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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71273	The verdict upon the dissenters plea, occasioned by their Melius inquirendum to which is added A letter from Geneva, to the Assembly of Divines, printed by His late Majesties special command, with some notes upon the margent under his own royal and sacred hand : also a postscript touching the union of Protestants.	Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.; Diodati, Giovanni, 1576-1649. Answer sent to the ecclesiastical assembly at London by the reverend, noble, and learned man, John Deodate.	1681 (1681)	Wing W3356; ESTC R36681	154,158	329

But to think the Walls of the City are presently to be broken down to let in this Trojan Horse as a great Prelate exprest himself at Court is an attempt like to be fatal and a certain way to bring in ruine 5. That some should be obliged to obey the Laws and shew Conformity and others be dispensed with cannot stand with Equity Aequalitas prima pars aequitatis saith Seneca Equalitie is the first and chiefest part of Equite We are taught also by a dear experience that such a dispensation will breed division for a division in Laws makes division in Kingdoms a choosing of sides and a mustering into Parties whence strife infallibly with Envy Emulations Contentions and a Worldr of other mischiefs do arise And as Division in Laws causes division in Kingdoms so those divisions cause the subversion and overthrow of such Kingdoms For 't is Gospel that a Kingdom divided against it self cannot stand Satans Kingdom thus divided would come to desolation how then can a Kingdom of Flesh and Blood a Kingdom of Mortal Men subject to impetuous passions subsist under Agony and conflict of divisions If there were no such danger likely to ensue upon a Toleration or Connivance yet it cannot stand with Decency and Honour that one People within the same Land and under the same Government and especially Monarchical should be under divers Laws 'T is like an Oracle in Curtius Ejusdem Juris esse debent qui sub eodem Rege Victuri sunt Such as are under the Government of one and the same King within the same Land and Nation should be under one and the same Law especially as to publick Administrations 6. But the prevailing Argument is The Hellish Plots the Implacable Malice and the Secret Combinations of the Popish party to destroy us the consideration whereof is thought sufficient to induce us to take into Union and Association with us all sorts of Dissenters that have but Mettle and Edge enough to encounter and oppose the Chuch of Rome But has the matter been duly weighed in an equal Ballance Or has not the dreadful apprehension of a present attempt from the one party so far transported us as to make us forget the like tho perhaps a little more remote danger which threatens us from the other Queen Elizabeth in her time thought it a measuring cast which of the two Factions was the more pernitious to the Rights of the Crown and the establisht Government She knew the Principles of these Dissenters as well as those of the Popish Priests and Jesuites she observed their practices also and the Methods they took that altho they began with tender and meek Petitions yet they proceeded to Admonitions nay to sharp and Satyrical Remonstrances and at last having Calculated their numbers and Computed who was and who was not for their Cause they supposed themselves certain of so great a Party that they durst and began to threaten first the Bishops then the Queen and Parliament Hereupon the Queen having a strict Eye and Check upon them in a Parliament held the 28th of her Reign Commanded Serjeant Puckering who was then Her Mouth as well as the Speaker of the House of Commons to declare her Majesties sense and to caution her Subjects against them which was done in these expressions And especially you are Commanded by her Majesty saith he to take heed that no ear be given or time afforded to the wearysome Solicitations of those that commonly be called Puritans wherewith all the late Parliaments have been exceedingly importun'd Which sort of men whilst in the giddiness of their Spirits they labour and strive to advance a new Eldership they do nothing else but disturbe the good People of the Church and Commonwealth which is as well grounded for the Body of Religion it self and as well guided for the Discipline as any Realm that professeth the Truth And the same thing is already made good to the World by many the Writings of Godly and Learned Men neither answered nor answerable by any of these new fangled Refiners And as the present Case standeth it may be doubted whether they or the Jesuites do offer more danger or be more speedily to be repressed For albeit the Jesuites do impoyson the hearts of her Majesties Subjects under a pretence of Conscience to withdraw them from obedience due to her Majesty yet do they the same but closely and only in privy Corners But these men do both publish in their printed Books and teach in all their Conventicles sundry Opinions not only dangerous to the well setled Estate and Policy of this Realm by putting a Pyke between the Clergy and the Laity but also much derogatory to her Sacred Majesty and her Crown as well by the diminution of her antient and lawful Revenues and by denying her Highnesses Prerogative and Supremacy as by offering peril to her Majesties safety in her own Kingdom In all which things howsoever in many other points they pretend to be at War with the Popish-Jesuites yet by this Seperation of themselves from the Vnity of their fellow Subjects and by abasing the Sacred Authority and Majesty of their Prince they do but joyn and concur with the Jesuites in opening the door and preparing the way to the Spanish Invasion that is threatned against the Realm This was the sense of that Great Queen and her Great Council And hereupon such Laws were Inacted as were designed to strike equally at both Factions Now upon the premisses the Quere will be whether such as attempt to violate and dissolve those Laws which she made to secure the Church and Kingdom as then established do Cordially affect the Authority she had and the Government she exercised In all reason such as pretend so great a veneration for her Name should defer some thing to her Judgment and yield something to her Wisdom and Experience But if she were now alive might she not find just cause to expostulate with Subjects as our Saviour did some time with his Disciples Why call ye me Lord Lord and do not the things which I say You call me Renownd and Glorious a Queen of Blessed Memory and you honour me with a piece of Formal Pageantry but you have no Reverence for the Authority which I was invested with For have you not the same Crown the same Sword and the same Scepter still Have you not the same Government the same Reformation the same Religion which was publickly profest maintained and honoured in my Reign For where 's the difference No alteration no addition has been made but for the advantage of the Nation and the Protestant Cause in general yet what Elogies are given of her daies and how is the Protestant Religion cry'd up for the flourishing condition of it under her Government The Protestant Religion says Vox populi in which they and their Fathers have been so many years bred and under which they have seen so many happy Days freed from the