Conclusions in point of Government as is possible because they weaken Authority and strengthen Factions And I am fully perswaded these Gentlemen do no more hope to obtain a Toleration than I fear they will they do neither Write nor Act as if they did What then is the Design Why it is hard to dive into the Secrets of Men but yet a Man may conjecture at them with submission to wiser Heads First upon his now Majesties coming to the Crown the whole Party were Thunder-struck they knew how they had used him and therefore expected he would treat them tho' not as they deserved yet otherwise than they desired and fearing at once his Valour Justice Activity and Constancy they sat down in Silence and Sorrow expecting the Event and who would be in an Insurrection Hereupon all the Trimmers and Half-way Men began to tack about to take the Sacrament go to Church Vote for Loyal Men imagining the Game was lost and no hopes of another Revolution No room for Seditious prate Cogging nor Flattery In this Melancholly Mood his Grace found them when he Published his Essay and it was a Work which no meaner Person durst have began But we see there is enough that will follow Secondly the Parliament drawing on apace they expect the Press will then be restrain'd so that what they do they must do quickly for their Affairs are desperate and meer desperation makes them Valiant and if they cannot prevent the fatal Blow they will yet try if they cannot Revenge it and render the Church Party odious Lastly it is very probable they have some encouragement from their Friends in Holland and whilst they are preparing for a descent in Scotland this is a Stratagem to Alarm the Party in England and to let them see the Cause is not quite lost yet there are those that will stick to it and appear for Liberty of Conscience Hector the Church and plead for a forgetfulness of what ever is past that they may be in a Capacity to react all their old Crimes over again And if they meet with the least encouragement either at home or abroad the least countenance or belief I can easily foretel what the Event will be But if they find neither to suite their desires and that the next Parliament prove what they fear it will the People of the Whig Party must bear the smart and the Pamphleteers have only lost so much Paper and Time And if any of the Tribe fall into the Hands of Justice for it they hope to get more by the Compassion than they shall lose by the Suffering The Conclusion Thus do Men of No-Conscience no Honour nor Honesty pretend to be the Advocates for the Tender Consciences of other Men who have not much more than themselves If this Censure seems sharp let any Man consider how False and Impudent a thing it is to Sham the late Excluders upon the Church of England an Honest Turk would have scorn'd so base a Practice within five years after the Fact and in a Case wherein the whole Nation knows the contrary Now let no Man pretend to have a mighty Reverence for God or any Form of Religion who has not a little Veneration for Morality a Man of a Tender Conscience will never dare to lie and dissemble with God and Man And whereas they pretend the Church of England Party especially the Clergy Persecute them out of Worldly Interest and Carnal Policy I desire they would tell me how Christ can be the Head of opposite Bodies And consider this Place of Scripture and bless the World with a Commentary on it Revelations II. 20. Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee because thou Sufferest or Toleratest that Woman Jezebel which calleth her self a Prophetess a Godly Woman to teach and to seduce my Servants to commit Fornication and to eat things Sacrificed to Idols Now I would fain know how long Toleration has been a Christian Virtue FINIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chap. 24. Dr. Bates his History of the Rise and Progress of the late Troubles the 2d Part p. 96. in English Preface to the unreasonableness of Sepation p. 25 26. Novem. 1680. A Reply to the Answer of the Man of No Name The Pensilvanian pag. 27. Preface Vox Patriae The Defence of the D. of Buck page the 4th Address to the Freemen Part the 2d pag. 52.