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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A24968	Sober and serious considerations occasioned by the death of His Most Sacred Majesty, King Charles II (of ever blessed memory), and the serious time of Lent following it together with a brief historical account of the first rise, progress, and increase of phanaticism in England and the fatal consequents thereof : now made publick in tendency to the peace of the kingdom / by a gentleman in communion with the Church of England, as now by law establish'd.	Gentleman in communion with the Church of England.; P. A.	1685 (1685)	Wing A26; ESTC R11430	26,528	49

beyond Example but Belief as a late worthy Author hath observed which Crimes it is much to be feared are not yet expiated although forgot but cry aloud to Heaven for Vengeance especially considering how many there have been among us in this Nation who were so far from Repenting of the said horrid Villainies that they owned and avowed those very Principles of Sedition and Disloyalty which promoted and were the cause of the same and with audacious Impudence proceeding many steps onwards in the same Path of Disloyalty and towards the perpetrating of the same Wickedness again Let us consider also of our Pride and Wantonness in Religion our running greedily into Errors Heresies and Schisms with the Consequences of them Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath Strife Sedition Envyings Murthers the loss of true Religion Peace and Unity and how we have by this means cloathed Religion and that which some would call the Protestant Religion in a deformed Dress in a Fools Coat made it Ridiculous yea Loathsom to all sober and considering Persons in the World And therefore now to make us sensible of the Wickedness of the late times and especially considering there is a generation risen up since who are many of them ignorant of the same I shall make a short Scheme Draught and Representation of the Rise Progress Fruit and Effect of Fanaticism and Schism We may understand That there was a happy Reformation of Religion perfected and compleated in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth of Blessed Memory by the Wisdom Moderation and Judgment of our Wise Reformers the Reverend Learned and Pious Divines the Bishops and Clergy of the Church of England in Convocation Assembled who proposed to themselves the keeping of the Golden Mean Reforming no farther from Rome than was fit necessary and commendable and indeed no farther receding from Rome than she had receded from her self and from Antiquity and therein doing no more than what had been the desires of many others famous and worthy Men who nevertheless lived and died in Communion of that Church and what was thought upon good grounds That other Parts of Christendom would have attempted and effected if they could have had a lawful Oppertunity and Authority for the doing thereof as we had in England In short as the Worthy Dr. Fearn truly states the Case of our Reformation in England We said he had just Cause to Reform and so had our Adversaries the Romanists We in Reforming did what we ought if they had done what they ought and had cause to do no breach or division had followed And further We in doing what we ought preserved the Faith entire together with Charity they would neither cast off their Errors which clogged and corrupted the Faith nor retain Charity but cut us off as much as in them lay from the Catholick Church So that it is clear saith that Worthy Author to whom the Division must be imputed Now we must understand presently after the compleating of this happy Reformation of Religion in Queen Elizabeth's Reign there arose a discontented and dissatisfied Faction although curb'd and kept under by her called a while after Puritans which were like Mothes in a Cloth eating and fretting the same continually murmuring against the said excellent Reformation finding great fault with Government Liturgy and the Reverend Bishops and Governors of the Church instead of being thankful to God for the same and of their ready and chearful Subjection as good Christians ought to this Excellent Constitution Yea the said Faction did proceed to repine and complain against the same refusing to Conform to it and so continued to do all King Jame's Reign abusing the Favor and Indulgence of that good Prince granted to them in the Conference at Hampton-Court increasing and growing more numerous by their pretences to Piety and Purity of Religion with their frequent Sermons and Lectures then superstitiously accounted the Main if not the All of Religion and then also very much perverted and abused to promote Faction and Discontents against the Ecclesiastical Government until at last growing to a Head about the middle of the Reign of King Charles the First they then arrived to the height of Boldness and Insolence and by the means of that black Parliament 1640. in the Choice of whose Members of the House of Commons that Faction had a great hand together with the Rebellion of their Brethren the Scots they became like an impetuous and overflowing Flood and carried and bore down all before them in the Nation And as the only pious and godly People and true Protestants fit to Rule and Govern the Kingdom that Parliament having by importunity and specious Pretences obtained of their Sovereign a Confirmation for their sitting as long as they pleased boldly then managed a War and Rebellion against their Sovereign and when by this means this Nation not to mention Ireland had lain divers years weltering in Blood God in just Judgment upon the Nation suffering them to prosper in their Wickedness they then seized into their hands all the Royal Prerogatives the Revenues and Lands the Jewels and Goods of the Crown the Supports of the Royal Dignity deposing and most barbarously Imprisoning their Liege Lord and Sovereign Charles the First of ever Blessed Memory who then flying to his own Country-men the Scots for Protection was sold and Betrayed by them and retaining Him in Prison in Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight not suffering Him to enjoy so much as one of his Servants or Chaplains to Attend Him Then also forcing into Banishment the Royal Family to live upon the Charity of Roman Catholicks and what some Loyal Subjects in England secretly conveyed over to them with the peril of their Lives That Faction then further proceeded on to overthrow the Government of the Church to cast out Prelacy as a piece of Popery totally dissolved all Church-Government sacrilegiously sold all Church-Lands and Revenues also casting off as Popish and Antichristian the Holy Feasts and Fasts of the Church as Christmas Easter c. turned Churches into Stables also in the mean time all-a-long miserably debauching and corrupting the Christian Sound Doctrine as that wise Prelate Arch-Bishop Bancroft charged them with long before in his Survey of the Holy discipline His words are these That the Puritans did pervert the true meaning both of Scripture and Fathers to serve their own turn especially in these particulars following Not to mention that Opinion of God's designing from all Eternity the greatest part of Mankind to destruction merely from the good pleasure of his Will a Doctrine highly dishonourable to the Divine Majesty First That we are saved by Faith alone when yet they saw this was so interpreted as if they did define Righteousness by the sole Opinion or Perswasion of the Mind and did seclude good Works That we are justified by the imputation of Christ's Righteousness to us as if we had fulfilled the whole Law our selves and that we are cloathed with this Garment of our Elder